GLOBAL LOVE DAY (2008)
My Beloveds,
Angels sang to me this morning and awakened me from a lovely slumber.
Today I pray for each beautiful sentient being throughout the Universe.
I visualize us enveloped in a world of peace, with equanimity, and joy.
Still, my heart cries at our need for violence, at our rationale for killing, at our thoughts of the inevitability of war, and economic collapse. Painfully I address the lack of opportunity, literacy and safety for those in the United States, and extend my thoughts globally.
There is no reason or need for poverty of mind, body or spirit
---other than the desire for a few to have MORE.
More money, more land, more stocks, more fun in the Alps ---MORE.
Though I am grateful for each of my blessings,
Today I too am asking for MORE.
My more is in direct relation to a desire for equity for all people,
the sustainability of our Earth, and the healing of all disease.
My more is hope, joy, compassion, and understanding.
My more is a world filled with conscious intention and love.
My more is a request to ask that we honor our seniors, share them with our precious children and provide them with the best of ourselves.
MORE. My more is a dream of humility, respect and diplomacy as we learn to interact with each other heart to heart.
MORE. My more is for us to vision and create a world of cooperation where we allow others the dignity of returning to their homelands instead of creating political obstacles to peace.
Yes today my heart sings a melody of more---more understanding, more compassion, more willingness to share the fruits of our labor.
I believe our potential of greatness. I believe in a society that says right NOW---let’s redefine our commitment to each other.
Please, let us remember the voice of the Great Spirit.
Let us ask more of ourselves as we meet each other in Grace,
and walk side by side, heart to heart.
Let us have more listening, more kindness, more truth, more hope and more faith as we embrace the Divine in each of us.
This Is My Request of MORE!
Melony McGant
www.melonymcgant.blogspot.com melonymcgant@yahoo.com
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Showing posts with label INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES. Show all posts
Friday, 1 May 2009
CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA
'Change has come to America'
Wednesday, November 5 07:28 am
• Barack Obama has become the first black US president
after a landslide election victory.
Obama wins historic US election
RELATED CONTENT
• Obama considers top job for Clinton
• Fierce speculation Obama will choose Clinton as top diplomat
Related Hot Topic: John McCain
The 47-year-old Democrat led his Republican rival John McCain by 297 votes to 139 as he passed the magic number of 270 needed to win the presidency at 4am GMT. Later projections showed he won by 349 votes to 158.
Mr Obama promised change and a new dawn of leadership.
Speaking after sweeping a series of key battleground states in a landslide electoral college victory, he pledged to be a president of all Americans and vowed to overcome challenges which were "the greatest of our lifetime", including two wars, a global economic crisis and a planet in peril.
"I promise you, we as a people will get there," he said.
Cheered on by tens of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Mr Obama took to a stage lined with US flags with his his wife Michelle and young daughters Malia, ten, and Sasha, seven, at his side.
Mr Obama told those whose support he had not won: "I hear your voices, I need your help and I will be your president too."
He said he would listen to his opponents, adopt a multilateral approach to world affairs and told those watching outside the US that "our stories are singular but our destiny is shared".
"The new dawn of America leadership is at hand," he said.
"To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you.
"And to all those who have wondered if American's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we've proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
"That's the true genius of America. The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even in one term, but America I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
"I promise you, we, as a people, will get there."
Many in the crowd were crying and even political pundits on major US TV networks wiped tears from their eyes as the man who could transform race relations in America ascended to the highest office in the land.
Conceding defeat in his home state of Arizona, Mr McCain said: "The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. This is an historic election."
Mr McCain joined outgoing president George W Bush in calling Mr Obama to congratulate him personally.
Mr Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, will be sworn in as the 44th US president on January 20, 2009.
The win by Mr Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and white mother from Kansas, comes 45 years after the high point of the equality movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassinated civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King said: "I was very excited tonight and moved to tears."
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Wednesday, November 5 07:28 am
• Barack Obama has become the first black US president
after a landslide election victory.
Obama wins historic US election
RELATED CONTENT
• Obama considers top job for Clinton
• Fierce speculation Obama will choose Clinton as top diplomat
Related Hot Topic: John McCain
The 47-year-old Democrat led his Republican rival John McCain by 297 votes to 139 as he passed the magic number of 270 needed to win the presidency at 4am GMT. Later projections showed he won by 349 votes to 158.
Mr Obama promised change and a new dawn of leadership.
Speaking after sweeping a series of key battleground states in a landslide electoral college victory, he pledged to be a president of all Americans and vowed to overcome challenges which were "the greatest of our lifetime", including two wars, a global economic crisis and a planet in peril.
"I promise you, we as a people will get there," he said.
Cheered on by tens of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Mr Obama took to a stage lined with US flags with his his wife Michelle and young daughters Malia, ten, and Sasha, seven, at his side.
Mr Obama told those whose support he had not won: "I hear your voices, I need your help and I will be your president too."
He said he would listen to his opponents, adopt a multilateral approach to world affairs and told those watching outside the US that "our stories are singular but our destiny is shared".
"The new dawn of America leadership is at hand," he said.
"To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you.
"And to all those who have wondered if American's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we've proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
"That's the true genius of America. The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even in one term, but America I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
"I promise you, we, as a people, will get there."
Many in the crowd were crying and even political pundits on major US TV networks wiped tears from their eyes as the man who could transform race relations in America ascended to the highest office in the land.
Conceding defeat in his home state of Arizona, Mr McCain said: "The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. This is an historic election."
Mr McCain joined outgoing president George W Bush in calling Mr Obama to congratulate him personally.
Mr Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, will be sworn in as the 44th US president on January 20, 2009.
The win by Mr Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and white mother from Kansas, comes 45 years after the high point of the equality movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassinated civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King said: "I was very excited tonight and moved to tears."
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Thursday, 30 April 2009
GLOBAL LOVE DAY - MAY 1st, 2009.
A Poem for Global Love Day 2009,
by Mandel Rheems
with Love from Carol & Mandel
“One Earth Vision” - & -“Friends For World Peace”
Email: friends.for.peace@btinternet.com
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“LOVE’S WAY”
Dare we lose it? Dare we give it away?
Dare we treasure it? Dare we cast it aside?
Dare we awaken to its wisdom? Dare we die for it?
Dare we greet a new morning? Dare we seek & not be sought?
Dare we live free? Dare we trust in love’s hand?
Dare we be guided? Dare we know of Brotherhood?
Dare we surrender? Dare we love until the last breath?
DARE WE GREET EACH OTHER AS ONE?
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(Not copyright, share freely!)
by Mandel Rheems
with Love from Carol & Mandel
“One Earth Vision” - & -“Friends For World Peace”
Email: friends.for.peace@btinternet.com
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“LOVE’S WAY”
Dare we lose it? Dare we give it away?
Dare we treasure it? Dare we cast it aside?
Dare we awaken to its wisdom? Dare we die for it?
Dare we greet a new morning? Dare we seek & not be sought?
Dare we live free? Dare we trust in love’s hand?
Dare we be guided? Dare we know of Brotherhood?
Dare we surrender? Dare we love until the last breath?
DARE WE GREET EACH OTHER AS ONE?
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(Not copyright, share freely!)
The Day:
Let’s inspire one another and share our hugs, smiles, forgiveness and compassion and let the world know that love is indeed possible and present everywhere.
We currently have over 40 events listed from around the world. Along with these events, people are sharing their time and resources in creative and inspirational ways to help others in their community, gathering to meditate or simply celebrating and having fun. Links, ideas and updates can be found at:
www.thelovefoundation.com
Be a part of it - spread your love.
Love, light and peace,
The Board - Harold, John, Tam, Lanis, and Erik
Our Country and Regional Coordinators - Lydiah, Raphael, Magda, Martin, Emmanuel, Peris, Wendi, Keyvan, Julie, Shiva, Shed, Sahro, Zuberi, Karim, Falguni, Matthew, Kimiko, Ebrima, D. Amalraj, Wojciech, Melony, Roger, Deby, Mitzi, Darlene, Heather, Jana, Kaleemullah, Javier, Bishwanath, Zeina, Kelvin, Neabei, Godwin, Suraj, Tony, Benjamin, Balakrishnan, Alex, Rick and Alexander.
Latest Message from TLF Founder
Life is such a wonderful journey when we allow it to be filled with love. From the intimate focus within each breath to the infinite expansion of a starlit night, we are all part of this miraculous and magnificent adventure.
Our bodies are the vehicle in which our senses experience the changes of the seasons and the rhythms of our heartbeat, while our greater consciousness allows us to connect to the universal love that weaves its way through all creation.
The Love Foundation, Inc.
“Inspiring People to Love Unconditionally”
www.thelovefoundation.com
Think: Global Love Day
Feel: Love Begins With Me
Remember: May 1, 2009
Sunday, 16 November 2008
OBAMA—THE SEARCH FOR AN IDEALISTIC HUMANE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES
It has been many years since the famous “I Have a Dream” Lincoln Memorial speech of 28th August, 1963 by Martin Luther King where he wished to see a United States of America where her people would be judged not by the colour of their skin but by the contents and strength of their character. Surprisingly or not so surprisingly whenever you heard anything about “I have a Dream” speech in the media it never went beyond the colour of their skin and the one about the strength and contents of your character was disdainfully dismissed.
