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By Vurdlak on June 16, 2012, with 0 Comments

I had some major connectivity issues lately, (in fact I’m tethering via my iPhone right now) so this why there were no updates yesterday and on the day before. I just hope these three birds would make up for it! There weren’t many perspective optical illusions for such a long time, I figured they would come in refreshing. So which one did you like the most? Hope all of the illusions below are self-explanatory…or aren’t they?

Giant asteroid zips past Earth in 'scary' shave - Technology & Science - CBC News

Giant asteroid zips past Earth in 'scary' shave - Technology & Science - CBC News


A  gigantic asteroid classified as "potentially hazardous" hurtled safely past Earth on Thursday night, zipping by well outside of the moon's orbit but nonetheless thrilling amateur stargazers

Near-Earth asteroids are not an uncommon occurrence. Astronomers have recorded roughly 9,000 of them to date, according to the astronomy news website Space.com.


Astronomy Magazine analyst Bob Berman added during the webcast that 
 the event was "scary" and a bit of a wake-up call for astronomers, who only discovered the asteroid LZ1 this week.






  
This NASA radar image showing asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained in 2011. The asteroid, said to be about the size of an aircraft carrier, came within 325,000 kilometres of Earth. (NASA)

File:Chinesischer Maler des 12. Jahrhunderts (I) 001.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

File:Chinesischer Maler des 12. Jahrhunderts (I) 001.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

English: This album leaf painting of ink and color on silk is attributed to the early 12th century Chinese artist Zhao Chang. It is now located in the Shanghai Museum in China.

Yogas

The path of yoga is faith, energy, mindfulness, meditation and wisdom. 

- Yoga Sutra 1.20 

Quotes Rumi

Who am I in the midst of all this thought traffic? - Rumi


You are the Soul of the Soul of the Universe and your name is Love. -Rumi
  

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says this truth, you harvest what you sow.
- Rumi


And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?   - Rumi


Be certain in the religion of love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all.
- Rumi


Love is the religion in me. - Rumi


With life as short as a half taken breath, Don't plant anything but Love. - Rumi


Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul. - Rumi


What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.  - Rumi



When you seek love with all you heart ~ you shall find its echo’s in the universe. - Rumi
    

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. - Rumi


You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself. - Rumi


I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in you. - Rumi 


Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.


Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to Light.   - Rumi


Nowhere to go but the heart.   - Rumi



Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.  - Rumi

 
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart. - Rumi



Love is always thirsty and looking for a thirsty lover. Love and lover follow each other like day and night.  - Rumi

 Exhale only love. - Rumi


The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.  - Rumi


Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.
- Rumi 



Love is always thirsty and looking for a thirsty lover. Love and lover follow each other like day and night. - Rumi


The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. - Rumi


What matters is how quickly you do what your soul wants. - Rumi


In this moment your love comes to rest in me, many beings in one being. In one wheat-grain a thousand sheaf stacks.   - Rumi


Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.   -  Rumi


In this moment your love comes to rest in me, many beings in one being. In one wheat-grain a thousand sheaf stacks. - Rumi



Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love!

Love is compass of The God's secrets.

Always walk on the sunny side....

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It is what sunflowers do" -Helen Keller

• Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world.

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
  

- Helen Keller

Sunflowers to the Rescue!

by Sherie Blumenthal | Monday, June 11th, 2012 | From: Home and Garden

 

Helen Keller knew enough about the wisdom of this bright and beautiful plant to share it with others. While she understood and celebrated the sunflower’s ability to follow the movement of the sun, she could not have known of its power to cleanse the earth. Thanks to the wonders of science, we do now, and it is a beautiful and useful wisdom!

 This bright, cheerful flower has given us a delicious and hardy seed, a versatile cooking oil, leaves for cattle feed, a stem strong enough to make paper, and of course, much beauty. It has also, as of late, brought us something even more special: the ability to remove harmful toxins from our soil, helping us to more safely handle the earth around us and grow food for ourselves and our communities.

The sunflower is one of many plants that are now known to aid in “phytoremediation,” a process that employs various types of plants to remove, transfer, stabilize, and/or destroy contaminants in the our soil, water and air. 

Compared to other cleanup methods, such as soil excavation or pumping polluted groundwater, phytoremediation has become a clean, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way to reclaim and reuse land that has been tainted by poisonous chemicals and heavy metals.

 

Sunflowers are not only able to absorb lead, but other dangerous heavy metals such as arsenic, zinc, chromium, copper, and manganese. 

Probably the most astounding example of phytoremediation was the use of a type of sunflower to clean up contaminated soil in the Ukraine following the Chernobyl disaster, one of the worst nuclear power plant accidents in history. 

Other communities from far and wide have learned about and employed the magic healing of sunflowers. “Project Sprout,” based out of Tulane City Center in New Orleans, focuses on planting bio-energy gardens that include plants like sunflowers as a way to remediate soil, yield a crop for bio-fuel production, provide green-collar job training and to support urban revitalization in neighborhoods of New Orleans that suffered devastating damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Sunflowers have an amazing capacity to not only transform the health of a space in your community, but also add beauty.

 

 Source:

 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/home-garden/2012/06/11/sunflowers-to-the-rescue/

 

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Having just purchased a couple of these flowers at the local plant vendor, it seemed wise to go to an expert to learn how to care for this plant.

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More Helen Keller:

 Courage
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Confidence
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

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Ideas

  Thoreau's transcendental beliefs. IMAGE CREDIT: www.quotablecards.com