Eclectic Daydreams

Rainbow420 · Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 7

The Daily Treat

It's Monday again, another work week for those of you who are fortunate enough to still have jobs.
This is the first depression to be broadcast live on line...

I've got some Robert Plant & Alison Krauss from the Raising Sand CD for today
Trampled Rose
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktYJFxj5PA
Through The Morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_J8BUP5Sc
Killing the Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48TJA_vSk0
Stick With Me Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuczlD5KBw
Polly Come Home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZXN0KHpvUg

Pagan Daily Devotionals

Coming Out of the Closet

Do the people in your life know that you are Wiccan or Pagan? Do you want them too? Why? Many people who discover a new spiritual path feel a strong need to be public with it and let everyone know. People worry and fret about all the friends and family they're going to upset.

Just remember that there is no particular NEED to announce your new faith to the world. Your beliefs are between you and the Gods, and there is nothing compelling you to come out of the closet. The choice is yours.

Wisdom with Rythym

An important thought today, taken from Loke E Coyote's song "Witch Wars". I'm sure the moral here is obvious.

Now I thought being Pagan meant we all should get along
and that every path has value and there is no right or wrong
but any time there's power there are those who try to grab it
like someone comes along and takes a whack at Laurie Cabot
some other fool shoots back like Elmer Fudd out hunting wabbit
they end up coming off like Lou Costello and Bud Abbott

Today's Positive Affirmation

Today, I complete the circle of goodness by sharing
my gifts with others.

Today's Positive Visualization

As I take a breath, I imagine myself receiving goodness
from everyone I meet. In my mind's eye I see myself
surrounded by positive and loving people. I imagine
myself going through my day sharing a positive and
loving expression with everyone I greet. I see the
positive responses from other people that my loving
actions attract. I combine these images with the
feelings of joy and let them go,knowing that they
will create the good things I am visualizing and
thinking.
http://free-positive-thought.com.
www.pythorum.com
Affirmation of the day
February 9, 2009

I know that whatever happens in my life, I can handle it!
www.susanjeffers.com

worthless word for the day
today's wwftd is...

the worthless word for the day is: jactancy

[fr. L. jactare, to throw]
boastfulness; boasting

"He does not strut in innocent pride and open
jactancy and crow like Chanticleer to wake the
world to labor and joy o' the sun."
- Christian Gauss, Why We Went to War (1918)

"There was no need now for jactancy in an
attempt to magnify himself. Sufficiently had
his achievements magnified him."
last time...

the worthless word for the day is: icosahedron

[Gk eikosaedron] /eye kO suh HEE drun/
a polyhedron having 20 plane faces

"It was an icosahedron. Twenty faces, each of them an
equilateral triangle... Geometers loved icosahedrons,
but so did nature; viruses, spores, and pollens had
all been known to take this shape. So perhaps it was a
space-adapted life form, or a giant crystal that had
grown in a gas cloud."
- Neal Stephenson, Anathem (2008)
http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/

Daily Zen
Under the thin smoke of winter
The old temple is quiet.
After sundown,
All the visitors are gone.
On the west wind, three,
Four chimes the evening bell.
How can the old monk
Concentrate on zazen?
/www.dailyzen.com/

Buddhism: Your Daily Meditation
You are like a withered leaf, ready to crumble in death's hand, and what preparations have you made? The time is now! Practice, become cleansed, and be ready. (Flaws, v 235-236)
www.amidabuddha.org
Daily Jewish Quote

Despise no man: many pearls are found in a poor man's tunic.

Eliezer b. Isaac, Orhot Hayyim

Hindu Quote of the Day

Our peace of mind increases in spite of suffering; we become braver and more enterprising; we understand more clearly the difference between what is everlasting and what is not; we learn how to distinguish between what is our duty and what is not. Our pride melts away and we become humble. Our worldly attachments diminish and, likewise, the evil within us diminishes from day to day.

Mahatma Gandhi

Baha'i Basics

Numbers: About 6 million people claim affiliation with Baha'i and its predecessor, Babism.

Main tenets: Baha'is believe in the unity of all humankind, and therefore the unity of all religions. This means that Baha'i adherents believe that all religions teach the same truth. They therefore reject prejudice--racial, political, or otherwise--and stress ethical teachings such as world peace, education, and sexual equality. Although they believe that God is completely unknowable, they hold that God's presence and works are evident in the creation of the world and the existence of the prophets, among other things. Important Baha'i prophets include Adam, the Jewish prophets, Jesus, and Muhammed, all of whom have been succeeded by Baha'ullah, the founder of Baha'i.

Founder: Baha'i was founded in Iran in the mid-nineteenth century by Mirza Husayn Ali (1817-1892). Better known as Baha'ullah, he believed that he was the prophet foretold by the Bab, a religious leader who was a direct descendent of the prophet Muhammad. Baha'ullah was persecuted and banished several times during his life, and he died as a prisoner in Palestine. After his death, one of his two sons set out on missionary journeys to Egypt, Europe, and America, establishing branches of the community.

