tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58608582011-04-22T04:36:16.837+10:00Andrew GainesNotes on creativity training and a world that worksAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1103526162622399662004-12-20T18:01:00.000+11:002004-12-20T18:02:42.623+11:00Today the air was so full of perfume that by the very act of breathing I turned into a blossom myself.
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1102824503157001012004-12-12T15:07:00.000+11:002004-12-12T15:08:23.156+11:00We are in the business of creating a world that works – a fantastically wonderful society. We are not in the business of fighting corporate oppression – our purpose is vastly larger and more wonderful. We may succeed, or we may fail, but magnificent well-being is what we are about.
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1098057954577725692004-10-18T10:03:00.000+10:002004-10-18T10:05:54.576+10:00Orientation for Our Time
Bob Nadeau, an advanced Aikido teacher in San Francisco, would come onto the mat for his class and ask, "What's needed now?" Tuning in, he would say, “We need to work on centring…” or turning, or extending ki, and he would create the class based on what he saw was appropriate for the moment.
Now that the Australian-US free trade agreement has been passed, and a Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1090712457478845972004-07-25T09:37:00.000+10:002004-10-18T10:10:11.760+10:00Catching up with the Buddha
In Ancient Futures Helena Norberg-Hodge discusses the Buddhist doctrine that just as a tree depends on soil, air and water for its existence, so we as individual bodies do not have an existence separate from the world that sustains us. Indeed, if we extend aware of necessary connections far enough, they include the whole of evolution this point.
This perception of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1090007925972421352004-07-17T05:56:00.000+10:002004-10-18T10:13:20.690+10:00Fear of Greatness
Not once, but twice during the on-court interview immediately after defeating world champion Venus Williams at Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova said, "I'm sorry I beat you." Given that she obviously wanted to become Wimbledon champion, her comment seems odd.
Marianne Williamson, in a justly famous quote, said, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear isAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1089291898003486662004-07-08T23:04:00.000+10:002004-07-08T23:04:58.003+10:00AGAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1089202769627553912004-07-07T22:16:00.000+10:002004-07-07T22:20:42.296+10:00I wrote this description of myself for a speakers bureau recently. It seems like a pretty good summary of what I'm on about these days.
My primary commitment is to contribute to the evolution of a world that works. In my view this will be a world that is ecologically sustainable and humane. I believe that we are at a tipping point in human evolution where either we commit ourselves to social Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1070439361192092512003-12-03T19:16:00.000+11:002003-12-03T19:16:11.696+11:00CONNECTING THE DOTS TO SEE THE NEW FASCISM
The current Australian government and the US are negotiating a Free Trade Agreement that I believe surrenders Australia's right to regulate itself democratically in certain important respects. Some members of a group I am part of have agreed that there is a threat here, but have resisted taking a public stand against the Free Trade Agreement in the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1068951955736877922003-11-16T14:05:00.000+11:002003-11-16T14:23:56.956+11:00BEING AUTHENTIC
Dinner last night with Doug and Joan. Doug is a closet genius, far more knowledgeable than appears at first sight. Joan is an exceptional art teacher. She has the ability to go into tough classrooms in rough neighbourhoods, ask a few questions, and thereby touch something in kids that gets them excited about making art. Joan draws a lot of her ideas from the works of artists Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1064580739729513342003-09-26T22:52:00.000+10:002003-09-26T23:46:25.903+10:00I have a friend who has been breathing depleted uranium. She did not mean to. Before she went to help in Afghanistan she did some research, and found out the southeast corner of Kabul has the highest concentration of depleted uranium in the world. So she made it a point not to go there. But – Kabul is dusty. Very dusty. The wind blows yellow dust everywhere, and the dust is filthy not only Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860858.post-1064530376958312942003-09-26T08:52:00.000+10:002003-09-26T08:52:57.206+10:00Brains are like yachts
Brains are like yachts. All too often they sit idle in the harbor, when they could be catching the fresh breeze of thought and sailing to new vistas.Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12694947544500436711noreply@blogger.com