We spend what time we have
only to find in years to come,
what we needed all along
Was ours to have long agoTime takes its toll
And although we too take our time
We are obliged to eventually find ourselvesAfter years of pursuing
The paths laid out for us
In a moment of clarity,
We stop, look around, and we are lostNow I pause and contemplate my life
There is that moment, brief, but incredible,
When I realized the truth?It was always you.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jan 24, The Truth - Visitor's Poem
Jan 24, W.W.Winans's Entitlements - Visitor's Quote
by W.W.Winans
(Minnesota, USA)
Understand this. Entitlements should only be as vast as your investments. If you have invested little or nothing, that is what you are entitled to. The rest is a gift from your neighbors for which you should be grateful; and humbled when receiving. Perspective.
Jan 24, My Village - Visitor's Poem
by Yeshi Gemaneh
(Oakland, CA, USA)
Some years back, I wrote a short story book based on my childhood experience and observation of my village. I submitted to publisher and still waiting for its turn. In short it sounds as follows:
My VillageA dense timber the huge farmland
Remained a vision
Wild animals roared like a thunderstorm
The cottages lined up free
Like a civilized Army
In the thatched roofs, smoke stood up
Like pillars
Barbaric flowers cherished all around
Roosters announced the time
Where there was no clock
Boys and girls pitched each other a lemon
As a sign of love
Nature offered them the best
Far away from doing wrong
Neighbors gathered for a cup of coffee
Mom prepared to deliver herself
At a village where there is no doctor
That is what I call home, My Village
Jan 24, The Word LOVE - Visitor's Love Poem
by Sihem Hammouda
(Tunisia)
LOVE, is a four?letter word that makes kings, emperors, dictators kneel on their knees and moan from the dawn of man history till the day of resurrection.
LOVE is a magic spell that turns the most hideous woman into a princess in the eyes of her lover.
LOVE makes out of a fool a poet writing his poems from the silver moonlight.
L.O.V.E: People all over the world spell this word differently saying "I love you" in different tongues, but they all experience the same feeling; being drunk with love.
L: It?s the sacred letter in the word LOVE. It stands for loyalty. Love as any other game in life has rules and to play it you have to stick to the rules or you lose, and one of the rules is to be loyal. You can?t see, but the person you love loyalty also binds you to be there comes what comes, loyalty binds also to protect him or her by your life.
O: The dictator O. It stands for own, I love you and I own you, you?re mine soul and body the day you occupied my heart.
V: The mean V it stands for vicious, I?ll do whatever it takes me to keep you, your love is the fountain of my life and I won?t let you go so I?m going to fight for your love.
E: The eternal e stands for eternity, your love will be eternal.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Jan 24, Thank You - Visitor's Poem
by Theresa Rafuse
(Nova Scotia, Canada)
Thank you is such a small thing to say when someone's kindness has made your day.
When it feels like life has torn you down...some gentle words can bring you around.
Life isn't easy, it's lessons learned. Sometimes you prevail, sometimes you're burned.
It's how you take it on the cuff, that shows you, yes...you're strong enough.
Jan 24, Believe - Visitor's Poem
by Claire Marie Murray
(Motherwell, Scotland, UK)
Always do your very best and keep a positive mind
Live your life so passionately and be the loving kind
Discover your greatest potential in everything you do
Follow your heart?s desire and make your dreams come true
Every day you have a chance to work towards your goal
Moment to moment, step by step from deep within your soul
You can do it, face your fears and you will achieve
Go for it, make it happen and within yourself believe
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Jan 17, Transfigure Me to Child - Visitor's Poem
by Shisir Pokahrel
(Kathmandu, Nepal)
I want to be a child
Who don't care a cent for life
And try to dare all the fear of the life
I want to think like a child
I want to act like a child
Whose life is fine! Fine as wine?
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For them they have their own thoughts.
They are like the arrow which is released from the bow
And don?t know where to go.
