To say “no” is painful, but much better than a “yes” that brings regrets.
To say “no” is painful, but much better than a “yes” that brings regrets.
I believe that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we attract even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange…
Styled with arrariv
No… to someone i love is devastating and heart breaking especially when he is lost and need me the most.
but as i remember he is the one who said no the first and break my heart… he even not bothering himself to ask…
The decision is noooooo after painful yeses…
and let the pain begain
but sometimes you have to say yes, yes I have liked you from the first time I saw you….10 years ago…and that feeling never gone..even if you want to hide that feeling to her, hiding the fact that youi actually liked her and you are afraid to admitted it…and you want to say no…..but you remember paulo coelho and then you say….yes, yes I like you….from the first time I saw you and still do now….and you see her reaction….she was surprised….I never thought you ever liked me….it’s okay, it was some times ago..call me? then my heart went blur as if time had disappear….I have say yes, yes I like you….and then you said you want to give me a chance to prove my love to you? OK, I’ll prove that I love you…..but time had played it’s rough games with me….my mind was engulfed with fear….so I say to her….I have failed to prove it..I have fear bigger than my love…or is it I have failed to destroy the fear? maybe….but the fact is that she was gone…with someone else…….and lest me in tears…..my heart went destroy……………I never see her face for 10 years…and just at the time I was going to reach her hand….I ruined it…….yes…saying yes is painful…..
A thanksgiving prayer:
God , we’re all so much thrilled , thank you so much for today is the day the warriors of light took over the promised land!
A prayer just for the fun of it:
The Holy Ghost says:
Boo!
I wish you understand
A Prayer of Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred let me sow love,
Where there is injury let me sow pardon,
Where there is doubt let me sow faith,
Where there is despair let me give hope,
Where there is darkness let me give light,
Where there is sadness let me give joy.
O Divine Master, grant that
I may not try to be comforted but to comfort,
Not try to be understood but to understand,
Not try to be loved but to love.
Because it is in giving that we receive,
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
………………….. St. Francis
Believe me that reading it I soon feel better, calm and peace. Thank you so much
Love
Alexandra
Yes, this pray is such a blessing, and it sounds like music…
I mean, this prayer…
When I began to realise that I was becoming depressed and was diagnosed with PTSD, I had to make a decision… to fight the illness.
I could have just taken the medication and hoped to get better, but I KNEW that what was more important was to recognise and so understand the ‘pain’ and emotions. So I said NO to a quick fix and have, consequently, engaged in many alternative theraphies… I sometimes wonder if an end shall ever be in sight for me…
and yet I do not regret having decided to dive deep down and explore the realms of darkness, unhappiness, painful emotions. In fact, I have become a stronger spirit for doing this work.
What is important is not to ignore/neglect the feelings, and neither to under-estimate them… Healing can then take place.
So,
In this way, I have learnt compassion… starting with myself… but by default, compassion for life itself also.
More importantly, I ‘hear’ more clearly when to say no and when to say yes…
because.. I am listening to my heart attentively! and thus can see more clearly ;o) x
What is PTSD? I am sorry you were ill… I think is right, one must search a cure, not underestimating the signals. You seem so balanced and happy. I am surprised you wrote about depression. Wish you much happiness
Love
Alexandra
Hi freinds !
Is PTSD : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
if yes it’s the new mumbo jargon from psychiatrists. Alex i feel everyone who has found lasting happiness had to go through the period of ‘depression’ as they love to call. slightly not in line with the comment, but i am told that in ancient zen, mind problems like the once we face now a days were treated by just putting the person in isolation for 1 month or so, totally ignoring that person’s exiatnce, while taking care of his bodily needs like food etc. in depression too, important thing is to keep oneself motivated despite ‘all this’.
love
aditya
Thank you Alexandra
.. that means a lot to me xx
p.s. It has been now ten years of ‘diagnosis’… so thankfully i have regained some balance and happiness.
Thanks to knowing there are great people.. like yourself.. in this world! ;o) xxx
PTSD = post traumatic stress disorder
Its a psychological condition lots of people go through some time after they experience trauma.
