…we humans are the space where the earth dreams through us. Our heart’s desire is the desire of the earth – it is what She is asking you to do.” – brian swimme

This weekend, I took a long walk by the river in the morning. While the sun was shining, it was cold and windy, and there weren’t as many people out and about as usual. Despite the cold,…

from the Art of Non-Conformity site: http://chrisguillebeau.com

Every Christmas for five years in a row, my mom would give my siblings and I a “gratitude journal” in which we could write down what we were thankful for every day. Oprah did it, so it was…
IT has no boundaries. The soul. The universe.
They are vast, similar in a lot of ways. Only bound to the restrictions we give them. Full of both darkness vast and overwhelming, and light vast and overwhelming. The deeper we go the more we learn about the enormity. The more possibility is born. We fumble with the possibility because it is huge.
Huge.
Both in us and amongst the stars, the possibility is huge. And yet God understands them both. He set them both afire with life and breath and depth. He instilled in them possibility. Huge possibility.
It is we who give our souls boundaries.
It is we who cheapen the magnificence of the universe. Yet our boundaries are only self-impose illusions. Because our souls know as the universe knows, that they were born free and will return to freedom.
And here in middle somewhere, they are actually…free.
Yesterday morning I met Jessica Jackley, co-founder of KIVA. She is walking inspiration. And KIVA is quite an organization with an equally compelling story. Listen to it in her own words here:
They say that people in New York don’t talk to strangers. But I disagree. The one conversation we will have with someone we don’t know is surrounding the weather, particularly in the winter. You’ll…
Our first experiment will be a fairly easy one.
Today at 3pm, I’m going to let myself day-dream for an entire 20 minutes.
Jared has a friend who has started at least 5 successful…
Kerry Docherty and I have started a new blog called Everyday Experiments! We hope it will challenge us and our followers to live more full and experimental lives. We’ll post new experiments that we’re trying every few days and enlist our community to try them too.
We hope you’ll join us on some experiments and share your experiences with us.