Now what exactly is this thing called: the colour of your skin; the more appropriate word is skin tone - and scientifically speaking the melanin content of your skin or pigment. Each and every human being on this over populated planet of ours (i.e. almost 5 billions or 6 billions- too much already in any case!) have their own skin tone and most importantly it is not a fixed thing; i.e. prolonged exposure to the sun or complete lack of it will cause the skin to take various hues and shades of colour. The quote un quote “white” world spends billions of dollars on sunny beach vacation destinations to work on their tans and even super rich businessman or politicians who are always dropping the words “men and women of colour” in their conversations are often seen holidaying/relaxing on their yachts with a pot belly and a reddish brown suntan. It seems like they need the “men and women of colour” from all over the world to work hard so he can have a break and have suntan like his employees. Let’s also not forget thousands of suntan places doing brisk business all over America and the western world. The point I am trying to make here is the absurdity and the hypocrisy of this whole system based on the tonality of your skin.
The novelist Mr Joseph Conrad in his novel “The Heart of Darkness” observes caustically that Imperialism as nothing but plundering and enslaving of people and culture that possess darker skin a different hair pattern and slightly flatter noses. That they have those particular physical characteristics because of the proximity of the Sun to those equatorial countries is conveniently ignored. What an uninteresting drab world it will be if we all looked just the same. Thank God for our diversity and differences. It seems the ruling class or the ruling elite chose an arbitrary system to divide people to justify their exploitations - and hence the birth of racism and slavery. And then later on religion was added to justify and compound the problem. This vicious cycle of exploitation needs to be broken once and for all for human beings to evolve and move forward in consciousness.
If we look around in this world and here I thank profusely the Discovery channel Animal planet... Plant planet …so on and so forth we are overwhelmed and awed by the beauty and mind boggling range of diversity that stares us right into our face both in the floral and faun an world. And it is only when we come to the Human world this whole concept of diversity takes a back seat in the bus. Why? The answer is simple economics. Everything in this world can be boiled down to hard core economics which in plain English translates for the benefits and advantages of wealth certain people will go to extreme lengths to justify their heinous acts.
In the present times we are not in direct slavery anymore but we are still modern slaves, whether we are slave to technology, heavily dependent upon the economics, slaved and intoxicated by power and wealth… which always goes hand in hand….slave to wrong images as manufactured by the media and the advertising industry which has reduced masses of people to nothing but consumers of enormous amounts of not needed (unwanted) products. We are increasingly living in a very Americanised McDonaldised, televisionised world where more and more malls are being constructed and plastic soap operas and coca colas are thrust upon people who were very recently farmers and fishermen. They simply do not understand what is going on? A simple peaceful life of hard labour and living close to nature (where their main source of joy comes from!) has been replaced by concrete steel glass and plastic civilisation---If we can call that civilisation at all? The people living within that civilisation are themselves uneasy and unhappy and now we go world wide to dump that on simple indigenous people who frankly does not need our civilisation. On the contrary they may have many valuable lessons to teach us on how not to rape and plunder nature ceaselessly and make her barren and bald way before her time.
Now my readers you may ask what does it have to do with Obama as the New president elect of America in 2008 elections…patience my friends and fellow readers. It is America that holds the key to the survival of this planet and mankind. (We say Man-Kind but surprisingly so few in the present days of Ugly competition are actually kind or generous!). It is this very American spirit of can do attitude and nothing is impossible made the global imperialism of USA happen. Is it not possible (and I know I am going out on a limb here) that same spirit once properly inspired can bring about a different sort of change. The Change in people’s heart and attitude, his mind body and spirit. A feeling of Oneness, that we are in this altogether as one mankind one race the Human race. This endless exploitation of world resources to feed the frenzied whimsy of the super-rich and their lifestyle must stop. The world simply does not have enough resources for one billion Chinese and Indian people to catch up with their first world dreams and the life style that goes with it. What we need is to re-evaluate how we have been conducting ourselves and our businesses all over the world. Business as usual also equals to exploitation, poverty and misery as usual. A more balanced sustainable and ethical ways of conducting business is absolutely Imperative and urgent.
Change we must (otherwise it will be forced upon us anyway!) in our attitude our thinking and our lifestyle—mostly in the Westernised democracies of the world to pave the way for a peaceful, tolerable Just and green world. What America does today the rest of the world follows. It is only in America people are not burdened down heavily with an obsolete past breathing heavily over their shoulders, and thus making quick dynamic movements almost impossible. This is what happens with other countries, they are burdened by their own past from India to China to Europe it is a heavy price to pay in the name of tradition and culture, - while America is light and quick footed always flexible, re-inventing and re-discovering herself since her birth of democracy (approximately 250 years ago) to the present times, as election of Mr Barrack Obama as the new President clearly proves. America is moving forward from a colour bound to a colour blind society. It is not that America is incapable of mistakes but it also knows how to rectify and learn from her previous mistakes. In an increasingly bifurcated world of haves and have- nots whether in America, UK India, Africa or Europe we need to set aside our superficial differences whatever they may be(nationality, skin tone, looks etc) and work together for the overall benefits of the Human race. I am specially calling out to good kind decent and well meaning individuals of all nations to work together for a Greater Good and to be honest our very survival and existence on this planet is at stake. (Hell folks we don’t have much time left!)
This beautiful blue white and green Planet Earth of ours which we call home which looks so wondrously beautiful from space yet fragile is screaming for Change---and it is up to us ----to All of US to make that change and transition from steps leading to a mass graveyard to the steps leading to a beautiful garden. I think to me the choice is obvious. What the world needs Right Now is Kindness and Compassion more Contemplativeness, Meditation, a silent Prayer to heal this broken world of ours. This does not necessarily mean that we sit in meditative poses folding our legs (though half an hour a day is not too much to ask surely?) but we have to integrate our kindness and compassion into the everyday world of workplace and practice it with all sincerity and earnestness. We are the keepers of our fellow brothers and sisters and then and only then can we become True care-takers of this world, this Planet Earth.
As I have mentioned in the title of this article “Obama—The Search for An Idealistic Humane Government Continues”…..but that cannot happen unless we ourselves become Human and Humane individuals.
PEACE ON EARTH….PEACE ON EARTH….MAY PEACE BREATHE IN OUR TROUBLED HEARTS AND SOULS.
P.S: A note to my readers, you may or may not have noticed I use the word human quite often in this article and I will continue to do so…it is a bit like drilling advertising slogans by TV people and I will continue to say Human----till one fine morning you wake up and you realise that you are nothing but a Human Being after all and all your false identities have been stripped away from you. I look forward to that particular Dawn.
(Aside: I do not mind if that defining moment happens in evening or noon-times, as long as it happens!)
This original article was authored and kindly donated (without copyright,) by writer & Poet: SAIKAT MONDAL. You may contact him personally with positive comments by Email: saikatmondal_2004@yahoo.com - it was at the invitation of Carol & Mandel Rheems, of the “One Earth Vision & Mission”, for WE ALL GATHER TOGETHER ALSO AS: “FRIENDS FOR WORLD PEACE”. You may contact us for further details or with positive suggestions by Email: friends.for.peace@btinternet.com.
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY OF OUR ENDEAVOURS TO GATHER PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES TO BRING PEACE THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS, MEDITATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, HEALING - AND SPREADING HOPE FOR THAT NEW DAWN OF AWAKENING TO ALL OF OUR PEACEFUL PURPOSE IN LIFE, TO RESTORE THIS PLANET FROM THE POLLUTED STATE, TO THE SAFETY, BEAUTY & JOY AS BEFITS & UPHOLDS THE SACREDNESS OF ALL LIFE, & PLEASE OFFER TO ADD YOUR GOOD WILL TO OUR WORK. THANK YOU. Carol Rawlins-Rheems.
Now what exactly is this thing called: the colour of your skin; the more appropriate word is skin tone - and scientifically speaking the melanin content of your skin or pigment. Each and every human being on this over populated planet of ours (i.e. almost 5 billions or 6 billions- too much already in any case!) have their own skin tone and most importantly it is not a fixed thing; i.e. prolonged exposure to the sun or complete lack of it will cause the skin to take various hues and shades of colour. The quote un quote “white” world spends billions of dollars on sunny beach vacation destinations to work on their tans and even super rich businessman or politicians who are always dropping the words “men and women of colour” in their conversations are often seen holidaying/relaxing on their yachts with a pot belly and a reddish brown suntan. It seems like they need the “men and women of colour” from all over the world to work hard so he can have a break and have suntan like his employees. Let’s also not forget thousands of suntan places doing brisk business all over America and the western world. The point I am trying to make here is the absurdity and the hypocrisy of this whole system based on the tonality of your skin.
The novelist Mr Joseph Conrad in his novel “The Heart of Darkness” observes caustically that Imperialism as nothing but plundering and enslaving of people and culture that possess darker skin a different hair pattern and slightly flatter noses. That they have those particular physical characteristics because of the proximity of the Sun to those equatorial countries is conveniently ignored. What an uninteresting drab world it will be if we all looked just the same. Thank God for our diversity and differences. It seems the ruling class or the ruling elite chose an arbitrary system to divide people to justify their exploitations - and hence the birth of racism and slavery. And then later on religion was added to justify and compound the problem. This vicious cycle of exploitation needs to be broken once and for all for human beings to evolve and move forward in consciousness.
