See the sunlight, we ain't stopping
keep on dancing til the world ends
If you feel it
let it happen
keep on dancing til the world ends
Don't give up yet.....
beLIeve
Saturday, March 31, 2012
We Live In A Material World
Why is this kind of news exclusive when there are 6000 girls a day that are held down and their genitals are cut with dirty tool when there are children starving to death each and every day, when there are people who do anything for power (Including killing and raping)???
It is up for each and everyone of us to show what we want to read. It is for us to stop reading tabloids. We need to show care for other people that needs it and not for tabloids that are after your money. Use the money you spend on tabloids to give to people that need them to survive. If we all did that there would not be hunger in the world. The western world have so much more money than we need and others do not even have money to get food (not any food) each day. We live in a material world. Wealth is not about how much things you have or how much money you have in the bank. It is about how much love we have in our heart to share with others.....
Friday, March 30, 2012
The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Love of Other People's Stuff
Envy with Anger and Pride as the sins of "Perverted Love." The other two groups are “Insufficient Love” and “Excessive Love of Earthy Goods.” Envy is perverted because it “loves” what other people possess, rather than what is Good, Beautiful and True. It is often portrayed as “eating away” the heart of the envious person. Showing that envious as among those farthest away from Paradise, with their eyes sewn shut, but weeping over their sins. A common metaphor for Envy is “wearing out the eyes", it is also refered to as "The Green Eyed Monster."
This happens in our everyday life on this earth. We all seem to think that someone else always has better then us. For most that’s true as far as materialistic things are concerned. But if we search deep we all have the same possibilities as the next person.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LETTING CHILDREN BE CHILDREN
Children should not be treated as small adults, because it alters their emotional and mental growth. There are many parents who think that treating children as small adults, helps them mature more quickly, however, this affects their development and their relationships at school, friends and family.
The fundamental step of any person is childhood, because this is the time most of the memories that make the adult behavior of a person. During childhood, people acquire the traits that characterize the rest of their life. It is also the stage in which major characters are rooted for life; values, fears, phobias, good or bad habits and the development of relationships.Children need to learn, but they also need to play, experiment and express themselves as children. Parents teach their children to ask and answer correctly, but they must do it naturally, using the child's language and not expect their children to behave and talk like them.
Some parents encourage cultural activities and positive attitudes in their children, such as reading, classical music, theater and arts in general. They use the right words to refer to objects and animals, body parts and situations. They worry about explaining things as they are, for not to deceive them. This type of education, fosters intellectual and emotional development of children, but the problem comes when it is the only thing that allows them to learn. To grow physically and mentally healthy, children should play and experience all kinds of age appropriate activities. They should be allowed to learn for themselves before discouraging them, because wanting to keep them away from danger tends to be repressive and promote fear in children, to experiment, to fall, and discovering new places and different games.
It is a reality, that now, games, toys and children's activities are related to violent acts, such as video games and the Internet. So as adults, parents have the obligation to review the games their children play and tell whether they are appropriate for their age and explain why. But, there are extreme cases and there is the majority. Children who are forbidden to play any video games or use computers, because parents think they are for fools and foster weakness. These parents think those who only play video games and spend every day watching television. For some parents it is the best way to entertain and to avoid being asked to leave the house and interact with them and with more children. Both cases are detrimental to the development of children.
There are children that their parents only allow them play with puzzles and strategy games. They are not allowed to watch TV on weekends in the morning, do not listen to music according to their age and that their most entertainment is play chess. Those children, do not ask for candy or toys and are not use to playing games or activity involving physical contact. They are children with sad eyes, feel very alone, you can perceive a great bitterness, and all the normal activities of their age, for them, are boring. These children also do not know life with children of their age, and when they do, they tend to be very aggressive. They behave and talk like adults and their parents desire is to turn their child into a genius, forgetting that geniuses are born, not made.
These children, as adults, will probably have a difficult time interacting with others. They do not know how to have fun. Fearful and phobic adults, they probably were children who were treated as adults, forced to mature early. Some of them can not establish loving bonds with their children, play with them, and are also often repressive parents who force their children to act like adults.
Children are children, not adults. Remember that, each stage in life is necessary to live. Our childhood is essential. Please do not kill their childhood.
