Lotus ! :)

                                                                                                                                                               

Lotus is the National flower of India. The Lotus symbolizes spirituality, fruitfulness, wealth, knowledge and illumination. The most important thing about lotus is that even after growing in murky water it is untouched by its impurity. On the other hand the lotus symbolizes purity of heart and mind. The National Flower 'Lotus' or water lily is an aquatic plant of Nymphaea species with broad floating leaves and bright aromatic flowers that grow only in shallow waters.

 The leaves and flowers of the Lotus float and have long stems that contain air spaces in them. The lotus flowers have many petals overlapping in a proportional pattern. The root functions of lotus are carried out by rhizomes that fan out horizontally through the mud below the water. Lotuses, cherished for their tranquil beauty, are delightful to take a look at as their blossoms open on the pond's surface.

The Diamond Sutra urges people to "cultivate the heart of a Buddha, by living nowhere." Hence, don't clutch tight to phenomena of this world and to things you are not supposed to desire.

The medicinal value of Lotus flowers

lotus flowers is a very high economic value attached to crops, from Lotus flowers, Lian Peng, lotus flowers seeds, Lotus Flowers, lotus flowers has its unique function, almost you can see the lotus flowers in the lotus flowers garden are all part of their own characteristics and effectiveness In the various functions are as follows:

lotus flowers: lotus flowers can bubble tea, Qingshu fever and bleeding.

Lianpeng and the lotus flowers: a pure heart, bleeding, and livers, lotus flowers heart heat, soothe the nerves, solid fine effects, but also lower blood pressure, cure hypertension, Fanre other symptoms, and more generally for life medicine.

lotus flowers: lotus flowers is rich in starch, protein and vitamins, sweet and astringent nature of peace, a fresh and repose, spleen and kidney and hemostasis, Compendium of Materia Medica said it can make the kidneys, stomach thick, solid essence, strong bones , Complement wasting, Lee eyes and ears, in addition to alpine, treatment palpitations, insomnia, weak stomach, man nocturnal emission, excessive vaginal discharge women, menorrhagia, and diarrhea disease.

lotus flowers: do lotus flowers leaf rice, dry goods can open the spleen, increase vitality, fresh products are Qingshu antipyretic effect.

lotus flowers: vitamin C, vitamin B1, B2, protein, amino acids, sugars, etc., is a high nutritional value of vegetables; lotus flowers root of Gan Han, cooling blood, stasis, cooked sweet warm stomach bushing. In addition to fresh vegetables do, it can also be processed into lotus flowers root powder, prepared for the brewing consumption.

Raw lotus flowers root: cold, Gan Liang stomach can Xiaoyu cooling, heat and thirst quencher, appetizers, women are post-production cold bogey, bogey is not only the raw lotus flowers root.

Cooked lotus flowers root: and warm, the effect of Yang Wei Yin, lotus flowers root knot rich in tannins, a contraction of vascular function, treatment can stop the bleeding, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, blood in the stool, bleeding embolism.

Lin must: a solid fine, bleeding and other effects, raw, fried can be.

Netherlands Terrier: can shun gas, Chest, through milk.

Hedi: You can tocolysis, diarrhea.

A COURTESY OF www.culturalindia.net & www.flowersinfo.net
                     

                                                                                 

Buddhist Monk and Amrapali

                                                                                                                 
                                                  THE STORY OF EVERY LIFE ! :)

You can live in the world and yet not be of the world. You can live in the world and not allow the world to live in you. All that is needed is a little watchfulness.

A small story in the end ... Just as you have heard the name of Cleopatra -- one of the most beautiful women of Egypt -- in the East, equivalent to Cleopatra, we have the name of a beautiful woman contemporary to Gautam Buddha, Amrapali.

Buddha was staying in Vaishali, where Amrapali lived. Amrapali was a prostitute. In Buddha's time, in this country, it was a convention that the most beautiful woman of any city will not be allowed to get married to any one person, because that will create unnecessary jealousy, conflict, fighting. So the most beautiful woman had to become nagarvadhu – the wife of the whole town.

It was not disrespectable at all; on the contrary, just as in the contemporary world we declare beautiful women as "the woman of the year", they were very much respected. They were not ordinary prostitutes. Their function was that of a prostitute, but they were only visited by the very rich, or the kings, or the princes, generals -- the highest strata of society.