If we look around in this world and here I thank profusely the Discovery channel Animal planet... Plant planet …so on and so forth we are overwhelmed and awed by the beauty and mind boggling range of diversity that stares us right into our face both in the floral and faun an world. And it is only when we come to the Human world this whole concept of diversity takes a back seat in the bus. Why? The answer is simple economics. Everything in this world can be boiled down to hard core economics which in plain English translates for the benefits and advantages of wealth certain people will go to extreme lengths to justify their heinous acts.
In the present times we are not in direct slavery anymore but we are still modern slaves, whether we are slave to technology, heavily dependent upon the economics, slaved and intoxicated by power and wealth… which always goes hand in hand….slave to wrong images as manufactured by the media and the advertising industry which has reduced masses of people to nothing but consumers of enormous amounts of not needed (unwanted) products. We are increasingly living in a very Americanised McDonaldised, televisionised world where more and more malls are being constructed and plastic soap operas and coca colas are thrust upon people who were very recently farmers and fishermen. They simply do not understand what is going on? A simple peaceful life of hard labour and living close to nature (where their main source of joy comes from!) has been replaced by concrete steel glass and plastic civilisation---If we can call that civilisation at all? The people living within that civilisation are themselves uneasy and unhappy and now we go world wide to dump that on simple indigenous people who frankly does not need our civilisation. On the contrary they may have many valuable lessons to teach us on how not to rape and plunder nature ceaselessly and make her barren and bald way before her time.
Now my readers you may ask what does it have to do with Obama as the New president elect of America in 2008 elections…patience my friends and fellow readers. It is America that holds the key to the survival of this planet and mankind. (We say Man-Kind but surprisingly so few in the present days of Ugly competition are actually kind or generous!). It is this very American spirit of can do attitude and nothing is impossible made the global imperialism of USA happen. Is it not possible (and I know I am going out on a limb here) that same spirit once properly inspired can bring about a different sort of change. The Change in people’s heart and attitude, his mind body and spirit. A feeling of Oneness, that we are in this altogether as one mankind one race the Human race. This endless exploitation of world resources to feed the frenzied whimsy of the super-rich and their lifestyle must stop. The world simply does not have enough resources for one billion Chinese and Indian people to catch up with their first world dreams and the life style that goes with it. What we need is to re-evaluate how we have been conducting ourselves and our businesses all over the world. Business as usual also equals to exploitation, poverty and misery as usual. A more balanced sustainable and ethical ways of conducting business is absolutely Imperative and urgent.
Change we must (otherwise it will be forced upon us anyway!) in our attitude our thinking and our lifestyle—mostly in the Westernised democracies of the world to pave the way for a peaceful, tolerable Just and green world. What America does today the rest of the world follows. It is only in America people are not burdened down heavily with an obsolete past breathing heavily over their shoulders, and thus making quick dynamic movements almost impossible. This is what happens with other countries, they are burdened by their own past from India to China to Europe it is a heavy price to pay in the name of tradition and culture, - while America is light and quick footed always flexible, re-inventing and re-discovering herself since her birth of democracy (approximately 250 years ago) to the present times, as election of Mr Barrack Obama as the new President clearly proves. America is moving forward from a colour bound to a colour blind society. It is not that America is incapable of mistakes but it also knows how to rectify and learn from her previous mistakes. In an increasingly bifurcated world of haves and have- nots whether in America, UK India, Africa or Europe we need to set aside our superficial differences whatever they may be(nationality, skin tone, looks etc) and work together for the overall benefits of the Human race. I am specially calling out to good kind decent and well meaning individuals of all nations to work together for a Greater Good and to be honest our very survival and existence on this planet is at stake. (Hell folks we don’t have much time left!)
This beautiful blue white and green Planet Earth of ours which we call home which looks so wondrously beautiful from space yet fragile is screaming for Change---and it is up to us ----to All of US to make that change and transition from steps leading to a mass graveyard to the steps leading to a beautiful garden. I think to me the choice is obvious. What the world needs Right Now is Kindness and Compassion more Contemplativeness, Meditation, a silent Prayer to heal this broken world of ours. This does not necessarily mean that we sit in meditative poses folding our legs (though half an hour a day is not too much to ask surely?) but we have to integrate our kindness and compassion into the everyday world of workplace and practice it with all sincerity and earnestness. We are the keepers of our fellow brothers and sisters and then and only then can we become True care-takers of this world, this Planet Earth.
As I have mentioned in the title of this article “Obama—The Search for An Idealistic Humane Government Continues”…..but that cannot happen unless we ourselves become Human and Humane individuals.
PEACE ON EARTH….PEACE ON EARTH….MAY PEACE BREATHE IN OUR TROUBLED HEARTS AND SOULS.
P.S: A note to my readers, you may or may not have noticed I use the word human quite often in this article and I will continue to do so…it is a bit like drilling advertising slogans by TV people and I will continue to say Human----till one fine morning you wake up and you realise that you are nothing but a Human Being after all and all your false identities have been stripped away from you. I look forward to that particular Dawn.
(Aside: I do not mind if that defining moment happens in evening or noon-times, as long as it happens!)
This original article was authored and kindly donated (without copyright,) by writer & Poet: SAIKAT MONDAL. You may contact him personally with positive comments by Email: saikatmondal_2004@yahoo.com - it was at the invitation of Carol & Mandel Rheems, of the “One Earth Vision & Mission”, for WE ALL GATHER TOGETHER ALSO AS: “FRIENDS FOR WORLD PEACE”. You may contact us for further details or with positive suggestions by Email: friends.for.peace@btinternet.com.
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY OF OUR ENDEAVOURS TO GATHER PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES TO BRING PEACE THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS, MEDITATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, HEALING - AND SPREADING HOPE FOR THAT NEW DAWN OF AWAKENING TO ALL OF OUR PEACEFUL PURPOSE IN LIFE, TO RESTORE THIS PLANET FROM THE POLLUTED STATE, TO THE SAFETY, BEAUTY & JOY AS BEFITS & UPHOLDS THE SACREDNESS OF ALL LIFE, & PLEASE OFFER TO ADD YOUR GOOD WILL TO OUR WORK. THANK YOU. Carol Rawlins-Rheems.
Hymn to Human Love,
Re: Hymn to Human Love,
Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 1:03 PM
From:
"thom woodruff"
To:
"PAMELA STANSFIELD"
HYMN TO HUMAN LOVE
There is something we can do
with the sky falling and gas rising
jobs shredding and income going
It is to love. Start small-with a plant,a cat,a dog
unconditionally extend to that which
does not necessarily return your affection-
land,sea,earth,sky-why
people have loved these elements before and after you
and will love them as much as you
It is just a lesson in what you can do
when you choose to love.Now you have extended
from nature to animals to living plants and pets
in time you may choose to love human beings
First you need to find them! They hide well!
Humans have been hunted for their affection since the cave age
and often present targets for wars,seductions,false prophets
Relax.Love yourself.That will get you through times
when no other love seems real.Then be surprised by what you feel
when other love manifests /attuned to you
WHAT WILL YOU DO NEXT? May 28,2008
PUBLISH YOUR POETRY!OPEN NEW MIKES!2008=YEAR FOR ALL POETS!yes-U!
28-STICKY FINGERS with SONYA host 2209 south 1st 7-9pm open stage
30-FIESTA GARDENS FESTIVAL from 9-1pm art,music,poetry,fun,free!
June 1-TANTRA @217 West Hopkins 512 5582233 from 8-10pm worthy!
2-COME HIDEOUT WITH US! 617 Congress from 7-10pm uncensored YES!
3-RUTA MAYA OPEN MIKE from 6-9 inside-uncensored (so far!
4-VINNYS ITALIAN CAFE 1003 Barton Springs-poetry /music 4828484 (7-9pm
Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 1:03 PM
From:
"thom woodruff"
To:
"PAMELA STANSFIELD"
HYMN TO HUMAN LOVE
There is something we can do
with the sky falling and gas rising
jobs shredding and income going
It is to love. Start small-with a plant,a cat,a dog
unconditionally extend to that which
does not necessarily return your affection-
land,sea,earth,sky-why
people have loved these elements before and after you
and will love them as much as you
It is just a lesson in what you can do
when you choose to love.Now you have extended
from nature to animals to living plants and pets
in time you may choose to love human beings
First you need to find them! They hide well!
Humans have been hunted for their affection since the cave age
and often present targets for wars,seductions,false prophets
Relax.Love yourself.That will get you through times
when no other love seems real.Then be surprised by what you feel
when other love manifests /attuned to you
WHAT WILL YOU DO NEXT? May 28,2008
PUBLISH YOUR POETRY!OPEN NEW MIKES!2008=YEAR FOR ALL POETS!yes-U!
28-STICKY FINGERS with SONYA host 2209 south 1st 7-9pm open stage
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EMPOWER AMERICA - Al Gore
Spread the word. A key moment.
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 7:18 PM
From:
"Cathy Zoi, The We Campaign"
To:
"Carol Rawlins"
Follow Al Gore's lead and tell your local paper it's time to Repower America.
Write a Letter to the Editor!
Dear Carol,
In an editorial published Sunday in the New York Times, Al Gore outlined the Repower America Plan -- how to achieve 100% clean electricity within ten years. We've included the editorial below. Vice President Gore describes what's required to transform our nation's energy economy. Can you help spread the word?