That unhappy childhood's terror
So easy to repair.
They had freedom to run, fall, and climb big trees
Soaking wet socks, over their knees.
Those moments were like heaven on earth.
Where nothing is expensive, at no cost.
When I was little
I knew nothing of the world,
I dreamed of butterflies and birds
Now I am grown up.
I feel like autumn after the spring.
I feel like scarecrow who is tired of standing in his lonely field.
I measure every grief I meet
With questioning eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
I pray to the god for transfiguring me back.
Giving back my childhood
Where I used live for my own good.
Jan 17, Desire - Visitor's Poem
by Micah Danielle Hetrick
(South Bend, IN, USA)
There are places you have yet gone,
Feelings yet to let go,
Release yourself and feel those unknown desires,
You live by lessons learned,
What's life without the
Journey of love.
Letting go of the past hurt to feel again
is the first step to finding yourself.
Desire the dream that was once
said to be the impossible.
And you will find the one worth searching for.
Your North Star who is always constant.
Jan 17, These Days - Visitor's Friendship Poem
by Nicky Bindra
(India)
These lines change my life
today you are part of me and
I send you these beautiful words
you are special to me always
I want to tell you
friends are born not made
we know each other from heaven.
If you died today
I will die with you
don't care where you are going
heaven or in hell
I am always besides you
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Jan 17, Sihem Hammouda's Quotes - Visitor's Quotes
by Sihem Hammouda
(Tunisia )
1) A lie is like a bead in a pearl necklace once the thread is unfastened, one falling bead will lead to the fall of others in the same way one lie will pave way to many lies.
2) A man?s heart is like a puzzle, any woman can do it provided that she puts the right piece in the right place.
3) Women always fall in the love of their friends because they?re always find what they?re yearning for in a lover in that friend; never misspell their names, smile on their silly jokes, and tell them stories of his childhood.
4) Heart is a temple where the soul dwells so never tarnish it with hatred, grudge.
5) Muster your courage and tell the world you?re in love, because once you sing that song you will hear it everywhere, the world is just waiting for someone to beat the drum for the song of love.
6) Never hesitate to confess your love, who knows you doing that in that timing to that person might save his life. The people who love us are that thin thread hanging us to life.
7) My heart have been sick for years but lately I can hear his beats, it?s like he?s reshuffling his cards with death to make a space for your love, I won?t die today nor tomorrow.
8) Love and death play with the same rules, when it?s time to the game to start, age, place, religion do not matter.
9) Why do we speak out our hatred while we just whisper our love?
Jan 17, Let Your Love Shine Everywhere - Visitor's Poem
Shine a light in every corner of our heart
Light up the magic in every little partShine a light in every corner of our dream
Like the mighty river flowing from the streamLight up the magic for every boy and girl
Brothers and sisters and everyone we meetLet us all shine a light together to light the way
Then our love will shine a light in each other's heart.
Jan 17, Have You Lived Enough? - Visitor's Poem
by Gia Guru Nayak
(Gloucestershire, UK)
Have you lived enough? Enough to say you lived your life to the fullest.
Do you appreciate the fact that you are blessed with everything you always wanted?
Do you appreciate the fact that you are born with all the senses working?
Hands to work with, legs to walk with and heart to love with?
Do you appreciate the fact that you love someone without expecting much in return?
Do you appreciate the fact that you get different options to eat, clothes to wear and clean water to drink?
Do you appreciate people who gave you birth and your ancestors who gave them lives?
Do you appreciate the fact that you are blessed with enough thoughts to keep you going for your survival and means to living?
Today if you find out that it?s your last day to live would you smile and look up to say thank you.
Would you appreciate for everything you are blessed with?
