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ISSUE 9
December 2008
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Here with Connections, we would like to give something to everyone. We want it to be a work of the readers, so remember to keep an
open mind and jump in with your own submissions to Connections.
Everyone must find their own path and way and make their own decisions in what to believe and it is very important that a variety of
views are considered in this world.
If everyone could all wish to help those less fortunate or wise in life, and To help mentor and support someone that needs what they
have, well, then, it would be a pretty nice world, wouldn’t it?
This is particularly true in the world of blind and visually impaired individuals.
Take some time and help another, today!
What You Can Expect
Each month we will share with you stories, poems, and essays on principles which keep us going and growing as both blind and
visually impaired individuals, but also as able and active individuals.
Send your stories, poems, essays, and lessons about vital principles which you have found to be helpful in your success or failure in
life.
This month’s principle is Brotherly Love
Are you still having problems finding that true peace and happiness we all feel we deserve? Where do you think the problem lies. This
is the key in the principle of Brotherly Love.
We have touched on the first six principles in the past issues and found that we must first of all, have complete honesty in facing our
problems and where to place the blame for them.
Through the rest of the principles, we have found that we must realize that relying only on ourselves does not usually work. We must
have found faith in some other power or person or thing and find the ability to ask for help.
Then we have also learned how to look at our own shortcomings when it comes to finding the blame for most of our problems and also how to pray to have these shortcomings removed.
Brotherly love is the step where we begin to wish to find forgiveness in every part of our life. It is where we have accepted forgiveness and wish to begin to make amends to those we have hurt and ask to be forgiven.
I am still begging for input from you, the readers, to add to what I am presenting.
This month has no winner,
as, again, there were no submissions. I have, therefore, chosen one of my favorite teachers to share with you how to better understand this principle of brotherly love or forgiveness and why we should learn what it is. smile
Thic Nat Hahn is a Buddhist monk who has helped many learn about and achieve enlightenment and peace in their lives.
The following passage is from pages 121 to 124 in his book Peace Is Every Step, which can be found at Audible:
Call Me by My True Names
In Plum Village, where I live in France, we receive many letters from the refugee camps in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines,
hundreds each week. It is very painful to read them, but we have to do it, we have to be in con-tact.
We try our best to help, but the suffering is enormous,
and sometimes we are discouraged. It is said that half the boat people
die in the ocean. Only half arrive at the shores in Southeast Asia, and even then they may not be safe. There are many young girls, boat people, who are
raped by sea pirates. Even though the United Nations and many countries try to help the government of Thailand prevent that kind of piracy, sea pirates
continue to inflict much suffering on the ref- ugees.
One day we received a letter telling us about a young girl on a small boat who was raped by a Thai pirate. She was only twelve, and she jumped into the ocean and drowned herself.
When you first learn of something like that, you get angry at the pirate.
You naturally take the side of the girl. As you look more deeply you will see it differently. If you take the side of the little girl, then it is easy.
You only have to take a gun and shoot the pirate. But we cannot do that. In my meditation I saw that if I had been born in the village of the pirate and
raised in the same conditions as he was, there is a great likelihood that I would be- come a pirate. I saw that many babies are born along the Gulf of
Siam, hundreds every day, and if we educators, social workers, politicians, and others do not do something about the situation, in twenty-five years a
number of them will become sea pirates. That is certain. If you or I were born today in those fishing villages, we may become sea pirates in twenty-five
years.
If you take a gun and shoot the pirate, you shoot all of us, because all of us are to some extent responsible for this state of affairs. After a long meditation, I wrote this poem. In it, there are three people: the twelve-year-old girl, the pirate, and me. Can we look at each other and recognize
ourselves in each other ?
The title of the poem is Please Call Me by My True Names,"
because I have so many names. When I hear one of these names, I have to say, Yes."
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings
still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flowers, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I’ll still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time to eat the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence, feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo
sticks, and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year -old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate, and I am the pirate, my heart
not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands, and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people, dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.”
In beginning to wish to make amends to others, we are learning how to find the love that this pirate does not yet know.
