The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people.

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.

Tks for being born, Lou

Very sweet running into you. I HAVE to lend you the Natalie Goldberg! I'll leave it at L Jk's for you tomorrow... but that one I've particularly got to have back because the Gwen Teekle she mentions was my high school great friend!

Here's the EW quote:

..."Furthermore, I thought David [Foster Wallace], at 46, was at a safe age, when things are most likely to be okay or okay enough: the mad search for sex and success that consumes one’s twenties, and then leaves a hangover into your thirties, is done with; the sense of failure, the feeling that it’s all been a waste, that hits after 50 hasn’t come yet. Middle age, which might be a crisis, can also be a calm." ..."So here is the miserable truth that those of us who are given to depression are forced to face when David Foster Wallace commits suicide: It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it." Elizabeth Wurtzel 7/31/1967

BUT then and so
 here's my latest Buddha quote mantra distillation:

"The smallest nutshell I can squeeze the entire teachings of Buddha into:

 Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional."

FB Buddhist Boot Camp 7/23/2013
 
AND Thich is coming !

Tks for being born, Lou,
(or whatever you're choosing to be called in the spectacular moment)
;-D
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Actually, I've made you Wise Sage forever and always. Do you hereby accept this title for as long as we both shall live?

Ducking legit Hippie Lou you're such a monster of peace, love and Zen

I just want to let you know that I admire the risk you took to change your look and what looks like your mind as well. So few people have the guts to do that.

you seem like a different person or are you kidding

hi hippielou,

i like some of your answers....

what happened to you between 2003 to now.
you seem like a different person or are you kidding

curious you age range 21-65 whoa.

perhaps we can dialogue?

ciao

yours is a very nice message. trying to write the answer to your first question now. might take me til the end of the year. would you like to meet for coffee? 

where would you like to train the fire's glow?

• hello hippie lou.
  you are a bit of a mystery.
  (I know, I know, aren't we all...)
  maybe you could illuminate yourself a bit?
  no need for a spotlight, just a couple of fireflies.
  might help us find the way along our journey to coffee... 
• Jul 30, 2013 – 4:03pm
  

  hello; with words so sweet, so rhymey, so just-in-timey, you must be a place all unto yourself. very exciting from my perspective. :) where would you like to train the fire's glow? 

  Jul 30, 2013 – 8:37pm
• hmmm. you could start by telling me a story. something small and true. something to bridge the gap between your online self and the one I'd be having coffee with :)  

  Jul 30, 2013 – 8:48pm
  

  there is absolutely no bridge between my online self and the one you'll be having coffee with. one might smell a little different, but other than that my goal is to have one self everywhere. doesn't always work though.
  
  here's a good story to read if you have time. it's not small but it's true. or true as best i knew it at the time i told it.