Entries from February 2008 ↓

Mr. President,

As an American-Turk who has served proudly in the US Air Force during the Desert Storm (your father was my Commander in Chief) I am deeply concerned by your and Mr.Gates’ comments urging Turkiye to withdraw its forces from N.Iraq while you keep repeating the American troops has to be there as long as it takes to finish the job.

I am sure I don’t have to tell you Turkiye has been the biggest and strongest US ally in the region going back to Korean War………

As we both know Turkish troops were the first to step up and provide relief to the American forces in Afganistan.

Turkiye has been fighting with terror long before America has even tasted the devastating effects of it in SEP 11 2001. Remembering 80’s as a young boy hearing news about PKK killers killing elementary school teachers in the Eastern Turkiye, or throwing hand grenades in the city buses, I was delighted to hear when you declared Global War on Terror.

I particularly enjoy you and your mouthpieces keep repeating the motto ” If we don’t fight them there they’ll follow us home”

Does that logic apply to save only American lives, or is it OK for Turkish people to fight the terrorist where they hide also.

I know your geography is not the best, so I feel obligated to mention Turkey is neighbor of Iraq, and when they say We need to fight them “there” they don’t mean 7000 miles and 2 continents away. They mean at the border.

When I travel abroad I often hear people talk about how America is a good time friend and only care for short term gains with absolutely no care about long term effects of her actions. Although I can’t argue because of examples like Noriega, Pinotchet, Shah in Iran, Saddam in Iraq and Osama Bin Laden in Afganistan , I often use ” You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet”excuse.

Mr. President although I have not voted for you, and I pretty much hate everything Mr.Chenney and his dogs stand for, I always admired your intense loyalty.

I urge you to re-examine your loyalties and see if you’re standing on the right side on this issue.

You called on all nations to join the Global War on Terror and long time American ally Turkiye sent her sons to fight such evil.

PKK is recognized as a Terrorist organization by the US government for they have killed tens of thousands of people over 20+ years. One would think it’s most beneficial for America that Turkish soldiers are killing terrorists. We both know our troops are spread thin and morale is……. let’s just say is not as high as when I was serving.
Definition of terror is : The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

I’m pretty sure it applies to all people regardless of if they’re American or not.

I am looking forward to reading about your presidency in history books to see the long term effects of your short term decisions with hope that I was wrong and you are right, and I am looking forward to the end of your presidency.

All the best.

Sincerely,

U. “Turk” Akbay

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You must learn not to look upon the world as a lost and decaying thing but as a something perfect and glorious which is going on to a most beautiful completeness; and you must learn to see men and women not as lost and accursed things, but as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

There are no “bad” or “evil” people.

A locomotive, which is on the rails pulling a heavy train, is perfect after its kind, and it is good. The power of steam, which drives it, is good. If a broken rail throw the engine into the ditch, and it does not become bad or evil by being so displaced; it is a perfectly good engine, but off the track. The power of steam that drives it into the ditch and wrecks it is not evil, but a perfectly good power. So that which is misplaced or applied in an incomplete or partial way is not evil.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are off the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

Because of the way we have trained ourselves to think that which is undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as evil. The root of a bulb that produces a white lily is an unsightly thing; one might look upon it with disgust. But how foolish would that be to condemn the bulb for its appearance when we know the lily is within it. The root is perfect after its kind; it is a perfect but incomplete lily, and so we must learn to look upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely in outward manifestation; they are perfect in their stage of being and they are becoming complete.

Behold, it is all very good.

Once we come into a comprehension of this fact and arrive at this point of view, we lose all desire to find fault with people, to judge them, criticize them, or condemn them.

We no longer work as those who are saving lost souls, but as those who are among the angels, working out the completion of a glorious heaven. We no longer see men as trees walking, but our vision is complete. We have nothing but good words to say. It is all good; a great and glorious humanity coming to completeness. And in our association with others this puts us into an expansive and enlarging attitude of mind; we see them as great beings and we begin to deal with them and their affairs in a great way.

But if we fall to the other point of view and see a lost and degenerate race we shrink into the contracting mind; and our dealings with others and their affairs will be in a small and contracted way.

Remember to hold steadily to this point of view; if you do you cannot fail to begin at once to deal with your acquaintances and neighbors and with your own family as a great personality deals with people. This same viewpoint must be the one from which you regard yourself. You must always see yourself as a great advancing soul. Learn to say:

“There is THAT in me of which I am made, which knows no imperfection, weakness, or sickness. The world is incomplete, but The Source (God) in my own consciousness is both perfect and complete. Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and my own personal attitude can be wrong only when I disobey THAT which is within. I am a perfect manifestation of God so far as I have gone, and I will press on to be complete. I will trust and not be afraid.”

When you are able to say this understandingly you will have lost all fear and you will be far advanced upon the road to the development of a great and powerful personality.

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Djembe and I went for a walk at the park this morning.

