The road less travelled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested. And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect. Nothing is and no one is - and that’s OK. (Katie Couric)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .


Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Lao-Tzu


Roses
by George Eliot 

    You love the roses - so do I. I wish
    The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
    From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
    Then all the valley would be pink and white
    And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
    As feathers, smelling sweet: and it would be
    Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once.

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Young and Old
by Charles Kingsley
When all the world is young, lad,
  And all the trees are green,
And every goose a swan, lad,
  And every lass a queen,
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
  And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
  And every dog his day.

When all the world is old, lad,
  And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
  And all the wheels run down,
Creep home, and take your place there,
  The spent and maimed among:
God grant you find one face there
  You loved when all was young.


 
 

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TAKING THE ONE LESS TRAVELLED BY
Todays post brings this present series to an end. Perhaps a follow-up will be possible early in 2013.
 So to conclude, more pearls of wisdom, this is from Woody Allen in a more serious mood -

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .


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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

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Love Song
Spike Milligan

If I could write words
Like leaves on an Autumn Forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you."
- from Small Dreams of a Scorpion

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Better than a thousand
Hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.

Better than a thousand
Hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.

Better than a hundred
Hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.
- from the Dhammapada
 
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .



I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao-Tzu

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Autobiography in Five Chapters
by Portia Nelson

1) I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost...
I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

2) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

3) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in...it's a habit
My eyes are open; I know where I am;
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

4) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

5) I walk down another street.

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Leisure
by William Henry Davies

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

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You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.
 (written by the Indian mystic Osho 1931-1990)

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .




Stop trying to leave and you will arrive
Stop seeking and you will see
Stop running away and you will be found 
- Lao-Tzu

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As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water,
so the wise one speaks in peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world
- Sutta Nipata

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One Perfect Rose
by Dorothy Parker

A single flower he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet –
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;
“My fragile leaves,” it said, “his heart enclose.”
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

Why is it no one’s ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah, no – it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

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 [Image by Public-domain-images.blogspot.com]

These paper lanterns play a major part in the five-day Festival of Lights (Diwali) in Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism. It is celebrated in India, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Fiji, Surinam, and elsewhere.

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Preconceptions
by Milarepa

Just as fog is dispelled by the strength of the sun
and is dispelled no other way,
preconception is cleared by the strength of realization.
There's no other way of clearing preconceptions.
Experience them as baseless dreams.
Experience them as ephemeral bubbles.
Experience them as insubstantial rainbows.
Experience them as indivisible space.

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom

Men today have abandoned compassion in order to be bold, discarded economy to be big spenders and rejected humility in order to be first. - Lao-Tzu


Click on the images to enlarge
A 10th Century painting by Huang Quan

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Two Hunters
(Anon)

 There were but two beneath the sky -
The thing I came to kill, and I.
I, under covert, quietly
Watched him sense eternity
From quivering brush to pointed nose
My gun to shoulder level rose.
And then I felt (I could not see)
Far off a hunter watching me.
I slowly put my rifle by,
For there were two who had to die -
The thing I wished to kill, and I. 

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Black-backed Kingfisher, Southern Thailand

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Speaking Truth
By Jesa MacBeth

It is possible to speak truth in anger.
When so done, people tend to hear the anger and not the truth.

It is possible to speak truth in arrogance.
When so done, people tend to hear the arrogance and not the truth.

It is possible to speak truth in deceitful ways.
When so done, people tend to sense the deceit and take the truth for more deceit.

It is possible to speak truth in loving kindness.
When so done, people tend to hear the love and the truth.

Or so it seems in my experience.

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taking the one less travelled by
Wednesdays and Saturdays

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. - Lao-Tzu  

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From “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad” by George Orwell 1946

“Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried from the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water. Something . . has told him it is time to wake up . . .

“At this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent. His movements are languid but purposeful, his body is shrunken, and by contrast his eyes look abnormally large. This allows one to notice, what one might not at any other time, that a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature. It is like gold, or more exactly like the golden-coloured semi-precious stone which one sometimes sees in signet rings, and which I think is called a chrysoberyl.”

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A Lavender Farm, Hokkaido

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From “Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

We are the music makers,
  And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
  And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,    
  On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
  Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,    
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory;
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
  Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure    
  Can trample a kingdom down.

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“The Wanderer above a Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich 

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. 
Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. 
- Albert Camus

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

pictures, poems and pearls of wisdom . . .

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao-Tzu

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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth. - Sylvia Plath

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Everyone Sang
by Siegfried Sassoon

Everyone suddenly burst out singing:
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields: on - on - and out of sight.


Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun;
My heart was shaken with tears: and horror
Drifted away . . . O, but everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

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Untitled by Lilla Cabot Perry

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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led. 
 Lisa Wingate (A Month of Summer)

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

pictures and poems and pearls of wisdom . . .



