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Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling: Als je alle fouten uit je verleden zou kunnen wissen
If you could erase all the mistakes of your past,
you would also erase all the wisdom of your present.
Always, remember the lesson but not the disappointment. ❤️☀
Text & image source: Mitra Shahidi https://www.facebook.com/mitra.shahidi.3
There are many different shades of life presented by the many experiences and influences brought into our surroundings.
We have one great expectation to grow in our life and to make it better all the time, looking forward to perhaps an unreachable dream. Those who believe in the Divine Creator know that life is fare-most the greatest gift and that life is sealed by the Grace of salvation making us able to live by a still greater expectation of a better world to come. With that hope by the Grace of Salvation we can nurture our personal choice to opt the option of living and enjoy every moment we receive from the Creator. For that life we should be thankful for each blessing in our present life and the other life still to come and hoped for.
In our life where may be the shadow of all those experiences and special moments of life? The memories which can build up our life and make our book of life a great story-book to accompany us on paths still unknown.
We may not be any more the one we were when we were a child. All those experience , which we liked and did not like, have moulded us in an other child. The innocence of our childhood is gone. But by the years we become softer and perhaps less experimenting, putting much more in perspective. When older the empty days can be filled with memories.Life may be going on for no reason, but we can give a lot of reason to our life, and that is what we should do.
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Find also to read:
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Preceding
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Additional reading
- Looking forward for what is to come
- Looking for a spiritual new life
- Matthew 20 It is never too late
- A Tool to shed light over the qualities in our life 1 Inner feelings
- Life and an assembly of books
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“Among infinite shades of life, you can’t claim any one shade as The best or The worst. Life is so unpredictable.”
Soulmate life
Walks with me like my shadow Amalgamated life
Time flies likeblink of eyes, though
Unswayed life
Lives in the hope of living and pray
Aspired life
Lost in the memories of yesterday
Ignorant life
Freely savour the present moment
Pithy life
Cherish the future’s golden element
Relentless life
Resonates the music of laughter
Melodious life
Takes the shower of tears
Morose life
Butstillhowbeautiful, yet
Accessiblelife
~Priyamvada
साये की तरह साथ चलती ये
रहगुज़र जिंदगी
मेरे हाथों से छूटता वक्त है फिर भी कितनी
बेअसर जिंदगी
जीने के आस में हरवक्त रहती ये
अग्रसर जिंदगी
कभी कल की याद में खोई हुई ये
बेख़बर जिंदगी
कभी आज को खुल के जीती हुई ये
मुख़्तसर जिंदगी
कल के सुनहरे सपने सजातीे रहती
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Tricolor Heron – Merritt Island – November 2017
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this present world lots of short notices or messages are posted on social media, but to find serious writing on the net has become limited.
There is a serious need for analysing what happens in the world. We could do with some more bloggers recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it. Analyses of people giving an idea how a culture experiences the events.
It is for any person impossible to know what future shall bring, but by the knowledge of what happened in the past people can have an idea how things can evolve.
For sure all people should try to work for a better future and if they do not fix the disinformation problem, the divide will only widen.
You have very good reasons to point to Nazi Germany, because many factors are pointing that direction, and people could be surprised it can be as bad as then sooner than people think.
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Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.
> recording for history
history written by those who have most to gain by revising history.
‘recording’ history =/= ‘rewriting’ history.
current problem = large number of people been brainwashed by lies + who think they are informed.
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Be the scribe. Record your experiences. Tell history the facts.
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Preceding
Mountains of information, disinformation and breaking away
Fake News Goes Back to the Garden of Eden says Pope Francis I
Parallels between what is happening in our world today and the atmosphere in pre-Nazi Germany
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Additional reading
- Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
- Finish each day and be done with it
- A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- So it will be on the day when …
- Not to speak is to speak
- Faith, hope and love abide
- A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
- Trust the future to God
- You God hold the future
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- Historical facts in myths and legends
- Don’t Compromise Monuments and Parks
- America’s Cult of Ignorance
- I Know You Hold the Future
- Would You Send Your Children to University?
