impossibly IMPOSSIBLE

Impossibility is just an illusion of your ego, preventing you from true joy and contentment.

How do you allow your fears and insecurities to control you or limit you so that you don't take risks in your life?

Leaving behind the limitations of the physical world - what is your greatest dream yet unfulfilled?

Let go of the critic within and truly dream outside the box today.

http://www.kabbalah.com/tuneups/041708.html?cid=20080417a

thought's resistance to words

sometimes it happens in conversation: we stand
facing truth and lack the words,
have no gesture, no sign;
and yet - we feel - no word, no gesture
or sign woudl convey the whole image
that we must enter alone and face (,like Jacob).

this isn't mere wrestling with images
carried in our thoughts;
we fight with the likeness of all things
that inwardly constitute man.
but when we act can our deeds surrender
the ultimate thruths we presume to ponder?

Karol Wojtyla, "Thought" - "Strange Space", I, 1

Day by Day

It is written that when the Kotzker Rebbe was on his death bed, all his students gathered around him and asked, "Master, please tell us, what was the most important thing you did in your life?" The Kabbalist thought for a moment and answered,

"What I am doing this very minute."

What does this teach and reinforce for us? Thinking about the past or worrying about the future is a waste of time. It only takes us away from the importance of the moment we're in.

Today, be present in whatever it is you are doing. It is the most important thing you have ever done.

cfr.: http://www.kabbalah.com/tuneups/040808.html?cid=20080408a

Quo vadis - humanitas?

Subversion of organised religion

The Catholic Family Institute (C-Fam) reports from New York on a priority of the international pro-abortion movement; the subversion of their principal foe, organized religion. This report which has just come to light shows how fabulously wealthy foundations are targeting so-called religious groups in the ongoing war on the unborn.

Samantha Singson writes : 'A two-year old report has come to light that encourages foundations to fund religious organizations who agree to push the abortion agenda around the world. The report which was funded by the wealthy MacArthur and Ford Foundations, catalogues hundreds of religiously affiliated non-government organizations that are likely to include 'sexual and reproductive health and rights' as part of their work.

'Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Inventory of Organization, Scholars and Foundations,' issued by the Center for Health and Social Policy, argues that the world's religions play an undeniable role in shaping attitudes toward 'reproduction and sexuality' and can 'be an important ally in the effort to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (or, conversely, a key obstacle).

'The report encourages foundations who are 'striving to improve women's health and rights (including sexual and reproductive health and rights) to incorporate religion in their grant-making,' as religions 'have the power to influence government policy' both through the political process and through the religious belief of the policymakers.

The authors propose a three-pronged approach to increase interest in the intersection of religion and abortion. First, foundations could provide incentives to American groups already working in the field so that they could collaborate with developing country organizations. Second, foundations could engage both religious and secular scholars to study the topic in depth. But the most promising tactic, according the study's authors, is to provide incentives to organizations working on religion and women's rights or health to move to address religion and sexuality and reproduction directly.

The 216-page report is mostly a listing of organizations which might be induced through grant money to work at the intersection of religion and abortion. Organizations from across the globe affiliated with all the major world religions are included. Also listed is a long list of influential pro-abortion groups including the Alan Guttmacher Institute, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the International Women's Health Coalition, Population Action International, Catholics For a Free Choice (in particular its Latin American affiliates), the Pro-Choice Religious Network, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Other big names include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the World YWCA.Apart from listing organizations that might qualify as grant recipients, the report also highlights sixteen foundations which have financially supported sexual and reproductive health and rights programs in the past. Six of the sixteen foundations specifically mention abortion as a priority area. According to the report, the capital assets of the foundations listed total more than $35 billion and approximately $500 million is given away in grant money each year. [C-FAM] 1437.4

Quo vadis - familia?

Abolition of plastic bags takes priority over family support

Britain is suffering from an epidemic of family breakdowns affecting all levels of society from the Royal family downwards, says one of the country's most senior judges. Mr Justice Coleridge, who presided over the preliminary divorce hearings of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, yesterday accused Gordon Brown of prioritising the abolition of plastic bags over support for families, and said the Government is 'fiddling while Rome burns'.

'Without being in any way over-dramatic or alarmist, my prediction would be that the effects of family breakdown on the life of the nation, and ordinary people, in this country will, within the next 20 years, be as marked and as destructive as the effects of global warming.
'We are experiencing a period of family meltdown whose effects will be as catastrophic as the meltdown of the ice caps.'

Judges are witnessing a 'never-ending carnival' of human misery, and almost all of society's social ills can be traced back to the collapse in family stability, he says. Many single mothers do a good job, but thousands of children are being raised by women who have several children by several fathers, none of whom stick around.

The judge, who has 37 years of experience of family law and is Family Division Liaison judge in the south-west legal circuit, stretching from Hampshire to Cornwall, was speaking in Brighton at the annual conference of Resolution, which represents 5,000 family lawyers.

His intervention - one of the most strongly worded of its kind by a serving judge in recent years - comes as new figures show marriage levels are at their lowest since 1862, and the number of children living with a single parent has doubled in 20 years. Lawyers say family courts are overstretched to the point of collapse.

Mr Justice Coleridge, 58, who is married with a daughter and two sons, is said that the family justice system - comprising social workers, local authorities, mental health specialists and legal experts - is all that stands between the present dire situation and 'social anarchy'. [Telegraph] 1437.3