The fundamental step of any person is childhood, because this is the time most of the memories that make the adult behavior of a person. During childhood, people acquire the traits that characterize the rest of their life. It is also the stage in which major characters are rooted for life; values, fears, phobias, good or bad habits and the development of relationships.Children need to learn, but they also need to play, experiment and express themselves as children. Parents teach their children to ask and answer correctly, but they must do it naturally, using the child's language and not expect their children to behave and talk like them.
Some parents encourage cultural activities and positive attitudes in their children, such as reading, classical music, theater and arts in general. They use the right words to refer to objects and animals, body parts and situations. They worry about explaining things as they are, for not to deceive them. This type of education, fosters intellectual and emotional development of children, but the problem comes when it is the only thing that allows them to learn. To grow physically and mentally healthy, children should play and experience all kinds of age appropriate activities. They should be allowed to learn for themselves before discouraging them, because wanting to keep them away from danger tends to be repressive and promote fear in children, to experiment, to fall, and discovering new places and different games.
It is a reality, that now, games, toys and children's activities are related to violent acts, such as video games and the Internet. So as adults, parents have the obligation to review the games their children play and tell whether they are appropriate for their age and explain why. But, there are extreme cases and there is the majority. Children who are forbidden to play any video games or use computers, because parents think they are for fools and foster weakness. These parents think those who only play video games and spend every day watching television. For some parents it is the best way to entertain and to avoid being asked to leave the house and interact with them and with more children. Both cases are detrimental to the development of children.
There are children that their parents only allow them play with puzzles and strategy games. They are not allowed to watch TV on weekends in the morning, do not listen to music according to their age and that their most entertainment is play chess. Those children, do not ask for candy or toys and are not use to playing games or activity involving physical contact. They are children with sad eyes, feel very alone, you can perceive a great bitterness, and all the normal activities of their age, for them, are boring. These children also do not know life with children of their age, and when they do, they tend to be very aggressive. They behave and talk like adults and their parents desire is to turn their child into a genius, forgetting that geniuses are born, not made.
These children, as adults, will probably have a difficult time interacting with others. They do not know how to have fun. Fearful and phobic adults, they probably were children who were treated as adults, forced to mature early. Some of them can not establish loving bonds with their children, play with them, and are also often repressive parents who force their children to act like adults.
Children are children, not adults. Remember that, each stage in life is necessary to live. Our childhood is essential. Please do not kill their childhood.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger/wrath
The Emotion of the Falsely Righteous
Whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment
"Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
Some say we can't control our emotions, but we "choose" our emotions from our "emotional toolbox." If anger is in our heart already, events will bring it out. If we have let God give us peace, our reaction to events will reflect this: we may respond to offenses or accidents with humor, kindness and patience, because that is what is in our heart.
But if we still have anger in our heart, what do we do in the meantime? Once the anger wells up and starts to spill out, we have an ongoing decision: let it out or refuse to participate. This is not a matter of holding it in. It is a matter of starving it, refusing to feed it. Anger always dissipates eventually, so we can just let it happen sooner by not holding on to it and refusing to enjoy it. People enjoy their anger. Think about it; you will find it is true. Even though we may feel terrible later, we enjoy the power of anger while we are giving ourselves to it. We get an adrenaline rush and forget all the bad things about ourselves.
Every angry person feels righteous. When we are angry we concentrate on the object of it and forget everything else. It is Judgment Day, and we are playing God. Parenting may be the worst situation of all. An angry parent faces a small, helpless child and truly is an awesome force. The child can be frightened beyond belief, and the parent may come to enjoy this feeling, especially if the parent feels helpless in the face of others. Supervisors can intimidate employees in the same way, teachers do it to students, administrators to teachers, and schoolmates even bully each other.
The key is that only the righteous have a "right" to be angry. Appropriately, this is called "righteous indignation." There are rare cases where we are angry for the right reason: when we hear someone make racist remarks, lie to destroy another's reputation, or witness a heinous crime. However, none of us is truly righteous: we do wrong things, too. Given our own sins, we are in no position to judge, and righteous anger implies a kind of judgment, at least of an action. We aren't called to stand high above other people but with them. We fail, and we desire compassion and patience from others.