- Worst Military Leaders in History
- They All Fall Down
- Educated Goal Setting
- The Expansion of Time and the Mind
- The Future of Emails: I
- Writing Prompt Response
- Scribes
- Focus on Scribes
- Future thinking
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- This Little Britain
- It Is Not A Democracy
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t
- Let’s Go To The Papers
- What is a historical fart?
We should all be writing.
Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.
We need to be recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it.
They say that history is written by the winners. I don’t agree. I believe history is written by those who have the most to gain by revising history.
There is a difference between ‘recording’ history and ‘rewriting’ history. We are seeing this happening in 2017. There are those in public life who don’t seem to understand that technology makes it easy to find the videos from the past that document a statement. You can try to deny that you said something but someone will find that video and publish it to prove you are lying.
The current problem is not just the lying about the past, even the recent past. What is most…
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From an Indian self taught artist with engineering background, who worked as an executive in the field of QA. Anil has a word and a photo blog where we can find very beautiful pictures.
Anil C Mandal
Lately, Anil C Mandal may have found the passion for travel and love for nature having induced another passion in him which is photography. Travel destinations and nature’s abundant beauties fascinate and inspire him to capture those beauties. We recommend to have a look at Nature & Travel Pix (to find some of the 279 articles in the category Nature) The category “art” delivers also some very beautiful photographs and interesting articles to read. But at Anil’s Blog he presents his quotes & thoughts, where he perhaps may think , like us, of the happiness which is not something ready made, but which comes from our own actions. {Dalai Lama on happiness} Knowing that what you think, say and do have to come in harmony with each other to retrieve full happiness. {Mahatma Gandhi on happiness}.
But with Anil’ thoughts and photographs we can already have some taste of some happiness, without having to go to the City of joy.
Ravīndranātha Thākura = Rabindranath Tagore one of the greatest bards and poet
Besides calling it “City of Joy” Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is also known as the city of Rabindranath Tagore, city of Satyajit Ray, city of Mother Teresa, city of intellectuals, city of football, city of procession, city of political movements, city of Bundhs (strike) , city of arts and culture (cultural capital of India), city of festivals and at last but not the least it is also known as city of best sweets and cuisine. Kolkata is the Capital of the Indian state of “West Bengal”. It is the 4th largest city in India. {City of joy}
Stories might be very different, though good writing goes for all over the world. Patience, want to give honest love, so much may belong to the past, to days gone.
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Further reading
- Have you ever been in love?
- Back then and today
- Pages of Time: The Unseen Hand
- urchin words
- Loving endlessly the end
- Day 95: Finding peace in the present
- Will there be echos left by me?
- MemoriesMemories (from Angela)
- Unfading Memories…
- Memories . . . Unsweet Memories
- well past interest
- In Between
- Nothing is Simple
- Learning you after Leaving me
- reseeding
- What You Know
- Letting go
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In response to WordPress’s Daily prompt Gone of 3rd. Jan 2017, a simple poem of mine is shared with you!
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“It’s amazing how a little
tomorrow can make up for
a whole lot of yesterday.”
– John Guare
Instead of using what happened in the past as an educational experience and to continue the positive way, too many people get stuck and chained by the past.
Let us look forwards and focus on the present in the knowledge that perhaps tomorrow we aren’t there any-more.+
Read also: Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today
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- Have You Ever Seen Tomorrow? (sugar4love.wordpress.com)
What is the first thought that comes into your mind when you open your eyes in the morning? Some would be groaning because it’s early morning and they have to get out of bed and go about their chores. Some would probably start thinking about yesterday’s events. Others would spend the day thinking about what they have prepared for the day and how they will get through it. Some would even wish that morning wouldn’t come.
