God is that unknowable essence. I have come to know God through His messengers: Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Muhammad, Buddha, The Bab, Baha'u'llah . Through their lives and their words I get glimpses of the nature of God.   These Messengers are like the rays of the sun reflecting in a mirror/  While I cannot look at the sun with my naked eyes, I can get a good look at it through its reflection in a mirror.

My highest self wants me to appreciate this physical journey as a parenthesis of my spiritual journey which is the real deal. I am grateful for this mortal life and I am thankful for this blessing.

 

Misguided Migrants

From here and there we came

With brave hearts and muscles galore

Seeking fortune and fame

Education, the good life and more

In this land of  honey cream

Honey cream  turns to cream of dream

There are several New Years. Which is which?  We have the Christian New Year, The Baha'i New Year, the Orthodox Christian New Year, the Chinese New Year and many other New Years I probably never heard about.  What is really new about time and space we live in. The hours do not change, the sun does not change, the wind does not change, the waves does not change, yes in some parts the water turns to ice at intervals, but everything remains the same.

Time and space are seamless, there is no end or beginning but mankind's ingenuity has allowed her to segment time in such a way to help us to understand cycles. :Life is a cycle it goes around and around, everything that goes comes around again.

We are born into the world, we do our thing, then we leave - our bodies return to earth, our physical bodies become fertilizer that nourishes the plant  that feeds animals, some of which we eat and so it goes on  the physical plane.

Where are the new beginnings for the spirit? Is there a spiritual cycle or a spiritual journey which is eternal?  Some believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, others believe that the earth is like a womb where we incubate and grow spiritual attributes to help us through the spiritual eternal realm.  Like in the womb we develop arms, legs, eyes, ears which we do not need in the womb but those are the elements that would help us to survive and thrive in the material world we are born into.  In the same way we are meant to use this time to develop -  what this community, GAIA and other spiritual teachers such as Jesus, Muhammad, Zoroaster, Bab, Baha'u'allah, Moses, Krishna, Abraham, Buddha and others are trying to do - spiritual wings, higher consciousness of right and wrong, good and evil, compassion and generosity etc.to prepare us better for our journey beyond the physical.

      On a personal level, new year, new beginnings for me is when I hit another spiritual horizon of understanding.  Once I reach that plateau it unleashes the other hills I must climb to reach an even more magnificent horizon.  The journey towards new year is steady, perpetual and wonderful.  I am wishing that you are peaking over your own horizon of understanding today. Happy new year

In my dreams
I fly
Way up in the sky
I explore
Mysteries of the Creator
watch the stars winkle
 around my ankle
like diamonds
scattered on the ground

Flowers blossom in a day

(c) Mayflower

 

Listen to the wind

It's singing a song

It speaks of travelers

Pilgrims that walked on this spot

On their way to eternity

It repeats their stories

To enlighten those who follow

The wind holds many secrets

It's out there in the universe

But you must be tuned in

And you must listen

(c) Mayflower 2008

How to Change the WorldWe all want to change the world, want to make a difference, make the world a better place. Changing the world is a mammoth task that we can accomplish by working together and also individually.
All the pundits and religious sages will tell you that the change must start with you and me. We are the world. Each and every one of us stands as a sentinel within the collective population. We are the forest and we are the trees, what affects the forests affect the trees and vice versa.
When we are serious about changing ourselves we have to start living consciously and in synchrony with our values and beliefs. We have to be conscious of how we spend our energy (money), how we treat the environment, how we treat each other and how we treat ourselves. When we change the ways we do these things we will see changes that matters.
Whatever is out there is our perception of what it is. Whether it is real or not does not matter. What matters is what we see when we look inside of our personal worlds. If we see the world as a benevolent place that benevolence will be reflected in our lives and if we see the world as a chaotic disastrous place that too will be reflected in our personal world.
As individuals we are like little worlds inside a bigger world, we live in our individual bubbles and create the universe according to our state of mind. For those of you who have watched “What the Bleep do we Know” will have learned how to create our own reality by creating the conditions we want.
I have no great understanding of quantum physics but according to specialists who have made this study their life’s work, they tell us that nothing is really solid, they say quantum physics is a physics of possibilities, when we look at an object it’s like we take a still picture of it and as soon as we look away it’s no longer there. Freaky I’d say but I am choosing to believe it.
Therefore, if we are serious about changing the world, let us begin with ourselves. If each one of us lives consciously, responsibly, share, be generous with each other, only take what we need from our abundant and benevolent universe, living as simply and fully as possible, we will be the change and we will see the desired changes we want to see in our world. We will change the world.

It is wonderful to be able to wish you this wish. Whoever came up with the idea for Earth Day did us a great favor. It forces us to focus our attention on mother earth and the way we treat her.  The way we treat her reflects on us on what's going on for us in the inside and I challenge each of us to think of how we treat our mother earth and how we can be gentler, how we can walk lighter so that our footprints does not dig too deep into her belly.

