Chocolady: 2014

Wow! It has been over a year since I blogged! What happened? Oh, Facebook, that's what.

From the Baha'i Writings

O ye loved ones of God! In this, the Bahá'í dispensation, God's Cause is spirit unalloyed. His Cause belongeth not to the material world. It cometh neither for strife nor war, nor for acts of mischief or of shame; it is neither for quarrelling with other Faiths, nor for conflicts with the nations. Its only army is the love of God, its only joy the clear wine of His knowledge, its only battle the expounding of the Truth; its one crusade is against the insistent self, the evil promptings of the human heart. Its victory is to submit and yield, and to be selfless is its everlasting glory. In brief, it is spirit upon spirit:
Unless ye must,

Bruise not the serpent in the dust,

How much less wound a man.

And if ye can,

No ant should ye alarm,

Much less a brother harm.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 256)

Some movies I've seen and wish to comment on

Some of the books I have read or am reading recently

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by DG
An Echo in the Bone by DG
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Dg
The Fiery Cross by DG
Drums of Autumn by DG
Voyager by DG
Dragonfly in Amber by DG
Outlander by Daina Gabaldon
Closer Than Your Life-Vein
The Prophet's Daughter
Outliers
A General Theory of Love
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (enlightening!)
The Introvert Advantage (very insightful and helpful)
Conscious Courtship (highly recommend)

Monday, 17 February 2014