Many times, our anger over situations is not due to the situations' actual morality, but is because they conflict with our own ideas about what is good. And our ideals are not always God's. A good deal of self-examination is required: why am I really angry?
Whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment
"Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
Some say we can't control our emotions, but we "choose" our emotions from our "emotional toolbox." If anger is in our heart already, events will bring it out. If we have let God give us peace, our reaction to events will reflect this: we may respond to offenses or accidents with humor, kindness and patience, because that is what is in our heart.
But if we still have anger in our heart, what do we do in the meantime? Once the anger wells up and starts to spill out, we have an ongoing decision: let it out or refuse to participate. This is not a matter of holding it in. It is a matter of starving it, refusing to feed it. Anger always dissipates eventually, so we can just let it happen sooner by not holding on to it and refusing to enjoy it. People enjoy their anger. Think about it; you will find it is true. Even though we may feel terrible later, we enjoy the power of anger while we are giving ourselves to it. We get an adrenaline rush and forget all the bad things about ourselves.Every angry person feels righteous. When we are angry we concentrate on the object of it and forget everything else. It is Judgment Day, and we are playing God. Parenting may be the worst situation of all. An angry parent faces a small, helpless child and truly is an awesome force. The child can be frightened beyond belief, and the parent may come to enjoy this feeling, especially if the parent feels helpless in the face of others. Supervisors can intimidate employees in the same way, teachers do it to students, administrators to teachers, and schoolmates even bully each other.
The key is that only the righteous have a "right" to be angry. Appropriately, this is called "righteous indignation." There are rare cases where we are angry for the right reason: when we hear someone make racist remarks, lie to destroy another's reputation, or witness a heinous crime. However, none of us is truly righteous: we do wrong things, too. Given our own sins, we are in no position to judge, and righteous anger implies a kind of judgment, at least of an action. We aren't called to stand high above other people but with them. We fail, and we desire compassion and patience from others.
Many times, our anger over situations is not due to the situations' actual morality, but is because they conflict with our own ideas about what is good. And our ideals are not always God's. A good deal of self-examination is required: why am I really angry?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
How Much Pleasure Is Enough?
Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony
Some people can't have enough toys, television, entertainment, sex, or company. It is about an excess of anything.
There are at least three forms of Gluttony:
1) Wanting more pleasure from something than it was made for.
2) Wanting it exactly our way (delicacy).
3) Demanding too much from people (excessive desire for other people's time or presence).
More Pleasure Than It Was Made For
The world is full of good things, from the beauty of the stars to the ever-changing and never-changing oceans to the pleasure of human company. We are free to enjoy these things without becoming focused on any one of them to the exclusion of all else. It is possible to become so caught up in a pleasure, whether food or fun, that we can no longer enjoy other things, and would be willing to sacrifice other pleasures for the one.
We enter into Gluttony when we demand more pleasure from something than it was made for. Normally, we can only eat so much food, but some people in Ancient Rome wanted more pleasure, so they threw up after the meal and then ate more. This allowed them to enjoy eating more at the cost of health (and dignity).
Delicacy
In "The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis describes delicacy as a desire to have things exactly our way. He gives the example of food having to be prepared just right, or in just the right amount, but it isn't limited to food. We might complain about unimportant defects in a product, the temperature in the room, or the color of a laundry basket. There is a certain amount of discomfort to be expected in life, but the Glutton will have none of it. Instead of becoming strong by suffering the minor inconveniences of life, the Glutton insists on being pampered. No one dares to point out how petty or foolish they are. In fact, some celebrities are praised for their excessive perfectionism, as though it were a virtue.
Demanding Too Much From People
There can be a healthy and natural enjoyment of time spent with friends and acquaintances, but some people just can't get enough. They make demands until the other person moves away or explodes in anger. The Glutton is wounded that someone would take offense at their "love" for them. At least some people can get away. Far worse is when a parent demands too much from a child, requiring too much time or too many accomplishments from someone too small to grant so many pleasures. Even pets get excessive attention at times, but they don't seem to mind as much.
