If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,* but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly,* but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;and the greatest of these is love. Save The World - One Click At A Time!
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I'd like to meet:
honestly, most of them have already passed on..... although there are a few i wouldn't mind meeting in person such as.....Amma, Chatral Rinpoche,Aung San Suu Kyi, Dolores Huerta, Leonard Peltier, Sister Helen Prejean, Nelson Mandela, Elijah Harper, Thich Nhat Hanh, Julia Butterfly, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ulali, Miriam Makeba, Sir Ian Mckellen, Gary Snyder, Sister Barbara Seaward, King Rama the 9th, the woman from peru who takes in countless homeless animals.as for 'everyday' people, i'm open. if i have anything to offer and you want to talk, i listen. anyone with a good heart. anyone who is creative and in the arts: visual and performance artists, musicians, writers, poets, traditional healers, people with something beautiful or good to share (even if it's just a good joke), etc. probably you reading this?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~" Seek to do brave and lovely things that are left undone by the majority of people. Give gifts of love and peace to those whom others pass by." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *nota bene* on friend requests: if i don't know you, kindly leave me some message first. i prefer to add people who send me a message and actively interact with me. (**in other words, if you send me a request w/out any message of intro. or even so much as a hello, you may not get added on my friends list. **) i would simply ask you to consider if you truly want me to be a friend to interact with. if i'm simply another name on your long list (i.e. you rarely talk to, leave comments, read blogs, etc.) there's no point of adding one another as friends, is there?~i don't want to be on your top 24 list -i'm not interested in that, but if you never interact in any way with me -we dont need to be in contact. :-) .. .. ..
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Softkey Left softkey Right .. .. You Raise Me Up
Music:
w.a. mozart, the beatles, crowded house,quiet drive, all american rejects, posies, live, pearl jam, indigo girls, nirvana, flogging molly, the fray, chieftains, depeche mode, kashtin, arrested development,dead can dance, clannad, xtc, front242, googoo dolls, echo and the bunnymen, celia cruz, flaco jimenez, freddie aguilar, the cure, elliot smith, rufus wainwright, abba, blur,seal, tori amos, ash,lemonheads, franz ferdinand, morrisey, radiohead, peter gabriel, the pogues, billy bragg, enya, billy holiday, kmfdm, sarah maclachlan, bob marley, andrea bocelli, josh groban, cranberries, toad the wet sprocket, moby, david bowie, kate bush, peter tosh, siouxsie and the banshees, ulali, new order, jason mraz, palestrina, REM, U2, gregorian chants, greenday, world beat- (black lodge singers, bhajans, salsa, bhangra, classical khmer and thai music, jigs and reels, classical vietnamese music, gypsy music, taiko, zydeco, klezmer,javanese and balinese gamelan, koto,fela kuti,tuvan throat singing, transglobal undergound, ravi shankar, nusrat fateh ali khan, anuradha paudwal, jagjit singh, yungchen lhamo, california bird songs, etc.) movie soundtracks (i.e. run lola run, latcho drom,color purple, amadeus,etc.
Movies:
baraka, into great silence, x-men, whale rider, kikujiro, little buddha, totoro, ratatouille, nightwatch, labyrinth, chronicles of narnia, lord of the rings, flatliners, something wicked this way comes, camp, the wild parrots of telegraph hill, el norte, together, corpse bride, shaun of the dead, hot fuzz, dim sum, monsoon wedding, beautiful thing, ma vie en rose, miss potter, basquiat, kung fu hustle, priscilla queen of the desert, harry potter, trainspotting, crouching tiger hidden dragon, star wars,nicotina, dead man walking, pompoko, les miserables, waking life, yellow submarine, groundhog day, the other, monty python's holy grail, jose rizal, the color purple, lemon snicket's a series of unfortunate events, latcho drom, big fish, seven samurai, little big man, the milagro beanfield war, nightmare before christmas, pi, kagemusha, run-lola-run, kundun, hedwig and the angry inch, tampopo, au revoir les enfants, my life as a dog, gandhi, les miserables, motorcycle diaries, the matrix, song of bernadette, drunken boxing, the mission, spirited away, la cite des enfants perdu, smoke signals, todo sobre mi madre, twelve chairs, amelie, il postino, naturally native, cats, dia de la bestia, the sound of music, el norte, princess mononoke, fried green tomatoes, t'ai-chi master, lilies of the field, local hero, gladiator, the sixth sense, distant thunder, indiana jones, cedar house rules, bringing up baby, it's a wonderful life, jesus christ superstar
Television:
ren and stimpy, northern exposure, quantum leap, riget(the kingdom),kids in the hall, black adder, family guy, spaced,goodness gracious, the twilight zone, absolutely fabulous, the office, the young ones, seinfeld, angel, X-files, chespirito, the simpsons, futurama, red dwarf, deep space nine, BBC news, cheers, taxi, bewitched, king of the hill, st elsewhere, fawlty towers, codco, little britain, vicar of dibley, monty python's flying circus, sesame street, the 4400, battlestar galactica.