Jan 17, Lost in Thought: Journey Back to the Present Moment - Visitor's Story
by Chuck Koehler
(Westchester, CA, USA)
At an early age, unbeknownst to my conscious mind, I started forming a belief system that I was a mistake, unlovable, worthless, somehow flawed, and that other people would only reject, hurt, or abandon me; therefore, I never had any close friends as I never let myself love or be loved by other human beings throughout my life, until recently. This is a story of suffering followed by the healing and recognition of my spirit, which allowed me to forgive myself and my mother, when actually there was no ?one? to forgive.
My beliefs were due to my misperception of my dysfunctional family environment as having something to do with my ?value? as a human being on this planet we call earth. Continued parental neglect, abuse by others, and traumatic events seemed to confirm that human beings can?t be trusted and that there was something wrong with me?I was inherently defective and wasn?t ?good enough?, which further strengthened my beliefs. Also, a couple of traumatic events seemed unique only to me as I have never personally known anyone else who has gone through the same things, such as growing up with a deformity that I tried to keep hidden from the rest of the world as well as developing a chronic myofascial medical condition, which only further entrenched my beliefs as I felt even more different, distinct, and defective.
These early core beliefs as well as my anger towards myself and others eventually manifested into numerous psychological disorders such as social anxiety & phobia, depression, addiction, dissociation, OCD, and BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder) throughout my life. I now realize that my beliefs were formed from early thoughts and feelings of mistrust and not belonging in this world as I felt worthless and helpless. I felt extremely unsafe and wasn?t taught to express my thoughts and feelings by and to adults as well as having them explain to me that those thoughts and feelings could be challenged, let go of, and didn?t represent who I think I truly am? a loving, spiritual being having a human experience.
Therefore, I have been a virtual prisoner most of my life as my pain and loneliness became my constant companions due to being lost in thoughts created by my egoistical left-brain, which did everything in its power to protect, defend, or enhance ?me? by attempting to control ?me?, others, and my environment based on my core beliefs. It thought there was a ?me? that needed protecting, defending, or enhancing as a way of surviving in this world as a distinct, deficient ?me?. I also became very comfortable with my pain and suffering as it seemed ?normal? and ?all-I-knew? throughout most of my life.
Eventually, my life became so painful, chaotic, and unmanageable that I could no longer live with the ?me? that I though I was and found the inner strength to seek out help from therapists and other people through various spiritual-based avenues, which allowed me to express the emotional pain that I kept pushing down and running away from my whole life.
If I had only intuitively sensed then, what I intuitively sense now, that I am an eternal, infinite, loving spirit or awareness that is intimately connected with and a part of everyone and everything in this universe. Awareness is formless and always available to me only in the present moment or I?m lost in regrets and resentments of the past, future worries, judgments of yourself and others, or being concerned with the judgments by others, so either living in the present moment with joy and peace or imprisoned by my thoughts causing unrelenting suffering in my life.
How I have been caught up in my delusions and illusions of what I deemed the universe, you, and me to be as I never investigated my assumptions, opinions, and beliefs until recently! My intuitive sense is that everything is connected together, a Oneness if you will, at an energetic, spiritual level. Can I prove it? No! Do I want to prove it? No! That is just more egotistical-questions feeding and reinforcing themselves.
What am I really certain of? Only that ?I exist? or ?I am?, which is constantly aware of my thoughts, my body, and my immediate surroundings whether I believe it or not, so it?s not a belief. Other than that, nothing except mystery and uncertainty as anytime I try to understand or explain the unexplainable I lessen the beauty or essence surrounding it as well as possibly cause more suffering to myself, or the possibility of others causing suffering to themselves, as my ?egoisticic? left-brain wants to be ?enough? by being more right or knowledgeable than others. Would I rather be kind or would I rather be right? I always wanted to be right until now.
In ?My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist?s Personal Journey? by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, she describes the left-brain as displaying analytical, narcissistic behavior; whereas, the right-brain tends to have selfless behavior, feelings, and uses the senses to interpret ?the big picture?.
