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Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Round glass window with the act of mercy (Antwerp, 19th century).
© Saira Bhatti
"Listen with ears of tolerance, See through the eyes of compassion, Speak with the language of Love" ~Rumi
I spent all last week on a compassion teaching retreat and during a mindful walk found this on the beach
There is a meter du Temple place in Tongliang County of Chongqing City, has a history of several hundred years Shakya Mani Buddha, special mercy, this statue of Buddha is particularly effective, people have what demand as long as the heart pious no evil case what she will give you strength and blessing, so a particularly strong!
atc for "wacky" swap. i was mailed 6 found objects from the swap host that i had to use in 6 different atc's. the object for this one was the background paper which i cut into 4 or 6 and rearranged. sheer gold paint can't be captured in scan!
Rest in peace, my best friend. I will miss you!
And I also want to give a big thank you to the McAbee Veterinary Hospital in Winter Park, FL Your compassion means more to me than you will ever know.
Any,
Any word
that lacks
love or compassion
is a mutilation. "I refuse
to stand
against
anyone
for any reasons
at any time.
I refuse
I REFUSE." Shanti Mayi
Mary Magdalen Sadhana, Day 5, with Chameli & my sisters.
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By the grace of compassion
May ice melt
May the water of the mountains
become bright clouds in blue skys
May the spirit of compassion warm your heart
Lifting you higher and higher
Leaving all waepons behind…
By the grace of compassion
HKD
On a trip out of Yangon in Burma/Myanmar, we happened to come across this lovely cemetery, seemingly in the middle of nowhere but not far from the town of Twante.
We were struck by two things – the extraordinary tranquillity of the place, and the fact that all the tombs bore an identical Buddha image, in a state of compassion. A smiling image, as well – which helped create a feeling of wellbeing as well as peace.
More images of an unforgettable holiday are here, when democracy in Burma was alive and well, and times were good.
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The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
Robert Alan
This is the new Silicon Valley Compassion Center, a non-profit focused on teaching social skills to wealthy tech executives.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Aug. 19, 2022) U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 2nd Class (junior) sign their "2 for 7" agreements, committing to seven years of service to their country: Two more years of a demanding academic schedule followed by five years in the Navy or Marine Corps. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
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2013-12-30: Snow Leopards Genghis and Tomiris, the snow leopard pair at the Milwaukee County Zoo, snuggle with each other this cold Christmas day. I rarely have ever seen these two be in so close with each other. Though I'm sure that they were avoiding the snow (say wha?) and relaxed upon the heated rock in their outdoor exhibit. I've been told the zoo would like to see these two pair up and have a cub but in speaking with other zoo visitors I'm learning more that it'll be unlikely. Stranger things have happened I suppose.
I may or may not post another photo for end of the year so just in case I hope everyone has a great New Year. I think I reached 200,000 new views this year (currently at 271k; 61k in 2010; 10k in 2011-2010). 12 photos made it to Explore this year. Along my journey this year I have now completed visits to 20 different zoos, visited Florida / Kennedy Space Center, and traveled home to visit my family. I thank each one of you who routinely stop by and comment along the way. It really makes my day when I get a notification of some of your comments - it's been known to lighten the day more than once.
I'm hoping 2014 brings in plenty of wonderful adventures and good times for all. Keep safe my Flickr friends!
Edit: The Milwaukee County Zoo announced the birth of a male snow leopard cub on June 1, 2014! "This marks the first birth for Tomiris (age 14); as the oldest first-time snow leopard mother in captivity. The cub’s father is 15-year-old Genghis."
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With a heart like the sky, I meet each being.
But when harm approaches, I become the mountain.
No anger, no fear—only firmness rooted in love.
This too is compassion. This too is the path.
There are no guarantees.
from the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough,
from the viewpoint of Love, none are necessary - Emmanuel
Sorry but I liked that photo a lot so I made another page with it...
