that romantic metaphor
Search engines are the trade winds of the internet. Like the explorers of the sailing age, intrepid web searchers set out to enrich themselves, their ultimate destination the ultimate mystery. Never mind that they end up on a blog instead of atop a hill of glittering treasure or in the belly of a whale. Let’s stick to the romantic metaphor.
Quotes on Perfectionism
Taro Gold compiled some great quotes on perfectionism in “Living Wabi Sabi.” Among them:
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. -Saint Augustine
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen
Only the idea of something is perfect. It’s expression in material, worldly terms is a mere shadow of that idea. -Plato
Great thoughts, discoveries, and inventions have generally been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow and established with difficulty. -Paxton Hood
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. -Bernard Baruch
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce
FIFTY MILLION MISSING
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The 50 million missing women. [J Assist Reprod Genet. 2002] – PubMed Result
The epidemic of gender selection is ravaging countries like India & China. Approximately fifty million women are “missing” in the Indian population. Generally three principle causes are given: female infanticide, better food and health care for boys and maternal death at childbirth. Prenatal sex determination and the abortion of female fetuses threatens to skew the sex ratio to new highs. Estimates of the number of female fetuses being destroyed every year in India vary from two million to five million. This review from India attempts to summarize all the currently available methods of sex selection and also highlights the current medical practice regards the subject in south-east Asia.
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Who Are the 50 Million Missing Women?
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Missing: 50 million Indian girls
Female foeticide
The consequences of female foeticide and the resulting gender gap arealready unfolding: Girls are being trafficked from impoverished neighboringcountries like Bangladesh and Nepal or from disadvantaged or tribal areas in India andsold into marriage for the equivalent of about $200 (in Haryana State, a bull costs $1,000). With 50 million girlsalready missing today, the result of this dangerous practice is ineluctable: A society without women, even if today it isthe world’s second-most populous, isdoomed to eventual extinction.
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UN report: 60 Million Girls Missing in Asia
Referring to the United Nations Population Fund, Fox News reports a gender and generation gap of 60 million girls due to infanticide, selective abortions, dowry deaths, better food and health care for boys and maternal death at childbirth, and pre-natal sex selection.
60 Million souls!
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Infanticide, Abortion Responsible for 60 Million Girls Missing in Asia
According to a recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of the World Population Report, these practices, combined with neglect, have resulted in at least 60 million “missing” girls in Asia, creating gender imbalances and other serious problems that experts say will have far reaching consequences for years to come.
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On March 08, 2008, The Statesman newspaper which is published from Calcutta, did a full page article on The 50 Million Missing Camapaign on flickr. The photos here are by members of the group — Hervè Blandin, Lars-Gunnar Svärd, Divyesh Sejpal, Marc Ducrest, and Joel Dousset. The one of me is also by Lars-Gunnar Svärd. Thanks to everyone for their support.
Please visit the campaign site at www.50millionmissing.com
50 MILLION MISSING (Indian Women):An International Campaign
About 50 MILLION MISSING (Indian Women):An International Campaign
This is a Campaign to increase International awareness about the millions of women that have been eliminated from India’s population.
Due to a traditional preference for sons, daughters are regularly dispensed with through selective abortions and the practice of infanticide. The medical journal Lancet recently announced that about a 1000,000 female fetuses are aborted in India each year. In the state of Kerala, India’s most literate state, it is estimated that about 25000 new born infant girls are annually killed. The figures of female infanticide in Bihar are far worse. There, mid-wives admit to being paid to kill at least half of all baby girls they birth. It is also estimated that at least 25000 women are annually murdered by their in-laws and husbands, after being subject to extended physical and mental torture for reasons of dowry.
relaxing(?)
lomax13 says:
She asked him “are you relaxing”
He said” No. I am Milka Singh”
wall of egotism
“wall of egotism
i started this like… many months ago. it doesnt do justice to the message guru sahib is giving us – it went through many different phases because it’s just so hard to illustrate what gurbani is saying. i finally finished it some time ago when i was under a lot of stress. photoshop is an incredible stress reliever, even when there’s supposedly no time to do anything.
im not really happy with the gurmukhi script-like text, it’s harder to do it on the computer, and many people could do a much better job. there should be a script-like font for gurmukhi (like the old style text you see in puraatan saroops and hukamnamey). i also just realized that the image looks so dull. hmm.. come to think of it, i really dont like whole image much at all. i just wanted to do something with this pankti and not spend so much time perfecting the artwork itself. consider this a draft 
the wings of a butterfly are used as a metaphor to describe the wall of ego between a soul and God. this veil is so thin, so easy to get past just by remembering His name for even an instant, and that’s the very thing we dont realize, making it nearly impossible to get past.
another way to describe it could be that maharaj dwells in each and every one of us, in the very core of our being. bhagat ravidaas ji says he is ‘haath pai nerai’ – closer than our own hands and feet. how could something be closer to us than our own selves?! and again, he seems unattainable to us because we think he is so far away, despite the fact that he is part of us and we are part of him.
in this image the vaheguru in the background is not visible through the wings of the butterfly, symbolically representing what the pankti is saying.
credit for this artwork goes to kulpreet singh bhaji for the vaheguru background ( forums.waheguroo.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=10075&… ), japneet kaur bhanji for telling me about the ’scriptina’ font used for the text in the bottom right hand corner, and most of all, Dhan Dhan Guru Arjan Dev Ji for the akali bani.
vaheguroo jee ka khalsa vaheguroo jee kee fateh!”
Uploaded by gurjeet kaur on 27 Nov 07, 5.23PM CDT. “
It is so thin, but like a maze of our own making, we cannot find our way out of something so simple, and we wonder why…(we do it to ourselves. )
Public Transport, M. A. Jinnah Road Karachi
oh that made me lol after reading the comments!
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