I truly understand you and I admire you..<3
Love and Graditude
Annie
xx Thankyou Annie ;o) I appreciate your kindness ;o) xxx
Is it Post Traumatic Syndrome? I think this covers a big range of depression after a traumatic event.
I am glad you … sound better now and please, please …. start listening to classical music; it heals and … keep dreaming, day- dreaming and reading Paulo Coelho’s books!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Thank you Thelma..
and yes, how true to advise classical music..
in fact, since diagnosis [ptsd with clinical d..] I changed my music selection … and it was back to the classical symphonies and opera that i returned… having heard it even sunday morning as my mamma cleaned the house to this music.. whilst singing along ;o)
And, indeed.. the Coelho’s books brought me back onto my path and even to here … so all good healing. I was wishing that i’d discovered the blog earlier.. but no matter now.
Ok. Thanks so much once again. Love to you x
I must add that a ” no”, must be said even for the interest of the other part. That way we wont live ilussions, we give the other the chance to look other ways for what he she need. We dont take way time making somebody wait for something will never arrive.
Honesty is not always easy. But is better to take our responsibility.
yes you are right… it is a matter of responsibility not just about being honest and good…
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Hi Alexandra!
So what you are saying is that if one has a disease, one should say yes to cure it, before one regrets becoming more sick? Yep, agree.
Love & Admiration,
Heart
Yes, exactly, I compared the no that was better than a yes, with a fast surgery , useful when neeeded… Hmm. I need a coffee, hope I not mistake words now. Take care
Love
Alexandra
surgery yes ! but only as a last resort, when all possible avennues for cure without surgery are closed, a no only when a yes is impossible !
about that biblical quote : our yes should remain a yes and our no should remain a no, it is meant to be applied to oneslef, once i say no to some vice it should remain a no, same with yes. we read realigion and try to apply it on others, first it should be applied on oneself, then whatever comes out of us will be releigious ! i feel !
love
aditya
Ok, I come back to a problem that might occur. What if I say yes, having in mind an optimistic future, and than things go wrong, so the yes become impossible. Am I guilty for the future? Please do reply.
Love
Alexandra
( I am not Mafalda, so I cant predict exactly the future)
If u could predict fuure exactly, much fun of living would be lost. listen to your heart, and if u find a no there say that, if u find a yes say that. heart is a yes sayer, herat is like a child, mind evaluates and calculates. if sespite warnings from heart, your instinct, mind says yes in hope of better times, that hope needs to be based on rationality.
about being guilty for future, at your core u are beyond guilt, and guilt does not serve any useful purpose mostly, so why look in that direction ?
love
aditya
Alexandra, I have always enjoyed reading your responses as you are very truthful and you seem like such a sweet person.
I know what you are saying and I agree completely. I’m always saying to my family “prevention is better than cure”. As far as health is concerned, if you say no to excessive fatty foods, smoking, excessive alcohol today then you won’t have to say yes to a triple bypass tomorrow.
Dear Kathleen, it was a metaphor…But you right, bot senses are to be followed.
Love
Alexandra
I forgot to thank you for your very kind words, and I too said no to smoke, alchoohol. My problem is that I eat bit too much…I walk lot, but…I eat fruits, vegetables each day. Coffee with no sugar. Dark chocolate.
Love
Alexandra
Love
sometimes just saying “no” is the right answer. it will hurt but it won’t take that long to get over things. it’s just like making a wish and it was not granted. you may feel bad but then you will realize that you were not ready to receive that blessing yet. at the right time the right blessing will come your way.
I agree.
When I think of “no”, it reminds me of my childhood and of the frustration which followed from it. All these possibles which disappeared with “no” ! When I was youthful, I definitely understood that ” yes ” or “no ” leads to a choice. That’s I understood with regrets that I could not be everything, have everything, make everything !
But for “no”, I found this confused feeling that I was out of necessity the one who did not understand, the one who was not nice. In these years, it was very difficult to live because I was still in the fusion of the human reports (family, friends, school).
