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20 Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it’s your last, or do you save your money on the chance you’ll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in America is so unbelievably delicious? And what about chocolate?”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re 34.”
– “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”

 “My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”

“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ”They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.”

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
– “Heartburn”

 “My friend Judy died last year. She was the person I told everything to. She was my best friend, my extra sister, my true mother, sometimes even my daughter, she was all these things, and one day she called up to say, the weirdest thing has happened, there’s a lump on my tongue. Less than a year later, she was dead. She was 66 years old. She had no interest in dying, right to the end. She died horribly. And now she’s gone. I think of her every day, sometimes six or seven times a day. This is the weekend she and I usually went to the spring garden and antiques show in Bridgehampton together. The fire screen in the next room is something she spotted in a corner of that antiques show, and above the fireplace is a poster of a seagull that she gave me only two summers ago … I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I can’t believe I’m here without her.”
– “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”

“The thing with friends when you get older — I mean this is not anything I haven’t written about — is they can’t be replaced. When you’re 30, you accumulate friends and you shed friends and you get closer at certain moments to some than others. And you have a huge bench of friends. And then that’s just not true.”

“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
– “Heartburn”

 “As for instructions for my funeral, I suppose I could come up with a few. For example, if there’s a reception afterward, I know what sort of food I would like served: those little finger sandwiches from this place on Lexington Avenue called William Poll. And champagne would be nice. I love champagne. It’s so festive. But otherwise I don’t have a clue. I haven’t even figured out whether I want to be buried or cremated — largely because I’ve always worried that cremation in some ways lowers your chances of being reincarnated. (If there is such a thing.) (Which I know there isn’t.) (And yet.)”
– “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”

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RawGuru Interviews Courtney Pool from Tree of Life

Courtney Pool

Question #1: A) What are some raw food staples in your current diet?

I have three main staples: greens (including sprouts), spirulina

, and green juice. Fresh greens and sprouts are a daily staple for me: I have a big salad for lunch and sometimes even for breakfast. I feel they’re the basis of a balanced raw food diet. Green juice is another staple which I drink every day. I usually have a non-glycemic juice made from cucumbers, celery, greens, and lemon either in the morning or in the evening, depending how I feel that day.

Almost three years ago, I was on a 60-day Juice Feast and suddenly began feeling magnetically drawn to spirulina

. The odd thing was that I had not really ever had it before, all I can gather is that my body suddenly knew what it needed. After I finished my Juice Feast, I hit the ground running with my spirulina consumption and haven’t stopped since. I eat tons of it.

B) Are you 100% raw?

It depends on the time of year. Most of the months of the year I am, mostly because I feel imbalanced with cooked food when it’s warm or hot outside. In the winter, I sometimes choose to eat steamed quinoa or warm miso soups, but even that is only a couple times a month. I don’t tend to focus on percentages; it can create feelings of control and deprivation that I don’t enjoy, so by not paying attention to the percentage but rather paying attention to my body and energy levels, I keep balanced fairly easily.

C) How did you start?

The very first introduction to anything in regards to natural health or dietary choices was that I saw Supersize Me; simply because it was popular at the time. I was a fast-food-fueled varsity swimmer and water polo player, so it was definitely not an initial interest to me! Over the course of the next year, I learned more about organic foods and natural health through books and the internet, and stumbled upon the book The Food Revolution, by John Robbins. I went vegan immediately; I didn’t even have a vegetarian phase. A few months after that, I discovered Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe and began playing around with raw food and frequenting the only raw food restaurant in Utah, which was in Salt Lake City where I was going to college.

Question #2: How did you get involved with the Tree of Life?

I had known about Gabriel Cousens, M.D

., through his books, for a year before I found out about the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center. I had been feeling drawn to complete immersion in learning about and practicing the diet and lifestyle with many people around me who also had the same passions. Additionally, I had begun to be interested in meditation, yoga and other spiritual practices and was also drawn to community support in that area. I sort of accidentally discovered the Tree of Life online, not previously knowing that Dr. Cousens had a center. I applied to join the team there and was hired. That was a little over three and a half years ago.

