This is just a short video (by Susan Nel) of how a newborn baby Elephant needs her Mom’s guidance in the African bush. One can clearly see how the Elephant cow breaks of branches for the calf and stop her with her leg to continue that route. The calf understands this and follows her mom on the easy alternative route up the embankment. The ‘sister’ Elephant also tried to help. Video taken at Kambaku Game Lodge in the Timbavati Game Reserve which forms part of the Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa.

In video owner Susan Nel’s own words – “Newborn elephant which still has the umbilical cord attached, tries to climb up an embankment. Even with Moms help it proves to be just a little too high for its wobbly legs to manage. Another plan has to be made.”

This is just a short video (by Susan Nel) of how a newborn baby Elephant needs her Mom's guidance in the African bush. One can clearly see how the Elephant cow breaks of branches for the calf and stop her with her leg to continue that route. The calf understands this and follows her mom on the easy alternative route up the embankment. The 'sister' Elephant also tried to help. Video taken at Kambaku Game Lodge in the Timbavati Game Reserve which forms part of the Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa.

In video owner Susan Nel's own words – "Newborn elephant which still has the umbilical cord attached, tries to climb up an embankment. Even with Moms help it proves to be just a little too high for its wobbly legs to manage. Another plan has to be made."

http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/09/baby-elephant-needs-moms-help.html

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Let your love flow outward
through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.

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Source: Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.
We think that hating is a weapon that attacks
the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade.
And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

― Mitch Albom

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally
forward in whatever way they like. ~Lao Tzu

Ralphee the kitten and Max the cattle dog
are an odd couple who seem besotted
with each other's company after
they were introduced following Ralphee's
rescue from a barn at a horse stable.

http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/09/dog-befriends-disabled-kitten.html

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It is through the experiences of loving, receiving love, and suffering through love that we are transformed into more refined and empathic individuals. With every experience of loving deeply and even through losing love, we become more fully ourselves and capable of great change and inner growth.

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." ~Anaïs Nin

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http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/09/it-is-through-experiences-of-loving.html

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Holding anger is a poison.
It eats you from inside.
We think that hating is a weapon
that attacks the person who harmed us.
But hatred is a curved blade.
And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

~Mitch Albom

http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-we-do-to-ourselves.html

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Life is a series of natural
and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them; that only
creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward
in whatever way they like.

~Lao Tzu

http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/09/dont-resist-them.html

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Our time in our mothers’ wombs was a wonderful time. We did not have to worry about food or drink. We were protected from heat and cold. We didn’t have to do homework or housework. Protected in our mothers’ wombs, we felt quite safe. We didn’t have to worry about anything at all. No worry is wonderful. I believe many of us still remember that time spent in our mothers’ wombs. Many people have the impression that they were once in a safe and wonderful paradise and now they have lost that paradise. We think somewhere out there is a beautiful place without worry or fear, and we long to get back there. Paradise was inside of our mothers. ~Thich Nhat Hanh