leilockheart:

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hey-its-a-new-day:

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Ask questions from your heart .
and you will be answered from the heart.

Your heart’s voice is your true voice.
It is easy to ignore it,
for sometimes it says what we’d rather it did not -
and it is so hard to risk the things we have.
But what life are we living,
if we don’t live by our hearts?
Not a true one.
And the person living it is not the true you.

Life should be a risk.
It’s more than a straight line
that you can see clearly
from one point to the other.
It dips and curves and you never know
what’s around the bend sometimes until you get there.
That scares a lot of people.
But that’s the beauty of it.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning,
an individual plot,
like an individual novel,
a book for each person.

lickypickysticky:

The Dalai Lama has now weighed in on whether the United States was right to kill Osama Bin Laden, albeit in kind of vague terms.

The 75-year-old Buddhist leader gave a speech titled “Secular Ethics, Human Values and Society” at the University of Southern California on Tuesday night. According to the Los Angeles Times, when asked about the killing, the Dalai Lama said that Bin Laden deserved compassion and forgiveness. However, he noted, “Forgiveness doesn’t mean forget what happened. … If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.”

The comments are somewhat surprising given that the Dalai Lama is known for being a pacifist. In the same speech he even noted that he usually tries to exercise compassion to the point that he tries not to even kill mosquitoes. (Though mosquitoes, of course, didn’t mastermind the 9/11 attacks.)

breathinglines:

Too many doubts in my head

dripping down into my soul

thinking of how my heart is on my sleeve

ten dollars up for sale

and I can’t even see yours visible anymore

Tell me that i’m only dreaming

things will get better once you awake me

because I can’t run these loops and tracks

my body is sore from all the recent wounds

Please stay my northern star,

I believe in you

when you’re not there

I feel the darkness creeping in

the corridors of my heart go cold

I myself, turn to stone

my mind makes train wrecks over and over

bloody destruction

ends up on my wrist

don’t let things get to this

Plain down and simple

I’ve fallen struck

and without you

I’m nothing, not even comparable to dust

Chances are what they may be

my heart is feeling as though its on ten sleeves

and without yours in site I fear i might lose my mind

hush these nightmares

I want to feel

alright.

lickypickysticky:

A baby hippopotamus that survived  tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast  formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,” the ecologist added. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,”