DIVINE BREEZES

Monday, December 16, 2013

Happy Birthday Jane Austen ...

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends ...
I have no notion of loving people by halves ...
It is not my nature ...

Muhammad Asad (Road To Mecca)

The whole world lay suddenly wide and transparent before my eyes as never before ... I saw its inner pattern and felt the beat of its pulse in the white loneliness and beheld all that had been hidden from me but a moment ago ... And I knew that all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us ... When they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them ...

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

We touch the lives of others in ways we often never know ... People sometimes come into our personal world for fleeting moments and can leave us forever changed ... We have more power to create or to destroy the way we interact than we can imagine ... We can leave things or individuals better or worse than we found them ... A look, a word, a gesture has tremendous impact and frequently we blither along through our existence unaware of the mighty power that our communication wields ...

The Lips Of The Righteous Teach Many ... But Fools Die For Want Of Wisdom ...

Artwork By Fabrizio Cassetta

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

On December 3, 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley's life ... The incident occured two days before the "Smile Jamaica" free concert, that Bob agreed to play, in the hopes of calming tensions between Jamaica’s rivaling political parties ... While Marley and The Wailers were rehearsing at 56 Hope Road, unnamed gunmen shot and wounded Rita Marley, Don Taylor, and Bob, who was grazed in the chest by a ricocheted bullet that ended up in his elbow ...

No one was killed in the attempt ...

Despite all that, Marley performed as planned ... This incident became his inspiration for the song "Ambush In The Night” ...