To know, yet to think that one does not know is best. Not to know, yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. - Lao-Tzu
 
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One day an Englishman, a Frenchman, an Indonesian and a Chinaman were passing a drinking fountain, when the Englishman said, “Look, someone’s left a cup on the wall here.”

“No, no”, said the Frenchman, “that’s not a cup, that’s a tasse.”

“You’re both wrong,” said the Indonesian, “It’s a cawan.”

“Now, hold on,” said the Chinaman, “you’re all wrong, that’s a pei, and I can prove it. The Chinese dictionary is much older than any of yours, and anyway more people speak Chinese than any other language. So it’s called a pei.”

While they were arguing, a Buddhist came past and drank from the cup.

“Whether you call it a cup, a tasse, a cawan or a pei,” he said, “the purpose of this vessel is for it to be used. So why don’t you stop arguing, and drink?”

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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
(J. R. R. Tolkien)

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Water Lilies (Clouds)
Claude Monet

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taking the one less travelled by
is updated every Wednesday and Saturday

Saturday, October 13, 2012

pictures and poems and pearls of wisdom . . .




Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. 
Loving someone deeply gives you courage - Lao-Tzu

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield - Robert Louis Stevenson

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In Extremis
 John Updike

I saw my toes the other day.
I hadn't looked at them for months.
Indeed, they might have passed away.
And yet they were my best friends once.
When I was small, I knew them well.
I counted on them up to ten
And put them in my mouth to tell
The larger from the lesser. Then
I loved them better than my ears,
My elbows, adenoids, and heart.
But with the swelling of the years
We drifted, toes and I, apart.
Now, gnarled and pale, each said, j'accuse!
I hid them quickly in my shoes.

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"The Ferry Across the Angara in Irkutsk"
Nikolai Florianovich Dobrovolsky
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

a picture to admire

 [Thanks to photos-public-domain.com]

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just a thought

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. (Henry Ward Beecher)

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 a poem to ponder

To Blossoms
by
Robert Herrick

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is not so past,
But you may stay here yet awhile
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last.

What, were you born to be
An hour or half's delight,
And so to bid good-night?
'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth
Merely to show your worth,
And lose you quite.

But you are lovely leaves, where we
May read how soon things have
Their end, though ne'er so brave:
And after they have shown their pride
Like you awhile, they glide
Into the grave.

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music to meditate by

“Greensleeves” sung by MĂ©av NĂ­ Mhaolchatha of Celtic Woman 
uploaded by Avostal

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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
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NEW - The Victorian Scrapblog - NEW
beginning Friday 12th October
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

a picture to admire


The Japanese Garden at the Devonian Botanic Gardens, Edmonton, Canada

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a poem to ponder 

Autumn by William Blake

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stainèd
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

“The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clustering Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feathered clouds strew flowers round her head.

“The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;
Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
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music to meditate by


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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

He who knows other men is learned.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

two pictures to admire




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a poem to ponder

A Breath of Fresh Air
Lilly Bug

My eyes are opened
I can see this strange new place
A world of thoughts, dreams, and scenes
Scenes of my existence
Beauty shocks me
My electrified heart has reopened
I don’t know if what I feel is real
Tragic grips of longing, mourning, and yearning
Are silenced and at ease
Jolts of colours, sounds, and beauty
Jolts that have healed my soul
I feel no pain, no pain, no pain
My yin has found her yang
My soul has been refilled.

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music to meditate by

“Yesterday” by Paul McCartney
played by Richard Clayderman

2mins.23secs


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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence, 
kindness in thinking creates profoundness, 
kindness in giving creates love.

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taking the one less travelled by
is updated every Wednesday and Saturday

Saturday, September 29, 2012

a picture to admire


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a poem to ponder

This is a translation of “Beau Soir” by the French poet Paul Bourget

When streams turn pink in the setting sun,
And a slight shudder rushes through the wheat fields,
A plea for happiness seems to rise out of all things
And it climbs up towards the troubled heart.
A plea to relish the charm of life
While there is youth and the evening is fair,
For we pass away, as the wave passes:
The wave to the sea, we to the grave.

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music to meditate by

“Beau Soir” by Claude Debussy
Played by Joshua Bell violin and Frederic Chiu piano
uploaded by aNGLICANcHOIR92
2mins 34secs
Foir best viewing use full screen

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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness 
inside that holds whatever we want.
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is updated every Wednesday and Saturday

NEW  - The Haiku Habit - NEW
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

a picture to admire


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a poem to ponder
Uphill
by
Christina Georgina Rossetti

Does the road wind uphill all the way?
    Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
    From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place?
    A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?
    You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
    Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
    They will not keep you waiting at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
    Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?
    Yea, beds for all who come.

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music to meditate by
La Calinda (Koanga)
by Frederick Delius
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Christopher Seaman
Uploaded by terencenunn35
4mins 20secs


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and a saying by Lao-Tzu
Surrender yourself humbly,
Then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love this world as yourself,
Then you can truly care for all things.

