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Bütün maddi ve manevi sevgi ve bağların hepsi, gerçekte Allah'ı sevmek ve bilmektir.
Gerçek aşığa aşktan başka her şey haramdır.
İnsan birine aşık olduğu zaman ne zilletlere katlanır! Sevgilisine kavuşmak için her şeyini feda eder. Aşık için de Peygamber'in ve Allah'ın aşkı bundan aşağımıdır?
Aşıkla maşuk arasında tam bir teklifsizlik bulunması ne güzel şeydir!
İnsan her zaman göremediği, işitemediği ve düşünemediği bir şeye aşıktır. Mecnun Leyla'nın hayaline aşıktır. Mecazi bir sevginin hayali ona böyle bir tesir yaparsa, gerçek sevgilinin aşığa kuvvet, kudret bağışlamasına hayret etmemek gerekir.
Suret aşkın fer'idir; çünkü aşk olmadan suretin değeri yoktur. Aşk, sureti meydana getirir.
Allah aşkı ve muhabbeti her şeyin içinde vardır. İnsan kendisini yaratanı nasıl sevmeyebilir? Bu sevgi onun özündedir; fakat bir takım engeller bunu duymasına mani olur. Her şeyin sonu O'na varır. Yani artık insan her şeyi Allah için sever, başkası için O'nun talebinde bulunur ve bu aşk böylece Allah'da nihayetlenirse, sonunda Allah'ın zatını da bulur.
Ahiret de, Hakk da, dostluk ve muhabbette gizlidir.
Aslolan sevmektir. İnsan kendisinde bu hissi duyunca, onu arttırmak için çalışmalıdır.
Vücutlarımız bir kovan gibidir; bu kovanın balı ve mumu da Allah aşkıdır.
Stranger #80 – Nikou – I spotted him in the centre of Wrocław, Poland where he was taking pictures with his DSLR. His epic beard and unique get-up immediately caught my attention. I asked for a photo, briefly explained the project and he agreed. Fortunately, he had the time so we tried a few places. The light was shitty but still I’d call it normal working conditions :) It turned out Nikou is from Iran but he has been living in Poland for some time. Nikou wouldn’t call himself a fan of our capital city, Warsaw (honestly – who would?) but he thinks Wroclaw and Cracow are all right. He seems to be a very nice and friendly guy and it was a great encounter ;)
This picture is #80 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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The Tale of the Indian Bird
Once upon a time there lived an old merchant man who had a beautiful hoopie bird which he loved more than the sky and the earth. One day he had to go to India on business and remembering that the bird came from India he asked her is she would like him to bring her something. The bird asked for her freedom but the merchant declined.
"I love you too much to set you free" he said.
"Well, then please go to the forest and shout out to all the birds that live there that I am alive and well, but I am kept captive in a cage". Said the bird.
The man did as his bird had asked but no sooner had he announced the news than a wild hoopie tumbled from it's branch and fell dead at his feet.
Distressed that he had inadvertently caused the death of one of his own bird's relatives, the merchant returned home and related to his hoopie what had happened. On hearing the sad news, she collapsed on the floor of her cage.
Fearing she was dead the merchant opened the cage door and gently placed the bird on the windowsill. As soon as his hand pulled away the bird flew out of the window and was never seen again.
Before you ask, no, I wasn't driving. Happily snapping from the passenger seat. :)
I knew the Helios wasn't flare resistant, I also didn't set out to take a photo like this but we didn't have enough time to take any others during the day sadly..
Started snowing, then raining, then snowing again on our way home. Looking through the viewfinder out of a car is a very strange feeling by the way, I felt like I was watching a video..
Pentax K-1 & KMZ Helios 44 (m39)
Shot for the Daily-In Challenge on Pentax Forums
These berries are all around the Missoula area in the low mountain areas. They're over by Council Groves where I live outside of Missoula. I'm wondering if there's any of my Flickr friends who might be able to identify them...I get pretty lucky here when I ask for help! LOL...:)
NIM and hear Session #41: Ask èm Y - 22.02.2024 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg
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Yu Miao: guzheng, electronics
Angelina Ertel: flutes, voice, gemshorn
Stefan Krist: trombone, voice, sound objects
Wang Meng: live visuals
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Drop by the monastery run by monks which has its growing number of followers all over the island for what I've heard to have miraculous interventions. Located deep into the mountains bordering municipalities of Sibonga and Argao, it seems odd to be located there but one thing for sure expect a lot of people when you get there.
