Gaia Community: Happiness' Blog

Silent Monks Singing Handel's Halleluia Chorus (Wonderful!)

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:36:50 GMT

Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

Start the Holidays with laughter and musical fun!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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5 Steps to Happiness at Work

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:17 GMT

(From The Daily Good)

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda

5 Steps To Happiness At Work:

Australian positive psychologist Timothy Sharp -- otherwise known as "Dr. Happy" -- asked 50 people a simple question: What do you consider to be the top three contributors to happiness at work? Their answers provide food for thought to managers and employees alike. This article from Greater Good shares more. [more]

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Burning Life @ Second Life 2009 Slide Show (in process)

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:45:52 GMT

Photo from Burning Life 2009 by Alex Noble in Second Life

LINK TO SLIDE SHOW OF BURNING LIFE IMAGES:

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Note: This slide show is still under construction and more images will be added.

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The Laughter Movie !

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:52:01 GMT

Come on over and laugh out loud with

THE LAUGHTER MOVIE

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The Famous Tibetan Personality Test

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:57:13 GMT

This is a fascinating and unique personality test, and you will probably be surprised at the results..

There are only 4 questions.

Be honest and honor what pops into your mind when the
questions present themselves.

http://memoriter.net/flash/test.html

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Candid shot of the Purple Hippos celebrating the discovery of Ame

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:46:37 GMT

Candid shot of the Purple Hippos celebrating the discovery of America on the water slide at the Mall

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POETRY - Wings

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:30:25 GMT

You are standing at the edge of a cliff,

And you see your whole life down there in the valley,

your life as it has been. Through all the trials and pain,

you have grown wings, and you realize that the pain

which almost killed you, was just your wings growing strong,

your bright, strong wings that will carry you into the rest of your life.

You spread your new wings, and your feathers catch the wind.

You feel safe at last. You realize these wings are your reward,

your gift for not giving up, for hanging in, for trusting Love.

You take a deep, grateful breath. You step forward. And you fly.

Alex Noble

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Tweeting the Classics #4 - Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:10:31 GMT

Tweeting the Classics #4 - Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

OR, A Search for Lost Time

"Beam me back, Madeleine!"

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Take enough tiny steps and soon....

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:45:53 GMT

Take enough tiny steps and soon you will outdistance the competition...

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You light up my life....

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:08:04 GMT

Snapshot 020

YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE !

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For A Web Begun, Love Sends Thread...

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:51 GMT

For A Web Begun, Love Sends Thread

(Spanish Proverb)

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Divine Love is my shepherd.

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:41:11 GMT

Divine Love is my shepherd. I shall not want. Love makes me lie down in Her pastures.
(Psalm 23)

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Love leadeth me beside the still waters...

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:08:57 GMT

Love leadeth me beside the still waters. Love restoreth my soul. (Psalm 23)

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It's OK, Son

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:22:47 GMT

It's OK,Son. We all have trouble with Windows!

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WOW! Avatars Dancing in Sync!!!

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:59:32 GMT

Sentimental Gentleman by Osprey Therian

Music and avatar-driven dancing are central to the Second Life experience, but because the process of initializing a dance is so cumbersome, especially when you're doing it with a partner, they don't always sync up. Bettina Tizzy has word (and hands-on demonstration) of a possible solution: Ashen Coalcliff's SyncDancer, which comes with a HUD that lets you choose between dances of different mood and tempo, and syncs your dance partner to same. Take it away, Ms. Tizzy and Kriss Lehmann:

Depending on how many dances are loaded into the system, the entry level starts at L$9,900 (about USD$40) so quite a cost commitment. Then again, since dancing is such an important in-world social lubricant, maybe a worthwhile investment. In-world store at Ode: Direct teleport at this link.

