Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Happy "Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse" New Year!!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
I rescued a human today
I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her. Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well. Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes. I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven't walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.
I rescued a human today.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
I'm an Ordained Minister!! Just call me Reverend Rose ; - ) (A little scary on quite a few levels)
| Reverend Rosalinda Quinn-Arreza Thursday the 26th of November 2009 |
| NOTE: PLEASE READ AND RETAIN THIS DOCUMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS.
Let it be known on this date that in accordance with the laws of the Universal Life Church Monastery, as ordaining officer, I, Brother Martin, do ordain you into our ministry. From this day forward, you are entitled to all of the rights of an ordained minister. You have the authority to perform marriages, baptisms, and all other ceremonies of the church. You are an independent minister of this church. This is a position that carries with it a burden of responsibility; please respect others and comply with the laws of the land. |
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Patience
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Words
Friday, November 06, 2009
What is Love?
-St. Augustine
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
And this is why I love my Michael...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Four Noble Truths
My Organic Chemistry professor made an intriguing comment tonight in class about The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism while we were talking about pKa's, electrophiles, and nucleophiles. Well, it intrigued me enough to google it and read a little more about these Noble Truths he was talking about. So I figured I would share what I found out about The Four Noble Truths through Wikipedia.
(sidenote: how did I survive before Google and Wikipedia?! ha ha)The Four Noble Truths
According to the Pali Tipitaka, the Four Noble Truths were the first teaching of Gautama Buddha after attaining Nirvana.[31] They are sometimes considered as containing the essence of the Buddha's teachings and are presented in the manner of a medical diagnosis and remedial prescription – a style common at that time:
- Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness (dukkha) in one way or another.
- Suffering is caused by craving or attachments to worldly pleasures of all kinds. This is often expressed as a deluded clinging to a certain sense of existence, to selfhood, or to the things or phenomena that we consider the cause of happiness or unhappiness.
- Suffering ends when craving ends, when one is freed from desire. This is achieved by eliminating all delusion, thereby reaching a liberated state of Enlightenment (bodhi);
- Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the path laid out by the Buddha.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Please Hear What I'm Not Saying
I idly chatter to you in the suave tones of surface talk.September 1966Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
My favorite poem
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the under growth; Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally laying leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,and that has made all the difference.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Fairy Tale Reality
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Gate keeper
Monday, September 07, 2009
Untitled
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I am Me
“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”
Monday, August 10, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
Sounds like a great idea!!!
| Dear Rosalinda, Here is your horoscope for Friday, August 7: |
| Try to just kick back and enjoy the smaller, sweeter aspects of life today -- there's no need to panic over the big picture! It's a good idea for you to blow off any major appointments for a few days. |
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Fear
“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.” firefly047724
Monday, August 03, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
What does the week you were born say about you? on Facebook
The Week of the Perfectionist – Libra 1 September 25 – October 2
You have a contrasting personality. A highly attractive personality and the need to be in the limelight but yet are not overly social and the need to spend time alone. You have perfectionist tendencies which show in every area of your life. You have extremely high standards for yourself and those around you. Sometimes your need for perfection can lead you to become obsessive compulsive. You are an over achiever due to your insecurities and viewed as highly successful. You have an intense personality capable of great achievements but are very indecisive and can take years to make a decision. You are emotionally complex, a cool exterior that masks your inner turmoil. You have a biting sense of humor and wry wit that you express in irony and sarcasm. You are sexually intense but have a hard time sharing your feelings at a deep level. Strengths: Attractive – Exacting – Cool Weaknesses: Indecisive – Scathing – Repressed
Friday, July 31, 2009
My new affirmation
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Illusion of the Ego
The Illusion of the EgoBy Remez Sasson
Who are you? How would you describe yourself? If someone calls your name, would you turn your head to see who called you? Are you the name that was called, or is it just a way to refer to you? What if you changed your name, would you still be the same person?
You change the clothes you wear. You change your hairdo, and may dye your hair sometimes. Does this change who you are?
You change your job, car, house, but yet you still are the same one. These are outside changes. The "inner you" never changes. Most people consider their possessions, dress, name, job etc, as being an inseparable part of themselves. If something of theirs is broken or lost they feel as if they have lost a part of themselves. This is the ego at work.
The ego is the erroneous identification of the limitless spirit with the physical body, the emotions and thoughts. The perfect homogenous spirit expresses itself in the world through these three, and identifies itself with them.
The ego is not an independent entity. It is just the union of the spirit with the other three components, the body, emotions and thoughts. According to the philosophy of nonduality, these components, except the spirit, are not independent and constant, and therefore are not real. They are the products of the mind.
The spirit infuses them with life and expresses itself through them. The identification of the spirit with this trio is so strong that hardly anyone notices this erroneous identification. The spirit is free, perfect and independent. The body, thoughts and feelings are temporary and dependent on the spirit. This mixture is the cause of fear, desire, misunderstanding, anger and conflicts in the world.
When talking about the spirit I don't mean a particular soul, but the True Essence, the One vast and limitless Spirit, which is beyond every manifestation.
Each ego unit considers itself as real, and desires to survive and gain power over the other egos. This leads to clashes between them. Each one is shackled to its belief system, thoughts and ideas, and will do everything to defend them.
People also feel being a part of, and identify with the larger ego of family, workplace, neighborhood, football or basketball team, political party, city, country, religion etc. They identify with a thought, an idea or a common cause, and join together, sometimes against other groups carrying a different set of thoughts.
Look what happens at sport contests. If you support one sport team, and your team loses you get depressed. If it wins you get happy. The same thing happens with political parties or with other kinds of groups.