Thanks for looking and the comments you leave and MERRY CHRISTMAS whoop whoop !! : 0) xxx
(guess what I've had a tipple...made the page beforehand )….lol
There is more to life than a radio tube that needs a place to plug into. Jesus taught us the dignity and importance of being a person...Read more at ibibleverses.christianpost.com/?p=112423
#devotional #clothe #compassion #kindness #love
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Aug. 19, 2022) U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 2nd Class (junior) sign their "2 for 7" agreements, committing to seven years of service to their country: Two more years of a demanding academic schedule followed by five years in the Navy or Marine Corps. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
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Vietnam was our original choice for a touring holiday back in 2015, mainly to see Halong Bay, but we got sidetracked by the gorgeous pictures of Myanmar in the brochures and ended up going there instead. Myanmar, and probably touring holidays in general, was hard work, we are both in our sixties and do not really travel that well after having a lot of pampered holidays in the Maldives, so after the final three hour wait in another airport lounge we said 'never again'. But three months later after sitting back and looking at the best set of holiday photo's we have ever taken, we realised what wonderful people we had met and amazing places we had seen and that you have to put up with airport lounges, train stations and car journeys to get that. So the next thing we knew we were booking another touring holiday to Vietnam with Mango Journeys based in Cambodia! Warren the owner of Mango, actually an Aussie guy, sorted out our itinerary, click to view, we booked a couple of flights and it was done. Vietnam has a lot of Buddhist tradition like Myanmar so we figured that the people would be similar to the lovely people of Myanmar we met last year. Plus the landscape and scenery looked so green and lush so it all boded well.
However when we arrived in Saigon, all the Vietnamese still call it Saigon, in mid December it turned out that it was still the rainy season. So it was quite cloudy, foggy and rainy.....and it stayed like that for most of the holiday actually. We hadn't quite bargained for that, Myanmar was dry and sunny at the same time last year so this was quite a dramatic change. We were also in their winter so no crops were growing, hence all the lovely green and golden paddy fields you see in the brochures were mostly brown and muddy. Vietnam is big and very busy, there were a huge amount of Chinese tourists here, especially at Ankor Wat in Cambodia. A lot of the local people traditionally come home from all over the world at this time of year to see their families, so the place is buzzing. The Vietnamese people are also a lot more 'tourist savvy' here compared with the totally charming Burmese people we met last year, they seem to have that air of indifference you get in developed western countries towards tourists.
It's all sounding a bit disappointing and I'm afraid that is how it felt quite a lot of the time. We were in Saigon for 2 days....way too busy for us. Then a boat trip to the Mekong Delta, sounds idyllic but actually just a big busy river, we never really got far enough into the smaller tributaries where it might be more like you imagine the Mekong Delta to look like. A flight to Siem Reap then a couple of days around Ankor Wat. This was undoubtedly the highlight of the holiday. The Angkor Archaeological Park is mind boggingly massive! It took us 45 minutes by car to reach the pink sandstone temple of Banteay Srei in one corner of the park! The distances involved when moving between the various temples are all the same.....huge! Ankor Wat itself covers an enormous area but hugely impressive. It shows the power of this place when you get to the entrance at 5:00am to watch the sunrise and there are already hundreds of people there! And it happens every day of the year apparently. Although hordes of people can bug you sometimes, the collective enjoyment factor seems to override that here, the place is just so awe inspiring.
We really enjoyed Cambodia, we wished we had spent more time there, we only met a few people but they all seemed to have more of that charm of the Burmese people. Cambodia has had an extremely troubled past, the war didn't end until 1998 and everybody appears to have been tainted by it. Our guide lost 15 of his immediate relatives to it, and a lot of people seem to have similar horrific tales to tell. The landmine museum we visited was a poignant reminder of those days and our guide was obviously quite emotional in his rendering of the museum's history and the people involved in it. As a result of the regime's slaughter of all the ruling elite including politicians, teachers, scholars and intellectuals Cambodia was left backward in the rapidly growing economy of south east Asia. They are moving in the right direction now, albeit slowly, and we both felt we should have spent more time there and given them more of the benefit of our tourist dollar.
Of all the other places we visited, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hue, Tam Coc, Mai Chau Valley, Hanoi and Halong Bay, Mai Chau Valley was like an oasis in a sea of traffic, busy people and tourists. When you look down at the valley from the main photo vantage point it has the look of the promised land, a lush green place nestling in the surrounding mountains.
