Mind Garden

mindgarden @ 2008-03-04T14:19:00

2008-03-04T19:19:51Z

Add me to your friends, come follow my journey.

This is where it all comes together. This is where I can tell you, in secrecy, the way my mind works. The way my life twists and turns, just like everyone else's. The way I dig myself into holes so deep that I'm fucked with finding a way to get out. I want to help. I want to help you relate. I want to help myself understand. I am a daughter, a sister, a best friend, a worst enemy, and the one you can never let go of. Please give me a chance. This is my story.

Love,
Anonymous

Road Spent

2008-02-24T00:43:22Z

I could stand to be alone
for some time
Lose myself in white noise
slip into the blur
contemplate the color yellow
Right now
I just can't handle splashes to well
Or too many teeth
around me all at once
armed like guns with something to say
Urgent wispers
hoarse restraint
Quiet as paper cuts
people steal me away
cart off my flesh in tiny crimson piles
my bones have been sore
Rattling in their anemic cage
ravens circling
my heart beating
it's-time to-go it's-time to-go
someplace full of surf
full of flat blue sky
full of shuuushhh

mindgarden @ 2008-02-22T13:52:00

2008-02-22T18:53:44Z

Add me to your friends, follow my journey. I want you to know me.

This is where it all comes together. This is where I can tell you, in secrecy, the way my mind works. The way my life twists and turns, just like everyone else's. The way I dig myself into holes so deep that I'm fucked with finding a way to get out. I want to help. I want to help you relate. I want to help myself understand. I am a daughter, a sister, a best friend, a worst enemy, and the one you can never let go of. Please give me a chance. This is my story.

Love,
Anonymous

Prepare to live an amazing life.

2008-02-19T03:28:28Z

If you could trust a stranger with your life, would you? If i walked up right now to you and told you that i could show you something, something that would take some time, some self-practice, and exploration, and a belief in yourself, and nothing else, but in return i would give you a real chance to change your entire life into the best version that it could be, would you walk away without taking a peek?

http://www.universallawstoday.com/secret.html

A friend of mine on lj gave me a link to a video, which is the online version of the secret, the book that was on oprah. I had seen the book, and i believed it, but i did not work with it that much. Then i practiced it some, i saw the video, and i was so very inspired.
And life became magical, easy, beautiful, wonderful, relaxed, stress free, inspiring, amazing, and then i thought to myself.
I want to teach other people this, or direct them to the best resource i found from someone else so they too could experience this.
Then there's resistance, i wanted to teach this to my parents, then i thought, no, maybe they won't like it, and then i said, who cares, if i can teach them this, especially to my father, then he'll experience a life as energetic as carefree and as happy as i have.

And then i thought, i want to inspire others, and i had that same resistance. And i sent them an email - which i'll include below because i thought, if you cannot share with the people you love most something that has completely redirected your life, from misery to excessive happiness, and if you can't do that, then what is the point of living.

Later, i was inspired, if i did this with friends, why not to complete strangers, why not to the world. I don't have to spam every persons email in the world, just to touch people in a large community of people and see if in a short period of time they have inspiring stories.
And so i decided, to share this website, my email, and if you like in the future, tips of what has worked with me.

I have had amazing experiences, i feel like i've been touched by god or have that connection, and i'm not religious.
I feel happy, energetic, and i believe everyone who reads this, watches the video, and practices and experiments with what the video says can also achieve a revolution in their life.

It gives me great pleasure to write you this and yes, it will be different.

I'm writing to you because something amazing has happened to me, and you are one of the first people i thought of that i wanted to share it with.

You already have experienced this,
And i want to help you keep it up 100% of the time.

Here, go to this website, watch the movie, try out the suggestions, really try them and experiment with them, ask me for tips if it isn't working for you.
And prepare to be amazed and to live an absolutely magical life, for the rest of your life.

http://www.universallawstoday.com/secret.html

To make it work, you have to do several things.
The first is basically to raise your energy level consciously. That means, make yourself extremely happy, grateful, if you are having a bad day, thank the world for something, be it your heart, amazing art work, your family, friends, shoes, anything and everything!
I do that everytime i wake up.
And hold that happiness in your heart and let it grow and be completely positive.
Be nice and bless everyone, how you treat others probably determines your energy level (but you already are nice so you shouldn't have a problem.

Then, think about what you want.
Be it money, love, or a parking spot.

Visualize what you want and hold that image in your mind for a moment.

Ask for it, tell to the universe out loud or in your mind, I am grateful for receiving ___________ - or thank you universe/god for bringing this to me.

Let the universe worry about how it will get the specific something to you, just be happy, grateful, and receptive to getting it.
If you ask for perfect love, and then always mention to your friends, i'm so bad in relationships, it won't come true, so you have to kindof watch your words.
If you ask for something, you'll attract it as much as if you asked for something not to happen.
I don't want a car crash = car crash
I want to arrive home safely = arrive home safely...

I think i covered the basics,
and believe me, i've been completely different, energized, happy, off the wall happy, and so many amazing things have happened to me.
As i hope they will happen to you.
Dream, ask, receive, love life.

