Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Flower Power-002
"In all the world is no place hidden from the glory shed by hundreds of myriad rays from the heart of every flower of Paradise"
Shinran Shonin, the 10th century Japanese monk /Buddhist Psalms, by S. Yamabe and L. Adams Beck, [1921], at sacred-texts.com
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Shining, shining, shining
Joseph CAMPBELL: "That is the way it feels, but this is it, this is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world, The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance".
Saturday, September 17, 2011
the mould of experience
Experience is a 'time frame scenario'. The ability to extrapolate meaningful data from such a 'time frame scenario' is not dependent upon age, but upon flexibility, open-mindedness and the willingness to look as objectively as possible at 'experience'.
gg
Friday, September 09, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Steve Jobs quote
"[Y]ou can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
-- Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.
Monday, August 22, 2011
A remarkable man.A remarkable people.
"Kindness is our greatest asset".
An excerpt from the speech given by Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, at the Norwegian National Remembrance Day ceremony 21st August 2011 – in loving memory of all who died on 22nd July 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
The voice of true life
"It was better that I died trying than that I did not attempt to save her"
Eirik Høie Mortensen (16) who swam in the cold waters off Utoya island holding up two other young people, one of which had been shot whom he held for 65 minutes and the other cramped and near drowning whom he also held for 20 minutes. All three survived. Eirik does not consider himself a hero but only feels he did what was right to do.
I wonder what kind of world we could have if we could only have some of this young man's sacrificial and determined compassion.
Full story in Norwegian here:
http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/08/01/nyheter/utoya/terror/innenriks/terrorisme/17519239/
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The mechanisms of the spirit-001
When we are able to look beyond the pain and grief of the tragedy at Utoya, to take a transcendental spiritual view, we see that all those at the island had some common motivation and inspiration.
They were there, in their compassionate lovingness, because they had the desire to improve Norway, improve the world. To use part or all of their life to make it a better place, create a greater sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, and felt that politics was a pathway to achieve this desire. They wanted to show us the value of every human being for that is what a desire to make the world better means.
When we look at the reactions in Norway and the world in these last 6 days, who amongst us is not left with the deep sense that they have changed Norway and the world?
As Ghandi, Mandella and many more have done with their lives.
As Islam Kardekov did in Beslan.
As Christ did.As the Buddha did. As Mohammed did.
"You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?" Kahlil Gibran
We do not know their soul's agenda. But we can know something of their lovingness that caused them to be in that place at that time.
gg
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