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I apologize if the topic might hurt sensitive persons. Well, I saw in tv an issue, I thought I die laughing. Was about a product, called ” Virginity Soap”. If somebody dont understand for what is this product, well, for the women that desire to please the ego of an obsolete man, that is one that want to have a virgin girl( as wife, or dont know what for). So, that product has an effect that might make the woman to appear as untouched. I found it such a big silly thing…I laughed at least half hour. Sorry if anyone think I am immoral talking about it, was in tv.
FD Roosevelt in his inaugural speech claimed that the only fear is fear itself. Nietzsche wrote that that which does not kill us makes us stronger. We give in to fear when often all we need is information. We are complex individual beings and react with our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual faculties in ways that others don’t.
Prayer and meditation beat fear and medication every time if the focus is on receiving what we need rather than what we think we want; if we focus on emptying ourselves of our ego and allowing the goodness that is in the universe and in the earth to fill us and empower us.
Paulo, your work is genius because through the weaving of tales and recounting of memories you reach the parts of our beings we call our soul.
Happy birthday Jimmy and ‘recently having birthday’Sheela Nandini.
To Sandra on the first day of her son at college..
My worst day was many years ago my daughter’s first day at nursery school when whe was 3 years old.. The first … flight!!!
LOVE,
Thelma
Thanks everybody, wish you all a wonderful day.
Love,
Alexandra
Dear Paulo and All….
4th May is meaningfull atleast to me. cause it is my birthday.
and at the age of 43, one will start to wonder, have i done what i amsupposed to have done in the past 42 years of my life ?
maybe i have, and maybe i have not ?
but, it is definately very rewarding to read your books.,
How to live:
Be curious.
Be stupid.
Be inspired.
Be passionate.
Be sincere.
Trust the universe.
To My Son On His First Day of College:
Comment | Copy This
Alexandra,the commercial made you laugh for half hour which tells us how funny it was. In my country we have tv show about funny commercial and tv clips. Do not worry.
Just to say I have enjoyed Alexandra and Thelma’s discussion of various female beauty products the last couple of days. The big thing in Arizona are foot creams, as women here wear open sandals a lot. A lady told me she rub her feet with Vaseline at night and put on tennis socks, and sleep with this overnight, to get soft, smooth heels. Not sure how attractive her husband finds that! Then again, tennis socks supposedly are used in some porn pictures, as men finds them attractive. (Image of young, healthy girls?)
And Thelma, that bird is so cuuuute. I never knew birds had musical rhythm sense. You know dancing is very important to many Native Americans? Well, they follow the new times too. I met a Native American who performs dancing break dance. He follows his old culture in not cutting his hair. But he dresses in modern clothes and loves break dancing. Not sure why your bird made me think of him.
You have so much laughter & joy in U Alexandra
Keep up with that*
By the way -
….haha… where can I order that soap?
Love & laughter*
Right. Is true things must be done three times. I am back to thank Dee Dee and Thelma for support. Dear Thelma, the dancing bird is incredible. I laugh a lot here. craziness Thanks a lot…
Love
Alexandra
Another one from L. Blaga.
Divine Touch
What apparition! Ah, what light!
A white star fell into the garden,
Unexpected, unsought. Luck,
arrow, flower, fire.
In the high grass, in the wide silk,
it fell from the house of time.
A star came back to our world.
My hands bear its scar.
I am blushing now, dont know why I wrote the thing. Yes, I am not against virginity, but against fake virgins. Or at least I am not on their side.
But enough for today with such topics. Better I send you all a nice poem. I feel guilty for my previous topic.
A Man Bends over the Edge
I bend over the edge:
is it the sea
or my poor thought?
My soul falls deeply
slipping like a ring
from a finger weakened by fever.
Come, end, sprinkle ash on things.
There is no longer a path.
No longer am I haunted by a call.
Come, end.
I raise myself slightly from the earth
on one elbow
to listen.
Water beats against a shore.
Nothing else, nothing,
nothing.
