Folks!

FOR EVERYONE

Taking a couple days out ... see you all soon. :O)

Essence of Love

These recent days seem to span into each other

Like a river which flows into the sea

Only the moon and stars tell me the day has ended

And the sweetness of birds that chirp at dawn

tell me a new day has been born.

The blanket of the night covered me like the cloak of love

As I walked the streets of home
My breath and shadow took up company with me

Not leaving me alone

The black velvet space transfixed me

As if I was under the Illusionist, mystified and mesmerized

Gazing up at the stars that sparkled bright

Divine burts of spleandor in the sky

immortalized

Each sparkle carried the essence of your love.

I love you my Beloved.

Quotes on Stars

“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest”

“God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine”
David Nicholas quotes

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
ren1219
Harriet Tubman quotes

“The stars are the street lights of eternity.”

Natures Ways.

Credit Photograph flickr by the product of

Natures Ways

How wonderful natures beauty can be
Reflecting God's sacred love for all to see
How grateful I am that I have eyes that can gaze
Upon the changing seasons ways
That I can feel the breeze, blowing in my hair
A feeling of freedom and free of care
To gaze upon a soft moving cloud
Towering white galleons that look so proud
Vivid visions of everything aglow
Comes the showers, then a colourful rainbow
Minstral of love delights the earth with a kiss
Upon the ever constant moving ocean of bliss

Quotes on nature.

Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Claude Monet:
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

Galileo:
The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Henry David Thoreau:
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.


Luther Burbank:
A flower is an educated weed.

Make your dream a reality

Make your dream a reality

don't allow your fears

to enter and lead you into the abyss of self doubt

where your dream will dissolve into the sea of what might of been.

fear comes with a penalty

within the fear you feel safe

it is an illusion

because you lose your freedom

Let Love be your guide

actions is your safety

within the safe Hands of God

and gently allow your dream to unfold.

Live your dreams.

The journey of apathy is resolved by seeing the import, the journey of futility is resolved by seeing the value, and the journey of fear is resolved by seeing the strength within, for all fear is a fear that one is unable to deal with what is ahead. (Master S.)

Don Miguel Ruiz:
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Jane Addams:
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Goodnight

Thank you everyone for popping in. I tried to get to as many of your posts as I could before going to bed. For those that I have missed accept my apologies. I have just had a busy week not had time to do any posts. Hugs for everyone.

May write a post about dreams.

Dream Quotes

Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dom Helder Camara:
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Henry David Thoreau:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Hobbes (of Calvin and ...):
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

Anatole France:
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Walking and Climbing.

Sunday afternoon took me out with my camera.
Here it shows you how the moods of the weather changed from being still to vivacious and wild.

Blackstone Edge is a bleak rocky outcrop overlooking the Lancashire towns of Rochdale and Littleborough to the north east of the Manchester conurbation.
The A58 passes close by, en route from Halifax and Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire's Bronte Country.

Sun trying to smile

through the clouds

that tumbled down

silently caressing the earth

like the Divine Lover

that gently strokes

the spine of the horizon

sitting on a rock

pondering and

gazing into the eyes of nature

a glimpse of the sun

and a sudden outburst of laughter

filled the heavens

the mood changed

and dropped a shroud

and bequethed us with a frown

Are we not like the moods of the weather?

Quotes:

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
Bill Watterson quotes

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George H. Allen (1922 - 1990)

Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning; Choose thine own time; Say not 'Good-night'; but in some brighter clime Bid me 'Good-morning'.

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)

My favourite

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau

The Magic of Your Heart.

The above painting is the symbol of Sufism as Hazrat taught it is a "heart with wings." It is considered by many Sufis that the heart holds the key to consciously living life in the presence of God.

Poem by Rumi

No longer!

