video at http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/story-of-bottled-water?r=FB and www.willymac4.blogspot.com Why bottled water is unhealthy for us and the planet.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Gay Vicar - Getting over one's persecution complex
Warning - Irreverent Church humor zone.
Little Britain - The Gay Vicar
What happens when we take on the posture of victim? Can we be freed from the tyranny of having to protect that position, even when others have moved on? What do you think?
Little Britain - The Gay Vicar
What happens when we take on the posture of victim? Can we be freed from the tyranny of having to protect that position, even when others have moved on? What do you think?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
GLAAD Awards winner, Will Phillips
I wasn't nearly this articulate at 10. How about you? I don't think I was nearly that cognizant of my rights and responsibilities as a citizen either.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Speaking with authority
Take a look at this creative video of the poetry of Taylor Mali.
Do you agree? Do we speak with question marks at the end of our sentences? Really? When do we claim what we know to be true?
You can see more of Taylor's work here.
Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.
Do you agree? Do we speak with question marks at the end of our sentences? Really? When do we claim what we know to be true?
You can see more of Taylor's work here.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Open Canon - the poets - Rumi
Geoff Browning shares, "Love this exploration. How 'bout Rumi, Rilke, Muir, Thomas Berry, Shakespeare..." So which of their writings would you include?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, and theologian and mystic:
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
The way you make love is the way
God will be with you.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'
In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words...
We search for Him here and there,
while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Whatever possessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
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What are your favorites? What would you add from Rilke, Muir, Thomas Berry, or Shakespeare?
"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek answers which cannot be given to you now because you would not be able to live them now. And the point is to live everything, to live the question now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, and theologian and mystic:
-------------------
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
The way you make love is the way
God will be with you.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'
In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words...
We search for Him here and there,
while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Whatever possessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
-------------------
What are your favorites? What would you add from Rilke, Muir, Thomas Berry, or Shakespeare?
"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek answers which cannot be given to you now because you would not be able to live them now. And the point is to live everything, to live the question now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Open Canon - U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
This song has been around for a while, since the 1984 "The Unforgettable Fire" album.
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come here to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love!
One man in the name of love
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resists
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!
...nobody like you...there's nobody like you...
Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love...
It has also been linked with Dr. King's life and assassination. For a full history of the song, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(In_the_Name_of_Love)
Adapted from Songfacts.com:
Bono is speaking about those throughout history who have died because they preached of the equality of all humanity and practiced non-violence as the only way to achieve their goal of having this equality universally recognized. MLK is the primary example of non-violent resistance as the only way to bring about changes in civil rights. But there are allusions to others; Christ for example. The song is about individual people who lived their life with pride – not in a boastful way, but with the pride a person has when their thoughts and actions are motivated by their understanding and full awareness of the dignity and sanctity of ALL human life.
The song is a tribute or illustration or reminder to us, of martyrs to this ideal. It speaks to how they lived their life with an inner Pride in all of humanity and that this Pride is really an expression of God's love for all of humanity. These people did what they did because they were trying to spread this message of God's love for all of mankind.
videos at http://willymac4.blogspot.com/
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come here to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love!
One man in the name of love
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resists
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!
...nobody like you...there's nobody like you...
Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love...
It has also been linked with Dr. King's life and assassination. For a full history of the song, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(In_the_Name_of_Love)
Adapted from Songfacts.com:
Bono is speaking about those throughout history who have died because they preached of the equality of all humanity and practiced non-violence as the only way to achieve their goal of having this equality universally recognized. MLK is the primary example of non-violent resistance as the only way to bring about changes in civil rights. But there are allusions to others; Christ for example. The song is about individual people who lived their life with pride – not in a boastful way, but with the pride a person has when their thoughts and actions are motivated by their understanding and full awareness of the dignity and sanctity of ALL human life.
The song is a tribute or illustration or reminder to us, of martyrs to this ideal. It speaks to how they lived their life with an inner Pride in all of humanity and that this Pride is really an expression of God's love for all of humanity. These people did what they did because they were trying to spread this message of God's love for all of mankind.
videos at http://willymac4.blogspot.com/
Open Canon - Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up"
We were created for love, and we were created to live in freedom.
Dale suggested this song, and I wholeheartedly agree.
videos at http://willymac4.blogspot.com/
Dale suggested this song, and I wholeheartedly agree.
videos at http://willymac4.blogspot.com/
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