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Matthew is a 90 year old guy from Geelong, VIC, Australia

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  • Melbourne 2009 | Council for a Parliament of the Worlds...

    Rated Sep 13 • 1 review • religion, spirituality, interfaith, australia, conference • parliamentofreligions.org



    Gathering of people from many of the worlds faiths in Melbourne, early December 2009.

    I hope to help sponsor a couple of youths from Geelong to attend.
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    Melbourne 2009 | Council for a Parliament of the Worlds Religions

  • Nuns arrive at eco-convent and leave behind...

    Rated Sep 01 • 9 reviews • architecture, religion, environment, abbey • guardian.co.uk



    Nun other than a new Abbey...
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    Nuns arrive at eco-convent and leave behind high-carbon habit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  • Get thee to a nunnery - just make sure it has an eco...

    Rated Sep 01 • 2 reviews • architecture, religion, history, abbey, nuns • guardian.co.uk



    From the page: "According to Dame Andrea Savage, the abbess at Stanbrook, manual labour was overtaking monasticism.

    "We're running a big building, spending thousands of pounds that we don't have on looking after the place and heating it with oil and gas, which isn't good for the environment. We're here for the monastic life and it is being impinged on," she said.

    "Stanbrook Abbey was built for the time, they didn't have heating. They had one tap and no bathrooms. It's been adapted since but it's still too big for us and we're not museum curators."

    In a brief to the architects, the nuns stated their vision for their new premises. In addition to being sensitive to environmental concerns, a monastery for women should "contain some natural curved surfaces and shapes". The new building, designed by the 2008 Stirling prizewinners Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, will allow them to live simply. There will be broadband-ready bedrooms for up to 30 nuns, a church, library and ancillary buildings. It also incorporates a retreat for up to 15 guests as hospitality is common to Benedictine traditions. The nuns will be in harmony with the heritage of their surroundings, studded with the ruins of Whitby, Rievaulx and Byland abbeys and Mount Grace Priory. "We are supposed to love creation and respect the environment. We're living in and taking care of it," said Savage.

    The fate of the old monastery is unclear. In 2002 the nuns decided to sell the Grade II listed property for Ł5m but to their disappointment it is still on the market"
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    Get thee to a nunnery - just make sure it has an eco loo | World news | The Guardian

  • Benedictine nuns prepare for move to green convent |...

    Rated Sep 01 • 1 review • architecture, religion, nuns • guardian.co.uk



    Benedictine nuns from Stanbrook Abbey, Worcestershire, in an abbey they are soon leaving. A selection of seven photographs are well worth viewing.
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    Benedictine nuns prepare for move to green convent | World news | guardian.co.uk

  • Martins Quest.com Pictures on Smugmug : photos :...

    Rated Aug 08 • 0 reviews • religion, quotes, bahai • smugmug.com

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    Martins Quest.com Pictures on Smugmug : photos : Pilgrimage Photographs

  • Bahai Quotes

    Rated Aug 08 • 1 review • photography, religion, quotes, bahai, bahaullah • martinsquest.com



    "It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action."

    Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 166
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    Bahai Quotes

  • Buninyong Churches

    Rated Jul 13 • 1 review • religion, churches, ballarat, buninyong • vic.au


    Uniting Church, Buninyong, Victoria.
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    Buninyong Churches

  • Bahai Reference Library: Search Results

    Rated Jul 05 • 1 review • religion, bahai • bahai.org

    Baha'u'llah and the New Era, Pages 107-108:

    ....Mental states, and "suggestion" may play an important part in determining these states. Fear, anger, worry, et cetera, are very prejudicial to health, while hope, love, joy, et cetera, are correspondingly beneficial. ...
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    Bahai Reference Library: Search Results

  • Bah&& Reference Library - Bah&'u'll&h and the New Era,...

    Rated Jul 05 • 1 review • mental health, religion, bahai • bahai.org

    Healing is needed--healing of humanity as a whole, of nations and of individuals. So Bahá'u'lláh, like His inspired predecessors, not only shows how health is to be maintained, but also how it may be recovered when lost. He comes as the Great Physician, the Healer of the world's sicknesses, both of body and of mind.

    In the Western world of today there is evident a remarkable revival of belief in the efficacy of healing by mental and spiritual means. Indeed many, in their revolt against the materialistic ideals about disease and its treatment which prevailed in the nineteenth century, have gone to the opposite extreme of denying that material remedies or hygienic methods have any value whatsoever. Bahá'u'lláh recognizes the value of both material and spiritual remedies. He teaches that the science and art of healing must be developed, encouraged and perfected, so that all means of healing may be used to the best advantage, each in its appropriate sphere. When members of Bahá'u'lláh's own family were sick, a professional physician was called in, and this practice is recommended to His followers. He says: "Should ye be attacked by illness or disease, consult skillful physicians."--Kitáb-i-Aqdas.

    This is quite in accordance with the Bahá'í attitude towards science and art generally. All sciences and arts which are for the benefit of mankind, even in a material way, are to be esteemed and promoted. Through science man becomes the master of material things; through ignorance he remains their slave.

    Bahá'u'lláh writes:--
    Do not neglect medical treatment when it is necessary, but leave it off when health has been restored. Treat disease through diet, by preference, refraining from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compound medicament. ... Abstain from drugs when the health is good, but administer them when necessary.--Tablet to a Physician
    In one of His Tablets `Abdu'l-Bahá says:--
    O seeker after truth! There are two ways of healing sickness, material means and spiritual means. The first way is through the use of material remedies. The second consists in praying to God and in turning to Him. Both means should be used and practiced. ... Moreover, they are not incompatible, and you should accept the physical remedies as coming from the mercy and favor of God Who has revealed and made manifest medical knowledge, so that His servants may profit by this kind of treatment also.
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    Bah&& Reference Library - Bah&'u'll&h and the New Era, Pages 105-107

  • Bah&& Reference Library - Bah&'u'll&h and the New Era,...

    Rated Jul 05 • 1 review • religion, bahai • bahai.org

    Bahá'u'lláh gives the assurance that, through harmonious cooperation of patients, healers and the community in general, and by appropriate use of the various means to health, material, mental and spiritual, the Golden Age may be realized, when, by the Power of God, "all sorrow will be turned into joy, and all disease into health." `Abdu'l-Bahá says that "when the Divine Message is understood, all troubles will vanish."
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    Bah&& Reference Library - Bah&'u'll&h and the New Era, Page 114