No Longer



No longer do I mourn in the mirror at the reflection of my waning youth
But gaze within the depths of my eyes in raptures at my pending eternal joy
No longer shall I be saddened and weighed down by the desires I do not hold within my grasp
But rejoice in the richness of the fruits of life that are laid before me to feast and fulfil my appetite
No longer will I thirst for the material possessions of life that are temporal and inanimate
But be quenched by Love pouring abundantly from within my heart that has be filled with aliveness
No longer will tender sentiments and nostalgia rule my life, shackling and seizing my illusions like grieving trophies.
But let me relish in my arousal of wonder at every aborning moment that is bestowed upon me and be grateful that I have a choice
No longer will my stumbling in the alleys of despair and becoming downhearted over take me
But I shall be triumphant that it has strengthened my very spirit and made me aware
No longer will the shroud of darkness obscure my view of the Beauty that resides within my ageing body
But I shall increase my vision and express the Beauty upon all I meet.
No longer will walls and frivolities of the mundane world steal my energy and entomb me
But let every stone wall I have built be clawed down till my fingers bleed and I rejoice in the pain of my long last awaited freedom
No longer will false idols of society impress me with their sad and tasteless life
But the visions of Nature …the air that I breathe … the whisper from a passing breeze … the sun as it kisses the earth … and the taste of wine and passion shall be my intoxications of love

Life is simplicity … be still and silent and listen

the above poem is a very old one of mine ... it may of appeared on earlier post.


Quotes on Simplicity

John V. Cheney
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest

Hans Hofmann
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

John Morley, 19th-century British statesman
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.

E. F. Schumacker
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Being

This beautiful photograph was taken by a friend on Flickr. Natasha 86's
A wonderful photographer.









There is a kind of stillness that surrounds our silence
A mute secrecy
Soundless, boundless tranquility
Expanding blushings of ecstasy
That reach so far within the abyss of our heart
It is in this moment,
The Divine touches the soul and fills it with grace
Like the bursting of the sun at dawn
As it opens and greets the world.
It is in this stillness and silence
Being is born


Quotes on Being:

Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Doris Mortman
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.


Addison Walker
It's not true that nice guys finish last.
Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Always my Love

flowers sway to and fro

the flickering of the mind

cradles past and present

Among the mist of daylight dawning,
The sun rises to embrace and kiss the earth
As the trees and birds awake from their dream
Your image impressed on my stirring mind

I cannot hide this love I have for you
Whispering I eternity waits for your return
Hours pass in the warmth of the afternoon sun
As lazy spring flowers tease and kiss
Intoxicated by the gentle breeze

I let my thoughts travel across the seas
Sailing upon the crowning crest of a wave
The ebb of life will not steal you from me
As I gently and safely hold you in my arms
Listen my darling to my heart beats
It speaks volumes of love for thee.

Dedicated to the one I love, always my darling!

The Heart Asks The Pleasure First

Composer~ Nyman

Dedicated to master s ~ Namaste

Extract from poem Burt Norton by TS Eliot

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past.
What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden.

My words echo

Thus, in your mind.

Satie and Beethoven

Satie -Gymnopedi

Great way to learn to play the piano ... great view of the finger movements.

Dedicated to Love.

Dedicated to my love ... at the drop of a heart beat.

Moonlight Sonata ~ Enjoy this.

One can get so lost into listening to music. Closing your eyes and drift.

Love
Far and wide wherever I stroll your shadow follows behind
Stepping in and out of the ocean of life within the illusionary time
The moon and stars sparkle and light the way to my bed
As you stir the flames in my heart and in my head
Dreaming of kissing you beneath the boughs of the Willow
Using your shoulder for the softness of a heavenly pillow
Drink with me this golden chalice of warm ruby wine
Let my love flow and ripple the length of your spine
Your love glistens in the dark, as you unfold my petals to excite
Fill me with your nectar, pearls of love pure and white
Our hearts pound across desert sands as our silken bodies ride
Kissing, gazing into beautiful eyes; thrilling feeling intoxicated inside
Within the beauty of my dream you make love to me
And I softly make love to thee.