Amrapali was very beautiful. One day she was standing on her terrace and she saw a young Buddhist monk. She had never fallen in love with anybody, although every day she had to pretend to be a great lover to this king, to that king, to this rich man, to that general. But she fell suddenly in love with the man, a Buddhist monk who had nothing, just a begging bowl --a young man, but of a tremendous presence, awareness, grace. The way he was walking ...

She rushed down, she asked the monk, "Please -- today accept my food."

Other monks were also coming behind him, because whenever Buddha was moving anywhere, ten thousand monks were always moving with him. The other monks could not believe this. They were jealous and angry and feeling all human qualities and frailties as they saw the young man enter the palace of Amrapali.

Amrapali told him, "After three days the rainy season is going to start ..." Buddhist monks don't move for four months when it is the rainy season. Those are the four months they stay in one place; for eight months they continuously move, they can't stay more than three days in one place.

It is a strange psychology, if you have watched yourself ... You can watch it: to be attached to some place it takes you at least four days. For example, for the first day in a new house you may not be able to sleep, the second day it will be little easier, the third day it will be even easier, and the fourth day you will be able to sleep perfectly at home. So before that, if you are a Buddhist monk, you have to leave.

Amrapali said, "After just three days the rainy season is to begin, and I invite you to stay in my house for the four months". The young monk said, "I will ask my master. If he allows me, I will come." As he went out there was a crowd of monks standing, asking him what had happened. He said, "I have taken my meal, and the woman has asked me to stay the four months of the rainy season in her palace. I told her that I will ask my master."

People were really angry -- one day was already too much; but four months continuously ...! They rushed towards Gautam Buddha. Before the young man could reach the assembly, there were hundreds standing up and telling Gautam Buddha, "This man has to be stopped. That woman is a prostitute, and a monk staying four months in a prostitute's house ..."

Buddha said, "You keep quiet! Let him come. He has not agreed to stay; he has agreed only if I allow him. Let him come." The young monk came, touched the feet of Buddha and told the whole story, "The woman is a prostitute, a famous prostitute, Amrapali. She has asked me to stay for four months in her house. Every monk will be staying somewhere, in somebody's house, for the four months. I have told her that I will ask my master, so I am here ... whatever you say."

Buddha looked into his eyes and said, "You can stay." It was a shock. Ten thousand monks ... There was great silence, but great anger, great jealousy. They could not believe that Buddha has allowed a monk to stay in a prostitute's house. After three days the young man left to stay with Amrapali, and the monks every day started bringing gossips, "The whole city is agog. There is only one talk -- that a Buddhist monk is staying with Amrapali for four months continuously."

Buddha said, "You should keep silent. Four months will pass and I trust my monk. I have looked into his eyes -- there was no desire. If I had said no, he would not have felt anything. I said yes ... he simply went. And I trust in my monk, in his awareness, in his meditation. "Why are you getting so agitated and worried? If my monk's meditation is deep then he will change Amrapali, and if his meditation is not deep then Amrapali may change him. It is now a question between meditation and a biological attraction. Just wait for four months. I trust my young man. He has been doing perfectly well and I have every certainty he will come out of this fire test absolutely victorious."

Nobody believed Gautam Buddha. His own disciples thought, "He is trusting too much. The man is too young; he is too fresh and Amrapali is much too beautiful. He is taking an unnecessary risk." But there was nothing else to do.

After four months the young man came, touched Buddha's feet -- and following him was Amrapali, dressed as a Buddhist nun. She touched Buddha's feet and she said, "I tried my best to seduce your monk, but he seduced me. He convinced me by his presence and awareness that the real life is at your feet. I want to give all my possessions to the commune of your monks."

She had a very beautiful garden and a beautiful palace. She said, "You can make it a place where ten thousand monks can stay in any rainy season." And Buddha said to the assembly, "Now, are you satisfied or not?"

If meditation is deep, if awareness is clear, nothing can disturb it. Then everything is ephemeral. Amrapali became one of the enlightened women among Buddha's disciples.

So the whole question is: wherever you are, become more centered, become more alert, live more consciously. There is nowhere else to go. Everything that has to happen, has to happen within you, and it is in your hands. You are not a puppet, and your strings are not in anybody else's hands. You are an absolutely free individual. If you decide to remain in illusions, you can remain so for many, many lives. If you decide to get out, a single moment's decision is enough.

