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Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

At 9:45 AM, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announced…

HAPPY EASTER! Let’s celebrate Resurrection and Rebirth into a world where people can be free.

YOU RAISE ME UP

When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary

When troubles come and my heart burdened be

Then I am still and wait here in the silence

Until You come and sit awhile with…

The Buddha was a genius at recognizing the source of our trauma and teaching methods to overturn it. When we encounter a difficult person spewing venom, we either retaliate with anger, or run away in fear. The Buddha taught us to cherish these encounters. For they offer a rich fabric allowing us to weave a beautiful mind and heart of…

Compassion is the heart of the path. Sometimes it is easy to generate. Often it is not. We are so entrenched and addicted believing our happiness comes from taking care of number one. To step out and be radical, thinking that our happiness comes from caring for others, takes some doing. Especially when we’re being bombarded by…

Reach for the sky. Always. Our tendency is to reach down, to narrow our focus and give in to our habitual negative self-cherishing patterns. Resist. Reach for the sky. Always. Become bigger, not smaller. Broaden your perspective rather than narrow it. Always. Our default, especially when facing challenges, is to draw the wagons around…

Shefqet Avdush Emini – An Icon of Contemporary International Art

Shefqet Avdush Emini stands as one of the most luminous and distinctive figures in contemporary art—a name that has left an indelible mark on modern painting and has become a symbol of abstract expressionism on the international art scene. With a long and rich…

Great News: The Network 'Peace for the Soul' stays Alive!

I contacted Ning, and they made me a very encouraging offer, which I accepted. After all, the network and all of you dear friends and members are very dear to me, even if many of you remain silent. But that can change if you're ready.

And the many interesting groups—it would be a shame to lose all of that.

So, dear friends and members, I look forward to your continued interesting contributions and comments, and…

Ning grants us, for how long, a farewell phase...

Thank you...Merci...

Hello everyone!

With a heavy heart, I've decided to give up the network. Ning raised the price without my knowledge, so I can no longer afford it. I'm also getting older, and health, when it's there, is a wonderful gift.

So, I wish you all the best.

Much love,

Eva

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"Malvhina". This beautiful sculpture stands in the centre of the town of Malvern, and was created by Rose Garrard in 1998.

She embodies many things important to Malvern's history and culture but the central concept is a trinity. Malvhina holds a kind of Celtic triskele in her hands from which pure Malvern water flows,…

Happening

Out of a seed in the ground

comes a flower. Miracle!

Out on the branch of a tree

come blossoms in spring.

Out from the blossoms fruit grows

delighting senses.

And an…

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a great English poet. He was admired by Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and George Bernard Shaw, and wrote, “A man (and woman) to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.”…

OTYKEN - DAY BY DAY (Official Music Video)

this short composition has the same shamanic essence as most of OTYKENs work. very simple and natural and wise. echoing from before religion was first…

Analysis of the Painting by Shefqet Avdush Emini

Shefqet Avdush Emini, as a master of abstract expressionism, creates works that reveal a deep emotional sensitivity and an extraordinary freedom in the use of color and form. This painting, executed with a rich technique and a strong sense of spontaneity,…

A Prayer for Peace

Today is the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan Calendar, and the culmination of the annual Great Prayer Festival (Monlam Chenmo), a two-week-long festival that begins with the…

Grace

Grace is the presence of God. Anyone experiencing this amazing state knows beyond all doubt that this is so. They may not see it necessarily as an overtly spiritual experience, but will know that something profound has touched their…

The painting of Shefqet Avdush Emini is a work that reveals the depth of the human soul and the expressive energy of colors, which unfold a universe filled with feelings, movement, and emotional complexities. In this powerful composition, the artist intertwines shadows and light, creating an abstracted landscape where human figures appear indistinct…

Today is 'International Women's Day'

Keep 'Holding Steady' and focussed on what you believe in, whatever the weather and however much the boat rocks. The flowers will grow and they have never let us down.

~ Nicola…