In the Autumn of 2007, I decided to change my name. When I moved to Washington, I decided to use my Indonesian name, the one I was given while living there as an exchange student as my full time identity. It wasn’t that hard of a transition as I had been using “Joko” as my […]
All You Need is Love
A Simple Sunday featuring the interesting pop art of Andre Schmucki
Echoes of Distant Idealism You’re probably familiar with multi-axis interpretations of an individual’s take on reality. I think my very first exposure to this easily understood plotting of attitudes and impacts came from the old game Dungeons and Dragons. Who here remembers this graph? The idea is simple. You take two continuums, two spectrums […]
You are here to transmute the business of life. You are here to raise the vibration of everything in the world. You are here to raise the consciousness of the world.
See your hand. See how it stretches out to another in greeting and friendship, a symbol of openness, integrity and welcome. See how it seals a pledge, a promise of truth and loyalty. See how it soothes in comfort, compassion and love.
Congratulations to DustUp224, for winning the inaugural Name That Country challenge here on FriendBurst. The answer to the first challenge: THE MALDIVES… an island-chain nation just southwest of the tip of India. Dusty had a bit of an advantage in that he had actually been to The Maldives. Now, here we are on Part TWO! […]
To love is not second nature. It is your true nature. You are nature. You are the nature you see all around you. Beloveds, you are the fruit of the vine you adore. You see a mirror of yourself everywhere. There is nothing you look at that is not yourself.
World peace is an idea simple in principle but difficult to achieve in practice because, as individual members of our species, we have not found peace within ourselves. Societies cannot be peaceful societies until the members of the society look peacefully toward each other.
Some days the sun shines brightly, and some days the sky is hazy. Regardless of how the sun appears, the sun is shining all the time, and all the time the sun shines brightly. What the sun filters through makes a difference in how it looks to you. But filters are not the sun. They are filters.