Then the time came when I understood that “no” could also make me grow. Grow because life is an uninterrupted suite of choice. Then, I stopped feeling reduced the value under the look of others. ” Yes ” or “no” are frozen because the persons evolve with the experience of life. I understood that it was necessary to know me well to know my capacity of approval or non-approval. For example, I don’t like conflicts because I don’t no well to manage them. I prefer make sure to be always in dialogue even it’s difficult. Each has the right to its truth. Today, I succeed in saying my truth without being immersed by negative or positive emotions. For me, it’s a big advance in my life ! ;-)
Light & Love,
I do not remember me asking from my parents something that would make them tell me NO!! ;-] I remember, also, my mother telling me to ask from my father to take us to the… cinema!!! My loving father did not know how to refuse me anything. So I was very ‘thoughtful’ before even … desiring something!
The troubles start when we become teenagers and start flirting and being ‘in love’ and start dreaming and have expectations because the erotic love contains the element of mutuality. Tango is danced by two! As Paulo Coelho answered : YES and NO !!!!!!
The easiest way is, as you say, to have peace WITHIN yourself. Once you know what you want, pray and just sing your song and live alive.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
this is exactly what i need to hear. thank you :-)
The Scriptures mention that our no be no and yes be yes, and not to add to it, that all that is added is from the Evil (my words). So, for me, in order that my yes be a yes and my no be a no, to be sure of my position, and not having to add an explanation, justification, to not be in battle with myself, etc, before saying no or yes, I now take my time and ask for time to make sure. I need to take some times seconds or a little bit longer, because I know myself and I know that my nature can bring me to say always yes and not respect or forget myself, get lost easily, and because for me before no was a manifestation of not loving, etc … So, when I say yes or no, I (“me”) know why and just say yes, I can or will or no, I cannot or won’t. If the other then comes and wishes to know the reason, being a sensible person, I will respond, to what I wish to respond. Example, if I say no and the other feels hurt or frustrated, I always stay connected to what is there behind my no, sensible to me, and sensible to the other, telling “I am sensible that my no makes you feel frustrated, I am truly sensible. However, I need to respect myself” or “I need to respect my other engagement”. “ I must tell you that it is not easy for me to say no but for me that is what I have to do”. And even with a yes, some people are touched and become like “next time, I will do this to give back”, etc … I then tell that person that my yes comes from the hearth, because it satisfies me also to say yes, to give, etc, and that I wish that he receives without having that feeling of having to give back, that that is not for me the aspiration of my yes. What I think about that verse of the Scriptures is that I must be careful of the words that are added with the yes or the no, knowing that words stay, have an impact on the other, myself, etc , and that I have not mastered everything and that maybe my yes should have been no and that I will discover later. With affection, Jojo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywEcf9D2sU4&feature=related
Just say ‘I love you’.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
thanks..<3
If tomorrow never comes…I love you Mamma!!!
<3
Swannie
Oh dearest Swannie, never stop saying ‘I love you’; to your parents, to your sister and then to the whole World, because we are ONE.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Saying I love you those I feel this way is saying I love you..to God… for me saying I love you means also ‘thank you for being here’..SO I wanna shout now:
I love you Mamma, I love you Paulo, I love you Paul, I love this ‘city’ (blog), I love you AAAAAll!!
<3
Love and Graditude
Swannie
I LOVE YOU!
I love YOU beatufiul Candieb.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
A… coincidence: I was just talking on the phone with my daughter in England and we were talking about music and she told me that she likes the …. song … ‘If tomorrow never comes’, without knowing that I had put it here!
You see, I teased her, you …. should tell me .. everyday ‘I LOVE YOU’. ;-]
So I LOVE YOU.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Should’ve Said No lyrics
Taylor Swit
You say that the past is the past, you need one chance
It was a moment of weakness and you said yes
You should’ve said no, you should’ve gone home
You should’ve thought twice ‘fore you let it all go
You shouldn’ve known that word
‘Bout what you did with her’d get back to me
And I should’ve been there in the back of your mind
I shouldn’t be asking myself why
You shouldn’t be begging for forgiveness at my feet
You should’ve said no, baby and you might still have me
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said ‘no, no, no’
Yes I’ve been black but when I come back you’ll know know know
I ain’t got the time and if my daddy thinks I’m fine
He’s tried to make me go to rehab but I won’t go go go
the good and bad of “no”…
so i guess it all depends on the situation…but whatever happens, happens for the good.
