consciousness

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Watch your words,they become your actions.

Watch your actions,they become your habits.

Watch your habits,they become your character.

Watch your character because it WILL become your destiny.

Came across this in a forward but found it to be quite apt!

Misr - No pretenses

For anyone that has visited Egypt and lived the streets of Cairo, this is for you x

... For all the rest of ya, beautiful honest imagery mashallah

Terms

kenosis |kəˈnōsis|noun(in Christian theology) the renunciation of the divine nature, at least in part, by Christ in the Incarnation.DERIVATIVESkenotic |-ˈnätik| |kəˈnɑdɪk| |kiˈnɑdɪk| |-ˈnɒtɪk| adjectiveORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Greek kenōsis ‘an emptying,’ fromkenoun ‘to empty,’ from kenos ‘empty,’ with biblical allusion (Phil. 2:7) to Greek heauton ekenōse, literally ‘emptied himself.’

What I'm reading... incase anyone cares?

So everyone reads the metro right? That newspaper thats stained in coffee marks re-printed with the sole of a size 9 shoe and almost always harbors an unsavory foreign object between a few of the pages...

...Anyway, I don't, not really, and not for any of the rather valid reasons listed above. I don't read the news because the news depresses me. Sure call me immature, unrealistic or whatever you want but I think I have the right to chose, if I can, to stay away from that which may lull me into the insecure pessimist that runs the rat race of the Western world...... where was I going with this?...

Ahh yeh, So! there is this one section in the Metro that I sometimes bravely flip through to. The section that has the list of most played music from some 'b listers' ipod which I thought would be better if it was of their books then I wouldn't have to frantically flip through that dangerous collection of depressive stories. So incase there's anyone out there who like me doesn't want to subject themselves to light torture or be sucked in by the humm-drum of the news in every start of their day then here is my list of what I'm reading. O.K! I'm not Richard or Judy or a 'B, C, D or even D list celebrity' but I'm hard to please in terms of reading.

So here they are, in no particular order:

1. 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Harper Lee.
2. 'The Zahir', Paulo Coelho.
3. 'The Glorious Qur'an', Tajweed.
4. 'The Cairo Trilogy', Naguib Mahfouz.
5. 'Christian Theology', Alistair McGath.
6. 'Judaism', Nicholas DeLange.

Key differences between Indian religions and Abrahamic faith: Challenges to the concept of the 'religion' paradigm.

This article was written as an assignment for the degree of 'Theology and Religious studies' By me, Jessi Walker.

All religion is centralized around the idea of ‘human condition’. This is where we see key differences distinctive between Abrahamic faiths and those of India, most importantly the views of human condition through observation of human place in time. Time within Abrahamic faiths is a linear one. Each of us has one beginning, a fixed period of existence with an end and an eternal future that is fixed. In comparison Indian faiths such as Hinduism and Buddhism have a cyclical view on time. The human condition for Hinduism and Buddhism is a continual one, which is eternal with multiple beginnings and endings. This is best illustrated in the Buddhist ‘Wheel of life’.

In both Indian faiths, Hinduism and Buddhism there is one ultimate goal of extinction; to end the cycle of rebirth through breaking the chains of time; Samsara. They differ in their view of the path to do so and theistic Hinduism is similar to the Abrahamic faiths in the fact that they feel their salvation is best sought after through the pleasing of a personal God(s)/Goddess.

Religion as a term for doctrines of Indian faiths can be a label wrongly used. As Hinduism doesn’t hold any core characteristics that we can measure by and even using the term Hinduism as a blanket term for the ideas found within it can be suffocating and oppressive to its diversity, imposing the conformity of Western religion. Similarly for Buddhism, Indian religions challenge the way we think about the constitution of religion although in a different light in the fact that it is the vacancy of a God/Gods and is replaced with a concentration of the teachings of an enlightened human. This causes us to re-evaluate it as a religion and can be viewed as a school of philosophy/psychology? The distinctions of which are questioned.

Teaching children the Qur'an

Mesbah is a Canadian muslim who simply loves Islam photography and lego. This is an excerpt from her blog www.readwithmeaning.wordpress.com

Surah Al-Ikhlas

Attention!

'The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of...'

Pygmalion effect

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform.

ALL WELCOME

As a Buddhist Christian:

the misappropriation of

Iris Murdoch

Wednesday January 12^th, at 5.p.m.

Convent Parlour

Refreshments will be served

Digby Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies

Roehampton University

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM JESSI X