Saturday, September 2, 2006
Advice from the 14th Dalai Lama
CHANGING YOURSELF Such human qualities as morality, compassion, decency, wisdom and so forth... must be cultivated and sustained through systematic moral education so that a more humane world may emerge....We need a revolution in our commitment to and practice of universal humanitarian values....
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Seeing Through It All To the One
From his divine power comes forth all this Magical show of name and form, of you And me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure. Only when we pierce through this magic veil Do we see the One who appears as many. -Shvetashvatara Upanishad Excerpted from The Upanishads, translated by Eknath...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Some Buddhist Wisdom
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha...Using the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from...
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
If You March to a Different Drummer, Rejoice
Why? Because each of us was created with an internal drummer who is unique to ourselves. The paradox is that when we march to that drummer, we march in harmony with all of creation. So turn inward and discover that still small voice. Then you will know the Truth as only you can know it, and it SHALL...
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Saturday, August 5, 2006
A Rumi Inpired Poem
The Age of Aquarius Where did it go? Is it just staring slow? Aquarian Age, Are you awakening? What are we to see? An Age beaten into submission? Or Merely death throes of war? Let those who have eyes to see Know the Truth That sets us free. Free at last From war's tyranny, Efforts turn to harmony....
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Wednesday, August 2, 2006
God has the power to touch the heart of the sinner, to turn him away from his wicked ways. -Rabi'a, "Rabi'a the Mystic" From "The Bounty of Allah," translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Used with permission of The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York. Commentary:...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Morning Has Broken On a Beautiful Life Filled Day
Remember the Cat Stevens song, Morning has broken? Morning has broken, Like the first morning. Blackbird is singing Like the first bird Praise to the morning Praise to the dawning...... It may be wild speculation, but..... I think Cat stayed up all night when he wrote that song. No matter what the...
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Friday, May 5, 2006
Cupid's Disease
CUPID’S DISEASE Oliver Sacks ABRiGHT WOMAN OF NINETY, NATASHA K., RECENTLY CAME TO OUR CLINIC. SOON AFFER HER EIGHTY-EIGHTH birthday, she said, she noticed ‘a change.’ What sort of change? we queried. ‘Delightful!’ she exclaimed. ‘I thoroughly enjoyed it. I felt more energetic, more alive—I felt...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
My little light shines on in the form of leaving my headlights on yesterday
Well, I know you want to hear this story: LOL, come back tomorrow (or later today) and I will tell it. [grin]
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Let Your Music Begin...... I AM BACK!!!!!
What I hope to share in writing this blog, are (as yet) unknown blessings already on their way to you. The music that has been hidden in your soul since birth and some speculate, even before your birth here on earth in this "time" in his-story as well as her-story; is ready to be birthed: "except...
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