Re: Nature

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by Taikunping in Dancing With The Divine

Hi everyone I've been reading some of the postings I love taking pictures of nature and writing poems too bees joy plain to see flower's gift open and free nectar from the earth

Re: Life & Death

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by debyemm in One Light Many Windows

Unitarian Universalist We are droplets of ocean water born of evaporation from the ocean by the sun and when we die we are rain being absorbed back into the ocean. Life has no desires for... More »

Re: Earth and Nature

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by ingebrita in One Light Many Windows

"When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live." ~ Marilou Awiakta ( Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom )

Re: Can one be intolerant of intolerance and still be credible?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by heemes in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

Healing the hurt is definitely the first step and not in a made-up artificial process, real healing, natural, organic. These labels create pictures in my mind (yours too?).  However, real healing has a feel to... More »

Re: How do you measure what can't be counted?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Eli in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Gödel's first incompleteness theorem states that:      Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain... More »

Re: How do you measure what can't be counted?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Tharlam in Questions & Reflections: The Group

On the subject of compassion: In its unfettered, natural state, compassion is impartial and therefore all-pervading.  In pervading all it is infinite and therefore can not be measured.  Om Mani Peme Hung. Blessings, Tharlam.

Re: appliances

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by willowspirit in The Dream Garden

It is interesting combination artificial and natural. It could be connected to arising of some new human made (artificial) characteristic from natural basis. Green is symbol of life, growth, love. Respecting to fact that you... More »

Re: Experience Integral Seminar August 4-9th

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Pelle in Integral Archipelago

Well, the gender workshop will of course contain some of my own work on gender issues, such as the evolution of gender roles, but also an inquiry into the nature masculine and feminine energies. The... More »

Re: Are Pets and Veg Compatible?

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Marcy in Integral Veg*n

I know this post is very outdated, and will be surprised if anyone reads this.  Still, it is cruel to enfore your beliefs on an animal that naturally eats meat.  I think you should encourage... More »

Re: Children's Dreams?

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Marky Mark in The Dream Garden

Denim, I can't say that everyone responding to your original post agrees with each other, however I do believe that I and others might be able to give you more insight if we had more... More »

To live is to be free

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by Mila

I feel free whenever I'm close to nature, and that would be most of the time, if not everytime.  Nature is life, life is nature.  To live is to be free. Image source: Jeber Photo... More »

Friday on Spiritual Awakening Radio: Inner Sound Meditation

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by SantMat_Mystic_(James)

Friday on Spiritual Awakening Radio: Inner Sound Meditation Posted on May 20th, 2009 by SantMat_Mystic_(James) Friday on Spiritual Awakening Radio: Inner Sound Meditation in the World Religions. 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern Time streaming live... More »

Do you find it hard to assert yourself?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by reneedamstra

Definetely, but only with people I don't feel comfortable with. I'm working on it though. Sometimes it comes out naturally, sometimes I have to push myself.

Being alone: Part II

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Ken

As I was enjoying the sites and visual splendor of the area, it occurred to me that being alone stems from feeling unconnected. Feeling connected to others, nature, the world is so vital for us. ... More »

What are you sensitive about?

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by waterheart

I am sensitive about the way we treat the natural world.It is not here for us to use indiscriminately,to rape forests is blatantly stupid,after all they are the lungs of our mother,scraping up landscape for... More »

Do you use relationships as your mirror?

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Satya-Seer

Sometimes I see the reflection of myself in the mirror of another and sometimes I don't and it is offered as an invitation to see. If I can see myself in them, then I have... More »

Where are you most comfortable?

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by paulabee

Outdoors is where I really seem to find myself. I love the woods of the east, the desert which is my current home, and the mountains. I have been always an explorer at heart. To... More »

Where are you most comfortable?

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Sherrilene

In the outdoors; the further away from concrete buildings, the better... where my appearance is not of interest and I actually forget what I look like since my energies and focus are directed to climbing... More »

Overwhelmed

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by bajarbattu

I wrote this short poetry in 2005, sharing it for my Gaian friends, and anyone else who would like to read... OVERWHELMED Lying on my bed looking upto the green canopy I once again connect... More »

What color is today?

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Resurrected1

Today is so very GREEN! :-D My view from where I am now... My View Out Back... Green Strawberries! Sigh...project for the Q&R group...

Nature didn't make us perfect, so she did the next best thing - she made us blind to our faults.

And if you are patient - certainly that (huwa) is better (khayr) for those who are capable of being patient. (Koran 16:126) Commentary: In this verse, Allah consoles his patient servants in their trials by announcing that He Himself is the substitute and the replacement of that which they have lost and which was pleasing to their natural dispositions. In effect, being patient consists in constraining the soul to accept that which is repugnant to it. The soul experiences an aversion for everything which is not in accord with its predisposition in the present instant, even if it knows that it will be beneficial for it later on. . . . Allah has thus announced to those who patiently bear the loss of that which pleases them - health, riches, greatness, security, possessions and children - that "He" [for this is the proper sense of the pronoun huwa rendered above as "that" in conformity with the way the verse is usually understood] is better (khayr) for them than that which they have lost; for they know that "He" [who is the Name of the supreme absolutely unconditioned Essence] is their inseparable reality and their necessary refuge, and that the pleasing things that they have lost were pure illusions. . . . He who has found Allah has lost nothing, and he who has lost Allah has found nothing.

His faith is no longer of any use to him. In fact his faith is only useful so long as he is veiled and has not obtained direct vision and evidence. . . . When that which was hidden becomes evident, when that of which he was merely informed is directly seen, the soul no longer derives any profit from that which it believes but only from that which it contemplates and sees. The states, the intentions, the goals which he had during the phase of faith are transformed. This transformation should be understood as purely inner. As to the exterior of this being, it is not modified even an iota. He continues to behave in a way which is acceptable to the sacred Law and commendable according to customs and natural law, engaging in the activities which conform to his situation and his rank among his fellow men.

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that . . . I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as here assumed . . . . Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first - that in relation to wrongs - embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Josiah G. Holland, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 23 (1866), and George Alfred Townsend, The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6 (1867). According to the latter, Lincoln made this remark to his law partner, William Herndon. Lincoln's natural mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when he was nine years old and his father remarried the following year. His stepmother, Sarah Bush (Johnston) Lincoln, was loved and respected by Lincoln throughout her life, as evidenced in the many biographical studies of Lincoln. Benjamin P. Thomas says in Abraham Lincoln, p. 12 (1952): "The boy Abraham adored her. Recollection of his own mother dimmed. And in later years he called this woman, who filled her place so well, 'my angel mother.'" The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases, ed. Burton Stevenson, p. 1627 (1965), comments that the remark referred to Lincoln's stepmother. But the biographers of Lincoln's natural mother claim the remark referred to her: Caroline Hanks Hitchcock, Nancy Hanks, p. 105 (1899) and Charles Ludwig, Nancy Hanks: Mother of Lincoln, p. 84 (1965).

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

From the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

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