Leon the tourguide

Leon the tourguide
Leon the Tour Guide

Monday, August 19, 2013

My favorite quotes

Amazing things
Peruvian Central Railway
1895
The Peruvian Central Railway is an engineering marvel. It originates in Callao then climbs more than 13,000 feet to cross the continental divide. It is generally considered the highest railway in the world. The railroad features 66 tunnels and 59 bridges, and must zigzag across valleys to minimize the steepness of its climb. There is an onboard doctor who administers oxygen to passengers who get altitude sickness.
Did you know?
Atlanta airport is the bussiest in the world (2003) 76 086 792 passengers.Peru's zigzagging train is the highest in the world. (See details)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Wordwas God.  "HE" WAS in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it!" 

Children

Muhammad Ali believed in his success, even predicting the exact round, andthen lived into it, so powerfully that his opponents did as well. Parents who trust and believe in their children teach those children to believe in themselves. Likewise, someone who assumes being a victim will generate a perpetual series of occasions for suffering. David Krueger Executive Strategist/Professional Coachhttp://www.executivestrategist.biz/
Human Behaviour
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is; treat a man as he can , and should be, and he will become as he can and should be. Goethe
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900
" Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth,but what is good for necessary edification that it may impart to the hearers" Ephesians 4:29
Humility
2Chr 34:37, 1Ki 21:29, 2Sam 16:4, Micah 6:8, Zeph 2:3, Prov 15:33, 18:12, 22:4,
 Jesus, the Temple and Jewish Law
Luke 16:16"The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is strongly urged to enter it.
John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Mat 26:28For this is My blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins
Luke 1:77to give His people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
Acts 13:38Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you,
Mat 26:28 For this is My blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the worldMat 12:6But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here! 7If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice , you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
John 2:19 Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days." 20Therefore the Jews said, "This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?" 21But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body. 22So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.
Movie quotes.
You're not the man I knew ten years ago. It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. Author: Raiders of the Lost Ark
You want answers? I want the truth!You can't handle the truth!Author: A Few Good Men
 Olive Oil

Exodus 30 שמות
24     And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive a hin;
25      And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound according to the art of the apothecary; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
26      And you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting with it, and the ark of the Testimony,
27      And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 
24      וקדה חמש מאות בשקל הקדש ושמן זית הין
25      ועשית אתו שמן משחת-קדש רקח מרקחת מעשה רקח שמן משחת-קדש יהיה
26      ומשחת בו את-אהל מועד ואת ארון העדת
27      ואת-השלחן ואת-כל-כליו ואת-המנרה ואת-כליה ואת מזבח הקטרת 
 Jeremiah 11 ירמיהו
16      The Lord called your name, A green olive tree, fair, full of beautiful fruit; with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken..
16      זית רענן יפה פרי-תאר קרא יהוה שמך לקול המולה גדלה הצית אש עליה ורעו דליותיו
 
Exodus 25 שמות
6        שמן למאר בשמים לשמן המשחה ולקטרת הסמים
6        Oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
 Quotes from the Republic of Plato

“You cannot persuade people who will not listen”.

Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 1:16               In my heart I said, Behold, I became a great man and acquired more wisdom than all those who have been before me in Jerusalem; and my heart has seen much of wisdom and knowledge. 18              7              And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;כי ברב חכמה רב-כעס ויוסיף דעת יוסיף מכאוב
2:12        And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can a successor to the king do over that which has already been done.
9:16        And said I, Wisdom is better than might; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Deuteronomy 34:9          And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the people of Israel listened to him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.
IKings 5:9             And God gave Solomon wisdom and much understanding, and greatness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.
IKings 5:26           And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and the two made a covenant together.
Solomon's request:

II Cron 1:10         Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
The words of the queen of Sheba.
I Kings 10:7          But I did not believe the words, until I came, and my eyes saw it; and, behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard.

Friday, August 2, 2013

'Forgive your worst enemy, it will heal your soul and liberate you.'


'Forgive your worst enemy, it will heal your soul and liberate you.'

Eva Moses Kor. Holocaust survivor.

by Leon

Jerusalem Mon 30th May 2005

The sufferer and his persecutor.
Who will forgive the person who has caused you suffering? He was cruel. He was evil.
He made you suffer so much that your world remained dark and dreary for the rest of your life.
Who can forgive the person who made you suffer?
The problem with suffering is the feeling that you want to revenge your suffering.
You want the person who made you suffer to suffer too.
Your heart is full of hate for the person who made you suffer.
The feeling of vengance and hate dominate the life of the sufferer for long after the suffering has stopped.

All pleasure in the world is concentrated on vengeance and hate and that's no pleasure.

Eva Moses Kor.
One of the women who suffered at the hands of Dr. Mengele in the Auschwitz concentration camp forgave Dr. Mengele the suffering he caused her. Her name is one to be remembered.
It is Eva Moses Kor.
In an articel in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper, in Israel, on Friday 28th May, Ronen Bergman wrote about how she had forgiven Mengele.
"I forgive Dr. Mengele and all the other doctors, that carried out shocking experiments on my twin sister, Miriam, and I. I forgive them for killing my parents, that they robbed me of the rest of my family, that they took my childhood from me, that they turned my life into hell, that they created for me nightmares that followed me every night in the last 60 years.
In my name, and only in my name I forgive them for all thses terrible things."
Dr. Joseph Mengele
Mengele was known as Dr. Death. He was obsessed with performing experiments on identical twins.
He obtains the subjects for his experiments from the line of Jews at the entrance to the gas chamber.
He chose hundreds of twins only a few survived. The story began to be told only 40 years after,
because the trauma of these people was so great they couldn't even speak about it.
"I feel that all my life is an echo of what they did to me in Auschwitz. An echo against which I struggled all my life untill I succeeded in bringing myself to the situation of forgiveness and only then I began to live."
In 1993, in a radio broadcast in Berlin she met Dr. Monash, one of the doctors who worked with Mengele. She asked him if he knew about the gas chambers. He answered "This is the nightmare that I live with to this day." He signe the death cerificates after everyone had died. At Eva's request Dr. Monash signed a declaration which was read at Auschwitz on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, that he had seen the gas chambers and the people being lead into them. Eva read her declaration of forgiveness.
"I was no longer a prisoner of my tragic past, at long last I was free. So I say to everyone 'forgive your worst enemy, it will heal your soul and liberate you.'
"The way I see things most of the governments and world leaders carry a heavy burden in the effort to achieve peace. In my opinion they have failed badly because they didn't promote the subject. They didn't encourage the survivors of tragedies like the holocaust, and didn't help them to forgive their enemies so that they could heal themselves.
Most of the governments and world leaders promote only one thing and support only that - justice. In that way they are committing the survivors to eternal suffering. How many holocaust survivors have been bealed by trials and pursuits of war criminals. Revenge is good for lawyers. It is good for Holywood movies. For us, the survivors, it doesn't help at all."
"To forgive doesn't mean to forget." "I see a world in which leaders will do something to promote a law of forgiveness...."