8.19.2007

Anger



At a party last night, I was surprised to see some people became visibly angry when arguing an issue when others didn't agree. These are the same people who claim to believe in peace on earth! What is the point in believing in peace, and yet not be able to practice it on individual level?
I hope, some of them, will read this post!

8.18.2007

I have blogged about how much we have become a fear based society. Any group that wants to push their agenda uses fear to make us believe. All we have to do, is to read a little history and to see if any pervious "fears" have ever materialized?

I am re-reading Emerson's essays and it's funny that I found this quote:

The superstitions of our age are,
the fear of Catholicism
the fear of Pauperism
the fear of immigration
the fear of manufacturing interests
the fear of radicalism or democracy,
and faith in the steam engine.
Nemesis takes care of all these things, balances fear with fear, eradicates nobles by upstarts, supplants one set of nobodies by new nobodies.


~Ralph Waldo Emerson, July 1847


Somethings never change!

8.16.2007

Achieving the impossible !?

Just read this news that two German Scientists, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofenclaim, to have broken the ultimate speed record - by making photons travel faster than light. Exceeding the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, is supposed to be impossible.

The duo say being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving, they said.

Wow! To break the speed of light also means breaking the time barrier..Can you imagine that? Now isn't that an inspiring news? Would this mean the next generation will live in a real "Star Trek" time? I am interested to see how other scientists will review this news, I will keep you posted.

Link

8.13.2007

Wear Inspiration!

Look what I found...Now you can wear inspirational thoughts on you. What a great gift to give and receive!


This great bracelet that has Henry Thoreau's great quote on it: "go confidently in the direction of your dreams live the life you've imagined".


I loved this one too, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."


Or this cute ring which is copied from 14th century ring inscribed in French 'a vila mon gardi li mo', which means "here is my heart guard it well"













I will probably will buy (or drop a hint for my husband to buy!) this great necklace where the pendent is inscribed with the words of he 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…"), and "XXIII" is inscribed on the reverse.

Now, when I do this kind of a shopping, I get inspired, moved and touched!







More links here & here

8.09.2007

Beauty




source: mac.com

8.08.2007

8.07.2007

Relaxation is a click away

A website showing impressive & slightly animated landscape loops (e.g. a wood fire, a beach sunset, a morning lake), specifically designed for visual relaxation. Try it, it's fun!

Click here

8.06.2007


Now here is where I want to live! Heh!

8.03.2007

Thou shalt Not Whine!

In July 2006 Christ Church Unity, launched their Complaint-Free World campaign with a purple bracelet. The intention was to create a ripple in the sea of human consciousness that would spread far and wide to help people shift from negative to positive thinking.

This great idea of bracelet came to Will Bowen, the pastor of this church and all he wanted to do is to break the habit of "complaining", and so he asked his flock to take a pledge: to swear off complaining, criticizing, gossiping or using sarcasm for 21 days. It may be a surprisingly simple technique, but it's also a lot difficult. It took Rev. Will Bowen himself 3 and half months to master it and it took some 7 months! Once you master it, non-complainers are encouraged to turn in their bracelets for a Certificate of Happiness.

According to many articles, many other religious groups are following Rev. Bowen. Jewish temples are conducting complaint-free services too, along with other Christian denominations.

Since last year, Bowen's church has sent more than 5 million bracelets for free to people in nearly 80 countries and territories. Fortunately many media outlets have reported this phenomena. People Magazine, NBC show and The Oprah Winfery show - all featured stories about the purple bracelet technique and its phenomenal impact.

If you'd like to get Complaint-Free bracelets for yourself, or your family, They will be happy to send them to you for for free. Click here.

I ordered mine yesterday!

8.02.2007

Get inspired!

Now if this is not an inspiring story, I don't know what is! Never too late to reach your dreams!

