make sure to refresh this page every time you access it;  

updated: 2/3/17

tower m otto

 

https://soundcloud.com/wildambience/superb-lyrebird-menura-novaehollandiae

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/weirdest-superb-lyrebird

 

INSPIRATIONS

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

---------------------

Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but  sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

 

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

---------------------

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

---------------------

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dass Guided Imagery

ALL GUIDED IMAGERY



ETHICS GOALS

[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”

our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre

honi soit mottohoni soit motto[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

OTHER GOALS

honi soit motto[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.


LOOKING AHEAD:

2-14 Texas Totem Animal   LEADER?

[2-14 St. Valentine's Day Christian]

TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS

466-470                 Dobie  introduction

471-488                 J Frank Dobie, The Longhorns

489                           Longhorns Our Totem Animal?

490-495                 Longhorns at U.T.

496-497                 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry

498-500                 Texas Longhorn: origins

501-508                 Learning from Longhorns

====================================================

TOTEM ANIMAL ORIGINS: CATTLE

509-512                 Cattle in Ancient History

513-521                 Cattle in World Religions

514-517                 Cattle in Hinduism

517                           Cattle in Judaism, Islam, Jainism

518-                          Cattle in Ancient Egypt

518-521                                   Cattle in Asia today

522-524                 Cattle in Hinduism

525-529                 Cattle in Jainism-

530                           Cattle in the Odyssey

531-532The Sacred Calf in the Bible

533-540                 Hemingway on bullfighting

541-573                 Hemingway MS

 

===================================================
2-16
COMPASSION EAST AND WEST

Best and Worst;, quiz, discussion of blogs  LEADER?

574-575                 Suffering: The Fall of Icarus                              

                  576-580                 Compassion Overview

581                           Jain Guidelines

582-                          Jainism and Environmental Ethics

583-590                 Ahimsa

591                           Gandhi

592-594                 Jain Ahimsa in Practice

595-599                 Mahavira's Environmental Ethics

600-602                 Learning from Eastern Thought

603-608-                 Jewish bible: Leviticus, Isaiah

609-                            Virgil

610-613-               Fourth  Eclogue

614-615                 "Love"  John 13+15  Paul 1 Corinthians

615                           "New Self" Paul  Colossians 3

616                            "God is Love" 1 John 4

617                            John 8: Tower Motto

618-620                 "Last Supper" = "Vegetarianism?"


LOOKING AHEAD further:

  2-21, 2-23 Earthlings Compassion Test  2-28 P1b  Due 3-2 Hemingway, Toxic Aggression, and Animals 3-7 Dominion and Aggression, Genesis and Lord of the Flies  3-9 Swift and Carnism  3-21 Carnism and Sustainability  3-23, 3-28, 3-30 Carroll, Alice books 4-4 P2a due 4-6 Racism Alice Walker 4-11, 4-13, 4-18 Fowler, Beside Ourselves  4-20 Research Universities and Animals  Carroll, Adams 4-25 Boulle, Kafka  4-27 Paradise Regained Isaiah, Virgil  5-2 Paradise Regained Hicks, Davis 5-4 P2b due

==============================================================================================================================

BEST AND WORST

2-9 P1A DUE Transformation, Rebirth, Shapeshifting experiential version in class:

REBIRTH, AND TRIBE FORMATION, + NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC+ EXTRA CREDIT FOR COMING DRESSED AS YOUR ANIMAL GUIDE

WHO ARE YOU? -- said the Caterpillar (repeatedly).

WHAT ARE YOU? -- the Pigeon asks 


honi soit motto UT leadership image  honi soit motto

 


BILL MOYERS ON HIS SECOND BIRTH AT U.T.

 

As a boy, Bill Moyers sacked groceries in his hometown of Marshall, Texas, but he went on to become Director of the Peace Corps, LBJ's White House press secretary and chief of staff, the publisher of Newsday, and the erudite writer-producer-interviewer for several of PBS's most popular series, including Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Genesis. People magazine has said that Moyers is "perhaps the most insightful broadcast journalist of our day, an astute interviewer to whom philosophers, novelists, and inarticulate workers have revealed their deepest dreams."

 

In 1986, The Ex-Students' Association gave Moyers its highest honor, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. And when he delivered UT's 117th commencement address in May 2000, it was the fourth trip back to his alma mater within the year, having participated in an LBJ Library symposium on the '60s, The Daily Texan centennial celebration, and having given the Liz Carpenter Lecture at Hogg Auditorium in February.

 

….this is the place to which I do return. Someone asked me the other day, "You were here for The Daily Texan celebration, you're here for this, you're giving the commencement in May. Why?" And I said, "Because it's the place of my second birth."

I became intellectually awakened here. And it's like the astronauts returning from space; they always head for earth. And for me to return from the atmosphere of a vagrant sojourner, which is what journalism is, you go from place to place, restless, homeless, this is the earth to which I always return. Somehow coming back here, even though it has changed drastically since your time and my time . . . . and yet, somehow, I get more in touch with what I really am, who I really am, here than anywhere else.

That's because I was initially formed here. It's like going back to your birthplace . . . .the Tower is still there. ...The live oaks are still there and there is a very palpable memory here, a living memory of what I felt and experienced. ....

I can see [some of my professors] in my head right now. I can hear their voices. How do you explain that? I don't know how you explain that. Some people talk that way about their religious conversions. But I have that still-fresh sense of really coming alive here. Coming back here is to be put back in touch with that."

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

native american rebirth and vision quest

drumming

class dance

 

 

 

 

BORN FREE

 

 

Born free, as free as the wind blows

Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free (Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

tower m otto  tower m otto  tower m otto 


 

honi soit motto

“Stress Recess” Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called “Stress Recess” at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!