Matt & Kalee's Playlist: untitled 2011

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

untitled 2011

"I am a student of everything. I learn from the world around me. I study the math of the Universe. The art of life. And the working of nature. I ponder the reasons behind existence. I stare up at the night sky and am amazed at the vastness of what IS. I learn from everyone I meet and anyone who will teach me. I invent. I create. And I build. I am not defined by my career or job or degree. I am more than that. I will not be one thing. I will be EVERYTHING."

...living based on this is my focus this year. I'm determined not to lose sight.

This year: no expectations. I am open to the infinite possibilities that the Universe has for me.

Last year was about opening up, being flexible, and getting used to the idea of letting go of control & going with the flow.

This year I want to BE THE FLOW.

Last year was a big year of change for me- switching gears from uptight to relaxed, type A to type B(ish).

This year will be a year of GROWTH.

& so I thought the title fitting...

2 comments:

CatherineJanuary 6, 2011 at 10:06 AM
This year I want to BE THE FLOW.
I feel like this is a common theme this year... In 2010 a lot of us were figuring out how to balance everything; this year is about living it... It's ok to be Type A-and-a-half, too. :)
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KaleeJanuary 7, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Thank you so much for your sweet comment Catherine :) This year IS about living it!
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Philosophy

Talent is God given: be humble.

Fame is man given: be thankful.

Conceit is self given: be careful.

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Be good to yourself.

Be excellent to others.

And do everything with love.

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Life is change.

Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

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Hard work beats talent,

when talent doesn't work hard.

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It is my deepest and sincerest belief

that we all have a responsibility to

take care of one another.

Basics

Matt...

-grew up in Huron, Ohio and is the son of Joe and Kim Maloney.

-played baseball for The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss Rebels) until his Junior year (2005) before getting drafted in the 3rd round to the Philadelphia Phillies.

-was traded in 2007 to the Cincinnati Reds.

-made his MLB debut in June 2009 against the Chicago Cubs.

-enjoys playing the guitar, listening to music, hiking, adventures with his wife and dogs, grilling out, and road trips.

Kalee...

-grew up in Huron, Ohio and is the daughter of Chris and Lisa Basting.

-attended THE Ohio State University and graduated in 2008 with a degree in Communication, with a focus on public relations.

-is a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal coach/trainer and enjoys working out/weight training and helping others to enjoy it too.

-practices Bikram Yoga 5-7 times a week and believes it is much more than exercise, stretching, and sweating- it is a way of life.

-is constantly growing and learning to LET GO and JUST BE.

-has faith in a Higher Power and a Life Force that runs through everyone and everything.

-is passionate about Yoga- healthy mind = healthy body = healthy life.

Quotes Worth Quoting

In All Things, Everything.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on. We must remember that.

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself. -Lululemon

We must be aware that we come from the same source... the illusion of separateness is what divides us!

Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live. -Margaret Fuller

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

When you are able to embrace All That Is in love, all there is is love.

We are what we repeatedly do.

What you resist, persists.

There is no seperation between God & us. We are divine expressions of the creative principle. -Shakti Gawain

We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -Anais Nin

Be simple, be innocent, be present and your life will be charmed. -Deepak Chopra

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. -MLK

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi

You get treated the way you teach people to treat you.

Practice love until you remember that you are love. -Swami Sai Premananda

At the CORE

In terms of spirituality/ holiness/ godliness... briefly:

"I think that you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. If humanity never evolved in its exploration of the divine, a lot of us would still be worshipping golden Egyptian statues of cats. And this evolution of religious thinking does involve a fair bit of cherry-picking. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving towards the light.

Even in the most unlikely and conservative of places, you can find sometimes this glimmering idea that God might be bigger than our LIMITED RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES have taught us.

I see the universe in terms of karma, a process of constant circulation, which is to say that you don't really "end up" anywhere at the end of your life-not in heaven or hell-but just get recycled back to the earth again in another form, in order to resolve whatever relationships or mistakes you left uncompleted last time."

- E. Gilbert