Thanks for posting the peom Ankita. It’s a good one.
love,
Laxmi
you are welcome :)
Human as we are, we have no idea what lies ahead. God gave us will to live our life the way we should. Evertyhing’s uncertain, it’s hard to make decisions specially if one carries so much pain. Lucky are those who envision success and end up reaping the fruits of their toil, they may have said yes to some unlikely situations, had some regrets but still managed to reach the peak. Life is a matter of choice indeed. Sometimes you need to say yes even if deep inside it’s a big no and sometimes the option you are left with is a no though in your heart it’s a yes. If you said “yes” and got hurt, take that pain as a road to success. If that “yes” caused you so much pain and regrets, well stand up again and start anew. The road is still so long, life has still a lot to learn. Either a yes or a no, regret would still be there when you don’t appreciate the experience.
“If I had a hammer,
I’d hammer in the morning;
I’d hammer in the evening -
all over this land.
I’d hammer out danger,
I’d hammer out a warning;
I’d hammer love between
my brother and my sister -
all over this land.”
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter,+paul+&+mary/if+i+had+a+hammer_20107670.html
bummer
he didn’t have a hammer….
SwAnnie!!!!!
;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
It’s the hammer of justice
It’s the bell of freedom
It’s the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
- beautiful words ;o) x
Yes, yes & yes!
Apologies for the delay.
Love and beijos
Well, lets take an example. Saying no to hate, lies, ignorance so on and so forth would be just the right thing to do.
At that example, saying no is not at all painful, so I guess this example is not a ‘valid’ one ;o)
Annie… So strict. You will be a severe teacher…Joking.
Well, a bit of diversion, just to avoid boredom. It was an idea…
Now I feel head ache…Hope my period of stress end soon. Please people dear friends, come with more ideas …on the other post.
Thank you
Much love
Alexandra
Dear Annie,
if it isn’t painful..as you say …why in all the world do we still have so much hate, lies, ignorance…?
With loving kindness,
Satora
I really do NOT know!!!!
Because we say “NO” to our true self…
the quote is simply very true. i have had to apply it many times ,i always believed in being myself n saying wats truth instead of being fake n hurting myself and the other later.
I was talking with my eldest daughter today about regret. The conversation made me think about all the people who die with regrets and those that die saying there were no regrets. I thought about this for awhile and came to an A-Ha! moment.
I wondered about regret and realized that regret is actually a feeling in the present but it’s based on something that happened or didn’t happen in the past. In order to feel regret, you have to visit the past. Then I thought that maybe those people who die saying that there were no regrets are those that spent their time living in the present.
Interesting thought…
Interesting thought indeed Nanci!
That is true! I can attest to it!
:)
Great thinking…
Tarek
Great thought Nanci. Helps me in my journey of shedding regrets.
love, Laxmi
I go further in my insanity, I believe that we can change past, not the fact itself but the results of it.
How? By believing it different, for the sake of good.
As Albert Einstein would say:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create”
Dear Den Rod, I think you are right: We can change the past.
What we live when we are alive is : the I/ME is taking the impressions from the senses and supersenses, consciously and subconcsiouly and even deeper {Tarek can say more}. Those ‘impressions’ are accepted and translated with our ‘up- to -that- minute’ Ego/self and react accordingly, that instant. Since ‘everything flows’ and there is a constant change then our centre the I, which taking the impressions is changing. Looking ‘back’ to the Past with the up-to-date acquired Wisdom, we ..SEE and FEEL and THINK and react to the same event with … different ways. The result is a new PAST! So we can change our … predestined future, our Karma, by changing ‘ourselves’.
KNOW THYSELF.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Perfect!
Just like a river that flows: after the water drifts away, passes us by, it continues to move and takes its own ways through _ naturally.
The best we should do is to flow with the river!
Let our future catch up with our past till the point we and the river become one!
By the way, the new book of Paulo Coelho is about a river that flows… I’m gonna buy it! We all should do it!
Bye, bye!