Simala, Sibonga, Cebu
we were sitting by a big window in a cafe, and I asked her to give me a sad look. I captured this one while she was thinking hard of how to look sad. Well, that is a question to make everyone look sad.
I've been often asked why I take pictures, why I take pictures of myself, why they come along with the poetry of Poświatowska. I'm bringing it to light while replying to this question. I promise you won't read about another girl with low self-esteem or having a complex about her appearance. My story is a little different.
Oh, and do not hesitate to ask me a question. Never!
Someone asked me why these geese and ducks would lay their eggs along the shoreline. I really don't know but my response was, "A Gift?"
While fishing here I'd seen two ducks swim up to the shoreline - one laid an egg right in the water and the other walked up a few feet and laid the egg on the shoreline directly in front of me. It was tempting not to cook them for breakfast. I did take two duck eggs home with me to decorate at some juncture.
The guy at the Sunrise Asian Market is selling duck eggs for .50 cents. He said they're fresh from China. I told him I can get fresher here and they're "cage free".
This lyric comes from a Jefferson Airplane song called, “White Rabbit”. It’s a trippy song… just like the movie Alice in Wonderland.
The Anangu, traditional owners of Uluru, ask visitors not to attempt the climb to the summit out of respect of their spiritual beliefs, but it was still a very popular activity in 1997.
However, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board unanimously decided that climbing Uluru would be banned from the 26th, October, 2019.
The Anangu are the people of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the central desert region who speak Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. They believe the park landscape was created at the beginning of time by ancestral beings and that Anangu are their direct descendants, and have lived here ever since.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, 2 May, 1997.
Circa late 50's Repogle globe.
A gift to my older sisters by an aunt, this is one of a few objects that I hold dear.
When I was very young my sisters would play a geography game with me, they would pick out a country, spin the globe and ask me to find the country they had named.
So, for this photo, I spinned the globe to see what would happen in the capture.
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My lord,
give us that dare to change what we can,
that serenity to accept the things we can't change
and
that wisdom to distinguish the difference between these two.
خدايا، اين شهامت را به ما بده تا آنچه را مي توانيم تغيير دهيم. اين آرامش را تا چيزهايي را كه نمي توانيم تغيير دهيم، بپذيريم و آن فرزانگي كه تفاوت بين اين دو را بدانيم
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Aşk vadisi / Love valley
Kapadokya, Orta Anadolu ve Doğu Anadolu'nun Türk bölgelerinde bozkırın güneyinde bir bölgedir. Bölge UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi'nde yer almakta olup Göreme Milli Parkı'nın bir kısmı koruma altındadır.
Bölge 2000 km² alana sahip olup Fırat ve Halys (Kızılırmak) nehirleri arasında yer almaktadır. Bölgenin en yüksek zirvesi Erciyes Dağı yanardağıdır (3917 metre). Ayrıca bölgede iki yanardağ daha var: Hasan Dağı ve Melendiz Dağı.
Kapadokya, Roma İmparatorluğu zamanında doğuda Ermenistan sınırında bulunan ve bir dönem Ermenistan'ın parçası olan bir Roma vilayetiydi. Güneyde Mezopotamya, Suriye ve Kilikya, batıda Galatya ve kuzeyde Pontus ile komşudur. Doğusu dağlık ve volkanik, batısı ise düz ve çoğunlukla platolardan oluşan Kapadokya'dır.
Kapadokya, bir yanda yanardağ patlamalarının oluşturduğu tüf manzarası, diğer yanda karstik olayların görülebildiği kireçtaşından oluşuyor. Yavaş hava koşulları ve her biri farklı şekilde ve farklı hızda aşındırılan farklı kaya türleri, özellikle tuhaf ve değişken bir manzara yaratmıştır. Zamanla karst mağaralarına kiliseler inşa edildi.
