As We Go Dark.....

Please enjoy these compilation of thoughts as we gear up for March throughout our properties and as we hope all enjoy live Feed of SkyNews & Al Jazeera along with our Daily Updates produced for us by Paper_li in our Twitter Channel:

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Expect to have hope rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again.
                                                                                     - Sarah Ban Breathnach

If I could tell the world just one thing

it would be we're all okay,

and not to worry cause worry is wasteful

and useless in times like these.

I won't be made useless.

I won't be idle with despair,

I will gather myself around my faith.

Light does the darkness most fear.

- Jewel

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is in giving that we receive.

- St. Francis of Assisi

Life is an exciting business,

and most exciting when it is lived for others.

- Helen Keller

Kindness is better than piety.

- Yiddish Proverb

Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): On #Iran

Iran has been in the news and our team has been working on a project to release as the protests persist and as the Iranian Year comes to an end.    This is as another tragedy hit Iran as a Plane with 60 Passengers and Crew crashed over the weekend.    

Our team decided to look back on the Revolution and the aftermath with a very thoughtful and touching documentary featuring the Empresa Farah--who has lived in Exile in France since the advent of the Revolution:

Notations On Our World (Special Friday Edition): A Yearn for Peace & Harmony

As the wars rage on in our World, our team took comfort as we yearn for a World without war and suffering especially as we were witness to the tragedy in Syria and Yemen yet again this week:

 It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace,
calling for justice beyond anger,
mercy beyond justice,
forgiveness beyond mercy,
love beyond forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi 

Notations On Our World (Special Weekly Edition): #SaveGhouta

In line with our Mission at the Daily Outsider to help transform the Conversation about our World and to raise the plight of the ordinary faces who are suffering, we join the call by the UN to stop the bombing in Ghouta as we are proud and privileged to present some of the clips of the suffering by the Ordinary Faces of Ghouta:

Notations From the Grid (W-End Edition): Thoughts For the Week-End

If you get to the point where someone is telling you
that you are not great or not good enough,
just follow your heart
and don't let anybody crush your dream.
- Patti LaBelle

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Notations On Our World (Weekly Edition): Reflections Upon Immigration

Here are some Thoughts From the Grid on Immigration as the debate ensues here in the United States: 

Immigrants are good for America. They are why we're great. They are why we're us. The Trump admin's desire to cut *legal* immigration will make us poorer, weaker, less innovative, and ultimately, less American. https://t.co/0a5NwIFaaK

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) January 30, 2018

Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): The NDTV Dialogues With @ShashiTharoor (Updated)

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Please enjoy this as, in our view, Shashi Tharoor, reflects upon Faith, Politics & Our World (Updated with the full transcript) as we also wanted to share this from #Davos2018:

Listen to Cate Blanchett’s Powerful Refugee Story

The actress recently told the heart-wrenching story of a refugee she met in Jordan, adding, “These are not terrorists. These are innocent people.”

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