     Here is Manitoba, the government has just announced that it will open temporarily some e-wasted depot for people to take their old electronic garbage for disposal.  We all have a responsibility to do our share and so are our businesses, inventors and such like. People who develop new products obsolescing others must be responsible for their disposal. I think we are creating too many new stuff without trying to update what we already have so that we will not need to be throwing out good stuff all of the time. When businesses are accountable for the disposal of their products I believe we might see some movement for the better.

   I have taken to cloth bags for grocery shopping. Sometimes I forget and have to use the plastic bags but I am getting more and more conscious of the impact of my forgetting to take my cloth bags.

   Calgary Alberta I understand has passed a law abolishing Styrofoam cups.  Bit by bit we are becoming gentler with mother earth and we need to celebrate our accomplishments and dedicate ourselves to doing more on whatever level we can.

     A cleaner earth means a healthier earth and a healthier earth means healthier inhabitants of the earth.

 

What a journey and what high stakes they each carry for America.  No one can question that America wants change and appears to be voting for change. While the Republican nominee appears to have gone through relatively unscathed, the same cannot be said for Barack and Hilary.

   A mean-spiritedness that has taken on very personal overtone has crept into the debate that has divided the nation and may indeed cost the Democrats a chance in the White House and place America yet again in the hands of the Republicans.

   Throughout the debate Barack's credentials have been questioned and scrutinized more than any other Presidential candidate in the history of United States of America Presidential nomination.  Is this just accidental or does it have something to do with race and/or gender. Is it because Barack is a black male?

   I think it is. Race is at the heart of everything America does. Barack, it seems has managed to transcend race and touch the hearts and imagination of the ordinary American people. This is a big coup.  This is progress and we ought to applaud the people. Not surprisingly most of his support comes from the younger generation, a new and different and more diverse generation.  This should signal hope for the future of a United States of America.

   All this could be lost if the nasty fight continues between the two contenders. I have nothing against Hilary Clinton but I feel she has not been playing fair and I believe that she has been giving the American people subliminal messages about Barack's ability to be president.  She is not attacking his position on issues but appear to be saying he is not smart enough. This  panders to the older American sentiments of Blacks being inferior to Whites.

    Unfortunately Ms Clinton comes off as a desperate woman out of control who wants to win at any cost. As a woman I find this very uncomfortable to watch. It is adopting the old boys strategy and this tells me that if Hilary Clinton should win the nomination and go on to the President of the USA, the hardcore feminist should not expect her to act like a feminist but like a man. This is not my view of feminism. This is a case of women using feminism conveniently to get access to power. 

I felt sad listening to people from either side of the Hilary/Barack divide promising not to vote for the other if their candidate did not get the nomination.  Have you ever heard anything like this before? Is this a fight between a Black man and a White woman or is it between the Democrats and Republicans?  This whole thing is so messy and disappointing that it tears my heart.  Yet we all know and understand that in politics it really does not matter who wins "the government always gets in".  This is supposed to be a joke but it's true. Governments never make radical changes with any handover in power. As soon as they win, things slow right down and the thinking starts.

I urge the American people to vote for change without regard for race or gender. People want to dream again, they want to bridge the divide and to work together, let us give unity and diversity a chance. Barack Obama /Hilary Clinton cannot do much worse than what America has right now. Anything should be better. May the best person win?

Hey, how's everybody doing?  Why not come in and take a load off for a moment. It's new year!  In the western world we celebrate this point in time as a year, a new cycle, a new beginning of things.  In other parts of the world different times are celebrated as the new year, for example, there is Chinese New Year, Arabic New Year, Orthodox Christian New Year, Baha'i New Year (Naw Ruz) etc.  So new year happens all the time but it really does not matter when we celebrate this event, there is one thing they all have in common. It's a celebration.  People see this as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start fresh again. It is renewal of hope, of love, of live and of possibilities.  I love new year. I love thinking about possibilities, resolutions and I love writing them down faithfully and also try as hard as possible to work towards accomplishing something during the period. 

Like most people, I start off vigorously but by the end of January, I sort of slip back into the old ways and soon forget about my resolution.  I think it will be different this year, because of my friends at Zaadz.  You all inspire me to be better each time I come on this site.  There are so many positive things about it that I strive to live in the moment and to live each day to its fullest.

This blog is to let you know how wonderful you are and how special you are.  You must be to have joined a site such as Zaadz, you want to do better, you want to change the world to make it a better place as much as I do and that is why I fee this year's resolution will be different because I will have a lot of help and encouragement.

I want to thank you for being who you are wherever you are, I know our hearts collide and collapse into one at times and together we can and we will change the world, our world and we will make a difference.

May the force continue to be with us, inspire us and guide us throughout this season of love and light. I love you.