In some dating relationships, one person desires the other's company constantly, to the point that the other can barely hold down a job or continue in school. Whatever the reasons, the object of affection is expected to provide the pleasure of their company (at least) more of the time than is reasonable. Even in marriage, it is possible for a couple to be so "romantic" that the children are neglected. One legitimate pleasure (sex) can become obsessive to the point that another pleasure (the company of one's children) is lost
Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony
Some people can't have enough toys, television, entertainment, sex, or company. It is about an excess of anything.
There are at least three forms of Gluttony:
1) Wanting more pleasure from something than it was made for.
2) Wanting it exactly our way (delicacy).
3) Demanding too much from people (excessive desire for other people's time or presence).
More Pleasure Than It Was Made For
The world is full of good things, from the beauty of the stars to the ever-changing and never-changing oceans to the pleasure of human company. We are free to enjoy these things without becoming focused on any one of them to the exclusion of all else. It is possible to become so caught up in a pleasure, whether food or fun, that we can no longer enjoy other things, and would be willing to sacrifice other pleasures for the one.We enter into Gluttony when we demand more pleasure from something than it was made for. Normally, we can only eat so much food, but some people in Ancient Rome wanted more pleasure, so they threw up after the meal and then ate more. This allowed them to enjoy eating more at the cost of health (and dignity).
Delicacy
In "The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis describes delicacy as a desire to have things exactly our way. He gives the example of food having to be prepared just right, or in just the right amount, but it isn't limited to food. We might complain about unimportant defects in a product, the temperature in the room, or the color of a laundry basket. There is a certain amount of discomfort to be expected in life, but the Glutton will have none of it. Instead of becoming strong by suffering the minor inconveniences of life, the Glutton insists on being pampered. No one dares to point out how petty or foolish they are. In fact, some celebrities are praised for their excessive perfectionism, as though it were a virtue.
Demanding Too Much From People
There can be a healthy and natural enjoyment of time spent with friends and acquaintances, but some people just can't get enough. They make demands until the other person moves away or explodes in anger. The Glutton is wounded that someone would take offense at their "love" for them. At least some people can get away. Far worse is when a parent demands too much from a child, requiring too much time or too many accomplishments from someone too small to grant so many pleasures. Even pets get excessive attention at times, but they don't seem to mind as much.
In some dating relationships, one person desires the other's company constantly, to the point that the other can barely hold down a job or continue in school. Whatever the reasons, the object of affection is expected to provide the pleasure of their company (at least) more of the time than is reasonable. Even in marriage, it is possible for a couple to be so "romantic" that the children are neglected. One legitimate pleasure (sex) can become obsessive to the point that another pleasure (the company of one's children) is lost
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
Even the Busy Can Be Lazy
His master replied, `You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?"
Most people think of sloth as laziness, not doing much of anything, but just sitting around doing nothing. Many people stay busy most of the time but don't do the things they should, putting them off for later. They may be staying busy so they have an excuse.
Sloth (or acedia) is a kind of spiritual laziness (as opposed to mere physical fatigue or depression). It means not making it a priority to do what we should, or change what we should in ourselves. Some people might call it apathy, which means a lack of feeling.
An example might be a parent that always sends their child to bed early so they can have lots of quiet time to play solitaire or watch TV. Perhaps they could let the child stay up a little later and play a game with them or read. Or perhaps they always tell their child "no!" without taking the trouble to explain why...
Another example could be someone active in a political movement. Perhaps they don't bother to read other opinions and so never question whether their group is right or wrong. As a result, they could support some very wrong beliefs, such as racism, because they never tried to find the truth.
In business, some people never check into the laws to see if their practices are illegal. For Christians, we sometimes don't really want to know what the Bible (or our Church) teaches about something, so we put off reading or asking about it. Sloth is quite possibly the main reason why people don't read good spiritual books. They will read Christian fiction or some odd Gnostic gospel instead that "tickles their ears," but never the ones that could call them to action: loving their neighbor, helping the poor, telling the truth.
Lastly, there might be a student who naturally picks everything up with very little effort. Instead of learning more than required, or doing volunteer work, they might just sit around getting high or gossiping. Not because it is fun, but because they just don't care.
His master replied, `You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?"
Most people think of sloth as laziness, not doing much of anything, but just sitting around doing nothing. Many people stay busy most of the time but don't do the things they should, putting them off for later. They may be staying busy so they have an excuse.Sloth (or acedia) is a kind of spiritual laziness (as opposed to mere physical fatigue or depression). It means not making it a priority to do what we should, or change what we should in ourselves. Some people might call it apathy, which means a lack of feeling.