Books:
a commentary on the awakening mind, i-ching, book of tobit, where the wild things are, ferdinand (the bull), bless me ultima, cook books, herbal manuals and materia medica, jatakas, dhammapada, bhagavad gita, tibetan book of the dead (bardo thodol), something beautiful for God, the hundred verses of advice, siete moradas, fioretti (little flowers of st francis), good life, good death, winnie the pooh, etc.
Heroes:
"May I be a guard for those who are protectorless, A guide for those who journey on the road. For those who wish to go across the water, May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge. May I be an isle for those who yearn for landfall, And a lamp for those who long for light; For those who need a resting place, a bed; For all who need a servant, may I be their slave. May I be the wishing jewel, the vase of plenty, A word of power and the supreme healing; May I be the tree of miracles, And for every being the abundant cow." ~ Shantideva************************************************** *************inspiration from teachers and examples, not idols to idolise, they're all as human as i am. none are on pedestals but i need constant reminders and when i despair and find it too difficult to go on with life, i remember these ordinary people who manifest extraordinary lives .....martin de porres, red cloud, rama, the 14th dalai lama, john trudell, dipa ma, lama zopa rinpoche, francis of assisi, vincent van gogh, helen keller, steven biko, albert schweitzer, padampa sangye, geronimo, thich quang duc, frida kahlo, aung san suu kyi, jane dumas, rosa parks, cesar chavez, vi hilbert, nelson mandela, julia butterfly, kasturba gandhi, don pedrito jaramillo, eknath easwaran, juan luna, oscar romero, buffy sainte marie, mahatma gandhi, domna karpovna, mother teresa of calcutta, maria martinez, abba moses, karol wojtyla, tekla haymanot, fr. damien de veuster, sister helen prejean, nicholas of myra, malcolm X, jeanne d'arc, dannette (dee) cornelius and other homeless people who struggle daily and still offer a smile and kindness to those who cannot offer the same to her, those who survived the spanish missions in california and the guarani missions in paraguay, those who walked the trail of tears, those who died at wounded knee, people who are blind or deaf who function daily in society, the countless who have crossed treacherous places and borders and sacrificed themselves to help their families and loved ones survive, the millions who died in concentration camps, mothers of the dissapeared, the woman in peru who takes in countless homeless stray dogs, cats, birds and whatever unwanted animals come to her home, the japanese-americans interned at manzanar, the chinese who built the railroads, the manongs who came to work in california and alaska, my grandmothers, my aunt, my mother and my father, harry potter, frodo baggins, seeing-eye-dogs, and yeah probably you. "Suffering is inherent in life, however we may try to conceal it, however often we may try to turn our eyes away from it. To any sensitive person who reads the paper, every morning can be a hard blow: murders, suicides, air crashes, war, violence, disease, poverty – in every country on the face of the earth. If you are sensitive, your heart will melt in grief. Yet the greatest joy lies in devoting your life to the amelioration (betterment) of this sorrow. The greatest fulfillment comes to you when you dedicate your life to bring some of these tragedies to an end, to wipe the tears away from the eyes of a few people.We needn’t rescue the whole world, or even a city, or neighborhood. We begin with those around us." ~Eknath Easwaran *************"this life has been given to you for metanoia, waste it not in vain pursuits"~ St Isaac of Syria*****