An easy way to help is to simply write a short letter to the editor of your local paper. If you write today, your letter could get into the Sunday edition this coming weekend. Just go to:
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5611/2267774881/VEsC/
This is a key moment. President-elect Obama has said that focusing on energy and climate will be a first priority in the new administration. Congress and the new President need to see that they have strong support to "go big" in solving these problems, with clean, homegrown energy -- even in the face of the powerful fossil fuel lobbies.
To build this kind of national commitment, we need to clearly expose the "common thread" that connects three of our nation's major challenges -- the economy, national security, and the climate crisis. This common thread is our dependence on dirty coal and foreign oil.
As Al Gore writes, "Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis."
Our simple online tool makes it easy to submit a letter to your local paper. And the letters-to-the-editor section is one of the most widely read sections of any newspaper, because people want to hear what other people think.
Just click here.
Thanks so much,
Cathy Zoi
CEO
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5610/2267774881/VEsA/
P.S. For more details on the Repower America Plan, just go to http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5610/2267774881/VEsB/
--------------------
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Op-Ed Contributor
The Climate for Change
By AL GORE
Published: November 9, 2008
The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.
The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.
The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late.
Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.
Economists across the spectrum -- including Martin Feldstein and Lawrence Summers -- agree that large and rapid investments in a jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive our economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our economy will fall behind if we continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign oil every year. Moreover, national security experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.
As Abraham Lincoln said during America's darkest hour, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." In our present case, thinking anew requires discarding an outdated and fatally flawed definition of the problem we face.
Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." His statement came three weeks after the Arab oil embargo had sent prices skyrocketing and woke America to the dangers of dependence on foreign oil. And -- not coincidentally -- it came only three years after United States domestic oil production had peaked.
At the time, the United States imported less than a third of its oil from foreign countries. Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds -- and many feel that global oil production is at or near its peak.
Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production at home, they argue, then we wouldn't have to rely on imports from the Middle East. Some have come up with even dirtier and more expensive new ways to extract the same old fuels, like coal liquids, oil shale, tar sands and "clean coal" technology.
But in every case, the resources in question are much too expensive or polluting, or, in the case of "clean coal," too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate. Indeed, those who spend hundreds of millions promoting "clean coal" technology consistently omit the fact that there is little investment and not a single large-scale demonstration project in the United States for capturing and safely burying all of this pollution. If the coal industry can make good on this promise, then I'm all for it. But until that day comes, we simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical and self-interested illusion.
Here's what we can do -- now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century technologies that use fuel that is free forever: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.
What follows is a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. It is a plan that would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis -- and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced.
First, the new president and the new Congress should offer large-scale investment in incentives for the construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.
Second, we should begin the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with "smart" features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The cost of this modern grid -- $400 billion over 10 years -- pales in comparison with the annual loss to American business of $120 billion due to the cascading failures that are endemic to our current balkanized and antiquated electricity lines.
Third, we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new startup companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available as the rest of this plan matures. In combination with the unified grid, a nationwide fleet of plug-in hybrids would also help to solve the problem of electricity storage. Think about it: with this sort of grid, cars could be charged during off-peak energy-use hours; during peak hours, when fewer cars are on the road, they could contribute their electricity back into the national grid.
Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings with better insulation and energy-efficient windows and lighting. Approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States come from buildings -- and stopping that pollution saves money for homeowners and businesses. This initiative should be coupled with the proposal in Congress to help Americans who are burdened by mortgages that exceed the value of their homes.
Fifth, the United States should lead the way by putting a price on carbon here at home, and by leading the world's efforts to replace the Kyoto treaty next year in Copenhagen with a more effective treaty that caps global carbon dioxide emissions and encourages nations to invest together in efficient ways to reduce global warming pollution quickly, including by sharply reducing deforestation.
Of course, the best way -- indeed the only way -- to secure a global agreement to safeguard our future is by re-establishing the United States as the country with the moral and political authority to lead the world toward a solution.
Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves.
In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years. Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11 from the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average age when President Kennedy announced the challenge was 18.
This year similarly saw the rise of young Americans, whose enthusiasm electrified Barack Obama's campaign. There is little doubt that this same group of energized youth will play an essential role in this project to secure our national future, once again turning seemingly impossible goals into inspiring success.
Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He founded the Alliance for Climate Protection and, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy companies.
View online: http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba561f/2267774881/VEsP/
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 7:18 PM
From:
"Cathy Zoi, The We Campaign"
To:
"Carol Rawlins"
Follow Al Gore's lead and tell your local paper it's time to Repower America.
Write a Letter to the Editor!
Dear Carol,
In an editorial published Sunday in the New York Times, Al Gore outlined the Repower America Plan -- how to achieve 100% clean electricity within ten years. We've included the editorial below. Vice President Gore describes what's required to transform our nation's energy economy. Can you help spread the word?
An easy way to help is to simply write a short letter to the editor of your local paper. If you write today, your letter could get into the Sunday edition this coming weekend. Just go to:
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5611/2267774881/VEsC/
This is a key moment. President-elect Obama has said that focusing on energy and climate will be a first priority in the new administration. Congress and the new President need to see that they have strong support to "go big" in solving these problems, with clean, homegrown energy -- even in the face of the powerful fossil fuel lobbies.
To build this kind of national commitment, we need to clearly expose the "common thread" that connects three of our nation's major challenges -- the economy, national security, and the climate crisis. This common thread is our dependence on dirty coal and foreign oil.
As Al Gore writes, "Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis."
Our simple online tool makes it easy to submit a letter to your local paper. And the letters-to-the-editor section is one of the most widely read sections of any newspaper, because people want to hear what other people think.
Just click here.
Thanks so much,
Cathy Zoi
CEO
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5610/2267774881/VEsA/
P.S. For more details on the Repower America Plan, just go to http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba5610/2267774881/VEsB/
--------------------
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Op-Ed Contributor
The Climate for Change
By AL GORE
Published: November 9, 2008
The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.
The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.
The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late.
Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.
Economists across the spectrum -- including Martin Feldstein and Lawrence Summers -- agree that large and rapid investments in a jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive our economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our economy will fall behind if we continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign oil every year. Moreover, national security experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.
As Abraham Lincoln said during America's darkest hour, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." In our present case, thinking anew requires discarding an outdated and fatally flawed definition of the problem we face.
Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." His statement came three weeks after the Arab oil embargo had sent prices skyrocketing and woke America to the dangers of dependence on foreign oil. And -- not coincidentally -- it came only three years after United States domestic oil production had peaked.
At the time, the United States imported less than a third of its oil from foreign countries. Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds -- and many feel that global oil production is at or near its peak.
Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production at home, they argue, then we wouldn't have to rely on imports from the Middle East. Some have come up with even dirtier and more expensive new ways to extract the same old fuels, like coal liquids, oil shale, tar sands and "clean coal" technology.
But in every case, the resources in question are much too expensive or polluting, or, in the case of "clean coal," too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate. Indeed, those who spend hundreds of millions promoting "clean coal" technology consistently omit the fact that there is little investment and not a single large-scale demonstration project in the United States for capturing and safely burying all of this pollution. If the coal industry can make good on this promise, then I'm all for it. But until that day comes, we simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical and self-interested illusion.
Here's what we can do -- now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century technologies that use fuel that is free forever: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.
What follows is a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. It is a plan that would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis -- and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced.
First, the new president and the new Congress should offer large-scale investment in incentives for the construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.
Second, we should begin the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with "smart" features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The cost of this modern grid -- $400 billion over 10 years -- pales in comparison with the annual loss to American business of $120 billion due to the cascading failures that are endemic to our current balkanized and antiquated electricity lines.
Third, we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new startup companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available as the rest of this plan matures. In combination with the unified grid, a nationwide fleet of plug-in hybrids would also help to solve the problem of electricity storage. Think about it: with this sort of grid, cars could be charged during off-peak energy-use hours; during peak hours, when fewer cars are on the road, they could contribute their electricity back into the national grid.
Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings with better insulation and energy-efficient windows and lighting. Approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States come from buildings -- and stopping that pollution saves money for homeowners and businesses. This initiative should be coupled with the proposal in Congress to help Americans who are burdened by mortgages that exceed the value of their homes.
Fifth, the United States should lead the way by putting a price on carbon here at home, and by leading the world's efforts to replace the Kyoto treaty next year in Copenhagen with a more effective treaty that caps global carbon dioxide emissions and encourages nations to invest together in efficient ways to reduce global warming pollution quickly, including by sharply reducing deforestation.
Of course, the best way -- indeed the only way -- to secure a global agreement to safeguard our future is by re-establishing the United States as the country with the moral and political authority to lead the world toward a solution.
Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves.
In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years. Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11 from the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average age when President Kennedy announced the challenge was 18.
This year similarly saw the rise of young Americans, whose enthusiasm electrified Barack Obama's campaign. There is little doubt that this same group of energized youth will play an essential role in this project to secure our national future, once again turning seemingly impossible goals into inspiring success.
Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He founded the Alliance for Climate Protection and, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy companies.
View online: http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/m2/396e8915/6ffd7735/823c7da/19ba561f/2267774881/VEsP/
'Change has come to America'
Wednesday, November 5 07:28 am
Barack Obama has become the first black US president after a landslide election victory.
Obama wins historic US election
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• Related Hot Topic: John McCain
Have your say: John McCain
The 47-year-old Democrat led his Republican rival John McCain by 297 votes to 139 as he passed the magic number of 270 needed to win the presidency at 4am GMT. Later projections showed he won by 349 votes to 158.
Mr Obama promised change and a new dawn of leadership.
Speaking after sweeping a series of key battleground states in a landslide electoral college victory, he pledged to be a president of all Americans and vowed to overcome challenges which were "the greatest of our lifetime", including two wars, a global economic crisis and a planet in peril.
"I promise you, we as a people will get there," he said.
Cheered on by tens of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Mr Obama took to a stage lined with US flags with his his wife Michelle and young daughters Malia, ten, and Sasha, seven, at his side.
Mr Obama told those whose support he had not won: "I hear your voices, I need your help and I will be your president too."
He said he would listen to his opponents, adopt a multilateral approach to world affairs and told those watching outside the US that "our stories are singular but our destiny is shared".
"The new dawn of America leadership is at hand," he said.
"To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you.
"And to all those who have wondered if American's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we've proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
"That's the true genius of America. The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even in one term, but America I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
"I promise you, we, as a people, will get there."
Many in the crowd were crying and even political pundits on major US TV networks wiped tears from their eyes as the man who could transform race relations in America ascended to the highest office in the land.
Conceding defeat in his home state of Arizona, Mr McCain said: "The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. This is an historic election."
Mr McCain joined outgoing president George W Bush in calling Mr Obama to congratulate him personally.
Mr Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, will be sworn in as the 44th US president on January 20, 2009.
The win by Mr Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and white mother from Kansas, comes 45 years after the high point of the equality movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassinated civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King said: "I was very excited tonight and moved to tears."
* * * * * * * * * * *
Barack Obama has become the first black US president after a landslide election victory.
Obama wins historic US election
RELATED CONTENT
• Obama considers top job for Clinton
• Fierce speculation Obama will choose Clinton as top diplomat
• Obama and McCain to meet on Monday
• Related Hot Topic: John McCain
Have your say: John McCain
The 47-year-old Democrat led his Republican rival John McCain by 297 votes to 139 as he passed the magic number of 270 needed to win the presidency at 4am GMT. Later projections showed he won by 349 votes to 158.
Mr Obama promised change and a new dawn of leadership.
Speaking after sweeping a series of key battleground states in a landslide electoral college victory, he pledged to be a president of all Americans and vowed to overcome challenges which were "the greatest of our lifetime", including two wars, a global economic crisis and a planet in peril.
"I promise you, we as a people will get there," he said.
Cheered on by tens of thousands of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Mr Obama took to a stage lined with US flags with his his wife Michelle and young daughters Malia, ten, and Sasha, seven, at his side.
Mr Obama told those whose support he had not won: "I hear your voices, I need your help and I will be your president too."
He said he would listen to his opponents, adopt a multilateral approach to world affairs and told those watching outside the US that "our stories are singular but our destiny is shared".
"The new dawn of America leadership is at hand," he said.
"To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you.
"And to all those who have wondered if American's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we've proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
"That's the true genius of America. The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even in one term, but America I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
"I promise you, we, as a people, will get there."
Many in the crowd were crying and even political pundits on major US TV networks wiped tears from their eyes as the man who could transform race relations in America ascended to the highest office in the land.
Conceding defeat in his home state of Arizona, Mr McCain said: "The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. This is an historic election."
Mr McCain joined outgoing president George W Bush in calling Mr Obama to congratulate him personally.
Mr Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, will be sworn in as the 44th US president on January 20, 2009.
The win by Mr Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and white mother from Kansas, comes 45 years after the high point of the equality movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassinated civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King said: "I was very excited tonight and moved to tears."
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"THE BIRTH OF HOPE" (by Mandel Rheems)
The coming forth & awakening of a new hopeful & peaceful age that is upon us, some call the Aquarian Age, will become also a greater movement & awakening to the prophesies & visions foretelling of the coming deeper changes in preparation for the Golden Age ahead.
We, of the high council of the ancient Elders, of this planetary sphere called: Mother Earth, or “VAGRA”, are bound by the holiest & deepest commitment to the righteous forces of Cosmic & karmic laws, of the lowest & highest prophetic intent. We are foretelling of the coming forth of a renewed hope regarding the coming planetary disruptions in the immediate renewal & cleansing of karmic negative residue of vibrations & energies – of pollution of the physical emotional & mental thought forms, - & the perverted residue of absolute degradation, that has entered the Earth’s sphere, throughout the thousands of decades & the eons of time – since all began! For life on the planetary spheres connected to the Earth’s evolution & plan.
ALL IS IN GOOD HANDS! - WE HAVE THE PROFOUND AUTHORITY TO ISSUE FORTH THE PROFOUNDEST DECLARATION THAT: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The exploitation & perversion of these spheres & the abuse of the innocent & vulnerable ones, the corrupt workings of the scientific thought, & the selfish exploitation of the scientific mind of genetic engineering, also including the continued evolving & degrading activities of vivisection & factory farming, will be stopped!
AS A BODY OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSAL SPHERES, WITH THE HELP OF THE GALACTIC FEDERATION, INCLUDING THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD / SISTERHOOD & THE LORDS OF THE DARKER SPHERES & THE DARKER REALMS, “VAGRA”, WILL BE HEARD!
NOW WE WILL BE HEARD! - KNOW FOR SURE, THE GOVERNMENTS & LEADERS OF THE WORLD, - PRAY, TAKE NOTE, - WE HAVE THE ULTIMATE POWERS & WISDOM, WHICH, IF WE ARE NOT LISTENED TO, WILL BE THE MEANS TO CREATE TOTAL PLANETARY & UNIVERSAL PEACE; - OR ANARCHY, CHAOS, OR EVENTUAL OBLIVION FOR ALL CREATION!
WE HAVE SPOKEN! - THE UNIVERSAL COUNCIL OF THE ELDERS!
THE KEY TO FREEDOM CAN BE FOUND IN THE SIMPLE MESSAGE, THE SIMPLE WISDOM: “DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOURSELF!” - MARK WELL THESE WORDS, HUMANITY. - & IF YOU DO NOT MARK WELL, HUMANITY, HUMANITY WILL GO FROM EXISTENCE – FOR EVER!
THIS MESSAGE WAS SUBSCRIBED ON 30/10/2008 THROUGH A CHANNEL OF THE “ONE EARTH VISION AND MISSION”, - MANDEL & REISHA RHEEMS, - FROM THE LORD CHRIST MAITRAYA, & IN THE BEATITUDES OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER MARY, THE LORD BUDDHA & THE BELOVED SACRAMENT OF THE FORTH-COMING ONE: “AKALA”. PEACE – THE BRETHREN.
We, of the high council of the ancient Elders, of this planetary sphere called: Mother Earth, or “VAGRA”, are bound by the holiest & deepest commitment to the righteous forces of Cosmic & karmic laws, of the lowest & highest prophetic intent. We are foretelling of the coming forth of a renewed hope regarding the coming planetary disruptions in the immediate renewal & cleansing of karmic negative residue of vibrations & energies – of pollution of the physical emotional & mental thought forms, - & the perverted residue of absolute degradation, that has entered the Earth’s sphere, throughout the thousands of decades & the eons of time – since all began! For life on the planetary spheres connected to the Earth’s evolution & plan.
ALL IS IN GOOD HANDS! - WE HAVE THE PROFOUND AUTHORITY TO ISSUE FORTH THE PROFOUNDEST DECLARATION THAT: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The exploitation & perversion of these spheres & the abuse of the innocent & vulnerable ones, the corrupt workings of the scientific thought, & the selfish exploitation of the scientific mind of genetic engineering, also including the continued evolving & degrading activities of vivisection & factory farming, will be stopped!
AS A BODY OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSAL SPHERES, WITH THE HELP OF THE GALACTIC FEDERATION, INCLUDING THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD / SISTERHOOD & THE LORDS OF THE DARKER SPHERES & THE DARKER REALMS, “VAGRA”, WILL BE HEARD!
NOW WE WILL BE HEARD! - KNOW FOR SURE, THE GOVERNMENTS & LEADERS OF THE WORLD, - PRAY, TAKE NOTE, - WE HAVE THE ULTIMATE POWERS & WISDOM, WHICH, IF WE ARE NOT LISTENED TO, WILL BE THE MEANS TO CREATE TOTAL PLANETARY & UNIVERSAL PEACE; - OR ANARCHY, CHAOS, OR EVENTUAL OBLIVION FOR ALL CREATION!
WE HAVE SPOKEN! - THE UNIVERSAL COUNCIL OF THE ELDERS!
THE KEY TO FREEDOM CAN BE FOUND IN THE SIMPLE MESSAGE, THE SIMPLE WISDOM: “DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOURSELF!” - MARK WELL THESE WORDS, HUMANITY. - & IF YOU DO NOT MARK WELL, HUMANITY, HUMANITY WILL GO FROM EXISTENCE – FOR EVER!