Yaklaşık 60 milyon yıl önce Avrupa ile Asya'nın çarpışması, Alp orojenezinin başlangıç sinyaliydi. Bu, büyük patlamayı takip eden çok sayıda patlamaya ve volkanik yağışa neden oldu. Bütün bunlar binlerce yıl boyunca devam etti. Stratovolkan Hasan Dağı'ndan gelen volkanik yağışlar alçaldı ve birleşerek tüf oluşturdu. Bazı patlamalar yanardağdan akan lavları içeriyordu. Bu lav katılaşarak daha sert pomza taşına dönüştü.
Bunu takip eden milyonlarca yıl boyunca karasal iklimin aşırılıkları ve Halys (Kızılırmak) Nehri platoyu aşındırdı. Tipik tüf konilerinin oluşumu büyük ölçüde, başlangıçta devasa 'tüf keki'nin içinde yer alan sert lav parçalarından kaynaklanıyordu. Erozyon nedeniyle açığa çıktılar, ardından rüzgar ve suyun alttaki tüf üzerindeki etkisi azaldı. Tüf kekinde bu sert taşların eksik olduğu yerlerde akarsuların derin vadiler açtığı masa oluşumları oluştu. Bu katılaşmış lav, tarih öncesi çağlarda zaten çıkarılmış ve çarpıcı tüf konileri evlere oyulmuştu. Bu dönemden, bu mağara evlerin hükümet emriyle terk edildiği 1950'li yıllara kadar burada insanlar yaşadı. Günümüzde bazı kaya duvarları ve koniler, içinde delik bulunan peynire benzemektedir.
Cappadocia is a region south of the steppe in the Turkish regions of Central Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia. The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is partly protected by the Göreme National Park.
The area has an area of 2000 km² and lies between the Euphrates and Halys (Kızılırmak) rivers. The highest peak in the area is the volcano Erciyes Dağı (3917 meters). In addition, there are two other volcanoes in the area: the Hasan Dağı and the Melendiz Dağı
During the Roman Empire, Cappadocia was a Roman province that bordered Armenia to the east and was also part of it for a time. To the south it bordered Mesopotamia, Syria and Cilicia, to the west Galatia and to the north Pontus. The east is mountainous and volcanic, in the west Cappadocia is flat with mostly plateaus.
Cappadocia consists of a tuff landscape on the one hand, created by volcanic eruptions, and on the other hand limestone in which karst phenomena can be seen. Due to slow weathering and the different types of rock that each erode differently and at a different speed, a very peculiar and irregular landscape has been created. Churches have been built in the karst caves over time.
The actual collision of Europe and Asia, about 60 million years ago, was the starting signal for the Alpine orogeny. This caused numerous eruptions and volcanic precipitation, which followed the major eruption. All this continued for many thousands of years. The volcanic precipitation from, among others, the stratovolcano Hasan Dağı fell down and clumped together into tuff. During some eruptions, lava flowed from the volcano. This lava solidified into harder pumice. In the millions of years that followed, the extremes of the continental climate and the river Halys (Kızılırmak) eroded the plateau. The formation of the typical tuff cones was largely due to hard pieces of lava that were originally in the enormous 'tuff cake'. They were exposed by erosion, after which wind and water had less influence on the underlying tuff. In places where these hard stones were missing from the tuff cake, table formations were formed, in which rivers eroded deep ravines. This solidified lava was already mined in prehistoric times and the striking tuff cones were hewn out into dwellings. From this time until the 1950s, when these cave dwellings were abandoned by order of the government, people lived here. Today, some of the rock faces and cones look like Swiss cheese.
Cappadocië is een landstreek ten zuiden van de steppe in de Turkse regio's Centraal-Anatolië en Oost-Anatolië. Het gebied staat op de werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO en wordt deels beschermd door het Nationaal park Göreme.
Het gebied heeft een oppervlakte van 2000 km² en ligt tussen de rivieren de Eufraat en de Halys (Kızılırmak). De hoogste top in het gebied is de vulkaan Erciyes Dağı (3917 meter). Daarnaast bevinden zich in het gebied nog twee andere vulkanen: de Hasan Dağı en de Melendiz Dağı
Ten tijde van het Romeinse Rijk was Cappadocia een Romeinse provincie, die in het oosten grensde aan Armenië en daar ook een tijd deel van uitmaakte. In het zuiden grensde ze aan Mesopotamië, Syrië en Cilicia, in het westen aan Galatia en in het noorden aan Pontus. Het oosten is bergachtig en vulkanisch, in het westen is Cappadocië vlak met veelal plateaus.