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We never see tomorrow, because we are in today. Yet most of us spend the time trying to live in the past or the future, never in the present. How can we not understand that the past can not be changed and that the future can not be altered. We can only hope that tomorrow may hold good promises but should just spend time to make today the best it can be.- What to Do When You Are Feeling Stuck: 10 Ways to Get Your Life Moving in a Positive Direction (thehealersjournal.com)
feeling stuck at times is just part of life. So don’t fret. Don’t get depressed. Don’t fight it. Just accept that in this very moment, it’s what you need to experience. Embrace it. Doing this releases much of its hold over you instantly. And then, as mentioned previously, start looking at things differently. Get out of your normal habits and routines and shake things up. Take a vacation. Do something new or challenging… and your stuckness will float away like a cloud in the sky.- Day 624: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (annkoplow.wordpress.com)
Also, when I was feeling grateful, connected and clear yesterday, I spent some time thinking about what blog posts I might write, in the future.- Inbound14 Day One Highlights (enmast.com)
If you are a small company looking to get bigger, you can’t compete with money. There’s always someone willing to pay more for attention or for talent. To be a small player competing with 800 pound gorillas, you need to have something else to offer. Dharmesh believes that “something” is your culture.- Just Do It: Tomorrow is National Make Your Bed Day (apartmenttherapy.com)
Heads up, tomorrow is National Make Your Bed Day and ’round here we plan to celebrate. As we’ve always maintained, making your bed each morning is a great way to start out your day on the right foot. What better day to begin?Turns out, there’s lots of evidence that making a habit of making your bed can be the turning point that begins a positive spiral. In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg calls it a keystone habit:
Many of us focus on the past and keep re-living all our pain and misery. Others focus on the future and what might or might not happen. People living in the past or future are unlikely to live in happiness and good health. They are stressing about past issues and worrying about what will happen in the future.
Focusing on the present allows us to enjoy our lives and be thankful for what we have. Here are some great quotes to remind us to live in the present.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ~Mother Teresa
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. ~William Allen White
Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seize this day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. ~Horace
The world of tomorrow belongs to…
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When people do want to get rid of the negativeness in their life they should come to the understanding that they shall have to change their attitude and direct their choices in the good direction.
To be able to find a path to success we get to put away our memories of the bad things. We have to chose to let go bad memories and most of all the fear for what happened in the past to us and for what still could happen to us. We must be aware that we may have to walk on a hard road, the one less travelled but the one with less hurt.We perhaps have to choose to go into other directions than most people do want to go and we have to chose the better friends to walk with us. There is no reason at all to cling to the past nor to people who are not meant to stay with us.
For sure there will be haters of all sorts of thing and mostly of those who do not like us. But why keep worrying about them? Why wanting to walk around with those who so often doubt? We may doubt, but it may not catch us like a virus. When we do face the Non-Believers and the Unbelievers, we should stand strong in our own shoes, going for what we feel in our inner guts.
We better dare to stand strong in the heavy waters of the sea of this demanding world and have the strong feeling that we will and shall prove them wrong.
Positivism demands first a strong change in ourselves. First we do have to believe in ourselves before we can start constructing.
The attitudes given here are one step to the start-blocks to do the relay race of our life.+
Additional reading
- Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
- Running away from the past
- Rejoicing in the day
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- Unstopable (cloud10site.wordpress.com)
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.- Look in My Mirror (thetimesofrefreshing.wordpress.com)
Each day you look in your mirror to see how you look; oftentimes you don’t notice the beauty that I’ve imparted into your life. You see only the negative things about yourself; the wrinkles, dark circles, blemishes and imperfections. You don’t take the time to see the joy, beauty or the marvelous workmanship that I so lovingly poured into you.- Talent Is Not Enough (9/30/13) (tworiversblog.com)
Each and every one of us is given natural gifts and talents.
