What is your Passion

What drives you?

What keeps you going?

Are you always searching?

Seeking clarity!

In this life there are so many questions,

But rarely enough answers,

I was lost and without direction, and just going through the motions,

 of living as best I could.

It wasn’t until 1983 that I started to find some answers.

At last, I realised I was on a path,

 where answers to my questions were being answered

I had found my direction, my driver, and now have clarity in my day-to-day doings

It encompasses the oneness of humanity,

Meaning it does not matter what country or continent that we come from,

Gender has no bearing on differences as all are equal.

The elimination of prejudice of every kind, can enable humanity to be united.

Recognising the harmony of science and religion,

and that there is a common foundation to all religions.

Religion should cause love, affection, and joy.

That all can independently investigate truth for themselves,

in whatever means at their disposal.

For mankind to be able to communicate with all others,

It would necessitate that there be a universal auxiliary language,

All these principles integrated with justice and equality.

You may think these are all very high minded ideals, and cannot be achieved.

Is it not said that all things at first could not be achieved, until it was.

This may just be another one of those,

We need to give it a go.

When done with positive thought and drive so much more can be done.

Think how it was, the last time you did something, when driven to complete.

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

30 April 2024

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I was sitting by the window this autumn day and gazing outside I was able to capture a moment and appreciate it to its depths of colour, sound and hue.

My view 

As I sit by this window and look outside 

To explain to you the reader of what I see

I would need to write of it till nightfall 

And still the picture would not be complete 

I could just take a snapshot and paste it right here

But the snap shot only captures so much

You can’t hear all the different sounds 

The different bird calls

The traffic near and distant 

The richness of colour and sound 

Of leaf shape and texture 

The different hues of red and green in the foliage. 

The colour of the sky from light blue near to the horizon 

The clouds of ever varying colour and shape 

From the brilliant white to the dark 

Those with a flat underside and fluffy on top. 

And then others streaking high stretching out 

And all the while on the window the loan fly keeps on walking around 

Looking for a way in. 

The shadows are getting longer

And the colours are changing 

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

30 March 2023

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I was thinking this day about my parents who have both passed over as have my wife’s parents. 

I heard the sad news that a friend had just lost her parent.

I thought that this time in our life needs special note. As I thought of it I wrote my thoughts down. 

Passing 

When friends pass over

It reminds me that my time will also come 

I remember my frailty 

I think of their accomplishments 

And I don’t know half of them.

I think of the sons and daughters 

I think of acquaintances and friends 

Their close family, their careers 

And all those whose life has been touched.

I look outside and see the trees 

The birds, the flowers 

The distant hills and plains 

And think all this was here before 

and is still here now.

Life goes on for each of us 

We will all have our moments 

Our achievements, highs and lows 

I sometimes think I could have done it better.

And when it is my time 

I hope to step through that threshold into, that next level 

For I hope, all that I have learned 

Will assist me to be ready for the things to come. 

I wish I could have said farewell to each and everyone 

But the nature of this transition 

Is that I can’t 

But know this, that you were all loved

And I welcome that, when we meet again, hereafter. 

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio 

25 April 2024

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I was reminiscing of earlier days in my childhood and the visions that came to me at that moment.

Rain

I grew up in a rural area 

The house we lived in had an iron roof 

There was no insulation so the heat of the North Queensland sun penetrated to the rooms below 

So in those summer days and nights there was little reprieve 

The occasional breeze are very welcome on these hot days 

When the clouds roll in over the house one can hear the snaps of the iron roof as it shrinks 

While below we seek out the smallest of reprieve 

A light breeze flows and dies away

Then late in the afternoon 

The heavy clouds roll in

First there are a few drops

And then all of a sudden as if a fire hose is turned on

The rain comes down as if in buckets full

Teaming down for thirty minutes or more

We run around outside in the garden enjoying the cool change 

The temperature has shifted and is now much more pleasant 

For me, rain on an iron roof bring back memories 

Memories of those days on the farm

The refreshing sound of rain on an iron roof

Followed by a pleasant cool change

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

2 April 2024

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I wrote this at a time when I was thinking about shapes as one does from time to time and the progression through dimensions.

