blendnewyork…Fashion.Art.Style.Inspiration.Love

“One must dare to be happy.”

About Let Them Stare:

Anastasia Gelfman Silis was born in Moscow. She is graduate of the Reali School in Haifa, and holds a B.S. diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Israeli Institute of Technology. This blog is her journey from engineering to fashion. Let Them Stare is a unique project of the young designer. This fashion blog presents Anastasia’s tailored works, combined with purchased items and colorful fashion productions that changes from post to post. All photo shoots and productions in the blog are completely independent without external financing. This allows creative freedom, unique creations, and innovation. View more of her beautiful styling here: http://www.letthemstare.com/fashionblog/en/

THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE MIND
EXCEPT THOSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE.”

(“Think and Grow Rich”)

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

Why you should listen to him:

Beginning as a student in anthropology, Simon Sinek turned his fascination with people into a career of convincing people to do what inspires them. His earliest work was in advertising, moving on to start Sinek Partners in 2002, but he suddenly lost his passion despite earning solid income. Through his struggle to rediscover his excitement about life and work, he made some profound realizations and began his helping his friends and their friends to find their “why” — at first charging just $100, person by person. Never planning to write a book, he penned Start With Why simply as a way to distribute his message.

Sinek also contributes to several efforts in the non-profit sphere: He works with Count Me In, an organization created to help one million women-run businesses reach a million dollars in revenue by 2012, and serves on the Board of Directors for Danspace Project, which advances art and dance. He writes and comments regularly for several major publications and teaches a graduate-level class in strategic communications at Columbia University.

“I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others. ” -Simon Sinek

In December 2011, a church made of snow and ice opened in Mitterfirmiansreut, a town in southeastern Germany about 100 miles northeast of Munich, marking the 100th anniversary of an act of protest. A century ago, Mitterfirmiansreut residents demanded a church in their town. When they were denied, they built their own out of snow and ice.

A crowd forms outside the ice church shortly after its opening.

Visitors tour the inside of the church.

The icy house of worship is 65 feet long and made of 49,000 cubic feet of snow and ice.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; Devnagari मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी), (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience—a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence—Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or “Great Soul,)” an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore. In India, he is also called Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ, bāpu or “Father”) and officially honoured as the Father of the Nation. His birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community’s struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women’s rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on many occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi strove to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

(source here)

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength.”

Whatever some say, meditation is not a habit like cleaning your teeth. You have to mean it.

“Wit is often a mask. If you could tear it, you would find either a genius irritated
or cleverness juggling.”

“Art is a step from nature toward the infinite.”

If you gaze for long into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you.