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flowingmountain Tom retweeted
Everyone needs to know what actually happened in Serbia.
Instead of students just protest against their government, the students organized themselves into a student list and ran in elections against their government—and they have just won.
Dear Serbia, congratulations on your victory; you have just opened a new door in protesting. This is history
Forgive me my denomination and my town; I am a Christian minister, and an American. I write these pages at some point in the time of Richard Nixon's unravelling. John Updike / opening of "A Month of Sundays"
flowingmountain Tom retweeted
If you send your child into a store alone to buy something (which you should do frequently), give them cash instead of a card, so they have to look the employee in the eyes and perhaps speak.
flowingmountain Tom retweeted
Route 104 on the way to Las Vegas, New Mexico. One of the loneliest and most beautiful drives.
flowingmountain Tom retweeted
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
flowingmountain Tom retweeted
I feel like if you can't embrace this fortune cookie message, you're not cut out for life in America.
"leaving texas 4th day of july ~ sun's so hot ~ the clouds so low ~ the eagles filled the sky"
Happy 4th Everyone!
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Life is one movement, and the moment you define you create a mess, because definitions will be dead and life is an alive movement. Osho / "Book of Secrets"
When your mind is kept empty, you naturally use yourself freely like a child, without self-consciousness or acting. When you grow up, you are not natural... If you are tense, you cannot catch a ball, but if you keep your mind empty, you will catch it. Sokei-an Sasaki
Those who love and revere me
with unwavering faith, always
centering their minds on me--
they are the most perfect in yoga.
Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.
Nothing in the world can purify
as powerfully as wisdom;
practiced in yoga, you will find
this wisdom within yourself.
Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.
The wise man lets go of all
results, whether good or bad,
and is focused on the action alone.
Yoga is skill in actions.
Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.
But the truly wise, Arjuna ~ who dive deep into themselves, ~ fearless, one pointed, know me ~ as the inexhaustible source. Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.