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All Things Are Teachers
beHappyInThisMoment..ThisMomentIsYourLife
Created on 2004-07-05 23:17:34 (#3708435), last updated 2007-12-13
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Basic Info BioI live in Toronto at the Lansdowne subway stop, as of the beginning of April. I'm here to have a break from working and to figure out my path. I'm confident about what can keep me happy career-wise for at least 10 years - sustainable development. Another perk is that it helps fight global warming and thus my life after 10 years into the future. I'm like, look, now that we're here in this shit, let's start acting like we care because that's the only way we're going to survive this century, and hopefully the next one too. I've never been more passionate about anything as much as I am for the Earth and Life. But maybe I need to get out more - after all, this is fucking T dot O dot. I have some scratches to itch in this new nightlife.
I'm processing research about and learning about sustainable living and green building. It's what I want to dedicate myself to. And I mean want. I'm so excited to have a tool-belt and architect tools and power-tools and a camping tent but most of the time being without anything but your bare hands working to build a home that the Mother Earth would be proud to be a part of creating.
Soon I'll leave this place to be trained in green building and sustainable development techniques. Possible itineraries are here in Canada, the US, India, New Zealand, Holland, Australia, UK, Iceland, and anywhere else struggling for the Green Revolution, the Great Turning.
"Don't hold on. Go Get Strong"
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs Modern Romance
"Remember this – we be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing".
– Arundhati Roy
"Today I'll just be thanking the heavens for every heartbeat and breath we take. So if you see me that's what I'll be about."
- Lightdancer
"We can no longer have everything we want, but
we can be more than we ever imagined ."
- Howard Jerome
"Know what you want and all the universe conspires to make it happen."
- Coelho
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
- Nelson Mandela
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them"
- Albert Einstein
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
- J.B.S. Haldane (evolutionary biologist) and author of "Possible Worlds"
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
- 1984 by George Orwell, Chapter 7
"worrying is like praying for what you don't want."
- proverb
"Watch your Thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your Habits, they become character.
Watch your Character, for it becomes your Destiny"
- anonymous crystal meth addict
Look for the dreams that keep coming back. They are your destiny.
- fortune cookie from my birthday, August 17, 2006
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
- Angela Davis
"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Nuture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
- Max De Pree
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
- Terry Pratchett
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."
- William James
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
- Hannah Arendt
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- unknown
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
- Bill Vaughan
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
- Bill Vaughan
"Doctors should teach nutrition, not pharmaceutical addiction."
- from a laptop sticker in Arcata, CA
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Harold Whitman
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
- Christopher Morley
"I have no patience for those who use our desperate situation as an excuse for inaction. I've learned that if you deprive most of these people of that particular excuse they just find another, then another, then another. The use of this excuse to justify inaction — the use of any excuse to justify inaction—reveals nothing more nor less than an incapacity to love."
- Derrick Jensen, Environmental Action Beyond Hope
I'm processing research about and learning about sustainable living and green building. It's what I want to dedicate myself to. And I mean want. I'm so excited to have a tool-belt and architect tools and power-tools and a camping tent but most of the time being without anything but your bare hands working to build a home that the Mother Earth would be proud to be a part of creating.
Soon I'll leave this place to be trained in green building and sustainable development techniques. Possible itineraries are here in Canada, the US, India, New Zealand, Holland, Australia, UK, Iceland, and anywhere else struggling for the Green Revolution, the Great Turning.
"Don't hold on. Go Get Strong"
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs Modern Romance
"Remember this – we be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing".
– Arundhati Roy
"Today I'll just be thanking the heavens for every heartbeat and breath we take. So if you see me that's what I'll be about."
- Lightdancer
"We can no longer have everything we want, but
we can be more than we ever imagined ."
- Howard Jerome
"Know what you want and all the universe conspires to make it happen."
- Coelho
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
- Nelson Mandela
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them"
- Albert Einstein
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
- J.B.S. Haldane (evolutionary biologist) and author of "Possible Worlds"
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
- 1984 by George Orwell, Chapter 7
"worrying is like praying for what you don't want."
- proverb
"Watch your Thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your Habits, they become character.
Watch your Character, for it becomes your Destiny"
- anonymous crystal meth addict
Look for the dreams that keep coming back. They are your destiny.
- fortune cookie from my birthday, August 17, 2006
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
- Angela Davis
"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Nuture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
- Max De Pree
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
- Terry Pratchett
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."
- William James
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
- Hannah Arendt
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- unknown
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
- Bill Vaughan
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
- Bill Vaughan
"Doctors should teach nutrition, not pharmaceutical addiction."
- from a laptop sticker in Arcata, CA
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Harold Whitman
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
- Christopher Morley
"I have no patience for those who use our desperate situation as an excuse for inaction. I've learned that if you deprive most of these people of that particular excuse they just find another, then another, then another. The use of this excuse to justify inaction — the use of any excuse to justify inaction—reveals nothing more nor less than an incapacity to love."
- Derrick Jensen, Environmental Action Beyond Hope
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