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"Will Tahu find the humility and patience to earn deeper knowledge of fire and learn that not everything can be taken by force?"
Fourth creature of the series to make the G2 creatures into large and powerful elemental masters. Ikir came to completion in one day after I began tinkering with his head design. It's a good feeling when a moc comes together straightforwardly.
As usual, I recycled the head, but gave the creature different eyes from the rest. Boat studs made for great bird eyes in this case.
With Ikir, I thought that Tahu's challenge is basically the fact that he can't reach the flying bird. Assuming Tahu is fairly hot tempered, his trial is to learn that he can't simply force and take everything he wants. Instead, with Ikir, he must learn to earn, wait, give and compromise until he finds the connection he needs with Ikir.
Broom in the wood
Garfagnana, Toscana
Buona Domenica!
( ps
nel linguaggio dei fiori simboleggia l modestia e l'umiltà.
In the language of flowers symbolizes modesty and humility )
To be real on this path you must be humble--
If you look down at others you'll get pushed down the stairs.
If your heart goes around on high, you fly far from this path.
There's no use hiding it--
What's inside always leaks outside.
(yunus emre)
When young we feel almost indestructible believing we can conquer the world. With Age come knowledge, humility and understanding that we cannot wrap the world around our arms. We are just a small part of something incredible, not the center of it.
Macro Monday project – 06/20/11
"Humility"
Gentleness and self-control.
Gentleness is rooted in an attitude of humility before God. In experiencing God's gentleness to us, we desire to demonstrate the same to others.
"24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth," 2 Timothy 2:24-25
This leads to self-control because gentleness is meekness, not weakness.
Meekness is power under control. Every person is powerful. We can speak words that influence others; we can act in ways that help or hurt; and we can choose what influences will inform our words and actions. So, gentleness leads to self-control, which constrains and channels that power in our desire to be like the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our objectives and goals become increasing less about ourselves and more about the glory of our God. His will and His thoughts control and inform what we do.
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30
This Thanksgiving we can thank God for all of these wonderful fruits of the Spirit, freely given to everyone who will repent and believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ!
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
"Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else: ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, “I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind, and particularly that I am not like this tax collector here. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes on all I get.” The tax collector stood some distance away, not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven; but he beat his breast and said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” This man, I tell you, went home again at rights with God; the other did not. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted.’"
- Luke 18:9-14, which is today's Gospel at Mass (30th Sun in Ordinary Time)
Stained glass window from Most Holy Redeemer church in Detroit.
You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty their heart. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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True Wisdom Comes from God
If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
[James 3:13-18 NLT]
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
"We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic."
(From "The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)" by Diane Setterfield)
A few seasons ago I already took some pictures of this lady who seems to spend her life at Lalita ghat from where her eyes never leave the Ganges.
There are many enthralling chronicles filled with some kind of magic in Varanasi (Benaras), who knows what story stands behind this lady...
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Humility. The more you learn, the more you realize there's still so much more to learn. This tends to make you humble. Arrogance and egotism come from ignorance -- knowing a little bit and assuming you know a lot. - Lao Tsu
Someone said that I am Arrogant.
It would really bothered me if it was true.
I am still in the middle of my journey, wondering if I need to change course.
[...] There is no respect for others without humility in one's self [...]
- Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel
Nikon D200, Tokina 12-24 f/4, 12mm - f/8 - 2s - HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Rome, Italy (June, 2013)
In love He blessed us with all spiritual blessings!
(James Smith, "The Evening Sacrifice; Or, A Help to Devotion" 1859)
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." Ephesians 1:3
God's love to us is infinite. He considers nothing too good or too great to confer upon His redeemed children. Having chosen us in His Son, that we may be holy and blameless before Him — in love He blessed us with all spiritual blessings. He gave us . . .
grace in Jesus,
grace before the foundation of the world,
grace for all time,
grace for all trials,
grace to be given to us as our circumstances may require.
In going to the throne of grace, therefore — we simply go to receive what our heavenly Father has stored up in Jesus for us. What sweet encouragement is this! Well may the apostle say, "Therefore let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need."