An example might be a parent that always sends their child to bed early so they can have lots of quiet time to play solitaire or watch TV. Perhaps they could let the child stay up a little later and play a game with them or read. Or perhaps they always tell their child "no!" without taking the trouble to explain why...
Another example could be someone active in a political movement. Perhaps they don't bother to read other opinions and so never question whether their group is right or wrong. As a result, they could support some very wrong beliefs, such as racism, because they never tried to find the truth.
In business, some people never check into the laws to see if their practices are illegal. For Christians, we sometimes don't really want to know what the Bible (or our Church) teaches about something, so we put off reading or asking about it. Sloth is quite possibly the main reason why people don't read good spiritual books. They will read Christian fiction or some odd Gnostic gospel instead that "tickles their ears," but never the ones that could call them to action: loving their neighbor, helping the poor, telling the truth.
Lastly, there might be a student who naturally picks everything up with very little effort. Instead of learning more than required, or doing volunteer work, they might just sit around getting high or gossiping. Not because it is fun, but because they just don't care.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust
Lust Dulls the Spiritual Senses
To be fair, there is one good thing about the sin of Lust: it cannot persist into eternity. In actuality, sins of the flesh tend to burn themselves out over time. After a while lust becomes a habit and what pleasure it brought diminishes until we wonder what the attraction is.
We can limit lust to sexuality, but we may want to consider the larger area of sensuality. Sensuality is the craving for physical pleasures of all kinds. An inordinate desire to avoid pain, for physical and even emotional comfort, the best food and wine, the best looking car, can all be forms of lust. Lust denies our spiritual nature and promotes the lie that "this is all there is." We try to make a heaven on earth, but instead we create a hell. Other people become ways of satisfying our needs. They are merely objects to service us, bring us food, run our business, give us pleasure. We want to reduce the population of the world so we won't have to share or we want more children so they can carry on the family business. Everyone else becomes a means to an end.
Still, we usually think of lust as it pertains to sexuality. It is good to clear up a few misconceptions about the Christian view, at least as it is put forth by the Catholic Church:
Another misconception is that Christians are obsessed with Lust. While this may be true for some individuals, the Church simply applies the same rules to sex that we apply to everything else: all things must be made subject to the will of God, as revealed by Jesus Christ. There are correct times and places for many things in life ("To everything there is a season"). We simply state that sex is not an exception. Money, power, sex, reputation/honor or individualism can all become obsessions and even gods to us, but they are not evil in themselves.
To be fair, there is one good thing about the sin of Lust: it cannot persist into eternity. In actuality, sins of the flesh tend to burn themselves out over time. After a while lust becomes a habit and what pleasure it brought diminishes until we wonder what the attraction is.
We can limit lust to sexuality, but we may want to consider the larger area of sensuality. Sensuality is the craving for physical pleasures of all kinds. An inordinate desire to avoid pain, for physical and even emotional comfort, the best food and wine, the best looking car, can all be forms of lust. Lust denies our spiritual nature and promotes the lie that "this is all there is." We try to make a heaven on earth, but instead we create a hell. Other people become ways of satisfying our needs. They are merely objects to service us, bring us food, run our business, give us pleasure. We want to reduce the population of the world so we won't have to share or we want more children so they can carry on the family business. Everyone else becomes a means to an end.
Still, we usually think of lust as it pertains to sexuality. It is good to clear up a few misconceptions about the Christian view, at least as it is put forth by the Catholic Church:
- "The Creator himself . . . established that in the (generative) function, spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit. Therefore, the spouses do nothing evil in seeking this pleasure and enjoyment. They accept what the Creator has intended for them. At the same time, spouses should know how to keep themselves within the limits of just moderation." - Pius XII, Discourse, October 29,1951.
Another misconception is that Christians are obsessed with Lust. While this may be true for some individuals, the Church simply applies the same rules to sex that we apply to everything else: all things must be made subject to the will of God, as revealed by Jesus Christ. There are correct times and places for many things in life ("To everything there is a season"). We simply state that sex is not an exception. Money, power, sex, reputation/honor or individualism can all become obsessions and even gods to us, but they are not evil in themselves.
