The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1
“The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”
Theodore Roosevelt
"There’s a seller’s market in ideologies that gives people a chance to feel victimized"
David Brooks VIA
"The great Sufi saints like the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi held that all existence and all religions were one, all manifestations of the same divine reality. What was important was not the empty ritual of the mosque, church, synagogue or temple, but the striving to understand that divinity can best be reached through the gateway of the human heart: that we all can find paradise within us, if we know where to look. In some ways Sufism, with its emphasis on love rather than judgment, represents the New Testament of Islam."
William Dalrymple
There are some who 'play the mind games' with spiritual truths. It's a kind of spiritual sudoku. It's entertaining. Sold as an expensive necessity to life or as the latest 'ticket to an enlightened nirvana", consciousness, or self-satisfying personal indulgence.
Kahlil Gibran
“Sometimes it is only when you meet the opposite of what you are
that you truly become what you are” geoff groom
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
At 93 – and following a stroke in 1996 – KIRK DOUGLAS still has important things to say, and does say them….
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
"Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of...[our] immune system[s] and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine that! Kindness extended, received or observed, beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved"
The Power of Intention Wayne Dyer, Ph.D
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
"The mind is like a parachute…it works best when it is open" Dalai Lama
This poem was written many years ago in memory of all the innocents who died at the hands of their own government in Cambodia – approximately 25% of the population.
FORGET – ME – NOT
geoff groom
"People who behave morally don’t generally do it because they have greater knowledge; they do it because they have a greater sensitivity to other people’s points of view"
"The Catholic Church continued to heap insult upon injury when it revealed its long-awaited new rules on clergy sex abuse…."
Maureen Dowd, New York Times…read the full article here
"(it)…did not issue a zero-tolerance policy to defrock priests after they are found guilty of pedophilia; it did not order bishops to report every instance of abuse to the police; it did not set up sanctions on bishops who sweep abuse under the rectory rug; it did not eliminate the statute of limitations for abused children; it did not tell bishops to stop lobbying legislatures to prevent child-abuse laws from being toughened."
errr….what does it take for the Vat to realise that with each step it takes down the road of denial, it more than echoes Peter?
Within 20 years this org in it's present form will have disintegrated from within.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~
C.S. Lewis
"It is of little consequence where the words come from, where the thoughts originate. Whether from some ancient text imbued with divine attributions, or from some 'other-worldly' guest in our consciousness. Whether from some perceived 'spiritual presence' or from the mouth of a child.
There can be little doubting that these unspoken words of love, motivations of compassion, punctuate our lives, they are the pause between our breaths.
To cease to heed them is to cease to breathe correctly. To not take notice is to degrade our importance and role in the life of the world and humanity.
The only, yes only, thing of consequence is to give ourselves permission to not only listen to the words of one-ness lovingness – but to allow ourselves the joy of the actions motivated by those words".
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
The Vatican has stepped up its criticism of raids by Belgian police investigating alleged child sex abuse, calling the detention of priests "serious and unbelievable". via
Ah, so the words 'serious and unbelievable' are known to the Vat.
They are words that the rest of us know and especially those victims of abuse whose trust and faith were abused in a serious and unbelievable way.
Righteous indignation by the Vat seems a little misplaced in this scenario and, worst, the Police actions demonstrate what the majority of us know – the Vat can no longer be trusted!
Why, oh why, must they continue to resist the inevitable – better to simply co-operate fully. Nobody blames the whole Catholic Church, or any church, for the wickedness of a few. However, responsibility for the continued cover-up and abuse of power has not been accepted. The Vat is in denial.
It's inability to be fully truthful is both 'serious and unbelievable'.
We do not have TV – by choice – but do have a screen for watching DVD's and videofilms. I was recently able to buy, at a very cheap price, this film:
It's an interesting exercise to try and think about who those people could be in one's own life. Often our lives impact upon another's in ways that we cannot imagine and do not realise.
"Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being".
Dale E. Turner
The beacon of ridicule and moral judgement that has forced the Catholic Church to face the realities of it's hypocrisy in respect of human rights is now being turned upon Islam as, little by little, the child-abusing practices and traditions are being revealed.
Beware,Islam. You are being destroyed from within.
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A seven-year-old boy was murdered by the Taleban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for US and Nato forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan.
Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Helmand, said that the killing happened days after the boy’s grandfather, Abdul Woodod Alokozai, spoke out against militants in their home village
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Child bride beaten for running away via
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Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
~Kahlil Gibran
The felled tree was the inspiration for the tapestry "Statement" by Ragnhild Monsen
"Pope Appoints Panel To Investigate Child Abuse In Irish Catholic Institutions" via says the headline.
Too little, Too late, says this blog!
"For everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open, and every secret will be brought to light". Mark 4:22, Matthew 10:26, Luke 8:17
In our striving for perfection we often overlook the massive humanitarian advances of this past 100 years. Taking a look at http://www.healthofnations.com/ratings/indicators/inputs/idpt was a reminder to me.
It is remarkable to see the exceptionally high levels of vaccination, worldwide, against such former killers as Measles or Diptheria. Go to the 'healthcare inputs' tag and select from the category indicator window. There is some amazing healthcare standards information on the website.
Also, today, is announced a blood test for discovering the presence of cancer cells in individuals, up to 5 years before any tumour is visible.
All this amazingly beneficial work proceeds relatively quietly in the 'background' of our societies.
But then, there are always some who will look for some other, more pessimistic, perception of the world. Fortunately I am not one of them :)
"Have we become so intolerant that we refuse and fight differences, which are to humanity what seasons are to life?"
the official Le Matin newspaper, considered the mouthpiece for the royal palace (Morocco)
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility".
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path” Navaho Indian traditional saying
"when you reach that point of self-knowledge when all you can see, all around and within, is the magnificence, the awe-inspiring wonderment of the endless flow of beauty into your brain and senses – when you reach that point, Behold….. you touch the God within" gg
(with acknowledgement to The Upanishads)
"To lose a friend through life circumstances that cause seperation, this is the way of life.
To lose a friend through sickness and death, this is a sadness only comforted by the memories of the shared joys.
To lose a friend through debt, that is a 'greek tragedy'.
Therefore, treasure the wonder of friendship whilst you may,
take the days of friendship as divine gifts, replete with untold blessings,
and if you would help your friend do not place upon them the heavy weight of gratitude, help because it is your joy to help.
Yet in all these things, be sure to value and honour the greatest component of friendship which is not the lovingness, nor the generosity, nor the helping hand, nor the inspiring spirit…..the greatest component of friendship is respect"
gg
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi
"clearly, nature is prejudiced towards the creation of beauty in limitless permutations of colour and form"
gg
"I tell everybody a little parable about the 'teaspoon brigades.' Imagine a big seesaw. One end of the seesaw is on the ground because it has a big basket half full of rocks in it. The other end of the seesaw is up in the air because it's got a basket one-quarter full of sand. Some of us have teaspoons, and we are trying to fill it up.
Most people are scoffing at us.
They say, 'People like you have been trying for thousands of years, but it is leaking out of that basket as fast as you are putting it in.' Our answer is that we are getting more people with teaspoons every day. And we believe that one of these days or years -- who knows -- that basket of sand is going to be so full that you are going to see that whole seesaw going zoop! in the other direction.
Then people are going to say, 'How did it happen so suddenly?'
And we answer, 'Us and our little teaspoons over thousands of years.'" Pete Seeger
also from Pete Seeger
"Here's hoping enough of your dreams come true to keep you optimistic about the rest. We've got a big world to learn how to tie together. We've all got a lot to learn. And don't let your studies interfere with your education."
Hey Guys and gals – there is NO ban on Catholic Priests and Nuns getting married!
You don't believe me, huh?
Well, ok, today "The Vatican is expected to assert that bishops aren't its employees because they aren't paid by Rome, don't act on Rome's behalf and aren't controlled day-to-day by the pope". (via)
So if Bishops aren't 'employees' then I guess priests and nuns are not 'employees' either. Celibacy is, therefore, not a contractual term of employment since, the Vat states, there is no employment!.
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Readers may also wish to know that those oft quoted words "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" was not the motto of Microsoft or Apple, nor were they words that originated with Glen Beck. It was actually "Sir Walter Scott , in Canto VI, Stanza 17 of "Marmion" (1808) an epic poem about the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513".(wiki. answers.com).
I have received an email notification for a program that 'records your screen activities and plays them back like a movie to see what you did the whole day." It's a fair program and I can see it has uses when you have 'client-orientated work'.
