-Michael Pritchard
According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They said they were on their way to a large city where they were going to kill 10,000 people. The man asked Plague if he was going to do all the work. Plague smiled and said, "No, I'll only take care of a few hundred. I'll let my friend Fear do the rest.
-Anon.
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
-Henry James
When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
-Japanese Proverb
We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, "No Particular Night or Morning", 1951
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.
-Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], Dang Dang Doko Dang, chapter 4
According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They said they were on their way to a large city where they were going to kill 10,000 people. The man asked Plague if he was going to do all the work. Plague smiled and said, "No, I'll only take care of a few hundred. I'll let my friend Fear do the rest.
-Anon.
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
-Henry James
When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
-Japanese Proverb
We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, "No Particular Night or Morning", 1951
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.
-Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], Dang Dang Doko Dang, chapter 4
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I have not gotten very many donations for Nazia. That is OK, I am undeterred. If it was easy then it would not be worth doing. I remember when I first started this blog I was excited to have reached just 100 hits. Sometimes things take a little bit of time and persistence. I know that there is someone out there who knows someone that might be willing and able to help her out. A good example is that young child from Iraq that was burned. All it took was one person that knew the right person for him to receive the help and care that he needs.
Right now I am watching my 4-year old daughter through a web cam. She is sending me audibles through yahoo messenger. She is so cute.
When I arrived at the clinic this morning the surgeon found me and told me that he wanted to show me something in his office. He showed me a picture of a tumor that he recently removed. He said that it was a Wilms tumor which meant that it originated in the kidney.
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He was very proud of the picture. It is a pretty impressive tumor. I can not believe how someone can walk around with a tumor that size and not have gotten help any earlier. He also showed me a stone that he removed out of a bladder. He displayed it in his cabinet like a souvenir.
He was very proud of the picture. It is a pretty impressive tumor. I can not believe how someone can walk around with a tumor that size and not have gotten help any earlier. He also showed me a stone that he removed out of a bladder. He displayed it in his cabinet like a souvenir.
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It is the size of a potato. I can not believe that that was in someones bladder.
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A large part of the problem with the facility is that all of the patients are located upstairs and there are no elevators to transport the patients. Today I saw a family member carrying a patient down the stairs in his arms. The patient had blast injuries over his leg and his foot was amputated.
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Walking through the wards is somewhat depressing. You see the worst type of injuries. Gun shot wounds, injuries from land mines, amputations, it reminds me of a movie. It just seems so surreal. There are some bright spots though. Somehow some of the patients that have been there for a while seem to be slowly improving. It is nice to see the progress.
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Thanks for reading.
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