Beyond speech and mind,
Into the river of ever - effulgent Light
My heart dives
Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia
Are opened wide.
~Sri Chinmoy
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Who's gonna make the gravy now?
Oh praise the Baby Jesus, have a Merry Christmas,
I'm really gonna miss it, all the treasure and the trash
And later in the evening, I can just imagine,
You'll put on Junior Murvin and push the tables back
And you'll dance with Rita, I know you really like her,
Just don't hold her too close, oh brother please don't stab me in the
back
I didn't mean to say that, it's just my mind it plays up,
Multiplies each matter, turns imagination into fact
You know I love her badly, she's the one to save me,
I'm gonna make some gravy, I'm gonna taste the fat
Tell her that I'm sorry, yeah I love her badly, tell 'em all I'm
sorry,
And kiss the sleepy children for me
You know one of these days, I'll be making gravy,
I'll be making plenty, I'm gonna pay 'em all back
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York (Xmas Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr30OVMjHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr30OVMjHA
Friday, May 22, 2009
All Our Children..
My Life
My life began with duty's pride,
My life shall live with beauty's light.
My life shall sport with reality's soul,
My life shall end with Divinity's height(sri Chinmoy)
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There is, (among many), a part of the world that everyday sees another sunrise bring with it pain, suffering, death-far too soon....but, along with this is the courage, love, strength and determination to survive and help others live with as much dignity and wellbeing as possible.
Quote:
Swaziland has the world's highest AIDS infection rate. Of the country's
population of 1.1 million, there are more than 200,000 people living with HIV.
The number of children orphaned by this disease now exceeds 78,000. 10% of Swazi
households are run by children. These children often lack food and are cut off
from basic health services and education. Many children wind up living with
their extended families, whose resources are increasingly stretched to the
breaking point.How best to care for these many children and poor families has
become a huge challenge.My dear friend Maithri from:
http://soaringimpulse.blogspot.com/
is there at the moment, he, along with many others, care for and try to make it a better world for these beautiful children and adults.
All Our Children.
Soul receives from soul that knowledge,therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
(Rumi)"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Kiss The Earth
~
Walk and touch peace every moment.Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe when we feel safe in ourselves.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- (Thich Nhat Hhan)Peace, love, strength and support to all our children and people in Siteki, Swaziland.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Importance Of Love...
Fortunate enough to hear one of the last speeches of Justice Michael Kirby, Australia's (retiring Feb 2009), High Court Judge...he spoke not of law, the economy, but love.
Here in some edited reprint from: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-truth-about-life-20081216-6zro.html?page=-1
The Truth about Life:
17/12/08
(by Michael Kirby).
"THERE is nothing like the prospect of a radical life change to concentrate the mind on the things that really matter.
I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that I have discovered.
I refer to love.
Love for one another.
Love for our community.
Love for others everywhere in the world.
Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees.
It is greater than pride and wealth.
It endures when worldly vanities fade.
Love exists at different levels.
Last week, in Australia and the world, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It was brought into effect by an Australian, Dr H. V. Evatt (a past justice of the High Court of Australia) and president of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 when the declaration was adopted.
Over the ensuing six decades, it became the foundation for the worldwide movement to express the fundamental freedoms that inhere in all human beings, simply because they are human.
Of course, there are people and interests with unchecked power who hate such notions. These are ideas to put limits on their power. To uphold the dignity of the powerless. To put a brake on the hegemony of the rich and influential.
The essential underpinning of fundamental human rights is love.
Love for one another.
Empathy for fellow human beings.
Feeling pain for the refugee; for the victim of war; for the prisoner deprived of the vote; for the child dying of cholera in Zimbabwe.
We can imagine what it must be like to be a victim because, as human beings, we too feel, and yearn for, life, freedom and justice.
Australians must be voices for the voiceless and protectors of the weak and vulnerable. With our privileges and gifts go duties and obligations.
Australian democracy is not merely a rule of majorities. Don't believe it when public figures say otherwise or when sections of the media, revelling in their power, say that everything can be safely left to parliament, which will quickly fix things up. Majorities can certainly err. They have done so in the past. They will do so again.