THIS MESSAGE WAS SUBSCRIBED ON 30/10/2008 THROUGH A CHANNEL OF THE “ONE EARTH VISION AND MISSION”, - MANDEL & REISHA RHEEMS, - FROM THE LORD CHRIST MAITRAYA, & IN THE BEATITUDES OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER MARY, THE LORD BUDDHA & THE BELOVED SACRAMENT OF THE FORTH-COMING ONE: “AKALA”. PEACE – THE BRETHREN.
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
News From Prabhu Music - Home of the Music of Deva Premal & Miten
News From Prabhu Music - Home of the Music of Deva Premal & Miten
Having completed their Australian tour, Deva and Miten are currently in India, at the invitation of avatars Amma and Bhagavan, to play at the inauguration of the new Oneness Temple. The temple is being dedicated as a worldwide and multi-denominational centre for meditation in the spirit of Oneness. A million people are expected to attend the 7 day festival.
Their upcoming tour of Europe begins in May and full details are posted in the Events schedule. We are also pleased to announce that booking for the next Tantra-Mantra event in Maya Tulum, Mexico is now open. Early booking is recommended, as this event is expected to fill quickly.
Pictures from the Australian tour are posted in their Photo Blog & a great new video clip from their Byron Bay concert is up on YouTube.
Also, a reminder that Prabhu Music would love to hear from you if you are interested in networking with us to spread the healing power of the mantras & sacred songs of Deva and Miten. To find out more, email us at community@prabhumusic.net
In Love and Light, The Prabhu Music Team
Tantra-Mantra at Maya Tulum, Mexico: Booking Now Open
Deva, Miten & Rafia will once again facilitate a Tantra-Mantra retreat for couples at the world renowned Maya Tulum Wellness Resort on the beautiful Yucatan peninsula of Mexico from December 6-13, 2008.
Nestled between the Caribbean and the lush jungles of the 1.3 million acre Sian Kaan Biosphere Reserve, Maya Tulum has been named one of the top ten vacation resorts in the world by both Forbes and Health & Leisure magazines. It offers seaside accommodations in beach cabanas, barrier reef snorkelling, and trips to nearby ancient Mayan ruins.
Booking for this special offering is now open. See the Holidays pages for more information.
"Thank you so much for such an amazing experience at Tantra Mantra. We absolutely loved every second of it. You have all created something so very magical and so very beautiful, I felt so blessed to be there........I cannot thank you both enough for giving us the greatest platform to really launch our relationship and life together from."
"I remain extremely enthusiastic from my experiences in Mexico, still digesting it All!! Truly one of the greatest moment/s of my life... I have an entirley different perspective of men and women and myself...."
World Tour 2008
Deva, Miten and Nepalese Bansuri flute maestro Manose will be touring in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Israel, Hungary, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic and England this spring and summer. Be sure to check the Events schedule for the details.
The tour this year will include appearances at a number of festivals, including: The Rainbow Spirit Festival in Baden-Baden, Germany; The No Mind Festival at Angsbacka, Sweden; and this just in: The Colors of Ostrava Music Festival in the Czech Republic, where they will join Sinead O'Connor, Jan Garbarek, Trilok Gurtu and an international gathering of some of the planets top world musicians.
Their European tour finishes in London with a concert at the beautiful Great Hall in Kensington on July 12 - their only UK appearance this year.
Message From Miten
Hi Friends,
Like you, I have been trying to find some way to make sense of the tragedy in Tibet. By the time you read this, hopefully, things will have changed for the better. But how to find the ‘good’ in such a catastrophe...? This has been my koan since the news broke. How do we find a ‘yes’ to a situation which seems so unjust and unfair? I find myself angry and frustrated – but at the same time knowing that if there exists a ‘no’ in any given situation, there must also be a ‘yes’ hidden in there somewhere.
Every shadow is a result of light.
I once heard His Holiness say that it was a sense of compassion that helped him sustain his peace of mind through the original invasion – and the key to his peace of mind was the understanding that we are all one human family.
Still, something inside me wanted to take the politicians and shake them and scream STOP ALL THIS MADNESS - NOW!!! Even though in my heart I knew it to be a futile reaction, the emotion itself felt very primal and cried out for a voice. I woke with this feeling a few nights ago and lay, looking for that ‘Yes’.
We all have an intellectual understanding of the concept of duality – we see it clearly reflected every day, not only in the Chinese invasion, but in all minute personal conflicts, no matter how trivial. The challenge is, how to consciously live a life of acceptance and understanding, without compromising our own truth. I began to see there may be a blessing after all. If I could use the Chinese invasion of Tibet as a reminder, a wake up call, to be more aware and more caring of those around me – to fully tune in to compassion and the understanding that we are all brothers and sisters, that we are all doing our best in life, no matter how unjust things may seem on the surface. Maybe then I could take some good out of the sad events in Tibet.
I asked myself if I was truly living in ‘Oneness’ with my friends and family, and the people around me.
I asked myself if I had any unfinished business anywhere. Did I have any issues hanging over, that still needed to be resolved? Was I holding anything back? Was I sharing myself totally, and authentically, and consciously...?
After pondering this, I eventually brought the question back to myself – I looked at any inner conflict I may be harbouring. Am I being honest with myself..? Am I being truthful? Am I hiding..?
And sure enough, this meditation eventually brought me ‘home’ - as I lay in the darkness, breathing into Oneness, I felt the gratitude and benediction pour through me – the pure thankfulness for the gift of Life itself. It is a bitter pill, true, at the expense of an innocent people, but what to do? - the challenge is to use every situation in life – even tragedy (especially tragedy) - to find ‘goodness’, rather than simply complain. If we don’t do this as we pass through life, we are doomed to slumber
These times are hard, the lessons are hard. And as our planet continues to deteriorate beneath our feet, there will be more lessons coming – as we all know. We can rise to the challenge...what other choices do we have?
So, yes, pray, sign petitions, attend vigils, take part in demonstrations – we all do whatever we can – but deep down, the thing that is going to help the Tibetan people most - and humanity at large – is if we, as individuals, take the responsibility to reach out with compassion and forgiveness to all those around us, with open arms and open hearts.
It all begins at home.
Light a candle for His Holiness and his people tonight...and say a prayer for the human race.
With love, Miten
p.s. Deva suggested sharing this passage from Osho on Atisha's Heart Meditation with you.
Transformation: Atisha's Heart Meditation
"When you breathe in, breathe in all the misery and suffering of all the beings of the world -- past, present and future. And when you breathe out, breathe out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all the benediction that you have. Breathe out, pour yourself into existence. This is the method of compassion: drink in all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.
"And you will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of the world inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms the energy. The heart is a transforming force: drink in misery, and it is transformed into blissfulness... then pour it out.
"Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you would like to do it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods -- simple, and it brings immediate results. Do it today, and see."
Osho: The Book of Wisdom, #1
Highlights From The Road
You Gotta Move - Deva, Miten and Manose with friend Khalid on blues harmonica in Byron Bay. Deva Premal at the Melbourne workshop.
Ecstatic Chant Retreat at Lake Ainsworth.
In Fiji, to play for the inauguration of a Oneness Temple at Tony & Sage Robbins' retreat resort.
Links of Note
++On a lighter note - as life goes on - I recently heard Bruce Springsteen's album Live In Dublin. Check out what happens when a rocker turns his hand to folk music – and hold on to your hats! - this is folk music at its bawdiest and raunchiest - happy, tearful, uplifting, deep, poignant, sad, and joyful-for-no-reason-at-all!
++Our book of the moment: Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram.
++And here you’ll find a nice article on the benefits of singing (thanks Timmin.
http://www.prabhumusic.net/
Note from Carol:
Request their newsletter from the above link, & see their lovely photos. Also short excerpts from their music cd's. ENJOY!
Having completed their Australian tour, Deva and Miten are currently in India, at the invitation of avatars Amma and Bhagavan, to play at the inauguration of the new Oneness Temple. The temple is being dedicated as a worldwide and multi-denominational centre for meditation in the spirit of Oneness. A million people are expected to attend the 7 day festival.
Their upcoming tour of Europe begins in May and full details are posted in the Events schedule. We are also pleased to announce that booking for the next Tantra-Mantra event in Maya Tulum, Mexico is now open. Early booking is recommended, as this event is expected to fill quickly.
Pictures from the Australian tour are posted in their Photo Blog & a great new video clip from their Byron Bay concert is up on YouTube.
Also, a reminder that Prabhu Music would love to hear from you if you are interested in networking with us to spread the healing power of the mantras & sacred songs of Deva and Miten. To find out more, email us at community@prabhumusic.net
In Love and Light, The Prabhu Music Team
Tantra-Mantra at Maya Tulum, Mexico: Booking Now Open
Deva, Miten & Rafia will once again facilitate a Tantra-Mantra retreat for couples at the world renowned Maya Tulum Wellness Resort on the beautiful Yucatan peninsula of Mexico from December 6-13, 2008.
Nestled between the Caribbean and the lush jungles of the 1.3 million acre Sian Kaan Biosphere Reserve, Maya Tulum has been named one of the top ten vacation resorts in the world by both Forbes and Health & Leisure magazines. It offers seaside accommodations in beach cabanas, barrier reef snorkelling, and trips to nearby ancient Mayan ruins.
Booking for this special offering is now open. See the Holidays pages for more information.