Just one more thing:
It’s amazing how great of thoughts flow out from us in this WOL BLOG, right?!!!
I’m very glad I found this place, which should be nowhere without the warriors that meet here!
Thanks.
Be careful!
” Charm is a way of getting the answer yes, without asking a clear question.” Albert Camus
Oh thank you dear Theresa, this quote is .. magical! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Namaste,
This is so true. To go with a flow which isn’t your choice can only lead to regrets… and regrets are a waste of time and energy.
Love to you
Dear Elaine,
You have a way of making your point and conveying your thoughts in just a line. I really admire it.
love,
Laxmi
Namaste Laxmi,
You’re too kind. It’s not often I am thus blessed, but I agree… less is more when conveying a point. Mr. Coehlo is a genius at it. :-)
Love to you
I always go looking for the mundane and I just found it.. I said “no” to my youngest son when he asked for sweets the other day, and it didn’t hurt at all. The $1000 in dentists bills and drilling in his teeth from too much “yes” hurt quite a bit.
With love, Daniel
ouch!:)
Well another solution is to teach him to brush his teeth ;o)
Swannie, your comment was not here when I wrote mine!!! At the time I was sleeping… It seems that we have started … exchanging thoughts during … sleep!!! We had the same .. answer for Daniel!!
Paulo Coelho is a …. Magus and a … good teacher!!! Thank YOU, Paulo.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
haha, there is a movie I think it is called ” I know what you did last Summer”so now it is more like
“I know what you WERE THINKING last NIGHT ” <3
Love and Graditude
Swannie
Hi Daniel,
I see your ‘instinct’ came in very handy when your son asked for sweets the other day!
Love, Theresa
I think in this case it was memory! :-)
Dear Daniel, what if instead of preventing your children to eat sweets and … chocolates teach them to wash their teeth right after eating them??? So they will not lose the pleasure and at the same time learn ‘discipline’.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Yes! :-) I used to be chief teeth brushing supervisor, but since I moved out I think the task has been left to the children and my youngest hasn’t been brushing properly, he is too young to have the proper co-ordination. Perhaps I should have written notes and done a proper job hand-over? Also easier to supervise these things when there are two pairs of hands and eyes sharing the responsibility.
But yes, lessons in brushing and flossing are now daily practice I believe!
With love Daniel
kind if would be handy to have had one of these electric toothbrushes when younger… ;o)
Hi Daniel!
You got great suggestions! It’s fun to eat candy once in a while, but you are right, not all the time, and leaving sugar on the teeth is what causes cavities, so rinsing brushing and flossing are very essential to prevent cavities. And not only do kids get cavities or only from candy, even bread has sugar in it. And there are so many teenagers here in the US that sip on soda all day, and they have incipient cavities.
I could go on and on, I’m a Dental Hygienist!
Get them to floss as well, only flossing will prevent gum disease (and cavities).
♥
Wow, Carolena, that’s fantastic! One of my cousins is in the same line of work – a veritable walking-encyclopedia on knowledge about teeth and dental hygiene. Often she serves as our “family consultant,” which makes me feel very fortunate.
A couple of years back, we had a similar situation to that which Daniel describes, except that the cost wasn’t even the major concern. My daughter (as it turns out that some children are) was resistant to the sedatives used by the dentist, so she had to go into the HOSPITAL to have her teeth worked on. Truly horrible! Now my answer is still usually, “Yes, you can have the candy…” but I add, “As SOON as you’re finished, you know where the toothbrush is.” And soda – no. There are so many other healthier alternatives.
Absolutely, I agree with you!
Yes most kids are terrified of the dentist, some so much that they have to be put to sleep in order to get any dental work done!
The most important thing to improve my quality of life is to be “myself” not to pretend to be someone else just to please pepople..and never give up on my dreams…!!!
alma adarve
Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken”
There is never a best choice, only the one that best serves you at this moment. And you will never truly know if the other was a better choice or not.
Choices begat consequences and that is what we are here to experience, right or wrong is just a decision we make from our current perspective, we can not know if there might be regret if we had made the other choice.
Yes,…indeed!
