Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- “…Being a busy person doesn’t necessarily mean that you are stressed… But when you are living for the next task in the future, you approach your busyness with a loose mind, …you are distracted, you are an inattentive listener, you feel guilty taking time out for yourself – Now we are talking about someone who is stressed. And there is a reason for all this busyness – it means you are escaping the deficits of your own personality. It is an unwillingness to sit quiet because then you would have to confront things like: ‘Why am I not unhappy?’ - ‘Why am I escaping with all this business?’ …I think that society now is facing a change because we are in this recession/depression and it is a terrible thing for people to loose their jobs - and so their identity. But this adversity is here to teach us something – to get back to the core personality. How much do we really need? Is that what defines us?” ~ Debbie Mandel – Feb 10, 2009 This quote was taken from an interview ...

-- Quote of the Day -- Re: Emotion "The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside." ~ Robert Stuberg -- Interviews with Lillian -- I was invited to appear on the Toboa radio show on March 26th with host, Guy Chapman, which I believe airs around 7:00 PM (Pacific): www.blogtalkradio.com/Green-T-Hour "Toboa Radio is operated via the Toboa Energy Resources LLC - a renewable energy company with focus on private and commercial electric power resources through the application of wind and solar power. As a provider of wind generator and solar systems, Toboa Energy Resources can o...

-- Quote of the Day -- "To the Earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breates on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." ~ Michael Crighton of Jerassic Park I struggled a bit with the quote of the day - as most of our readers are already aware, I make an effort to use quotes that are uplifting, inspiring or motivational... and this quote is a little on the darker side of things. However, Michael's "powerful rhythm" of crafting the words in this quote really strike a cord with me. -- Conscious Travel Tips -- In these times of ecomomic strife and envi...

* Happy ST. PATRICKS DAY, everyone ! :) * ...This year, instead of wearing green, live green ;) -- Quote of the Day -- "We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." ~ Mao Tse Tung -- Eco-survey Results -- "MM Research Institute Ltd., a Japanese marketing research company, released the results of a survey on user's attitude toward green action on October 30, 2008, focusing on consumer monitors of goo Research, the national biggest internet questionnaire service company (1,052 people throughout Japan). Each respondent cited one to three company names in response to the survey. Toyota Motor ranked the highest (24 percent) as a company focusing on the green action. Panasonic Corp. was ranked second (8 percent), and a major Japanese retailer, Aeon Co., was third (7 percent)." * Source: Japan for Sustainability Organization's newslet...

-- Quote of the Day -- “(Writing and film) have something in common, which is they have the concept of a story line there is a narrative. …You can’t really describe it to people who don’t get it. One of my favorite quotes is: ‘Do you hear the music?’ It is something you cannot describe to someone who is not a writer innately. …You have to have something to say and you have to a strategy about how you are going to say it and strategy has to be something other people will be interested in. …One of the things about the documentaries I did – I wanted to KNOW, I really wanted to know. …When you interview people you realize that they were saying so much more than with words, with their body, with the way their eyes moved…there were voice inflections… but I think inherently it takes a writer to see there is a story.” ~ Nancy Fulton – Dec 11, 2008 Check out the interview with Nancy Fulton re: " Transition from Writing to Film " on the Conscious Discussions archived interviews und...

-- Quote of the Day -- “I don’t know if our parents can truly understand [employment downsizing]. …I think it is very interesting to see how my kids react. …They know they will be switching companies, to them it is a fact of life. For my parents generation – that thought just didn’t happen. For our generation – the boomers - it is really a mixture; I think we thought we were going to stay with the same company and in fact it does not happen like that. So I think we are kind of a combination of those. …This is the time when the universe is hitting you upside the head…to do what you are meant to do on this Earth. What I am doing now I am very happy with even though I am not making as much money as before, I am much happier and more myself. …It is a way of rediscovering yourself. …I looked at what I was doing that I enjoyed without getting paid for it, and worked with that. …Fear is the biggest thing that puts you down, in fact I think everything is driven by fear and once we let that go ...

-- Quote of the Day -- “…We do need to switch the way we produce energy… but what resonates about our message is that we can spend all our time yelling and arguing about what we can do to produce energy – or we can do things that give our life a richer tone and also take less energy so that we do not need to produce that energy in the first place. …You know, you wash with cold water, you can save as much as 80% of your washing bill, because heating water is so energy intensive. Hang laundry on a line and you save even more money. …The dryer is an incredibly energy intensive appliance, the second biggest in the household – only the refrigerator is higher. …The dryer is responsible for as much as 10% of North America’s energy consumption. …Generally the commercial washing outfit, where someone is in business to make money by washing someone’s clothes, they are going to purchase the most energy and water efficient model available, because their machines tend to be in use 5-10 times a day....