http://joegoldfarb.com My Blog of Growth and Living Life Consciously Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:02:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en JoeGoldfarbcomhttp://feedburner.google.com At 2am I grabbed warm food from the fridge. Warm? Uh oh&#8211;the fridge broke! The compressor will not turn on. It appeared to have overheated because of a newly discovered thick mat of pet hair and dust covering the condenser coils. Instead of sighing I smiled. Here is an opportunity to experiment with diet. Best [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~4/Z8HBboNjQbQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~3/Z8HBboNjQbQ/life-without-refrigeration http://joegoldfarb.com/blog/life-without-refrigeration We live in a Universe of causality. Our brains and thoughts operate in causality as well as everything else around us. To assume the Universe was created is to assume there is a cause for creation placed outside the Universe. This thought and logic uses our thinking process of causality and applies it outside of [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~4/uNn8hhL-F-0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~3/uNn8hhL-F-0/the-universe http://joegoldfarb.com/meta/the-universe Recently I attended the Cairo Caravan &#8217;10, a belly dancing convention in Long Beach, California. I was offered the option to go and I rarely turn down new experiences. The event was three days long held inside the RMS Queen Mary, a decommissioned historical passenger ship from the 30&#8242;s that was converted into a hotel [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~4/D_bRjFVmJIg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~3/D_bRjFVmJIg/belly-dancing http://joegoldfarb.com/blog/belly-dancing I have lived a hundred lives. As each died I breathed one last time into it&#8217;s frigid, closing air marveling at the speckles of ice crystals formed from my exhale. Like diamonds twinkling in the sunlight, these crystals lit up, dazzled and shimmered and danced in that frozen moment. The crystals fell one by one. [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~4/b4DnixnlXig" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~3/b4DnixnlXig/the-stories-of-our-lives http://joegoldfarb.com/shorts/the-stories-of-our-lives Every so often I enjoy looking up quotes in a quotes database. I will type a phrase or word and read to gain insights. I searched for the phrase &#8220;I love you&#8221; and was bothered by several quotes that showed up in the results. I felt the quotes missed the mark on the meaning of [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~4/n31yqwU1jlE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoeGoldfarbcom/~3/n31yqwU1jlE/reflections-on-love-quotes http://joegoldfarb.com/love/reflections-on-love-quotes