Quotes:

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

Happy Valentines to You All

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.-

Crystal Middlemas -

You know you are in lovewhen you see the world in her eyes,and her eyes everywhere in the world.- David Levesque

Love is strong yet delicate.It can be broken.To truly love is to understand this.To be in love is to respect this.- Stephen Packer -

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,but because it sees more it is willing to see less.- Will Moss

Assumptions

We often make assumptions in a situation or within our relationships, to which we are always trying to rationalise our assumptions. Trying to justify our thoughts Usually these assumptions do not have any valid truth in them.
Such as in gossiping about another, people will gossip about another which could have no truth in it and could be quite damaging. Yet, people do it daily. Without any verification of proof.

When we make assumptions it feels safe ... the mind needs satisfying.

In situations we can assume something within our private thought world ... creating a story that satisfies the needs of the mind for reason depending on the situation it could make us feel safe ... and then in other situations it can hurl a mountain of illusions out at you.
This reason we have made by our assumption may not have any validity ... not even truth as long as we feel safe.
We assume that everyone sees things in the same way as we do. That is not so.
People cannot read your mind, nor can you ... although you may assume that they do or that you do.

Perhaps if, at the point of this assuming, we must learn to be flexible ... learn to question the assumption and stop creating a rational answer. Yet, to us an answer is needed even if this answer is not truth to satisfy the mind.

In relationships we tend to jump to a barage of conclusions and within these conclusions we create a barrier of illusions. Thus, a relationship could collapse because of it, because of the misunderstanding. It is better to enquire ... to ask I feel. Do not try to change the person nor allow them to change you. You change because you choose to. In love people have to accept each other for who they are.

We are also in the habbit of making assumptions about ourselves, by underestimating or overestimating ourselves then we find we are not able to fulfil a task. Do not say YES when you really mean NO this will only cause resentments.

How often have we all done this ... said YES when really wanted to say NO. I hold my hands up to that. We say this because we assume the other will be hurt or annoyed because we say NO. More often than not the true answer allows you freedom and also the chance for the other person to make arrangements with someone else that would be quite happy to say YES.

Assumptions ... Clarify with a question ... perhaps it will cause less pain all round.

Quotes:

Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. G. H. Lewes

Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. John Gay

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Denis Waitley

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. George Bernard Shaw

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. Albert Low

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. Eric Hoffer

“The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning”
Stephen Jay Gould quotes


“Assumption is the mother of the screw-up”
Angelo Donghia quotes

Confused by luna

Entangled

Let go

Be free

*

*

*

Breathe

in

Breathe

out

Breathe

in

Manchester City - United Kingdom

Manchester City thriving and cosmopolitan city! This is my home.





The CIS building in the background was Manchesters first skyscraper.




The above is the Lowry. It is houses a theatre, and art gallery.

JS Lowry

Far right His matchstick men painting.

The Bridgewater Hall a beautiful and modern concert hall.

The Ferris wheel that comes to the city once a year.



The Old Wellington Inn.

CLICK ON THE ABOVE PHOTO FOR THE HISTORY
OF THE INN.