(From James Au's NEW WORLD NOTES)

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INSPIRATION: The Purpose of Art

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:17:42 GMT

And what is the purpose of Art, if not the perfection of love? For love is our primal cause, our ultimate destination. Love is our ancient memory of unity, harmony and grace. It is our burden, our adventure, our deep intuition of completeness. It is love that invites us to become timeless and enter in to the Mysteries. It is love that is our calling, our quest, and our Grail. It is love that shows us eternity in the flower, and unfolds the Kingdom of Heaven in each of our hearts. It is love alone which fuels Creation, and enchants order from chaos and old night. Love is our first, final and forever gift, the destiny we can never escape, our connection to holiness and the cosmos. For we are made of the stuff and substance of love’s dreams. We are not forgotten, fallen angels, but unforgettable light-bearing stars.

Alex Noble

J.S. Bach - Easter Oratorio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvK0wNNFPz4

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POETRY: Clarity

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:09:49 GMT

morning fills with light

the shadows, where did they go?

my path is clear now

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Morning Has Broken (Very Special!)

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THINKING: Are We In A Paradigm Crisis?

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:25:49 GMT

With the range of problems in our global economy and seeming disparate values and positions taken by nations, political entities and others, would you agree that we may be in a paradigm crisis?

If this is the case, how would we know?

Richard B. Heydinger from the University of Minnesota suggests some indicators that help identify such paradigm crisis:

1. Increased arguments about seeing and doing.
2. Extensive reports and data on failures.
3. Dissatisfaction and contusion amongst practitioners.
4. Performance deterioration altering the political order.
5. Increased search for alternative approaches.
6. Small events lead to crises.
7. Increased dynamism within the system.

Would anyone doubt indications of these happening in our societies? What if a different way-of-thinking, a different paradigm represents is already here and we just don't understand it?

One indicator would be that some people are doing things that to some make perfect sense, but others cannot understand.

Is this what we are observing in our current political dialogue?

For those who would like to gain awareness and understanding of the emergent paradigms, we invite you to join with peers who are making a difference by attending our 2009 Forum at the Hilton Woodland Hills in Los Angeles, California on April 23rd through 28th as we continue to explore the integration of "better thinking about thinking" into our actions and teamwork.

For reservations or more information, visit www.in2in.org or email our Registration Team at registrar@in2in.org. In a time frame of economic crisis, we are proud to be able to partner with our attendees and presenters and offer a 6-day package for $350, a fee which includes most meals, plus 14 pre- and post-conference seminars and workshops at no additional cost. The last day for our early registration discount of $50 is April 10th, at which point our registration fee increases to $400.

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WISDOM: KEEP COMPANY WITH SAINTS (Rumi)

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:14:57 GMT

You may despair of finding a true friend of God;

but since the treasure does exist in this world,

consider no ruin empty of treasure.

Go to every dervish at random,

and when you find the sign of a true saint,

keep his company regularly.

If the inner eye has not been granted to you,

always think that treasure could be in anybody.

Rumi

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2012: Avatars of the New Age

http://camphappiness.gaia.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:20:03 GMT

If in the practice of Tantric yoga one looks into the collective unconscious now, one will see a triptych, something like the Grunewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, vibrating in the ether of the astral plane. In one panel we see a painting of the feminine lamenting the fall of the masculine into time; it is a painting of Isis crying above the coffin of Osiris. In the second panel, we see the dead masculine in the arms of the feminine, Jesus in the arms of Mary. In the third panel we see neither the Fall nor the Crucifixion but the sacred copulation (hieros gamos) of the reunited young lovers. Once it was physical death and crucifixion which nailed consciousness down into matter: then it was the sacrament of Thanatos; but in the world-epoch about to begin it is a sacrament of Eros, a physical sexuality in which the lovers of eternity give birth to the world on the physical plane. The avatars of the New Age, as the Irish mystic A.E. realized in a vision seventy years ago, will not be the solitary male, but the male and female together.

Myth is the history of the soul. Lest we think that Isis and Osiris, or Jesus and Mary, are only stories from the past, we should look around us to see that a new chapter is being written in our own time. Whatever names these two lovers take, when they come together it will be like the touch of matter and antimatter, the passing and consuming passion of our world. In the origins of civilization is the overture to its end.

(From The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, by William Irwin Thompson)

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Painting:

Gustav Klimt: "The Kiss"

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Rumi: "Say I Am You"

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