"Thank you so much for such an amazing experience at Tantra Mantra. We absolutely loved every second of it. You have all created something so very magical and so very beautiful, I felt so blessed to be there........I cannot thank you both enough for giving us the greatest platform to really launch our relationship and life together from."
"I remain extremely enthusiastic from my experiences in Mexico, still digesting it All!! Truly one of the greatest moment/s of my life... I have an entirley different perspective of men and women and myself...."
World Tour 2008
Deva, Miten and Nepalese Bansuri flute maestro Manose will be touring in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Israel, Hungary, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic and England this spring and summer. Be sure to check the Events schedule for the details.
The tour this year will include appearances at a number of festivals, including: The Rainbow Spirit Festival in Baden-Baden, Germany; The No Mind Festival at Angsbacka, Sweden; and this just in: The Colors of Ostrava Music Festival in the Czech Republic, where they will join Sinead O'Connor, Jan Garbarek, Trilok Gurtu and an international gathering of some of the planets top world musicians.
Their European tour finishes in London with a concert at the beautiful Great Hall in Kensington on July 12 - their only UK appearance this year.
Message From Miten
Hi Friends,
Like you, I have been trying to find some way to make sense of the tragedy in Tibet. By the time you read this, hopefully, things will have changed for the better. But how to find the ‘good’ in such a catastrophe...? This has been my koan since the news broke. How do we find a ‘yes’ to a situation which seems so unjust and unfair? I find myself angry and frustrated – but at the same time knowing that if there exists a ‘no’ in any given situation, there must also be a ‘yes’ hidden in there somewhere.
Every shadow is a result of light.
I once heard His Holiness say that it was a sense of compassion that helped him sustain his peace of mind through the original invasion – and the key to his peace of mind was the understanding that we are all one human family.
Still, something inside me wanted to take the politicians and shake them and scream STOP ALL THIS MADNESS - NOW!!! Even though in my heart I knew it to be a futile reaction, the emotion itself felt very primal and cried out for a voice. I woke with this feeling a few nights ago and lay, looking for that ‘Yes’.
We all have an intellectual understanding of the concept of duality – we see it clearly reflected every day, not only in the Chinese invasion, but in all minute personal conflicts, no matter how trivial. The challenge is, how to consciously live a life of acceptance and understanding, without compromising our own truth. I began to see there may be a blessing after all. If I could use the Chinese invasion of Tibet as a reminder, a wake up call, to be more aware and more caring of those around me – to fully tune in to compassion and the understanding that we are all brothers and sisters, that we are all doing our best in life, no matter how unjust things may seem on the surface. Maybe then I could take some good out of the sad events in Tibet.
I asked myself if I was truly living in ‘Oneness’ with my friends and family, and the people around me.
I asked myself if I had any unfinished business anywhere. Did I have any issues hanging over, that still needed to be resolved? Was I holding anything back? Was I sharing myself totally, and authentically, and consciously...?
After pondering this, I eventually brought the question back to myself – I looked at any inner conflict I may be harbouring. Am I being honest with myself..? Am I being truthful? Am I hiding..?
And sure enough, this meditation eventually brought me ‘home’ - as I lay in the darkness, breathing into Oneness, I felt the gratitude and benediction pour through me – the pure thankfulness for the gift of Life itself. It is a bitter pill, true, at the expense of an innocent people, but what to do? - the challenge is to use every situation in life – even tragedy (especially tragedy) - to find ‘goodness’, rather than simply complain. If we don’t do this as we pass through life, we are doomed to slumber
These times are hard, the lessons are hard. And as our planet continues to deteriorate beneath our feet, there will be more lessons coming – as we all know. We can rise to the challenge...what other choices do we have?
So, yes, pray, sign petitions, attend vigils, take part in demonstrations – we all do whatever we can – but deep down, the thing that is going to help the Tibetan people most - and humanity at large – is if we, as individuals, take the responsibility to reach out with compassion and forgiveness to all those around us, with open arms and open hearts.
It all begins at home.
Light a candle for His Holiness and his people tonight...and say a prayer for the human race.
With love, Miten
p.s. Deva suggested sharing this passage from Osho on Atisha's Heart Meditation with you.
Transformation: Atisha's Heart Meditation
"When you breathe in, breathe in all the misery and suffering of all the beings of the world -- past, present and future. And when you breathe out, breathe out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all the benediction that you have. Breathe out, pour yourself into existence. This is the method of compassion: drink in all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.
"And you will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of the world inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms the energy. The heart is a transforming force: drink in misery, and it is transformed into blissfulness... then pour it out.
"Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you would like to do it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods -- simple, and it brings immediate results. Do it today, and see."
Osho: The Book of Wisdom, #1
Highlights From The Road
You Gotta Move - Deva, Miten and Manose with friend Khalid on blues harmonica in Byron Bay. Deva Premal at the Melbourne workshop.
Ecstatic Chant Retreat at Lake Ainsworth.
In Fiji, to play for the inauguration of a Oneness Temple at Tony & Sage Robbins' retreat resort.
Links of Note
++On a lighter note - as life goes on - I recently heard Bruce Springsteen's album Live In Dublin. Check out what happens when a rocker turns his hand to folk music – and hold on to your hats! - this is folk music at its bawdiest and raunchiest - happy, tearful, uplifting, deep, poignant, sad, and joyful-for-no-reason-at-all!
++Our book of the moment: Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram.
++And here you’ll find a nice article on the benefits of singing (thanks Timmin.
http://www.prabhumusic.net/
Note from Carol:
Request their newsletter from the above link, & see their lovely photos. Also short excerpts from their music cd's. ENJOY!
Monday, 14 April 2008
OUR VISION
We feel that: It is vital in these coming years for those who have a hopeful Vision for Mankind - & Peace on Earth - to join together for the greater purpose!
- If you are in agreement with that statement, please feel free to ask us for further details of our "One Earth Vision & Mission" - all our spiritual gifts are offered freely - as a gift of the Divine!
Thank you. Carol & Mandel
- If you are in agreement with that statement, please feel free to ask us for further details of our "One Earth Vision & Mission" - all our spiritual gifts are offered freely - as a gift of the Divine!
Thank you. Carol & Mandel
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
"INSPIRING QUOTES"
Dear Mandel&Carol,
I found these visionary quotations which I think you folks might enjoy. So here it is:
Visionary quotations
We have put some of our favourite quotations about Visions and Visionaries on this site. Please email us with any suggestions for other appropriate quotes di@jrct.org.uk
Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Some men see things as they are and ask 'why' ? Others dream of things that never were and ask 'why not' ?
George Bernard Shaw
Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal …. service.
Henry Cadbury accepting Nobel Peace Prize
Be the change you want to see in the world
Gandhi
Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
An avalanche begins with a snowflake
Joseph D Compton
Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous army of the world's ills - against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single person.
R.F. Kennedy
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Albert Einstein
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.
Rufus Jones
There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of people who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence who are willing to stand alone if it is necessary for the way of peace and love among men
Rufus Jones
They say my work is just a drop in the ocean. I say the ocean is made up of drops.
Mother Theresa
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Swift
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
Winston Churchill
"The only darkness is ignorance"
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Once for all, you must not worry about your success or failure. It does not concern you. Your duty is to work each day, quietly, to accept the failures which are inevitable and to leave to others the care of measuring the applause.
Ralph W. Emerson
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done
Then they begin to hope it can be done
Then they see it can be done
Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago
Frances Hodgson Burnett
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
….so in the light walking and abiding…..
early Quakers
……taking up the burden of the world's suffering…….
George Fox
First man: sometimes I'd like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice to continue when he could do something about it'.
Second man: what's stopping you ?
First man: I'm afraid he might ask me the same question
Anon
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die - for the harder I work, the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work; but, rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To the person who does not know where he wants to go, there is no favourable wind
Seneca
The dreamers are the saviours of the world
James Allen
There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.
attributed to Romain Rolland
Not for glory or for fame, but for usefulness, widespread usefulness.
attributed to J. Hudson Taylor
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers
Martin Luther King
The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John Scharr, University of California at Santa Cruz
Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission
Zig Ziglar
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it
Anon
So long as space remains,
So long as sentient beings remain,
I will remain,
In order to help, in order to serve,
In order to make my contribution.
From 'The Open Heart' by the Dalai Lama
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter Senge
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
There are three kinds of people; one who watches things happen, one who makes things happen and one who says 'what happened ?'
Anon
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become
James Allen
The world is for those who make their dreams come true
Harold Gray
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Looking up gives light, but at first it makes you dizzy.
Rumi
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund Spenser
Every action impacts another living being, so make your actions positive. After all, one's eternity remains only in the minds of the living.
Peter Lambert
The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.
Matthew, ch. 13, v. 31-32
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29.18
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Utopia is on the horizon: I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking.
