Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
While we are talking of miracles….
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
and the poem that has been his inspiration
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
In Memoriam: Miki Endo
This post is in memory and tribute to a very special young Japanese woman – but is also a recognition that so many in Japan in recent weeks have given much of themselves for the benefit of others.
You may read Miki Endo's moving and life-saving story HERE
or you can also watch a YouTube short documentary that tells her heroic story HERE
Sometimes, being true to our inner self costs us everything and it is only in that moment that we have fully defined who we are in spirit.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
the benefit of experience…….
It has been my life experience that the people who are, arguably, the most spiritual are the ones who do not think that they are. In fact, they hardly think about 'spirituality' at all.
They just do. They don't pontificate, think, study, –they just take action - and their hearts are rivers of kindness and compassion
gg
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Discernment
"A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility".-- D. L. Moody
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do".. -- John Ruskin
"There are many in religion and/or philosophy who are experts with the words. They have minds that can encompass innumerable definitions provided by yet more such experts.. It is a great sadness when one comes across such as these whose minds have great knowledge yet whose hearts never practised the language of the Spirit, it's dialects of humility and truthfulness, it's rhythm of lovingness". gg
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
we weep with Japan
Around the world a surge of compassion, stronger than any tsunami, reaches out to the peoples of Japan.
There is hardly a human being anywhere who upon seeing these images does not shed a tear in their heart.
gg
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
the heart of a man on Women's Day
for their devotion, practicality, friendship, dedication, emotional stamina, compassion, ingenuity, intelligence, creativity,inner beauty and, of course, their limitless love - A BIG THANK YOU to all the women whose lives have touched my life
Monday, March 07, 2011
the science of faith
"Suppose you took scrabble sets, or any word game sets, blocks with letters containing every language on Earth and you heap them together, and then you took a scoop and you scooped into that heap, and you flung it out on the lawn there and the letters fell into a line which contained the words, 'to be or not to be that is the question,' that is roughly the odds of an RNA molecule appearing on the Earth." (Dr. Robert Shapiro, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry at New York University)
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to understanding the real struggle between Science and the Supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community of unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism ... for we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door." (Richard Lewontin, Geneticist)
blog entry inspired by "A reasonable argument for God's existence"
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
the soul's alphabet….part 2
love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
unless you are as a little child….
image courtesy of www.ragnhild-monsen.com
Consider this: since we are all individual then our perceptions, concepts, experiences are equally all individual. They are as individual as a snowflake in a blizzard of living.
This being so, how absurd it is of us to think we can 'understand' another person.
We may remember that as young children playing together we could empathise with another's joy, or another's pain. If we really understand ourself, then we treasure this blessing throughout life - our ability to empathise.
I am not required to understand you, nor you I. What love does require of us is that we so choreograph our empathy that we may accept the beauty of each other as we dance the melody of life. If we look through those childhood empathatic eyes, we will see the miracle of each other.
And in just the same way the snowstorm surrounds us with countless millions of individually beautiful miracles if we will look, so we are surrounded by the vast and staggeringly beautiful landscape of humanity.
gg
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
et tu Brute
“Friendship is not something that you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, then you really haven’t learned anything.”
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
The road
“It is an immense journey from a culture of victimhood to one of self-empowerment, from a culture of conspiracy to one of construction. It is a long road from rage to responsibility, from humiliation to action”.
Roger Cohen
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Physics of Oneness
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
salaam – true Islam
"There was a time I used to reject those who were not of my faith. Now my heart has grown capable of taking on many forms: a pasture for gazelles, a convent for Christians, a temple for idols, a Kaaba* for the pilgrim, a table for the Torah, a book of the Koran. My religion is love - whichever the route love's caravan shall take, that path shall be the path of my faith."
*The most sacred Muslim shrine, to be found in Mecca Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240)
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