Question #3: Can you describe to us what true hunger is? And how does one deal with overeating/binging on raw foods especially dry fruits and fats?

Overeating and bingeing commonly happens when people transition to raw foods. This is a topic that many pages could be written about. First off, true hunger is waiting until the body is asking for fuel and replenishment to eat, not because it’s mealtime, a social event is happening, or there is something that looks good. For many, transitioning to a raw diet means transitioning to foods that don’t numb, distract, or damper unfavorable feelings within ourselves or realities in our lives. So, those things come up and often people try to push them back down again with the heaviest foods they can get to, which are fats and dry foods. They’re the most emotionally filling for most people. Physiologically, overeating those foods can be due to a transition from the body’s addiction to processed sugars and fats, and so it’s just a stabilization period. Greens and green juice and alkalizing foods are the best for balancing those cravings, as well as a willingness to examine what is beneath the desire to use food for emotional and compulsive reasons.

Question #4: How is your spiritual life in conjunction with the raw foods lifestyle?

Raw food has given rocket fuel to my spiritual life. Eating a clean and nourishing diet clears the blockages in the body as well as gives it true cell-food so it can run like the incredible bio-computer that it is. When the body is working well, the spiritual energy has clearer channels to circulate through as well. On a more practical level, a raw food diet allows for easier and deeper meditations, as well as more ease in other spiritual practices such as yoga. In the beginning for me, it was all about the food and the body and the health, and it’s turned into being all about developing myself as a person, deepening my conscious awareness and my feeling of connectedness to something bigger… and raw food is just a support for that.

Question #5: How do you come up with a recipe?

The recipe always comes after a bunch of experimentation with simply what I like to eat. My favorite recipes to create are for are superfood, herbal and medicinal based foods and drinks, since my normal ‘eating’ tends to be simple – salads, green juices, etc. I love making recipes that incorporate items like cacao, maca, bee pollen, medicinal mushrooms

like chaga and reishi, and other herbs. I also love creating low-glycemic recipes that don’t taste like they are. After I’ve thrown something together on intuition and taste test several times, I’ll write it down (usually because someone else wants to try it!)

Question #6 Can you share with us a favorite recipe or dish?

I’m loving a ‘coffee’ drink I make sometimes, which consists of equal parts concentrated chaga or reishi mushroom tea and some kind of nut or seed mylk (I like almond, brazil and coconut mylk best). After that’s together, add a sweetener such as honey, xylitol, stevia (or a combo of all). Toppers that I also put in are cacao powder

, cacao butter

, lucuma

, maca, vanilla powder, and if you want to get sassy – cayenne pepper. You can really adapt it to your liking.

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High in Omega’s Hemp Dressing by Lianna Giovane

SaladServing for two…

3 tbs hemp butter

2 tbs. hemp oil
2 tbs. coconut nectar

Squeeze of lemon juice
Splash of apple cider vinegar
2 squirts of Herbal Hot Sauce Elixir

Bali sea salt

and black pepper to taste

Mix the the above ingredients in a bowl until well combined and add any of your favorite salad greens like romaine lettuce, watercress, radicchio, pea shoots, etc. Enjoy!

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Reversing Diabetes with Dennis Banks
Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:13 AM PDT
A  few days ago we were visiting the wonderful Tree of Life healing centre in Arizona and I mentioned the amazing stories of reversing diabetes that are coming out of there at the moment. Well, we were extremely blessed to interview one of the current diabetes course attendees – none other than Mr. Dennis Banks, one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), activist, warrior, leader, mover-shaker and now raw foodie-diabetes-reverser-extraordinaire I really loved the opportunity to interview Dennis and we ended up speaking for around 45 minutes. Mr. M just posted the series of videos with him to TheRawFoodWorld.tv and you can check all 5 vids out at the link below – I trust you enjoy this peek into Dennis’ life and vision for reversing diabetes in Native communities nationwide…
http://mattmonarch.blogspot.com/2009/09/dennis-banks-weight-loss-interview.html