Main sacred text: Among his many writings, Baha'ullah's Kitab al-Aqdas ("The Most Holy Book"), which contains detailed instructions for Baha'i life, is perhaps the closest to scriptures for Baha'is. However, there is no formal public ritual or priesthood. Local congregations hold informal devotional sessions.

Historical roots: Baha'i is an outgrowth of a religious movement known as Babism. Babism stemmed from the Twelver Shi'a sect of Islam, which holds that the twelfth of a series of great imams vanished from sight but is still alive and will return to institute an era of justice and peace.

Headquarters: Currently located in Haifa, Israel, near the graves of Baha'ullah and his predecessor, the Bab.
www.beliefnet.com

Einstein Quote of the Day
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds...

Eknath Easwaran’s Thought for the Day

February 9

Sages speak of the immutable Tree, with its root above and its branches below. . . . The limbs of this tree spread above and below. Sense objects grow on the limbs as buds; the roots hanging down bind us to action in this world. The true form of this tree – its essence, beginning, and end – is not perceived on this earth.
– Bhagavad Gita

We are all familiar with the unflattering expression, “He can’t see the forest for the trees.” Similarly, it can be said that most of us don’t see the tree for the leaves, that we fail to see the Tree of Life because we are fascinated by the leaves. We are so obsessed by the leaves – the millions of little fragments that grow on the tree – that we are not aware of the tree at all. We do not see that without the tree the leaves do not have any life, that it is the sap, coming from the very life of the tree, that flows into the leaves and supports them.

In our modern world, most of the emphasis is on separateness, on the leaf rather than the tree. Daily we receive the message, “Find your joy in your own way; live your life in your own way; find your fulfillment in your own way.” This drive for personal satisfaction is based on a cruel fiction: that the leaf can prosper without the living tree. In reality, none of us are separate; we are all part of the same creation, drawing our strength, happiness, and fulfillment from the cosmic tree.
www.easwaran.org/page/141

Give Unsafe Lipstick the Kiss-Off!
by Jana Ballinger
Did you know that during a recession, lipstick sales rise? Apparently it’s a small luxury that acts as the perfect pick-me-up during trying times. Unfortunately, that little boost might just be toxic.

On Friday, Canada declared two chemicals, known as D4 and D5 siloxanes, toxic to people and the environment. I applaud Canada for making sure these chemicals, common in lipstick and thousands of other personal care and household items, will be dealt with.

If only the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were as rigorous. We’ve all probably heard about cancer-causing lead being found in lipsticks. And the dangerous ingredients in cosmetics are piling up, with no regulation in sight.

Imagine you’re at the drugstore and you pick out a tube of Maybelline Moisture Extreme Lip color in Mocha Ice. This is what you get for your $7. Scary, right? I’m not picking on Maybelline–they aren’t even the worst offenders. My point is this: Know what you’re buying and use www.cosmeticsdatabase.com as a resource.

Now I’m a lip balm girl myself, and favor Juice Beauty SPF 8 Lip Moisturizer. Natural Solutions magazine compiled a list of the best natural beauty products and chose Earth’s Beauty Lipstick for its “vibrant color and smooth-as-silk texture.”

And if you really want to be safe, you can make your own. Like this cranberry lip gloss formula that sounds positively yummy.

Whatever you choose to put on your lips, make sure you only pucker up for the natural and organic stuff.
www.care2.com/greenliving/give-unsafe-lipstick-the-kiss-off.html

DailyGood: Financial Literacy for the Masses
I have seen, time and again, that given an informed choice, the poor do not want a hand out, but simply a hand up. They want the dignity that comes from doing for self. That education is the ultimate poverty eradication tool, and when you know better, you tend to do better. --John Bryant

Fact of the Day:
For years John Bryant has been telling anyone who will listen about the problems caused by widespread ignorance of finance. In 1992, in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, he founded Operation HOPE, a non-profit organization, to give poor people in the worst-hit parts of the city "a hand-up, not a handout" through a mixture of financial education, advice and basic banking. Among other things, Operation HOPE offers mortgage advice to homebuyers and runs "Banking on Our Future", a national personal-finance course of five hour-long sessions that has already been taken by hundreds of thousands of young people, most of them high-school students. He calls the attempt to help people help themselves out of poverty through financial literacy and economic opportunity the "silver-rights movement." This Economist article shares more. [ more www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3589 ]

Be The Change:
The FDIC created a program called Money Smart to help people enhance their money skills. Check out the training modules, or share them with someone who could benefit from them. [ more www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3589a ]
www.dailygood.org

Meditations for Women

www.meditationsforwomen.com