But, you gotta admit, the general concept seems a little humorous.I mean, today is the 16th., so I can spend today looking at what I did yesterday 15th – and what I did yesterday (15th) was spend the day looking at what I did the day before (14th) – and what I did 14th was spend the day looking at what I did the day before (13th – no it wasn't a friday),…. and so on, ad infinitum!
Now, please forgive me for this, but my neurons and dendrites can't help relating the above to studies of the Bible, or The Koran, or The Ghita, or…. well, you get the idea. The main difference being, of course, that the majority of 'students' stick at the bits they like best and then keep 'replaying that program'.
Take, for example, the Judao/Christian obsession with sin and guilt. All of it premised upon the ancient story of Adam, Eve and that pesky snake. How many 'students' go beyond to the FIRST creation story in the Bible? You know, that one where the One God created everything (and condemned nothing) and 'behold, it was very good'.
Still, who am I to question the record getting stuck on the gramophone player and repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating………..
I would rather be in the NOW listening to the voice of my heart. Since I am a part of the One God and can never, therefore, be apart from the One God – I'll listen for the whispers of lovingness that echo through me to the world around me.
'There will be signs and portents…..". Somehow I don't think religious texts like this quite meant this:
Yep! That's correct. This is a genuine sign in New Mexico,USA. (there are more such signs via
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-lansky/9-signs-that-prove-god-ha_b_576596.html)
Now the question is, is this advertising hype or a true statement of beliefs?.
It's pretty much the same in all sects and denominations and most religious institutions: most forcefully expressed belief systems are forcefully expressed because the expressers are trying to convince themselves.
Hey, if the sign was really – no, I mean really – an expression of true belief then Christ must have been turning a blind eye to a lot of the fraudulent and abusive activities of some institutions. But then it is perhaps unfair to try and truly discern matters of truth and faith within the actions of discredited religious institutions.
Now, what was it he said about 'you have turned my Father's house into a den for thieves and robbers…." or something like that, huh?
or if you want something 'heavier'….
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop
It used to be said "all roads lead to Rome", though I am not sure that this was a vatican reference or a purely political reference to the Roman empire.
Nowadays it would seem that most, if not all, jihadist terrorism and extreme fundamentalist Islamic distortions all seem to have a common pathway…….and a common destination. Time after time after time researches into the 'influences that have affected so called 'Islamic' terrorists and/or terrorist movements' trace the same route. It seems that many of these pathways lead to 'The Shadow of the Koran' and other writings from , Sayyid Qut'b.
It is, perhaps, worth noting that "The ulema of Al-Azhar University school took the unusual step following his death of putting Sayyid Qutb on their index of heresy, declaring him a "deviant" (Al-Azhar - the chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world) – source Wikipaedia. Perhaps it would be allowed to mention that Al Quaeda is predominantly Sunni and yet, for example, there are very strong identifiable links between Qut'b's works and Osama bin Laden's declared aims.
I have previously mentioned, in this blog, that Islam is not a unified faith but, as with many religions (particularly Christianity) is troubled by schism, dissension and often violent disagreement.
I mention this, at this time, for two reasons:
1. To be fair to the majority of peace-loving, tolerant and caring Muslims who populate this world.
2. To draw attention to the aspects of this internal Islamic struggle to cope with the transitions of the 20th and 21st centuries, which are creating massive strains upon old and out-dated standards of morality (as we also see in Catholicism)..
The old-tactic of 'creating a common enemy to unite a cause' is nowhere more visible than in the modern struggles of Islam. Check out Iraq. Check out Iran. Check out Yemen.
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BUT – before we support, in the name of 'religious freedoms' any modifications to our higher humane standards such as those espoused by Al Quaeda , Taleban or promoted under the more extreme variations of Sharia law, we need to be very certain which faction we support. It is hard to have respect for actions which deny or contradict the lovingness of the One God or demean moral and humane standards that have evolved over thousands of years.
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The defence of tradition, which in centuries past served society, is not a road to travel down where that tradition no longer meets the higher moral, ethical or humane standards expressed within a society.
Scientists have discovered that babies can start to make moral judgments by the age of six months and may be born with the ability to tell good from bad hard-wired into their brains.
Infants can even act as judge and jury in the nursery. Researchers who asked one-year-old babies to take away treats from a “naughty” puppet found they were sometimes also leaning over and smacking the figure on the head."
