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"If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish- that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and made a separate entity out of it."- Eckhart Tolle

"The Precious Present" - Spencer Johnson

"The present is what is.

It is precious.

Even if I do not know why.

It is already just the way

It is supposed to be.

When I see the present,

Accept the present, and

Experience the present

I am well, and

I am happy.

Pain is the difference

Between what is

And

What I want it to be.

*

When I feel quilty

Over my imperfect past,

Or I am anxious

Over my uncertain future,

I do not live in

The Present

Then I experience pain.

I make myself ill.

And I am unhappy.

My past was

The present.

And my future will be

The present.

The present moment is

The only reality

I ever experience.

As long as I

continue to stay

In the present,

I am happy forever:

Because forever is always

The present.

The present is simply

Who I am

Just the way I am...

Right now."

- Spencer Johnson

Nothing But the Truth | Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-l5cDuBqBI

‎"There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery" by Portia Nelson

Veronica Guerin film

‎"Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9QBMrFw9Xo

"Finding Happiness" By Nadia Ballas-Ruta

"It was a Thursday night in July of 1996 when my quest for finding happiness began. I was sitting on the floor of my luxury apartment doing paperwork when it hit me that the path I was on was not the path for me."

http://thinksimplenow.com/happiness/finding-happiness/

Chopra Center Radio- The Law of Least Effort: The Power in Acceptance

"As we were growing up, many of us were taught that in order to achieve success or fulfill a goal, we had to work hard, push ourselves past resistance, and go the extra mile. While the ability to follow through and see a project through its completion is extremely valuable, there is also great value in letting things be easy . . . in trusting that everything is unfolding as it should and that the right answers, solutions, and ideas will come to us if we stop trying so hard."

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chopracenter/2011/02/23/the-law-of-least-effort-the-power-in-acceptance

A few inspirational quotes

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem" - J. Krishnamurti

"In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty . . . in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe."- Deepak Chopra

"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last." - Eckhart Tolle

"Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something."- Sri Swami Satchidananda

Institute of Documentary Film - Czech Docs Project - Sofia's Last Ambulance

"Throughout Bulgaria, financial support from the EU remains largely ineffective as the country’s state budget is absorbed by a powerful mafia. One of the most tragic casualties of the state is the medical system. After 20 years of capitalism, the number of ambulances in Sofia has dropped from 140 to 13. If you suffer a heart attack you can wait up to 5 hours for an ambulance to arrive. Where are all the ambulances?"

http://www.dokweb.net/en/documentary-network/east-european-docs/-sofia-s-last-ambulance-4713/

Incarcerated Mothers, a story by Yanina Manolova for VJ Movement

A story that I worked on in the last couple of months, just got completed.

Like over two million other children in the United States, six-year-old Keara has a parent in prison. Her mother was sentenced to four years and 11 months in the Ohio Reformatory for Women for non-violent drug offenses. Keara and her younger brother, Keo, live with their grandparents in Nelsonville, Ohio.

http://www.vjmovement.com/truth/894?fq=dshow.all&fq=dorder.hot&fq=tab.list