brian Sirgutz

About me:

I run Causecast.org.. your destination for change. before taking this job, I was about to take a year off from the wacky/zany world of entertainment and move to India and Nepal.. teaching the Tibetan Monks up in the Himalayas and Indian Children in Varanasi conversational English as well as setting the Tibetan people up with their own online businesses. I plan to go back, post blogs about my jounries on Causecast. I Volunteer and I read A LOT!!! Veggie (we have evolved to the point where we no longer "need" to consume animal products..if you do, just understand its impact and eat in moderation) Environmentalist (the average american eats 3 cheeseburgers A WEEK... with that, one does more damage to the environment then if you left all the lights on in your nice big house and drove around your hood in a hummer.... 3 times!!!)... I like people who give more of themselves to others (people, animals, any issue that calls to your soul) are you into petty, trite things like who you or your friends are sleeping with? what everyone is buying and how great they almost are?? Celeb mags, gossip, innuendo, drama, consumption, war with whom?...is the enemy out there or within? I beleive the latter.. I find most people selfish and that is because they are scared; scared to live, scared to love, scared to fail, scared to be honest; with themselves and with those around them... Once you can let go of all the BS, the world becomes your playground; your own big sandbox in which to dance, play, love, help and be a light for those in the dark..
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded". - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw

Be loving, be kind And follow the ways of goodness. Committed, and longing for the goal, Always keep going with courage. To dally and delay will not help you. But to be ardent is sure and safe. When you see it, cultivate the path, So you will touch and make your own The Deathless Way.


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - ANAIS NIN.

&a; one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.?-Henry David Thoreau

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" Albert Einstein

"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." - James Buckham

"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- e.e. cummings

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everyone is born free until we entertain ourselves into bondage" - Me

""It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Elliot

""A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," 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 prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~Albert Einstein

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