YOU ARE REMARKABLE

meditation.

youareremarkable — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:50:27 +0000

Sunyata, the void.
Become like a crystal,
crystal clear,
totally receptive to the passage of light.
In the crystal the molecules have aligned themselves
in such a manner as to enable light waves to pass.
Matter has adapted itself to becoming transparent to light
instead of visualizing translucent angels,
discover your own ability to let light pass through
your physical body.
Become non-solid.
Let the breeze blow through you
the light pass through you
BECOME PURE SPIRIT.

(pir vilayat inayat khan)

bravery,

youareremarkable — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:21:25 +0000

“When I was a kid, I didn’t understand what bravery was. I thought that being brave meant you weren’t scared. And as I grew up, I started to realize, being brave is all about being scared. And going on to do what you have to do, despite the fact you’re scared. That’s bravery.”

neil gaiman.

part.

youareremarkable — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:34:56 +0000

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

herman hesse.

& now.

youareremarkable — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:13:07 +0000

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck.

not like all the rest.

youareremarkable — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:24:07 +0000

all of the ramblings of your mind are golden to the world outside. so post your thoughts & just broadcast how you wish we could all confide in something than ourselves. you are remarkable to me. you take in the outcasts of the world, & show them it’s okay to be no like all the rest. you’re not like all the rest. you spread vibrations built of love across these obnoxious selfish states. you lend the slightest helping hand, & pull them close for an embrace. small bits of love. you deal in small bits of love, contribute small bits of love. not like all the rest, you’re not like all the rest. no you’re not like all the rest. (max bemis, for YAR)

holidays.

youareremarkable — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:01:17 +0000

it’s the holidays. the best & worst time of the year. we’re so happy but what if we’re not so happy it can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. it’s the holidays, it’s about being thankful for the existence of the people you love. it’s about telling those people how much they love you. if that is the only gift you give this year, it’s worth one million dollars. never let your gratitude go unspoken. even if you’re sad, if that weight is on your shoulders, remember a new year is upon you & remember you’re still here. this can be your year, you just need to give yourself up to change. give yourself up to chance. give yourself up to the universe & the energy that surrounds you.

happy holidays, from YOU ARE REMARKABLE.

change vs. control

youareremarkable — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:04:39 +0000

Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it goes down. But everytime that happens, what do you get? You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and you exhale, but every single time that you do that you’re a little bit different then the one before. We’re always changing. And its important to know that there are some changes you can’t control and that there are others you can.
-Half Nelson

perfection.

youareremarkable — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:30:18 +0000

“Perfectionism is a neurosis. It is an illness. And the more you try to become perfect, the more frustrated you will become. The goal of perfection has led the whole of humanity towards madness; the earth has almost become a madhouse. I don’t teach perfection. What do I teach? I teach wholeness, not perfection. Be whole; be total; but don’t think about perfection.”

Osho.

three years.

youareremarkable — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:42:09 +0000

“our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. in 12 years of education the most important lesson i have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. in a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything in the “real world.” refuse normalcy. beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. embrace it. i love all of you, all my friends, family and community. i am ceaselessly grateful from the bottom of my heart for everyone. the only thing i can ask of you is to stay free of materialism. remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. live and love so intensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family, and freedom. above all, stay gold”
DOMINIC OWEN MALLARY destroyer of man.

presence.

youareremarkable — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:07:06 +0000

When autumn comes & we watch the trees change & we watch the world slowly hibernate into itself it’s the perfect time to reflect upon the year but to also move on. it’s important to live in the present. we must learn from the past but not live in the past. Each thing we do is a learning experience. We must take those experiences & use them as stepping stones to move on. we must take what we’ve learned & build a new life from them, make new moment count. It’s so important to be present in everything.

i’m not going to make it.

youareremarkable — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:34:39 +0000

sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you’ve felt that way, and
you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that face
in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair anyway,
get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch the
newspaper of horror, place it on the coffee table, kiss your
wife goodbye, and then you are backing the car out into life itself,
like millions of others you enter the arena once more.
you are on the freeway threading through traffic now,
moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch
the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow
get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull
days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful
and so disappointing because
we are all so alike and so different.

you find the turn-off, drive through the most dangerous
part of town, feel momentarily wonderful as Mozart works
his way into your brain and slides down along your bones and
out through your shoes.

it’s been a tough fight worth fighting
as we all drive along
betting on another
-bukowski

FIRST YAR PODCAST.

youareremarkable — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:01:19 +0000

http://tellmesomething.org/yar/episode-101.html

listen, listen. tell all your friends & tell your big, big heart.

daylight saving’s.

youareremarkable — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:34:04 +0000

the weather is c-c-c-cold & the sun closes his eyes far too early. winter is coming with her icicle teeth bared. breathe deep & keep your mind calm. the trees are on their knees & bowing their heads to the season.

haunted.

youareremarkable — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:33:23 +0000

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.

- Richard Brautigan

podcast.

youareremarkable — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:51:51 +0000

everything is starting & everything is beautiful. as we’ve mentioned before YAR has teamed up with tellmesomething.org to bring you loves the official You Are Remarkable podcast. the podcast will be an audio scrap book filled with bits of love, inspiration, interviews & beauty. it will be available on itunes. each podcast will be short & each podcast will be different, much like the site. (don’t worry, the site will still be updated & loved!) they will be little words you can listen to on your way to work, school, or when you’re having a hard day & just need something to make you feel okay. please listen & please tell us what we can do to make it better& better & evermore.

introduction.

YAR on itunes.
tellmesomething.org/YAR

the way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way.

youareremarkable — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:59 +0000

I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor, that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity;
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .

Soldiers: don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written:
“The kingdom of God is within man”
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

. . .

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.

Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

slow show.

youareremarkable — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:01:42 +0000

It’s autumn and the trees are putting on their best show. Their colours line the roads and bright reds, oranges, yellows dot the landscape. We find comfort in their performance and in warm tea. It’s time for us to ready our performance. Today’s the day. Reach your hands high & steal some confidence from the cosmos. push your feet deep into the earth & suck up the stability of the earth. Breathe deep and let the wonder of the universe fill your lungs. Close your eyes & let the warmth of your existence radiate off of you. Open your bright eyes & give the creator’s a glimpse into your soul. Today, lean over to your lover, & tell them a secret. Get it off of your chest. Feel that freedom of release. today, write yourself a love letter; address each freckle, each scar. This is your time.

TELL ME SOMETHING .ORG

youareremarkable — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:11:59 +0000

PODCAST COMING!!!!

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youareremarkable — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:31:05 +0000

to celebrate two years in print the YAR book is on sale
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secondary.

youareremarkable — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:13 +0000

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-steve jobs.