Vanity, thy name is woman

In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. In some religious preachings, vanity is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own image, and thereby becomes divorced from the graces of God. The stories of Lucifer and Narcissus (who gave us the term narcissism), and others, attend to a pernicious aspect of vanity.
Philosophically-speaking, vanity may refer to a broader sense of egoism and pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."[1]

One of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful."[2]
In early Christian teachings vanity is considered an example of pride, one of the seven deadly sins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity

Quality of life for an indian in India

The best way of approaching quality of life measurement is to measure the extent to which people's 'happiness requirements' are met - ie those requirements which are a necessary (although not sufficient) condition of anyone's happiness - those 'without which no member of the human race can be happy.'
- McCall, S.: 1975, 'Quality of Life', Social Indicators Research 2, pp 229-248

WHAT IS QOL?
QOL may be defined as subjective well-being. Recognising the subjectivity of QOL is a key to understanding this construct. QOL reflects the difference, the gap, between the hopes and expectations of a person and their present experience. Human adaptation is such that life expectations are usually adjusted so as to lie within the realm of what the individual perceives to be possible. This enables people who have difficult life circumstances to maintain a reasonable QOL.
- Janssen Quality-of-life Studies

read more here http://www.gdrc.org/uem/qol-define.html

the body beautiful

beauty tips
http://www.handbag.com/galleries/gallery/style_trends/beauty_buys/sunshiny-spring-beauty/MemberID=1/

before and after
http://keshigirl.blogspot.com/2007/05/madrid-hilton.html


my type of woman
http://imnutsincaps60s.blogspot.com/2005/03/these-were-girls-dat-rocked-during.html

waving goodbye to a thousand flies

The thousand flies are the thousand souls VEST encountered in his eventful life

He reminisces about his difficult early childhood in the depression of the 30's
where another child meant another mouth to feed

VEST spent his early life in foster homes and institutions
He has a fotographic memory and he relives all the bitter sweet times

he remembers how he was befriended by Sally and Emily
brief moments of shore leave that ended all too soon
and he had to return to his ship
his only constant

VEST was a true sailor boy
He enjoyed his sailor life

He did not cry when he had to leave Emily and Sally and return to his ship
but he was heartbroken more than once

until he met his wife to be Mary
Mary showed him all the love he missed in his early childhood
VEST is a one man woman, he has remained faithful to his wife for more than 50 years and still going strong

VEST always kept in touch with his lovers
and he cried when they had to leave this planet

VEST does not tell much about the war events that happened in his life time at sea
maybe the Oath of secrecy did not allow him to rat

i was hoping to read about the great moments of the war through the pen of VEST
i was disappointed

PRETTY WOMAN
http://imnutsincapsapatriot.blogspot.com/

I love u Prachi

06 Feb 2006 02:32 PM
Saying "I Love You!"
by Teresa McEntire More from this Blogger

The first time your child says, "I love you!" is a milestone a parent treasures. But your child only said it because they learned it from you. "I love you," are three simple words that express such a wide multitude of feelings. Hearing these words is essential for children and adults as well. Love gives life meaning and provides fulfillment and joy.
Children who feel loved are more likely to have high self-esteem, excel academically, and have healthier relationships. They are more likely to grow up to be successful happy adults who know how to love. When children do not feel love within their family they often suffer from low self-esteem. They may search for love by joining a gang, being involved in unhealthy relationships, or having a child while a teenager. Unloved children suffer from a greater amount of mental, emotional, and physical problems. Knowing how important saying, "I love you," is I developed unique ways to say, "I love you," with each one of my children.
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· With my son I began playing a little game with him when he was two. I would hold my hands about 6 inches apart and say "I only love you this much." Then my son would say, "No!" So I'd hold my hands a little further apart and we'd repeat the process until my arms were stretched as wide as they could. Then my son would shout, "Yes, for all the days." My son is now six and he still enjoys playing the game.
· My second daughter had a hard time speaking, but she could say, "Love you." I would say, "Love you," and she would repeat it. Then I would change my voice and say, "Love you." She would change her voice and repeat it. We would do this five or six times before we'd dissolve into giggles.
· My youngest daughter is only two and she loves to rub noses with me. She'll grab my face in her hands and rub her nose against mine.
As a parent there are other ways you can let your child know you love them besides just saying it:
· Listening to your child when they talk and not judge them.
· Showing proper physical affection: hugs, pats, or even high-fives.
· Being involved in your child's education. · Knowing your child's friends.
· Doing things with your child.
· Developing family traditions.
· Taking family vacations.
· Eating dinner together.
· Being sympathetic when they express concerns.
However you let your child know they are loved is great, but it is also important to say it. Because you might think your child knows you love them, but unless you actually say, "I love you", they might not.
Learn more about Teresa McEntire
Teresa McEntire grew up in Utah the oldest of four children. She currently lives in Kuna, Idaho, near Boise. She and her husband Gene have been married for almost ten years.
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the children are our future

