May 2009 Blog Posts (346)

Sri Lanka reconciliation

Kuan Yin : She who harkens to the cries of the world

Rene Wadlow*

Wise in using skilful means

In every corner of the world

She manifests her countless forms

Sri Lanka: After the final round of armed violence: a need for a vision of the future. Citizens of the World call for creative responses to the challenge of new government structures.

Rene Wadlow*

On 19 May 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka proclaimed an end to the fighting against the… Continue

Added by Rene Wadlow on May 23, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

The New Crusaders

"The special forces guys - they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus ... we hunt them down," he said.

"Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our… Continue

Added by Ali Afifi on May 23, 2009 at 11:22am — No Comments

A New Day has Come....

A new day has...come

I was waiting for so long

For a miracle to come

Everyone told me to be strong

Hold on… Continue

Added by Cierra on May 23, 2009 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Lullaby

When you're small and when you're grown
I love you always

When you laugh and when you cry
I love you always

When you're quiet and when you're angry
I love you always

When you're truthful and when you lie
I love you always

When you cling to me and when you run
I love you always

When you're close and when you're far
I love you always

I love you always

Added by Susie Shapiro on May 23, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

My Newest Peace Drawing

I just finished this pen & ink!

Opus Peace Poster by IArtist40…

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Added by IArtist on May 23, 2009 at 7:28am — No Comments

Hypatia of Alexandria (355 or 370 - 415/416 A.D.) "She was a fine philosopher -- for a woman" when hearing about ancient female prodigies. The were "respectable" women, were nearly non-existent. Thi…

Hypatia of Alexandria

(355 or 370 - 415/416 A.D.)

"She was a fine philosopher -- for a woman" when hearing about ancient female prodigies. The were "respectable" women, were nearly non-existent.

This woman, however, defies all such qualifiers.

Hypatia was, simply, the last great Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher. By writing a commentary on The Conics of Apollonius of Perga which divided cones into sections by a plane, Hypatia made geometry intelligible to… Continue

Added by RATHINDRA PRASAD LAHIRI on May 23, 2009 at 2:39am — 3 Comments

THE ASCENSION PROCESS

Added by Lee on May 23, 2009 at 2:21am — No Comments

Lightness of Being

How could I ever find You ?
There's no boundary between you and me.

And each time I reach out to touch you,
You disappear in me ...

so I am falling, falling, too...
to the endlessness , nothingness
to the Heart of the matter.

Here...everything finally meets again.
only the mind, runs away sometimes,
from This...
"unbearable" lightness of Being.

Added by Milena Mlakar on May 22, 2009 at 11:10pm — No Comments

Of mind

Science has peaked almost every phenomenon of our life with its empirical approach, questioning all aspects of human life and physical world. But one thing which science failed to portray a clear picture is the question of mind. It simply took refuge to what is called “brain” as the mind. Christians pointed an immaterial substance called “soul” as the mind. But apart from these two streams of thoughts, Buddhism holds mind as neither of them but a continuous existence of an immaterial…

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Added by Palden Gyal on May 22, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

I AM ness

I Am - Your Best Lover /

Walk out to this wilderness, this aliveness…

that's been calling for you lately...

part of it being me, wanting you Here /

Let Life take it’s own speed to Unknown,

lose your censorship along the Way...

I found it so sweet the other day ! /

Cry sometimes…otherwise,

how could you keep this feeling so soft,

this look in your eyes, gentle as a child ... /

Moments you love, they apply to… Continue

Added by Milena Mlakar on May 22, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Sanity

"If I think you are my problem, I am insane" (Byron Katie)

"If I think you are my love, I am inlove" (sweet insanity- just me :-)

Inlove with Life , Milena

Added by Milena Mlakar on May 22, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Music and Spiritual Practice - An Overview of Poligraf (part 4)

(The Wheel of Becoming - Symbolic Representation of Saṃsāra in Tibetan Buddhism)

Poligraf's first album is entitled "Samsara." Traditionally, the term refers to the Buddhist concept of the cycle of birth and death in which all beings in the universe take part and which can be escaped only through enlightenment. Personally, I agree with the view that it is rather that very same process of… Continue

Added by Christopher Stewart on May 22, 2009 at 7:22pm — No Comments

Am I a Peacemaker?

We become peacemakers when we are no longer struggling for power, to be at the top, but just working to serve each other... We cannot all do big things, but all of us can kneel at each other's feet and say, "I trust you and I believe in you."

- Jean Vanier: Encountering 'the Other' p 58

Added by Susie Shapiro on May 22, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

recent channelling

Channelling From Merlin by Whitefeather 22/5/09

The Alchemy of Ascension

I come again to speak with you, dear one, I know you are feeling this deep within you, hold faith to what I tell you and know that you feel the burden of all humanity ,and that this is not solely your own pain. Please also pass this on to others as I wish the world to know of the Alchemy of Ascension, for this is for both male and female alike.

The energies of the masculine and the feminine are… Continue

Added by Whitefeather on May 22, 2009 at 5:51pm — No Comments

Speak Out for Freedom

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was recently arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest because an uninvited swimmer, who pleaded exhaustion, was allowed to stay at her house before swimming back. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent leadership towards… Continue

Added by Pilar Stella on May 22, 2009 at 3:17pm — No Comments

THE ESSENCE SHOW - May 24th, 2009 - thoughts on Leibovitz

So last week we had some technical difficulties and had to air EP- 74 back to back.

That is why this week will will be airing EP. 74 followed by last weeks EP. 53 on Sunday.

I had a big premiere of the Ladies of Swing Project with the Savoy Orchestra and it went well. Took my first day off in three months on Thursday to go to the Annie Leibovitz exhibition and walk in the rain and eat a big delicious salad in a lovely restaurant cafe in Berlin and write a bit and think. ..… Continue

Added by Kara Johnstad on May 22, 2009 at 3:11pm — No Comments

IF I HAD WINGS,I WOULD FLY AWAY.

If only I had wings, I would surely fly away into a world of love and peace.

If I had wings, I would fly up to the stars; reach up to the moon into a world of so much light and brightness.

If I had wings, I would fly away from all the miseries around me and just be on my own, live the way I wanted to and be free from all the troubles of everyday life, burdens of the past, worries about the future and just dwell in the present moment. Like a bird I would flutter around here and there… Continue

Added by poonam on May 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments