Surfing at Pantai Balangan

Subak

Bali's water irrigation system, a marvel of engineering nominated for UNESCO world heritage status, is inter-connected with Bali's social, government and religion systems.

"It is tangible reflection of the original Balinese ideas and beliefs which roots essentially in Tri Hita Karana concept, that is the awareness of the need to always maintain the harmonious relationship between God, Human, and Nature in daily life."

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5100/

http://www.frogsongvilla.com/2012/05/balis-rice-irrigation-system-entered.html

http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/bali_explorer/2011/jatiluwih.html

Yes, money CAN buy happiness

TED Talk, Michael Norton
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness.html

by spending it on someone else.

Positive Psychology

Shawn Achor:
http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html

Retrain the brain.
Begin each day with:

• 3 new gratitudes
• journal a positive experience
• exercise
• meditation
• conscious act of kindness

Pride and Prejudice

Download for free at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.

Pride is the place where I'm trying to cover up a perceived weakness.  A prejudice manifests when I see that weakness reflected back to me in some other person.  When I forgive that person for that weakness, I have forgiven myself, and the whole scene dissolves.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

let your soul be your pilot

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

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sting/letyoursoulbeyourpilot.html


Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He'll guide you well

When you're down and they're counting
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there's no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well

Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He'll guide you well

When the doctors failed to heal you
When no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
When there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
The compass spins between heaven and hell

Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He'll guide you well

And your eyes turn towards the window pane
To the lights upon the hill
The distance seems so strange to you now
And the dark room seems so still

Let your pain be my sorrow
Let your tears be my tears too
Let your courage be my model
That the north you find will be true
When there's no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well

Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you upon your way...