Interior Journeys

Do something crazy. Make someone happy. 2007: Hope you had a great year. 2008: Hope you are ready for another great year. Best of Luck.

  Being at peace with our differences is possible.

The futures of thousands of children are lost annually. But it is not children's futures alone we are guilty of losing...We also lose sight of great ideas and possibilities for better futures.

Commitment and Protest ==================================================== Thích Quảng Đức [1963] Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. His act of self-immolation, which was repeated by others, was witnessed by David Halberstam, a New York Times reporter, who wrote: "I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."

Some contrasts carry a message and provide a deep lesson in the ways of the world. (Many come our way but we fail to "see" them.)

An image of the world that is constantly pushed out of view, reflection and action. What we do not 'see', we do not 'feel-think' about and act. (Cartoon Source .)

Blindness with a bad attitude: Looking and not seeing (missing the forest for the trees) Seeing and not looking (missing the trees for the forest)

Who am I? Am I one and/or many? Or many in One? (Picture from a picture bank .)

Images of a Racist World: Image of "nigger" labour to white Americans...But don't many of us treat immigrant labour the same way? (Picture Source .)

A temptation to play God with Mother Earth? ( Picture Source )

If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter. (So appropriate for a world that has gone so digital...and losing the art of writing a warm letter.) (Picture source here )

If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter. (So appropriate for a world that has gone digital...and losing the art of writing a warm letter.) (Picture source here )

Challenge yourself with love.

Obstacles and challenges are opportunities...to 'unwrap' yourself as gift to your world. (Image source click title.)

The Eternal Struggle...Within and Without.

Ever considered the "rightness" or wrongness" of attacking some one for being different?

  Is our 'Present' washing away our 'Future'? [Can we take our 'Future' for granted?]

The Empire of the Dollar...The Heartless Centre of a World That Needs a Heart? (Picture source: Click title)

Love is a decision of the heart. It is the only beacon for a world that needs peace...

Don't we live in a world where 'everything'(imagine people, feelings, relationships, parenthood/parents, womb...everything)can be sold and bought?

Ever thought of Desire's vision for all of us? Enticement? Entrapment? Enslavement?

Which "dot" are you? (Picture Source: Click Title.)

You can make your life a journey through "routines". Or, you can make it a journey of "discovery"...seeing mystery in small things. The choice is really and largely yours. (Picture source: Click Title)

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." - George Szell (Picture source, click title.)

This situation goes beyond Christianity: Difference >>> Disagreement >>> Separation >>> Destruction? Difference >>> Disagreement >>> Dialogue >>> Coexistence? (Picture source: Click title.)

Are we not all prisoners of something or other? Are we really free and at peace with ourselves?

Are we guilty of "snatching" (insenstive? unconscious? social blindness? ignoring?...) the faces of many among us, making them facesless? (Picture source: Click Title)

“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.” Persian Proverb How often has fancy "sculptured" our perceptions and decisions on a variety of issues? For good? Or for bad? (Picture Source: Click Title)

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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. - John Vance Cheney (American Poet) (Picture source: Click on title.)

What one 'world' does to 'another'. What some of us do to our fellow beings by the choices we make. (Picture source: Click Title)

Ever pondered on the fact that a question, many-sided as it is, is always pregnant with many futures? Ever realized that our Present was a question yesterday? (Picture source, click on title.)

Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being ‘drawn toward.’ Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relations with one’s friends and enemies. (Carter Heyward, in Our Passion for Justice) Source: Radical feminist Site. Click on heading

Funny? But consider.... How often have choices come to us in this form? And how often have we given choices to others in this form? (Source of pic: Click title)

“Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.” ~ Lao-tzu

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. John Wooden

“Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, Or who said it, Even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.” The Buddha

David and Goliath It just takes a tiny dot to stop a sentence. And there will always be 'David and Goliath' situations. Will we have the courage of David? Have we identified the 'Goliaths' we have to face? And what are we going to sling at our 'Goliaths'? Anonymous/Unknown

Most of us are travelling without a destination... Do we really know where we are heading?