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Honolulu, Hawaii. The roots and trunk of an enormous banyan tree.

From Historic Olvera Street near Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

 

If your conscience is too easily wounded, don't violate it. To violate even a weak conscience is to train yourself to override conviction, and that will lead to overriding true conviction about real sin. Moreover, violating the conscience is a sin in itself (Romans 14:23), bringing legitimate guilt for a real offense against God. So, respond to your conscience, even if it’s weak, and then continue to inform your conscience with God’s Word so it can begin to function with reliable data. - John MacArthur

An old man burns incense in Cochin, India

How is it you always

Seem to know

Just when I need to let

The tears flow

 

You surprise me

Every time

With your beauty

So sublime

 

View towards the South Downs from Wilmington, East Sussex, UK.

Other poems and images can be seen at my website:

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“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”

-Anne Frank

Katasraj temple is a Hindu temple situated in the Chakwal district of Punjab in Pakistan. Dedicated to Shiva, the temple has existed since the days of Mahābhārata and the Pandava brothers spent a substantial part of their exile at the site. The Pakistan Government is considering nominating the temple complex for World Heritage Site status. It also proposes to spend about Rs 20 million in three phases for the restoration of the complex.

 

Most of the temples, located some 40 km from the modern city of Chakwal in the Potohar region of northern Punjab in Pakistan, were built during the reign of Hindu kings. These several temples were built around 900 years ago or more, although the earliest of the Katasraj temples dates back to the latter half of the 6th century A.D. Scholars believe that most of the temples were actually constructed when the Shahi kingdom, driven from Afghanistan when their ethnic cousin Mahmud of Ghanavi came to power, fled to the region and set up base there.

 

The temple was abandoned by local Hindus when they migrated to East Punjab in 1947. It has always been the site of holy pilgrimage for people of various faiths. Even nowadays, worshippers from all faiths perform pilgrimages to the temple every year and bathe in the sacred pool around which Katasraj is built.

 

The Katas site houses the Satgraha, a group of seven ancient temples, remains of a Buddhist stupa, a few medieval temples, havelis and some recently constructed temples, scattered around a pond considered holy by Hindus. The temples at Katas are mostly constructed on square platforms. The elevation of the sub shrines seems to form a series of cornices with small rows of pillars, crowned by a ribbed dome.

 

The Ramachandra temple is situated to the east of the Hari Singh Haveli and is closed from all sides except for an entrance on the east. The double-storied structure has eight rooms of various dimensions on the ground floor and a staircase at the south leading to the first floor. The temple has two jharokas (balconies) that have been severely damaged.

 

The Hanuman temple is on the western extreme of a high rectangular enclosure with entrances on the south and the north. The temple's ceiling is undecorated, and lime-plastered. The Shiva temple is also built on a square platform. Its entrance is a recessed round arch with faint cusps and a rectangular opening to the north.

 

Katasraj temple complex is believed to date back to the Mahabharata era. There are stories about the Pandavas spending time there during their long exile. The lake in the complex is believed to have magical powers and supposed to be where Yudhisthira defeated the Yaksha with his wisdom to bring his brothers back to life.

 

(From wikipedia)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony

 

La felicità è quando le cose che pensi, le cose che dici e le cose che fai sono in completa armonia

 

Mahatma Gandhi

A black and white portrait of an elderly local from Hoi An, Vietnam

(le français suit)

 

A serie dedicated with respect to the ancient wisdom of the First Nations of North America :

www.flickr.com/photos/patrice-photographiste/sets/7215763...

 

« The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denieds liberty to go where he pleases »

 

Himmaton Yalatkit, Nez Percé Chef, (1830-1904)

Photo : Grand Canyon (South Rim), Arizona, Mother Earth

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Une série dédiée, avec respect, aux aux sagesses anciennes des premières nations nord américaines....

www.flickr.com/photos/patrice-photographiste/sets/7215763...

 

« La terre est la mère de tous les peuples et tous les gens devraient avoir des droits égaux sur elle. Vous avez autant de chance de rencontrer une rivière qui coule à l’envers qu’un homme né libre, heureux de se retrouver parqué (dans une réserve), et empêché d’exercer sa liberté d’aller où il veut.»

 

Himmaton Yalatkit, Nez Percé Chef, (1830-1904)

Photo : Grand Canyon (South Rim), Arizona, Terre Mère

Watching the days go by.

In one of my outdoor spaces

 

Thanks to SkeletalMess for the great texture!

  

Maybe she’ll come with the next spring

Maybe year after year with the white on my head

Wisdom

 

Forse verrà con la prossima primavera

Forse anno dopo anno col bianco sul mio capo

Saggezza

These are my teeth. If you look at the note you can see where one of my wisdom teeth is coming in at the wrong angle. I'm going to have to have it surgically removed. Ouch.

Happy Sunday everyone (and Happy Sliders Sunday :)).

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

 

Textures by Plumnutz

"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

  

Yannis Martynov Edit

See his work here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/yannismartynov/

 

www.flickr.com/photos/yannis_martynov/

  

Land of Owls by Cica Ghost:

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flocke/193/120/29

 

-In this shot i inspired from the works of my dear friend Grant Simon Rogers

Taken with iphone5. Edited with Snapseed, Laminar, Touch Retouch

(photo taken at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)

Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as "Most Favored"

  

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