Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Simple Happiness


Aloha!




Welcome back to Waikiki!







"Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome." - Gov. Mark Warner





"Our happiness comes from simple things like love and friendship , a clear conscience, peaceful mind, a gentle and kindly spirit; a sense of duty and an awareness of beauty. Happiness does not depend on the position we hold, the size of our bank account or whether we live in one room or a mansion.. As someone said, 'Happiness is an inside job.'"


- Rev. Paul Osumi





Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane Northrup, M.D.





The spiral is the path to wisdom, the place of power in the moment. The Hawaiians called it Manawa Nui, the Great Now. Only the outskirts and outer reaches of the spiral manifest as maze. We must choose to enter, persist, and enter further. Once committed, once inside the journey, we begin to perceive the spiral. . . and to Ride it.





Let go, relax, marinate in stillness . . . out of this, arising will come. Access the ancient intelligence of your body and let your mind idle a while. It NEEDS it.






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Because YOU Asked

Aloha!
Welcome back To Waikiki!
"Soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence." Hermann Hesse




"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary."
Oscar Wilde

"What do artists, poets, and novelists have in common? The propensity to link seemingly unrelated things. It's called 'metaphor.'"
Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran,
Behavioral Neurologist

Several of you lovely commenters have asked recently about the back-story of our life aboard our 50+ year old, cement & steel, locally built, pinky-stern, cutter-rigged boat. Oh yeah, she's like 47 feet long. People always want to know how long a boat is, just like people who really know nothing about motorcycles always ask: "How many CC's does that thing have?"
Now I sound churlish. Actually I'm gratified that you-all care! So here are a few links to previous posts that will fill you in. . .

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/01/boat-living.html

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/03/water-week.html

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/05/life-aboards.html


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