Update - Professor Simon Blackburn, of Cambridge, is among the academics who assert that lust is a virtue. Let us examine his logic: Thirst is not considered sin, but thirst can lead to drunkeness, so lust should not be condemned. Intelligence tests given to children have questions like, "horse is to rider as car is to ______." Clearly, this professor would fail such a test. Thirst is to drunkeness as sexual urges are to lust (or immoral sexual acts). If he meant "sexual urges," those powerful but God-created guarantees of humans in perpetuity, he should have said so. Not only is the professor pandering to what people want to hear, he is also careless with words and concepts, and as a philosopher, he should know better. It is always essential that a philosopher uses the exact language demanded, and he failed to do so. His second error is the presumption that pleasure is enough. Pleasure is not enough. It is a spice of life, but so are accomplishment, peace of mind, curiosity and inquiry, good conversation, and play. Lust is by its nature disordered, and contributes to the dukkha, the disjointedness of the world as each person pursues their pleasure. It is sad to think Cambridge has fallen so far.
Lust blinds us. In dating, lust causes us to miss the warning signs in the relationship. We gloss over major obstacles to a good marriage because our physical desires are driving us. Lust is enslavement to the senses, to the animal part of man. Lust deadens our spiritual senses so we cannot hear God calling. If you are professing to be a Christian and yet are fornicating or committing adultery (these mean sexual contact or pleasure, not just intercourse, outside of marriage), you are fooling yourself. Unrepented lust is a solid barrier to growth in faith, but it does not prevent growth in Pride. Think about it.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
A Fear of Failure, A Fear of Need
Greed is the quality that has been advanced to humanity and which in turn is what else has destroyed and damaged, In the U.S., more than 45,000 people die annually because they have no health insurance and other thousands of thousands of people, do not cover their health insurance, their treatments, it’s unfortunate, especially when an attack that “only” killed 2,000 people to be appointed as the greatest catastrophe in history when in their own democracy things are happening as dark as the Nazi regime. Why in the UDA is health and dignity of a person a business? By greed, when it accumulates such a thirst for greed, there comes a time in which no distinction is made if the benefit itself is justified or not, and reach levels as horrible as that, health, dignity and life of a person can make a profitable business. Really DEPRESSING.
Greed is the quality that has been advanced to humanity and which in turn is what else has destroyed and damaged, In the U.S., more than 45,000 people die annually because they have no health insurance and other thousands of thousands of people, do not cover their health insurance, their treatments, it’s unfortunate, especially when an attack that “only” killed 2,000 people to be appointed as the greatest catastrophe in history when in their own democracy things are happening as dark as the Nazi regime. Why in the UDA is health and dignity of a person a business? By greed, when it accumulates such a thirst for greed, there comes a time in which no distinction is made if the benefit itself is justified or not, and reach levels as horrible as that, health, dignity and life of a person can make a profitable business. Really DEPRESSING.Corruption comes from greed, Murders and massacres to get increase the empire, came out of greed. But everything on greed is not bad if done with head, for example, be an example for others, helping many people…
Greed is not bad as long as human beings, control the greed, and not overlap things like humility, do good and help others…
The Seven Deadly Sins: PRIDE
The Reservoir of All Sin
"The Devil, the proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked." - St. Thomas More, 16th Century
"God is stern in dealing with the arrogant, but to the humble He shows kindness." - Proverbs 3:34
"Hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to the love of God ..." - The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2094
Overweening pride, arrogance, haughtiness: these have been the stuff of tragedy. Vanity, fussiness, delicacy: the stuff of comedy. These are all forms of self-delusion, and paper-thin masks over rotting features. Pride and vanity refuse the truth about who we are and substitute illusions for reality. While vanity is mostly concerned with appearance, pride is based in a real desire to be God, at least in one's own circle.