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to

I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me [Chorus:]

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed

At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all Inside of me

The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be [Chorus]
And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place

Find your strength in love

God and Sex

~from CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, Book 1

dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear broken, which no longer support the structure.Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.Only you can know if you are happy. Only you can say of your life-"This is my creation (son),.in which I am well pleased." If your values serve you, hold to them. Argue for them. Fight to defend them.Yet seek to fight in a way which harms no one. Harm is not a necessary ingredient in healing.

You say "hold to your values" at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this.

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right They are simply judgmentS. Assessments.Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps.Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience.

Yet experience is what you came here for-and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others.If there were such a thing as sin, this would be it: to allow yourself to become what you are because of the experience of otheis. This is the "sin you have committed. All of you. You do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others as gospel (literally), and then, when you encounter the actual experience for the first time, you overlay what you think you already
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know onto the encounter.If you did not do this, you might have a wholly different experience-one that might render your original teacher or source wrong. In most cases; you don't want to make your parents, your schools, your religions, your traditions, your holy scriptures wrong-so you deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think.

Nowhere can this be more profoundly illustrated than in your treatment of human sexuality.Everyone knows that the sexual experience can be the single most loving, most exciting, most powerful, most exhilarating, most renewing, most energizing,.most affirming, most intimate, mCh"t uniting, most recreative physical experience of which humans are capable.

Having discovered this experientially, you have chosen to accept instead the prior judgments, opin ions, and ideas about sex promulgated by others-all of whom have a vested interest in how you think.These opinions, judgments, and ideas have run directly contradictory to your own experience, yet because you are loathe to make your teachers wrong, you .convince yourself it must be your experience that is wrong~

The result is that you have betrayed your true truth about this subject-with devastating results.

You have done the same thing with money. Every time in your life that you have had lots and lots of money, you have felt great. You felt great receiving it, and you felt great spending it. There was nothing bad about it, nothing evil, nothing inherently "wrong." Yet you have so deeply ingrained within you the teachings of others on this subject that you have rejected your experience in favor of Ntruth. n Having adopted this "truth" as your own, you have formed thoughts around it-thoughts which are creative. You have thus created a personal reality around money which pushes it away from you-for why would ou seek to attract that which is not good?

Amazingly, you have created this same contradiction
around God. Everything your heart experiences about God tells you that God is good.

Everything your teachers teach you about God tells you God is bad. Your heart tells you God is to be loved without fear. Your teachers tell you Cod is to be feared, for He is a vengeful God.You are to live in fear of God's wrath, they say. You are to tremble in His presence. Your whole life through you are to fear the judgment of the lord. For the lord is "just," you are told. And God knows, you will be in trouble when you confront the terrible justice of the Lord. You are, therefore, to be "obedient" to God's commands. Or else.Above all, you are not to ask such logi~1 questions as, "

if God wanted strict obedience to His Laws, why did He create the possibility of those Laws being violated?"

Ah, your teachers tell you-because God wanted you to have "free choice. "yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done? Those who teach you this would make a hypocrite of God.You are told that God is forgiveness, and compassioo-yet if you do not ask for this forgiveness in the "right way," if you do not "come to God" properly, your plea will not be heard, your cry will go unheeded. Even this would not be so bad if there were only One proper way, but there are as many "proper ways" being taught as there are teachers to teach them.

Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that 1 do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.These behaviors are the behaviors historically demanded of their subjects by monarchs-usually eg0maniacal, insecure, tyrannical monarchs at that.They're not Godly demands in any sense-and it seems remarlcable that the world hasn't by now concluded that the demands are counterfeit, having nothing to do with the needs or desires of Deity.

Deity has no needs.
All That Is is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants, or lacks, nothing-by definition.If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something-and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it-then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than!. You truly are Children of a lesser God.No, my children, please let Me assure you again, through this writing, that I am without needs. I require nothing.This does not mean I am without desires.