We had a couple of lovely walks around here over two days enjoying the beatiful landscape and meeting a few of the local people. We realised afterwards that we should have stayed away from the cities and done more of this sort of stuff. We stopped and spoke to a lovely 68 year old lady in Mau Chau vilage, there was nothing to her she looked so thin and frail. She told us, interpreted by our guide, that her husband left when she was 36 years old and because of the culture she was never allowed to be with another man after that. Her only daughter was married at around the same time and again the culture dictates that she moved to the husband's village which was in south Vietnam. Her daughter is extremely poor and travel for local people is so expensive that it is extremely unlikely she will ever see her mother again. A small story but one that is probably played out a lot in this country. This amazing lady took us back to the one room brick built house with a small garden no bigger than your average shed that she now lives in. She managed to build it with help from the villagers who all seem to look after each other extremely well, so at least she now has somewhere dry to live. She was so welcoming though and showed us how she cooks, where she sleeps and the small garden she tends, it was without doubt the most touching moment of our holiday and one we will always remember.
If you like busy cities then Hanoi is probably a better option than Saigon, it has an old quarter that is strangely quaint for a big city, is a lot more photogenic and a nicer place to be. We were never taken to new Hanoi so I guess it's probably just like Saigon.
Halong Bay was the main inspiration to visit Vietnam in the first place. I saw photo's of this place back in 2014 when searching for more of the limestone karst scenery we had seen in Thailand's Phang Nga Bay on a previous holiday. The boat trip with an overnight stay was the holiday finale and supposed to be one of the highlights. I mistakenly thought we would be touring around Halong Bay the whole time....a foolish assumption! We sailed for about 30 minutes, during which time we had a briefing and some food, then we dropped anchor and that was it! It turned out to be more of a booze cruise, with kayaking, happy hour, games, karaoke and Tai Chi in the morning! Oh my God, what a waste! This place is massive and to just sail into it for half an hour seemed ridiculous to us. I know a lot of it looks the same but as a photographer you are looking for those subtle differences in composition and quality of light that make great photographs. You can't get that when you are sat in the same spot. I managed to get some reasonable photographs but overall, disappointing.....again!
As I write this back in the UK, I've just finshed post processing our holiday photo's after around four weeks work. Originally, because of the dull weather we had, I thought they were not going to be a patch on the photo's from Myanmar last year, but I have been pleasantly surprised. I am constantly amazed at what you can pull out of seemingly dull photographs with the help of Lightroom, Topaz Labs and Photomatix for HDR. Back in the days of film I used to love the punchy colours you could get on a sunny day with the help of a polarizing filter and Kodachrome 25! Nowadays with the help of modern software it's possible to get so much colour into photographs almost out of nowhere! I love making 'impression' type of pictures where the photo is transformed into a sort of painting....used judiciously they conjure up more of the feeling of a place than a straight photo. Those plus the power of HDR photography and Topaz Labs give our holiday snaps a warmth and colour that maybe isn't true to life but always makes them look amazing! No wonder we got suckered into doing another touring holiday.....the photo's just look so good!
A word about Mango Journeys, they were amazing. All the guides were there to greet us and look after us wherever we went and they all seemed to enjoy their work, which always helps. Everything on the itenerary worked out OK.....in the end! We had one hiccup where we missed our flight from Cambodia back into Vietnam but Warren stepped in at 9:00pm at night and got us on another flight and into a hotel without too much bother and no extra charge. As it was our first visit to Vietnam Mango tried to give us a bit of everything I guess, stuff that most tourists want to see. In hindsight and learning from our Burma trip last year we should have really studied the itinerary and made sure it included what WE wanted to do, especially staying away from big cities! We are quite new to touring so it's a learning process.
Our next holiday? As soon as we got home we knew we 'needed a holiday' it had been so busy with a lot of travelling. We booked a week on Veligandu in the Maldives at Easter! Back to our favourite place in the world! Not only that we decided to put touring on hold for a while and booked two weeks on Filitheyo for Christmas. Back to just sunbathing, snorkelling, scuba diving and chilling! Heaven!
