Κυριακή 27 Ιουλίου 2008

REALITY

All that I see and feel and think,
Is in my mind and truly a dream.
I dream the impossible dream,
That I am awake and God is asleep

Deep within,
Rest in peace.
All is a dream
In the mind of Is.



Wanting,
Keeps the dream rolling.


A thought conceived
Strives to be,
It lives like you
And is hungry for food.




Everything in time
Is a matter of time.


Όλα στο χρόνο
είναι θέμα χρόνου.

Σώματα και πτώματα
Τής σκέψης παραπτώματα,
Βαρέθηκα να βλέπω.
Πνεύμα είμαι
Γιός Θεού,
Παιδί του αγαπημένο.



Ο άνθρωπος θέλει και τρέχει.
Ο Θεός βούλεται και είναι.




Man wants and seeks.
God wills and Is.

I am not a body
with a story,
I am life
caught in lies.



Συμφωνώ με το Θεό?
Do I agree with God?


Γνωρίζω και έχω
αυτό που είμαι.



I know and I have
What I am.





Επιλέγω το Θαύμα ή το Δράμα?


Σώματα φόβος και ντροπή
Και ατέλειωτη ενοχή
Στού ονείρου τη φυλακή
Περιμένουμε το ξύπνημα
Χριστέ Ιησού.


The Quest:
To find the never-ending
guiltless pleasure.

Is God here?
Is God real?
Is God good?
Could God take over my life
and make everything right?
Could He?
Would He?
When?

I will not try
To invent God
today.

I let God
Be God
Today.

Now what!

Don't ask me,
Ask the Universe,
Ask God,
Ask the Holy Spirit,
At least ask somebody who knows better.



To admire without desire,
To love without lust,
To be thankful without pride,
Is the way of the wise.


The Key to Meditation




Silence! The Composer is conducting.


The Composer composed a symphony,


perfect and filled with harmony.


He created, then, the orchestra too,


with instruments perfectly tuned.


So pleased with His work He was,


that His joy should be shared with all.


So He created a man named Ulysses, to enjoy the symphony and listen.






Ulysses was a happy man


for all he did was just to have fun.


The Composer the orchestra conducted


and Ulysses, enthused, he applauded.


All was perfect and well


and the symphony was always heard,


until one unfortunate day,


when Ulysses took the conductor's place.


The Conductor reluctantly his baton gave


for Ulysses, music, could neither read nor play.


Thereafter the orchestra suffered


for Ulysses was nothing like the Master.


For years Ulysses tried conducting


but always something was wrong or missing.


He never thought of himself to blame


but it was rather, he reasoned, the Composer's mistake.






The Composer, all this time patiently waited


and advice to Ulysses' ear he whispered.


But Ulysses did not hear his Master's voice,


being too much absorbed in the orchestra's noise.


Until finally, one happy day, he remembered


why he was created and why he suffered.


All he had to do, not to suffer in vain


was to give the Baton to the Composer again.


Finally Ulysses his baton surrendered


and sat and did nothing but listen.


The Composer conducted the orchestra with grace


without Ulysses' help or advice.






As the orchestra the air with harmony filled


Ulysses relaxed, sitting still.


Then above he noticed a sign:


SILENCE! THE COMPOSER IS CONDUCTING.






In case you haven’t realized:


You are Ulysses


And the orchestra


And the symphony


And the Composer.




I don't need someBody.
I need everyOne,
As part of my One Self.


The good and the bad,
The lovely and the ugly,
I welcome it all,
In the mist of awakening.


Shame and blame,
Is time's game.
Joy and Glory
Is not a story.

You can be love.
You cannot make love,
But you can make trouble.


The natural tendency of the mind
is toward more and more.
You have plenty of nothing,
Unless nothing is plenty for you.


Whatever I can do, God can do better.

What about instead of telling God what to do,
Pray like this:

God of my heart, 
Let me see the miracle you gave me, instead of the drama I project in my awareness.






GENESIS
IN A NUTSHELL
At the beginning there was nothing
And nothing was vast and incomprehensible
But it could think.
So nothing thought of something
And something was tiny and formless
But it felt great!
So nothing dived into something
And something exploded into a huge universe
But it hurt like hell
So nothing tried to get out of something
But it was stuck!
Nothing was stuck in something
Because nothing
Couldn’t stop
Thinking of something.