A COURTESY OF www.messagefrommasters.com

                                                                            

Bahar-e-Basant

Kali Kali Resham Si Zulfon Ko

Kar Do Azad Reshmi Dor Se

Ishq Ki Shaan Mein Yeh Zulfen Bikhar Jane Do

Inki Khusboo Mein Bahek Jane Do Mujhe

Inki Saaye Mein Mujhe Shou Jane Do

Kuch Nazuk Si Naram Si Zulfen

Tumhare Mukhre Pe Zarasi Chaye Hain

Sawar Du Isse  Main Haathon Se

Tumhari Chandni Mein Meri Aakhon Ko Dub Jane Do

In Gaheri Gaheri Jheel Mein Kamal Si Aakhen

In Mein Na Jane Koun Si Nashili Khowab Tum Bunti Ho

Main Dekhti Hoon In Mein Kuch Bechain Si Ishare

Jis Ki Karar Tum Meri Aakhon Mein Dhundti Ho

Kuch Garam Garam Dheeme Dheeme Si Shaashein

Tumhari Talwaron Si Dhaar Jaise Naak Se Nikal Ti Hain

Main Jab Chupati Hoon Apni Shar Tumhari Aagosh Mein

Toh Yeh Shaashein Tumhari Dharkan Ki Dhun Mein Dhaal Jati Hain

Sab Ne Piya Hain Mausam-e-Madira

Maine Tumhari Laab-e-Gul Se Rass-e-Prem Piya Hain

Har Koi Baat Karta Hain Rut-e-Rangat Ki

Maine Toh Kudrat-e-Rang Tumhari Hothon Se Churake Liya Hain

Ek Aagan Iss Basant Ne Lagayee

Aur Ek Aagan Tumhari Ishq Ne Lagaya Hain

Jab Jab Tumhe Samet Liya Apni Bahon Mein

Koi Bharki Hain Aag Ki Chingari Jo Sari Raat Mujhe Jalaya Hain

Tum Toh Ho Chandni Muskaan Se Bhari

Bari Dilkash Hain Ada Aur Bemisal Jalwe Hain Tumhari

Sirf  Itna Mujhe Kahedo Aye Jane Mann

Kis Jal Bhujau Yeh Aag Jo Tumhari Aagosh Ne Lagadi

Main Bhi Pyassa Tum Bhi Pyassi

Kavi Aakhon Mein Bhare Pani Yah Chhaye Udasi

Main Jaise Hoon Patton Mein Bundein Shabnaam Ki

Tumse Roz Milta Hoon Phir Vi Kuch Faslah Raheta Hain Zarasi  

Jo Aag Dil Mein Jalti Hain

Unki Kuch Dhuan Meri Shaashon Se Nikal Ti Hain

Woh Ban Jati Hain Phir Ek Masoom Si Badal

Jo Raat Mein Jati Hain Chup Ke Se Urr Ke 

Tumhari Nindon Mein Dubi Palkon Mein Pighalti Hain

Main Hoon Tanha Aur Hain Tanhai

Par Meri Jism Leta Hain Tumhari Naam Ki Angrayee

Yeh Kuch Lamha Meri Paigam-e-Ishq Ki 

Jo Hain Meri Betab Chahat Ki Parchayee

                                                       FOR MY FIRE !!!! FIRE OF LOVE

                                                       Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaahhhhh :O, :D

                                                                        M-e-Z,   <3 <3 <3

                                                                                    

 

 

Welcome Spring !!! :)

EARLY SPRING

Now, dearest, lend a heedful ear
And listen while I sing
Delights to every maiden dear,
The charms of early spring:
When earth is dotted with the heaps
Of corn, when heron-scream
Is rare but sweet, when passion leaps
And paints a livelier dream.


When all must cheerfully applaud
A blazing open fire;
Or if they needs must go abroad,
The sun is their desire;
When everybody hopes to find
The frosty chill allayed
By garments warm, a window-blind
Shut, and a sweet young maid.

Then may the days of early spring
For you be rich and full
With love's proud, soft philandering
And many a candy-pull,
With sweetest rice and sugar-cane:
And may you float above
The absent grieving and the pain
Of separated love.

