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Leaves That Vow To The Ground
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Humility is characteristic of greatness.
Syed Sarfraz Hussain Bokhari
THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
Sarfraz passed April 29, 2007; age 75
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The expression of joy
and the celebration of life is seen
in our lasting harmony with our natural invironment,
and with our fellowmen:
Through all the creations in this universe,
in a life and a time of mutual symbiosis and respect for all.
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To live a life that is worthwhile is to surrender to
a higher purpose that ones heart has to search for.
Along its path may arise strong winds
to blow us like a tattered leaf, only to drop and
go back to the soil of life and fertilize the soil to make it rich.
Absence of purpose is absence of life,
an absence of an understanding
that man was created in the likeness of
GOD.
Cresenciana Cruz Ticzon-Bokhari
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When A Soft Breeze Gently Touches
When a soft breeze gently touches,
it is The Hands of GOD.
We begin to see:
The beauty of the world,
The essence of peace,
The joy of sacrifice.
The triumph of goodness!
When a soft breeze gently touches,
it is The Heart of GOD.
HE puts us in an even tide of our life,
so we can rest from wandering.
In the seasons of our hearts,
HE gives strength, so we can face many storms!
HE lifts us, in an immortality of our dreams,
with HIM...as we abide in HIM.
As a soft breeze gently touches,
it is The Hands and The Heart of GOD.
An everlasting joy, an enduring pain,
and a longevity of a life lived for others:
As HE commanded us to be!
copyright@Crescenciana C. Ticzon-Bokhari
USA/PHILIPPINES
A Little Love
It can start with me, or start with you.
It can start with one, then spread to two.
Open hearts and outstretched arms,
Shielding another from hurts and alarms.
If we both reach out to only one,
We may have just begun,
To spread love around the earth.
Touching those who know no mirth.
From small beginnings, big things grow,
When real concern we show.
A single candle
Can fan the flame that kindles love...
Then more of the same.
Shrugging off false pretense and sham,
Opens the floodgates above
' Love's Dam.'
Let's give our best, one to another:
"A Little Love"
To a needy brother.
copyright@Janet Gladys Gosney,USA
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" ALL HUMANS IN THE WORLD
ought to be humble, loving, cooperative
with each other; and no one should deceive others. The scholars ought
to enlighten those less intelligent humans and help the weaker ones."
" Chastisement makes The Soul of a wrongdoer acquire Knowledge
from its
painful experience as part of
ITS EVOLUTION."
" For every inch of space one occupies it must be requited for
LOVE OF EVERY CREATURE LIKE HIMSELF."
" Thinking of the unreasonable advantage these intellectuals have utilized,
to serve their own interest, I have prayed time and again that I would be
enlightened and make to know about
THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING IN
THE UNIVERSE
so that the knowledge I might have acquired could liberate
my less enlightened fellowmen
who have fallen into semislavery for lack of
experiences."
" It inspired me to write essays, articles and features in this work,
expecting no benefit or monetary reward
FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE."
Quoted from 2 of his 16 books about:
Social Justice, Poverty, Political Abuse, Attainment of Peace,
Ills of Human Society, Evolution of Ideas, Neonaturalism, Poetry.
In his Book:
ESCAPED PRISONER
he was called by American Literary Agents as:
ALA ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
VIDAL BRIGOLI ARMAMENTO
*THE PETALS OF MANY HEARTS*
Every Sunshine Each Sunrise
Windows of Humanity
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BERTRAND RUSSELL
Bertrand Arthur William Russel,
3rd EARL RUSSEL, WALES
1872 - 1970
An Atheist
English Philosopher, Historian, Logician
Mathemathecian, Advocate For Social Reform
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, LITERATURE, 1950
Unless you assume a
GOD
the question
of life's purpose is meaningless.
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ISAAC NEWTON
1643 - 1727
English Physicist, Astronomer, Natural Philosopher
Mathematician, Alchemist and Theologian
ONE OF HIS POETIC VERSES:
NATURE AND NATURE'S LAW
lay hid in the night.
GOD
said, " Let Newton be."
and there was light."
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I do not know what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been only like
a boy playing on the seashore
and diverting myself in now and then finding
a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
WHILST THE GREAT OCEAN OF TRUTH
LAY ALL UNDISCOVERED BEFORE ME.
Gravity
explains all things,
but it cannot explain
who set the planets in motion.
GOD
governs all things
and knows all that is or can be done.
VICTOR-MARIE HUGO
1802 - 1885
BESANCON, FRANCE
"The Greatest French Poet"
Poet, Painter, Novelist, Dramatist,
Statesman, Human Rights Campaigner.
He grew up as Catholic
but when asked about religion he said,
''I am a free thinker''
'' Religions pass away, but
GOD
remains."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
16TH President
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Surely
GOD
would not have created such a being as man
to exist only for a day!
