Love and beauty are pervading our world...

[pureheart7]

Originally Posted by mudra

PEOPLE OF MAGO AND OMO VALLIES.

Omo people on the border of the National park the lower Omo valley is home to a fascinating mixture of small contrasting tribal groups in Ethiopia. Their life styles are as varied as the people themselves are.

The Mago valley lies in one of the most culturally diverse areas in the whole of Africa where many elements of ancient nomadic life styles are still practiced just as they were centuries ago. Seeing these colorful people is a rare experience for people from urban cultures.

To the south east is a large ethnic group, the Hamer, who speak a south east Omotic language. They cultivate sorghum and millet in the hills east of the Mago valley and also keep large herds of cattle and goats. On the north east edge of the Mago valley are the Benna, closely related to the Hamer with many cultural similarities. The Hamer wears a variety of colorful ornaments and decorates their hair with colored mud.

At he south end of the Mago valley are small offshoot of the Hamer- the Karo. They cultivate the Omo riverbanks and keep flocks of goats and some cattle. The Karo are noted for their colorful body painting. Adjacent to the Karo, where the Mago joins the Omo, are an even smaller group, the Mugujil These people also cultivate sorghum along the river, and keep goats and hunt and fish.

read more here:
http://www.dakettaethiopia.com/attraction4.html











Love always
mudra

I absolutely Love this. They are so beautiful.........

[illuminate]

love is in the air

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[Oliver]

by Didi Baev

[mudra]

Thank you for adding to the beauty Oliver

Love from me
mudra

[mudra]

“I walk in beauty.”

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to say this to ourselves continuously as we walk through our days? Wouldn’t it make a wonderful affirmation? There is a well-known Navajo chant that offers this affirmation quite powerfully.

Beauty is before me and Beauty behind me.
Above me and below me hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it.
In my youth I am aware of it, and, in old age,
I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.
In beauty, it is begun,
In beauty, it is ended.

I love this chant because for me it evokes the beauty of the Creative Spirit that pervades the beauty of the physical universe -- a beauty that is indeed above, below and all around us. Beauty is a great and sacred power. Its appeal upon us is direct and immediate. It can stop us in our tracks, take our breath away, render us speechless. Beauty can soothe us, ground us, heal us.

The ugliness which surrounds us, I believe, has its root in a certain kind of inner blindness. “If your eye is healthy, your body is full of light.”

f we look at the world through the eyes of fear, greed and delusion, we will come to see it in terms of our own self-interest, as this is most narrowly defined. We will be led to put our own comfort and security first, and ignore the impact we are having on the whole. We will see ugliness in the world around us, and, perhaps unwittingly, contribute to the ugliness as well.

We will not continuously and consistently walk in beauty, until we have recovered our inner, spiritual beauty.

Rev. Jonathan Mitchell

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Through our sense of truth we realise law in creation, and through our sense of beauty we realise harmony in the universe. When we recognise the law in nature we extend our mastery over physical forces and become powerful; when we recognise the law in our moral nature we attain mastery over self and become free. In like manner the more we comprehend the harmony in the physical world the more our life shares the gladness of creation, and our expression of beauty in art becomes more truly catholic. As we become conscious of the harmony in our soul, our apprehension of the blissfulness of the spirit of the world becomes universal, and the expression of beauty in our life moves in goodness and love towards the infinite. This is the ultimate object of our existence, that we must ever know that "beauty is truth, truth beauty"; we must realise the whole world in love, for love gives it birth, sustains it, and takes it back to its bosom. We must have that perfect emancipation of heart which gives us the power to stand at the innermost centre of things and have the taste of that fullness of disinterested joy which belongs to Brahma.

Read entire article:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/sadh/sadh09.htm

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[THE eXchanger]

nice thread, mudra

[mudra]

Great to see you here Susan
Love from me Always

mudra

[mudra]

On Beauty
Kahlil Gibran

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?
And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?

The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle.
Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us."
And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

The tired and the weary say, "Beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.
Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow."
But the restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions."

At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say,
"We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."

In winter say the snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."
And in the summer heat the reapers say,
"We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves,
and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
All these things have you said of beauty,
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[Zeddo]

[mudra]

OOh thank you Zeddo .. that's a nice surprise

Love from me
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[bushycat]

Thanks, Mudra. I could watch that all day- tranquility. It is just feeling Autumn here in New Zealand, leaves beginning to turn, crisp clear air. I love Autumn. It was always my favourite season in California.Autumn baby, maybe why.
Spring, Summer, Winter, I love you, too.

Bushycat

[mudra]

Beyond the Veil

Great song folks
Listen and enjoy
A gift from the stars ..



Beyond the veil

Open up your eyes
Look out into the day
Remember once again
That you’re a part of everything
Look at the life that you’ve created,
nothing is the way it was,
your dream is here, you made it.

When the stars were bright
you moved beyond the veil,
And made yourself a promise
That you’d embrace what you had found.
Soaring and gliding through the changes,
Nothing is the way it was -
And may it never be....

(chorus)
You’ll find yourself and heal your heart,
Know the safety
Be the love you were right from the start.
Let everything be-
Let everything go-

Out beyond the veil
You truly know.

Once there lived a man
Who thought his life was over,
Young and sad and broken-
He decided, “One more time”...
That was so long ago...

Nothing is the way it seems,
It never really was...


Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra