Rumi

If I should die

I bid you carry me

To where my love might lie

There let me be.

And if she could give

My cold lips just one kiss,

Believe me, I would live

Again by this.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

Awake while Asleep

The brain remains active at all times

• The Bhagavad - Gita:

                                 "That which is the night

                                  for all beings,

                                  for the mystic

                                  is the time of waking;

                                  when other beings are waking,

                                  then is it night for the sage who seeth."

• The Prophet Muhammad: (PBUH)
  

                                  "Sleepeth my body,but sleepeth not my soul within me."

Rumi

Death is our wedding  with eternity

What is the secret?

God is One.

                                          Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Paper - Alternate Fibers

Tree-free paper is available made from a variety of substances, including flax and linen, tobacco leaf, agricultural stalks and straws, bamboo, coffee-bean residue, esparto grass, seaweed, bagasse (leftover sugarcane stalks), old money, old clothing and ground junk-mail. These fibers also can be combined with paper made from wood pulp and recycled even further. Currently, the chief tree-free papers include:

Kenaf: A relative of hibiscus and cotton, kenaf is an annual plant that produces more than twice the amount of fiber per acre as a pine forest. It requires few pesticides and herbicides and is naturally whiter than wood pulp--requiring, therefore, less bleaching.

Cotton: Sources are rags, old clothes and blue jeans, and waste cotton from cotton mills. Fortunately, most paper efficiently uses industrial by-products and post-consumer waste that would otherwise be garbage. At least one company, Green Fields, makes organic cotton paper products.

Hemp: Hemp produces excellent fibers for paper--at least twice as much fiber as pine. It requires few chemicals to grow and, like kenaf, is naturally lighter in color than wood pulp.

Recycled Paper - Look out for

Look for the following labels on recycled paper:

% Post-Consumer Waste (PCW): This phrase defines what percentage of a paper is derived from consumer-generated paper that has been recycled from the solid waste stream. This is the most efficient reuse of paper, and as a rule of thumb consumers should seek out the maximum percentage of post-consumer content, as opposed to "pre-consumer" paper, which involves mill wastes and scraps.

% Recycled: This term indicates that a paper contains the specified percentage of all recycled material, including along both pre- and post-consumer content.