And during my musings this list piece came to mind.

From simple to complex 

Squares, triangles and circles 

Shapes are a curious thing 

Two dimensional shapes 

We all know of these. 

Then there are three dimensional shapes

Like cubes spheres and pyramids 

We know these a little less. 

Progressing still further

When movement is brought into this image

Let’s say it rotates on its axis 

We can then appreciate it with more understanding 

But when we add a fourth dimension 

The understanding needs to move up a rung

We ask, what would that look like?

How can I explain this?

For instance if this fourth dimension was time

Our mind is challenged and we find it difficult to understand 

We may grasp the meaning 

But we can not integrate this to satisfactory explain it. 

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

30 March 2024

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I had just woken after this inspiration.

Where had it come from?

What association did I have before this?

What brought this on?

All I can say was that it was clear. As if I was standing there and experiencing it in person.

The Court Case

I found myself seated among some 150 others.

Many wearing a dark blue blazer with an emblem over their breast pocket.

I quickly worked out this was the school colors.

I was wearing a long-sleeved pullover in a grey-green shade,

Just by this alone I was feeling out of place.

We were all sitting there with today’s paper.

The person at the front of the room was a woman,

Standing tall, looks like she could be in her sixties, wearing a monochromatic outfit,

She quickly brought the room to order, and all was still.

She posed a situation and then asked a question,

The papers were being looked at to search out an adequate answer,

After an answer was given, another question was asked.

The room was quiet.

Then a person to my left answered the question with ’they left’.

We were all asked to demonstrate this and so all stood up and left the room.

The group was milling around in the courtyard talking about what had transpired.

I went to sit in a vacant bench nearby and looked again in the paper,

When I look up everyone in the courtyard had gone.

I thought, what had happened, I had not heard the call to return,

I pick up my things and at a fair clip without running I re-enter through the big glass doors.

I pass by the head of school and acknowledge her standing just inside the door.

I look up to view the room and notice the seating had changed.

Also the layout had changed and there were now only about 40 seats.

I wondered how the room could be so quickly rearranged.

I looked down and noticed that I was wearing the same pullover,

I realized that this was a class for people who intended to study law.

I felt very out classed and out of my depth.

I wondered what were the mechanisms used, to change the room so quickly?

Was the room rotated out and a different one in or,

Was the new room lowered in from above?

I contemplated the situation and realized that this was a test,

The head of school had devised this process to weed out those who were less interested, then leaving those who did not mind being challenged,

To be able to view things from a different perspective.

Then I thought how come I am studying law I am more interested in engineering.

Hang on that was just a dream.

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

19 January 2024  4.45am

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Like most of my work, it comes to me when I least expect it and occasionally in very different formats. We have been regularly having a family devotional. Today we decided to sit out on the back veranda. This vision came to me.

Devotional Visions

We were having a devotional on the back veranda.

It was a clear and beautiful morning.

The many birds with their individual calls could be clearly heard.

Accompanying and intermingled with the sound of cicadas who shrill was almost deafening amongst the trees.

I started a with a prayer and then I closed my eyes to hear another.

I did this occasionally through prayer to better feel the prayer.

As I was listening to the words, in my minds eye I saw many creatures materialize, as if curious and fascinated about the spoken words.

I notice one who slowly yet purposefully climbed up on the bench seat to my left, and just in my peripheral vision, another in front of me yet behind the reader who was peeping around the corner supporting a long and large pointed nose, another creature, was slowly trying to get a better look of the goings on from behind me, then there was another on the roof, half hanging over the gutter, looking down at us with a very inquisitive look about him, then there was another creature the size of a small car in a very excited form, dancing on legs that were the shape of sharpened pencils.

Very soon after the prayer ended and opening my eyes, all the creatures vaporised, leaving me with only the memory, of this very special visit.

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

6 January 2024  7am

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We had a lot of fun creating this ditty. It took us less that 30 minutes.  It was created at a summer school and put to music by Colin Webber.

