Snow Melt

Bucket Lists and Knowledge of Self

The January 22, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Describe five things you want to see or do before it's too late.

Before my weary body rest
Under plants in a garden of stone
Content to decompose
Knowing its atoms return to the
Earth, I want to do five things.
To have five adventures before I die.

Long ride in a hot air balloon,
I want to visit Mount Carmel in Israel,
Sleep in a Bed and Breakfast,
To find and visit my father's grave,
See the Baha'i temple in India.

The January 22, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
Do you think people are inherently good or bad and why?

A dual nature
A creature of matter and spirit
The individual human being
Is neither
Inherently good nor evil

Having both a body and soul
Places humanity
At the pinnacle of material evolution
And the nadir
Of spiritual development

The possession
Of a material/physical ego
And a spiritual soul
Gives the individual choice
Free will
To chose between
Good and evil
Light and darkness
Heaven and hell

Thought of the Day: "The first Taráz and the first effulgence which hath dawned from the horizon of the Mother Book is that man should know his own self and recognize that which leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory or abasement, wealth or poverty..." Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, TARAZÁT (Ornaments), Pages 35-36