The Reflection Cafe: Why Research Universities Should Be...
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llibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam - HDR on Flickr - Photo...
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The Reflection Cafe: FP: The Think Tank Index
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The Reflection Cafe: Doctoral Education: Challenges Ahead
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The Reflection Cafe: The Reflection Cafe Archive 2008
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Düşünce Kahvesi: Mevlana Rumiden (VII)
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İnsanlarda gördüğün birçok zulümler, senin huyundur. Sen, kendi huyunu onlarda görüyorsun. Senin varlığın, nifakın, zulmün, gafletin onlara aksetmiştir.
Akıl ve zekada kemale ermekle insan Hakk'a varamaz. Allah'ın fazlı, keremi ancak kırık kalpleri, yıkık gönülleri arar.
Baharların tesiriyle hiç taş yeşerir mi? Sen de toprak ol ki renk renk çiçekler bitiresin. Yıllardır gönüller inciten, kalpler kıran taş oldun. Denemek için bir zaman da toprak ol!
Gönül gözü açık olanlar, hangi hayvana, hangi bitkiye bakarlarsa baksınlar, Allah'ın sanatının, güzelliğinin bahçelerinden manevi gıdalar alırlar. Bundan dolayıdır ki Hak aşıklarına, "Nereye dönersiniz donun, orada Allah'ın yüzü, Allah'ın güzelliği vardır" buyuruldu...Hak aşıkları da güzellerin yüzlerinde Hakk'ın güzelliğini görürler.
Ölüm gününde ulu bir bey olmak için ecel vaktine kadar iyi tohumlar ekmek gerek.
Kendini, kendi vasıflarından (kötü huylarından, nefsani isteklerinden) kurtar, temizle ki; saf, temiz gerçek varlığını, lekesiz zatını, ilahi özünü göresin.
Sevgi ve acıma hissi, insanlık vasfıdır; hiddet ve şehvet ise hayvanlık vasfıdır. Kadın, sadece sevgili değildir, Hakk'ın nurudur.
İnsan ikinci defa doğunca (yani ana rahminden doğduğu gibi, kendi bedeni rahminden de doğup nefsani arzulardan kurtulunca), illet ve sebepleri ayağının altına alır.
Hz. Adem'in işlediği kusur, karın ve cima yüzünden oldu. Fakat İblis'in suçu, ululuktan ve mevkii yüzündendi.
Şu ahir zamanda can kuşları (insanlar, Halk) bir an için olsun birbirinden emin değildir. Halk nefsani gıdalar yüzünden birbirine düşmüşlerdir.
Allah güzeldir, güzelliği sever.
Güzel ve iyi suret/sekil, bil ki kötü huyla beraber olunca bir kalp akçe bile etmez! Çirkin ve hakir sureti olan huyu güzel olursa, ona kurban ol!
Bu dünyada gördüğün bütün bu güzellikler, hoşluklar, ulu bir deryadan sızıp gelmektedir. Sen cüz'ü bırak da külle doğru yüzü cevir!
Güzeller, Allah'ın güzelliğinin aynasıdır. Onlara gönül vermek, Hakk'ı istemenin, Hakk'ı aramanın yankısıdır.
İnsanın gözü neyi görürse, değeri o kadardır.
Sende, senden başka bir "sen" gizlidir. Ne olduğunu anlayan, gerçek varlığı görebilen kişiye kul, kurban olayım ben.
KAYNAK: Konularına Göre Derlenmiş; MEVLANA'DAN DÜŞÜNDÜREN SÖZLERİ, Yayına Hazırlayan: Şaban Karaköse, Yakamoz Yayınları, İstanbul 2007
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The Reflection Cafe: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life
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Barnes & Noble.com - Image Viewer: Open Your Eyes, by...
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This renowned decorator shows readers how to be more visually aware. Open Your Eyes teaches the principles of proportion, scale, composition, and more, providing a foundation for true beauty through design. From asking you to take another look at the colors in a sunset, a glass of water, and in soap bubbles to examining the form of a statue, person, or an apple, this book will truly help you "open your eyes" as you see your surroundings in a new way.
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The much-published interior designer Stoddard gives her view on how to design a comfortable, beautiful home. She covers the basic areas that designers consider when planning interiors: scale, balance, pattern, and composition. As she discusses each, she gives specific tips on how to look at the home and remedy troublesome areas. Although this book gives practical decorating information, there are not enough pictures to illustrate her advice, so sometimes her message gets lost. Purchase if there is a demand for her books. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 8/98.]
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Barnes & Noble.com - Image Viewer: Living a Beautiful...
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Chapter One
Rituals
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition,
the end to which every enterprise and tlabour tends...
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler, November 10, 1750
Creating daily rituals-making daily tasks into times of enrichment through planning and special personal details-is a way to live a richer, more satisfying life. It may seem an obvious point-yet it is so easy to do! But in my work as an interior designer, I have found that many people need advice about redesigning the small details of everyday living: they need this much more than they need advice about how to design a brandnew living room.
Samuel Johnson is a hero of mine. His life was not an easy journey, yet he lived day by day with a sense of urgency, reverence and passion. "The process," he insisted, "I's the reality." As I've worked in the decorative arts over these past twenty-five years, I've become convinced that only by paying careful attention to the simple details of daily tasks and to our immediate surroundings can we live vitally and beautifully all the days of our lives. It takes a commitment to enjoy each day fully. And it takes respect for the significance of grace.
" Rituals" is my term for patterns you create in your everyday living that uplift the way you do ordinary things, so that a simple task rises to the level of something special, ceremonial, ritualistic.Rituals can elevate the way you feel about yourself, your life, and make you more peaceful and more free, more useful to others.
The difference between feeling bored and feeling alive, I believe, lies in astimulating daily life that is elevated into a fuller experience through pleasing details.
When these small moments are handled lovingly and with thought and care, they become life-enhancing and make you capable of doing more with the rest of your time.
I've observed inmy communications with people all over the world the tendency so many of us have to concentrate our energies on things that are for special occasions rather than on things we do, or use, every day. In design terms, this translates into working to get the living room just right, instead of concentrating on the rooms we spend the most time in, day after day-the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom. This 5-percent rule translates into a tendency to save up a sense of the special for a few outstanding events each year-for a particular party, anniversary or birthday celebration, a vacation. Such events comprise at the most 5 percent of our living time, and the remaining 95 percent is often merely walked through, in wistful anticipation of some later Joy. But what we all really want to do, I think, is live in the present, really enjoy every day, not put our lives on hold for that special 5 percent. We want to enjoy all the days of our lives, and especially the time spent in the sanctuary of home. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Instead of rushing through our lives to get somewhere-instead of saving up real living for later--I think it's important to remember that each single day is all we have. Single days experienced fully add up to a lifetime lived deeply and well. Today is your life-not yesterday and not tomorrow. If we have tomorrow, it will be a gift, but what we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. If we make short shrift of our day-to-day lives, even if we live to experience "later," I don't believe we will know fully how to appreciate what we have. Living well is a habit, and rituals improve and reinforce good life habits.
That nimble writer of aphorisms Logan Pearsall Smith, in his book All Trivi,said: "There are two things to aim at in life: first,to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest ofmankind achieve the