Agis Antonopoulos MD.



I Am

I am
Awareness
Asleep
Dreaming
Wearing a body
And a Universe
Dreaming of death
Asleep in Heaven
Awaiting
Awakening.


Unless
You are totally joyous,
You are not "yourSelf".


Αν δέν είσαι 
Ολοκληρωτικά πανευτυχής,
Είσαι εκτός "Εαυτού".


Agis

ΚΑΡΔΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΔΙΑΓΝΩΣΤΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ





CURRICULUM VITAE

Agis G. Antonopoulos, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.E.S.C.

Home Address 11, Atlantis Street
Aglanjia, Nicosia 2107
Cyprus.
Tel. (357) 22331043
e-mail: antonopa@cytanet.com.cy

Office Address : Cardiovascular Diagnostic Centre
1, Thasou Street
Nicosia 1087
Cyprus.
Tel (357 )22760948
Fax (357) 22760087

Date and Place
of Birth : June 4, 1946
Nicosia, Cyprus.

Marital Status : Widow - One child.


Undergraduate
Education : 1958 - 1964 Pancyprian Gymnasium
Nicosia, Cyprus.

Medical
Education : 1964 – 1970 Hebrew University
Hadassah Medical School
Jerusalem, Israel.

Internship July 71 - June 72 Rotating
Kaplan Hospital
Rehovot, Israel.

Residency: July 72 - June 74 Internal Medicine
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Maryland, USA
Physician in chief: Dr Albert
I. Mendeloff.


Cardiology
Fellowship : July 74 - June 76 University of Miami,
Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami, Florida, USA
Physician in chief: Dr Robert
J. Myerburg.


Degrees : 1971 MD: Hebrew University
Hadassah Medical School,
Jerusalem, Israel.
E.C.F.M.G.: Feb 197
Certificate 1531029.


Specialty Boards : 1975 American Board of Internal
Medicine. Internal Medicine.
Certificate 50148.

1977 American Board of Internal
Medicine. Cardiovascular
Disease. Certificate 50148.

2000 European Board for the Specialty
Of Cardiology
European Cardiologist.


Medical Licensure : 1976 Cyprus Medical Council
(Specialty in Internal
Medicine and Cardiology).
State Board of the State of
Florida. Certificate 28754.


Appointment : July 75 - June 76 Teaching Fellow. Coronary
Care Unit. Training Course for
Practising Physicians.
University of Miami; School of
Medicine.


Present : August 77 Co-Director
Cardiovascular Diagnostic
Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.



Honours, Awards
Scholarships 1964 - 1970 World Health Organization
Scholarship for Medicine: Full
six year scholarship.

1975 - 1976 Martin H. Stein Memorial
Award for Superior
Performance as a Cardiology
Fellow. University of Miami,
Florida.Nicosia, Cyprus


Medical Doctorate
Thesis : 1971 The Venomotor Response in
Hemorrhagic Shock. Hebrew
University Hadassah Medical
School.

Fellowships : Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
(F.A.C.C.)
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
(F.E.S.C).
.

Member of : Pancyprian Medical Association.
Cyprus Society of Cardiology.
Cyprus Society of Internal Medicine.
Hippocrates Nicosia Medical Association.




Pubblications in peer reviewed international journals:




1: Chee CE, Anastassiades CP, Antonopoulos AG, Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC. Related Articles, Links
Cardiac hypertrophy and how it may break an athlete's heart--the Cypriot case.
Eur J Echocardiogr. 2005 Aug;6(4):301-7. Epub 2005 Jan 21.
PMID: 15992717 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
2: Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC, Constantinou EC, Antonopoulos AG. Related Articles, Links
Familial discrete subaortic stenosis.
Clin Cardiol. 1998 Jan;21(1):63-5.
PMID: 9474469 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4: Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG. Related Articles, Links
Exercise testing for assessment of the significance of ST segment depression observed during episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
Eur Heart J. 1990 Nov;11(11):974-9.
PMID: 2282927 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
5: Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG, Petsas AA. Related Articles, Links
The effect of coronary revascularization on exercise-induced ventricular ectopic activity.
Eur Heart J. 1987 Aug;8 Suppl D:75-8.
PMID: 2445575 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6: Mirowski M, Israel W, Antonopoulos AG, Mower MM, Mendeloff AI. Related Articles, Links
Treatment of myocardial infarction in a community hospital coronary care unit. Experience with 1,246 patients.
Arch Intern Med. 1978 Feb;138(2):210-5.
PMID: 626550 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
7: Mirowski M, Antonopoulos AG, Mower MM. Related Articles, Links
Exit block around a junctional pacemaker.
Chest. 1974 Jun;65(6):687-8. No abstract available.
PMID: 4832275 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]




