The first requirement of pride is spiritual blindness. Any glimpse of God reveals our frailty and sinfulness, just as a well-lit bathroom mirror shows the flaws in our complexion. Like Oedipus, we are driven to gouge out our eyes at the sight of our wretchedness and wander away from our heavenly home, with no purpose or direction. Unlike Oedipus, we build up myriad illusions about who we are and what we are about. We can busy ourselves with career, family and even church work, thinking we are being driven by a strong work ethic, moral values or the fire of the Holy Spirit. In reality, we may be running away from God by running away from ourselves. Nearly everyone else can see that we are putting on a show, but not us. Our coworkers may hate us (they are just jealous), our children may self-destruct or leave us (they are ungrateful), and we may never truly pray but merely stand in the presence of a god we have created, but we still refuse to see.
A second requirement of pride, indeed a symptom, is that each challenge to our pride drives us harder to improve our illusion of productivity, sanctity or compassion. It has been said that the definition of a zealot is "one who has lost sight of his goal, and so redoubles his efforts." We might say the zealot works twice as hard to keep up appearances.
When we hear sermons about pride, or read this text, we may be tempted to think of all the people we know who really need to read it. We need to read it. Pride is about us, and we would love to retain our illusions by pointing to others, saying: "But they are very proud. I really don't think I'm that great, but they do."
The best pride detector is this: how much are we bothered by the pride of others? And if we feel attacked, is our response: "other people are worse."
A strong indicator of pride is competitiveness. There is nothing wrong with playing to win, provided the joy is in the playing. If our happiness depends on defeating others or knowing our child is the star of the team, we are building a world of illusion
"The Devil, the proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked." - St. Thomas More, 16th Century
"God is stern in dealing with the arrogant, but to the humble He shows kindness." - Proverbs 3:34
"Hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to the love of God ..." - The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2094
Overweening pride, arrogance, haughtiness: these have been the stuff of tragedy. Vanity, fussiness, delicacy: the stuff of comedy. These are all forms of self-delusion, and paper-thin masks over rotting features. Pride and vanity refuse the truth about who we are and substitute illusions for reality. While vanity is mostly concerned with appearance, pride is based in a real desire to be God, at least in one's own circle.The first requirement of pride is spiritual blindness. Any glimpse of God reveals our frailty and sinfulness, just as a well-lit bathroom mirror shows the flaws in our complexion. Like Oedipus, we are driven to gouge out our eyes at the sight of our wretchedness and wander away from our heavenly home, with no purpose or direction. Unlike Oedipus, we build up myriad illusions about who we are and what we are about. We can busy ourselves with career, family and even church work, thinking we are being driven by a strong work ethic, moral values or the fire of the Holy Spirit. In reality, we may be running away from God by running away from ourselves. Nearly everyone else can see that we are putting on a show, but not us. Our coworkers may hate us (they are just jealous), our children may self-destruct or leave us (they are ungrateful), and we may never truly pray but merely stand in the presence of a god we have created, but we still refuse to see.
A second requirement of pride, indeed a symptom, is that each challenge to our pride drives us harder to improve our illusion of productivity, sanctity or compassion. It has been said that the definition of a zealot is "one who has lost sight of his goal, and so redoubles his efforts." We might say the zealot works twice as hard to keep up appearances.
When we hear sermons about pride, or read this text, we may be tempted to think of all the people we know who really need to read it. We need to read it. Pride is about us, and we would love to retain our illusions by pointing to others, saying: "But they are very proud. I really don't think I'm that great, but they do."
The best pride detector is this: how much are we bothered by the pride of others? And if we feel attacked, is our response: "other people are worse."
A strong indicator of pride is competitiveness. There is nothing wrong with playing to win, provided the joy is in the playing. If our happiness depends on defeating others or knowing our child is the star of the team, we are building a world of illusion
Batman Pulled Over
Bet ya heart just grew 3 sizes.... all I can say is bad cops
http://bcove.me/gt8j9u9k
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The rise of the phoenix
Search for what it is you hold close
to you...your truth
smile inward thinking you have
the upper hand in life
sit in the knowing of the lies that
have been shared with you
they were once my truth too
Birth of self in a timeless empty abyss
like the Phoenix rising the screams will
be heard...self proclamation...searing the ears of the deaf
bold in hews of orange and gold...
majestic release founded on the breast
the one...the oracle...seer and believer
of truth.
