Eggs? No, thanks

Many people say: ok, not to eat meat, the flesh of an other creature, but what about milk or eggs or similar products? These products come from animals but don't hurt them. Why to go without my delicious eggs and cake with eggs and all egg stuff that water my mouth? Well, if you have some heart, you will think again if taste is more important than your conscience.
Even in the case we forget that an egg is the promise of a new life, even if we also forget what chickens eat, that pass through to their eggs, and how they live their counted days in half a foot place in farm factories, does the plastic full of color and gustatory chemical addends taste of an egg worths the view of this video? See for yourself if egg production doesn't hurt. Or you will choose again to turn to the other side? Isn't it a boring and mechanical habit? Isn't it time to make your revolution?

ecology

It's not just a word - it's a way of living and feeling for our planet. It's caring for this blue lovely marble that travels for so long, billions of years, in space. And it doesn't matter how many times we will see her, we are always touched by her outstanding beauty. A small ball, a grain of sand among uncountable such grains in the endless beach of our universe. A heat in our heart.
And still, this tiny sand molecule is also such a wonderful sum of vast worlds: oceans, forests, mountains, endless worlds inside worlds that could be our own ever home if we didn't have the habit to look dreamily at the stars too.
She is our Mother and we kill her every moment in every possible way. And she still loves us. I don't think we deserve it. I can't really understand the why she keeps protecting us and providing everything we have and taking back in her arms our bodies when we step out of here.
Ecology is not just a seven letter word. In these days, it has become an intense need and we are all called to help, to do something, anything each one can, to stop or, at least, slow down our wrongdoings as a specie.
It's amazing how much we can hurt nature and her creatures, ourselves included. We do our worse every day. But it's also amazing how much we can do if we unite and join forces to do the opposite. Many organizations exist in almost all countries like greenpeace and wwf that can have some impact and force even governments to change some of their politics about nature protection, specie preservation, global warming and subjects like this that affect all of us. But this is not enough. The "bad" guys always escape and manage to keep on their work. Usually the "bad" guys are the ones who make the decisions too. We have to gather and become stronger and raise energy that will give some real results. And this needs you too.
Think what you can do yourself, it doesn't matter how small it is, and think that you may do more also. Usually we can do much more than we can think of. Join other people who feel the same and make some revolution of your own kind.
Nothing is lost if we make this revolution. Everything will be lost soon if we close our eyes again and continue the easy path of witting ignorance. And soon is sooner than you think.

River Flows in You

I just want to share this amazing piece of music. It's so tender and sensitive and strong at the same time that I simply love it.

River Flows In You by Yiruma
(or Bella's lullaby from Twilight).

if we only realized

All of us, that we are a bit interested in our food, know some of the good and also the bad that affect it. The bad ones some times are so bad that make us shudder with terror. And although we must not be afraid of our "enemies", it is wise to think again and again about the consequences of their actions that go slowly and sneakily and poison our food, our lives and any hope we may have for spiritual awakening.
When we talk about food, at the top of the list of the "bad" guys stands Monsanto, a bio-tech giant company that controls our food chain destroying the natural seeds and creating havoc and mutant seeds that are the only ones to survive the chemicals of the same company that destroy all other plants and insects around. So, we have strong and perfect-like food that, don't worry, will pave the way to cancer and graveyard. Please, see the video to have some idea. There are many like this that don't usually go out but worth the search.
A couple of days ago, a friend of mine gave me a small piece of paper. I started laughing with its content but I am not really sure if it was more appropriate to cry. The paper said:

Monsanto recommends:
To eat food with pesticides,
chemical fertilizers,
colors, hormones, preservatives,
improvers E1 to E8098,
meat from crazy cows
... and in particular foods with genetic mutagenesis!!!

This is a gentle donation
for the greek consumer

Panhellenic Union of Morticians
"The Underworld"

Death

One of my very favorite subjects! Don't get it wrong. I am not a sadistic monster, I don't dance naked in graveyards in the night, I don't find any pleasure in bone something activities and I surely don't worship devil. But, let's say, death was always for me an interesting subject, something to search and meditate upon and look in the eye.
Only the idea of death is strange. I mean, think about it, we just come here some time in a newbie body, walk or run a life of about 70 to 80 years more or less and leave in a way like the one we came: go out of the door from which we had come in. And then? Why we do this? What purpose serves and what's happening before and after? This ignorance is maddening. At least for me.
Usually people don't bother. They just try to survive or do the best they can do or have a great time for the period they are here. But to me it's a problem. The before and the after seems more important than the in-between. Where the heck we go? Do we go anywhere or we disappear in the mist of time? I know that these "existential" questions seem very boring to a lot of people and that are being asked for so long that they have become like the air, exists but we don't usually notice it. But does this lessen their importance?
If we skip the probability of nothing after death, which, I think, has no logical meaning, we start to think about theories like other dimensions, purgatory and the bright light with the tunnel thing I've read about in after death books.