On Prejudice

Make up your mind,          About your neighbour,

Make up your mind,          While you still can,

Make up your mind,          About every issue,

Make up your mind,          While you still can,

Cause,

When you know,                More about them,

You lose the chance,        To always be right,

Stay in comfort,                 In the darkness,

Or accept the fact that,    Unity–is–light.

Written by Luigi and Colin Webber

9-Dec-202

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The world is in such turmoil, there are clashes on every continent. In some places people are losing their lives in the hundreds each day. These clashes do in no way assist in bringing about world peace. More understanding, more caring, more education, more medical care, is required. Finding the solution by discussing the problems or concerns rather than racing for arms.

Seeking Peace

Peace has been an elusive concept for many centuries,

in every decade this planet we all call home,

there has been civil unrest or a war somewhere.

Humanity does war very well.

We study it at school, at university, and we read or hear about it each day.

We understand that it is not right to take the life of another,

yet that principle flies out the window in war.

We understand that many people go hungry and die from starvation,

yet withholding or cutting off food supplies to some seems to be okay

We hear each day how medical supplies in this place or that are limited or non-existent, yet if it were to be supplied there would be less suffering and death.

We know that education and literacy is almost non-existent in some places,

yet if this were to be changed it alone would assist in changing the lives of millions of people to become better citizens.

This is a dire picture of the situation in the world today,

it could all be rectified to improve all aspects of the peoples of the world.

We have a choice, keep doing what we have been doing for centuries,

and let there be more bloodshed, violence, and ignorance or

take a new course in the development of the world.

By studying peace and working together,

giving aid and education to the millions of people,

who would then raise their own community, country, continent to a higher level of operation and become a humanity working together,

advancing technically, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Let’s give peace a go and reap the rewards for all.

After all, the world is but one country and mankind its citizens.

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

4 November 2023

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This poem came to me as a dream. It was so clear that I just had to listen and write it down. I had to pinch myself when I awoke to confirm that it was just a dream. It seems so realistic.

The Summons

This day I had received a letter from the Universal House of Justice,

Now this was no ordinary letter,

In the letter, I was summoned to meet with the House of Justice,

I did what most would do.

The letter mentioned instructions and a flight was booked with all connections,

I would be met at the airport and taken to a hotel,

 Here I would freshen up, and then taken to the meeting.

Now, of course, you would not be mistaken by what was going through my mind,

Why me?

Why now?

What had I done?

Or even what was I going to be asked to do.

At the meeting, I was asked to drive from Haifa to a location near to Akko,

A special vehicle would be made available to me, for this purpose,

I would be transporting a package from one place to another.

This would all happen in two days’ at a set time.

I knew that elaborate plans were being made,

 the Shrine of Abdu’l-Bahá had just been completed.

I did not figure that I was a part of this plan.

I spent much time in prayer, in thoughtful reflection,

 and admiration of the gardens and the sense of peace,

 in the time leading up to my task.

The time had come,

I was picked up and taken to the Shrine of The Báb.

Security was at a heightened level,

I was led to the Northern room and bade to enter.

There I saw a Coffin prepared for transport.

I also noticed an unusual curtain in one corner,

 secreting what I initially thought were the excavation spoils.

Upon inspection there were two other coffins there.

Pall bearers were called in, the Coffin was lifted,

And with the utmost care and reverence they walked out to the awaiting transport.

The driver got in and proceeded on the journey.

This procedure was repeated two more times.

I was the driver of the third vehicle.

Before departure, I was given my travel instructions and the route that I was to take,

Traveling with me was an escort vehicle as with all the previous ones,

Our destination, the newly completed Shrine of Abdul-Baha.

No-one knew who carried the remains of Abdu’l-Bahá

But all were equally important to confuse the potential enemy of the Faith.

All three arrived safely.

All three were unloaded as they arrived,

the coffins in a simple and dignified manner,

 were then brought inside to a secure anteroom.

From here the one coffin was placed in its purpose-built sarcophagus.

Was this just a dream,

Or was it a vision into coming events,

As the veil between here and there,

 is at times very thin and glimpses can be snatched.

Luigi Giuseppe Vittorio

23 October 2023. 1.45am

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