Great-great-granny earns masters degree at 94
A 94-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother has become the oldest person in the world to earn a masters degree. Phyliss Turner, described by one of her sons as having "an amazing brain," took her masters in medical science at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Turner had been forced to leave school at the age of 12 to help her mother care for the family after her father abandoned them, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Nearly 60 years later she enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology at Adelaide and won a 12-month scholarship to study at the University of California.

Read the complete story here: Link

7.31.2007

False Hollywood Culture!

This is, absolutely, a great quote by Ann Marlowe in BeE magazine (another new & interesting magazine I have discovered), she goes on to say;
" The real and fictional princesses Disney markets to young girls, from Pocohontas to Cinderella to Snow White, all showed some of what used to be called virtues. But princess play nowadays is only about surfaces. It may be hard to get a little girl out of a pink tutu, but it’s much harder to teach her how an honorable person behaves. And it is here that we are much poorer than the Victorians."

My blogger friend, Tori, has also questioned the wisdom of theme parks and "false" realities. She writes;
"I find anything Disney completely disturbing. Creepy, in fact. May I go as far as to say that Disney and it's whole world remind me a cult? Not trying to make many friends with this post am I? It is the over the top hype. It is the creation of something that doesn't even exist. It is escapism at a high cost. It elevates pleasure to an untouchable ideal. It makes entertainment seem like it should be a requirement to everyday life."
Many people think America is not loved by other countries anymore, because of the political situation we are in. I disagree. People around the world love true American ideals! What they hate is the Hollywood & Disney culture that is being imposed on our next generations. Nothing about Hollywood culture inspires, moves and touches!

7.28.2007

The Most Important Person You’ve Never Heard Of

I hate it, hate it, hate it, when I don't hear this kind of news from our Media and instead we get bombarded by news about Hollywood's drunk, confused, and lost celebrities.

This news is about the last Congressional Gold Medal receiver - the highest civilian honor given by Congress ( The first one was awarded to George Washington in 1776). There has been only 139 times since. Last week, it was Norman Borlaug's turn, 93 years old, and I have never heard about him at all! Have you? Read about him and you will be inspired, moved and touched!

I happen to read about it in the American Magazine (its a great new magazine):
"He wasn’t broadly famous, so the well deserved award was a quiet event by modern standards. But it’s still a shame that the award ceremony didn’t get more publicity, because Norman Borlaug has saved more lives than any person currently living. Indeed, he may have saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived."
Apparently, he helped poor by not giving them money but by serving them with developing technology. His most famous project was the "wheat project" in Mexico. He is an agricultural scientist who started the Green revolution 3 decades ago and the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1970!
"In the mid-'60s, doomsayers predicted that, because of war and overpopulation, millions of people in India and Pakistan would die of starvation – and nothing could be done to prevent it. Dr. Borlaug thought otherwise. He wanted to see if his new wheat seeds could help prevent the looming catastrophe in South Asia. Bureaucrats initially thwarted him. But as the famine grew worse, he was finally permitted to move forward.

Within a year, wheat yields more than doubled. Over the next eight years, the two countries became self-sufficient in wheat production. For his work, Dr. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. In his acceptance speech, Dr. Borlaug quoted the creator of the prize, Alfred Nobel: "I would rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the departed in the form of monuments."
Read more here & here
Read his interview with Reason magazine here 7 years ago.

7.26.2007

FORGIVENESS TEST!

Do you want to test your forgiveness? Can you let go of hurt, and restore your faith in the essential goodness of life?

Click 'here to take the quiz.

This is a part of a book called, "Why good things happened to good people", written by Dr.Stephen Post & Jill Neimark. My score was 80, apparently I am a moderate "giver". What is yours?

Here is a quote from the Author:
"Love can be expressed in a great many ways. So, in the book there's a chapter on attentive listening. You know some people are really good at attentive listening and they do such beautiful job. Others express love through creativity, they are just able to create beautiful works of music – Beethoven's Ode to Joy – or literary people. Some people express love through forgiveness, or through the courage to confront self-destructive behaviors. Sometimes love is expressed through humor! For my father it was loyalty. He was the most loyal person I ever met."
– Stephen Post