Soulcycler

From out of the Laughter in Southern India

soulcycler — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:29:11 +0000

“The one source of all-encompassing love knows nothing of boundaries; differing customs; geographic divisions; family splits; or differences in race, creed, sex, and so on — it only knows love for all.”

— Wayne Dyer

From out of the Laughter in Southern India

My return from India was disorienting.

Thrust back into modern [...]

Mad in Mumbai

soulcycler — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:57:22 +0000

“All that I’ve hoarded is lost. All that I gave is mine.”

~Gurdjieff

Near the center of Mumbai, between the sparkle of shopping malls, and the sprawl of a rolling slum, there is an intersection where a small girl dances. Perhaps 5 or even 6, she tumbles [...]

From out of the Dust in India

soulcycler — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:58:56 +0000

“From our perception of the world there follows acceptance…the person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the light by which he sees: he himself is all of these.”

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

It was the last place I expected to find myself.

Face down, in the dirt, shimmying beneath a span of razor-wire.

But somehow, [...]

Namaste

soulcycler — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:01:38 +0000

Welcome to Soulcycler, home of Rick Gunn, writer, photographer, speaker, and adventurer.

Greetings from South Lake Tahoe, California! Fall-winter 2012 has brought continued work on an array of exciting projects, including a recent TEDx Youth Talk for students in Danville California, and another upcoming TEDx talk in South Lake Tahoe to be arranged in early 2013.

Besides scheduling [...]

Greg Mortenson in Carson City

soulcycler — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:00:15 +0000

“To love is to stop comparing.” Someone once wrote.

This particular afternoon, I couldn’t help myself.

“I have nothing in common with Greg Mortenson,” I thought myself after hanging up the phone.

I’d just received a call from the Carson City Library inviting me to present my show “Soulcycler” as an opener for the best-selling author’s [...]

Of Angels and Devils and the Raid Pyreneen

soulcycler — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:34:00 +0000

May 22nd- June 4, 2009 Southern France

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but the sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.’

~George Elliot

I was done. I mean, full-on, flat-out waisted.

For three days I’d climbed in the rain. Ascending steep succession [...]

Scotland

soulcycler — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:33:00 +0000

March 22nd-May 19th, 2009 Aberdeen Scotland

"I have often thought the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside [...]

Slovenia and the Golden Seed

soulcycler — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:31:00 +0000

June 5th-June 15th, 2009 Ljubljana Slovenia

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the [...]

Scotland Dispatch 1

soulcycler — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Seven months after completing my life’s dream–a three-year, 25,811-mile bicycle journey around the planet–I began to recognize the life I’d returned home to for what it was: a flaming turd of boredom and self-torment.

I’d spent exactly thirty-four months on the road. There, I’d existed upon seemingly endless diet adventure and actualization.

Self-propelled through hundreds of cities, [...]

Scotland Dispatch 2

soulcycler — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:11:00 +0000

March 22nd-May 19th, 2009

“I have often thought the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: [...]