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"You don't peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies."
- Rula Ghani
or 'Tyrion Lannister' (Peter Dinklage) in 'Game of Thrones'.
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This is been quite the awful week in Davis. On Thursday last week, David Breaux, who was known as the compassion Guy in Davis and would stand on this corner offering to talk about compassion, was found murdered in Central Park across the street. He was 50. A decade ago he played a role in making this bench, the Compassion Bench, on the corner of 3rd and C. A vigil was held for him last Sunday evening, but that was affected by the fact there was another murder, another awful stabbing, the night before at another Davis park. Karim Abou Najm, a 20 year old student a month away from graduating, was killed in Sycamore Park as he was coming back from an undergrad awards ceremony. A witness who came to help the victim saw the killer get away. So the Davis community has been in a state of shock since. Then on Monday night, our phones all went off with a police alert that there had been another stabbing, this time at a homeless camp on the corner of 2nd and L, a woman named Kimberlee Guillory was attacked and hospitalized but thankfully did not die, after some of her neighbours chased the perp away. Massive police hunt, FBI, and the community pulling together, and a suspect was taken in on Wednesday, and formally arrested Thursday. He was a 21 year old who had been a UCD student until two days before the first killing (sounds like he'd been expelled). The town breathed a sigh of relief but everyone is still sad and exhausted, and mourning the loss of two good people.
On Wednesday, with the police and community still hunting for the killer, I went down to Compassion Corner downtown to see the floral tribute for David Breaux. There were news reporters there talking to people who knew him, people leaving notes, or just stopping by and thinking. I have passed by this bench so many times, but never sketched it, never stopped to talk to David myself.
The Davis Enterprise has been doing some sterling reporting on the events. You can read more here: www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/breaking-suspect-21-ar...
"The People of Japan"
A Tribute By Tom Van Dorn
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"How amazing are the Japanese people that, in the face of such disaster and chaos, they preserve their sense of community and dignity, and in the midst of all the grief and uncertainty they turn to caring and sharing.
It’s not the events that define our lives but the way we respond to them, and the way it shapes our spirit and our evolution.
May the great wave also be the wave of our compassion and giving."
Yoram Weis
THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
A street beggar in front of a Hindu Temple. Taken at Sitakunda, Bangladesh.
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Found in a Jain Temple in the city of Bhuj
Kutch, India
March 2007
Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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"Mindful Compassion" [22/52]
Being kind and taking the high road is a choice. When you're faced with adversity, always take the time to be kind even if someone is tearing you down. The last few months have been really trying for me and I've been upset, angry, disappointed, hurt, etc. I always take the time to think before I speak and in one of the most aggravating situations I've been involved in for a while... I chose to be nice. I chose to not stoop to lower levels and to keep my soul glowing with love. Pick your battles wisely and know that life isn't always about if you're right or not... sometimes you just have to suck it up and move on. There is no point in wasting energy, time, and emotions on things that will never change or things that are only negitivity in your life.
Always choose to be kind.
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts,
to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.
Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely,
to weep with those in tears.
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable,
and powerless with the powerless.
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Along with love, compassion is the face of altruism. It is a feeling from deep in the heart that you cannot bear others’ suffering without acting to relieve it. As compassion grows stronger, so does your willingness to commit yourself to the welfare of all beings, even if you have to do it alone. You will be unbiased in your service to all beings, no matter how they respond to you. Dalai Lama
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
The beggars have come mostly from Romania and Bulgaria a few years ago. They can't work so they beg, or collect bottles, and in summertime they sell wild flowers. Their government needs to be seriously involved and help them, but politics aside and reality is ongoing poverty. Some say the beggars are slaves and brought here by the beggar mafia and are forced to beg. There has been lots of discussions about the issue, however, no solutions yet.
From a stained glass panel by Louis Comfort Tiffany, depicting the Old Testament story of Hagar and Ishmael cast out into the wilderness.
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the chapel interior he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Museum's holdings include a major collection of American art pottery and representative collections of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American paintings, graphics, and decorative arts.
Each year, on the first Thursday of December, the Morse Museum helps launch the holiday season in Winter Park (Florida) when it lights up Tiffany windows in Central Park and presents the Bach Festival Choir, Youth Choir, and Brass Ensemble in concert. This December is the 30th annual celebration of Christmas in the Park.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
~Lord Byron
Off to school now.. I'll visit your streams later. Cheers!
Sometimes when photographing wildlife you do a lot of waiting around and people will say how amazing our patience is, but while waiting for something gives me the opportunity to study behavior in nature and sometimes these observations move me to tears...this was one such case. These two Least Sandpipers landed near me in the mudflat and it soon became clear that one was not well and in some sort of distress. The healthy one stayed by it's friend's side for a very long time keeping it company until it passed away. Such an act of compassion and loyalty was certainly an eye opener and was very poignant. I do not know what the relationship was between them whether friend, parent, progeny...it was certainly clear that there was great empathy displayed by a tiny Sandpiper....
My heartfelt compassion for all the victims, dead and living, following the mass murder of 49 innocent people by a deranged gunman in Orlando, USA who apparently claimed allegiance to Islam and Islamic State (IS). And compassion for the people of the USA who seem to have to live under gun laws that allow such people to easily obtain and use weapons of mass murder.
The definition of compassion is the ability to understand the emotional state of another person or oneself. Often confused with empathy, compassion has the added element of having a desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering of another.
I have met many compassionate people in my lifetime. They are humble and good and follow their heart because they believe they CAN make a difference in the lives of others... be it people or animals.
One such person is my kindred spirit ANN (Annmaxine). Ann and some of her friends will be traveling from their homes in Australia to help orphaned children in Africa next month. They will be gone from their families for a month. Through love and faith and effort, they will try to make a difference. I know they will succeed!
So many of us have empathy for those less fortunate.... but few of us actually DO something about it. Ann and her friends do not do this to bring attention to themselves, but because it's the right thing to do. They are pure of heart. I really admire those that sacrifice their time to make this world a bit better... even if it's one person at a time. People like Ann and her friends give HOPE to humanity and I want to thank them for this.
Taken and edited on an iPhone 4
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Compassion withheld, Judgment delivered, Blame received, Hope denied, Addiction to cope, Shame as result, Justified rebellion, Scorn of the child . . . Look in his eyes, Have mercy for one, Forgiveness released, Surrendered demands, Accept the history, Cycle broken, Compassion for self, Grace envelops, Embrace the story, Renewed sense of life, Never alone, Higher provision, It has all been seen, Living allegory, Proof of my need, Focus on One.
禅林寺永観堂にて
Boddhisattavas of Compassion(the right one, putting palms together and is giving a dharma talk) and Wisdom(the left one, reaching out his hand to give a warm welcome).
These are the two mainly and eternal values of Buddhism.
For 52 in 2017 Group, Week #38
Subject: Paint With Light
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This is one of my favorite statues of Quan Yin. In the Mahayana Buddhists tradition, she is a bodhisattva associated with compassion.
I had fun setting up and shooting this photo assignment. I had forgotten how beautiful this type of light painting can be creating such dramatic effects and photos.
Happy Budha jayanti friends...
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb
Fujifilm X-Pro1 - XF18
Snapped in London, England, UK
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