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He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life. When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing?"
Excerpt From: Paramananda, Swami. “The Upanishads.” -
I must have reached that age where everyone around you is getting engaged or married.
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Ask yourself, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” and go do it."
Sheryl Sandberg -
Taking great risks can be really uncomfortable, but you have to after what you’re passionate about."
SxSW -
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December 5, 2012 screening of Life of Pi at the Piscine Pailleron in Paris, France
This is amazing.
Wow!
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Incredible video about the emergency food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa. I’ve donated throughhttps://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/SPageNavigator/donate_sahel_food_crisis.html — you can too!
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The hawks were wrong: Iraq is worse off now (Mehdi Hasan, The New Statesman)
“The Iraq war was a strategic disaster - or, as the Tory minister Kenneth Clarke put it in a recent BBC radio discussion, “the most disastrous foreign policy decision of my lifetime … worse than Suez”. The invasion and occupation of the country undermined the moral standing of the western powers; empowered Iran and its proxies; heightened the threat from al-Qaeda at home and abroad; and sent a clear signal to “rogue” regimes that the best (the only?) means of deterring a pre-emptive, US-led attack was to acquire weapons of mass destruction (see Korea, North).
There may have been a strong moral case for toppling the tyrant and liberating the Iraqi people - but there was a much stronger moral case against doing so. Brutal and vicious as Saddam’s reign had been, a “humanitarian intervention” could not just be justified in March 2003, given the complete absence of an ongoing or imminent mass slaughter of Iraqis. Some of us warned that the cost of action, in blood and treasure, would far outweigh the cost of inaction.
And so it came to pass. The greatest weapon of mass destruction turned out to be the invasion itself. Over the past ten years, Iraqis have witnessed the physical, social and economic destruction of their country - the aerial demolition of schools, homes and hospitals; the siege of cities such as Fallujah; US-led massacres at Haditha, Mahmudiyah and Balad; the biggest refugee crisis in the Middle East since the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.”
