What you See is what you get!

Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

What you see is what you get, indeed.

Why I Left America?



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 Written by an American expat living in the European Union.


The truth is I just couldn't take being lied to by the American plutocrat owned corporate media anymore knowing that there are an estimated 59 million medically uninsured fellow Americans out there. It just became too painful for me to take anymore. By contrast everyone you look at it in the European Union has access to medical from cradle-to-grave by right of law. It's considered to be a human right. Why isn't it a human right in America?...read more here.

Google says delaying clean energy will cost the U.S. trillions

Google, a leader of innovation in the digital economy, says that without a private and public focus on innovation in renewables, storage, and electric vehicles, the cost of delaying the clean energy economy could be in the trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy...Read the rest here.

Tchaikovsky Competition

According to the competition's site @

http://www.tchaikovsky-competition.com/en/2011/pia...

Sara made it all the way to the penultimate round, but not the final one, which will end in a couple of days. The initial pool for the piano competition had about 30 contestants. Here's a performance by the S. Korean Son Yeol-Eum, who made it to the final round:

Daneshpour in Tchaikovsky Copetition

Sara Daneshpour performs Prokofiev—Piano Sonata No. 7

Moscow, June 2011.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

-Rumi

Grace in Blossoms

Bloom in Grace

"Every time a flower blossoms,

God demonstrates His grace."

- Marianne Williamson

"Choose grace" instead of Fear ! My new mantra.

Mantra (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism

Cradle them into calm before you move forward

Something I have noticed is that the feelings that surround many endings - the regret and longing for things to be different - are important and worthy of tenderness. Like a child rocking gently in a loving mother's arms, the good rest that comes after you cradle those feelings into calm, simply prepares you for the path and the open door beckoning you forward... your heart belongs to you again and you are ready to walk through into the newness that awaits you...

Open Door

"When one door closes, another opens;

but we often look so long and so regretfully

upon the closed door that we do not see

the one which has opened for us."

-Alexander Graham Bell

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Saved By Beauty

Forty years ago, Roger Housden discovered the poetry of Rumi and Hafez, read tales of exotic Sufis, and was carried away by the music and wisdom of a culture that reached back over three thousand years, ac culture that gave us our word for paradise. Longing to see is the Iran of his imagination continued to exist, or whether it had been lost forever in the revolutionary zeal of the last thirty years, Housden sets off on a journey to discover a country filled with remarkable contradictions. "This books is a pilgrimage, a prayer, a heartfelt reminder, a poet-traveler's window into the eternal soul of Iran." --Jack Kornfield



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Laughter

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston

- When have you last enjoyed some good levity? Can't remember.
- Besides releasing endorphins how does laughter liberate?
- How can you try to cultivate more positivism in your life?

Rumi

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry, I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

— Rumi

Signs you have inner Peace

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I have a long way to go.

I also believe happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And... once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it ~Elizabeth Gilbert