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LOVE-Apologia

18 08 2014

For a long time neither of us speaks. He turns to me and gives me a bow so deep I think he is going to topple over. Straightening up again, he says, ‘I am sorry, for what we did to you. I am deeply sorry.’

‘Your apology is meaningless,’I say, taking a step back from him. ‘It’s worth nothing to me.’

His shoulders stiffen. I expect him to walk away from the pavilion. But he stands there, not moving.

‘We had no idea what my country did,’ he says.

[Tan Twang Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists]

The Apology http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/whyfactor/whyfactor_20140711-1830a.mp3

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/opinion/learning-to-forget-tibet-in-china.html?_r=

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/opinion/nicholas-kristof-dont-dismiss-the-humanities.html

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Categories : consciousness, Free Will, Governance, Love, Uncategorized

GOD: The Gospel of Truth

4 08 2014

“Having knowledge, he does the will of the one who called him, he wishes to be pleasing to him, he receives rest. Each one’s name comes to him. He who is to have knowledge in this manner knows where he comes from and where he is going.”
– The Gospel of Truth

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinianism

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Categories : consciousness, God, Letters, Love, science, Uncategorized

A Family Torn Apart

23 07 2014

“My mother is a daughter of Zion. One side of her family fled from Russian pogroms in the Pale of Settlement, the other was caught up in the rise of Nazism in the cauldron of 20th-century Europe… My father’s family belongs to the other camp. He was only a boy when the Irgun and Haganah came rolling into Jaffa on the waves of tanks and mortars… I have a daughter now who carries both bloodlines and must somehow learn to live at peace with the two sides of her heritage.” – Claire Hajaj

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/01/my-jewish-mother-my-palestinian-father-and-family-torn-apart-260422.html

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Tags: conflict resolution, family, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
Categories : consciousness, Death, Free Will, Governance, Love, Morality

LOVE: goes on forever

16 07 2014

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Categories : consciousness, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Love, Uncategorized

Beauty is Sanskrit, the language that opens the heart

3 07 2014

– Luna (age 5)

Thank you St James for a wonderfully rich school year (and for giving my girls the gift of Sanskrit).

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Categories : consciousness, Education, Language, Love, Uncategorized

Tupi or not Tupi

29 06 2014

“Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question.” – Oswald de Andrade

Haiti

Cucurrucucú paloma (originally written by Tomas Mendez)

Caetano Veloso (the 5th of 7 children) is a Brazilian musician, writer and political activist. He was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil. In the 60s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship, Veloso collaborated with a group of artists (including his sister) and founded Tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant-garde music. But the government at the time found him threatening and he and fellow musician Gilberto Gil were exiled in 1969–they moved to London. When Veloso returned to his home country, in 1972, he started recording and performing again–still a rock-star, age 71.

Veloso studied philosophy at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, which influenced both his artistic expression and viewpoint on life. Two of his favourite philosophers were Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger

THANK you WIKI [If you’re interested in donating to Wikimedia Foundation, you can do so here.]

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Tags: 1960s, Brazil, Caetano Veloso, Giberto Gil, Heidegger, Sartre
Categories : consciousness, Governance, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized

So well said

29 06 2014

“I know all the competitive insecurity that infects parents around schools, exams and universities. I’ve seen too many desperate kids becoming extensions of adults’ vanity, insecurity and desire for a second chance. And I told my children I had no interest in seeing their reports or knowing their exam results. Nothing they achieve will ever make me prouder of them than the day they were born. Nothing they do or don’t do will make me love them one iota less.”

– AA. Gill

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1427723.ece

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Tags: A.A. Gill, Education
Categories : consciousness, Education, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Uncategorized

Beauty is language, happiness is putting it to good use

28 06 2014

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Categories : Beauty, consciousness, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Language, Uncategorized

I LOVE Sushi: let children lead the way towards peace

20 06 2014

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Categories : consciousness, Governance, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Love, Morality, Uncategorized

Happiness is watching mothers come together to change the world

19 06 2014

“Motherhood makes you more employable, not less.” – Mariella Frostrup

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Categories : consciousness, Creativity, Governance, People

A 7-year old’s wrath of justice

9 06 2014

Philomena – It’s fine if people smoke, I understand that but I would make throwing cigarette butts on the street illegal.
Mummy – What else would you make illegal if you had the power to do so?
Philomena- If I were Queen, I would make stealing–robbery–illegal.
Mummy- Stealing is already illegal. Tell me, what would you do if you caught a robber?
Philomena- I would have the police make the robber return everything he stole. And then put him in jail.
Mummy- For how long?
Philomena- Until he said he was sorry and promised never to do it again.

Mummy- And what if he broke his promise and after he was free began steeling again?

Philomena- I would put him in jail until he said he was really sorry and promised not to do it again. He would have to return everything though.

Mummy- And what if he broke his promise again after that?

Philomena- I would put him in jail again until he swore to God and crossed his heart never to do it again.

Mummy – And if he broke that promise again?

Philomena – I would have my servants tie up his legs and his arms and put him up against a wall. Then I would have them shoot arrows at him until he was completely dead.