treasures

reality check

love.love.love.+ love.

via The Idealist

do it.do it.do it.

Forgiving? Check these quotes out

MLK – always remembered

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warmongers – the innocence thieves!

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I wonder if Lulek's name can now be transposed with the name of a Palestinian child?

Gandhi

"God has no religion."  M.K.Gandhi

Wonderful to come across this statue in Gran Canaria. It says so much about the hearts of the people here.Beautiful people.A privilege to holiday here and meet those hearts

loving space

spaced out

• steve hunter
• seattle

NYT Pick

"If space aliens have in fact been watching us for some time is it any wonder why they have avoided first contact".

Bravo Malala

the power of negative thought

knowledge is not infinite

Adams Snake-007

Upanishads-001

more beautiful pictures from Hanna M here

One Young World

click to watch my favourite 'rebel' asking young people to sort out the mess we older ones have made.

The Matrix in reality….

just klik on the pic

all or nothing?

1st place

Adam's snake - 004

 

what we can do when we want to…

You know how certain Masters say that we are limitless…….

Check out  AWESOME PEOPLE  by  Hadoukentheband on YouTube.

People who inspire-001

click the text to go to Vimeo and Watch/hear Tommy

The Magnificent…ONE

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fulfilling

positive action

2013

New Year enters 2013

 

Aye, and what is time
but the marking of a memory upon life's walk.
And what is a memory
but a time-stamped experience
a beat of creativity
that is the rhythm
of our eternal spirit's talk.

The dialects of our lovingness
paint the clouds
shape the snowflakes
mark the moments with a tenderness
of compassion and of caring

Aye, and what is this life's walk
if not a wondrous journey
blessed by sharing
And what is this 'now' moment,
this second standing before our eyes
if not another gift of enlightenment,
a glimpse wherein we realise....
we are all one.

That which we do or give to another
we do most surely likewise to ourself.
                                                                                   ©geoff groom

My beloved India..

Still hiding behind your so-called 'traditions' that are no more – and no less – than the chauvinistic behaviours of boy-men. Still hitting your children.Still treating your women like slaves and denying them basic human rights.

After all these years, even after the leadership of an amazing man,M.K.Gandhi, still you resist the inevitable recognition of the dignity and rights of women.

For Shame,India. For Shame.

You desecrate the beauty of your spirituality, the sanctity of your specialness. This horrendous crime is merely a reflection of attitudes and behaviour patterns.An extreme reflection, but a mirrored image nevertheless.

 

via Healing the Planet

 

one-ness in flight

The first meeting

With such moments are life's great treasures of friendship and caring revealed to the consciousness and the river of lovingness,which flows through all of us ,carries us to a paradise of caring and sharing

Adam's snake-003

there is a green hill……..

Words are too small to carry this pain…

"Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there’s a God in the sky looking down
What can he think of what we’ve done
To the world that he created?   "                                   Freddie Mercury

I think,therefore I am not

The report, "Freedom of Thought 2012", said "there are laws that deny atheists' right to exist, curtail their freedom of belief and expression, revoke their right to citizenship, restrict their right to marry."

The IHEU - which links over 120 humanist, atheist and secular organizations in more than 40 countries - said it was issuing the report to mark the U.N.'s Human Rights Day on Monday.

According to its survey of some 60 countries, the seven where expression of atheist views or defection from the official religion can bring capital punishment are Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

The 70-page report lists no recent cases of actual execution for "atheism" -- but researchers say the offence is often subsumed into other charges.

In a range of other countries - such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Kuwait and Jordan - publication of atheist or humanist views on religion are totally banned or strictly limited under laws prohibiting "blasphemy".

In many of these countries, and others like Malaysia, citizens have to register as adherents of a small number officially-recognized religions -- which normally include no more than Christianity and Judaism as well as Islam.

Atheists and humanists are thereby forced to lie to obtain their official documents without which it is impossible to go to university, receive medical treatment, travel abroad or drive.

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snake medicine

Joseph Campbell + Schopenhauer+oneness

Now you can be forgiven for thinking that this is just philosophy. But it actually happens all the time.

Check THIS OUT for a more recent instance

A rebel WITH a cause

Unconventional and apparently lacking in respect for 'the way things were', this is the man who

almost went personally bankrupt a number of times setting up Live Aid.

In the 3rd verse of this song he wrote:

"

play with the toys of war
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
That the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain cackles with the problems and the hows and whys
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?

The worldwide concert raised $283 million in 1985, in economic worth terms just under £1 billion at today's value.

shhhh! It happens

remember……..

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moments of reality

“I’ve seen a lot of hardcore people on a battlefield.

When the bullets start flying,

there are no atheists out there.”

Lt. William G. Haneke   (read his amazing story here)

 

love it, love it, love it

inner rays

Artist: Ruth Ward (Heavenly Stained Glass) created this window for a school in Milton Keynes

Ubuntu

the poverty of affluence

change is sometimes appallingly slow

Despite promises to reform their textbooks, the Saudi education system continues to indoctrinate children with hatred and incitement

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You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear.
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are 6 or 7 or 8,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

(from the film South Pacific).

Celebrating differences, not condemning them

In remembering the tragic and horrific death of Matthew, that became a symbol

against hate crimes, we also think of the young people who are suicidal

and desperately unhappy because of their sexuality.

It's good to see that there are some Christians who are more concerned with compassion and

understanding than in hiding behind ritual,dogma and literature.

check Timothy out here

one-ness radiance

Get Well soon…..

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Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Malala in the hospital and delivered a simple message: "We refuse to bow before terror." He also noted that the Taliban lack respect for the "golden words" of the Prophet Mohammed -- "that the one who is not kind to children is not amongst us."

You are in our thoughts and in our hearts,Precious One..as are all Muslims who are repelled by this un-Islamic action.This is not the real message of Islam.

street wise

talking to ourself

ideological shortcomings

Icons - religious

A friend in Poland has been working with Icons for many years.

you can find her and her work HERE on Facebook

Emancipation Proclamation – Happy Birthday

Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago

 

(worth noting:

"In the War of 1812, British raids along the Chesapeake Bay encouraged thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. For more than a decade after the war ended, the American government pursued compensation from the British, contending that the laws of war protected slave owners from enemy depredations.

The irony of a humanitarian law that protected slave owners rather than slaves was not lost on European critics."   John Fabian Witt professor at Yale Law School and the author of “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.” via   )

responsible adult

Mars discoveries