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This posting was first published on 5 August 2020 and revised on 31 December 2023 and on 6 January 2024
From darkness to light, from pain to healing: The transformative power of hope
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Today (31 December) is a significant day, the last day of 2023 and tomorrow we will begin a new day, a new year. Many philosophers of love, the sages of wisdom and light have reminded us of one thing, and that is the Power of HOPE, without which there will be no tomorrow and no meaningful and rewarding life.
Please read the piece below and allow me to share with you the lessons and the wisdom I have learnt from the sages of Love and Hope: Yes, they have told us that Spring will come, and flowers will bloom!
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‘What is it that we hunger for? The modern world would have us look no further than our smartphone…TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, Google…to find that elusive object of our desire. Yet, many are realizing that what we need most, is already within us – if we are willing to ‘let go’. Let go of what? The illusion at the heart of every crisis we face in the world today, every system of oppression. The illusion of separation, that ‘my’ cravings, grievances, conveniences are of paramount importance.’- KOSMOS Journal
However, the timeless question is: 'How do we let go of such a fundamental error in thinking?'
Journey to Healing: Let Me Know What is Essential
Time to Reclaim our Lives
Photo: OcusFocus/Getty Images/iStockphoto/The Guardian
‘In a world of permanent connection, in which attention has been commodified, switching off and away from the outside world is arguably harder than ever before.’- The Guardian
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First published on 24 February 2013. Updated on 4 January 2024.
'I chose the vocation'
Camila Batmanghelidjh (کامیلا باتمانقلیچ) CBE, Founder, Kids Company,
born 1 January 1963, Tehran, Iran- died 1 January 2024, London.
RIP Camila and thank you for the generosity and kindness, help and support, you gave to so many kids. I am praying in my own way for you, may God grant you rest; you were, in the old idiom, a lovely lady, who, if required, may still be a peacemaker in heaven.
Camila Batmanghelidjh. Photo: Sam Frost/Via The Guardian
(Excerpts from an article first published on 22 February 2013)-- Camila Batmanghelidjh ("Batmanjelidge", born 1963, Tehran, Iran). She is founder of two charities - the place2b and Kids Company, where she and her team care for 17,000 vulnerable children and young people in London. The charity operates from three street-level centres in Southwark, Lambeth and Camden, as well as working in 41 inner-city schools. She lives in West Hampstead, London.
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