SPRING

A stalwart soldier comes, the spring,
Who bears the bow of Love;
And on that bow, the lustrous string
Is made of bees, that move
With malice as they speed the shaft
Of blossoming mango-flower
At us, dear, who have never laughed
At love, nor scorned his power. p. 216


Their blossom-burden weights the trees;
The winds in fragrance move;
The lakes are bright with lotuses,
The women bright with love;
The days are soft, the evenings clear
And charming; everything
That moves and lives and blossoms, dear,
Is sweeter, in the spring.

The groves are beautifully bright
For many and many a mile
With jasmine-flowers that are as white
As loving woman's smile:
The resolution of a saint
Might well be tried by this;
Far more, young hearts that fancies paint
With dreams of loving bliss.


A COURTESY OF www.sacred-texts.com

ENJOY SPRING !!! <3 M-e-Z :)

Holi

Gulal Ke Rang Se Rang Jaye Sara Angan

Pichkari Ki Chhute Rang Se Nahaye Bachho Ki Surat Bholi

Aise Rangon Ki  Fuhar Barse Har Ek Dil Mein

Ke Har Kishan Bheeg Dale Har Radha Ki Choli

Har Ek Insan Geet Gaye Teri Aye Mere Banwari

Har Ek Laab Muskaye Khushi Se Sab Bole Tere Jaise Mithe Boli

Mujhe Bhi Rang Dena Tere Rang Mein

Tere Prem Ke Rang Se Rang Dalu Khud Ko 

Pahen Ke Safed Libaas Duniya Ki Sari Rang Iss Tan Se Dho Dali

Asman Ke Lali, Peeli, Neeli , Hara, Kesar Se Range

Iss Basant Ke Mausam Mein Har Ek Pholon Ki Dali

Aaj Karun Baatein Main Apni Man Ki 

Har Din Juthe Tamanna O Khatir Sari Farz Nivali

Aaj Hass Na Chahti Hu Jee Bhar Ke

Tere Rang Mein Dub Ke Sari Ghum Bhula Di

Uski Yaad Mein Main Chand Bahut Ro Li

Chura Ke Uski Laabon ki Lali

Aaj Khelungi Jee Bhar Ke Chandni Se Holi

HAPPY HOLI TO YOU ALL !!!! :D :O :-)

M-e-Z.

                                                                                    

100% CURABLE !

                                                                                                                                                                   
THIS IS A STORY OF A FRIEND WHO IS RECOVERED FROM IT  :)

Ayurvedic treatment of Schizophrenia -- my experience so far
Hello Everyone:

I am not sure if you recall from my earlier postings on the group
that I have been a patient of schizophrenia for over 12 years. After
I received some advice from the group, I found an Ayurvedic
therapist in India who invited me to come over and receive in-
patient treatment for about a month. Almost at the verge of loosing
my job because the disease was getting worse every day and was
coming in the way of performing my tasks and maintaining
relationships at work, I decided to take a medical leave and try out
the Ayurvedic treatment. I just wanted to share the story of my
recovery so far and what it took to accomplish that.

I have always held the belief as all others who have fallen victim
to the allopathic psychiatry, that Schizophrenia is not a disease
that you can ever get rid of completely (well, they claim that about
24% get cured in 5 years if they are the " lucky " ones, I am not sure
how much of that claim is true) -- you just have to remember to take
the prescribed dose of your antipsychotics day after day for the
rest of your life. For first 6-7 years, my symptoms were somewhat
manageable with the use of antipsychotics so that I could hold a job

and maintain relationships like anyone else. In last 5-6 years,
things started to take a turn for the worse. Not only my mental
symptoms got worse gradually, but I also developed additional
symptoms that were rather physical in nature. I started burping
vigorously and frequently. I developed really bad allergies. And, I
had a mouth full of mucus all the time. First I thought that the
allergies were because I had recently moved to Florida from up
north -- so, I went to see my PCP who ran the standard allergy tests
on me -- test results indicated that I was allergic to pretty much
everything on the planet earth! I had no choice but to take the anti-
allergy pills every day without fail and then like many others, keep
switching from this pill to a stronger one year after year.

