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The Quran describes the oppressor or tyrant as "deaf, dumb and blind", which is essentially the spiritual reality of the tyrant. He cannot hear the cries of his victims; he cannot communicate with those he oppresses because he imperiously views them as representatives of a lower order of being than himself, and thus as mere commodities to be exploited or, even worse, as plagues to be cleansed; and he cannot see the harm he does. Aristotle (d. 322 BC) reminds us that all tyrants invariably surround themselves with sycophants because they cannot bear the truth. But the tyrant also needs these sycophants because he demands tacit approval of his beliefs and actions, and most of all he fears an honest and critical view of himself. The more the tyrant's power grows, the less he tolerates dissent. What is true of the tyrant is also true of the tyrannical nation. He demands that everyone agree with him and affirm his position because he cannot see, hear or speak to anyone but himself. He believes that his vision is clear, his understanding is unsurpassed, and his words, and only his words, are worthy of utterance or consideration. As human beings, only through others can we truly see ourselves, hear ourselves and talk to ourselves; but in his fixation on himself the tyrant is totally incapable of such reflection.
(Hamza Yusuf. Introduction to the "The prayer of the oppressed")
I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you cant appreciate real love until youve been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you dont know what youve got until you say goodbye
~Savage Garden
“The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side.
Hi again everyone. I've decided to take a small break from flickr because I have some things to attend to before we start our trek through central Australia in September.
I'd particularly like to say thanks for all of your support and comments. No doubt I will do the occasional upload during this break but I won't be here on flickr anywhere near as much as I have been in the past. I'll be back online properly in September and I hope you'll come along and join me on our journey to Uluru, Alice Springs and Central Australia.
Just so nobody is worried by my absence, I'd just like to say that everything is going good for me at the moment and that is a big part of why I'm so short on time. Those of you who have been around for a long time know what I'm talking about and I'd particularly like to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who have been there to support me in the past. Your love and kindness has been a HUGE part of my getting better and I'd like to dedicate this photo and this song by Savage Garden particularly to you!
Who would have thought I would find such inspiration from the friends that I've found on flickr? I'm constantly amazed at all of my contacts' and regulars' talent, ability, empathy and kindness. You guys are an affirmation of everything that is wonderful about photography and flickr!
L'hôtel de ville de Liège, surnommé La Violette, est un bâtiment de la place du Marché à Liège construit dès 1714.
C’est en fait au XIIIe siècle que les magistrats chargés de l'administration communale, désireux d'affirmer leur indépendance à l'égard du prince-évêque, choisissent pour y tenir leurs réunions une maison bourgeoise de la place du Marché, désignée par son enseigne « La Violette ».
La Violette était le lieu de l'élection des bourgmestres et de la publication des règlements communaux.
C'est la première Maison de ville, sise non loin du palais princier et face au Perron, le fier symbole des libertés liégeoises. Détruite et reconstruite à plusieurs reprises, elle va cependant rester fidèle à cet emplacement privilégié.
C'est en effet le 14 août 1714 que l'on voit enfin la pose de la première pierre de l'hôtel de ville actuel. D'Auberat, l'architecte officiel du prince-évêque Joseph-Clément de Bavière, l'ingénieur Sarta et le frère dominicain Colomban délaissent le style gothique régional de l'ancienne bâtisse pour une construction classique aux lignes strictes et rationnelles, basée sur un plan en « U » et s'appuyant sur des substructions voûtées. Une médaille en bronze datée de 1714 attribuée à Gondolphe Duvivier commémore cet événement : sur la face avant se trouvent les armoiries du prince-évêque et les deux armoiries des bourgmestres de l'année et sur l'autre face, la Violette surmontée de la statue de Saint Lambert, saint patron de la ville, suivie d'un long texte.
The town hall of Liège, nicknamed La Violette, is a building on the Place du Marché in Liège built in 1714.
It was in fact in the thirteenth century that the magistrates in charge of municipal administration, wishing to assert their independence with regard to the prince-bishop, chose to hold their meetings a bourgeois house on the Place du Marché, designated by its sign "La Violette".
La Violette was the place for the election of mayors and the publication of municipal regulations.
It is the first town hall, located not far from the princely palace and opposite the Perron, the proud symbol of Liège freedoms. Destroyed and rebuilt several times, it will however remain faithful to this privileged location.