—Translated from the Romanian by Andrei Codrescu
Is from Lucian Blaga, poet ,play writer, phylosopher
Dear Paulo,
Your post on peace last week got me thinking. I realized that we are always in some sort of war, I’d like to think of it as a transition. Here are my thoughts:
…In May, Spring is at its glory, but in a few weeks, it will give in to Summer. Our lives are full of these tensions, transitions, and disagreements over who is in charge, and eventually someone wins and someone gives in. And when you look back at those events, you remember the battle, the wounds, the stories, and sometimes the ending. Sometimes, the ending does not matter, because you were so involved in the battle. Sometimes, the ending changes its meaning. At the time, you may have thought that you were defeated. Later on, you might see the event differently, or your definitions of defeat and victory may have changed. But do you think like this, in the midst of the battle? If you did know what you know years later, would you fight the same way?…
From: http://evolutioninconsciousness.blogspot.com/2009/05/lifes-little-tensions.html
Thank you,
Sherry
Paulo & all
Prophecy is a gift
I`m exited about recommending this site for you:
http://www.wordsofblessing.com
Please feel welcome to read about Mary Crist;
an ordinary woman with a special story to share &
an extraordinary calling in life;
To spread Jesus`love, words & reality (anno 2009) to the world.
(Info about Mary under: “About us” to “Information about origins of the ministry” and then “My story”)
Best of all – she`ll pray, listen & share words for YOU -
if your heart tells you to
LOVE*
Thanks Paulo for this blog. I wrote a book last year called “Lifeguard: In Search of a Practical God.” I would like to share this book FREE to anyone that is interested. I do not have a website, so you can send an email to drtorres07@yahoo.com and get the book. Thanks again.
Ramiro
The following is a summary:
God is everywhere and is in everything yet we do not see God because we do not believe in this reality. In fact, we all have given God a personality and face that is very limited to who and what God really is. Lifeguard is the book that seeks to extract this reality from our human condition of our relative knowing of who and what God is. Thereby, allowing us to accept the all knowing and un-knowing Creator – God.
In a very general way we all exist in human conditions of emotional pain and suffering. Our thought goes something like this – pain and suffering are good because this gets us to know how and what God is. The paradox is that we’ve already decided on who and what God is. He is the God of mercy and salvation that will save us from pain and suffering that we have created to know God. But we fool ourselves because we have already created God as only this merciful and saving God. That is why too many of us have perceived God as our lifeguard that is on duty 24/7 ready to save us from our own emotional pool of pain and suffering
Self righteously we consider the experience of emotional pain and suffering as good and as the prerequisite into the path of finding God. We rationalize that saints and martyrs went through pain and suffering and therefore we should too. The sad fact is that even if we find Him through this process we fail in accepting Him fully. We fail to accept the unconditional God that exists as the all knowing and unknowing Creator, with infinite power and eternal existence.
This book seeks to uncover the reasons why we do not find God or his Spirit. It is a book that seeks to make practical what others have termed unpractical, esoteric and lofty about God and in this process rehabilitate ourselves to find and wholly accept God.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8026592.stm
Dancing bird!!
I think you will all like it.
Dear Alexandra, at the times of my .. youth, virginity was a must! There were also .. arranged marriages etc. Nowadays things have changed. After the outburst of AIDS, I think that younger people should be careful.
LOVE,
Thelma.
You damn right Alexandra.Stupid stuff and what about them?Does it work on them too?Is there a soap that make it bigger as well?
Whatever!No I reassure you,you’re not immoral,that soap is.
Have a nice day,as nice as it can get.
I am alone in my road.
I feel happy to be able to be alone and in peace.
I know there has been times when I had love, but I dont have it now..
and it will come, but right now I am enjoying myself.
This is a hard moment, besides that reason. I am working for my destiny, far away from my people.
many of us are in the same situation, sacrificing our friendships and comfortable lives for following what we always wanted in life..
Are we selfish? Are we really going to help others when we’ll get all the gratitude of life?
It is important to remain in our principles, in our believes, to keep loving, to keep dreaming…
I don’t want to be lost…I want to continue discovering myself, and i will wait the love to come back to me someday…
I apologize if the topic might hurt sensitive persons. Well, I saw in tv an issue, I thought I die laughing. Was about a product, called ” Virginity Soap”. If somebody dont understand for what is this product, well, for the women that desire to please the ego of an obsolete man, that is one that want to have a virgin girl( as wife, or dont know what for). So, that product has an effect that might make the woman to appear as untouched. I found it such a big silly thing…I laughed at least half hour. Sorry if anyone think I am immoral talking about it, was in tv.
Here’s something a little different for couples or would-be couples: “Marriage as a Business Proposal.”
http://happinessinthisworld.com/2009/05/03/marriage-as-a-business-proposal/
Alex
I pray Marie, to keep me in the humility, in Its humility
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