Facebook by Baha'i month. Prayer 1. Prayer 2. FIRST VAHID — JALALIYYIH QUINNJALALIYYIH QUINN ART SCIENCE AND THE SOUL. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Pages 137-152.
Audio visual media. Social media. Toward a new development paradigm: The Lab, the Temple and the Market: Reflections at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Development. Letter to the World's Religious Leaders. A Common Word Between Us and You. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful A Common Word between Us and You (Summary and Abridgement) Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world’s population.
Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. BIOALCHEMY: A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION. Bioalchemy is the coming together of bios “life” and alchemy or the “black art of transformation.”
Alchemy has been defined by many and has been practiced and studied by a variety of lenses. One of my favorite definitions of the black art was given by the late Terence McKenna, “alchemy is the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.”1 Hence, bioalchemy refers to an organic and ecological approach to the inner dimension of the world, alluding to the real possibility of sustainable transmutation of people and planet. In attempting to give voice to the uniqueness and gifts of bioalchemy, it is appropriate to briefly remit to its beginnings.
Beginnings Years back, a friend and I started a mini permacultural project in Guadalajara, Mexico, that centered on compost-making and its commercialization. We managed to create compost of fairly good quality and together with our environmental education activities “centinelashi” (as we named our compost) became somewhat recognized. The Great Green Wall Initiative. The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification.
It aims at tackling poverty and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi) long from Dakar to Djibouti. Populations in Sahelian Africa are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climatic variability and land degradation. They depend heavily on healthy ecosystems for rainfed agriculture, fisheries, and livestock management to sustain their livelihoods. Archbishop's response to A Common Word.
Thursday 11th October 2007 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today received a copy of a key letter from Muslim scholars and religious leaders addressed to Christian religious leaders.
Dr Anas S. Lao Tzu. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” - Lao Tzu Lao Tzu’s date of birth is unknown. He attracted many followers, but he refused to set his ideas down in writing. Art with Story. Lightning Source. In an unprecedented symbolic act senior cleric calls for religious co-existence in Iran. My Life as an Artist (2) ‘My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.’
Matt Keeland. Seeking in the high places. "Through Him the mysteries have been unravelled, the veils rent asunder and the signs and evidences disclosed.
Lo! He hath now been made manifest. Digital Rubbish: A natural history of electronics. The transformative materiality of microchips.
Baha'i Reference Library: Search Results. Let's talk about the good news in the headlines. My birthday is always a time for reflection and review.
It marks the anniversary of my first entry for Columbia Faiths and Values, and it still being January, gives me room to reflect on the previous Gregorian calendar year. That’s what I want to focus on for this blog entry. Looking at the news, you’d think that 2013 was an absolutely terrible year. Arlington Prayer Station "Sovereign Remedy" - Sunday, Dec 8, 2013 - Befriended Stranger : Befriended Stranger.
“But as it happens that one who has tried a bad physician, fears to trust himself with a good one, so was it with the health of my soul, which could not be healed but by believing, and lest it should believe falsehoods, refused to be cured; resisting Thy hands, Who hast prepared the medicines of faith, and hast applied them to the diseases of the whole world, and given unto them so great authority.”
(Confessions of St Augustine, Book 6) Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics - Jennifer Gabrys. 6th World Water Forum. An Additional Youth Statement on Water March 16, 2012 Youth are the future decision makers of the world. We must be forward thinkers because we will inherit a planet shaped by the actions of today. We are innovative by nature, and we call upon those involved in water issues to listen to and engage with our perspective. And Conflict-Free Minerals. Privatization ‘violates’ human rights : Alternative World Water Forum. The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has indicated that the city’s water provision, handled by two private firms PT Aetra Air Jakarta and PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja), constituted a human rights violation.
Komnas HAM commissioner Sandrayati Moniaga said during a trial session on water privatization at the Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday that the commission had found indications of human rights violations, especially related to access to clean water, after the cooperation agreement between city-owned water operator PT PAM Jaya and its two foreign partners — Aetra and Palyja — was signed in June 1997. Lao Tzu: The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.
Baha'i International Community - United Nations Office. What happens when over 50,000 people from all around the world, representing virtually every community, come together to discuss the future we want? I get dizzy when I start to contemplate the scope of facilitating such a discussion among a wide diversity of perspectives. And having come all the way to Rio de Janeiro does not make it any easier to describe the dynamics that exist when so many minds converge in one place, as a single wave, to discuss a common theme. It reminds me of a famous song (1966) “Et moi, et moi, et moi” [And I, and I, and I], by French singer Jacques Dutronc who, with lots of humour, depicts the life of a man lost in a world with millions of people different from him.
Here, it illustrates the struggle to have one's voice heard. International Women's Day 2014. These artworks are subject to copyright and should not be reproduced without prior written permission from the artist. The Global IWD Women's Arts Initiative celebrates the collective creative ability of women. 2011 saw 100 years since the first International Women's Day was held so to mark this special Centenary the '100 Women, 100 Artworks' and '100 Women, 100 Stories' initiative was launched.
TURNING TOWARD — JALALIYYIH QUINNJALALIYYIH QUINN ART SCIENCE AND THE SOUL. The Baha’is and the Nazis.