Great point, Paula! This is precisely why, as a general rule, I do not believe in “regrets.” I would almost say that they are “against my religion.” Seldom do I suffer “regrets” because I look at it this way: How can one dare regret when one does not know what the outcome or consequences might have been had one chosen the other path? Yes, it is tempting to regret – to say, “Oh, if only I had chosen differently…. If only I had done this…or hadn’t done that….” But all such regrets stem from speculation on a positive outcome – an optimistic view of what the consequences might have been.
But I tend to turn it around and look at it this way: I am presently alive and healthy, I have friends and family whom I love and who love me, I have my whole future ahead of me…. If I had the possibility to go back and change one minor decision in my life, much less a major decision, I might NOT be alive right now, or perhaps I would be in circumstances much worse that what I am in.
Let us say, for example, I went skiing and broke my leg. Well, I could regret my choice, I could say, “Oh, what a bad decision that was! I should never have gone skiing. If only I had stayed home instead…!” Well, maybe so, but maybe if I had stayed home that weekend I would have been hit by a bus while crossing the street. Or maybe, if I hadn’t broken my leg, I wouldn’t have met the nurse who introduced me to the artist at whose party, five years later, I would meet my soul mate. Life is far too complex and intricately connected to make assumptions about what “might have been” had we chosen differently.
Regrets are based on the assumption (and that is a very BIG assumption) that had we chosen differently, our present situation would be better. Regrets also tend to disempower one, to deprive one of the motivation and energy to work with the resources currently at hand. One spends too much time thinking about what “might have been” and thereby fails to acknowledge and fully utilize the inherent potential in WHAT IS.
I have this firm belief that, whatever our personal destiny is, we always have, in every given moment, access to all of the resources to do what we NEED TO BE DOING in that moment. Our past experiences, as well – both good and bad – are resources. They constitute the body of knowledge which enables us to move forward with ever greater success. If we were to go back and negate a negative experience from our lives – assuming that we had the power to do so – we would also be negating the wisdom and insight which we potentially stand to gain from that experience.
There are so many reasons NOT TO REGRET. The only exceptions are regrets about having hurt someone – the remorse of having caused pain to another living being. Even then, “regrets” in themselves are rather useless. They change nothing. Better to simply apologize, make amends if possible, and move on with firm resolve not to repeat this mistake again.
One shouldn’t worry,neither for the things he cannot change (since he cannot change them) nor for the things he can change (because he can change them)
SO yes!! Life with no regrets is a life with much much more quality!!
Thank you Savita!
Love and Graditude
Annie
As soon as you say ‘no’ to others or to a situation you truly don’t want and ‘yes’ to your true self, the universe opens up another door to you and allows the person who is supposed to be in the situation you let go of, enter into it. Be happy :-) Thank you Paulo
Beautiful!
The Bible says:(Let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, or you will be condemned.)James 5:12
However, when I am convinced of my “NO”,I say it. Even if I have to challenge many narrow minded people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hk94WFP44
It’s got
to be
perfect
;o)
“No” wins..
the most of the times I said “no” in my life, i had a much greater “profit” in every sense, so i’m a “no” follower and “sayer”!
That is totally true.
A great topic, thank you Paulo. Lots of food for thought, thank you everyone!
Sometimes I see invitations to hate or become narrow-minded, even through the newspaper headlines. This hurts because the media is sometimes only sharing the worst of the worst.
But would much rather try to understand! Rather than say ‘yes’ to hate, I am taking the time to read and self-educate. I do not want to hate or fear an entire country of individuals, or mistrust anyone blindly, because a newspaper or even a government, tells me to. Nor do I wish to be hated, because of geographics. There is beauty everywhere, and new friends to make everywhere!
Much Love to ALL, Jane : ) xo
Hi Jane,
I can’t remember the last time I read a newspaper or watched a news broadcast and felt that it improved the quality of my life. I used to have this conversation with my ex-wife quite often, she’s a journalist.. ;-)
With love, Daniel
sorry to hear that..
maybe you should listen to BBC world service on the radio..
