A few announcements:
I have setup the “Marc’s Life” list and blog as its own blog, as it isn’t logically part of any of the other businesses that I am creating. The archive of old posts is still available here.
I have been using the Polyphasic sleep site for generic personal check-ins – understandably as I have [...]
There have been some pretty extraordinary events recently both for me and for my community (Trellis House), of which the most significant is my encounter with spiritual teacher Saniel Bonder. It’s too long to tell in a single mail, and so I am writing a three-part series about it: To skip my narcissistic ramblings and [...]
Life has been really wild here since Rebekah and I came back from Shalom Mountain and since I started my Yoga Transformational Bootcamp a week ago. Rebekah and I are totally in-sync again, which is a beautiful thing when it happens. With 3 Morehouse teachers visiting for the Basic Sensuality course, life has become even [...]
Thanks again to everyone who sent me feedback, both positive and negative on the polyphasic sleep. I am currently on day 5 of a modified Everyman schedule (normally 3 hours “core” sleep plus 3 x 30 min naps), in which I substitute a 2-hour nap for the second nap. It does increase total sleep to [...]
I have put the polyphasic sleep thing on hold, prior to even starting it, as I have developed a low-grade chronic fatigue (CFS). I am quite happy, just tired and droopy for the last two weeks. Historically such things clear out with time and super-healthy diet and exercise, but it cannot be rushed. I only [...]
I have postponed my polyphasic / Uberman sleep experiment by a day or two as I have a minor stomach flu. I will start either tomorrow or within a couple of days depending on how I feel. I want to begin the experiment rested and in good shape. I am feeling very happy and reasonably [...]
My polyphasic sleep experiment starts this Sunday.
For two reasons:
1) I don’t want to overload “Marc’s Life” list with over-long posts and sleep logs (the “narcissistic ramblings” stuff, you know).
2) I am sure that many of you already think that I’ve lost my marbles, and I don’t want to provide additional evidence for this unless you [...]
Well, as if my life wasn’t exciting enough already, I received notice a few weeks ago of getting laid-off from my job. My last day of work is next Friday, Dec. 19th.
If you are wondering how my juice feast is going, I am now on the modified version, which is juicing two meals and eating solid one meal a day. I was feeling so incredible for 3-4 days I could not believe it (unbearably happy and very-very expanded), but I wasn’t very focused. This is the [...]
I started a diet today called Juice Feasting (well, I’ve actually been on it 3 days with some experimentation, but I want to be rigorous). Essentially, it involves drinking “unlimited” quantities (3-4 quarts a day) of freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices. People do it for as much as 90 days, and report healing all [...]
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Quotes "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I?
If not now, when?"
-- Hillel
"We can choose to make the success of all
humanity our personal business. We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our
love for the World what our lives are really about. Each of us now has the opportunity, the privilege to make a difference in creating a World that works for all of us. It will require courage, audacity and heart. It is much more radical
than a revolution, it is the beginning of a transformation in the quality of life on our planet. You have the power to fire a shot heard around the World.
If not you, who? If not here, where? If not
now, when?"
-- Werner Erhard, 1979
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."
-- Frederich Buechner
"Describe the steps you would take,
the gifts you would buy,
the generosity you would bestow,
the kindness you would offer,
the enthusiasm you would have,
the attention you would give,
and anything else that appeals to you,
if you were able to give yourself the things you want someone else to give to you.
NONE OF US WANTS TO GROW UP"
-- Cheri Huber
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, being a force of nature, instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy…
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as i live it, it is a privilege to do whatever i can. i rejoice in life for its own sake…
Life is no brief candle to me, but sort of a bright torch that i got hold of for a moment and i want to make it burn as brightly as possible, before handing it on to future generations"
-- George Bernard Shaw “Bright Torch”
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
-- Joseph Campbell
"If your mind is on the right path, it doesn’t matter how fast you go. If you’re on the right path, you’ll get there. Commitment keeps you on the path."
-- Steve Chandler
Throw away Your begging bowls at God’s door For I have heard the Beloved Prefers sweet threatening shouts, Something on the order of: Hey, Beloved, My heart is a raging volcano of love for you! You better start kissing me – Or else!" -- Hafiz
"You don't need to get what you want if you can express what you want"
-- Strephon Kaplan-Williams
"The heart has its reasons that Reason knows not of." -- Blaise Pascal
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