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A Golden Compass Forget every idea of right and wrong Any classroom ever taught you Because An empty heart, a tormented mind, Unkindness, jealousy and fear Are always the testimony You have been completely fooled! Turn your back on those Who would imprison your wondrous spirit With deceit and lies. Come, join the honest company Of the King’s beggars – Those gamblers, scoundrels and divine clowns And those astonishing fair courtesans Who need Divine Love every night. Come, join the courageous Who have no choice But to bet their entire world That indeed, Indeed, God is Real. I will lead you into the Circle Of the Beloved’s cunning thieves, Those playful royal rogues – The ones you can trust for true guidance – Who can aid you In this Blessed Calamity of life. Hafiz, Look at the Perfect One At the Circle’s Center: He Spins and Whirls like a Golden Compass, Beyond all that is Rational, To show this dear worl...

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The post below is from the Rag Blog which you gan find by clicking the tiltle above. A speckled crab -- and an American flag -- are encased in a thick layer of oil just offshore from the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Photo from BP Slick. Methane in the Gulf: Is the oil spill a toxic popsicle Or an extinction event? By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2010 Tar balls have hit Galveston now, observations from Monday show patches of oil south of Vermillion Bay, Lousiana, half way between New Orleans and Texas, but poor observation conditions due to rough seas may be hampering the identification of oil. The oil spread models for the Gulf south of Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas show that strong southeast winds have set up a strong westward current that could result in impacts to Texas. NOAA says there is a 60% chance that Miami Beach will be hit, and although the models show the oil ejecting far out into the North Atlantic on the Gulf Stream, NOAA is saying th...

This post is from a beautiful Buddhist blog found by clicking the title link above. Seon Master Daehaeng – Discover your courage July 6, 2010 by Chong Go Sunim No matter how many thousands of things confront you, no matter how painful or difficult, even if someone you love is about to die, entrust all of these to your foundation, your inherent nature, your true essence. It’s always been taking care of me, it’s guiding me even now, so what’s there to worry about? Just entrust everything there while going forward. You need this kind of attitude. All of those things that confront you are your homework, the path through which you can grow. If everything in your life is smooth and trouble free, you won’t be able to rise above the level of an unenlightened being, or understand the hardships facing others. It all depends upon how well you can handle good and evil, on how non-dually you can let go of both sides, even including the Buddh...

Click the above title to go to his webpage. NARCISSUS DANCING An Introduction to a Memoir The word prodigy used in the sense that the Renaissance gave it has all but been eliminated from use when speaking of contemporary art. No room is given it in the current dialogues of what constitutes mastery, for the visual arts have been subjected to the suzerainty of cultural theory whose agents provocateurs are blind to the magic of the visual executed directly by hand and eye. Where does that leave an individual born with the innate ability to make a line or a brushstroke come alive on the form of a face or a limb of a body and who loves the poetry in the human image? It leaves him stranded. So here in a nutshell is where this story begins of someone born to the call of the visual, is allowed in childhood and in youth to fine tune his gift, and then in early adulthood hits the brick wall of a culture turning its back to the enchantment of the hand drawn image. That’s the basis...

To see the source click on the title above. On windy nights in northern Germany, consumers are paid to keep the lights on. Twice this year, the nation’s 21,000 wind turbines pumped out so much power that utilities reduced customer bills for using the surplus electricity. Since the first rebate came with little fanfare at 5 a.m. one October day in 2008, payments have risen as high as 500.02 euros ($665) a megawatt-hour, about as much as a small factory or 1,000 homes use in 60 minutes. The wind-energy boom in Europe and parts of Texas has begun to reduce bills for consumers. Electricity-network managers have even ordered windmills offline at times to trim supplies. That hurts profit for wind-farm operators, said Christian Kjaer, head of the European Wind Energy Association, which represents RWE AG of Germany, Spain’s Iberdrola SA and Dong Energy A/S of Denmark. “We’re seeing that wind energy lowers prices, which is great for the consumers,” Kjaer said at his group’s conference i...

Think Reflect Explore Create Transcend "A boy has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters. People he meets discuss science, philosophy and the life of dreaming and waking, and the protagonist gradually becomes alarmed that he cannot awake from this confusing dream,"