It is indeed on August 14, 1714 that we finally see the laying of the first stone of the current town hall. D'Auberat, the official architect of Prince-Bishop Joseph-Clément of Bavaria, the engineer Sarta and the Dominican brother Colomban abandon the regional Gothic style of the old building for a classic construction with strict and rational lines, based on a U-shaped plan based on arched substructures. A bronze medal dated 1714 attributed to Gondolphe Duvivier commemorates this event: on the front side are the coat of arms of the prince-bishop and the two coats of arms of the mayors of the year and on the other side, the Violet surmounted by the statue of Saint Lambert, patron saint of the city, followed by a long text.
La cathédrale de Winchester, capitale du comté de Hampshire, dans le Sud de l’Angleterre.
Avec sa nef de 125 m à 12 travées la cathédrale de Winchester est la plus longue cathédrale gothique d'Europe. La construction de cette cathédrale a débuté en 1079 sous Guillaume le Conquérant. Malgré les transformations jusqu'au 16e siècle, elle a conservé l'essentiel de l'architecture originelle de style roman de l'ancien monastère bénédictin.
L'antique Venta Belgarum, au carrefour de six voies romaines, a laissé la place à Winchester, une ville prestigieuse au milieu d'une région champêtre. Elle devient la grande capitale du royaume du Wessex du 6e siècle au 9e siècle, la capitale d'Angleterre jusque sous les premiers rois normands au 11e siècle, suite à la conquête de Guillaume le Conquérant. Elle reste une des résidences principales des rois jusqu'à George Ier, début du 18e siècle, tout en s'affirmant un des évêchés les plus riches d'Angleterre.
14 rue François de Sourdis, Bordeaux
En 1982, les lois de décentralisation font de la Région une collectivité territoriale de plein exercice. Désireux d’affirmer, par l’architecture, la réalité et la puissance de cette collectivité naissante, de nombreux conseils régionaux souhaitent alors s’installer dans leur propre immeuble. À Bordeaux, en lisière du nouveau quartier Mériadeck, face au cimetière de la Chartreuse, va alors surgir de terre un colossal parallélépipède de verre, aux reflets verts, pris dans un péristyle de piliers en béton de section quadrangulaire.
En 1983, un concours est ouvert pour choisir l’équipe d’architectes qui construira le nouvel hôtel de la Région Aquitaine. La délibération d’octobre 1983 mentionne qu’il sera fait appel à des concepteurs uniquement aquitains regroupés par équipe de trois membres de départements différents.
Le lauréat est désigné en février 1984 : il s’agit du groupement conduit par la Société bordelaise d’architecture - Perrier S.A. complété des architectes P. Claudel, G. Lechene, B. Maydieu, J.R. Millies-Lacroix, G. Balhadere et M. Madoz-Moussard.
Francisque Perrier est déjà connu localement pour son implication dans divers projets comme l’ensemble de Saige-Formanoir à Pessac en 1965, la résidence « Centre » à Mériadeck en 1976 ou le Conservatoire de Bordeaux en 1977.
L'inauguration a lieu le 9 janvier 1988.
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So affirmed Nagasena.
From "World Of The Buddha" edited by Lucien Stryk.
Sunflower leaf still life, in a vase by a window. No processing other than sharpness, contrast, color boost and D-light adjustment.
Edited in View NX-i
Genesis 2:17 King James Version (KJV)
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
La tour de l'horloge
A la fin du XIVème siècle, la bourgeoisie dinannaise s'affirme comme un partenaire incontournable pour les ducs de Bretagne.
Les privilèges politiques se multiplient alors, symbolisés par la construction d'une tour communale dans les années 1470.
Haute de plus de 43 mètres, cette tour, qui surplombe les églises ainsi que le donjon ducal, accueille jusqu'à la Révolution les réunions du Corps de Ville et joue également, grâce à sa plate-forme panoramique, un rôle de surveillance.
En 1505, la reine Anne de Bretagne autorise l'installation d'une cloche.
Celle-ci est inaugurée en 1507 tandis que la tour communale est érigée au rang de Beffroi.
Un mécanisme d'horlogerie, fabriqué à Nantes en 1498 par l'Allemand Hamzer, est également installé pour l'occasion.
Aujourd'hui, le Beffroi de Dinan, le dernier de Bretagne avec celui de Fougères, demeure un des symboles de la cité.
Cette dernière enceinte servait d’ultime refuge en cas d’attaque. Également nommée « Réduit », c’est le point culminant du site. Là, fut érigé le premier château en bois, aux alentours de l’an Mil.
Cet espace révèle une configuration très rare du fait de la présence de deux donjons : les tours des Gobelins et Mélusine.