I started noticing the green hue , and I am happy to report to those of you who don’t take your dogs for a walk ( or walk at the park for that matter) Spring is coming to Charlotte.

We’re blessed in Charlotte that we have 4 seasons. When I lived in CA I didn’t appreciate the seasons as much. It was either rainy season or tourist season, but now living in Charlotte where almost every season arrives on schedule (first day of spring is always spring like , first day of summer is always hot as can be etc.) I enjoy witnessing the mother nature’s movement.

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My favorite sage tells this story

The giant tree

A carpenter and his apprentices were travelling through the province of Qi in search of building materials. They saw a giant tree; five men all holding hands could not encompass its girth, and its crown reached almost to the clouds.

‘Let’s not waste our time with this tree,’ said the master carpenter. ‘It would take us for ever to cut it down. If we wanted to make a ship out of that heavy trunk, the ship would sink. If we tried to use it to build a roof, the walls would have to be specially reinforced.’

The group continued on its way. One of the apprentices remarked:

‘Such a big tree and no use to anyone!’

‘That’s where you’re wrong,’ said the master carpenter. ‘The tree was true to its own destiny. If it had been like all the others, we would have cut it down. But because it had the courage to be different, it will remain alive and strong for a long time yet.’

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Without faith it is impossible for you to become great.

The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith. We see this in every man and woman who has attained a place on the muster roll of the great ones of the world. Faith-not a faith in one’s self or in one s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time.

Without this faith it is not possible for anyone to rise to real greatness. The person who has no faith in principle will always be a small person. Whether you have this faith or not depends upon your point of view. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution, as a something that is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Millions of years ago God worked with very low and crude forms of life, low and crude, yet each perfect after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms, animal and vegetable, appeared through the successive ages; the earth passed through stage after stage in its unfolding, each stage perfect in itself, and to be succeeded by a higher one.

Pease note that the so-called “lower organisms” are as perfect after their kind as the higher ones; that the world in the Eocene period was perfect for that period; it was perfect, but God’s work was not finished.

This is true of the world today. Physically, socially, and industrially it is all good, and it is all perfect. It is not complete anywhere or in any part, but so far as the handiwork of God (The Source) has gone it is perfect.

THIS MUST BE YOUR POINT OF VIEW:

THAT THE WORLD AND ALL IT CONTAINS IS PERFECT, THOUGH NOT COMPLETED.

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There are undreamed of possibilities in the common lives all around us. In a large sense, there are no “common” people. We know in times of national stress and peril we see ordinary people become heroes through the quickening of the Principle of Power within them. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

You and I know THERE is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, we can develop our own mental faculties.

We have an inherent power by which we may grow in whatever direction we please, and there aren’t any limits to the possibilities of our growth.

No one has yet become so great that it is impossible for someone else to become greater. That’s because the possibility is in the Original Substance (God, The Source) from which we are all made.

Great people are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve of power that is without limit.

We do not know where the boundary of our mental powers is; we do not even know that there is a boundary.

The power of conscious growth is not given to the animals. The animals can, to a great extent, be trained and developed by us, and we can also train and develop ourselves. We alone have this power, and we have it to an apparently unlimited extent.

Just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth The purpose of life for you is growth also. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; you can grow, as you will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; you can develop any power, which is or has been shown by any person, anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that you can think is impossible-in action. Nothing that you can imagine is impossible of realization.
You are formed for growth, and you are under the necessity of growing. It is essential to your happiness that you should continuously advance.

There is no possibility in any person that is not in every person; but if they proceed naturally, no two persons will grow into the same thing, or be alike. That’s because everyone comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for her along those lines than in any other way. This is a wise provision, for it gives endless variety to humankind. Not everyone wants to be rich and not everyone wants to be famous.

It is as if a gardener should throw all his bulbs into one basket; to the superficial observer they would look alike, but growth reveals a tremendous difference. So of people, they are like a basket of bulbs. One may be a rose
and add brightness and color to some dark corner of the world; one may be a lily and teach a lesson of love and purity to every eye that sees; one may be a climbing vine and hide the rugged outlines of some dark rock; one may be a great oak among whose boughs the birds shall nest and sing, and beneath whose shade the flocks shall rest at noon, but every one will be something worthwhile, something rare, something perfect.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it. If we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

But beware of undertaking great things in a small way: of that we shall speak farther on.

There are two mental attitudes people may take. One makes you like a football. It has resilience and reacts strongly when force is applied to it, but it originates nothing; it never acts of itself. There is no power within it. Person of this type are controlled by circumstances and environment, their destinies are decided by things external to themselves. The Principle of Power within them is never really active at all. They never speak or act from within.
The other attitude makes person like a flowing spring. Power comes out from the center of her. She has within her a well of water springing up into everlasting life, she radiates force; heist felt by her environment. The Principle of Power in her is in constant action. She is self-active. “She has life in herself.”

