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“From March 1979”
Weary of all who come with words, words but no language
I make my way to the snow-covered island.
The untamed has no words.
The unwritten pages spread out on every side!
I come upon the tracks of deer in the snow.
Language but no words.
- Tomas Tranströmer
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• A poem by the 2011 Nobel prize for literature winner. The poem is translated from Swedish by Robin Fulton from New Collected Poems, translated by Robin Fulton (Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
More:Tomas Tranströmer – My Nobel prize-winning hero – The literature prize means the world of poetry can finally raise a glass to salute this humble man – guardian.co.uk
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Here I was sitting yesterday, enjoying the sun, listening to happy birds singing and to the water swirling around. A moment of harmony and peace.
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I saw this on internet. I really hope that more people wake up, come to understand and begin to respect and treat all living beings in a more dignified and compassionate way…
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“And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer – because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”
In the middle of the his fight Torero Alvaro Munera realized the injustice to the animal. From that day forward he became an opponent of bullfights.
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See also: A Bullfighter, Faced With The Reality Of His Crimes
Look, to be a talented person doesn’t make you more human, more sensible, or more sensitive. There are lots of examples of murderers with a high IQ. But only those who have a sense of solidarity with other living beings are on their way to becoming better people. Those who consider the torture and death of an innocent animal a source of fun or inspiration are mean-spirited, despicable people. Never mind if they paint beautiful pictures, write wonderful books, or film great movies. A quill can be used to write with ink or blood, and many terrorists and drug dealers of the 21st century have university diplomas hanging on the wall. The virtues of the spirit, that’s what really counts in God’s eyes. – Alvaro Munera
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Quote from the article: “These little fruit flies, the same that hover around the brown bananas in your fruit bowl, are making complex decisions about how much alcohol to consume based on whether or not they have internal parasites,” Schlenke concluded.”
Perhaps one should think about this next time one wants to smash a little fruit fly? 
What intelligence nature has! Everything is so intricately linked together; how all the organs and their functions work together in a body, and how different organisms interact.
For me it is a divine intelligence behind all of this, while others believe that there is only evolution. I also believe in evolution, how everything has to adapt to the prevailing circumstances, but this about how everything was created from the beginning, the ingenious body that we have where all the processes so unbelievably well collaborate. That is to me a miracle. That I don’t believe is only evolution.
I’ve thought so ever since I was a kid and read in Reader’s Digest about how our internal organs operate and interact; processes within the organ and between them. I just say – Divine Intelligence
While humans can use alcohol to disinfect wounds, some insects take things a step further by eating food containing alcohol to get rid of parasites.
Fruit flies are the unwilling hosts of certain endoparasitic wasp species, which lay their eggs inside the fly larvae with an injection of venom that helps suppress the antiwasp immune response and allow the eggs to hatch. When the young wasps emerge, they proceed to eat the flies alive.
However, infected larvae of the fruit fly species Drosophila melanogaster can avoid this unfortunate death by medicating themselves with alcohol.
“We found that environmental alcohol protects fruit flies from being parasitized by wasps, and that, even after being infected, fruit fly consumption of alcohol leads to death of the wasps growing within them,” said research team leader Todd Schlenke at Emory University in a press release.
“Surprisingly, fly larvae actively seek out ethanol-containing food when infected, showing they use alcohol as an antiwasp medicine.”
This alcohol-seeking behavior may even help to prevent wasps from laying their eggs in the fly larvae in the first place.
“D. melanogaster has a special ability to tolerate high levels of alcohol,” Schlenke explained. “It seemed possible that this ability might protect the flies from generalist parasites.”
Even without their antiwasp immune response, some flies are able to survive parasitization simply through ethanol consumption.
“These little fruit flies, the same that hover around the brown bananas in your fruit bowl, are making complex decisions about how much alcohol to consume based on whether or not they have internal parasites,” Schlenke concluded.
The findings will be published in Current Biology in March.
via Fruit Flies Poison Parasites With Alcohol | Beyond Science | Science | Epoch Times
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The increasingly clear autumn air has since a few days arrived and late summer now draws to an end. Everyday life has again made its entrance in my life after I’ve been traveling around in the beautiful summer Sweden. The sun has followed with me on my journey and I’m going to post more pictures on my photo blog, sooner or later. Each thing has its time
The insights have been many during the trip. When you let the moment have its course and are able to rest in the process, seeing things as they are, without judgment and assessments, being still in thought and heart, you can discover things about yourselves and others, and about life.
The insight that I carry with me most deeply for the moment, is if you’re looking for confirmation from others, seeking confirmation from the outer world, the self will never become satisfied since its nature is the one of wanting more and more. If, instead, you stop seeking confirmation from the outer world and give yourself your own self-worth, based on a realistic view of yourself and what you have to improve, again without judgment and assessments, this will give a firmer foundation to stand upon and a tranquility within arises.
Another important insight is the importance of having an optimistic mind. An optimistic mind, based on a realistic assessment of the status quo in a situation, that can make sensible and wise decisions.
Here are some tips on articles worth reading. Some of the articles I publish on the blog is not so positive since life contains both negative and positive aspects. The most important thing, though, is to find a solution to the problems by being aware of what is happening. That is, in my opinion, one sense of having a positive and optimistic disposition.
Twisted Ring Found Near Milky Way Center
“The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed for the first time the entirety of a cold dusty gas ring near the center of the Milky Way. But there is an enigma to this discovery—the ring appears to be kinked.”
DNA Components May Be Formed in Space
“NASA researchers have found convincing evidence that components of DNA can be made in space.”