When we look at the wrongs we have done, we often also justify our deeds by possibly blaming another person for hurting us first.
Learning forgiveness can help us to overlook such things and allow us to be the better person by beginning a reconciliation.
It is a very difficult thing to put our pride aside and admit our own wrongs, especially if others wrongs seem worse.
The thing to remember is that there are no degrees of wrong. Wrong is wrong and as always, two of them don’t make a right. Only amending our own wrong will make a right.
The tool which any 12 step program uses to learn this principle is to make a list of any and all people whom we have hurt in our lifetime and become willing to make amends to them, wherever possible.
Remember to always refer to the first principle of honesty and include all wrongs … even those that may seem justified.
It is always wise to consider others views and beliefs and be willing to maybe change some of our own views, if we find others’ views,
at least, possible?
Trusting Yourself
The one thing I know about my source is that I can not possibly really understand it. I simply have to trust in what I have experienced
and in the results it has given me.
For me to honestly know brotherly love was to completely and honestly realize that any wrong I had done must be rectified in order for me to free myself from guilt and let’s say, bad Karma.
Even if I wasn’t always forgiven in a particular situation, at least I had tried to fix it and therefore was absolved.
In making amends, I also, often received an apology for, or at least recognition by the other person about their part in the problem. Not always, as a matter of fact, rarely, but, you would be surprised at how far a little bit of love and humility can go to soften others.
I had to humble myself to understand that I was no better than any other human being on this earth. To understand that I could never understand this without the help of my higher power of the truth to show me where I was erring.
Ten Principles
There are 10 common and basic principles which can be studied one by one and our understanding of them will change as we
progress toward an awakening in our spirit. This most often happens automatically once the principles are rightly understood for what
they are.
The 10 principles which I have learned about and still learn about every day, are as follows:
1 honesty
2 hope
3 faith
4 courage
5 integrity
6 willingness
7 humility
8 brotherly love
9 self discipline
10 perseverance.
These principles may differ slightly from program to program throughout the world, be it a Native American 12-step program,
Christian, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters anonymous, Sex addicts Anonymous, and etc. but basically, if you can find 10 principles that
fit what you need, you will inevitably progress to a higher understanding about your life and find why you might be missing out on the joy
and wonder of the world, blind or sighted.
Please contribute
Please contribute what you can in teaching and helping others with your example.
Instructions are found below to submit your stories about some of these principles in life.
The Rewards
Once these principles are learned and begun to be practiced, daily, the 11th and 12th, those being conscious contact with a higher
power and then love and service, just magically appear. The simple acts of kindness spontaneously start to happen, on both sides of the
card. Suddenly, people reach out with love and acceptance and even if they occasionally, don't, we still find love for those souls who
have not yet begun to find it. Our understanding of others grows and our feelings of continuous hope and love shine forth from our
hearts. Before we know it, we are people whom even ourselves love, unconditionally.
The Eighth Principle
This month I am sharing some of my own insight about the eighth principle of brotherly love with which we can learn a new way to think about who we are and how to better ourselves.
If we understand the principle of honesty and that being 100% honest *all* of the time is essential to our best interest, well, we must admit that showing brotherly love is easy.
Just like humility was, to show brotherly love is a choice to make.
It's a simple choice you get to make whether to hold on to your own pride and ego, or to let it go and learn how to ask for forgiveness.
How willing are you to do whatever it takes to achieve what you want?
Everyone has there own path, remember…
If we become inspired by a higher purpose, it becomes so much easier.
A simple choice.
Surrender and give it a try.
Surrendering takes brotherly love.
Tune in next month for some insightful ways to learn how to find better self discipline.
Insight On Perception
If we went by what our eyes could see Well, often the truth would be eluding us.
For those without eyes, it's how you perceive things ...
“. We can learn how we are blinded by deceptions of our mind.
The following was written by Bill Urell.
"The principles of the
12 steps
can be very difficult or very simple to understand. This is an effort to simplify the meaning of the principles of the 12 steps for those who
may be having
difficulty. These are the principles that are incorporated into our daily lives as 'we walk the walk'. Employing each of these behaviors will
help to rebuild
a life of increased self esteem and self confidence. So, in my never ending quest to keep it simple, here are the action principles behind
steps toward {spiritual awakening}...
Please be aware, that as mentioned, the principles vary among different 12 step programs and here we find a difference in where the 8th principle is listed as discipline and principle 9 is forgiveness.
The key is that the two principles work together and steps 8 and 9 are worked together to achieve both forgiveness and self discipline.
8. Discipline and Action - We are continuing to remove the barriers that can block forward sober growth. We are getting ready to sweep our side of the street
clean. Make a list of all those people we have harmed both through actions and not being present to live up to obligations.
More about the rest of the principles can be found at The
Principles Behind The 12 Steps Of Addiction Recovery
The principle of Brotherly Love pertains to our willingness to love and ask forgiveness.
The misconception about this is that because you have willingness to notice your own past wrongdoings, does not mean it is easy to amend them.
Asking forgiveness, even when we may also want to be asked for forgiveness in a particular situation will inevitably bring a feeling of relief and of love even if we do not receive our desired result.
Just try it. Pick someone from your list and make a phone call, today. You may be surprised at how you will feel when you are done.
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From Meagan
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I wish you all God's blessings for your lives and best of times in 2008 and beyond.
Sincerely,
Meagan Green
Founder of Connections For the Blind
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Brotherly Love Quotes
Please visit www.farid-hajji.net/quotes Where we found these forgiveness quotes:
I would build a bridge a hundred meters long,
To see the other side of what I did wrong,
Well you say you don't hate me, but I guess that I'm scared,
That with a river between us, you'll no longer care.
--Marc Gunn,
The Bridge.
Were it illegal to say
"I'm sorry, please forgive me,
Gladly an outlaw I would be,
To apologize anyway.
--FH,
Cordula's Web.
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes,
We learn on error's troubled route
The truths we could not prize without
The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Mistakes.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten .
-- Buddha.
Let the punishment match the offense.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero.
With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see
your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.
-- Lewis B. Smedes.
Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves.
-- Unknown.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
--C. S. Lewis.
Don't regret what you said, regret what you didn't say when you had the chance.
-- Unknown.
Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down.
-- Unknown.
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
-- Nathaniel Branden.
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
-- Thomas Merton.
I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.
-- Unknown.
The sin was mine; I did not understand.
So now is music prisoned in her cave,
Save where some ebbing desultory wave
Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
--Oscar Wilde,
The New Remorse.
Good people are always so sure they're right...
-- Barbara Graham's Last Words, executed at San Quentin, 1955.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
-- George Soros.
You can't do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.
-- Angolan Proverb.
You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find -- you're never sorry you were kind.
-- Herbert Prochnow.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
-- Lewis B. Smedes.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
-- Charles Williams.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
-- Elbert Hubbard.
(Blessed are the ones who know how to do it! -- FH.)
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp.
In your association with others, put yourself in their place. Enter into their feelings, their difficulties, their disappointments, their joys and theirsorrows. Identify yourself with them, and then do to them as, were you to exchange places with them, you would wish them to deal with you.
-- Unknown.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-- Kimberly Johnson.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-- Voltaire.
To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.
-- Unknown.
The best of battles are won on our knees...
-- Unknown.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein.
Editor's Update
Dear Readers,
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Please forward this to all of your friends and colleagues.
Thanks to you, the advertisers and readers, Connections is expecting a full recovery of names and many more. We are bringing the
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Sincerely,
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Experience Personal Growth
One of our goals is to take each of you who are willing and ready to grab a hold of a dream and help you to run with it.
OK, so you may be blind, but who cares. Find what it is that makes you passionate and live it.
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Enter Our Contest
Each month, here at Connections, we will be holding a contest where you can submit a story relating to that month's topic.
The winner will receive a gift certificate to your favorite online stores or your favorite restaurants.
This month has no winner, as there were no submissions.
Brotherly Love is a tough one, but remember, you could be the only submission and how easy it would be to win the next one! *smile*
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January's Topic: Principle of Self Discipline
Next month’s issue will deal with the principle of brotherly love
Submit your best ideas in a story or poem about self discipline, what it means to you, or how you have been better able to practice it.
We will choose the best submission and the winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to the on line shop of their choice.
The prize amount has been raised for December due to the overwhelming lack of response from you, the readers.
Please send your submissions to submissions@everythingblind.com to help others in their journey
Meeting Goals
Most days I wake up feeling graciously bountiful and then I keep picturing where I'm to be in the whole vision of my life, and the next
thing falls into place. Right in my lap.
When I lose sight of what I must do to keep those things, they begin to slip away.
It has been a very powerful and extremely wonderful experience, thus far.
Make up your mind how much of your sorrow and worry and bad luck is of your own choice.
How willing are you to do anything it takes to achieve your goals and dreams? Then decide what you can do to make it happen by
changing what you have been doing that doesn't work.
If you need help, find it. It's all around. just look at the truth.
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Not A Joke!! If you dislike attorneys You will love some of them for these tips.
Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday.
Maybe we should all take some of his advice! A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company.
1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put
Photo ID REQUIRED.
2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card
accounts, DO NOT put
the complete account number on the "For" line. Instead, just put the last four numbers.
The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won't have access to it.
3. Put your work phone number on your checks instead of your home phone.
If you have a P O Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a P O Box, use your work address. Never have your social security number printed on your checks.
(DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have It printed, anyone can get it.
4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine.
Do both sides
of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel.
Keep the photocopies in a
safe place. I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or abroad.
We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed using your name, address, SSN, credit, etc. Unfortunately I (the author of this piece who happens
to be an attorney) have firsthand knowledge, because my wallet was stolen last month and within a week the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell
phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving
record information online, and more.
But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:
5. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards
immediately. But the key
is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call.
Keep those where you can find them.
6. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit
cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).
But here's what is perhaps most important of all: (I never even thought to do this.)
7. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately
to place a
fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud line number.
I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name.
The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.
By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done.
There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knewanything about before placing the alert.
Since then, no additional
damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.
8. Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet, if it has been stolen:
1.) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
3.) Trans Union : 1-800-680 7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271
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Like descriptive videos, but, don’t know a quick and easy way to get them?
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Blind or Visually Impaired? - How You Can Learn to Play Chess!!!
"The Gymnastics of the Brain"or "The Martial Arts of the Mind"
feel the "Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat" or just have fun.
a great hobby, wonderful recreation, playing Blind or sighted people alike.
A great way to meet others, take this games of Kings to whatever level you like!!!
please visit the Web site of the United States Braille Chess Association
A group of Blind or Visually Impaired Chess enthusiasts who enjoy playing Tournaments or just Friendly Games with those of their own
strength and knowledge of this wonderful sport!
the U.S. Braille Chess Association has a listserv. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail message to: usbcachess-subscribe@topica.com
To join, or for more information, contact:
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
adicey@bellsouth.net
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Computers
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Web Site:
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Portal Tutoring offers . . Individualized tutoring in using adaptive computers, braille and specialized equipment for the blind and visually impaired, as well as pamphlets, books and audio classes on these same subjects.
In addition, we now offer a program designed to teach basic writing skills for all students from age ten on up.
Consult our web site or contact Portal Tutoring directly to receive a product list or to discuss your training needs.
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Visual Innovations and Solutions
Do you have a Brailler collecting dust on a closet shelve?
Do you have a Braille & Speak or type & speak in the desk drawer because you have upgraded?
Are you upgrading your Computers?
Have you thought what to do with the computers, other technology, and adaptive devices that you no longer use?
Visual Innovations and Solutions has the answer for you.
By donating your old computers, technology, and adaptive devices you will be opening the window of opportunity to many through out
the country.
Please contact me if you have any computers, technology, or adaptive devices at:
Visual Innovations
875 Derbyshire Road #72AA
Daytona Beach, FL 32117
Phone: 386-898-2954
visualinn@yahoo.com
Check out our Web-site: http://visualinnovations.org to
find out how you can help.
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