brothers and sister
grandma (mimi) and grandpa
aunts and cousins
I dream of a Star Trek world. This think tank will focus on creative actions designed to initiate a global paradigm shift towards a world where racism, poverty and war will be a thing of the past.
Mother and Child
Pablo Picasso 1922
"From woman, man is born;
within woman, man is conceived;
to woman he is engaged and married.
Woman becomes his friend;
through woman, the future generations come.
When his woman dies,
he seeks another woman;
to woman he is bound.
So why call her bad?
From her, kings are born.
From woman, woman is born;
without woman, there would be no one at all.
O Nanak, only the True Lord is without a woman"
......Guru Nanak......
One Human Family
"Whether we like it or not, we have all been born on this earth as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of us is just a human being like everyone else: we all desire happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, each of us has an equal right to pursue these goals.
Today's world requires that we accept the oneness of humanity. In the past, isolated communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally separate and even existed in total isolation. Nowadays, however, events in one part of the world eventually affect the entire planet. Therefore we have to treat each major local problem as a global concern from the moment it begins. We can no longer invoke the national, racial or ideological barriers that separate us without destructive repercussion. In the context of our new interdependence, considering the interests of others is clearly the best form of self-interest.
I view this fact as a source of hope. The necessity for cooperation can only strengthen mankind, because it helps us recognize that the most secure foundation for the new world order is not simply broader political and economic alliances, but rather each individual's genuine practice of love and compassion. For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brother and sisterhood"...Dalai Lama. (read more)
In a Dream of Vision
In a Place where Hearts reside and are
Consumed in Grief
I saw not Anger nor Retribution
Not the Face of Hatred nor of Despair
But the Clear and All Encompassing
Heart Of All That Is
I saw Each One Stand
Mother Father Brother each
Child of the Seventh Generation
In Peace and Understanding
And Facing His Brother His Sister
Each Child of Their Children's Children
Wrapped his Heart around....
And kissing the Tears on the
Tear stained face of the One he Held
Released His Own Pain
And when he had opened himself
To Receive
Unconditionally the pain and
unbearable sorrow of his Brother
Only then When Each had Received
The Healing of each and every Heart
Would raise their eyes to Wanbli
To All That Is
In utter Acceptance and Resolve
Making the Unimaginable
Grief of each and every Heart
His Own
Would we Heal
And as their hearts and hands reached out
Would open their own Hearts
To become that Hollow Bone of
Acceptance and Responsibility of
All That Is
And in Unified Silence
Take upon themselves
The Duty and the Honour
Which is Each Our Own
Of allowing each hand
And Every Heart
To take up and to Receive
and hold closer than Forever
The River Of Tears Of All Mankind
The River Of Tears Of Humankind
As One Swift Uptaking Breath
Of All That Is
Is made our Own.
Crys The Tears/Dreamwalker~Lakota
copyright 2001