Oh, by the way, you can ask for things as they are happening or need something done - i.e, thank you for helping me find the clothespins i need (i found them right away and i didn't know they'd be there. - Or, let my mom be happy about how well the telephone call went,...
play around with it, you'll have fun, and spread it to others after you make it work.

This is about being an energized person, of bringing good to your world, and to the rest of your world. By being happy, nice, and inspiring to others, we make the world a better place. Personal experiences so far have included working hard and loving it, being loving to my family, being worry and stress free, being inspired, getting life's events to line up positively, and healing emotional wounds.
I'm a better person for this, and i look forward to seeing more of you on this ride of life with me.

You have everything to gain
With best wishes, blessings and love
Philipp.

I used to be an observer and note taker. If i found something interesting i'd try it and most of the time i would just note it down without passing it down. I thought about doing that too with the secret and the video of it i found online...
and then i saw the amazing changes in my life.
And i decided, why? Why hide? If you don't like it, maybe you'll say nothing, maybe something, or maybe you'll thank me for directing you to a source that was able to improve your life. I want to inspire the world, like the world has inspired me. I don't have to invent something new, something original, i just have to direct people to the same thing that amazed and inspired me and has made me happy.
And see if more of the same happiness fires start in other people's lives.

Oh, by the way, after i learned how to do this, all of this i accomplished in the last week, consistantly.
I thought to myself, if i've felt this way for 7 days, how will i feel about it for 7 weeks, 7 months, 7 years, or even 70 years.
And i said, i look forward to it. Really try it, it will be the best choice you ever made.
Love you, bless you, whoever you are, prepare for one wild exciting ride.

mindgarden @ 2007-12-08T23:24:00

2007-12-09T04:24:59Z

I am at the close of my first semester as an art student and feel as though my view of art has become unjustly negative. The last few months have been intense -- magnified like a pressure-cooker by the startling revelation of Martin Beck, a graduate alumni at my school who stated that, "those for whom art is their life become extremely dull." I'm beginning to question whether art is really the noble pursuit that it appears to be. I began to think that perhaps art is full of the same paradoxes as life. More specifically, that who enter college as artists, only to change their major in the course of time are the ones who preserve the basest form and enjoyment of art. It's the ones who continue in the art profession who ultimately sell out -- not because they're corrupt or even because they're jaded (although that tends to happen anyway) -- but because they're forced to sell themselves to make a living. The once pure and unadulterated passion becomes tarnished, and that is inevitable when you make a living doing what you love.

The following is a conversation I had with a friend over lunch. A little armchair economics minus the economics.

What is Art?
Defining something that doesn't make sense.

Art as a Metaphor

Art is creative bullshit.

Art is aesthetically pleasing crap.

Contemporary art is glorified crap.

Performance art is an excuse for exhibitionists to strip naked.

Art is an inventive channel to express everything that does not belong with common sense.

Miscellaneous Art

Art is like an itch that won’t go away.

Art is like Vaseline. When you put it on, it sticks to everything.

Art is like a black pawn that wants to be white. No matter what color it is, it’s still a pawn and it’s still going to get trashed.

Art as Food

Art is like bread. They can be white, brown, or yellow, but when you put them in the toaster, they all get burned.

Art is like an unkosher dumpling. It’s thin and delicate on the outside, but inside it’s just vulgar.

Art as Sex

Art is like going out at night looking to get laid. Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you don’t.

Art is like prostitution. The most successful artist has mastered the art of selling herself.

Art is like having sex when your brain has turned to mush. It doesn’t take any intelligence to do.

Art is like a Las Vegas prostitute: a luxury you can't afford.

Art is like a whore that has reached her prime: it becomes cheapened over time.

Art as a Lesson in Futility

Art is like an addict coming out of an ether binge. Any effort to resist is futile.

Contemporary art is like counting the hairs on your head. It’s (f******) pointless.

Real art is like counting the hairs on your head. It’s (f******) impossible.

new person

2007-08-18T00:54:24Z

I'm new to this group and I am announcing my arrival, I have a lot of philosophies but mainly I am looking for a group to commisserate with when I'm depressed and lonely. in the mean time I will show up here from time to time to discuss my "out on the fringe" philosophies.

Written October 10, 2003 by Matthew

2007-01-24T18:48:04Z

Originally published at Memories of Matthew. Please leave any comments there.

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Over the past few days, I have been really upset. The idea of my aunt dying is really taking a toll on my daily life. Not that I want anything to happen to someone else, but my aunt happens to be my favorite relative. What upsets me even more is what my father said the other day. The man cannot come to grips with reality. Everything just somehow always relates to God. His sister is dying and he can still manage to say it is the will of God. Just writing this down almost brings me to tears. I am really confused.

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mindgarden @ 2008-03-04T14:19:00

Road Spent

mindgarden @ 2008-02-22T13:52:00

Prepare to live an amazing life.

mindgarden @ 2007-12-08T23:24:00

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