Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the door. "I would like to see the wise Holy Man," he said to the servant. The servant smiled and led him inside. As they walked through the house, the man from the village looked eagerly around the house, anticipating his encounter with the Holy Man. Before he knew it, he had been led to the back door and escorted outside. He stopped and turned to the servant, "But I want to see the Holy Man!""You already have," said the old man. "Everyone you may meet in life, even if they appear plain and insignificant... see each of them as a wise Holy Man. If you do this, then whatever problem you brought here today will be solved."The most violent element in society is ignorance.A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou".. JigZone: T at MnM..'s Jigsaw PuzzleQigong, travel, theatre, art, helping to make the world smoke free, travel, writing, dancing, travel, photography, music, comedy, books, handbags, snorkeling, monkeys, fashion, puppies, horses, working toward my master's degree in Speech Pathology, travel, our puppies Pot Pie and Cupcake. And most important of all my wonderful husband James. I grew up on a wind farm. I do my own stunts. I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered all over the beaches of the world maybe you've seen it. YOU MUST EAT AT THE PNEUMATIC DINER IN RENO NOW! They serve the most fabulous vegetarian and vegan dishes. 501 W. First St. 2nd floor (entrance on Ralston Street) Phone 775-786-8888 ext. 106"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Stan Brock www.ramusa.org, Maya Angelou. Alice Walker. Whoopi Goldberg. Condoleezza Rice. Gerard Butler. Paul Newman. Dick Gregory. Gene Hackman. William Shatner. Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe. Linda Carter. Chad Vader. Tom Hanks. For some reason everyone thinks that my husband looks like him or they used to when he wore glasses which Tom Hanks does not. Now that James got the Lasik and is sans glasses strangers no longer walk up to him and tell him he looks like Hanks. Odd. They say that we all have a twin. Mine is in Nova Scotia. When I was in Ontario for a Baha'i conference 20 years ago everyone thought that I was her. I'd like to meet her too.Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."Here is a brief list of things you can do to help sharks:Dive and snorkel with sharks. The more money that goes into shark tourism the more people will realize the value of living sharks.Refuse to eat shark fin soup and don't eat at restaurants that serve it.Encourage others to do the same.Seventeen countries have already banned shark finning. Find out if your country is one of them. If not, write your local government official asking them to ban shark finning.Demand that your country also stop the importation of shark fins.Start a letter writing campaign to the Secretary General of the UN requesting international bans on shark finning and the importation of fins.Keep informed of the issue online at: www.seashepherd.org, www.wildaid.org, www.cocosisland.org, www.sharktrust.org, www.iemanyaoceanica.org, www.tortugamarina.org, www.savingsharks.com and www.sharkwater.com.Check out this video: SHARKWATER: TRAILER
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Add to My Profile | More VideosDescription: For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the earth's history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed.Stewart's remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world's sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.
Nina Simone, Prince, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, Brandi Carlile, 5 Thirty 5, India Arie, Macy Gray, Cat Stevens, Overnight Lows, Joni Mitchell, C + C Music Factory, New Edition, Under the Influence of Giants, LL Cool J, Maroon 5, Tenacious D, Charlotte Church, Betty Carter, Kanye West, Paolo Nutini, Lisa Lisa, The Why Store, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Richard Cheese, Gustavo Dudamel, Blues, Polka, Classical Guitar, Disco, Show Tunes from musicals like Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera (The recent movie was awesome. I don't care what any critic says Gerard Butler is better than Michael Crawford!), RENT (The movie was fabulous), Cabaret (The movie stunk. Don't ever see it. Go see the play. Trust me.) Across the Universe movie soundtrack.
Has anyone ever noticed how all of Tom Hanks' movies are sad? Even the comedies. All are sad in some way. Think about it. And why does Edward Norton have to take his shirt off in every movie? Or why does John Cusack get rained on in every movie that he's in?Phantom of the Opera (2004), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pulp Fiction, Rent, Clerks, Across the Universe, Quick Change, The Blues Brothers, Station Agent, Forrest Gump, The Jerk, Napoleon Dynamite, The Royal Tenenbaums, Walk the Line, Hard Eight, Blow, The Pursuit of HappYness, The Family Stone, Love Actually, Cast Away, Remains of the Day, The Big Lebowski, Sense and Sensibility, I Got the Hook Up, Gangs of New York. Dinner at Eight, It Happened One Night, The Heiress, Not as a Stranger, My Man Godfrey, Light in the Piazza, Waterloo Bridge, Cool Hand Luke... width="425" height="350" ....You know you're in a theater in Vegas when: a) people are dressed in tank tops and shorts; b) requests to turn cellphones off are ignored; c) the rude idiots sitting next to you talk through the entire performance or d) all of the above."A day without tea is a day without joy" - Chinese proverb
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Chi Kung: Cultivating Personal Energy Author Eleanor McKenziehttp://www.poets.org/state.php/varState/NVFAVORITE AUTHORS: Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Camus, Dick Gregory FAVORITE BOOKS: Confederacy of Dunces, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Black Like Me, The First Man, Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Coffee Tea or Me, Grand Opening, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, The Strange One, Black Star Rising, Peyton Place, Biographies and Autobiographies; favorites written by Maya Angelou and Agatha Christie. Solving the Interstitial Cystitis Puzzle: A Guide to Natural Healing by Amrit K. Willis. http://www.holisticnurse.com/icbooks.html The Ultimate Diet: Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats by Kymythy Schultze. Read about and email the author at Kymythy.com.Pretentious Illiterate
Add to My Profile | More Videos"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." Maya Angelou
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..Stan Brock www.ramusa.orgSometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses."I want something peppy, something happy, something up-tempo. I want something snappy." We are all lighthouses in a foggy world. Energy flows where attention goes."The important thing is to not stop questioning." Albert EinsteinThink of all the grain, rice & potatoes going into making alcohol. Tobacco is a total waste. Being vegan is fine but if vegans want the world to be vegan in order to help stop global warming & feed starving people they'd better ALL stop smoking & drinking!You can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat those who can do nothing for them.When one loves, nothing is too much trouble, and there is always time. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá