A fundamental principle of the Bahá’í Faith is the harmony of religion and science. Bahá’í scripture asserts that true science and true religion can never be in conflict. `Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the religion, stated that religion without science leads to superstition and that science without religion leads to materialism. He also admonished that true religion must conform to the conclusions of science.
True freedom:
No master above,
No slave below.
Micheal Tsarion (via moreofamore)
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The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to dis-identify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.
Eckhart Tolle (via elige)
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MJ was in the favelas gettin busy.
Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.
Eckhart Tolle (via starsrising)
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Orion’s Belt or The Belt of Orion
is an asterism in the constellation Orion. It consists of the three bright stars: Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.
Looking for Orion’s Belt in the night sky is the easiest way to locate the constellation Orion in the sky.
Alnitak is approximately 736 light years away from Earth and, taking into consideration ultraviolet radiation, which the human eye cannot see, Alnitak is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun.
Alnilam is approximately 1340 light years away from earth and shines with magnitude 1.70. Considering ultraviolet light Alnilam is 375,000 times more luminous than the Sun.
Mintaka is 915 light years away and shines with magnitude 2.21. Mintaka is 90,000 times more luminous than the Sun. Mintaka is a double star. Both stars orbit around each other every 5.73 days.
The same three stars are known in Spain and Brazil as “The Three Marys”. They also mark the northern night sky when the sun is at its lowest point, and were a clear marker for ancient timekeeping. In the Philippines and Puerto Rico they are called the Three Kings. The stars start appearing around the holiday of Epiphany, when the Biblical Magi visited the baby Jesus, which falls on January 6.
Richard Hinckley Allen lists many folk names for the Belt of Orion. The English ones include: Jacob’s Rod or Staff; Peter’s Staff; the Golden Yard-arm; the L, or Ell; the Ell and Yard; the Yard-stick, and the Yard-wand; the Ellwand; Our Lady’s Wand; the Magi; the Three Kings; the Three Marys; or simply the Three Stars.
If you shoot a line through the Belt upward you’ll run into the pinkish Aldebaran, the “alpha” or brightest star in Taurus the Bull. Shoot a line in the opposite direction and you’ll see Sirius, the alpha star in Canis Major the Greater Dog. Perpendicular to the Belt are Orion’s two brightest stars: Betelgeuse and Rigel.
