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Be gentle with that tender heart of yours.

It may be holding a years worth of grief inside it.

Be caring with all those parts of you that feel life’s tender moments, childhood pains and unmet emotions.

Take yourself out into the gathering light and breathe a bright ember into the very centre of you, into your hearts…

Photo: Claudia Dose

Merry Christmas and a peaceful holiday season to all.



‘One of God's names is Love.



He Himself resides within all, at every moment, everywhere.’



~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy…

   The wise one said ' appreciation is the antidote for greed.'

 After considering it for a while I saw that the capacity we have for appreciation in our lives and of our lives is like a muscle that can be developed thru practise.. that is the more we can appreciate the more we can appreciate.. Its like a snowball that grows with movement..

But the one consumed by greed is so because they cannot appreciate much or anything about their…

She asked him, 'How much are you selling the eggs for?'

The old seller replied, '$.25 an egg, Madam.'

She said to him, 'I will take 6 eggs for $1.25 or I will leave.'

The old seller replied, 'Come take them at the price you want. Maybe, this is a good beginning because I have not been able to sell even a single egg…

International Art Symposium in Alanya…

            Eu já esperava um sentimento com seu nome e seu jeito batendo a porta do meu coração, entre e fique a vontade , pois você faz parte da minha felicidade.Venha deita do meu lado e encoste seu corpo no meu e não diga nada, apenas deixe o amor falar por nós dois. Por sua causa minha vida…

A few days ago, a user on Reddit shared this image along with the description below. And I just had to share it with you:

 "Heading home on the Q train yesterday when this young African American guy nods off on the shoulder of a Jewish man. The man doesn't move a muscle, just lets him stay there. After a minute, I asked the man if he wanted me to wake…

Today we lost the one and only Roshi Bernie Glassman , one of the world's great Zen Clowns, a brilliant teacher, a man who danced with gravity and joy on the tightrope of the Scared and the Sacred. He did Bearing Witness retreats in places like Auschwitz and the streets of New York City, helped found the Zen Peacemakers order, and so much more. Thank-you for…

Need this quote right now, in this crazy world....

"Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular.

Whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions…

This Earth-dweller seems finely in tune with the Samhain spirit.



Her Scorpionic solitude, in touch with the elements and the fading glories of autumn, admit no compromise, distraction, or superfluous company.



She is where she…

"What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy ...water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being."

~ Ganga…

These are some of our carvings over the years that I do have images of:…

This is a memorial to the truth that real facts matter:

Over a third of Americans now don’t believe that over 6 million Jews were killled in the Holocaust, but on 2 July 1942, 82 children from Lidice -- a small village in Czechoslovakia -- were transferred to the Łódź Gestapo office. Those 82 boys and girls were then transported to an extermination…

it’s 3:23 in the morning

and I’m awake

because my great great grandchildren

won’t let me sleep

my great great grandchildren

ask me in dreams

what did you do while the planet was plundered?...

what did you do when the earth was unraveling?



surely you did something

when the seasons started failing?



as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?



did you fill the streets with protest

when democracy was stolen?…

Happy Birthday Grandpa. I hope someday your philosophy of nonviolence will be understood and accepted by the world and save it from devastation. Although it is so obvious people seem to ignore the fact the the…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/880xda/elephant_rock_iceland/

 a natural rock formation forming an elephant sculptor .

  Many people who hear the words 'world peace' say its impossible.. but really the world doesn't need, want or know the relevance or meaning of the word. Its 'us' that need the peace both necessarily and urgently. When we consider 'our world' not as the globe but as our own individual life experience, that is happening for us 24/7.

Then it needs to be constant contentment or peace..  the source of our own individual peace is found within us.

Accessing the peace…

always and everywhere

Peace is not a Utopian

destination. Peace is how we live,

behave and relate with

compassion and love…

The old age

 Clicia Pavan

Sir!

 Old age is the daughter of time

 That I do not complain when this time comes

 That I never stop loving .. To smile and dream

May I not find foolish the wisdom of getting older

 That I know how to live…