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maybe there is something to the saying...
give peace a chance :)
I think you should dedicate it to her memory. I wonder how she'd look in an IHub t-shirt? hmmmmmmmmmm
it was probably her that really deserves the grand grub :)
Congratulations on a fitting post for the 1MMth! Peace!
I'd curse you out, but how do you curse out a Mother Theresa poem!!!!
Congrats. You got THE iHub grub.
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Written By Mother Teresa
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity, and love." - Thomas Merton
"Any pain that comes is to make you understand the nature of joy more deeply and bring you into joy." - Mother Meera
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi
"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." - Lactantius
We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." - Talmud
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Gandhi
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir
As war raged, nun delivered babies, helped heal the sick
'This is my job to stay here to help people'
By Jeordan Legon
CNN
(CNN) -- The maternity ward at St. Raphael's Hospital in central Baghdad is crammed with wailing newborns. The abundance of premature babies is a little-known consequence of war, explained Sister Maryanne Pierre, the hospital's director.
"The fear caused many women to have premature births," she told Catholic news service ZENIT. "Three-hundred fifty babies were born in two weeks."
The flood of pregnant women came along with the constant stream of sick and injured who sought treatment at the four-story hospital, one of the few to remain open in the Iraqi capital during the war.
Sister Pierre, 58, a raspy-voiced Dominican nun, kept treating patients even as bombs fell around her and looters ransacked nearby buildings.
"This is my job to stay here to help people," she said in an interview with CBS News. "Even during the first Gulf War we stayed. It's our duty to stay here for all the people."
Her colleagues say Sister Pierre, who was born in Iraq and studied nursing in the United States, has kept the hospital open through every conflict over two decades.
"What she's doing is tremendous," said Sister Beth Murphy, who visited the hospital in December. "In very difficult circumstances, she has remained incredibly dedicated to the people she serves."
Friends say Sister Pierre, whose parents were Christian, became enamored with the life of a nun while she was a little girl attending a Baghdad school run by Dominican sisters, an order established in that city in 1873.
It wasn't until she was 22 that she joined the convent, said the worldwide director of the Dominican nuns, Mother Fabiola Velasquez. After studying in Tours, France, and Fall River, Massachusetts, Pierre returned to Baghdad to work at St. Raphael's.
Mother Velasquez, who spoke to Sister Pierre recently via satellite phone, said the diminutive nun is concerned about the psychological welfare of Iraqis now that the bombing is over.
"She's very saddened by all that has happened," Mother Velasquez said. "On one hand, freedom has been gained, but on the other, there are many people who have been scarred by the war."
Despite not having enough beds or anesthesia to treat all of the patients, Sister Pierre is feeling more optimistic since she went into the streets and asked U.S. Marines to guard her hospital. Now they're on constant watch, which lets Pierre concentrate on more important things.
Back in the maternity ward, she stares at an incubator that holds a set of triplets -- a boy and two girls -- born just that morning.
"The father he said, 'I named the girl Maryanne,'" Pierre told CBS News, pointing at one of the girls and grinning. "He said it's for me."
Marnie Hunter contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/heroes/nun.html
One woman's solution for the homeless
Rob Morse Friday, May 2, 2003
Almost a year ago, Gretchen Lott got tired of facing homeless people with nothing to offer and not much to say.
"I'd park my car in the lot and find the homeless people waking up," said Lott, a San Mateo resident who works as a sales rep at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco's Financial District. "I'd come back in the evening, and they'd be going to bed."
The question she asked herself was: "What can I do to alleviate some of their struggle?"
Many of us in the Bay Area give up, avert our eyes, get angry or buy off our tired consciences with dimes and quarters. Lott decided to do something more.
She started small. This energetic young woman began making bag lunches for the homeless.
Today, Lott has gone beyond bag lunches. With help from her friends at work, she's running a small food voucher program for the homeless.
Instead of handing out quarters, Lott and her co-workers hand out laminated cards listing places where people living on the streets can get free food, shelter, medical care and showers. Along with each card comes a gift certificate for a meal at Burger King.
"Everybody loves hamburgers," said Lott.
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Lott calls her program HEART, for "Homeless Eat And Rest Tonight." Outwardly, it consists of a few pieces of paper -- but they're pieces of paper from the heart.
Ten weeks ago, when she realized she couldn't make enough bag lunches, Lott decided the men and women she was trying to help might need to know where they could find services. She printed hundreds of cards listing 10 agencies, and discovered an abundance of human goodness.
