July 2009
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101 Simple Salads for the Season
MOSTLY VEGAN SALADS
1. Cube watermelon and combine with tomato chunks, basil and basic vinaigrette. You can substitute peach for the watermelon or the tomato (but not both, O.K.?). You can also add bacon or feta, but there goes the vegan-ness.
2. Mix wedges of tomatoes and peaches, add slivers of red onion, a few red-pepper flakes and cilantro. Dress with olive oil and lime or lemon juice....
Observing Evolution: Allowing Others To Walk Their...
Watching a loved one or a peer traverse a path littered with stumbling blocks can be immensely painful. We instinctively want to guide them toward a safer track and share with them the wisdom we have acquired through experience. Yet all human beings have the right to carve their own paths without being unduly influenced by outside interference. To deny them that right is to deny them...
“The happiness we seek, a genuine lasting peace and happiness, can be attained...”
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The World of Tibetan Buddhism
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The expression going with the flow is a metaphor that applies to navigating a river. When we go with the flow, we follow the current of the river rather than push against it. People who go with the flow may be interpreted as lazy or passive, but to truly go with the flow requires awareness, presence, and the ability to blend one’s own energy with the prevailing energy. Going with the flow doesn’t...
Desert Dwellers: Good Yoga Music perhaps?
Downtemple Dub: Roots and Flames.
Note to self duly noted.
Can Yoga Replace Strength Training →
Gaiam article.
Gist: if you want to build bulk - no, yoga is not your best move. But Yoga is still awesome. Add some weight lifting for variety. Do what you like to do to stay enthusiastic about working out.
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so...”
– Rumi
The Joys of Absorption: On the value of reading,... →
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...”
– Anais Nin