We say that nobody can know about the after because nobody has come back before. But I've heard that a lot of people have done so. People with after death experiences, shamans who work with the other side, even world walkers that go forth and come back all the time. Why they don't tell us about? First of all, they do. Many people have talked about such experiences, but who listens? If we want death an unknown mystery we will close our ears and do everything to remain an unknown mystery. Second, most of the people who occupy themselves with such activities don't believe that common people are ready for them and even if they were willing to do the step, like the ones who did it, they will face controversy, negativity and even aggressiveness. Why to do such a thing to themselves? They are so well when they are self-effacing. Well, I would keep my knowledge to myself or at least to some few who will pass their tests with success.
But, you know, after all these about physical death, which is not that special as we may think, it seems appropriate to mention real death. Because physical death is just an transition, a change, a natural way to walk through bodies since flesh bodies are damageable and we should change them as we change a cloth that has been worn out.
The real dreadful death is the one that comes most times without even noticing it, it's the one that kills our present moments like a shadow for the sake of fantasy and egoistic purposes and sucks our energy. This slow death is the worst thing that can happen to us and it usually happens all the time. It's the death of consciousness. And the veil that covers true reality. It's so sad living like this and not even knowing it.
And, then, there is also the third kind of death. Hehe, yes, three kinds. What did you expect? We have variety. It's an overproduction subject. And although the physical death is neutral, since it's just a transition, and the consciousness death is the sad and negative kind, the third one is positive, promising and brings the hope in our lives. And it's the way to overcome the second kind.
It's the death of ego, the death of our smaller and bigger monsters we keep inside us, the ones that steal our energy and dance laughing crazily when we identify ourselves with them. But we can do it, we can regain ourselves, our energy, our lives and the chance to wake up in a better and conscious way of living. A lot of traditions talk about this work although usually in a hidden way. It's obvious why. Most people don't realize the fight that takes place all the time inside them and they are not interested in escaping from it since they are completely identified with thoughts and feelings that don't really belong to them. That's why the third death is for those who are willing to overcome themselves and gain an other higher level of existence.
So, isn't death really an interesting subject? Haven't I drawn your attention? Think about it.

flower stones

                    

Something happened to me lately with this tendency to paint all the painting around.  It didn't exist earlier.  It may be some virus or something like this but I like it so far.  Who knows what will happen in the future.  It will show.

This painting doesn't have a frame and it doesn't need it anyway.  It's a colorful bunch of stones, each one with its own personality, beautifully blend with the white pentalfa flower.  Everyone that sees this painting has a tendency to choose a stone that he/she likes more than the others.  This way different things about the personality of the person are shown...  Hmm, maybe this painting should go with a catalog that would describe the characteristics of each stone's lovers.  Or maybe I should write a book about this.

oil on canvas

50 cm x 50 cm (19,7" x 19,7" )

Mercifullness

My mother says that we should eat meat because we can't live without it. We should take the necessary ingredients that meat has to survive. Ok, that's an old fairytale, although it has been supported by scientists and doctors. Especially doctors that frighten mothers, like the story of the wolf and the red cap girl, which, of course, was written by the girl herself.
A friend of mine says that at least the animals are treated well, remembering animal farms she had seen a long long time ago in an other country. That's an other fairytale, of course. She hasn't heard about factory farming and the real way of animal treatment. Many people when it comes to animals and food prefer to keep in their mind the picture of the open fields and the happy animals, the ad image that relaxes the resistances and beds down the consciousness. Because they want the taste without the guilt. It's easier and effortless. Although, in our days, it is difficult to close the eyes so much. This kind of "ignorance" is just kidding ourselves.
You want to learn something about the truth? The real way we treat the about 57 billion (without measuring the see animals at all) sensitive other creatures we kill every year for food. You want to learn about the creatures whose eggs and milk find their way to your table?
I give you the Vegetarian Starter Kit from Mercy for Animals. Read the information, see the images and become conscious of what you eat and what you do backing the biggest extermination in history that happens every day in every country with the human majority's blessings. And, then, eat your delicious steak.