how to stay focused

I’ve recently read an interview with Christian Bale in the GQ Magazine (don’t ask me why) and one thing that I found mostly interesting was his finding about hunger. Apparently, he had to lose a lot of weight for the shooting of “The Machinist” and that’s why he stopped eating. And after a while he realized how his brain was focused and suddenly clear.
Sounds nice, no? I think I’ll try it. It’s now the period of exams, the best time to try out such a thing.

what’s wrong with the weather?

I wonder these past days where the summer temperatures that we had last week have gone so fast? And why do I have to wear my jacket again? I guess it’s because the exam time begins and we should all study – an activity, which is difficult to do on a sunny afternoon.
Well, I’d better get to studying then.

what happened to barabora?

Nothing, really. I just found myself so busy that I forgot totally about my blog.
What have I been doing? School work, mostly. And that’s what I’m doing also today!
So not much fun for me there!
I’ll be back, hopefully, quite soon to update the info, the Baha’i stuff etc.
Just please don’t forget: I’m still here!

studying vs. sleeping

To have 4 exams in a row can be very stressful, it’s is however also a dilemma between studying and sleeping. I wonder what’s the best strategy? Better sleep first and then study? But what happens when you have trouble getting up?
Well well, you see, it’s very complicated. And internet makes it even worse. All these interesting things that you can find there! And of course, the most interesting is that when you have to study, you keep looking up things that you would never think of. Or how about doing a season’s cleaning? When you have to study, it’s always the best time.
People in let’s say the 19th century had it much easier as much as the internet temptation concerns. But still, where would I find the loads of information I also need to studying besides from books?

new cool sites added to the “Baha’i resources” section

Very interesting and useful sites that can help you get new information about the Faith, the events in the Baha’i world and find some interesting videos, audios and presentations that you can show your friends:

Baha’i Explorer and Bahaikipedia.

Have fun using them!

today is the Chinese New year’s eve!

Happy new year to China!

I memorize

As I wrote in the post before, I found this cool thing called “iMemorize”, which is an online tool for memorizing quotes from the Baha’i Writings. Since I wanted to recommend this site to others, I also wanted to try it out myself. So I went there and in about one minute learned by heart one quotation that I already knew before but that I forgot. It was really a lot of fun and the good thing about it is that you can add your own quotations! Here’s the link for iMemorize once more.

And here’s the quotation that I learned:

“The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct.”

(Baha’u'llah, cited in the Advent of Divine Justice, p. 24-25)

new links added

I added some cool links on my side bar today.

In the cathegory Baha’i resources you can find some interesting sites with loads of useful information in them – amongst others the Majnun Baha’i search engine or the very good iMemorize site, where you can learn quotations by heart through 3 sorts of funny games.

You can also find some tips for good, mostly Baha’i inspired music, under the title “Music”.

Under the cathegory “Baha’i related websites”, you can find some sites that I find interesting and inspiring.

And finally, the blogroll stay mostly the same, some new sites were added.

Enjoy!

P.S. Any other tips for cool links? Please feel free to use the “comments” space.

delegate election / 19 day feast

It was a wonderful day yesterday. At first, I went to a great “Soul food and brunch” devotional at my friend’s Nora Tönnis place. We were about 12 people there, I guess a few of them were not Baha’is and we shared some beautiful prayers, texts and songs. Then, in the evening, I went to the 19 day feast at the viennese Baha’i house. The feast was preceded by an election of 9 delegates for the national convention that will take place in April. We got lists with names of people eligible and I saw there were 215 people on the list! But only about 50 in the room. Finally, the amount of people that actually voted was 68. What can be done that this number is bigger next year?

ocean

I’m still amazed by the potential of the Baha’i research library Ocean. Anytime I was looking for some inspirational texts on a certain topic, Ocean never let me down. It’s is also, in my opinion, a very good tool for teaching the Faith to members of other religions.

This is what I found there today:

O Most Mighty Ocean! Sprinkle upon the nations
that with which Thou hast been charged by Him Who
is the Sovereign of Eternity, and adorn the temples of
all the dwellers of the earth with the vesture of His laws
through which all hearts will rejoice and all eyes be
brightened.

(Baha’u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 54)

You can find Ocean on the following website:

http://www.bahai-education.org/ocean/