Tell them your Story

Tell them your story. Time passes so quickly. As a journalist, I am acutely aware of the necessity of writing things down; recording events as accurately and objectively as possible. As a photographer, I am convinced each of us has a responsibility to tell our own story; to capture key moments in our lives and the lives of those close to us, not only for ourselves, but for generations to come.
One's sense of identity and place in this world is important; each of us has a role in helping preserve our wholly unique family histories and special events. Expensive possessions may come and go, but our personal stories and photographs are timeless and therefore priceless.

Shahkar Binesh Pajooh-Miriam

Happiness

"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. "

~ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Win Or Lose?

Before your children learn to win or lose,
they play at games for fun.
But then they come to believe
that they must win
at games, at business,
and at war.
they even learn to win or lose
at love.


But the Tao teaches
that games are for fun,
that business is for the common good,
that no one wins at war,
and that love endures for all.

Tao Te ching
the parents, william martin

Detachment

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."

"The Wise Woman's Stone"
Author Unknown

I need to become a Vegeteraian, Again

Warning: Gruesome Video Image
Show if slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegeterian

Graphic video


Find out more at Meat.org.

Animals killed for food are neglected, tortured, kept in filthy conditions, and often slaughtered in painful ways, such as having their throats cut while fully conscious. I won't support this cruelty.

Viva La Vida

Frida Khalo

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Herman Hesse

Kish Island

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel

Robert Frost

Listen to your gut

There Is A Voice Inside Of You
That Whispers All Day Long,
"I Feel That This Is Right For Me,
I Know That This Is Wrong."
No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, Friend

Or Wise Man Can Decide
What's Right For You- Just Listen To
The Voice That Speaks Inside.
 
Shel Silverstein
Born September 25, 1930

Six Feet Under

To see the world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

-William Blake



All that lives, lives forever.

Only the shell, the perishable, passes away.

The spirit is without end, eternal, deathless.

The spirit is without End...Eternal....Deathless...,---Bhagavad Gita

You are, what you look for!

Whatever you look for, you are!

Look for the Soul, you become Soul
Hunt for the bread, you become bread,
Whatever you look for, you are

Prologue by Loreena McKennitt/Quotes from Rumi

...

Time is NOW!

 

 

This is now. Now is,

all there is. Don't wait for Then;

strike the spark, light the fire.

Sit at the Beloved's table,

feast with gusto, drink your fill

then dance

the way branches

of jasmine and cypress

dance in a spring wind.

The green earth

is your cloth;

tailor your robe

with dignity and grace.

~ Rumi

 

 

Book Thursday!

Anything by Eric Butterworth. His books have been a God sent to me and I often re-read his books have calming effect and extremely transformational, here, is an excerpt that I just read and would like to share with you:

Not that you you can or should become better than another person or even good engouh to fulfill certain wordly standards. This is giving too much power to the world "out there".

"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility is being superior to your previous self"

~From Eric Butterworth book, In The Flow Of Life

What Is Happiness?

Are you happy, His Holiness?

"I cannot answer that question without making sure that we understand the word "happiness" in the same way. If you are talking about a continuous state of mind, a permanent interior disposition where there is no regret, no suffering, no feeling of dissatisfaction, that state is foreign to me. But I believe that the state of mind is simply not human. In human life, happiness is a victory: the overcoming of doubt, despair, temptation. If this is how you understand happiness, then yes, I am happy!"

His Holiness Karekin I (1932-1999)

The Night Can Last Only So Long

Political significance has attached to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Leonard Bernstein conducted a version of the 9th in Berlin, with "Freiheit" ("Freedom") replacing "Freude" ("Joy"), to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall during Christmas 1989.

Rebirth

These past few days have been stressful, sad, exciting and long. I haven't been inspired to post any new content for my blog. Since I was not really clear in my dysfunctional head why I started to blog again or what I was trying to accomplish until last night. When it came to me while half way between a REM sleep and wakeful state...hahaha


This blog is to record, document, and bear witness to my authentic self; to my journey of self-discovery and re-genesis, undergoing a fun.da.mental* transformation. Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly; emerging transfigured and a new life, will begin from the ashes of the previous one.

I'm planning to  discover who I'm now and the possibilities and opportunities before me --where I explore the meaning  of life in general, reflect on what I have learned and continue to learn, and begin to pass on my knowledge...