old3bob

? no sour or dour in that mosaic, looks more like sympathy and concern to me.

debateable.... What realized being can radiate great compassion and or love with a sour/dour look on their face?

“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today." Bible quote then again in a different context: "The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Seventh Generation Principle dictates that decisions made today should ensure a sustainable world for descendants seven generations in the future. It is often quoted as:In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations" thus not worry per-se but taking care for more than just today.

ok, but we can see happiness/smiles in great many other realized Beings both in person and in recent history, also in different time periods and places...(thus in various forms of artwork going back thousands of years besides in photos)

Although the historic Buddha is commonly depicted as having a subtle happiness/smile...

oops, no time to worry now (or panic) for there is only time to try and survive....

same questions repeat again and again...

could you spell that out some more Keith? I'd say most humans worry to various degrees about various things, while an eternal, un-changing absolute has no worries as we often do...

Don't worry be happy? (common in Hollywood movies and in the Absolute)

that last post speaks of a major sticking point for unique and particular beings that would like to stay that way eternally...thus not merge back into the ocean of Supreme Being.

Speaking of going around and around in circles, wolves will do that in their enclosures if it designed with a long enough trotting path for them. Btw. it is somewhat surprising how tall, lean and lanky wolves can be !

Tigers in certain zoo cages know how to have some fun, for instance if you get too close to the outside of their cage to admire them they will suddenly spray you while looking over their shoulder at you with a seemingly a big grin their face ! (Hoogle zoo, SLC Utah) Btw, I'd say that many tigers would end up being slaughtered and go extinct if some were not protected and well cared for in certain zoos that provide that. Ideally they would live wild but wild places/habitat for them to do so are and have been rapidly declining.

umm...there are many schools in Hinduism and they often contradict or disagree with each other on key or major points but going by Hinduism's general teaching they are supposed to respect one another. The "eternal" or "immortal" sayings or definitions about "soul" come up constantly in doctrine, yet there is the question of how did unique souls come to be? One could ask that if souls are also emanations from Supreme Being then how could they remain as unique and eternal existences that survive beyond the very long cosmic cycles? If one accepts that all emanations (and returns) take place in grand cosmic cycles, that have a beginning, middle and end, and which then repeat endlessly as cycles or lifetimes of Lord Brahma the creator along with the other aspects of Supreme Being, namely Lords Vishnu and Shiva, then souls can only be eternal or immortal in a manner of speaking or in comparison to short human lifetimes or very long lifetimes as soul-bodies. So if one follows that import then souls also return to the "ocean" of Supreme Being, thus comes the day when they are no longer unique or particular souls, not unlike how surface waves finally merge back into the ocean.

Btw, some men are not just strange but very stupid to think such a thing. ...so we now have grizzlies in the mix. If one is ever in the town of West Yellowstone, Wyoming they have a grizzly bear enclosure where one can see the bears up closer than as normally viewable in many zoos. The massive and incredible build of muscles in their shoulders and front legs is hard to believe until you see it ! Me and and an old buddy got charged by a brown colored bear in a brushy wilderness area near a creek many years ago. It was scary as hell but he broke off his charge, I guess we were lucky since apparently he was not very hungry that morning but could have had us for a snack. Understandably We didn't hang around to verify if it was a grizz or big black bear in the brown or as also called the cinnamon variation. There is a saying that your hiking buddy in bear country should be a slower runner than you, that way you might have a chance to survive per the regretful sacrifice of your buddy. Btw. running form a bear is supposedly the last thing you want to do (easier said than done) since they would then see you as prey and can easily outrun a human!

there was a time that such a thought might have crossed my mind when 4-5 ferociously crazily yapping Pekingese dogs tried to get at me through a screen door with their owner standing right there...