Someone in her company's graphics department volunteered to set the cards on nice paper and in attractive type. Someone else pointed out the cards would get soggy in the rain, so he laminated them.
Another colleague said Lott couldn't just go around handing out cards to homeless folks without offering something more substantial. So PriceWaterhouseCoopers donated money so she could buy Burger King gift certificates. St. Catherine's School in her parish in Burlingame helped buy the certificates, using its nonprofit status for a better rate.
"It's amazing how much love there is out there," said Lott, who also volunteers once a month at Vinny's Cafe, the St. Vincent de Paul Society's soup kitchen in South San Francisco.
Lott isn't motivated simply by the idea of feeding poor people.
"This card is an excuse to go up to the poor, find out what they need and let them tell their story," she said. "The homeless are as much a part of San Francisco life as we are as business people. They'll give us as much back as we give them if we'll stop and talk to them."
Lott said a homeless man named Sam volunteered Wednesday night to pass out her laminated cards to compatriots at the bus station.
Of course, many panhandlers aren't happy about receiving gift certificates and laminated cards instead of cash.
"I have to have money to get a motel room when it's raining," said Harry Grohmann, who was begging across the street from Lott's office with his dogs Sandy and Buffy. "I have to have a place for my dogs."
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"People want to help the poor," said Lott. "But they don't want to give money because they don't know if the money will be spent to support an addiction."
She wants to support the universal craving for human contact.
"I think the poor will always be with us, but there are two types of poor -- the financially poor and the poor in spirit who are just going to their jobs and are depressed," said Lott. "They can be helped as much as the homeless."
Behind Lott's desk in her plain, 19th-floor office on Market Street is a white board bearing the word "encouragement."
" 'Encouragement' comes from the French word for 'heart,' " said Lott. "If everybody would do things with encouragement and heart, it would come back a hundredfold."
Just listening to Lott was encouraging, especially in a cold spring in San Francisco, with more elderly and veterans on the streets and a heartless Hotel Council ad campaign urging people not to give to panhandlers.
As if people and panhandlers are different species. As if there isn't more to give than quarters.
As if one person can't do good.
Rob Morse's column appears Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. His e-mail address is rmorse@sfchronicle.com.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/02/MN305973.DTL
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent tolerance; to a friend your heart; to your child a good example; to a father deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself respect; and to all men charity.
Frances Balfour
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Well, I'm glad you mentioned it so that I could rediscover it. Have any others you could recommend?
Yes, the war was forced upon Arjuna after Krishna went to the other side trying to offer a peaceful solution and was rebuked. And yes, it is very deep and it takes not only many readings but a lot of introspection. A lot of the meaning comes from within yourself.
xxrayeyes,
I picked up the Bhagavad-Gita again and remember why I had put it down soon after buying it. I was a bit turned off by the beginning where it's set in a battlefield and Arjuna is reluctant to start the battle and Krisna is urging him on (did I get that right?). So... I've been reading past that and have found some gems... here's one:
I am impartial to all creatures,
and no one is hateful or dear to me,
but men devoted to me are in me,
and I within them.
I have a feeling it's one of those things you have to read and continue re-reading for deeper understanding. Working on it...
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.
Dalai Lama
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In rememberance...
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Dick Cheney's conflict of interest.
Published on Monday, March 31, 2003 by the Boston Globe
The Cheney Connection
by Ruben Navarrette Jr
DALLAS -- I KNOW the saying dictates that to the victor go the spoils. But there are serious questions emerging over the process by which US companies are hired to put out oil fires, build roads and bridges, restart oil production, and do whatever is necessary to ''reconstruct'' Iraq after allied forces deconstruct it. Some answers need to come from Vice President Dick Cheney, a major architect of the war with Iraq, according to many newspapers and columnists around the country. That's the same Dick Cheney who was, until 2 1/2 years ago, chief executive officer of Halliburton Co., a Houston-based oil field services firm that takes in nearly $20 billion annually.
It is a Halliburton subsidiary -- Kellogg, Brown & Root -- that landed on a short list of companies invited by the US Agency for International Development to bid on what could grow to be a $900 million contract to rebuild Iraq. That's the same Kellogg, Brown & Root that was recently awarded, by the Defense Department, the contract to put out fires at oil fields in Iraq.
