March 2011
(via Astronomy Picture of the Day) Time-Lapse Auroras Over Norway
To Biopsy or Not to Biopsy
Tomorrow we go back to the ENT so he can interpret my CAT scan. Everybody cross your fingers and do a dance for me because I really don’t want him to have to do a biopsy. Like, I will seriously pass out. Or at least freak out and majorly embarrass myself. That mustn’t happen. Also, I have to work tomorrow. I will work with a deep puncture wound in my neck, but I don’t WANT to.
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The 50 books every child should read - News, Books... →
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Coming to me via airmail. Selections from the Upanishads, Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Indian poetry and stories. There’s already a place picked out for it between my Quran and Taoist books! (The good thing is I don’t have to worry about the books getting into any religious spats because Hindus are pretty easy-going folks and have quite a bit we could all learn from, religious or not.)
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Sufism
“When I come to Love, I am ashamed of allthat I have ever said about Love.”— Rumi
The substance and meaning of Sufism The substance of Sufism is the Truth and the meaning of Sufism is the selfless experiencing and actualization of the Truth.
The practice of Sufism The practice of Sufism is the intention to go towards the Truth, by means of love and devotion. This is called...