Image of the Day – Moving Stones

If you were to reconstruct or even visit an existing spiral of rocks/stones – laid as a pattern on the ground – the rock placed at the very centre is the most sacred or of greatest value.

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It’s amazing…
love..

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A painful, callous journey. I’d rather not know the details. Some things should remain a mystery. Our minds wouldn’t be able to comprehend the depth of such a revelation.

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Must be the work of Aliens…not that far from Area 51

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This image reminds me of my own life. Right now I am going through the college application process and I am feeling full of self doubt. This doubt has been weighing me down from the beginning of the college search. What if I don’t get in to my first choice school? Or even my second or third? These thoughts, though relevant, rest heavily on my mind; these thoughts are the walls that have lately been keeping me in place for so long. These walls have been there for such a long time, it seems that I will never have a chance to move out of their confines. This image, however, strikes me in a powerful way. It reminds me that even the heaviest of rocks, the ones on which gravity’s powers have the most force, still move.
This image also reminds me of Santiago’s journey in The Alchemist . When he is in Tangier, working for the crystal merchant, he is even weighed down by the doubts and expectations of others. One passage that particularly speaks to this idea and struck me in a forceful way is this: “The merchant laughed. ‘Even if you cleaned my crcystal for an entire year… even if you earned a good commission selling every piece, you would still have to borrow money to get to Egypt. There are thousands of kilometers of desert between here and there.’ There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep. No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. No hope, no adventure, no old kings or Personal Legends, no treasure, and no Pyramids. It was as if the world had fallen silent because the boy’s soul had. He sat there, staring blankly through the door of the café, wishing that he had died, and that everything would end forever at that moment.” (47 The Alchemist) Although at this moment, he is stripped of all hope and weighed down by his own doubt and the expectations of the merchant, he still has the power within himself to move and is able to do so. He is still able to travel to seek the treasure of his own dreams.
In the college application process, I too am weighed down by my own doubt and the expectations of others. My parents haven’t been blatantly pressuring me to get in to the “right” school, but I know they have been hoping I would. My first choice school is one of the most selective schools in the country, because of it, so many of my teachers and classmates have expressed their own doubt that I will get in. Like Santiago, I cannot allow myself to be weighed down by these thoughts, because even the heaviest of rocks out in the abyss of the desert still move on. Although I have been feeling a little bit sedentary myself, like Santiago, I will never lose sight of my treasure and what I hope my own Personal Legend will be. And with the power of my dreams, I too will be able to move through the desert that is the college application process even though I am feeling a weighed down by external and internal forces.

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“AND IF THE PROPHET DONT COME TO THE MOUNTAIN;
THE MOUNTAIN WILL COME TO THE PROPHET.”
somewhere in the bible

:-)
love and peace

Nia Wind

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We actually move evnthough we think were just staying still.

Angeline

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The mystery of the Moving stones in California.
It seems that Nature’s Elements play games with the … scientists there. There are guessings about air torrents or eathquakes.
LOVE,
THELMA

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I happened to come across this video – if anyone is interested – that explains why and how the stones move:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc

After watching the video myself, however, I feel somehow cheated, robbed of this beautiful mystery. Some things should not be explained. Upon watching this video I had the same feeling with which I am often overwhelmed upon seeing, on National Geographic or some other such channel, a program that seeks to scientifically “prove” or “disprove” the mysteries embedded in the stories of the Bible. This is information that I don’t “need to know,” because my faith does not rest upon evidence. Rather, it transcends all evidence, whether supportive or contrary. For me, when someone tells my how and why the rocks move, the whole beauty of the mystery is shattered, as I am no longer a participant in that mystery – no longer a “believer” – because the evidence has been set before me and there is no longer a question of “belief” or “doubt.” At that point, I become just an ordinary observer of a non-phenomenal material event.

I will say this however: if that rock can be moved – a rock that big dragged so far across the sands of Death Valley (!) – a heart certainly can be moved, no matter how stubborn or deeply rooted.

Love
Savita

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I think I see a path.But not understand why moving stones?Is about the changing of stones due to the weather conditions?

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