2700 BCE X 500 YRS X AGE OF PYRAMIDS X BJBMN

 

A popcorn sky, also known as Altocumulus stratiformis, spotted at sunrise over Nxai Pan, Botswana by Steven Grueber (Member 41,808).

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try metta bhavana, a 'heart practice', cultivating a positive state of mind."

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ANGKOR WAT - SLOW DESTRUCTION 

PYRAMIDS-500 YR- 14 PHARAOHS

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When a negative past experience narrows our present perspective, it’s mostly just a defense mechanism.

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‘Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth”,’ declared the physicist Richard Feynman in 1963

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A triggering experience alerts us to a psychological issue in ourselves that needs to be addressed, processed, and resolved. The trigger finger is especially our own when we simply let one triggering event after another occur, especially with the same person. He or she is not the cause of the trigger, only the catalyst. A trigger arouses, evokes, or induces; it does not produce. A trigger is a contributing factor, not a determining factor. Each of us will react differently in accord with the personal issues a trigger incites, in the same way that the term “Everglades” will evince a different reaction and have a different meaning to a resident of Florida than to a resident of Kansas.

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A photographer was surprised when she counted the birds in a photo she took at a vigil for the 49 dead in Orlando.

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Maybe we become part of everything 

Perhaps we become part of all that is around us as suggested by this poem.

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die. 

composed by Mary Elizabeth Frye

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"The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small."

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As I see it, in a sense our culture, our society, is dissolving. We’re entering collectively a chrysalis. Structures we’ve come to rely on and identify with are breaking down. And we don’t know what the next phase will be like. Things that we thought were not going to change are changing, and the new form isn’t clear yet.

So we’re in this cocoon as a species. There’s climate change. There’s huge change that’s coming very fast. Learning to surrender, to let go in our own lives, in the space of the unknown, is essential to our collective learning to move through this time.

 

— Kaira Jewel Lingo

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We cannot succeed if we only pursue our own success and prosperity, and not the well-being of others."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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