Blessed Lord, we thank You, we praise You, we bless Your glorious name — that You have chosen us and put us into Christ, made provision for us in Christ, and will make us perfectly holy through Christ. Teach us to come with boldness and confidence to Your throne, that we may obtain for our use, all that You have treasured up for us in Jesus. O give us . . .
more faith in Christ,
more humility when at your throne,
more zeal for Your glory when in the world,
more love to You and Your people; and
teach us to eat, drink, dress, and do everything to Your glory!
O to be thoroughly Christ-like! O to reflect the glory of God on all around us! O to live and act as on the confines of eternity, as if always impressed with this fact, "I shall soon be in Heaven!" Gracious Savior, raise me above this world, fix my affections on Yourself, fill me with Your Spirit, and enable me to lie down tonight with the assurance that all spiritual blessings are mine!
The Sage is always willing to radio in a little Divine Intervention, but it is up to the Omnissiah to decide if teal should die.
Verdict: KILL!
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For Contest: Kill Teal (Volume 2) at the New Elementary.
Thus monastic humility is seen as “the victory of the real over the unreal-a victory in which false human ideals are discarded and the divine ideal is attained, is experienced, is grasped and possessed not in a mental image but in the present and concrete and existential reality of our life.
-Thomas Merton, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 4, pg. lii
Picture for the MacroMondays theme on June 20st, 2011: Humility.
Those who have great wisdom must all the more be humble and unassuming, just like the rice stalk that bows under the weight of ripe grain. ~ Master Cheng Yen
即使已達智慧圓融，更應含蓄謙虛，像稻穗一樣，米粒愈飽滿垂得越低 ~ 靜思語
~安康農場, 新店, 台北
Ankang Ecological Farm, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 100, F22, 1/4000 sec, 100mm
- Canon 550D with EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens
- Sunrise @ 5.04am / Shot @ 6.55am
Mat on Rollei Digibase 200 iso. A remarkable film, I've tried it for the first time. Very different from any other film I know.
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HUMILITY (mosaic tile motivational art at Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Junior and Senior Public School)
Pancies
Pansy
The garden pansy (Viola × wittrockiana) is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower.[2] It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium ("the pansies")[3] of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease. It is sometimes known as V. tricolor var. hortensis, but this scientific name is suspect. While V. tricolor var. hortensis Groenland & Rümpler is a synonym of Viola × wittrockiana,[1] V. tricolor var. hortensis DC. refers to a horticultural variety of wild pansy (V. tricolor without interspecific hybridization) that had been illustrated in Flora Danica in 1777[4][5] before the existence of Viola × wittrockiana.[1][6]
The chromosome number of Viola × wittrockiana is 2n = 44–52,[6] with most cultivars being 2n = 48.[7] The flower is 5 to 8 centimetres (2 to 3 in) in diameter and has two slightly overlapping upper petals, two side petals, and a single bottom petal with a slight beard emanating from the flower's center. These petals are usually white or yellow, purplish, or blue.[8] The plant may grow to 23 cm (9 in) in height, and prefers sun to varying degrees and well-draining soils.