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We walked and walked to reach the water. This is what we found. The tide was coming quickly back to it, and the best course of action was none.
"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Excuse me sir, could you spare some change" his quiet voice broke through the noise of passing traffic "I'm trying to get enough so I can stay at a refuge tonight" he explained.
I didn't have much money on me at the time but after giving him what I took the opportunity to highlight his struggle. Meet Nathan, he's the one in the Adidas tracksuit and black cap. Nathan moved away from his home because of what he describes as "personal reasons" and until this week had been staying with his uncle.
Nathan admits to having issues with his temper, it's something he isn't proud of. After an argument got out of hand between him and his uncle, he was asked to leave. Nathan is 20 years old, he doesn't have a job or a place to sleep... he struggles to see past today.
After chatting with Nathan and unsuccessfully offering to pray for him, I asked if I could take a few images of him. He didn't mind at all, "just don't load them onto one of those x-rated sites" he joked.
So staying back a safe distance I watched as he approached a man in his 30's, he didn't have any luck. Then a man in his 50's, no luck. He approached a 3rd, a 4th and a 5th...still no luck. His head hung low he moved on. Looking back over his shoulder in my direction, I couldn't offer him much but an encouraging smile.
He tried to stop a young woman who was passing quickly, in too much of a hurry, she kept moving. I thought, how could she do this, to not even stop! Oh how I was wrong, just as Nathan's head dropped again, she turned back. Reaching to her purse first she pulled out some coins, followed by some notes. She smiled at poor Nathan, held his hand and was gone.
Nathan came to me with a broad smile of his face and more than enough money for the refuge tonight. I showed him the pictures, this was his favorite, I proposed to him compassion as a title, he winked, smiled then left.
When others shook their head and refused to help, one woman went against the flow. She showed a poor man compassion. We can all show compassion but it has to be by choice, your choice and mine!
“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.” Eric Hoffer
When you next hear a voice asking for help, how are you going to answer? I hope this image has reminded you of the responsibility to love that we all should carry
they may not have a roof over their heads
they may be beggars on the streets
but there is no absence of love and compassion
it was touching how this woman was feeding her sick husband some watermelon.
captured from the streets of dhaka
With a lot of my Fashion Show shots it was very difficult to shoot as the lighting was tricky but I am quite pleased with the results :)
On Thursday 11th October 2012, Urban Angels hosted the 4th Annual Urban Angels Charity Catwalk Fashion Show.
URBAN ANGELS is the umbrella charity name under which we are raising awareness and funds for the 6 charities which we support. These charities are all restoring dignity back to women, men and children and are fighting injustice for those who are in need.
URBAN ANGELS SUPPORTS:
CHERISH FOUNDATION Annual prize awards to women who have overcome amazing circumstance, prizes include cars, holidays, home makeovers. For information and to nominate visit : www.urbanangels.org.uk/cherish-foundation
COMPASSION Worldwide Child Sponsorship Program for children in need. To find out how to sponsor a child please visit : www.urbanangels.org.uk/compassion
WATOTO Rehabilitation of ex-child soldiers in Gulu, Uganda. To find out about Watoto and the school we are currently building or to go with a team to build, please visit : www.urbanangels.org.uk/watoto
A21 Fighting Human Trafficking in Europe, setting up homes for rescued girls and bringing freedom to those who are enslaved. To see what you can do please visit : www.urbanangels.org.uk/a21
HOPE FOR JUSTICE
Human Trafficking rescue centre here in the UK and bringing awareness to communities. To see how you can get involved please visit : www.urbanangels.org.uk/hope-for-justice
MERCY MINISTRIES Has homes set up all around the world, helping women with life controlling issues, from eating disorders to all forms of abuse. For more information : www.urbanangels.org.uk/mercy-ministries Our Urban Angel community program encourages women to throw fundraisers themselves, be it a tea party, a clothes swap or an evening ball. Why not read our blog about some events our girls have thrown all around the UK.
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