Il affirme l’importance de la forteresse et l’ambition des seigneurs de Fougères tout au long du Moyen-âge. Au centre, les fondations d’un imposant donjon, probablement jamais édifié,suggèrent un changement de stratégie défensive.
I will be your Father,and you will be my sons and daughters, say the Lord Almighty..
2 Corinthians 6:18
AFFIRMATION
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
May an Angel’s breath keep you warm
And tempt you to stay
May an Angel’s wings protect you always
When your life becomes difficult and hard
When the light seems increasingly dark
And you need help to find your way
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
*****
Blessings to you all,
Shelley.
Thank you to each and every one of you who has supported and shared your lives and thoughts with me this year.
I cannot thank you enough, as you have kept a light burning for me as well in difficult times.
Even semi-human Angels need love to know they are needed...
I write often of spiritual love, but some days we need to feel real tangible love.
I seek ways out of the darkness, and I hope you will continue to fly with me into the New Year.
Forgive my lateness in replying to comments and faves from my last batch of work, I will get to you...life is demanding and even Angels have to sleep....sometimes..haha!
Angels drive cars and have to get them fixed and sort out dodgy freezers right before Xmas. Angels have family and they sometimes need your surety.
But Angels also have friends on Flickr who have supported them and commented, faved and viewed with astounding generosity.
Thank you, thank you, with all my heart.
*****
This image is a detail from a stained glass window in St. Mary's, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
Angels like it here a lot.
If you would like to see more of my work have a look at my website at:
affirmation:
i have no body
i have no mind
i have no spirit
i am just the breath of God
the breath of life
breath of life
breath of God
in spanish
afirmación:
no tengo cuerpo, no tengo mente, no tengo espíritu
soy solo el aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
my favorite affirmation given by my yoga teacher; yogi bhajan
AN AFFIRMATION OF SELFLESS LOYALTY
My fearless heart
Of diamond clarity
Where expression and thought
Are proof of your bravery, justice and swiftness
That cut through ignorance and malcontent
To reveal the pristine awareness of being
Where the freedom of the mind
Is like the sweet chorus of the birds
*****
Sometimes the reinforcement of gracious qualities and love can be a good thing.
So I decided to start an Album on Flickr doing just that.
I like to take shots of the things I have collected over the years that are sharing their presence with me in my home.
Some of my Grail shots have this quality, but often the poem ends up being longer than an affirmation, to me they end up more like a prayer. You can see the Album that contains those works in my Flickr account as well.
But in a sense this is the same principle, as the things I have collected over the years often have a sacred presence or meaning, so I thought I would start to share them here.
On rainy days or when I am not in a writing mood, it is good to still keep working, using the camera in this way, and it is not only enjoyable, it is an opportunity to appreciate these wonderful sacred items and sculptures all over again, and listen to what they have to say.
This Garuda is a modern piece, but the history, energy and protective instinct is the same as from his first incarnation.
This shot is from where he resides, in my glass cabinet, where I keep many other precious things..
"Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance"
Wynton Marsalis
EVERY DAY
You can leave me in the light
And not worry about finding me
You must surely know
That I will always seek you out
When you feel your sanity
Might be in doubt
When your heart feels sore
And you can’t take anymore
When you hide in dark corners
Shunning the current conversation
All so trite and full of spite
Come and find me
Where you left me
Just look for the light
Because that is me calling you
Every moment of the day
From the light
Look it’s alright
From the light
I love you
From the light
Day and night
*****
Thank you to my Friends and Followers,
an Affirmation for Every Day.
Dear friends and followers, and those who have viewed and faved recently on my last batch of work. I have been thinking of you all and wanting to get back to you before now.
The past few days I have been unwell however, but recovering now.
So this was just a little offering to keep you all going until I can cast my eyes over your lovely work and thank you all for supporting me.
Grail Keepers do not forget their friends. Grail Keepers are people who do not forget and have loyalty as their middle name.
Behind the scenes I have been working, thinking. Seems to me we need beauty and decency back in this world. We need the sort of values that anybody, regardless of who or what they are, or what faith they follow, can have.
A Grail Keeper in my mind is someone who will help in this way, even if its only in small ways, it all adds up to something bigger.
Martin Luther King was a Grail Keeper. John Lennon was a Grail Keeper. Mother Teresa was a Grail Keeper. Alexei Navalny was a Grail Keeper. There are so many, the list could go on.
These are courageous well known examples. But there are also Grail Keepers who work diligently in their own communities. There are Grail Keepers who perform small acts of kindness every day.
I want to start to expand on this idea, and the work I do I hope will bring some light into this dark uncertain world of ours. It doesn’t have to be this way, and Grail Keepers even if its only in a simple, small way, need to find their courage and continue to hold up a light.
This work is from Glynde Church, in Sussex in the UK. I take my Grails out into the area I know and have lived in all my life. With them I seek to find a connection to the spiritual world that will heal and enlighten.
Short of having you there with me, the least I can do is share my work in images and words.
And as always, if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:
March 13th, 2024. Dear Friends...I am still catching up...if I haven't got to you yet, I will.
Meanwhile...The Grail is obsessing me again, when does it not you might ask. Fair point. I really think there is going to be more written as I think upon it. I mean, I have thought about it pretty much all my life, but I think it has a poignant relevance now. I can see some Blogs might get written in the future, especially on the Grail Keeper theme. Modern Grail Keepers are also our future.
Think of any? Might be somebody in your local community.
Like the Post Master in mine, who helped me sort out the right postage to get my new Driving License there and back safely. He got it in the right envelopes and everything for me.
My notes are expanding. But then so is love for the Grail.
All my love everybody, Shell x
Affirmation solennelle d'attester l'engagement et la sincérité d'une promesse.
A solemn affirmation attesting to the commitment and sincerity of a promise.
Night without a DAY
Day without a NIGHT🌙
Somebody wanders maybe into my DREAMS 💭
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♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9vdvK9Xwo - Gaia MESIAH
of a coldness to the touch with the fingers
of hurting and healing simultaneously
in the familiarity of a warm heart
Kaya Project ft.Randolph Matthews ~ Playful New World
I may not be the pretty skinny girl who has her picture gawked at, but I am me. I am a human being, and I am happy with myself. I have curves, and I don't wear a size 2. Call me what you want, I know I truly am.
I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse tv evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
Until you say goodbye
-Savage Garden "Affirmation"
Château du XIIIe siècle bâti par les seigneurs de Dampierre (famille originaire de Moëslain). Le seigneur Gui II de Dampierre, proche du Roi de France, Philippe Auguste, choisit d’implanter son domaine au confluent des rivières Marne et Ornel. L'enceinte en pierre flanquée de tours, est une création typique du premier tiers du XIIIe siècle, elle affirme la puissance territoriale des seigneurs de Dampierre. Au début du XVe siècle, le passage de la seigneurie des de Dampierre à celle des de Vergy a un impact sur l’architecture du château avec de nombreux travaux de restauration. Au XVIe siècle, les fortifications et les systèmes défensifs ont été améliorés par les ingénieurs royaux, notamment Marini. L’architecte de François 1er est à l’origine de la création des fronts bastionnés et du cavalier à l’extrémité sud du château. Le château a accueilli plusieurs souverains dont François 1er en 1542, Marie Stuart qui fut Dame de Saint Dizier en 1560, Henri IV et Marie de Médicis en 1603.
En 1633, Louis XIII y vint plusieurs fois, puis Richelieu qui était tombé malade dut y rester une quinzaine de jours.
Mr. Mio has really taken this book to heart. From the looks of it I think he has made it to Part Three: Meditations and Affirmations
I didn’t become who I am alone.
The people I’ve let close - the rare few - have shaped my architecture. Some challenged me and forced me to grow sharper; some offered quiet stability and taught me how to rest without vanishing; some widened the inner horizon I didn’t know could hold so much light.
And others, in their own ways, taught me refinement through fracture; not because they intended harm - though sometimes they did - but because not everyone is capable of seeing someone clearly, even when standing right in front of them. Every bond - tender, volatile, brief, or breathtaking - has become part of my design.
I still believe in beauty, not as decoration, but as something constructed with intention, protected with discernment, and chosen again and again in spite of everything that may try to dismantle it.
“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.” - Ansel Adams
You are amazing! Yes - You :-).
I just love this video by the Duirwaigh team.
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CG18FPCj0
"When inspiration knocks - open the door."
Esta fotografia é dedicada ao amigo Carlos " Samaval " de Madrid com amizade e simpatia.
Bem-haja.
Saludos
Ricardo.
GENÈVE - La "chaise cassée" (ou Broken Chair), symbole des victimes des mines antipersonnel, a repris sa place devant l'entrée du Palais des Nations à Genève. Elle avait été démontée en mars 2005 pour faire place aux travaux de réaménagement de la place.
"Cette chaise est un symbole vivant de l'engagement de la société civile contre les mines", a affirmé devant les médias Cornelio Sommaruga. Le président du Centre de déminage humanitaire a souligné l'impact visuel très fort de la sculpture, qui est devenue l'emblème de la Genève internationale.
