I learned a new acronym and just have to share it with you all … before we speak – THINK:

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T – Is it true?

Is what you’re about to share true? How do you know for sure?   And even if it is, does it need to be told?

H – Is it helpful?

Is what you’re about to share going to better the one hearing it? Or do you just need to get something off of your chest?  Check your mood – are you exasperated, tired, angry or sad?  Sometimes words we’d choose in the midst of those moods are not the ones we’d choose when things are going our way.

I – Is it inspiring?

Is what you’re about to say going…

I so love this photograph of Ramana. I love to make eye contact with him. Those eyes exude pure love and peace. I fall right into them.

Who is looking?

We might be interested to know about “love and hatred in relationship”, maybe it is coming from our own life experience or from other people’s life experience, it is beneficial for anyone and any relationships for us to know about why a love relationship can turn sour and bitter, and have hatred towards our partner and the relationship…

From the point of view of Yoga teachings about the mind, the ego, the feelings, desires, ignorance, likes and dislikes, craving and aversion, attachments, suffering, compassion and the law of impermanence, here are some explanations why there are quite many confused relationships mixed with love and hatred in the world…

Before we can love another person and get into relationship with anyone, we need to have love in ourselves. We are able to love ourselves and are happy with ourselves as we are, and not having expectation that our lover or partner…

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.  It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. —Ecclesiastes 5:4-5

Any male can say “I Do”, it takes a man to say, “I Won’t”. In a culture that purely exists for self-gratification and indulges only in their selfish lustful appetites, the word “covenant” is almost non-existent and kept as sacred even less. Realistically, most people probably do not know or understand what a covenant truly is. Ignorance runs rampant like a broken sewer pipe spewing toxic waste out, on and all over our streets. The “covenant of marriage” has been diluted into a “Managed Cavorting of Convenience”.

On both sides of the spectrum, unfaithfulness and betrayal by men and woman is found. In both instances they are just as vile…

Egypt, 1996, armed with a Pentax, 36 rolls of film, a total fascination with mystery, and an eagerness to jump into the unknown, is where I first began my love affair with photography. Egypt and what lives in it gave me far more than I expected in way of impressions, awe inspiring monuments, mystery, intrigue, and a deepening in my belief that we know so little of what is still to be discovered in the history of this planet.

No matter how many books you read, how much information you gather, nothing can prepare you for your first meeting with the massive pyramids at Giza, or the tombs of the valley of the kings, or the astounding statues that still stand in great defiance of time in the temples of Ancient Egypt.

For the second month of this project I will dive back into the unknown that is ancient Egypt…

God,
grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Amen

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A family friend passed away recently.  

It was suicide.

I wish I can say something to comfort those left behind but the truth is, I don’t even know how to put my feelings about this into words.  

I can’t wrap my head around how anyone can feel so desperate that they believe death is their only escape.  It just… I don’t know… 

People don’t understand how powerful words can be.  

Sometimes people say things flippantly, as a joke, without realizing that the person who the joke is made at the expense of, doesn’t find the joke funny at all.  

By the time it’s realized, it may be too late — the price for this lesson may be more than anyone can pay.  

Sometimes, you can’t take back what was said.

It just breaks…

“Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive!!”~ Richard Carlson

What is the beauty of this Life?

It is Sometimes Complex & sometimes seemingly Obvious

What really beckons is whether we are alive..?

Alive to our perceptions turning true or being dubious

What should be our Priority & what should not?

Confusion about it can keep us wandering in to Dreamy Deep Water

Sometimes the Real Treasures of this Life bring about..

Currents that drift us to a direction that may not really matter

Introspection & Evaluation here hold the key

What is really important & What we can let go..

Cherishing the moments that take our Breath away

And the moments we wasted we cant Borrow

The Secret is…