Cappadocië bestaat uit enerzijds een tufsteenlandschap, ontstaan door uitbarstingen van vulkanen, en anderzijds kalksteen waarin karstverschijnselen te zien zijn. Door langzame verwering en de verschillende gesteentetypen die elk anders en met een andere snelheid eroderen, is een bijzonder eigenaardig en grillig landschap ontstaan. In de karstgrotten zijn in de loop der tijd kerken gebouwd.
De daadwerkelijke botsing van Europa en Azië, zo'n 60 miljoen jaar geleden, was het startsein voor de Alpiene orogenese. Deze zorgde voor tal van erupties en vulkanische neerslag, die op de grote uitbarsting volgden. Dit alles hield vele duizenden jaren aan. De vulkanische neerslag van onder andere de stratovulkaan Hasan Dağı daalde neer en klitte samen tot tufsteen. Bij sommige uitbarstingen was er sprake van lava die uit de vulkaan vloeide. Deze lava stolde tot hardere puimsteen.
In de miljoenen jaren daarna sleten de extremen van het landklimaat en de rivier de Halys (Kızılırmak) het plateau uit. De vorming van de typische tufsteenkegels kwam grotendeels door harde stukken lava die oorspronkelijk in de enorme `tufsteenkoek' lagen. Door erosie kwamen ze bloot te liggen, waarna wind en water minder invloed hadden op het onderliggende tufsteen. Op plaatsen waar deze harde stenen in de tufsteenkoek ontbraken, vormden zich tafelformaties, waarin rivieren diepe ravijnen uitsleten. Al in de prehistorie werd dit gestolde lava gewonnen en werden de markante tufsteenkegels uitgehakt tot woningen. Vanaf deze tijd tot de jaren 1950, toen op last van de regering deze holwoningen verlaten werden, woonden hier mensen. Vandaag de dag zien sommige rotswanden en kegels er dan ook uit als gatenkaas.
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Minutes after shooting this image, I was asked to leave the property as it is a "restricted area". I was never bothered there till today.........oh well.
Please No Graphical Group Invites
They asked me to take a picture of them and I said, "Sure!", but after I took this the French Maid said, "I meant with MY camera!" : )
Why ask why? It seems that the answers lie so deep inside of me that probing for them becomes almost painful. I look at my girlfriends here, and I look at my own pics, and I see, and feel, a sexual image looking back at me. Am I narcissistic to see beauty in my own image…to want to display myself so badly that I risk being outed? Or maybe I’m just an exhibitionist? Makes me feel better said that way😳😉 Some days wearing a dress makes me so happy. Some days it’s lingerie that I need because it allows me to display my submissive slut side…the side that I was never able to show anyone as a man. An alpha male, the go to guy that can fix anything…could he really be her?
Many people have asked me about our story. I said the week of our 25 Anniversary I would spill.
We met in a pet store for a company we both worked for in 1981. He was coming to my store, the main one, for Management training in BIRDS of all things (he is the expert lol). He was 19, I was 21. I walked in and he was waving a gloved hand inside of a Toco Toucan cage. (not good)
S~"WHAT are you doing?"
J~Don told me to do it this way"
S~ "stop".
I put my hand in the cage and showed him how to interact without getting hurt. Peeled some grapes, tossed them to the toucan and we started talking.
We were both workers and hit it off. we would don plastic garbage bags, walk inside flight cages and scrub them down togther. HandFeed a roomful of 40 baby parrots together. And talk and Laugh......he was a sweet, young kid to me with a great smile. We went horseback riding and grabbed a burger etc at lunchtime. (3 years younger at 21 was ALOT!)
He finished his training and went back south 6 hours to his hometown to work at the local store. We saw each other at mangement meetings, talked about work during business calls, I did visit his home town once, that was it. We both were dating someone during this time.
Fast forward 4 years. Jan 1985 he decided to move to "the big City" and live with his oldest sister to get settled. The family supported it. He was in a toxic relationship and they wanted to see it end. Sister encouraged him to call me. I was a manager for Service Merchandise (remember them?) He called the store I worked at.......I was shocked. I was still off and on with a musician (need I say more) my own Mr. Toxic. We started getting lunch or breakfast, birdwatching, horsebackriding, hiking...all the outdoor stuff we both enjoyed.