Desires and needs are not the same thing (although many of you have made them soin your present lifetime).Desire is the beginning of all creation. It is first thought. It is a grand feeling within the soul. It is God, choosing what next to create.And what is God's desire?I desire first to know and experience Myself, in all My g1ory-40 know Who I Am. Before I invented you-and all the worlds of the universe-it was impossible for Me to do so.Second, I desire that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are, through the power I have given you to create and experience yourself in whatever way you choose.Third, I desire for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, neverending expansion, and total fulfiilrnent in each moment of now.I have established a ~rfect system whereby these desires may be realized. They are being realized now-in this very moment.

The only difference between you and Me is that I know this.

In the moment of your total knowing (which moment could come upon you at anytime), you, too, will feel as I do always:

totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing, and grateful.

God is a Salami Sandwich

I once began writing a book called God is a Salami Sandwich.
That would have been a very good book. I gave you that inspiration. Why did you not write it?
It felt like blasphemy. Or at the very least, horribly irreverent.
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You mean wonderfully irreverent! What gave you the idea that God is only "reverent"?

God is the up and the down. The hot and the cold. The left and the right.The reverent and the irreverent!

Think you that God cannot laugh? Do you imagine that God does not enjoy a good joke? Is it your knowing that God is without humor'? I tell you, God invented humor.

Must you speak in hushed tones when you speak to Me? Are slang words or tough language outside My ken?
I tell you, you can speak to Me as you would speak with your best friend.

Do you think there is a word I have not heard? A sight I have not seen? A sound I do not know?Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others?

I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it ;s repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.I am life, for I am the stuff life is. Its every aspect has a divine purpose.

Nothing exists - nothing - without a reason understood and approved by God.
- from CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, Book 1

a 100 questions answered by God

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Well, I have a hundred questions. A thousand. A million.And the problem is, I sometimes don't know where to begin.
Just list the questions. Just start somewhere. Go ahead, right now. Make a listaf the questions that occur to you.
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Okay. Some of them are going to seem pretty simple, pretty plebeian. .
Stop making judgments against yourself. Just list them. .
Right. Well, here are the ones that occur to me now.1. When will my life finally take off? What does it take to "get it together," and achieve even a modicum ofsuccess? Can the struggle ever end? .. 2. When will I learn eno~gh about relationships to be able to have them go smoothly? Is there any way to be happy in relationships? Must they always be constantly challenging?3. Why can't I ever seem to attract enough money in my life?Am I destined to be scrimping and scraping for the rest of l11Y life? What is blocking me from realizing my full potential in this regard?4. Why Can't I do what I really want to do with my life and still make a living?5. How can I solve some of the health problems I face? I have been the victim of enough chronic problems to last a lifetime. Why am I having them all now? .. 6. What is the karmic lesson I'm supposed to be learning here? What am I trying to master?
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7. Is there such, a thing as reincarnation? Ho~ many past lives have I had? What was I in them? Is "k3nnic debt" a reality?8. I sometimes f~el very psychic. Is there such a thing as "being psychic"? Am I that? Are people who claim to be psychic "trafficking with the devil"? .9. Is it okay to take money for doing good? If I choose to do healing work in the world-God's wcirk~an I do that and become financially aburidant, too? Or are the two mutUally exclusive? . ..10. Is sex okay? Cmon-what is the real story behind this· human experience? Is sex purely for procreation, as some religions say? Is true holiness and enlightenment achieved through denial-or transmutation-of the sexual energy? Is it okay to have sex without love? .Is just the physical sensation of it okay enough as a reason?11. Why did you make sex so good, so spectacular, so powerful a human experience if all we are to do is stay away from it as much as we can? What gives? For that matter, why are all fun things either "immoral, illegal, or fattening"?12. Is there life o·n other planets? Have we .been visited by it? Are we being obse~ed now? Will we see evidence-irrevocable and indisputable-of extraterrestrial. life in our lifetime?Does each form 9f life have its own God? Are you the God of It All?13. Will utopia ever come to the planet Earth? Will God ever show H~mself to Earth's people, as promised? Is there such a thing as the Second Coming? Will there ever be an End of the World--or an apocalypse, as prophesied in the Bible? Is there a one true religion? If so, which one?These are just a few of my questions; As I said, I have a hundred more. Some of these questions embarrass me--they· seem . so sophomoric. But answer th~m, please--one at a rime--and let's "talk" about them.
Good. Now we're getting to it. Don't apo\oglzefor these questions. These are the questions men and women have been asking for hundreds of years. If the questions were so silly, they wouldn't be asked over and
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- from CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, Book 1

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