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by The Source to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

In our lowest stage, we are the children of chance and circumstance and the slave of fear. Our acts are all reactions resulting from the impingement upon us of forces in our environment. We act only as we are acted upon; we originate nothing. But even at our lowest stage have within us a Principle of Power sufficient to master all that we fear; and if we learn this and becomes self-active, we become as one of the gods.

The awakening of the Principle of Power in us is the real conversion; the passing from death to life. It is the resurrection and the life. When it is awakened, we become a son of the Highest and all power is given to us in heaven and on earth.

Nothing was ever in any person that is not in you; no one ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be

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Why we need ACLU
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Because without ACLU these thugs have no one to keep them in check.

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There is a Cosmic Intelligence that is in all things and through all things.

This is the one real substance. From it all things proceed. It is Intelligent Substance or Mind Stuff. It is God.

Where there is no substance there can be no intelligence; for where there is no substance there is nothing.
Where there is thought there must be a substance which thinks.

Thought cannot be a function; because function is motion, and it is inconceivable that  motion can think. Thought cannot be vibration, for vibration is motion, and that motion should be intelligent is not convieable. Motion is nothing but the moving of substance; if there be intelligence shown it must be in the substance and not in the motion.

Thought is not the result of motions in the brain. Thought is in the life-principle that animates the brain, in the eternal intelligence, which is the real you. The brain does not think, YOU think and expresses your thought through the brain.

There is an eternal intelligence that thinks. Just as the spirit substance of us permeate our body, and thinks and knows in the body, so the Original Spirit Substance, God, permeates all nature and thinks and knows in nature. Nature is as intelligent as us, and knows more than us; nature knows all things.

The All-Mind has been in touch with all things from the beginning; and it contains all knowledge. Our experience cover a few things, and these things we know; but Eternal Spirit’s experience covers all the things that have happened since the creation, from the wreck of a planet or the passing of a comet to the fall of a sparrow. All that is and all that has been are present in the Infinite Intelligence that is wrapped about us and enfolds us and presses upon us from every side.

All the encyclopedias that have written, all the websites have created are but trivial affairs compared to the vast knowledge held by the mind in which we live, move, and have our being.

You are thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but your “physical body/mind” is limited, while the Cosmic Intelligence from which you sprang, which Jesus called the Father, is unlimited.

All intelligence, power, and force come from this Source.  One of the greatest teacher  Jesus recognized this and stated it very plainly. Over and over again he ascribed all his wisdom and power to his unity with the Father, and to his perceiving the thoughts of God. “My Father and I are one.” This was the foundation of his knowledge and power. He showed the people the necessity of becoming spiritually awakened; of hearing his voice and becoming like him.

We are immersed in the Universal mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for our Source delights to give good gifts to its children. The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they received from God, not by what they were taught by others.

This limitless reservoir of wisdom and power is open to you; you can draw upon it, as you will, according to your needs. You can make yourself what you desire to be; you can do what you wish to do; you can have what you want. To accomplish this you must learn to become one with the Source so that you may perceive truth; so that you may have wisdom and know the right ends to seek and the right means to use to attain those ends, and so that you may secure power and ability to use the means.

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with The Source. Because this is the only way to  get to where you want to go.

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The first hour is the rudder of the day. We essentially set the tone ( or the vibe) for the day starting the moment we’re awake.

Here is an exercise for you.

Tomorrow morning as soon as you’re awake pay attention to what’s going on in your head. Even before you get out of bed.

What is the conversation going on in your head. Are you glad to be up or do you hate that damn alarm clock. Are you having a pleasant conversation ( in your head) or is it one of lack and annoyance or worse.

First time I tried that exercise I was shocked to find out how someone as positive as me could have so much negativity in the first 5 minutes of the day……. It was an eye opener……..

This is my morning routine.

Sometime between 5:30 and 6:00

I am consciously in my body( time you wake up-before getting up) I take a few deep breaths and recognize this morning my body is alive. That’s a good start.

then I think of my expectation for this day to be a happy and exciting day and a day of constant contact with my infinite source. A few more deep breaths. hug my wife and get out of bed. Great to see my feet are still working..

I drink a pint of water.:::Slowly:::. Notice how the water hydrates my body starting with my tongue. If I don’t need more water then head to bathroom for the shower/shave/brush. Before I start I set my intention to clean my physical body. And during the process I produce positive thoughts. Think about funny things, fun things anything to keep increasing my vibe.

Now my body is watered and clean I grab my dream-magazine (Turk made magazine filled with things I want in my life.) I look at the pictures until my vibe reaches the point where I am happy to have those things in my life. Then I set my timer to 20 minutes, and start thinking about my life at that point in particular about the feeling I am going to have about it.

When the alarm goes off. I ask for clear guidance for anything I must do to reach that vision and faith for the times I’m in doubt of my connection to my God.

My work for this day is done.

I dress up and GOOOooooooo.

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