Quote of the week

 “Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you can but toss and drift or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, running alone is a forced confining. Compassion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

Khalil Gibran

Simple ways to avoid cancer

(1) broccoli is one of the best cancer fighting vegetable.

(2) Eat one leaf of "Tulsi"every morning, it prevents cancer

Omens no. 7

Dragonflies are lucky insects

As a creature of the wind, the dragonfly represents change. As a creature of the water, they represent the subconscious, or dream state.

Other symbolic meanings associated with dragonflies, are prosperity, strength, courage, peace, harmony and purity.

Quote of the week

‎"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." 

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Fun way to Lose weight

Eat a muskmelon everyday!

The Keepsake gets a 1000 hits today!!
Thank You All

When you think your father is guilty

of an injustice, his face looks cruel….

When you make peace

with your father, he will look peaceful…

The whole world is a form for truth.

When someone does not feel grateful for that,

the forms appear to be as he feels,

they mirror his anger, his greed, his fear.

Make peace with the universe.

Take joy in it. It  will turn to gold…

Every moment a new beauty….

Rumi

Desire

An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a beggar. He asked the beggar, "What do you want?"

The beggar laughed and said, "You are asking me as though you can fulfill my desire!"

The king was offended. He said, "Of course I can fulfill your desire. What is it? Just tell me."

And the beggar said, "Think twice before you promise anything."

The beggar was no ordinary beggar, he was the emporers past life master. He had promised in that life, "I will come and try to wake you in your next life. This life you have missed but I will come again." But the king had forgotten completely -- who remembers past lives? So he insisted, "I will fulfill anything you ask. I am a very powerful emperor, what can you possibly desire that I can not give to you?"

The beggar said, "It is a very simple desire. You see this begging bowl? Can you fill it with something?"

The emperor said, "Of course!" He called one of his viziers and told him, "Fill this mans begging bowl with money." The vizier went and got some money and poured it into the bowl, and it disappeared. And he poured more and more, and the moment he would pour it, it would disappear. And the beggging bowl remained always empty.

Omens No. 6

Breaking a Mirror

Curse:

A broken mirror, represented the soul being pulled from your body and being trapped in all the shattered pieces.

- The reason the bad luck lasted for seven years, was because the Romans believed that after seven years, the body was physically renewed and the soul could once again return whole.

Cure:

To break the spell of misfortune from a broken mirror, you must wait seven hours, (one for each year of bad luck), before picking up the broken pieces, and bury them outside, in the moonlight.

Quote of the week

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? 

Khalil Gibran

Just for laughs

Mother's day special

Foreign media have recently reported a recent arrest of three people in Brazil, suspected of making ‘empanadas’ out of human flesh, adding that the food have been sold out.

Although civilization governs all over the world, the incident still convinces us that human cannibalism remains in the modern world, and it still persists. A report said Brazil, in particular, has been linked to cannibalism in recent years. The Lancet journal reported in 1994 “that eating human remains” was common among 250 people who lived in an Olinda slum. “Poverty and a lack of compliance with laws” were blamed, since the starving individuals were eating human body parts that they found in the Brazilian city’s garbage dump.

Modern science, however, suggests that humans are far from being good eats for our own species because diseases can spread more readily with some being particularly gruesome. Prion diseases, for example, are thought to have inflicted prehistoric cannibals. These illnesses are sometimes referred to as “spongiform encephalopathies” because they often cause the brain to become riddled with sponge-like holes.

Source:http://www.yengo.com/en/news/?id=532&da_id=101265

Vincent Castiglia is an American painter born in Brooklyn, New York. He paints exclusively with human blood on paper. He’s internationally acclaimed for figurative paintings with metaphysical and nightmarish subject matters.

He does a lot of work with themes involving symbiosis of birth and death and the pitfalls of mortality. 

He’s the first American to receive and invitation to have a solo exhibition in the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland. Castiglia’s work is an examination of the human experience. His work is said to illustrate a humanity that is creative, but at the same time, self-destructive.

"I sought the most direct and personal connection with my work, one that could not lie or be reproduced. Although the paintings are often thematic, they are also quite visceral, and I believe it is because of this that the response has been so strong. The creative process is very honest and cathartic for me, and is an intermingling of feelings and experiences, aspirations and visions, all spontaneously congealing on the canvas." 

Vincent Castiglia

Just for laughs