Eduardo Galeano
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin
With every book I write, I become more and more convinced of the centrality of compassion. I have found that it is the key to most of our religious and social perplexities, and that is what I want my readers to understand. I have always been inspired by the story of Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus. He was approached by a group of pagans who promised to convert to Judaism if the Rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg. Hillel stood on one leg and replied:'That which is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour. That is the Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn it." It is an extraordinary remark. There is no mention of God, the Ten Commandments, the Promised Land or the Chosen People - items of faith that we might consider central to the traditions of Israel. All is commentary. The essential is compassion: to look into the interior self, find out what gives you distress and refuse to inflict this upon other people. If we did this, hour by hour, minute by minute, we would have no time to worry about the existence of a metaphysical god. We would constantly be living beyond the prism of our own egotism. This would bring us transformation and vision. As the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel explained: "When we put ourselves at the opposite pole of ego, we would be in the place where God is." All the great world leaders have taught the Golden Rule. Confucius proclaimed it five hundred years before Hillel: "Do not do to others as you would not have done unto you." The Buddha taught it, Jesus taught it, and this is the bedrock message of the Koran. If our politicians and religious leaders made the Golden Rule their first priority, the world would be a happier, safer place. .
Karen Armstrong
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implication of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all.
Albert Camus
Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully
Thomas Carlyle
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Anon
We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Langston Hughes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John Rockefeller
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osler
Worry kills more people than work – because more people tackle it.
Elbert Hubbard
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Kettering
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
A man will sit for a very long time with his mouth open if waiting for a roast duck to fly in
Anon
If there is a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A Edison
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction that day is a loss.
Dwight Eisenhower
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wisdom to know others, it is enlightenment to know one’s self.
Tao Te Ching
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Piaget
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing
Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through to its counterside.
Saul Alinsky
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall
Risk more than others think is safe,
Care more than others think is wise,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible.
Anon
One thing the world needs now is people who can tolerate ambiguity, people who are challenged, not threatened by the state of the world. I want to suggest a few things such maturity might require.
First, do not seek security in things, nor yet in status. The care of possessions, and position, is time- consuming and energy-consuming, and they can be taken from you by a thief in the night, by a fire in the night, by a change in political fortunes, by any numbers of disasters. Whatever security you have lies in yourself. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
If you understand yourself, both your strengths and limitations, If you like the person you are, if you acquire coping skills through experience, if you are not too encumbered, and if you know- inwardly- that disaster cannot ultimately overcome you, then you have gone a long way to maturity. You will be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Second, don't rest in intellectual security, for your philosophy and the knowledge on which it rests are likely to become obsolete. Wisdom is not amassing facts....
Third, the only real security in the end is the love we have given and the love we have received. All else can be taken from us. So pour out your love and friendship and do not hoard it ... And don't delay or hesitate in standing up to be counted with the oppressed.
Finally, cultivate the light touch. Develop a sense of humour. Learn to light up a room with joy when you enter. Accept the challenge of our chaotic and dangerous world with a sense of adventure, of gratitude that our time is now."
Elizabeth Watso
Carol & Mandel Rheems wrote:
5 Saikat
Originally uploaded by Carol & Mandel Rheems So many have come to meetings and received literature of our Mission Purpose - but Saikat is the first to really take to his whole heart mind & spirit the work we are about for a community to help bring more PEACE, LOVE, FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION, & HEALING TO THE WORLD, - recognising the Sacredness of ALL LIFE & SPECIES ON OUR PLANET, THE MOTHER EARTH!
YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING TO US & THIS VISION THAT WE SHARE!
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Posted By Carol & Mandel Rheems to "ONE EARTH VISION AND MISSION" on 3/09/2008 07:57:00 PM
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I found these visionary quotations which I think you folks might enjoy. So here it is:
Visionary quotations
We have put some of our favourite quotations about Visions and Visionaries on this site. Please email us with any suggestions for other appropriate quotes di@jrct.org.uk
Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Some men see things as they are and ask 'why' ? Others dream of things that never were and ask 'why not' ?
George Bernard Shaw
Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal …. service.
Henry Cadbury accepting Nobel Peace Prize
Be the change you want to see in the world
Gandhi
Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
An avalanche begins with a snowflake
Joseph D Compton
Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous army of the world's ills - against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single person.
R.F. Kennedy
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Albert Einstein
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.
Rufus Jones
There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of people who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence who are willing to stand alone if it is necessary for the way of peace and love among men
Rufus Jones
They say my work is just a drop in the ocean. I say the ocean is made up of drops.
Mother Theresa
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Swift
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
Winston Churchill
"The only darkness is ignorance"
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Once for all, you must not worry about your success or failure. It does not concern you. Your duty is to work each day, quietly, to accept the failures which are inevitable and to leave to others the care of measuring the applause.
Ralph W. Emerson
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done
Then they begin to hope it can be done
Then they see it can be done
Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago
Frances Hodgson Burnett
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
….so in the light walking and abiding…..
early Quakers
……taking up the burden of the world's suffering…….
George Fox
First man: sometimes I'd like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice to continue when he could do something about it'.
Second man: what's stopping you ?
First man: I'm afraid he might ask me the same question
Anon
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die - for the harder I work, the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work; but, rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To the person who does not know where he wants to go, there is no favourable wind
Seneca
The dreamers are the saviours of the world
James Allen
There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.
attributed to Romain Rolland
Not for glory or for fame, but for usefulness, widespread usefulness.
attributed to J. Hudson Taylor
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers
Martin Luther King
The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John Scharr, University of California at Santa Cruz
Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission
Zig Ziglar
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it
Anon
So long as space remains,
So long as sentient beings remain,
I will remain,
In order to help, in order to serve,
In order to make my contribution.
From 'The Open Heart' by the Dalai Lama
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter Senge
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
There are three kinds of people; one who watches things happen, one who makes things happen and one who says 'what happened ?'
Anon
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become
James Allen
The world is for those who make their dreams come true
Harold Gray
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Looking up gives light, but at first it makes you dizzy.
Rumi
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund Spenser
Every action impacts another living being, so make your actions positive. After all, one's eternity remains only in the minds of the living.
Peter Lambert
The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.
Matthew, ch. 13, v. 31-32
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29.18
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Utopia is on the horizon: I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking.
Eduardo Galeano
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin
With every book I write, I become more and more convinced of the centrality of compassion. I have found that it is the key to most of our religious and social perplexities, and that is what I want my readers to understand. I have always been inspired by the story of Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus. He was approached by a group of pagans who promised to convert to Judaism if the Rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg. Hillel stood on one leg and replied:'That which is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour. That is the Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn it." It is an extraordinary remark. There is no mention of God, the Ten Commandments, the Promised Land or the Chosen People - items of faith that we might consider central to the traditions of Israel. All is commentary. The essential is compassion: to look into the interior self, find out what gives you distress and refuse to inflict this upon other people. If we did this, hour by hour, minute by minute, we would have no time to worry about the existence of a metaphysical god. We would constantly be living beyond the prism of our own egotism. This would bring us transformation and vision. As the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel explained: "When we put ourselves at the opposite pole of ego, we would be in the place where God is." All the great world leaders have taught the Golden Rule. Confucius proclaimed it five hundred years before Hillel: "Do not do to others as you would not have done unto you." The Buddha taught it, Jesus taught it, and this is the bedrock message of the Koran. If our politicians and religious leaders made the Golden Rule their first priority, the world would be a happier, safer place. .
Karen Armstrong
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implication of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all.
Albert Camus
Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully
Thomas Carlyle
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Anon
We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Langston Hughes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John Rockefeller
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osler
Worry kills more people than work – because more people tackle it.
Elbert Hubbard
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Kettering
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
A man will sit for a very long time with his mouth open if waiting for a roast duck to fly in
Anon
If there is a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A Edison
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction that day is a loss.
Dwight Eisenhower
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wisdom to know others, it is enlightenment to know one’s self.
Tao Te Ching
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Piaget
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing
Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through to its counterside.
Saul Alinsky
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall
Risk more than others think is safe,
Care more than others think is wise,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible.
Anon
One thing the world needs now is people who can tolerate ambiguity, people who are challenged, not threatened by the state of the world. I want to suggest a few things such maturity might require.
First, do not seek security in things, nor yet in status. The care of possessions, and position, is time- consuming and energy-consuming, and they can be taken from you by a thief in the night, by a fire in the night, by a change in political fortunes, by any numbers of disasters. Whatever security you have lies in yourself. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
If you understand yourself, both your strengths and limitations, If you like the person you are, if you acquire coping skills through experience, if you are not too encumbered, and if you know- inwardly- that disaster cannot ultimately overcome you, then you have gone a long way to maturity. You will be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Second, don't rest in intellectual security, for your philosophy and the knowledge on which it rests are likely to become obsolete. Wisdom is not amassing facts....
Third, the only real security in the end is the love we have given and the love we have received. All else can be taken from us. So pour out your love and friendship and do not hoard it ... And don't delay or hesitate in standing up to be counted with the oppressed.
Finally, cultivate the light touch. Develop a sense of humour. Learn to light up a room with joy when you enter. Accept the challenge of our chaotic and dangerous world with a sense of adventure, of gratitude that our time is now."
Elizabeth Watso
Carol & Mandel Rheems
5 Saikat
Originally uploaded by Carol & Mandel Rheems So many have come to meetings and received literature of our Mission Purpose - but Saikat is the first to really take to his whole heart mind & spirit the work we are about for a community to help bring more PEACE, LOVE, FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION, & HEALING TO THE WORLD, - recognising the Sacredness of ALL LIFE & SPECIES ON OUR PLANET, THE MOTHER EARTH!
YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING TO US & THIS VISION THAT WE SHARE!
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Posted By Carol & Mandel Rheems to "ONE EARTH VISION AND MISSION" on 3/09/2008 07:57:00 PM
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