Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays... The My Hero Project - Aimee Mullins. Through her sheer presence and unrelenting spirit, Aimee Mullins is challenging the definitions of physical beauty and ability. In doing so, she is not only celebrating her own achievements, but more so, celebrating her ability to defy conventional public mindset, simply through her honest, open personality, and her incredible talent.
Born in 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and growing up between Pennsylvania and County Clare, Ireland, Aimee Mullins has overcome challenges from day one. She was born with fibular hemimelia, a limb anomaly wherein there is partial or total absence of the fibula (shin) bones. She had both legs amputated below the knee when she was only a year old. (Without her legs, she could still learn to walk with artificial ones. Despite her physical limitations, she pushed herself physically and mentally to succeed. She was surprised upon arriving, when she realized that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. "Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. Life Story | The John Templeton Foundation. As a pioneer in both financial investment and philanthropy, the late Sir John Templeton spent a lifetime encouraging open-mindedness.
If he had not sought new paths, he once said, "I would have been unable to attain so many goals. " The motto that Sir John created for his Foundation, "How little we know, how eager to learn," exemplified his philosophy both in the financial markets and in his groundbreaking methods of philanthropy. John Marks Templeton was born on November 29, 1912, in the small town of Winchester, Tennessee. He followed in his brother's footsteps and attended Yale University, supporting himself during the Depression and graduating in 1934 near the top of his class and as President of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was named a Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College at Oxford, from which he graduated with a degree in law in 1936. Templeton started his Wall Street career in 1938 and went on to create some of the world's largest and most successful international investment funds. Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation Official Website. Jolie-Pitt Resource | All about the Jolie-Pitt kids, All the time! Pax Humanitas. The Next Incarnation. The Dalai Lama’s birthday party, an event he has never much cared for, was set to begin at 9 A.M. on July 6th, in the Indian Himalayan town of Dharamsala, where he lives. He skips the party most years, but he had promised to attend his seventy-fifth, so five thousand people turned up at the temple that morning, in a humid downpour, to await his arrival.
The exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet—His Holiness to Buddhists, and HHDL to his Twitter followers—settled in Dharamsala half a century ago, after rejecting China’s claims to his homeland and trekking over the mountains to India. He was followed by thousands of refugees, many of whom expected a short stay; when they were urged to plant trees in their settlements, they waved off the idea. “People said, ‘We’re going to be going back in a few years,’ ” Thubten Samphel, a writer and spokesman for the government in exile, recalled.
“Trees will take fifty years to grow, so what’s the point?” China disagrees. Reincarnation. (Translated from the original Tibetan) Introduction My fellow Tibetans, both in and outside Tibet, all those who follow the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and everyone who has a connection to Tibet and Tibetans: due to the foresight of our ancient kings, ministers and scholar-adepts, the complete teaching of the Buddha, comprising the scriptural and experiential teachings of the Three Vehicles and the Four Sets of Tantra and their related subjects and disciplines flourished widely in the Land of Snow. Tibet has served as a source of Buddhist and related cultural traditions for the world. In particular, it has contributed significantly to the happiness of countless beings in Asia, including those in China, Tibet and Mongolia. In the course of upholding the Buddhist tradition in Tibet, we evolved a unique Tibetan tradition of recognizing the reincarnations of scholar-adepts that has been of immense help to both the Dharma and sentient beings, particularly to the monastic community.
Busy Peeps. Sadhguru - In Conversation with the Mystic. “This life for me is an endeavor to help people experience and express their divinity. May you know the bliss of the Divine.” – SADHGURU Sadhguru, a yogi and profound mystic of our times, is a visionary humanitarian and a prominent spiritual leader. A contemporary Guru, rooted as strongly in mundane and pragmatic matters as he is in inner experience and wisdom, Sadhguru works tirelessly towards the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of all. His mastery of the mechanisms of life, an outcome of his profound experience of the Self, guides in exploring the subtler dimensions of life. At home in loincloth as much as he is in blue jeans, barefoot through the mighty Himalayas, or straddling a BMW motorcycle on the expressway, Sadhguru is the most unusual mystic that one can encounter.
Sadhguru speaks at some of the world’s most prominent international leadership forums. WORLD VIEWS. WORLD VIEWS. Abraham Lincoln Association :: Springfield, IL. Nelson Mandela: Young People. Why I Put My Company on a Year-Long Sabbatical - Simon Cohen. By Simon Cohen | 12:00 PM December 30, 2013 Last year, I placed my entire communications agency, Global Tolerance, on a year’s sabbatical. On the surface, it seemed like a crazy decision. I’d spent the past decade building the company from scratch, hiring a talented team, winning high-profile clients, from TED and The Gallup Organization to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gandhi’s grandson, and increasing revenues every year.
Why would I put all that on hold? The answer is simple: So we could come back even better. The very idea of a sabbatical, a rest from work, comes from the biblical sabbath, and a commandment to stop working the fields every seven years. This is so Mother Nature can renew the fields and help ensure the possibility of future harvests. For many years, Global Tolerance had been enjoying a daily 60-second sabbatical through a simple daily ritual. So how did I move from 60 seconds a day to a full year of everyone’s lives?