Basic human rights afford the means to remind majorities of the love they owe to all human beings, both at home and abroad.
We need to love our communities.
In Australia, we did not always love our indigenous people. Some still don't. In law, we rejected their land rights. We consigned them to the outskirts of our civilisation. Many are still there.
So too with Asian people in the decades of White Australia. We did not love them either. We feared their numbers and their different ways.
So also for women and for gays. Here, too, there was an absence of love and empathy. Now we Australians are getting better.
I believe that this is because of knowledge, acquaintance and love."
........and
"When we take time to think about what our lives actually mean, we surely know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love.
But the greatest of these is love."
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Yes, indeed Justice Michael Kirby-yes.
"Love is not a thing to understand.
- Sri Chinmoy
Kiss The Earth
~
Walk and touch peace every moment.
- Sarvajnamitra
by: Rumi
Here in some edited reprint from: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-truth-about-life-20081216-6zro.html?page=-1
The Truth about Life:
17/12/08
(by Michael Kirby).
"THERE is nothing like the prospect of a radical life change to concentrate the mind on the things that really matter.
I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that I have discovered.
I refer to love.
Love for one another.
Love for our community.
Love for others everywhere in the world.
Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees.
It is greater than pride and wealth.
It endures when worldly vanities fade.
Love exists at different levels.
Last week, in Australia and the world, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It was brought into effect by an Australian, Dr H. V. Evatt (a past justice of the High Court of Australia) and president of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 when the declaration was adopted.
Over the ensuing six decades, it became the foundation for the worldwide movement to express the fundamental freedoms that inhere in all human beings, simply because they are human.
Of course, there are people and interests with unchecked power who hate such notions. These are ideas to put limits on their power. To uphold the dignity of the powerless. To put a brake on the hegemony of the rich and influential.
The essential underpinning of fundamental human rights is love.
Love for one another.
Empathy for fellow human beings.
Feeling pain for the refugee; for the victim of war; for the prisoner deprived of the vote; for the child dying of cholera in Zimbabwe.
We can imagine what it must be like to be a victim because, as human beings, we too feel, and yearn for, life, freedom and justice.
Australians must be voices for the voiceless and protectors of the weak and vulnerable. With our privileges and gifts go duties and obligations.
Australian democracy is not merely a rule of majorities. Don't believe it when public figures say otherwise or when sections of the media, revelling in their power, say that everything can be safely left to parliament, which will quickly fix things up. Majorities can certainly err. They have done so in the past. They will do so again.
Basic human rights afford the means to remind majorities of the love they owe to all human beings, both at home and abroad.
We need to love our communities.
In Australia, we did not always love our indigenous people. Some still don't. In law, we rejected their land rights. We consigned them to the outskirts of our civilisation. Many are still there.
So too with Asian people in the decades of White Australia. We did not love them either. We feared their numbers and their different ways.
So also for women and for gays. Here, too, there was an absence of love and empathy. Now we Australians are getting better.
I believe that this is because of knowledge, acquaintance and love."
........and
"When we take time to think about what our lives actually mean, we surely know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love.
But the greatest of these is love."
------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, indeed Justice Michael Kirby-yes.
"Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become And eternally be. "
- Sri Chinmoy
Kiss The Earth
~
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safewhen we feel safe in ourselves.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Some see Your form as red like the sun,
with rays that are redder still than the red of minium or red lac;
Others, as beautiful intense blue like a powder of splintered fragments on the precious stone, sapphire;
Others again as shining like gold, or dazzling white, surpassing the milk when the Ocean of Milk is churned.
It is a universal form, varied like crystal, since it changes according to circumstance.
- Sarvajnamitra
Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful.
Look at love and at the aim of your quest. ...
O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water.
Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.
by: Rumi
Thanks so much to Thannhausen for the link to www.writespirit.net much appreciated.
I hope to get and visit everyone this week, that will be me ratting around, trying to be quiet, catching up....if not have a wonderful xmas time. 2008 was very interesting, some good, some beautiful, some just plain wacky and some a little sad..but heck, let's do it again.
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