Sunday, November 25, 2012  Little Drops of Water, Tiny Grains of
Sand     Is this the doom written in our nature?   Yet what is
any ocean but a multitude of drops?   Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand   Make the mighty ocean  And the pleasant
land.   Vicky Hanjian  Tuesday, November 20, 2012  Holding the
Heart  Is it possible to love others when one is unloving to
one’s self? Is it possible to truly have compassion if one does
not allow for self-compassion? Can we truly seek to change the
world making it more loving, just, and nonviolent if many people
do not take the time to question the relationship we have within
ourselves or with ourselves?   Each day I encounter more and
more people who truly desire to be more loving toward others and
who truly believe that helping is the basis of their faith and
yet, the working out of these actions are done in aggression and
through methods of power and control. There appears to be a gap,
a large gap that is leading me to believe that without holding
one’s se