Names and terminology
English common names, such as "pansy", "viola" and "violet" may be used interchangeably. One possible distinction is that plants considered to be "pansies" are classified in Viola sect. Melanium, and have four petals pointing upwards (the two side petals point upwards), and only one pointing down, whereas those considered to be "violets" are classified in Viola sect. Viola, and have two petals pointing up and three pointing down.[3][9][10] Another possible distinction is made by the American Violet Society – the International Cultivar Registration Authority for the genus Viola. It divides cultivated varieties (cultivars) in Viola sect. Melanium into four subgroups: B1 – pansies, B2 – violas, B3 – violettas and B4 – cornuta hybrids. On this classification, modern "pansies" differ from the other three subgroups by possessing a well-defined "blotch" or "eye" in the middle of the flower.[11]
Modern horticulturalists tend to use the term "pansy" for those multi-coloured large-flowered hybrids that are grown for bedding purposes every year, while "viola" is usually reserved for smaller, more delicate annuals and perennials.[citation needed]
Etymology
The name "pansy" is derived from the French word pensée, "thought", and was imported into Late Middle English as a name of Viola in the mid-15th century, as the flower was regarded as a symbol of remembrance. The name "love in idleness" implied the image of a lover who has little or no other employment than to think of his beloved.[12]
The name "heart's-ease" came from St. Euphrasia, whose name in Greek signifies cheerfulness of mind. The woman, who refused marriage and took the veil, was considered a pattern of humility, hence the name "humble violet".[12]
In Scandinavia, Scotland, and Germany, the pansy is known as the "stepmother" flower; an aitiological tale about a selfish stepmother is told to children while the teller plucks off corresponding parts of the blossom.[13] The German name is Stiefmütterchen (lit. 'little stepmother'); in the German version of the tale, the lower petal represents the stepmother, the large upper petals represent her daughters, and the small upper petals represent her stepdaughters.[14] The Czech name for the flower, maceška, also means "little stepmother" and is said to derive from the flower's resemblance of an evil woman's sullen face. In Slovenian, the flower is instead identified with an orphan.[15]
In Italy, the pansy is known as flammola (little flame).[16]
National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine - Pyrogiv. Kyiv.
Греческим крестом называют крест, у которого линии имеют равную длину, перпендикулярны друг другу и пересекаются в середине — символ смирения, где человеческая воля во Христе (горизонтальная линия) пересекается Божественной (вертикальная линия).
hmmmm,...time for a 2022 selfie I see. is this humility or hubris?
That's enough about me...a delightful museum, as I'm sure you'll see.
Clyfford Still Museum
Denver, Colorado
From the Placard: Clyfford Still Museum
Welcome to the Clyfford Still Museum galleries. This Museum has 93 percent of everything American Artist Clyfford Still (1904-1980) made during his lifetime—roughly 3,200 objects. Still kept most of his artworks in the hopes that one day, they would be housed, studied, and displayed together in one place. He left them all to an unnamed American city when he died, and Denver eventually became their home.
The first four galleries illustrate Still’s artistic journey by showing highlights from the collection in chronological order. The remaining galleries feature the exhibition You Select: A Community-Curated Exhibition, which includes artworks that members of the community have selected.
A NOTE ABOUT TITLES ( the PH – numbers): After 1947, Still stopped titling his work and removed all titles from artworks he made before that date. The numbers that follow the PH refer to inventory PHotograph numbers assigned by the artist. Unless otherwise noted, all artworks are oil on canvas.
Lisa Edmondson quote: He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.
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Door Of Humility Into The Church Of The Nativity In Bethlehem The Door of Humility is the main entrance into the Church of the Nativity and is only a little over four feet in height. Other churches have large grand entrances, but this was kept small to prevent people from driving their horses or carts […]
If you know me well you tyhat I am a man of great humility, so when I say I am the world's foremost expert on shooting fog you know there is little exaggeration. I grew up in fog and I spend most of waking hours in a fog. SO when it comes to fog I know what I am talking about. Big weather is rare in Los Angles. With fog being a state of mind not an atmospheric occurrence, so when it happens in front of your eyes instead of your mind in LA, at sunset, you go find an iconic building and by golly you go and photograph it. My studio is in Silver Lake. Hence the beeline to the Griffith Park observatory. Well driving around like a head with it's chicken cut off trying find just "the right spot" sometimes you get lucky. This was one of those times.
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My son has taught many things, humility, sacrifice, patience, and love on a level of which I have never known.
BIBLICAL CONTEXT: James 3:13-16 NIV
(from biblegateway.com)
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
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5 MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
a lone figure stands in silent reverence, facing the grandeur of the altar inside a palma church. her presence is humble, almost blending into the stillness of the moment, yet her stance carries a quiet strength. the light falls softly, illuminating the contours of the sacred space, pulling the viewer into a timeless connection between the human and the divine. this photograph was taken on a quiet afternoon in palma, with a leica monochrom m11, capturing the essence of solitude and introspection. the play of light and shadow, the textures of stone and fabric, all speak of a story that stretches beyond the frame.