For a Meaningful and Fruitful 2014
2014 is the Year of the Horse: The spirit of the horse is about making unremitting efforts to improve oneself. It is energetic, bright, warm-hearted, intelligent and able.
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Feeling That Which Is Home (1)
"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule." ( Frederick W. Robertson)
Who Put Philippines in Pain? Nature? Or Humans?
Many disasters are presented as 'Acts of Nature". Are they...really? (Source of pictures here.)
Can You Step Into the Same Book Twice?
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? -- Marina Tsvetaeva
Two Ways To Go Nowhere !
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.” ― Carlos Castaneda
If You Plant Seeds Of...
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust. If you plant goodness, you will reap friends. If you plant humility, you will reap greatness. If you plant perseverance, you will reap victory. If you plant consideration, you will reap harmony. If you plant hard work, you will reap success. If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation. If you plant openness, you will reap intimacy. If you plant patience, you will reap improvements. If you plant faith, you will reap miracles. But: If you plant dishonesty, you will reap distrust. If you plant selfishness, you will reap loneliness. If you plant pride, you will reap destruction. If you plant envy, you will reap trouble. If you plant laziness, you will reap stagnation. If you plant bitterness, you will reap isolation. If you plant greed, you will reap loss. If you plant gossip, you will reap enemies. If you plant worries, you will reap wrinkles. If you plant sin, you will reap guilt.
The Way of the Mountain
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest.)
The River of Life
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature / Photo: Walking along holy Ganges river at Rishikesh: See Here )
Missing an Opportunity
That one brief instance of a great opportunity that can change your life...Sometimes lost forever ! (Photo Source: See Here )
Life's Choices
There are paths we take that have no futures. And, there are futures we take that have no paths. Our Choice (Picture source: See Here)
Who Am I Really?
Now and then, I wonder who I really am? And, if the faces I wear are really masks? (Source of photo: See Here )
Modern-Day Slaves
Are we responsible (unknowingly) in sustaining slavery in the modern world? Source: See Here.
