Good night moon. May we wake to peace
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Good night moon. May we wake to peace
Monthly Archives: November 2013
RT: Obama refused to accept NSA chief’s resignation after Snowden leaks
It feels as if we are at a divide of the world’s journey and one path takes us to war. Hugs, Barbara
Anita Baker – Giving You The Best That I Got (with lyrics)
Great song and voice.
Artist Countdown: Tina Turner Top 40 Hits 6pm ET @tina_turner @Official_Tina1
I love Tina Turner and she and Cher are the divas. But everyone should give her credit for what she survived. Ike abused her terribly. She took it for years. Then she walked and never looked back. So I think she is the bravest of women. She rocks.
State’s Attorney Report Judicial District Of Danbury: Shootings At Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012
This is what hundreds of people have been waiting for.
T-MINUS 3 DAYS: Comet ISON’s Close Sun Encounter This Week Has Scientists Fired Up
I am psyched!!!
Can you hear the Music
Snow on the east side of Cleveland. Photograph taken and copyrighted 2013
Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind
has put up a swing:
all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway
between these two trees,
And it never winds down.
Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also
the wheeling sun and moon;
ages go by, and it goes on.
Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire,
and the secret one slowly growing a body.
Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.”
—-Kabir
My religion is love
Hindu and Sufi ecstatic poetry is a special niche of poetry. Rumi, Kabir, Attar, all are famous and well loved even today in the twenty first century. They lived in the fifteenth century. That we can relate today is the surprise. Our souls recognize the familiar verses and they take the words right inside and leave them in the soul.
Kabir taunts the establishment. Robert Bly has had a tremendous influence on aesthetic poetry as a translator and editor. Coleman Barks has also worked hard editing and translating these poems into the understanding of western people in today’s world.
Kabir has interwoven Sufism with its confidence, secretive, desert meditation and Hindu which is more serious on the surface. Sufism has arisen utterly opposed to orthodoxy, and dances its way into our souls. It changes you and you never change back.
Have you heard the music that no fingers
enter into?
Far inside the house
entangled music—
What is the sense of leaving the house?
Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines,
but inside there is no music,
then what?
Mohammed’s son pores over words, and points and this
this
and that,
but if his chest is not soaked dark with love,
then what?
The Yogi comes along in his famous orange.
But if inside he is colorless, then what?
Kabir says: Every instant that the sun is risen,
if I stand in the temple, or on a balcony,
in the hot flelds, or in a walled garden,
my own Lord is making love with me.”
—Kabir
Prayer beads
Dance with the ecstacy of the Beloved
“DC to begin fingerprinting, taking mug shots of all LEGAL gun owners at police stations”
I think it is a good idea. Yes I get the problems but if it will save lives or make it easier to find perps, it may have some merit. Peaceful day, Barbara
Washington DC’s new gun regulations are set to take effect on January 1, and they are brazenly unconstitutional.
The Butterfly and The Survivor
A very good read.
I don’t know about you but sometimes it seems to me that people tend to view abuse survivors as being victims still. It’s as if they hear only one part of our story, focus on it, and see us as these human beings that are too weak, too shattered, and too broken to ever make it in life when in fact, we have all ready made it by breaking free from a past that once held us prisoner in our own lives. Yet, society wants to view survivors and depict them in such a way where people feel sorry for us and pity us instead of hearing the message of hope we bring with us and seeing the courageous, strong, brave, and beautiful people we are and being happy for us that we actually left our dangerous situations and are now living an abuse free life.
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Understanding Friendship
Our friends are the pillars of support in our lives
Friends are the people we pick to be the pillars in our lives. Yet some of these people are here to stay and people are only passing by. Some have lessons for us, some have to learn from us. Sometimes when you are close to someone and they move on it is hard to deal with it. It saddens the heart and in some cases leaves a large hole where they used to be.
Some people come and you wish they would leave but it is difficult. Some friendships support us and bring us joy and some are toxic and take your energy. You have to trust your inner guidance and know that in the bigger picture all will be well. All will be the way it is supposed to be. It is hard to write this, just as there are things that, if we are honest with ourselves at times, it is hard to see the big picture. Some we never work through and sometimes we are just relieved when the friend leaves our lives.
Friendships were easier to make thirty years ago. These days, life is so busy that it is hard to make real friends. Acquaintances we do pretty well, but friendship takes time. Time to nurture. Time to listen and respond. Time to laugh and cry together. Time to share interests and to discover new interests together. One thing you hear as people talk about is time. I have no time. I have too much going on. Activity isn’t always living or necessary. Sometimes living is found in silence, in meditation, in writing or being true to your inner voice. The creative person is harder to be friends with than non-creative because we see the world through our emotions and through our art.
Mother Teresa cared and served. She was a friend to everyone.
Being deeply loved
True friendship lasts through anything. It means you accept people as they are and know they are doing their best. Don’t judge if you care for that person and don’t tell them they aren’t really sick. Don’t think you know more than doctors. If your friend has a lot of stress, don’t add to it with your advice or judgements. And remember that they may enjoy being home and being in touch with their creativity. Time is a precious gift. It is not a sign of laziness. It is a time to do what there was no time for before. It is time to be silent and to be in communication with the Divine. Honor the importance of that. Peace begins within. Silence speaks to the Universe.
The Divine in me bows to the Divine in you. Honor your friends with this concept because we are One and we live In One World.
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