http://crisrieder.org/inspiration random notes, quotes and other inspirations from the inner path Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en july 17 / 18 2010 according to an interpretation of the Mayan understanding of time as waves of cosmic qualities, this is a very auspicious date it marks the initiation of - what they called - the ninth wave of consciousness evolution (if you are courageous enough to go into the details, read ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2010/07/17/conscious-convergence-the-hearts-longing-for-oneity/   spring is around the corner, i can feel the sun's getting strongerspring is comingnew life! this inspires me to do some spring cleaningin the cupboards of my belief systemcheck what is laying around there in the dark corners ; )do i still need that?does it still serve me well? maybe i can ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2010/01/30/spring-cleaning-my-core-belief-system/   how to love your man / woman, your husband / wife, your partner?especially when you have been together for long whileand a lot of things might have happened since the time when you fell madly in love with this person you might not believe me, but your wo/man is not your ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2009/12/09/how-to-love/  Meditation group / Synopsis Session 1: Intent & method of the meditation, basic instructions   intent of the group: learning some simple and clear steps to practice meditation on a regular basis objective of the meditation practice: open conscious awareness, fully awake here and now - ness experiences in meditation come and gohowever interesting or boring ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2009/11/23/meditation-group-synopsis-of-instructions/  well, it's been a couple of month now that i wanted to write about meditation ...and i tried ... and delayed and delayed and delayed ...and one thing became very obvious to me:after 35 years of doing meditation, i can not put my finger on it and say:this is what ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2009/11/23/meditation/  Sex yes, we all want itdon't we? we desire it, dream about it, phantasize it and go for it when ever we can it is all over the placethe whole advertisement business is driving on it, not to mention the porn industry, internet is full of it and the movies toosex sells, they ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2009/01/02/sex/    Why am i taking up the issue of 2012 again?Because i feel that it is the single most important reality of our lifetime and everything seen and unseen is influenced by it's occurrence. Obviously the majority of people have no awareness of the background of this immense transformative process that ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/11/25/2012-re-visited/   so what about the future? what will be, where will i be?shall we care about the future? shall we save for our pension?shall we ponder where we want to spend our old days? right now the polar ice is melting with record speed, the world's population increasing exponentially, food resources are dwindling and ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/07/19/2012-and-beyond-the-future-as-i-see-it/   after watching such movies like "The 11th hour" and "An inconvenient truth" or more poetic wakeup calls like "Baraka" and "Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of balance", one cannot help but be touched, sad, angry, overwhelmed, even numbed ... but sooner or later might come an urge to take action, to ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/07/19/what-can-i-do/    i recommend to watch this two films:- The 11th hour- An Inconvenient Truth probably best would be to watch them once every monthto make sure that we don't forget what time it isand what we have done to our world, to ourselves supposedly we are an intelligent species, we human beingsprobably even the ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/06/13/we-the-people-versus-we-the-world/    life - the most important of it allthen only comes love and then the rest i am in awe when i think of lifei cant find the wordsmy mouth stays wide open and only silence is there when i try to comprehend life   life does not need words - and still ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/06/13/life/   wow !!! i have not been here on my inspiration blog for a long time now! have been very busy latelypeople probably would call it workhardcore programming work i rather choose to call it creatingmaking something from almost nothing :-Dfrom ideasbringing them down into specific form,into tangible shape, use-able things that is always ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/06/13/work/  colors are everywherecan we imagine our world without colors?hardlywould be very boring but usually we don't focus on the colors very muchwe focus on the form and what the form means to us but if i look at the colorstake time to let them in, let them impress on my perceptionthen an astonishing ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/03/11/colors/ springlonging for the fresh greenfor the newwant to let go of the old, the stale, the known-too-wellwant to empty my body my mindlet go of accumulated waste, the toxic stuffso i start to fastno oh-so-good foodvolunteer simplicity of life & mindto make roomfor the newthe unknownthe beyond-the-horizonthe freshgreen  http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/03/06/10/ recently i stumbled across a book actually it was the women who wrote this book, she came to my attention and i would like to share this with you now because i think this is an important book it talks about things that are missing from the spectrum: "Woman ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/02/20/women-money/ how do we get there, to the place where love is?in our days and age we are experiencing a continuous speed up of time / pace of life and an exponential widening of space /  options / choicesthis puts us deeper and deeper into a almost paradoxical situation - we ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/02/12/how/ beyond the here and now and still inside of it is The love that is all there is in the very end beyond the here and now and still inside of it is The love that is all there is in the very end beyond the here and now and still inside of it is The love that is all there is in the ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/02/11/love/ the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time is now the time ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/02/11/here/ the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place is here the place ... http://crisrieder.org/inspiration/2008/02/09/the-time-is-now/