Heart of Sufism

"...Before the soul now is a world, a world not strange to it, but a world which it had made during its life on earth. That which the soul had known as mind is now to the soul a world. That which the soul, while on earth, called imagination, is now before it a reality.
If this world is artistic, it is the art produced by the soul. If there is absence of beauty, that is also caused by the neglect of beauty by the soul while on earth.

What will be the atmosphere of that world? It will be the re-echo of the same atmosphere which one has created in this world. If one has learned while on earth how to create joy and happiness for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds one. If one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth, the fruits of these one must reap there. That is where one sees justice as the nature of life."

From The Heart of Sufism- Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Bridges Across Borders

Ok, yay. I just received a little bit of much needed income.(whew) The final installment on an artwork I sold a long while ago.
And the 10% donation goes to.......*drumroll please*...BridgesAcrossBorders.org - a small group of compassionate individuals trying to make a positive difference through fair trade, artisan cooperatives, education in Cambodia, etc. If you read that article I posted earlier on the Cambodia Landfill- Life in Hell...this is where it came from. After looking through the site over and over again, I think they deserve a lot of support in the directions they are choosing to go. Check them out.:)
And please, if anyone can contribute anything towards the Peace Corps Sheouba School Construction in Mali Project, please do. It's kind of depressing how slowly its going...once again, as if people have lost interest in them.:( I've been donating, but according to the numbers since last year...it's actually Only me. And at that rate...*sigh*. We need a whole bunch of people to donate/contribute a little something...and whittle that number down and get that school built already. How depressing to have a half-built school just sitting there, unusable.