In April of 1985, my second story apartment I shared with a roomate caught fire from an electrical malfunction. She was a bank teller, gone from home. I worked retail and was sleeping in. My Siberian Husky, Lucas, woke me. We tried to get out but both exits were blocked by fire.Went back to my bedroom, closed the door...the smoke was horrendous) I got us both in top of a chest of drawers by the window, I opened it, pushed out the screen and was calling out for help. Some non english speaking neighbors put couch cushions on the ground for me. Lucas jumped off the dresser and was gone into the smoke filled room. Smoke was pouring out around me through the window, I burned my arm on the heat of the metal window frame.
I honestly don't remember thinking about it, but.....I jumped.
I landed on my butt, got up, STARTED WALKING (in shock I am sure) Fire rescue got there, I begged them to look for my dog, who saved me. A young firefighter went in and found him in my closet, hunkered under a pile of laundry. They say the clothes acted as a mask and kept him from perishing. My African Grey Parrot Kaylon, (a sweet heart) and Abecrombie, my roommates kitten were found inside. My tortoise did make it , but was never the same and died not long after.
My back began to hurt almost immediately. BAD. They laid me on the sidewalk, got a backboard and I was on my way to the hospital with a kind paramadic literally holding my lower back with his hand because it was just too bumpy. John arrived to take me to breakfast, saw our couch smoldering on the grass. I was already gone. he took custody of Lucas and the tortoise, called my folks, he took the animals to their house and came to the hospital.
Fast forward......I am transfered to the Spinal Cord Unit at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. Put on a striker frame where I am rotated every two hours. Most with the extent of my injury L2, L3 Fracture are paralyzed. And the fact that I walked put me in more jeopardy.
The musician was done. He "hated hospitals" No big shocker that he was gone. But John, who worked nights, Came EVERY DAY to see me. Wash my hair with no rinse soap.....tried to get the soot out of my skin....Laid on the floor under neath me when I was turned down on the striker frame. with little to no sleep. Our first kiss was in the hospital....he says i kissed him first, I say he kissed me. I joke it was because I was hopped up on Morophine! ;) From that day on, we talked as if we would be together.
My Mom was worried it was a hospital romance and didn't want me to deal with a breakup as well as recovery after the spinal fusion surgery and a bone transplant from my own hip. John looked at her and said "I will push her in a wheechair if I have to" Happily, that wasn't the case.
After moving to Florida,we were married by a justice of the peace in December,1986. Right after we moved out of the tent we lived in for the first month and a half we lived there. And before the convalidation marriage ceremeony in June in the Catholic church...... But ahhhhh THAT..........is another story!
As someone who lost his mother and brother to diseases caused by smoking, I urge you to ask your representatives in Congress why the US doesn't require tobacco companies to tell the truth about smoking the way some European countries do.
Ha ha!
As if your representative in Congress gives a damn what you think unless you've contributed at least six figures to his or her campaign.
The point is that traveling does broaden the mind. This is what cartons of PARLIAMENT look like at the duty-free shop at the airport in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The real question you should be asking is why the U.S. is run by and for corporate interests who have been working tirelessly since at least the Reagan administration to undo what sociologists refer to as the regulatory state in favor of a society where corporations spend gazillions of dollars to make sure the public has to bear the burden of their externalities (another highfalutin' term) so that they can maximize their profits.
What's an externality? A classic example is discharging pollutants into the river for free where they poison plants, animals and people instead of paying for pollution-control technology that might reduce profits but would avoid harming plants, animals and people. I would argue that the heart attacks that killed my brother and mother, both heavy smokers, are also externalities of an industry whose aim it is to sell tobacco, though tobacco-industry lobbyists and lawyers might disagree.
I can think of two legislators who might know what you're talking about, those being Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
In a just world, almost a year from the catastrophe of Tuesday, November 8, 2016, they'd be leading a massive nationwide protest and uniting the victims of corporate greed from the right and the left in a movement that would bring about a sea change in American political life on the order of FDR's accomplishments during the last great existential threats to the nation, the Great Depression and World War II.
So, look out the window and tell me whether you see the protest marches or the political slogans sprayed on the walls.
No? Then figure out a way to move to the Eurozone, because the American century is dead and buried.