That is when I started looking for other possibilities -- good God
showed me the way when I located a newsletter on alternative
medicine while I was waiting for my turn at my PCP's. From that
point until now has been a long journey full of changes -- changes
in diet, lifestyle, medicine, and above all the way I look at the
world now. I first tried Homeopathy to treat my allergies, which did
not work at all. Then I came in contact with an Ayurvedic therapist
in Chicago who prescribed me some Tulsi tea and asked me to stop
taking milk. That was it -- the allergy problems were gone! Since
then I read numerous books on Ayurveda -- the most relevant of them
all that I recommend to the mental patients is by Dr. David Frawley
called " Ayurveda and the Mind " -- it is a must read for those who
don't just want to get cured, but stay cured. Despite my readings
and trying out numerous Ayurvedic advices and lifestyle changes
like eating organic only, eating Khichari only, treating candida
problem assuming that was the underlying cause of my mental
problems, etc., it was not until I joined " ayurvedaonline " last year
that I found the right Vaidya and started on a long term treatment
plan.

The treatment took about 2 months. I was in-patient throughout. The
vaidya has a unique 8-day detox program that was repeated four times
with one week gaps in between two detoxes. All this while, I also
got started on Panchagavya medicines as well as several nervine
herbs like Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Jatamansi, etc. The detox program
featured prescribed diet, oils, and herbs for 6 days followed by two
Basti sessions on the 7th and 8th day. I was also asked to do
advanced breathing exercises called " Tantrik Pranayama " . In
particular, I practiced tantrik versions of alternate-nostril and
kapaal-bhati Pranayama. Since the detox sessions, I have continued
with the breathing exercises, diet prescription, and the herbs.

Going through the detoxes was like riding a roller-coaster as my
condition, mental and physical, was always in a flux due to various
toxins getting released into the bloodstream. When the body is
trying to get rid of the toxins, it tries every possible means to
expel them -- through urine, feces, mucus, sweat, rashes, etc. So,
you can expect a lot of them every day. There were times when I got
constipated due to toxins, sometimes diarrhea, sometimes severe
headaches, etc. The primary goal of the detoxes was to clean the
liver and other internal organs so that they start working properly
in their full capacity. While the detoxes are going on, those organs
obviously do not start working properly right away -- it takes time.
So, the 2 in-patient months were challenging in the least. I lost a
lot of weight, about 15 pounds, as well.

Since the detoxes got over, I started feeling better almost every
day (on average). It has been almost a month since then and now I
feel a lot better -- my mental symptoms have started to fade away.
The physical symptoms have gotten a lot better as well. In the past
week, I have had days when I felt like I never had any problems
before! I have cut the dose of the allopathic drug to one-third. I
am taking only 100 mg of Amisulpride now -- and that too to avoid
the withdrawal symptoms. Tantrik Pranayama is really a blessing -- I
have also tried Ramdev Baba versions of alternate-nostril and Kapaal-
Bhati Pranayama, but my experience so far has been that what you can
achieve with less than 20 minutes of doing tantrik Pranayama, you
have to do Pantanjali ones for over an hour!

It all looks positive from here -- I do not fear a relapse due to
the fact that I have reduced the dosage of the allopathic drug. In
fact, I am looking forward to weaning the drug further out so that I
eventually stop taking it in next 5-6 months. I will keep the group
posted.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my postings for showing me the
way! I sincerely wish that more and more sufferers of mental
diseases consider pursuing Ayurveda and Yoga as a cure. What God has
given to us, we humans can never find the same on our own! There is
an ascending process of gaining/discovering knowledge and there is a
descending one -- ascending one being that of research and
development, that of trial and error, that of confusion and
hipocrisy, that of struggle and wastage of resources; and descending
one is the one that comes as a gift of love and caring from God
himself in form of age-old scriptures written by the saints and the
hermits. It will take a long long time to unfathom the same truth
that is revealed in the scriptures.

Regards,
Matt 

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                          IN THIS VIDEO YOU CAN SEE THIS PERSON SHOWS THAT HE DID IT
                                          I KNOW YOU CAN BEAT THAT DEVIL OF ANGER 
                                                  SO KEEP FIGHTING !!!! DON'T GIVE UP!!! 
                                          WE ARE ALL WITH YOU , GOD IS WITH YOU
                                                   LOVE YOU :), GOD BLESS YOU !! <3 <3<3 

                                                                     

Marvellous Meryl ! :)

                                                                             

Meryl Streep was born June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. She began her career on the New York stage in the late 1960s and appeared in several Broadway productions. She began appearing in films in the 1970s, and soon began earning both nominations and awards. Equally able to wow audiences in drama, comedy, and musicals, she has come to be considered one of the greatest actresses of our time.

