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Happy Valentine’s Day, SuperForest! Obviously we don’t need a day to remind us to choose LOVE, but sometimes it’s nice to have a super-festive day to go overboard! Even for those of you (like myself) who don’t have a “valentine” today — allow me to suggest that you be your OWN valentine! Show yourself some LOOOVE! Listen to your favourite music, read a favourite book, sip a favourite wine, etc. etc.
You must first love yourself so get started now and have fun with it!
In celebration of the looming Valentine’s day, I wrote a letter to my imaginary unborn son to share what I know about love and hopefully he will learn from it. Here are excerpts that I particularly liked. You can read the full piece here.
Even after your heart has been broken into more pieces than you ever knew it was made of, I hope you continue to believe in love. Even when it seems that your heart is damaged beyond repair, still, you must mend that heart and love again like you’ve never been hurt before because if you want your heart to be alive and full, you must risk and accept this pain.
But here’s the good news. One day, when the universe decides so, you might catch a glimpse of the perfect woman for you. She will be the one with a soul that sings so beautifully that you cannot stop thinking about her in your waking moments and the only reason you go to sleep is to dream about her. Her absence will mean more than the presence of millions of others and you might find yourself either losing all verbal capabilities or suddenly turning into a poet and when that happens, you know that you’ve met the perfect one. However, I beg you to not confuse this with ”the perfect woman” because she doesn’t exist although one that’s perfect for you does.
Along the way, never make a girl feel like she’s not good enough and always show her how special and beautiful she really is. Remind her that none of her scars can make you love her less and then prove it with your actions. Do not let expectations and jealousy pull you down and try your utmost to be an oasis of calm that she would want to return to everyday but most importantly, always be fully present for her.
Know that there will always be another love out there but never the same love twice. The next girl will be completely different in every sense of the word so don’t impose baggage from your past onto her and don’t you dare use the same words that you’ve once told a girl to another because if she means that much, you will have words that are meant for her and only her. In the words of a friend, ”Don’t let your Antarctica dictate how you tell her how she’s your Europe.” Find the words for the feelings that you never knew existed until you found her.
Thanks for reading Superforesters. You can read the full piece here.
And yes, I will be a godfather to your son if you want me to:)
Love,
A
Let’s shoot for a little less Blade Runner, a little more Fifth Element.
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1. Like attracts like.
2. Our perception controls our experience of the world.
3. Perception is flexible and self-selected.
4. Our emotional state and our physical state are inseparable.
5. There is no boundary between you and the Universe.
6. No one created themselves.
7. Cultural values change constantly.
8. History is fantasy.
9. The future will never arrive.
10. Everything is equally sacred and profane.
I am personally responsible for all of existence, though I did not create myself.
This is a very long video but if you have some time, I invite you to listen to this talk which Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh gave to some workers at Google. He speaks about being present, about loving and practicing our consciousness.
Note: Video starts with singing and Thich starts speaking at 57:00.
Small changes really DO ripple outward. Listen to Shawn Achor dropping some knowledge about positivity:
Hey SuperForesters!
Remember our friend Andrew Zuckerman of Wisdom and Music and his other works of genius? Well, he has an amazing project going on right now called the Starving Artists Project! This project that combines photography, art and social conscience is described as a “social initiative giving the homeless community’s creative cries for help a larger platform to inspire greater action.”
In its own words, this is what the project is all about:
Every day the homeless reach out to us, communicating their basic need for help. Created out of discard cardboard and left behinds, their artful cries for help are often the only means of communication these people have. Each sign expresses a basic human need in a creative way completely unique to the creator’s life.
The problem is we don’t look. We pass by, focused on our own day, too busy to see. And if we do notice, we see it as an inconvenience, an interruption to our day. Either way their message is lost.
The mission of the Starving Artists Project is to give the local homeless community’s message a larger platform by redirecting it from the streets to channels where it can be properly appreciated to inspire action. By displaying their collective cries for help to the world we hope to give them a more powerful voice to bring about a more profound change.
The collection of diverse, handmade, cardboard signs, along with portraits of the artists taken by Andrew Zuckerman, debuted at the Dumbo Arts Center in January, 2012. All donations go to the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, two local charities focused on feeding the local community.
Projects like these are so inspiring and are not only injecting more art into our world, but also respecting all citizens as creative people of value! We are all one! How does this make you approach the homeless community in your own city, SuperForesters? Do you have any local charities that you can support or better yet, are there any creative projects YOU can do to promote social inclusion and creativity and inspire action?
Yours inspired by social art experiments,
SuperForester Heather
This should be our theme song! It reminds me of The Humanifesto! I can’t believe I never noticed it before : P
Old song but the message has never been more true : )
LOVE!
SF Jenni
This quote is helping me transform my life from the inside out:
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
What quotes are helping you transform your lives, SuperForesters?
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies, etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”
Defrag your hard drives, SuperForesters. Locate, and replace any source code stopping you from engaging your full intelligence.
Any judgment of any kind is hampering your growth and expression.
Read the RAW wiki.
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