"The new research contradicts the theories of Freud and others that humans begin with a moral 'blank slate'"
Awareness, it would seem, is a permanent state of being.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Indeed, it is only when the individual joyfully surrenders that individuality for the benefit of humanity that his or her individuality can really be seen in it's true value. Offer not, upon the altar of humanity's needs, that which is of no value to yourself. For if you would love then love to your utmost, joyfully and willingly offering all that you are, as a celebration of all that you are.
gg
I wonder, if we had to pay for all this beauty that surrounds our every day, in every way, what price would we put on it?
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace John Lennon
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As I am very,very,very fond of saying in this blog "when it comes to claims of spiritual motivation…… follow the money"
This applies whether it's the collections, the stipends, the guru donations, the Islamic 'charity' donations, etc. It particularly applies in the present crises over child abuse within religious institutions.
It is one thing for fine words and sermons about the shame and guilt, quite another thing when you 'follow the money trail'.
In New York it is quite amazing how the fine sermon words are lost within the maze of convoluted and contradictory action taken to immunise compensation claims from victims. You can see what I mean if you read this article HERE
It was well said by Christ "by their fruits you will know them".
How sad, how irreconcilably sad, to be seeing such self-destruction of a channel of faith on such a large scale.
“This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
"You see, this is what happens in our competitive and qualification-orientated society. We have to know where the other person is coming from, then we can form value-judgements about them. Not about the truths they may speak, write or show in their lives - but about them. Then we see that they are human too, maybe do things we don't approve of, so we dismiss the possible truths they speak simply because they are different from us or don't conform to our idea of correct behaviour"
gg
For those of you who are not sure what it's all about:
more HERE
NOTE: at 10 years of age the boy tried to KILL himself!!!
so reads the headline in The Times (see more HERE)
For those not in the loop,"...if anyone offend against one of my little ones (children) it were better for him that a millstone be placed around his neck and he be cast into the sea". Jesus Christ (Luke 17). Note: this is not the judgement of the NYT or the media, nor of secular society.
I believe this includes errors of omission as well as commission.
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It is the end of the church as we have known it and it's end has come from the abuse of authority within itself.
God's justice is not the same as man's justice.In denying respect to children in it's care the Church, or any institution, also denies itself self-respect. It is already too late, whatever actions or 'mea culpas' now follow will always be a reaction to the pressure from secular society and not be the result of pressures from within.The 'moral heights' have been surrendered, if indeed they were ever occupied by any religious institution,
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This institution is mortally wounded and no priest,nun,deacon, or member who truly has faith in Christ can,in my opinion, remain within this divided house. The words of Christ must surely be of greater import than the words of any so-called 'servant of The Master'.
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The bottom line is simply this – would you wish your child to be educated by or within the control environments of any institution like this?
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It is the WAY we deal with crisis that speaks about who we really are!
"Religion — all religion, not just Catholicism — is supposed to be good for the soul, but everything I’ve written about here pollutes mine. You can’t take lessons in morality from people who disgust you."
Whether it is Iran or the Vatican, a synogogue or an evangelical telecast, the thing that most 'representatives of religious orgs' don't really seem to grasp is that in the "internet/knowledge shared openly" world…..
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It is what you say and do NOW that is really defining who and what you are…
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What you, or someone in your religious tradition, did or said in the past belongs to that age.
Let your truth be clear and present in this moment. Let your lovingness illuminate this second. For truth is not a thought nor a belief system concept…
Truth is the reality in which we exist.It would appear that, to date, no evidence concerning the sacrificing of the present Pope's 'moral authority' is more clear and damning than that of the Priest,reported directly to Cardinal Ratzinger, for his lifelong sex abuse of deaf boys. Reports that were made even by Archbishops!
"But it is only one of thousands of cases forwarded over decades by bishops to the Vatican office called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led from 1981 to 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger"(Laurie Godstein, NYT, see link below), who counselled secrecy on threat of excommunication
Recommended reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Now there are many, many beautiful believers who may feel that a justifiable prosecution of 'church officials' for their part in conspiring to pervert the course of justice (both spiritual and temporal) is an attack upon their faith. I implore such believers not to confuse their faith in God with a 'potential belief' in an institution.
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I believe this is a latin terminology, most generally used in law, which simply means 'utmost good faith'.
The Catholic Church appears now to be learning what this actually means. It is learning the lesson the hard way: dramatically falling attendances, disastrously declining income, failure to enrol for the priesthood at anything like an adequate standard, in short – the Church is in a deepening crisis. The moral authority of the Papacy has been sacrificed upon the altar of 'protected abuse'. I cannot see a time when this authority will be regained. The axe has been laid to the root of this tree.
