We need to save the endangered species.
How Dogs’ Sniffers Are Saving Endangered Species and Other Wildlife
We need to save the endangered species.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Heart and Wings
Hazarat Inayat Khan mystic and musician
Hazarat Inayat Khan grew up and lived in India. He was a wonderful musician and had a spiritual teacher. In time, he began to study a path called Sufism. His spiritual teacher told him to take what he learned to the West and teach it to the people. So he and his brothers left India and went to Europe. They began meeting people and telling them about a philosophy that was a mysticism. He even came to America. He gave lectures coast to coast. The Sufi movement was called the Chisti order. The Chisti order is Westernized. Women are equal. There is studying, singing and the Universal dance.There are groups who practice healing and who do practices together.
Sufi Murshid brought Sufism to the West
” If one is able to expand oneself to the consciousness of another person, one’s consciousness becomes as large as two persons’. And so it can become as large as a thousand persons’ when one accustoms oneself to try and see what others think. It is the understanding of two points of view, the opposite points of view, that gives a fuller insight into life. The ” I ” and ” you ” only remain so long as we see ourselves, but when we rise above them or beyond them, the thought brings us nearer and nearer to God in the consciousness in which we all unite.” –Hazrat Inayat Khan
” The Soul of the whole of creation is one, the life behind all these ever-moving phantoms is one. Meditation on this truth and the awakening to it will harmonize the condition of the world.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan
” Holy One, All-powerful, The overcomer, The firm,
Free us and protect us from impressions of alienation, illusion, nonsense; And strengthen us in cooperation, friendship, discernment and wisdom, as we learn how to walk in balance on the earth.”
Sufism does not partake in politics or war. Hazrat Inayat Khan went back to India to visit and died. His son, Pir Valayat Khan took over leadership of the Chisti order. Pir passed away in France. Now Hazrat’s grandson Pir Zia is the leader and spiritual head of the order now. Sufi’s can trace themselves back to Zoroaster and Mohammed gave them mystical teachings. They sat on sofas in the inner circle and so with time they became Sufis. Sufi’s say that there is no God but that which is God.
The Sufi Heart and Wings
Professor Stephen Hawking on Higgs boson: Physics would be more interesting if it hadn’t been found
Real interesting
The Draft ~ a WIP
This is a well written blog
The Bavardage of My Mind
When you have to stifle your creativity
” bavardage” IE; chat, talking, gossiping, chitchat, dialog, prattle |
I have had an occasion of late to have a lot of down-time. A LOT of down equated for me to be almost zero writing.
Consequently because I didn’t have the outlet and release that I typically find in writing I found instead that I was filled with self-chatter. Thoughts not shared out loud soon became a bounty of negatives and defeating self-talk. To get out of my head, away from my thoughts I started reading about the dynamics of inner dialogue.
That self chatter, self-talk, inner chatter, on-going self dialog, the inner voice, that which echoes in our heads.
I think everyone does it.
From the very second of our birth we begin having interactions with our surrounding environments. and absorbing information. We learn and grow byconnecting to and relating to the encounters with others and events…
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~ 2nd Vid for the Day ~
I remember this from the day. And I still agree war is not good for anything. Peace, Barbara the Rebel
Be small enough to hear me now
This is a precious poem. A beautiful work of art.
9 Tips for Eating More Whole Foods
The GMO information makes this sound worthwhile. Hugs, Barbara
In North America, we are faced with a problem that is unique to our side of the world: over-abundance of food. We lack the traditional foundations of eating, most of us have spent our childhood in classrooms and in front of televisions, not helping our grandmothers need dough for gnocchi or boiling tomatoes for canning for the winter. Few of us know how to make bread from scratch or ferment milk for yogurt. Our time is slim and the emergence of the empowered, working female has taken us out of the kitchen and into the supermarket or restaurant where food brands compete for our attention, promising us lucrative health claims, confusing the matter even more.
When I travel, people from other countries ask me what a typical “Canadian Dish” is. I, think of how my favourite food is Ethiopian injera and stews or how we often celebrate by going out…
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Iconic Veteran’s Day Photo of 90 Year-old Man and President Obama
Wonderful to see him with President Obama
I had forgotten about this until someone reminded me by sending the Twitter Pic:
Iconic: The Pres asked this 90yo Veteran not to get up. He said, no sir; you are the President. pic.twitter.com/cB4MOKU7uY
— Joan (@jmcaninch68) November 11, 2013
State Department Works To Bring Relief To Typhoon Victims
We can all help the survivors.
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