Have you noticed how easy it is to lose focus when a problem

is 'too close' to us and engenders a sense of fear?

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grand son thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed .”

"FREE" WILL

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein
paraphrased it, that “a human can very well do what he wants,
but cannot will what he wants.”
In short, the conscious brain was only playing catch-up to what the
unconscious brain was already doing.
The writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, once said in an interview with the
Paris Review, “The greatest gift which humanity has received is free
choice. It is true that we are limited in our use of free choice. But the
little free choice we have is such a great gift and is potentially worth
so much that for this itself, life is worthwhile living.”

"faith is not just something you have,
it's something you do"

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
2006 Global Summit on AIDS and the Church

"Often it is only in silence that you first hear the symphony of creativity
playing the melody of lovingness.

Once heard, it starts to become like the background music
to the film of your life.

Until one day you understand, you are the melody"
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When we can behold the wonder and beauty of a flower we have reached a place of lovingness in our being whereby we also have the possibility to behold the wonder and beauty of another human being - even if they do nor agree with us or share our views.........especially if they do not agree with us or share our views.

It is the incredible uniqueness of everything that creates such a stupendous range of experiencing within our life walk.

And for what purpose did you come to this 'realm of relativity' if not to experience that

which you knew as a concept?

The reality of lovingness is absolute: in the realm of the absolute and in the realm of the relative.

Indeed, when it comes to love and lovingness there is no seperation between absolute and relative.

All...all..is a manifestation of this reality

Universal love

"Three teenagers who robbed and vandalised a church in the US state of
Montana will get "love baskets" of electronic games by the congregation"
this was a report carried by the BBC ( here ).

Faith in positive and loving action.

It set me to thinking that similar loving and forgiving actions are always
happening, all the time, in many different religions.I guess it's even
happening in the sadly sectarian-brutalising country of Iraq where
'muslims' are murdering each other in the name of 'faith'. Love has a
way of winning through, despite all obstacles, so I guess that loving
actions are happening in Iraq.

Maybe the media will one day report these things.I hope for the sake
of Islam that they do.

Anyway, thankfully and wonderfully the report became public about
the SHEC (oh, and please remember I am not an american and actually
I live in Sweden).

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Belated wisdom

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said: “We did not think, even 1 per cent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 . . . that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not.”

 

Ah, so many have such greater wisdom with the benefit of hindsight.

Loving religions speak of foresight...anticipation through lovingness.

 

 

 

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There is a beauty about truth that is beyond ideology and religion 

There is a truth about beauty that is beyond words.

orchid pictures courtesy of http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~nroberts/

would that all the idea/religion seeds which polulate the mind of man were so productive of beauty.Yet,soon it will be gone...just like those old idea/religion concepts

dandelion picture courtesy of mark@kyne.com.au

Death of Islam

Shamil Basayev

 

He sits in front of a banner proclaiming in Arabic: “There is no God

but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet"

 

Justifying his attacks on civilian targets, he states: “We are at war

and we look at the reality, and not at whether the population has

weapons in their hands"

 

So spoke the man who claimed responsibility for the atrocity at the

school in BESLAN.

This is one of the men responsible for the death of ISLAM, see blog entry

http://ito.blogspot.com/2005_03_20_ito_archive.html.

 

Shamil Basayev died yesterday.

"Shamil and other brothers of ours became martyrs by the will of Allah,” said

a statement on a website claiming to be associated with the Basayev terrorists.

 

What, I wonder,in this warped religious fantasy is the

description given to ISLAM KHADIKOV.

 

If only we could devote as much energy to loving as we

seem able to devote to...sport?...hating?......rituals?

 

 

 

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Deprived and oppressed?

In this past week the first anniversary of the London
Terrorist bombings took place. A video from one of
the 'bombers' was also aired in an attempt at
justification for mass murder. Perhaps it is fair to
ask a few questions:

1. How is it that in Afghanistan and Iraq more
Muslims have been and are slaughtered indiscriminately
by other Muslims, and this was happening with or
without the 'Allied forces presence' ?

2. Which country, prior to the second Iraq war, donated
most to Iraq in terms of food and medical aid? Be
surprised to learn that it was NOT a Muslim country.

3. Was Shezhad Tanweer (The bomber at Aldgate)
really deprived and underpriviledged in British Society
when he could leave in his will the sum of £121,000
(after tax)....and was only 22 years of age when he died?

Immams of the true Islam unite....and defend the truth
of the Prophet and the truth of events. For if tolerance
is surrendered to intolerance it is the end of the authority
of Islam in the hearts of most peoples.

Fear has never - and will never - triumph over love in the
long term.

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Brain chip

4 billion calculations/transactions per second!

 

IBM's Big Blu?

Intel's latest?

AMD's best?

 

Nope!  That,according to the incredible film

 "What the 'bleep' do we know"

is the amount of transactions carried out by

the average human brain

 

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nailed in the foot

British scientists reacted angrily last night to the views of a senior Vatican official, who said Catholic researchers working on embryonic stem cells should be excommunicated.

 

Paul Embery, a Catholic priest in London, said that excommunication did not mean God had abandoned the transgressor. "It's not saying that somebody is not loved by God" he said

 

see also the Crimen Sollicationis  entry in this blog for other categories suitable for excommunication - like bishops who don't keep secret their paedophile priest investigations!!!

 

Oh Dear, you would think that by now the Vat would have realised.....huh?

 

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Islamic silence

Throughout history there has been a continuing
manifestation of the capacity for horror of which
mankind is capable.
In modern history, the Nazi concentration camps
(originated by the British in South Africa!), Israeli

atrocities, the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', the

obscenities of Vietnam, clearly illustrate this

'inhuman capacity'.

 

However, in ALL of these cases voices -
empowered by religious,moral or ethical energy
- were raised in opposition. And these voices
became broadcast the world over.

 

As we daily read of the appalling scenarios in Iraq,
it is reasonable to ponder...where are the Islamic
voices of peace, love,compassion?
Do we hear Iranian Immams, Saudi Princes, Iraqui
sect leaders...... protesting the kind of grotesque
inhumanity that was, for example, meted out to
the young Iraqui journalist Atwar Bahjat?  Is this

the 'Glory of the Arab world'?

 

The absence of such voices...whilst the voices
of extremists receive world-wide attention ...
seems to confirm the succesful hijacking of
the truth of Islam. Beware Islam.

 

Islam is becoming a pseudonym

for horror.

 

Will the real Islam please stand up and speak?

 

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In respectful memory of Atwar Bahjat
 

Crimen Sollicationis

Crimen Sollicationis - Latin for "the crime of solicitation" - issued in
1962 by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), an
office attached to the Vatican. Described as a "blueprint for
deception and concealment" by lawyers investigating the
worldwide sex-abuse scandals, Crimen Sollicationis contains
strict instructions for dealing with what the Vatican calls the
 "worst crimes" - such as allegations of paedophilia and bestiality.

 

Rather than report these offences to the civil authorities, the CDF
instructs bishops to investigate them "in the most secretive way"
or face the "penalty of excommunication".

 

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conspiracy in the Catholic church

The real conspiracy in the Catholic church has nothing to do with
the Da Vinci Code, says Patrick Wall - it's the cover-up of
paedophile priests.
Mark Honigsbaum meets the former monk who is leading a
crusade to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice

Full article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1766941,00.html

 

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