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But lets not be sectarian about this, other major religious institutions are also falling foul of the increased knowledge and 'self-determination' aspirations of the world population.
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Judaism has become severely incapacitated by the less than reasonable behaviour of the Jewish State, Israel. The saying 'do unto others as you wish they would do to you' has been replaced by 'do unto others as was done to us'. The parallels between the politics of the Jewish State and the Nazis of World War 2 have become a despicable irony.
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Iran's government does Islam no favours with it's reprehensible behaviour utilising religion as it's shield. Sharia law is generally perceived as being barbaric and not human. Nor do it's extremes speak to many people (with a choice to listen or ignore) of anything resembling a 'higher aspiration of the human spirit'. The Jihad movement's attempts to hijack Islam seem to be failing, yet there appears to be an undercurrent of progress and modernisation within Muslim populations that Islam has not yet grasped or seems incapable of responding to effectively. Alarmingly,for Islam, too many modern concepts of 'goodness' reveal the dysfunction of out-dated traditions.
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Utmost faith; blind, unquestioning addiction to the institution is irrevocably being eroded by that other word in the title – good.
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Mankind is progressing more rapidly in it's understandings and applicable definitions of 'good' than the religions. The moral high standards of the world society are applying judgements, theoretical and practical, to the behaviour of the high-powered and formerly unquestionably influential tenets of the religions.
If these religions are to survive the 21st century, they have to embrace a much larger definition of the word 'good'.
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As for me, I have faith in the utmost good which is erupting from the mass of humanity. I happen to believe that the One God is responsible for it. In that I have utmost good faith.
"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it."
— Muhammad Ali (The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey)
Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrows keep you Human,
Failures keep you Humble,
Success keeps you Glowing ,
But Only Friends Keep You Going!
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Someone has sent me an email with a lovely story in it about a little girl whose dog died….maybe I will put it on this blog. Anyway, on the email were also the above words…I don't know who wrote them, but maybe the words themselves are more important than the source.
as previously reported in this blog (Jan 17th) a very respected Islamic scholar has thoroughly researched and clearly shown that:
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Jihadist terrorism is simply that….and is unislamic and criminal…
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.True muslims know this, but it is time to make their voices heard –loudly – if they seek to save Islam from self-destruction.
Often in life it is when the darkness of despair engulfs us, when hopelessness tsunami-like would sweep us away,it is in that moment when the smallest,dimmest light of truth starts to shine in our hearts.
Whatever else, to yourself be true and that small,dim light will start to shine brighter.Follow the light.
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.I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Loves knows no barriers, accepts no limitations. Love understands the infiniteness of it's nature and even when all else crumbles around us,Love remains constant.
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Often in life we feel we may have lost someone, but this is only a reflection of our wait for fullest comprehension. After a while we begin to feel, to sense, that the person we thought we had lost is still present with us. When the time is right the shining treasures of our life interactions start to glisten in the darkness of our sadness. Before too long the shining is so powerful that our hearts are magnificently illuminated and we glimpse an understanding that love has no end..
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I know I shall not see again
that smile upon life's well worn face
instead the joy of YOU remains
within the heart's most secret place:
just now and then
when rainbows bend
or frostflakes glisten in the wind
I sense again your smile of caring
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. Thank YOU, thank YOU,Thank YOU…for treasures of lovingness that shall never,never fade… .
.7 year old Charlie (see reports below) continues upwards with his fund-raising efforts to help people in Haiti – it all started with a bike ride to raise £500
£242,723
$385,000
SeK 2,812,000
But sometimes it's not just about the money.Often such a loving spark lights a fire of lovingness,as you can see from these donation comments at Charlie's Just Giving webpage:
A group of men came along the street; heavily armed soldiers leading a condemned man to the gallows.
"That man is no good," said a disciple to Nasrudin. "I once gave him a silver coin in order to help him start his life afresh, and he did nothing important."
"He may be no good, but perhaps he is now on his way to the gallows because of you," argued the master. "Perhaps he used the alms in order to buy a dagger, which he then used in committing his crime-because instead of helping him with love and care, you chose to give him alms in order to release yourself from your obligation."
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an excerpt from Warrior of the Light
by Paulo Coelho