I grew up listening to this as my parents would have it on in their remote working places…
It’s designed for such listeners… global, isolated…
and so I feel it unites, provides solace, inspires, strengthens…
Failing that… Channel 4 news on UK TV is another good example for me to prove my point ;o))
But you’re in Australia…
so again, maybe try National Geographic… incredibly inspiring writing…
Wishing you luck!
Uh huh! And what sells more copies, the Sun or the Guardian? ;-)
I lived on BBC radio when I was in London, and didn’t bother with a TV. There is a world radio service here in Aus which is good, and our ABC which is BBC equivalent. I like radio much more than tv, its easier to tune out from sensationalism.
Also, time magazine and my news feeds from Amnesty and WWF I can handle. Newspapers in general though, to be blunt, suck! :-D
With love, Daniel
Hi Catherine!
Enjoyed some of the BBC radio broadcasts too while living in Scotland, including news!
Love, Jane : )
Yes, great insight, Jane. I totally agree. As an American, I can firmly assess that, at any given moment, there is an entire list of groups, peoples, or nations that my government would be pleased to convince me to perceive as “the enemy.” In this aim, the press is utilized as a great propaganda machine – its well-oiled wheels forever grinding out the ingredients of blind hatred.
Similarly, I can also discern that there is much animosity toward Americans in many parts of the world…and probably for very good reason. Still, I am an individual, and it is my upmost desire to be treated like one at all times. When I go abroad or encounter someone from another country, for example, I WANT them to ask me about my political views, my beliefs and my convictions. I want them to take the time to investigate what I think, assess how I behave, AS AN INDIVIDUAL. Then, if they are not pleased, they are free to hate me or count me as “the enemy,” as they so choose.
Just give me the respect to be treated as an individual, first and foremost – this is all I ask. Similarly, regardless of what the press has to say about any group of people, I try very hard to extend this same degree of respect to every individual whom I encounter.
Dear Daniel, Catherine and Savita,
Thank you with all of my heart : ) (seems not the right word, or not enough sometimes)
It feels good to see in this Blog, that individuals stand together, whether all points are agreed upon or not doesn’t matter. People from everywhere in the world!! There is only Love shared and written here. It is peaceful.
Enjoyed watching some Sufi dancers in YouTube this week. The whirling, and learning about the history of the dancing, was beautiful. Then started seeing everyone in the world trying to achieve their dreams, as prayer in motion. It was a lovely experience.
Amnesty International interests me a lot as does National Geographic. One thing that I have noticed so far, through travel, is what seems to bring us together. Love, beauty, good food, great books, a sunny or rainy day, someone needing help, music, little cafes. : )
Thank you friends, With Love, Jane : ) xo
“Aujourd’hui je ne jugerai rien de ce qui survient
Et en ne jugeant rien de ce qui survient je creerai le silence dans mon esprit.
Et en creant le silence dans mon esprit, je communiquerai avec l’esprit
cosmique qui orchestre le mecanisme de l’Univers
Et dont le murmure nous parvient dans les espaces de silence entre nos pensees.”
auteur inconnu
This quote is very significant and one needs to apply it correctly, otherwise there is a chnace of one getting deviated from one’s path without knowing it, thinking that one is on right path.
first let’s know well that the no needs to be delivered in present and the regret if at all it comes ( who knows it actually may push the boundary of our own tolerance) will be in future, future is unceratin, we can never be 100 % sure.
why do we anticipate regret – based on past expereinces, once in a while past is proved wrong.
why is this botehring us at this time.
surely one should say no when one is sure it is in best interest of all party concerned, not just me.
even when one must say no, one should know that the receipient of that no will be sadder and one should have that sympathy.
enjoy folks
love
aditya
…and I just recall from the Bible, let a no be a no and a yes be a yes…
Love & Admiration,
Heart
It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Yes, love starts with loving yourself, impossible if you have to pretend to be something other than yourself, for the sake of pleasing other people.
Thank you Hildegarde
XXX
Dear hildegarde and Pandora
I also have to make a point of agreeing with you both!
That’s the way to go!
Best regards
Very wise. Thank you for sharing, Hildegarde
Dear hildegarde and Pandora
I also have to make a point of agreeing with you both!
That’s the way to go!
Best regards
hummm…that answers a lot of questions i have, thank you.