These units sometimes fight with each other, everyone believing they are right and the other party wrong. Isn't it a bit funny? If we consider that the Spirit is one, but manifests in myriads of forms, why then should we identify with one particular and temporary form? What if we become aware of this Spirit, and shift our awareness into it? Would we stay the same, or will we rise above the ego?
The ego is dependent on the thoughts that the mind thinks. These thoughts evoke feelings and desires, which evoke action. If a desire cannot be fulfilled, anger, unhappiness or hostility arises.
Believing we are this ego, each one of us enacts the role of a specific actor on the stage of life. This ego is the mask hiding the real Spirit that we are. Identification with the role we play makes us forget who we really are, and go on thinking we are this or that.
Forgetting our true essence is due to seeing through the eyes of the ego. This is the reason for suffering, unhappiness, depression, anger, conflicts, lack of satisfaction and every other negative feeling. But these negative feelings and situations are sometime the reason for the awakening of the desire to find who we really are, to come home and to return to what we really are - The Pure Spirit.
Thermodynamics
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Future
GA
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Which color best suits your personality? on Facebook
You are Blue!
You are blue! You are a deep, sensitive dreamer. You are usually laid back and calm, though, like an ocean, you can kick up a good storm, too! You are probably a daydreamer, who has his/her head in the clouds. You love spending time with your friends, and probably just go with whatever they want to do (you're a go with the flow type of person, just like water!). You are emotionally inclined - unlike reds, who feel passionately and intensely, you feel things deeply and strongly. You are extremely loyal, and your friends can always count on you to be there for them. Blues are almost always very intelligent, and they strive for perfection in many areas. You may tend to beat yourself up for your imperfections. Other people admire you and strive to be like you, but you probably have a hard time understanding why. You can be light and fun at times, and other times deep and introverted. It just depends on your mood. Sometimes you throw people off with your random changes in disposition, but your friends love you anyways. You can be a very wise, intellectual person, but you have to pull yourself up out of your own thoughts first! You, in a nutshell: Deep, emotional, wise, loyal, slightly moody, feeling, sensitive, supportive, intelligent. BLUE!
And I thought I picked a place that was lowkey to live in so I could focus on my studies...Guess not ha ha...Go Naples!
America's Top 10 Alcohol-Drinking Cities—and 10 Most Sober Cities, Too
Posted December 17, 2008With Christmas and New Year's almost upon us, you may be raising your glass and downing the spirits more than you're used to—along with many others. According to a nationwide poll released this year, most adults who attended work holiday parties said drunken bad behavior can often result. And insulting the boss is the least of it; nearly 60 percent of the surveyed partygoers saw a coworker drive while drunk.
The poll, by Caron Treatment Centers, a not-for-profit organization for addiction treatment, helps explain some disturbing statistics reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Half of the almost 400 traffic deaths on Christmas 2006, and more than half of the 456 New Year's deaths that year, were alcohol-related.
But don't forget, the risks of heavy alcohol consumption exist year-round. And heavy drinkers—classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as men who have more than two drinks
a day or women who have more than one drink a day—can pose a threat to those around them.The list below ranks the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas—defined as counties or groups of counties with a population of 10,000 or more—with the highest rates of heavy drinking. A second list identifies the 10 metro areas with the lowest rates. Is heavy drinking a problem in your community?
Heaviest Drinking Metro Areas % Who Drink Heavily 1. Reno, Nev. 9.4 2. Palm Bay-Melbourne, Fla. 9.1 3. Boulder, Colo. 9.0 4. Austin 8.8 5. Charleston, S.C. 8.7 6. McAllen, Texas 8.6 7. Naples-Marco Island, Fla. 8.5 8. Riverside, Calif. 8.4 9. Cape Coral, Fla. 8.1 10. Barnstable Town, Mass. 8.0
Most Sober Metro Areas % Who Don't Drink Heavily 1. Provo-Orem, Utah 99.4 2. Idaho Falls, Idaho 97.9 3. Hickory, N.C. 97.8 4. Ogden, Utah 97.5 5. Brownsville, Texas 97.2 5. Fayetteville, N.C. 97.2 5. Raleigh, N.C. 97.2 5. Wichita, Kan. 97.2 9. Cheyenne, Wyo. 97.0 9. Farmington, N.M. 97.0
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Who is your Guardian Angel?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Taking a mental break and playing on crackbook...
Rose took the What does your birthday say about you? quiz and the result is September
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Thinking generous. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves sports, leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.
I AM getting stuff done!! Just multitasking the menial with the ridiculous but more fun stuff...
Rose took the Who is your lifetime match? quiz and the result is They are born between 21st January - 19th Febuary
You frequently change your mind and you like playing with fire. After a few coy glances, you can get people to take a bite from your hook but when a more beautiful fish comes along, you usually would smile in his/her direction and jump in the water after them. This pairing brings together free thinkers that need a lot of space in relationships. A whirl of stimulating activities gets the ball rolling, since you two are curiosity seekers. Nothing is taboo for this kind of person, and you are flexible enough to try new things. This leads to lots of experimentation, on dates and in the bedroom. They are drawn to the unconventional, and accept the restless and inconsistancy in your nature. And you will be charmed by the original ideas coming forth from them. Both of you like to go your own way a lot, so neither will take it personally. They understand the need for intellectual independence, and will have lots of separate friends. This relationship has long-term potential, since there's always more to learn and talk about. This person will knows how to calm the mentally unstable... they can be soothing to your nerves.