After further contemplation, I realized that more than likely my right-brain had started shutting down at a fairly young age as I dissociated more-and-more from the world and my surroundings due to the emotional pain I wasn?t able to process or express to others, so I decided to write about my journey back home?to the present moment?and the insights that I have gained from my suffering through introspection, spiritual teachers, workshops, books, and therapists.
By forming close connections with family and friends, finding a meaning and purpose in my life; expressing and sharing my feelings with therapists, friends, and support groups; engaging in spiritual books and movies; and intuitively sensing that there is no ?thing? or no ?one? to forgive was I able to dissolve my core beliefs and finally get in touch with who I think I really am and have always been?awareness. A loving, eternal, infinite spiritual being having a human experience that is much more vast and wondrous than I could have ever imagined, helping me to realize that human suffering is pervasive in our fast-paced, over-stimulated, and technology-driven society. I now realize that my suffering and the beautiful souls who I?ve met along the way, were my greatest spiritual teachers. I personally do not follow any religious beliefs or doctrines, only use spiritual teachings as pointers to what I think is the Truth.
Jan 17, The Power of Making a Change - Visitor's Message
by Elijah Elijah Douglas-Smith
(England)
You have all heard about people wanting to make a change, possibly from their daily lives, yet they never seem to do so. Well for me when I hear make a change I tell the person to forget making the change and for them to BE the change. So many people are scared to do something about change, I mean it's funny because we all want to do it, but first you have to change yourself to see the change, become the change you want to see in the world.
I've noticed something also, with life if you are doing a test or going for a job interview or whatever, you honestly think that you are not going to pass- you are not going to succeed however, whilst doing that task- everyone, everyone you know, knows that you can the power to succeed however the only person doubting your gift is yourself, the only person stopping yourself, is yourself. Therefore believe in everything that you are doing, that way you are breaking down some mental barriers and achieving your dreams.
Right, now that's physical, your idea, your dream that are physical in the universe- it right there right in front of you, now you having those dreams gives you a thrust towards it but the universe is keeping you away from reaching those dreams- your friends and what not- but if you believe and you work hard you can do it- the universe is like water and it will part and that thrust- your dreams will come to you.
Just follow two things in life:
Running - when you run, for ages you have a person telling you to stop running because you are tired. And look, if you managed to defeat that person and continue running and apply that to everything, you will succeed in life.
Reading - there have been millions and billions of people who lived before us and have had the same problems but they have written them down for the future generations. All you have to do is pick up a book a read the solution.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Jan 17, Grace's Time with You - Visitor's Love Quote
by Grace
(USA)
Every second I spend with you is absolutely amazing and wonderful, I never want to miss any chances of getting to be with you, I wouldn?t care where we were or what we were doing, because if I were with you it wouldn?t matter.
Jan 17, Gia Guru Nayak's The Problem- Visitor's Quote
by Gia Guru Nayak
(Gloucestershire, UK)
Problem is not when you don't know something, problem is when you think you know everything.
Jan 17, Samuel B. Chinji's Feelings - Visitor's Quote
by Samuel B. Chinji
(Johannesburg, South Africa)
I have no negative feelings for people who have succeeded, but I have positive feelings of how I can contribute towards people who are fighting for survival.
Jan 17, Samuel B. Chinji's Grateful - Visitor's Quote
by Samuel B. Chinji
(Johannesburg, South Africa)
I am grateful that I went into class learning ABCD, but I am even more grateful that I encountered great people after my class's life who have tremendously impacted positively on my achievements.
Jan 17, Gia Guru Nayak's Control - Visitor's Quote
by Gia Guru Nayak
(Gloucestershire, UK)
Learn to control yourself not others, as power is not as mightier as intelligence.
Jan 17, Colin Ong's Memory - Visitor's Quote
by Colin Ong Tau Shien
(Singapore)
The beautiful thing about your memory is that though it has a large capacity, it still allows you to store whatever you choose. Ultimately, you are in control.
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