Something there is that doesn't love a wall / That sends the frozen ground-swell under it / And turns the upper boulders in the sun / And makes gaps even TWO can pass abreast - Robert Frost (from memory, so, there may be some errors) but how ingenious Frost was to saw how TWO may pass, side by side, suggesting fellowship. 

There is a touching scene in Tulsidas' Ramayan, where the simple women devotee, Shabari, spends years in Bhakti to Ram, and when
he finally visits her, she asks him to speak of the nine devotional excellences. Ram chuckles and says "You know them so well (meaning, she has succeeded in beholding Ram) but I shall grant your request."  And the very first of these nine excellences is Sangha or Fellowship. The nineth is Atmanivedana which kind of means total sacrifice of the self and is not unlike the Greek Orthodox concept of Kenosis or the divine emptying and renunciation.

Tulsidas has many sayings, one of which regards the importance of fellowship: one speck of dust associates with the wind, and becomes part of a beautiful cloud, but a neighboring speck associates with the rain and is carried down into the mud.

(posted in honor of Hanuman, Geetanjali)

"Incorporeal things are not in place after a manner known and familiar to us, in which way we say that bodies are properly in place; but they are in place  after a manner befitting spiritual substances, a manner that cannot be fully manifest to us." [St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Supplement, Q69, a1, reply 1]

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Sorting student as ready for a dominant or submissive role.

My Facebook Friend asked my opinion:

Well, Omid, to be quite honest with an answer which you perhaps do not expect but which is the only one I can honestly give: I have devoted 20 years of my life to a comparative study of world religions. The Bahá'u'lláh amazes me to the same degree as Rumi, Tulsidas, Guru Nanak and many others.. precisely because they were faced with a majority religion that was rigid and unbending, and they responded with a teaching that is compassionate and universal. I could not be what and who I am and embrace any religion in particular. But I am somewhat Platonic in my notion that there is a universal Eidos or Form of religion and each particular religion is a shadow of that universal form. If God has become man either as avatar or guru, it is because man is "becoming" to God, becoming in the sense of Kosmos as "adornment."

I had to get a better cell phone with cheaper minutes, and more of them.

I decided upon T-Mobile Blackberry.

I was able to install Myspace mobile, Facebook mobile, as well as the following chats: ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail and AIM.

So, if I "appear" as on-line a lot of the time, it is most likely because the Blackberry stays on 24/7 and all those applications stay logged in.  IF you should message me in any of those above-mentioned applications, my phone will alert me and I will get to your message eventually.

It is very difficult to write long eloquent Pauline paragraphs with one's thumbs upon a Blackberry, so if I need to write something more, I shall wait until I get to a desktop.

IF anyone has T-Mobile then let me know because T-Mobile in-network calls are free and unlimited.

I do have Favorite 5, so Rich, if you are going to keep your phone for a long time, I can add your number, except it will cost YOU unless it is after 9pm or weekends, and if I only call you after 9 or weekends then it is also free for me so no point to use the Favorite 5 feature.

Anyway, I wanted to let everyone know why I might seem on line all the time. However, if you notice that I do not show on line all the time, then, let me know, because that probably means that the Blackberry goes into some kind of idle mode for Myspace, Facebook, etc.

It is a HUGE learning curve become acquainted with all the many features of Blackberry. I chose Blackberry because all the large companies standardize on it.
Phones like the DASH are Windows based with touch screens and easier to learn and use, but do not have as many features as the Blackberry, so I am told.

I also have unlimited SKYPE for USA and Canada for $3 per month, except I find that when I call certain phones my voice drops out and the other party cannot hear me.

Geetanjali, I received your message regarding LinkedIn. Thanks! Let me email you over this weekend. Everything has been so hectic this week.

I went to Facebook today and was able to add all the photos from today and yesterday when Rich and I went to The New York City Museum, St. Patricks, and City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge area, and all the photos uploaded perfectly on the first try. Next, I tried to upload selected photos to Myspace, and the upload process failed on four attempts, only uploading several of the pictures.

I may try an upload to Flickr which is accessible through my Wordpress.  I will privately give you the link to Flickr.

Check your email!

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... and I'm in the trunk.