Good work if you can get it. Oil-field firefighting firms fetch up to $50,000 per day, and it can take weeks to cap a single well. There's no telling how much work there will be in Iraq, but experience says there could be plenty.
In the first Gulf War, Iraqis torched more than 700 oil wells in Kuwait. About half the fires were extinguished by Halliburton.
There's that name again.
And just to prove what a small world it is, the man who was secretary of defense in 1991 was later himself awarded a choice position: CEO of Halliburton. His name: Dick Cheney.
The Halliburton gig, from 1995 to 2000, was a cash cow for Cheney. During his final 8 1/2 months on the job, he pulled down a salary of $806,332 and collected another $100,000 in benefits.
And, mind you, all this was occurring while he was directing George W. Bush's search for a running mate.
Not only did Halliburton not seem to mind that its CEO was moonlighting as a headhunter, it gave Cheney a $1.5 million bonus. But that was cookie jar money compared with what Cheney pocketed when Bush made him his running mate. Cheney then sold his stock options and pocketed another $22 million and change.
Now $22 million and change isn't just a golden handshake. It's a wet, sloppy kiss. And that brings us to the questions. Are the new contracts for Halliburton Cheney's idea of reciprocity? If not, why was the process done by invitation only and not opened to other bids? And why was all this done in relative quiet?
Moreover, why hasn't the vice president's office been more forthcoming in trying to clear up any confusion about any benefit that Halliburton might derive from having its former CEO now sitting to the right hand of the president? Why has Cheney's office typically referred inquiring reporters from The Washington Post to Halliburton, only to have Halliburton refer them back to the vice president?
And given that these are tax dollars we're talking about (lots of them), why isn't there more transparency in the whole process?
Americans may never learn the answers. After howls of protests from competing firms around the world that were aced out of the Iraqi reconstruction bidding process, the government has now shifted the responsibility for overseeing the oil-field contracts to the Army Corps of Engineers and stamped the matter ''classified.''
And why is that, exactly?
Here's the big question: Did the vice president of the United States use his influence to help make his wealthy friends at his old company wealthier?
No one knows. And it's mighty hard to find out when no one is talking and folks are giving reporters the run-around. That has to stop. Cheney should speak up and settle once and for all these questions about how his private sector experience may be affecting his public service.
Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a syndicated columnist.
© Copyright 2003 Globe
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0331-01.htm
CT
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
http://www.spirituallyfit.com/volume4/issue1/stories/chief_seattle.htm
I've been wondering what we have stashed away. Arrogant how we think others can't have these things but it's okay for us to have them.
Yes they did, under the supposed pretext that chemical weapons might prove to be more humane. Much like Bush's recent argument that abandoning the ABM treaty might lead to a safer world. Can't complain much about Pakistan India or North Korea testing long range missiles right after you argue that you shouldn't be asked to restrict their testing.
I am not sure but I believe the only chemical weapons agreement we ever signed was in 1972 when we agreed to dispose of the munitions we had built. 30 years later we have just begun this process.
So am I understanding this correctly... that the US and UK voted against prohibiting chemical warfare?
Nice quote.
Here's a little background.
1899 The Hague Peace Conference
Three propositions were, however, adopted: one, unanimously forbidding, during a term of five years, the throwing of projectiles, or explosives, from balloons, or by other analogous methods. Of the two others, one, forbidding the use of projectiles the sole purpose of which was, on bursting, to spread asphyxiating or deleterious gases, was discussed mainly in the naval sub-committee. It received in that, and afterward in the full Committee, the negative vote of the United States naval delegate alone, although of the affirmative votes several were given subject to unanimity of acceptance. In the final reference to the Conference, in full session, of the question of recommending the adoption of such a prohibition, the Delegation of Great Britain voted " No, " as did that of the United States.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague99/hag99-06.htm
The Avalon Collection
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague99/haguemen.htm
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
I especially like this one. Thanks for posting it!
From The Dalai Lama at the Millennium
I N S T R U C T I O N S F O R L I F E
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Good ones Tate, thanks.
Thanks for your contribution :)
Why are people starving?
Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes.
Therefore the people are starving.
Why are the people rebellious?
Because the rulers interfere too much.
Therefore they are rebellious.
Why do people think so little of death?
Because the rulers demand too much of life.
Therefore the people take life lightly.
Having to live on, one knows better than to value life too much.
Lao Tsu
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E.H. Chapin
Sara...the above are some of my favorites. Thank you for starting this board, I look forward to following it.
Tate
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