Meryl Streep is considered one of the greatest actresses working today. A graduate of Vassar College and Yale Drama School, she is equally adept at performing on stage or in front of the cameras. Streep began her career on the New York stage in the late 1960s and appeared in several Broadway productions, including a 1977 revival of the Anton Chekhov drama The Cherry Orchard.

Meryl Streep broke into films in the 1970s with a role in the drama Julia (1977). The next year she appeared in The Deer Hunter opposite Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she won her first Primetime Emmy for her role in the film Holocaust. In 1979, her portrayal of a woman who abandons her family only to come back and fight for custody of her son in Kramer vs. Kramer brought Streep her first Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actress.

A chameleon on screen, Meryl Streep spent much of the 1980s submerged in a variety of roles. In Sophie's Choice (1982), she convincingly played a Polish woman traumatized by her experiences during the Holocaust. Streep won her second Academy Award-her first for Best Actress-for her work on this film. In Out of Africa (1985), she took on the role of a Danish plantation owner living in Kenya. The role earned her another Academy Award nomination.

As she reached her forties, Streep continued to find challenging roles-a feat many mature actresses have struggled with in Hollywood. She received an Academy Award nomination for her work in several films, including two big-screen adaptations-one of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge (1990) and the other Robert James Waller's romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), in which she starred opposite Clint Eastwood.

By the start of the new millennium, Meryl Streep was as busy as ever. In 2002, she appeared in two critically acclaimed films - The Hours and Adaptation. Streep was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of author Susan Orlean in Adaptation. The following year, Streep lit up the small screen in the television adaptation of the award-winning play Angels in America. She won her second Emmy Award for her work on the program, which had her tackling several roles.

Streep got a chance to show some of her comic skills as a villain in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004). Continuing to explore light-hearted fare, she starred in Prime (2005), a romantic comedy with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg. Streep played psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, whose client falls in love with her son. She also played the inimitable magazine editor, Miranda Priestly, in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), for which she earned Academy Award, SAG and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. That same year, she was cast as country music singer Yolanda Johnson in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and continued in musical roles as Donna in the film adaptation of the ABBA musical, Mamma Mia! (2008).

Returning to more serious work, Streep appeared in the 2008 film Doubt, which addresses sexual abuse in the Catholic church. She played a nun who becomes suspicious of a priest's behavior (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) toward a young student. Streep earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, as well as a SAG award for Best Actress.

For her next project, Streep took on one of the culinary world's most beloved figures, Julia Child. She played the famous chef in the film Julie & Julia, based on the best-selling nonfiction book of the same title. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and received an Academy Award nomination for this performance. She then starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic

Comedy It's Complicated, with co-stars Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, which earned her a Golden Globe nod. In 2011, Streep received widespread acclaim for her work in The Iron Lady. She portrayed former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a dynamic and forceful politician, 2011, who was both admired by some and detested by others. While Thatcher was called cold and unfeeling, Streep believed that Thatcher "was canny about the fact that in order to be taken seriously, she wasn't able to show certain emotions because she was a woman." Streep's thoughtful and nuanced performance as Thatcher garnered her several awards, including a Golden Globe.

The Iron Lady also brought Streep her third Academy Award in 2012. In her acceptance speech, the gifted performer seemed to be especially modest and self-effacing. "When they called my name, I had this feeling that I could hear half of America was go, 'oh no, come on why her again?'"

Commenting on her last Academy Award victory, "I was a kid when I won this, like, 30 years ago. Two of the [current] nominees were not even conceived," Streep explained. While she may be a industry veteran, the Academy Awards still have a special meaning to this legendary star. "I thought I was so old and jaded, but they call your name and you just go into a sort of white light," Streep said later.

Streep has been married to sculptor Don Gummer since 1978. The couple has four adult children, including daughter Mamie Gummer, who has been pursuing a career as an actress.

A COURTESY OF www.biography.com 

                                                                                    

                                                        She is Sensitive, She is Brilliant !

                                                                        She is  Charming, 
                                                          Love You Baby , Magical Meryl ! 

                                                            Mmmmmmuuuahhhhhh :O, :D.