Publications in peer reviewed national journals:



1. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA and Antonopoulos AG. Echocardiography: A review. Med Surg Cyprus 1978; 3: 339-42.

2. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA, Antonopoulos AG and Kazantzis AE. First clinical applications of echocardiography in Cyprus. Med Surg Cyprus 1978; 3: 349-56.

3. Antonopoulos AG, Petsas AA and Anastassiades LC. Prolapse of the mitral valve. Med Surg Cyprus 1978; 3: 409-413.

4. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. Exercise stress testing: An update review. Med Surg Cyprus 1978; 3: 446-50.

5. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. First clinical applications of treadmill exercise testing in Cyprus. Med Surg Cyprus 1979; 4: 469-73.

6. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA and Antonopoulos AG. Coronary artery bypass surgery: A review of the first decade. Med Surg Cyprus 1979; 4: 567-70.

7. Antonopoulos AG, Anastassiades LC and Petsas AA. The management of chronic heart failure - to use or not to use digitalis? Med Surg Cyprus 1980; 4: 677-9.

8. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty - a new therapy for angina pectoris. Cyprus Med J 1982; A1: 15-7.

9. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. The cardiomyopathies - current concepts. Cyprus Med J 1982; A3: 12-6.

10. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. Two-dimensional echocardiography: basic principles. Cyprus Med J 1984; C2: 17-9.

11. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. The application of two-dimensional echocardiography in Cyprus. Cyprus Med J 1984; C3: 5-9.

12. Antonopoulos AG, Anastassiades LC and Petsas AA. The use of vasodilators in severe chronic congestive heart failure. Cyprus Med J 1985; D2: 5-8.





13. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. The coronary artery disease in Cyprus and its surgical treatment. Cyprus Med J 1986; 4: 12-16.

14. Antonopoulos AG, Petsas AA and Anastassiades LC. Doppler echocardiography in Cyprus. Cyprus Med J 1985; 5: 21-3.

15. Antonopoulos AG, Anastassiades LC and Petsas AA. The syndrome of panic disorder in the practice of cardiology. Cyprus Med J 1988; G1: 5-8

16. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. Thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction - first applications in Cyprus. Cyprus Med J 1988; G1: 12-5.

17. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. Computer applications in medical practice: a cardiovascular data-base program. Cyprus Med J 1988; G1: 17-21.

18. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA and Antonopoulos AG. Cholesterol 1990: a review. Cyprus Med J 1990; 8: (2) 17-9.

19. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA and Antonopoulos AG. Doppler colour flow imaging - basic principles and applications. J Cyprus Med 1990; 8: (4) 5-9.

20. Antonopoulos AG, Anastassiades LC and Petsas AA. The athletic heart syndrome - experience in Cyprus. Cyprus Med J 1991; 9: (1) 5-7.

21. Anastassiades LC, Antonopoulos AG and Petsas AA. Cardiovascular complications of diabetes mellitus - a review. Cyprus Med J 1991; 9: (4) 24-6.



Abstracts


1. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. The use of echocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Proceedings of the XVIII Panhellenic Paediatric Congress. Nicosia, Cyprus. May 24-26, 1980; 77.

2. Anastassiades LC, Petsas AA and Antonopoulos AG. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia: Clinical observations. Proceedings of the Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy International Symposium. Geneva, Switzerland. April 22-25, 1985. p. 210.

3. Petsas AA, Anastassiades LC and Antonopoulos AG. Exercise testing for evaluation of 'ischaemic' ST shifts observed during episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Proceedings of the European Society of Cardiology Symposium on Exercise Testing in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Treatment of Arrhythmias. Athens, Greece. April 17-19, 1986; A9.