On Saturday 15 June 1996, at a peak shopping time on Father's Day, a 3,000lb IRA bomb exploded in Manchester, injuring more than 200 people and ripping into the fabric of the city's main shopping centre. In a state of shocked disbelief, police had begun clearing people from the area some 40 minutes before the blast; fortunately, several telephoned warnings had been issued to newspapers, radio stations and to at least one hospital in Manchester an hour before the blast. Newspaper offices in Dublin and Belfast received similar warnings.
An army bomb squad employed a robotic anti-bomb device to check an illegally parked Ford van, which had been recorded by several closed circuit security cameras in the city, when the bomb exploded.
Manchester ambulance services counted 206 injured people. Most injuries were sustained from falling glass and building debris. In the immediately ensuing chaos, ambulances and private cars were used to shuttle victims to local and regional hospitals.
Local authorities had to close Victoria and Piccadilly railway stations for several hours and to seal off the city centre. The evacuation of shoppers immediately took place from the Marks & Spencer's department store, which was directly at the centre of the site, outside which the lorry-bomb was parked.
Initially, the evacuated staff and shoppers stood outside, right next to the bomb, but when the emergency services realised this they shunted them to the nearby Victoria Station. Why Manchester city centre was targeted by the IRA is uncertain, but it later became clear that the cause probably lay in the breakdown of the IRA "ceasefire" in the light of lack of progress with the British Government's ongoing talks about a permanent peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
It was estimated that up to 50,000 square metres of retail space and nearly 25,000 square metres of office space have subsequently needed to be reconstructed. Whilst much of the city centre has now reopened, the immediate area surrounding the blast site, including parts of the Arndale Centre, the Corn Exchange, the Royal Exchange, Royal Insurance's Longridge House and Marks and Spencer's remain cordoned off and a considerable amount of demolition has had to take place. Marks & Spencer's store, alas, was totally demolished, and the Royal Insurance Building is no more, as are several shops in the immediate vicinity.


This is my avenue where I live, just in the suburbs not to far from the city centre.
















Manchester city is very lively in the evenings lots of things going on. From heavy rock concerts to Classical.



Night life ... lots of clubs, modern and contemporary wine bars.

The young lady on

the right is my daughter.

:o)



We have a fantastic mueseum, art gallery and stadiums.

We were very lucky to be able to host the Common Wealth Games here.

We have a famous Football Team ... Manchester United ... to which the Glazier Family bought not too long ago. Manchester United had and has many brilliant players to name a few.

George Best ... Nobby Stiles ... Ryan Gigs ... David Beckham. David Beckham has now been bought by the Americans. :o(

Manchester is famous for its Curry Mile. Delights of Indian Food on a mile run, restaurant after restaurant with an array of neon lights.

This is our China Town.





Anyone else like to share their photographs of their home towns.

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Search

Search beneath the blanaket of snow

Where the wind does blow in the bleakness of the Highland snow
His spirit walks through the rolling of the heathers that nestle and grow
Her heart a shadowing glow beneath the face of the eloquent moon
to unite her with her true Love, this moment is not a moment too soon
She will follow His spirit wherever he may roam and go
Like the satin ebb of an ocean of love flowing to and fro
Let the surge of the tide bring her true love to her lonely side
Searching for Him here and there, no longer can He hide
How she longs to see
How she longs to be
Endlessly her heart is callling to to move beneath His bough
To be intoxicated by His Love in the realms of the here and now

Something for all of you to see.

http://sharecompassion.blogspot.com/

The most amazing 12 year old.

Click on the blog above.

Matt has a great blog and he was sent this to view.

Everyone will be amazed by this young girl.

and by the great work that Matt does in bringing solutions and thoughts to worldwide issues.

Well done Matt for caring.

Starry, starry night

Each night,

the Moon kisses

secretly

the lover

who counts

the stars

by Rumi

When we gaze up into the dark velet sky and become aware that all of those sparkling stars are alive. Wow! Life ... out there the Universe and into infinity is Life.

Images of excited lights reflecting the dance of love. Are we too, not like these stars shining lights, reflections of beauty. We are all one ... part of the whole. We are not inseparable from the infinite.

Quotes:

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine”
David Nicholas

“Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night”
Sarah Williams quotes

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh quotes

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
Pamela Vaull Starr quotes

Dedicated to LOVE

Heart and Soul

http://www.glitter-graphics.com/gallery.php?categoryID=65

The mirror of

the heart must be

polished constantly

Befor you can see

clearly in it.

*****

It is certain

that an atom

of goodness

on the path

of faith is

never lost

by rumi

Quotes:

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light."-Plato

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran

Louis NizerA man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.