Avatar inspired meditation wisdom

7 chakras:

1st - Earth deals with survival and blocked by fear;
2nd - Water deals with pleasures and blocked by guilt;
3rd - Fire deals with will power and blocked by shame;
4th - Air deals with love and blocked by grief
5th - Sound deals with truth and blocked by lies
6th - Light deals with insight and blocked by illusion (The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion that all things are separate.)
7th - Thought deals with pure cosmic energy and blocked by earthly attachment

Yes, this all came from Avatar Book 2, Ep 18. As with so much anime in the world, there's more than a tad of research and reality, distilled into incredibly easy to digest and comprehend nuggets. If only 12 year olds the world round could understand it.

Writer's Block: The day the earth stood still

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That America was shown that we are no better or different than any other country. That the fruits of what we'd sown (constantly fucking around in other, sovereign nations' domestic affairs) finally bore 'real' fruit. That if we were wise, and clever, we could be the strongest best nation in the world by leading by example, by moving beyond race, religion, politics, or any other faux measure of divisiveness and actually helping the world lift itself out.

Yeah. And I'm still waiting for my pony, too.