No, no, man was made for immortality.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
[1879-1955]
A PHYSICIST
"Everyday I remind myself that my outer and inner life
are based on the labor of other man, living and dead,
and that I must exert myself in order to give the same measure
as I have received and I am still receiving."
" My religion
consist of a humble admiration of
the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself
in the slight details we are able to percieve with our frail and feeble mind."
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Pseudo Name:
BHANUSHINGHO
"Sun Lion"
[1861-1941]
POET, PAINTER
Philosopher, Musician, Writer, Novelist, Composer, Playwright,
Educator, A Patriot, Social Reformer, A Great Humanitarian
A NOBEL LAUREATE WINNER
1913
"Man'is abiding happiness
is not in getting anything but in giving himself
up to what is greater than himself,
to ideas which are larger than
his individual life,
the idea of his country,
of humanity,
of
GOD."
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold,
service was joy."
" He who wants to do good knocks at the gate,
He who loves finds the gate
open."
"Beauty is an ideal perfect harmony which is the universal being;
Truth the perfect comprehension
of the universal mind.
We the individuals approach it through
our own mistakes
and blunders, through our accumulated experience,
through our illumined consciousness-
how, otherwise, can we know truth?"
Ask the Possible of the Impossible,
"WHERE IS YOUR DWELLING-PLACE?"
"IN THE DREAMS OF THE IMPOTENT,"
comes the answer.
AGNES GONXHA BOJAXHIU
1910-1997
MOTHER TERESA
Born in: Kosovo[Skopje]
MACEDONIA
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure
as long as you have done your best.
If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride
because it shows you trust in your own powers.
Be humble and you will never be disturbed.
MAHATMA GANDHI
" Great Soul "
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1869-1948
" When I despair,
I remember that all through
history
the way of truth and love has
always won.
There had been tyrants and murderers
and for a time
they seem invincible,
but in the end,
they always fall - think of it, always."
LUIGI PIRANDELLO
1867-1936
SICILIAN POET
1934 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
"My art is full of bitter compassion
for all those who deceive themselves;
but this compassion can not fail to be followed
by the ferocious derition of destiny
which condemns man to deception."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
[1809 - 1865]
16TH PRESIDENT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
" Government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the Earth."
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
GENESIS 3:21
Unto Adam also and his wife did
the LORD God make coats of skins
to cloth them.
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LEO TOLSTOY
1828-1910
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Russian philosopher, Educational Reformer
Moral Philosopher, Essayist, Dramatist
Two of His Works:
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU
WAR AND PEACE
"That one should live so as to have
the best for one self and one's family."
THE WORLD, NEW YORK,1909
AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY
LEO TOLSTOY
The greatness of NAPOLEON, CAESAR or WASHINGTON
is only moonlight by sun of LINCOLN.
His example is universal and will last thousand years.
He was bigger than his country-bigger than any presidents together...
and as a great character he will live as long as the world lives.
LEO TOLSTOY
went to observe:
This little incident proves how largely the name of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
is worshipped thru out the world
and how legendary his name has become.
Why was LINCOLN so great that he overshadows all national heroes?
He really was not a great general like
NAPOLEON or WASHINGTON.
He was not skillful statesman like
GLADSTONE or FREDERICK THE GREAT,
but his supremacy expresses itself
all together
in his moral power
and in greatness of his character.
WASHINGTON was typical American,
NAPOLEON, a typical French, but LINCOLN
was humanitarian
as broad as the world.
He was bigger than his country. We are too near to his greatness.
TOLSTOY
concluded:
" But after a few centuries more, our posterity will find him
considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong
and too powerful for the common understanding,
JUST AS THE SUN IS TOO HOT
WHEN ITS LIGHT
BEAMS DIRECTLY ON US."
A historian recorded
that a mother took her little son to see
the monument of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The little boy said:
"Mother, that is the face of GOD."
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DEDICATED
TO
THE MANY STRANGERS IN
A PARADOX OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
The Magnificent Splendour of A Paradox
POETRY
A WISHBONE
POETRY
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SUNSET MOMENT
Photography
Contributed By International Photographer,
CHARLES PFEIL
Each day is a new day.
Moments and times of renewal, of continuity of life...
as the sun brings inspiration and light.
It is a gift of resurrection of self,
as we learn to accept that
each day is a gift
from our
LORD.
Each day is a day we vow to commit,
for betterment of self with others
and towards all man
dedicated for the welfare of humanity.
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Sunrise
is the lamp that illuminates
The Beauty of The World.
Sunrise is the joy
that makes our hearts unfold.
Sunrise is the whisper of
GOD
to awaken us, to ponder at
The Beauty and The Meaning of Life,
in sharing a part of us for others.
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Footprints
we leave behind is love
we gave selflessly and unconditionally to humanity.
The toil of that love
will grow in the evolution of times,
in all cradle of civilizations,
if it is rooted for the glory of
GOD.
Crescenciana C. Ticzon-Bokhari
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THE PRAYER
OF
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
LORD,
make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Oh, DIVINE MASTER,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled
as to console,
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
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