JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Speech

A very Exquisite and inspiring speech.
To read the whole transcript of this speech ,visit: http://share.sweska.net/2010/02/27/jk-rowlings-harvard-commencement-speech/

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Quotes from "The prophet" by Gibran Khalil Gibran

Dear readers,Here I decided this time to share with you a famous saying of the Lebanese Writer, Painter & Sculptor "Gibran Khalil Gibran" out of his book the prophet.I admire his writing and especially this one,that talks about children and their place in our lives and emphasis the fact that they are free spirits and do not belong to their parents.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

French Version:
Une femme qui tenait un nouveau-né contre son sein dit : parle-nous des enfants.
Il dit :
Vos enfants ne sont pas vos enfants.
Ils sont les fils et les filles du désir de la Vie pour elle-même.
Ils passent par vous mais ne viennent pas de vous,
Et bien qu'ils soient avec vous, ils ne vous appartiennent pas.
Vous pouvez leur donner votre amour, mais pas vos pensées.
Car ils ont leurs propres pensées.
Vous pouvez loger leurs coprs, mais pas leurs âmes.
Car leurs âmes habitent la maison de demain, que vous ne pouvez visiter, pas même en rêve.
Vous pouvez vous efforcer d'être semblables à eux, mais ne cherchez pas à les rendre semblables à vous,
Car la vie ne revient pas en arrière et ne s'attarde pas avec le passé.
Vous êtes les arcs à partir desquels vos enfants, telles des flèches vivantes, sont lancés.
L'Archer vise la cible sur la trajectoire de l'infini, et Il vous courbe de toutes ses forces afin que les flèches soient rapides et leur portée lointaine.
Puisse votre courbure dans la main de l'Archer être pour l'allégresse,
Car de même qu'Il chérit la flèche en son envol, Il aime l'arc aussi en sa stabilité.

the work and other works can be found on: http://tyros.leb.net/gibran/index.html also in Arabic and Czech.

Humanity ,where to?

Watch this great video about our human history,accompanied with fabulous music.

A Life of Purpose

Do we have a purpose in life? Or are we just living day by day without any purpose?
Living a purposeful life is the key to any one's success and prosperity!
When we find a higher purpose than ourselves,our own existence,only then we unleash our brilliance and full potential.
I began feeling the emptiness in my late adolescence! Now I know that all of what I have gone through was supposed to happen,because these events lead me to what I am today! I'm still growing spiritually,developing my personality,and I still have questions,but the most important thing I learned is that I was searching for my purpose,my inner drive. I felt that there is more,something was wrong,I was not fulfilling what I'm destined to do on earth. Now I look back and know,that with each question,and every painful conflict or experience that I went through,I only became stronger,and It brought me closer to discovering my true essence.
Life gives you the blessings you have,but you have to give something back.
You give when you do what you are meant to do the best way you can.

Wishing you my dear readers,to find your true purpose in this life,and remember it's never too late to ask the right questions! :)