Posts Tagged as: relationships
the manifesto of encouragement
right now: There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness. Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you. Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that...
hot song: let my love open the door, pete townsend
{if you’re viewing this via RSS, click “POP OUT PLAYER” button or the post title above to hear the song. The playlist is not empty, despite how it appears in RSS readers.} If you don’t want throw open the curtains, air drum and whirl like a hot loving dervish when this song hits its peaks…well…then...
the divinity of the suck factor
“There will always be suffering. The trick is to not suffer over the suffering.” - Alan Watts, Zen master One of my best friends and I have a sick tradition. We get excited about each others’ hardship. One of us will be sniffling through an out-pour of angst about how wrenching a particular life lesson...
the ‘as in the beginning’ buddha rule
There is a Buddhist saying: As in the beginning, so in the middle, so in the end. …and it’s one of my life compasses. It never fails me and it’s nearly always proven true. Things often continue how they start. The click, the comfort, the clarity … or the lack thereof, is there at the...
hot song: what you thought you need, jack johnson
“Well I can’t give you everything you want but I could give you what you thought you need … it’s all for the sake of arriving with you.”
for rage-babes, flakes and tyrants: get over it
We are the sum total of our experience. And undeniably, it is our past … as well as our essential spirit – that informs our character, whether that past is recent or centuries gone by. The altered state a-ha’s I’ve had about possible past lives, the insights I’ve had on acid in my twenties (except...
what would love do?
We crave it. We die for it. We try to pay for it. We aspire, we mire, we miss the mark. In the unending, coiling, incessant pursuit of being right and good enough to find love and get love and give love, we forget about the very nature of love itself. Love gets buried beneath...
this most alive moment
This most living moment comes when those who love each other meet each other’s eyes and in what flows between them then. To see your face in a crowd of others, or alone on a frightening street, I weep for that.
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the “What I Trust List”. why you need one, and how to do it.
- 49 promo ideas. simple, grand + the tried n’ true.