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

a picture to admire


Courtesy of photoeverywhere.co.uk

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a poem to ponder
A New House
by Jennifer Edwards

If I search your face only looking for my reflection,
How can I see you as you really are:
If I fill the hours with empty chatter,
How can I hear you when you finally decide to talk:
It is love, indeed,
This that brings me to you,
And this is why a new house needs to be built
With doors big enough for understanding and compassion to fit through.

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music to meditate by
"I will always love you"
Uploaded by twotaur
4minutes.4seconds


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and a saying by Lao-Tzu
Whether you are a gem in the royal court or a stone on a common path, if you accept your part with humility the power of the universe will be yours.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

a picture to admire
Buddhist Sand Art

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a poem to ponder
Unwelcome
by
Mary Coleridge

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.

O, still grew the hearts that were beating so fast,
The loudest voice was still,
The jest died away on our lips as they passed,
And the rays of July struck chill.

The cups of red wine turned pale on the board,
The white bread black as soot,
The hound forgot the hand of her lord,
She fell down at his foot.

Low let me lie where the dead dog lies,
Ere I sit me down again at a feast,
When there passes a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.

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music to meditate by
For best results, use full screen

Gymnopodie No.1 by Erik Satie
Uploaded by glasslipper
3 minutes 31 seconds

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and a saying by Lao-Tzu
See the small and develop clear vision.
Practice yielding and develop strength.
Use the outer light to return to the inner light and save yourself from harm.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

a picture to admire


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a poem to ponder
Life
by Daisaku Ikeda

I will cast out
All the vagueness and indecision within me
Because my wish is to construct
The castle of my whole life
On the fulfilment of each promise that I make.

I want to live my life
As a surpassingly broadminded man
Known for being happy and honest
A person in whom people can have absolute trust.

I've put behind me
The age of dreaming about a rosy future
And with roots extended into life's reality
I realise that the power to create happiness
Derives from what we actually do today.

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music to meditate by

This Enya Watermark video lasts 3 minutes 26 seconds.
For best results, use full screen.

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Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox - what is soft is strong.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

a picture to admire


Click on the image to enlarge

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a poem to ponder

Do you hear the children weeping?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows,
The young birds are chirping in the nest,
The young fawns are playing with the shadows,
The young flowers are blowing toward the west:
But the young, young children, O my brothers,
They are weeping bitterly!
They are weeping in the playtime of the others,
In the country of the free.

“For oh,” say the children, “we are weary,
And we cannot run or leap;
If we cared for any meadows, it were merely
To drop down in them and sleep.
Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping,
We fall upon our faces, trying to go;
And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping,
The reddest flower would look as pale as snow.
For, all day, we drag our burden tiring
Through the coal-dark, underground,
Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron
In the factories, round and round.

They look up with their pale and sunken faces,
And their look is dread to see,
For they mind you of their angels in high places,
With eyes turned on Deity.
“How long,” they say, “how long, O cruel nation,
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child’s heart,—
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart?
Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper,
And your purple shows your path!
But the child’s sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath.”



[The above is part of “The Cry of the Children” a poem of 13 verses. It was written at the time "when government investigations had exposed the exploitation of children employed in coal mines and factories."]

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music to meditate by

Uploaded by qovardis, this is a slide show of beautiful scenes in Japanese Gardens. The music is the humming chorus from Madame Butterfly by Puccini, played by André Rieu and his orchestra and singers.



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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

The wise man does not lay up treasure - his riches are within.
The more he gives to others, the more he has of his own.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

a picture to admire

Click on the image to enlarge

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a poem to ponder
Let’s Not Blow it
by Homer Groening

There are millions of years in the past,
There are millions of years ahead of us,
And here we are
Right in the middle

Then there's space,
There are miles and miles of space in all directions,
And here we are
Right in the middle

This is a big deal
Being in the middle of time and space,
It sort of makes your eyes water.

We'd never find this moment again
In a million years.
This is our world,
Let's not blow it.

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music to meditate by
Relaxing Ambient Music
Uploaded by VinylLPs
3 minutes 36 seconds



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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

Live a simple life, be free, be yourself and be close to nature.
Do these things and you will be wise and happy.

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NEXT POST HERE WEDNESDAY 12TH SEPT

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

a picture to admire


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a poem to ponder
For Warmth
by
Thich Nhat Hanh

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
To keep the loneliness warm -
Two hands protecting,
Two hands nourishing,
Two hands preventing
My soul from leaving me
In anger.

[The poet wrote the above lines after hearing the comment made by an American officer about the bombing of Ben Tre in Southern Vietnam by US forces. “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.”]

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music to meditate by

“Dolphins - Meditation Music” uploaded by Gabicrystal9.
Time - 3 minutes 28 seconds
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and a saying by Lao-Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

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John says: If I'm satisfied with the blog, I'll post again mext weekend

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