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When our talents and gifts are moving in the same direction as God’s will and anointing we are unstoppable. So what is His will and for what purpose is His anointing? To proclaim good news to the poor, comfort for the brokenhearted, release for the captives, freedom for the prisoners and and blessing for those who mourn.- Rejoice in the potential that lies before you! (megnocero.wordpress.com)
There has to be something or someone to hold onto and give you hope. Make the decision to find that one person or thing. And until you find it, embrace your thoughts laced with love, kindness and optimism for yourself and others. Making this one small choice could give you the strength to snap out of any gloomy and dismal hypnotic trance and find what you need to see the world in an entirely different light. You may face challenges, it is a part of every life. Remember when you are going through them, there is beauty to be found there.- On a Positive Mental Attitude and the Soundtrack of My Life (dailytwocents.com)
According to my husband, a positive mental attitude is the most important part of his productivity. In order to achieve this attitude, he said he constantly reminds himself of the good things in his life. He makes up his mind to be happy and productive each day, and that’s how he gets so much done, he said. Perhaps I could learn something from my husband. Perhaps we all could!Are you like my husband, or do you approach each day a bit more tentatively? If you are a gusto kind of person, what helps you get up and get going each day? (48)
- Attitude..!!! (spongebobz14.wordpress.com)
Attitude is little thing that makes a big difference” said Winston Churchill. When we have a difference of opinion with others and get into a conflict, it either leads to having a positive or negative effect on the relationship.Your positive attitude gives a positive result whereas the negative, gives a negative result.- A Winning Attitude (buildingleaderseveryday.wordpress.com)
Your attitude can give life, raise esteem and signal hope. Your attitude can bring destruction, loss and hopelessness.Positive attitude is so much more than feeling a certain way. Positive attitude must be enacted through kind gestures and soft words; through praises and recognitions.- It’s a Great Day! (emmanuelayeni.com)
It’s a great day because we are alive. The fact that we are living souls today is good enough reason that today is a great day. No matter your situations, no matter the circumstances surrounding you being alive means you own the day, it’s your day and because there is greatness in you, It can never be less than a great day! Step into it there is hope for you again today to become all you have ever dreamed of. It’s a bright and wonderful day!- Meditate on Positivity (inspiringentrepreneur.wordpress.com)
To win the battle of your mindset and try to remain as positive as you can use mediation. Meditation is a powerful weapon. You can focus and read affirmations, positive quotes, listen to inspirational speakers, inspirational music, follow inspirational blogs and so much more.- Does it matter where Positivism come’s from ? (thoughtsummary.wordpress.com)
Today Positivism has filled every corner of our life its there at the work or in our home, where the need and demand is growing at a very fast pace just as the technology is making our live’s vulnerable and stressful. The global life of an average person is being run over by stress , confusion, crises, tension, unfulfilled needs, desires complexities, problems, pain, suffering, and delusions that has become more or less an identity if that very person.
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Elul, the month to reflect and to prepare oneself to perfect oneself plus preparing oneself to enter a new phase in facing the Elohim, coming closer into the Divine presence.
Time to come face to face with the King in the field.
The surest way of ensuring our happiness and success in life is by devoting ourselves wholeheartedly to learning what God expects of us (by studying His Torah), by addressing our prayers directly to Him, and by fulfilling His will.
Time to reflect.
For all the world is nothing more than the means by which you will connect the above with the below.
Joden indien zij hun oude Geschriften diepgaand onderzoeken kunnen tot de ontdekking komen wie de lang beloofde Messiach is en kunnen daarbij ook voldoende redenen vinden om die Messias of Christus te volgen en deelgenoten te worden van ‘zijn lichaam’ en alzo als Jood voor Christus door het leven te gaan.
In het Joodse geloof zijn er de apart geplaatste boeken maar ook legendes welke vertellen over de man Abraham welke wij als onze aartsvader aanschouwen, omdat de elohim hem heeft uitverkoren om de vader van velen te zijn.
De Bijbelse naam Abraham betekent ‘verheven vader’. Dit was de Chaldese naam van Abraham. Toen Abram door God werd gekozen om de stamvader te worden van Gods volk, werd hij Abraham genoemd, wat ‘vader van vele volken’ betekent.
Adam mag dan wel de eerste man zijn die de wereld kent, maar voor ons geloof is de nomade wiens naam van Abram naar Abraham verandert is door God veel belangrijker.
In voorgaand en volgend bericht gaan wij dieper op die Bijbelse figuur in.
In ons geloof kijken wij gerust ook naar het begin aller tijden maar betreft ons geloof nemen wij anderen dan Adam en Eva als onze grote voorouders. Hij die voor ons de eer krijgt om onze aartsvader te zijn is Abraham.
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Let me caution you;Don’t tryTo hold me back;Don’t tryTo stand on my way;Don’t tryTo make me fail;Take note!You waste your timeIf you do;You cannot succeedNo matter how hardYou may try;To try to standOn my way,May cause your downfall;It will make you fail woefully.I am born to succeed.What of you?Are you equally bornTo succeed?