Study Finds Conformity Counters Cooperation
“Conformists may try to fit in with the crowd, but do not always expect them to cooperate for the greater good of the group.”
“Recent research has found that what hens eat affects consumers who eat those hens’ eggs.”
Dropping Self-Criticism Drops Pounds
“Most people don’t like getting harsh criticism from others. However, many of us can be our own worst critics. This is particularly the case regarding weight and body image.”
Is Emotional Eating Always Due to Emotions?
“Some individuals claim to be emotional eaters. The idea is that they sometimes feel driven to eat foods as a result of their emotional state. Usually, this is in response to states such as stress, anxiety, or sadness.”
Sacred Nature – Please respect the one that is feeding us – like the indians did…
And from one aspect to another… From respecting Mother Earth and what she is giving us to the question: Which wolf do you feed within (symbolically speaking)?
An Indian sat and talked with his grandchild.
He said: “In all people there are two wolves fighting.
One of them is evil. There is anger, fear, envy, jealousy, sadness, arrogance, self-pity, lies, superiority and selfishness.
The other one is good. There is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, benevolence, empathy, truth and trust.”
“Which wolf wins?” said the child.
“The one you feed,” said the old man.
Carpe Diem – Seize the day. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Familiar words to most of us. Those words came to me today as I stood and washed the dishes this morning. Doesn’t that in fact mean appreciating the moment and being that what is called mindfulness? Mindfulness (living in the moment and experience the present moment), actually originated from the Eastern wisdom, the inborn nature of it is an Eastern concept. Carpe Diem in Latin, we in the West have our own wisdom.
Actually, isn’t everything universal? Everything is the same, but in different ways in the different cultures of West-East. In the West, we had the Christian mystics, and surely they had contact with their friends, the Eastern mystics. According to some sources was Jesus, during the years he “disappeared” and nothing was written down, living in the East . Then he came back, rescued people and created a world religion to lead people according to divine universal principles, in the West.
I think he became enlightened while he was away, I think he was taught in the East. Religion has in essence the aim to guide people so they can live in harmony with heavenly laws. When we go against these heavenly laws, we create karma. “As you sow, you reap,” said Jesus. It is a heavenly principle that people often seem to have forgotten. They think they are the crown of creation and can do whatever they want, without any consequences. I think it’s because of this we have so much cruelty. Imagine if all of them, who are cruel to other sentient beings, realized that one day they will face the same thing, directed against themself, would they choose being cruel then?
Seize the day; at every moment in the present choose to be a good, understanding, unselfish and compassionate human being, can we create something better than that during our day? Can we create something more important than that? I don’t think so, because then we give love, selfless love. And selfless love is the foundation of all life. We can manifest unselfish love within us by being a good being, understanding, forgiving, patient; thus staying in harmony with our innermost true essence. For THAT is your true divine nature, according to my way of looking at things.
And what if we could change our approach from “I want” to “I want to give” …
Jesus said: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”.
It’s only with true compassion and understanding from heart and mind we can make changes in the world.
That’s how I see it.
I think and hope that what happened in Japan is a mind opener to all of us, to choose a life more in harmony with our surroundings and environment.
All sentient beings deserve to be respected, protected and cherished. All the countries in the world do have an equal share to accomplish this. All the people in all countries in the world need to understand this and enhance their ability for empathy.
All work for changing the world is about raising awareness in fact. That’s the important thing we have to do. Not judging and creating hate. Then we are just on the same level as these people who commits crimes to sentient beings.
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Please have a look at this beautiful video. This gives hope. And I really wish we could have more of this thinking that is shown in this japanese video, in our schools in the West.
Children full of life Part 1 of 5
Empathy is the capability to share and understand another’s emotion and feelings. It is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself into another’s shoes,” or in some way experience what the other person is feeling.
So Empathy is the ability to stand in one’s own perspective, while at the same time, possessing the ability to shift perspectives and see through another person’s eyes, as it were. It is a process of understanding and sharing the emotions of another person from a dual perspective with a multilateral self-awareness.
My thoughts go to the Japanese people and the difficulties and suffering they are now facing. From living a nice life to living a life where there is life threatening radioactivity in the air, and where everything around you is destroyed from a very big earthquake and a tsunami. A life where food supplies are running out and you are just stuck somewhere.
My thoughts go to all these people who may have lost their beloved ones in such a big calamity and who now, under great pressure, have to deal with so many challenges.
Life is fragile, we think we are protected but the only thing that in fact is protecting us is how unselfish we can be as a human being; how compassionate our heart can be, since all good deeds will be rewarded and so will the bad deeds. That’s how karma works. Still we can help those who suffer since this is an act out of compassion.
I’ve read stories about people, who when they have met difficulties they have turned to each other and started helping each other unselfishly, instead of looking for their own benefits. This is a heart of a Buddha manifested, the heart of an enlighten being. That is our true innate nature. I wish we all, myself included, could have this heart all the time…
On this website I will in different ways express what I think gives meaning to life and also what might be a challenge.
It may include the need for sustainable development for our planet, or various questions about our health and mental well-being.
To be truthful, to be good, to have patience and compassion, are spiritual qualities that are a part of my cultivation of self through Falun Gong /Falun Dafa, the way of insights. To refine and improve myself to a better, more compassionate human being gives my life great meaning.
I also bring up more difficult issues , like the persecution of Falun Gong and others in China and explain more about the mentality of the Chinese regime. We can never forget about the Human Rights!
What's important is also everything that makes life beautiful; as good thoughts, beautiful music, healthy food, beautiful art and beautiful scenery. And loving relationships.
I hope you will find something that might interest you in this blog and perhaps brighten up your day or give you a new understanding.
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