Propriétaire de la fameuse chaise géante au pied cassé, Handicap International s'est réjoui du retour de la sculpture haute de 12 mètres. Sa réinstallation n'allait pas de soi. Elle avait été remise en cause par certaines voix au sein de l'ONU.
Certains ne goûtaient guère la présence d'un monument boiteux devant l'entrée des Nations unies, craignant que le public assimile ce symbole au fonctionnement de l'institution. Handicap International soupçonne aussi les Etats-Unis, la Russie et la Chine, qui n'ont pas ratifié le traité d'Ottawa d'interdiction des mines, de s'être montrés hostiles à l'oeuvre en coulisse.
La ficaire fait le printemps
Cette affirmation rappelle un proverbe à propos d’un autre symbole du printemps, l’hirondelle (sous-entendu l’hirondelle rustique, l’espèce qui niche au plus près des hommes dans les fermes et arrive dès les premiers jours d’avril). Effectivement, il existe un lien avec cet oiseau via le nom anglais de la ficaire : lesser celandine ; lesser de nouveau pour « petite » mais celandine dérive du vieux français célidoine, la chélidoine. On recroise aussi cette dernière dans un autre nom ancien de la ficaire : Chelidonium minus, la petite chélidoine. Or, chélidoine dérive lui-même de chelidôn, l’hirondelle, que l’on retrouve dans le surnom d’herbe à l’hirondelle (swallow-wort en anglais). Cette association remonte à Dioscoride, le célèbre botaniste grec de l’Antiquité, qui déclarait que la chélidoine fleurissait à l’arrivée des hirondelles et mourrait quand elles partaient ; là-dessus est venu se greffer une légende : les hirondelles récoltaient des feuilles de chélidoine pour frotter les yeux collés de leurs oisillons et leur rendre la vue (on retombe sur les propriétés médicinales ophtalmiques !). Par déformation, ce nom a donné au Moyen-âge « coeli donum », don du ciel d’autant que l’hirondelle représente un oiseau céleste (qui reste en l’air) et est associé au soleil et au ciel. Ainsi, ficaire et chélidoine se trouvent à jamais unies pour saluer l’arrivée du printemps !
Plusieurs des surnoms de la ficaire renvoient à sa couleur jaune d’or brillante dont jauneau ou pot au beurre. Ce dernier nom, outre l’allusion directe à la couleur jaune, rappelle une pratique connue des enfants d’autrefois à la campagne (j’en fais partie !!) : on place une fleur de ficaire (ou de renoncule : voir paragraphe suivant) sous le menton d’un(e) ami(e) et on lui demande « Aimes-tu le beurre ? » et la réponse s’écrit immédiatement sur le menton sous la forme d’un halo jaune doré projeté par la fleur magique ! Cette capacité de réfléchir un faisceau de lumière jaune intrigue depuis longtemps les biologistes et le mécanisme physique commence seulement à être pleinement compris (1) : il implique la structure cellulaire de l’épiderme des pétales. La lumière traverse la couche superficielle épidermique transparente chargée de pigment tandis qu’une coloration diffuse jaunâtre provient de la dispersion de la lumière par une couche sous-jacente chargée de grains d’amidon. Une mince couche d’air qui sépare ces deux couches explique la réflexion orientée du faisceau lumineux. L’ensemble donne cette apparence si brillante, intense qui doit certainement jouer un rôle dans l’attraction des insectes pollinisateurs (voir ci-dessous). Cette illumination dégage de la chaleur et fait de ces fleurs en sous-bois des sites chauffés pour les visiteurs et donc plus attractifs.
St. Joseph's Church is a Franciscan Roman Catholic church in the Old City of Nazareth, modern-day Northern Israel. It was built in 1914 over the remains of much older churches. It is located close to the Church of the Annunciation. It was built in the Romanesque Revival style.[1]
The church is built on the site of the Church of Nutrition quoted by the pilgrim Arculfe about 670 in "De locis sanctis" (II, 26), then a church of the crusaders of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose vestiges are under the crypt, and a Franciscan church built in the 17th century. This history is described by the Franciscan Quaresmius in his "Historica, theologica et moralis terrae sanctae elucidatio", written between 1616 and 1626, but merely affirms the existence ab antiquo of the tradition of a cult in this place, without giving evidence.
Today's affirmation brought to you by the letter Y and the colour Red.
Note the Koolaid guy stenciled on the side-this is all over the place in Graffiti alley.
Standing under this tree, the blossoms buzzing with bees, was very life-affirming. Everyone should try it sometime.