I also realized there was precedent. Global Tolerance founder Simon Cohen gives away company worth up to $1.8 million. Global Tolerance Founder Simon Cohen is giving away the company he took 11 years to build. Source: Supplied IT’S a pipe dream for many people to quit the rat-race and give up work for good. But one founder of a global PR firm, who has worked with clients from the Dalai Lama to Wallace and Gromit and the Prince of Wales, is actually going through with it. Global Tolerance’s founder and managing director Simon Cohen has launched a campaign to give away his company, valued at between $900,000 and $1.8 million. The deal includes 95 per cent ownership, $18,000 in cash, an international reputation with clients in the US and UK, current company assets and a decade’s worth of business contacts.
See the full description of the position here. Mr Cohen outlined the reasons for his decision in a video on his website. He said recently becoming a father led to the “biggest growth year of his life” where he thought about his role as a “guardian” as opposed to owning something outright. List of peace activists. This list of peace activists includes people who've proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall peace movement to focus the world's attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues aimed at nonviolently altering long-standing societal agreements directly related to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is Marilyn.com - Social Network for Marilyn Monroe Fans. From her platinum locks to her glamorous wardrobe, she set a standard for American beauty that no one else could match. This is Marilyn! Marilyn Monroe has spread the word "wow" over the United States and Europe for over six decades. Gathering confidence as she grew older, Miss Monroe told America that she had a style and she wasn’t going to change it. From her platinum locks to her glamourus wardrobe, she set a standard for American beauty that no one else could match. Ever since she was born Norma Jeane Mortensen, everyone around her knew she was not just your average little girl.
Marilyn's legal guardian she arranged that she be married to the boy next door, James, when she was only 16. Though she cherished having real biological father’s name, she took the studio’s advice and took the first name Marilyn and her grandmother’s name Monroe. Feeling the need to shed her image as the typical Hollywood shallow blonde, Monroe took some time off to take acting classes. Rent the Chicken. Project 562 - Project 562- A Photo Project by Matika Wilbur documenting Native America. On January 18th 2014, Project 562 joined Quechan leaders and elders in prayerful opposition to the Ocotillo Wind Express Facility, responsible for the desecration of Ocotillo's Sacred Desert. We made a video about it, have a look: Vernon Smith, Quechan Tribal Member Ila May Dunsweiler, Quechan Language Instructor Preston Arroweed, Quechan/Kumni Tribal Member MATIKA will be a TED TALKER in New York CityI will be offering an TEDx talk in NYC dedicated to the topic, "Agents of Change" on Friday, March 28, 2014 sometime between 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT), New York, NY.
(I'll let you know when I know a time.) To learn more, please visit: best part is that the tickets are free! Hooray! Project 562 is currently accepting donations on Kickstarter until February 20 at 10PM (PST) here: you so much for all of your support! Welcome to Global Trends. Wisdom of the Ancient Sages » Articles & Wisdom. Mystics, Sages, Saints and Gurus | Superconsciousness. The Psychophysiological Principle states: Any experience that you have, you have only while you are having a specific brain wave pattern. If your brain wave patterns change then your experience will change. Dr. Jeffrey D. Brain mapping research studies into different brainwave patterns associated with different states of consciousness has been carried out in major centers throughout the country. In non-sleeping states, these brainwave patterns are associated with various states of “waking” consciousness. Studies here at the Center for Neuroacoustic Research have shown clear and repeated evidence, in patients, of brainwave frequency patterns below the traditionally accepted lowest Delta rhythms of 0.5 Hz.
There have also been reports in the EEG literature from other researchers, that there is evidence of extraordinary states of consciousness associated with higher-than-Beta brainwave activity. Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi. This is truly valuable. Tantric “Sluts” or Living Goddesses: Why it Matters. With recent media revelations about ritual sex, nude yoga and “yogasms” – sex has become a hot topic in the yoga world.
Well, in honour of Women’s History Month, I’m joining the fray. Because let’s face it, nothing is more juicy or salacious than the forgotten high priestesses of sex, the “debauched” yoginis of Tantra. While much conventional scholarship has designated these women as low-caste “sluts” exploited for ritual purposes, religious scholar Miranda Shaw has unearthed a very different history. Her book Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism claims these women were no mere ‘consorts’ but powerful gurus once held “in awe, reverence and obeisance”. Her book is a biographic treasure trove of Tantric women teachers spanning the Pala Period of India (8th -13th centuries).
Female Tantrics were called by many names, Dakinis (woman who flies) Vidyadharim (knowledge-holder) Vira (heroine) but the most common term was Yogini (keeper of the occult secrets). Like this: Harpo and Lucy. They Did Not Give Up. As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858.
At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. " Winston Churchill repeated a grade during elementary school and, when he entered Harrow, was placed in the lowest division of the lowest class. R. F. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? " Ideas, anyone? Quotes. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. " - Friedrich Nietzsche"Don't count the days, make the days count. " - Muhammad Ali"Those who underestimate me, overestimate themselves.
" -- Pedrum Jamali. "Condemnation without investigation is the height of the ignorance. " -- Albert Einstein. "You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes. " -- David Icke "...A REVOLUTION IS COMING....a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough, compassionate if we care enough, successful if we are fortunate enough, but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its Character, we cannot alter its inevitability. " - Robert Kennedy, in a speech to the Senate "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. " -- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice from 1916--1939 "Is everything a conspiracy? Dissent. 100th Meme Keys.
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