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Hello & welcome. We offer these websites (see here) because we would like for you to come, enjoy, & find a blessing that will enrich your life or somehow touch your heart - poem, quote, prayer, ecards, movies, information, or an invitation to attend one of our retreats.
My name is Lalita, & I am one of a group of friends - from all specialties of life - who believe that "God is in the sharing" (Neem Karoli Baba). I belong to a community of diverse people who all share a devoted belief in kindness, in love, & in service. We believe that all life is Divine Creation & deserves to be honored as sacred.
We would like for each being to experience the depth of their own value & also discover their own unique gifts - & to recognize their potential to assist in the healing of our world. We believe - like Jesus & Mother Teresa - that all beings deserve care, & that the greatest pain in life is a heart that feels unloved. As Mother Teresa said, "Every act of love is a work of peace, no matter how small." We pray for everyone who visits our sites, & beyond.
We have created different websites that are meant to share beauty, inspiration, hope, joy, and cool ideas with all the world. We welcome you to enjoy them.
Blessings & Love to you,
Lalita & all the Friends For Compassionate Earth Awareness
rain in the desert. being underwater.
the open sky. guitar. women. poetry.
painting. tropical plants. deep ecology. ecopsychology. spirituality. ecstatic dance.
words + film + art that tear up concepts +
tear open the heart. the imprisonment of desire. civil/human/animal/earth rights. the conscious
choices of care and nonharm. to dare rather than
to cower. divas. altered states of consciousness.
adventure. death.
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Music
lightning breathing & barking, ocean waves, crickets,
birds' wings, frogs, a meow, raindrops on leaves, dogs wrestling, people singing of their deep love...
Movies
water, an inconvenient truth, the power of community: how cuba survived peak oil, films that teach love - joy - respect
Television
nature documentaries
Books
a testament of hope, tao te ching, merging with shiva, shobo genzo, course in miracles, hope for the flowers, handbook to higher consciousness, written on the body, swami chetanananda, eknath easwaran, paramahansa yogananda, magical realists, surrealists, poets, artists & illustrators
Heroes
mother earth. kali. durga. ma. maude. frida kahlo. dr seuss. dogen. lao tzu. mlk. alice walker. julia butterfly hill. jane goodall. rachel carson. gandhi. mother theresa. jesus. buddha.
ma jaya sati
bhagavati. jaya devi bhagavati. george carlin. kathleen turner
God does not make mistakes. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati (www.kashi.org) -------- Feed everyone. Meditate everywhere. ~Neem Karoli Baba
"God is in the sharing." Neem Karoli Baba
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love:
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
So much seek to be consoled
As to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life.
~St. Francis of Assisi My religion is kindness. ..His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. --Mahatma Gandhi 1948 Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1957 Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,... I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty,
than the person who has nothing to eat. ~Mother Theresa A word that gives courage to a drooping heart or a smile that brings hope or cheer in the midst of gloom has as much claim as onerous sacrifices and heroic self denials. ~Meher Baba "Love is the actual form of God." - Ramana Maharshi
About me: THERE ARE NO THROWAWAY PEOPLE. -Neem Karoli Baba
A poet is someone who can pour
light into a cup, then raise it
to nourish your beautiful, parched,
holy mouth. hafiz
Let us love & care for our Mother Earth In All Her Extraordinary Forms
WE CAN HELP: with our awareness & our choices every moment, every day. (for example: buy bulk, reduce your trash, recycle, drive less, eat organic, wear organic, plant trees plants & flowers - organically, and practice kindness: then we can help to protect & honor the vast beauty of Earth. =). Learn more how to help at www.ourbelovedearth.com.
we can all thrive...in a green society.
PLEASE LEARN & LIVE BY THIS! "Verses for Environmental Practice" by Robert Aitken
Waking up in the morning
I vow with all beings
to be ready for sparks of the Dharma [Natural Reality, or God]
from flowers or children or birds.
Sitting alone in zazen [meditation]
I vow with all beings
to remember I'm sitting together
with mountains, children, and bears.
Looking up at the sky
I vow with all beings
to remember this infinite ceiling
in every room of my life.
When I stroll around in the city
I vow with all beings
to notice how lichen and grasses
never give up in despair.
Watching a spider at work
I vow with all beings
to cherish the web of the universe:
touch one point and everything moves.
Preparing the garden for seeds
I vow with all beings
to nurture the soil to be fertile
each spring for the next 1000 years.
When people praise me for something
I vow with all beings
to return to my vegetable garden
and give credit where credit is due.
With tropical forests in danger
I vow with all beings
to raise hell with the people responsible
and slash my consumption of trees.
With resources scarcer and scarcer
I vow with all beings
to consider the law of proportion:
my have is another's have-not.
Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.
Hearing the crickets at night
I vow with all beings
to keep my practice as simple -
just over and over again.
Falling asleep at last
I vow with all beings
to enjoy the dark and the silence
and rest in the vast unknown.
quoted in Dharma Rain,
by Stephanie Kaza & Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala, Boston, 2000,
pages 471-473
Who I'd like to meet: the adventurous, the kindhearted, the open, the explorers,
the eclectic, the restless, the colorful, the dreamers.
you are all my friends.
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PEACE ON EARTH Today, the time has come to wish you a Peaceful New Year 2009, when in the middle of turbulences, may you keep safe, renewing your faith to the great father and your connection to mother earth for our Survival in Freedom and Love. Take care dear friend. Eclipse.
Heather, thank you so incredibly much for your thoughtful gift. It made me smile :) You are wonderful, and you will always have a place in my heart. Love, me. xoxoxo
i miss you as well. I want to come and visit . I have never been down there. I am doing the detox...well trying to keep to it...not having coffee is making me nuts
Aloha my friend It's been far too long since my last visit! I wanted to share some positive energy Let you know that you're in my thoughts Have a wonderful week Love & Aloha, Georgina ♥
I love you too, SweetPea. How are you? Is life in the hot Florida sun everything that you want it to be? Call me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love always, My Dear, DeAnna
hey lady! how's life in the sun?! i miss our chats and hope you're well, well, well!!!!! did i tell you yet that i start school in just a few short months? i think i'm headed to georgia near the end of june for mike's memorial party. do you think you'll go?! let's catch up soon!
The Glory of a West Texas Thunderhead at Sunset... On his way to church, a scholar was surprised to see a man in tattered clothes and barefoot. Nevertheless, as a good Christian, he greeted the poor man: "May God give you a good morning!" The poor man replied cheerfully, "I have never yet had a bad morning."
"Then may God give you good luck!"
"I have never yet had bad luck."
"Well, may God give you happiness!"
"I have never yet been unhappy."
The scholar then asked the man, "Could you you please explain yourself to me? I do not understand."
And the poor man replied, "With pleasure! You wish me a good morning, yet I have never had a bad morning. For when I am hungry, I praise God; when I feel cold, or when it is raining or snowing, I praise God; and that is why I have never had a bad morning.
"You wish that God may give me luck. However, I have never had bad luck. This is because I live with God and always feel what he does for me is the best. Whatever God sends me, be it pleasant or unpleasant, I accept with a grateful heart. That is why I have never had bad luck.
"Finally, you wish that God should make me happy. But I have never been unhappy. For all I desire is to follow God's will; I have surrendered my will so totally to God's will that, whatever God wants, that is what I also want.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
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