recess's of our inner caverns
Voices cry out begging for attention
the misery falling on deaf ears
wanton desires crest the the banks
Out of my ashes will rise a new phoenix
that life eternal because the spirit never dies
My soul is pure and love flows in my heart
Love, peace and compassion is my way
Like a phoenix I rise my life here restarts
The phoenix wil fight and cry
with strenght barley found
the phoenix wil rise against the world from ashes, dark and gray
to you...your truthsmile inward thinking you have
the upper hand in life
sit in the knowing of the lies that
have been shared with you
they were once my truth too
Birth of self in a timeless empty abyss
like the Phoenix rising the screams will
be heard...self proclamation...searing the ears of the deaf
bold in hews of orange and gold...
majestic release founded on the breast
the one...the oracle...seer and believer
of truth.
recess's of our inner caverns
Voices cry out begging for attention
the misery falling on deaf ears
wanton desires crest the the banks
Out of my ashes will rise a new phoenix
that life eternal because the spirit never dies
My soul is pure and love flows in my heart
Love, peace and compassion is my way
Like a phoenix I rise my life here restarts
The phoenix wil fight and cry
with strenght barley found
the phoenix wil rise against the world from ashes, dark and gray
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
FGM is the term used to refer to removal of female genital parts. Why do they do that?
In many societies the FGM is performed because of the belief that it reduces the sexual desire for a woman and therefore believed to be faithful. It makes the woman clean and promotes virginity and chastity. The women are sewed up and only opened for the husbands. In societies that practice FGM is it very difficult for a woman that has not undergone the “surgery” to find someone who wants to marry her. There is also a belief that the female genitals are ugly and bulky. “In some cultures, there is a belief that a woman's genitals can grow and become unwieldy, hanging down between her legs, unless the clitoris is excised. Some groups believe that a woman's clitoris is dangerous and that if it touches a man's penis he will die. Others believe that if the baby's head touches the clitoris during childbirth, the baby will die.
Religion is officially not saying that FGM should be done, but there are stories told that the women that perform this have learned that this is what the religion tells them that it is the right thing to do. These women can’t read and this is the way they make a living.
WHO (World Health Organization) estimate that around 140 million woman around the world have had female genital mutilation. About 92 million girls age 10 years and above are estimated to have undergone FGM in Africa. FMG is mostly proceeded at girls between infancy and age 15. 6000 girls a day have to go through this procedure.
The side effects of the procedure can lead to death. It causes shock, hemorrhage, damage to the organs surrounding the clitoris and labia may occur. After a while the urine may be retained and serious infection. They also use the same instruments on several girls without sterilization which can lead to the spreading of for example HIV.
“First sexual intercourse can only take place after gradual and painful dilation of the opening left after mutilation. In some cases, cutting is necessary before intercourse can take place. In one study carried out in Sudan, 15% of women interviewed reported that cutting was necessary before penetration could be achieved. Some new wives are seriously damaged by unskillful cutting carried out by their husbands. A possible additional problem resulting from all types of female genital mutilation is that lasting damage to the genital area can increase the risk of HIV transmission during intercourse.”
“During childbirth, existing scar tissue on excised women may tear. Infibulated women, whose genitals have been tightly closed, have to be cut to allow the baby to emerge. If no attendant is present to do this, perineal tears or obstructed labour can occur. After giving birth, women are often reinfibulated to make them ''tight'' for their husbands. The constant cutting and restitching of a women's genitals with each birth can result in tough scar tissue in the genital area.”
Procedures
Female genital mutilation is classified into four major types.
- Clitoridectomy: partial or total removal of the clitoris (a small, sensitive and erectile part of the female genitals) and, in very rare cases, only the prepuce (the fold of skin surrounding the clitoris).
- Excision: partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (the labia are "the lips" that surround the vagina).
- Infibulation: narrowing of the vaginal opening through the creation of a covering seal. The seal is formed by cutting and repositioning the inner, or outer, labia, with or without removal of the clitoris.
- Other: all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, e.g. pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterizing the genital area.
"Tools" like these can be used when the girls or young womens genitals are removed without anaesthesia and older women holding the girls down!
“FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.”
Read more at Amnesty International and World Health Organization (WHO):
Raise Your Voice Against The Violation Of Human Rights!!!
Real or fake Michael Jackson?
Convinced this is a puppet from Sesame Street…Michael Jackson his face looks like a felt tip marker. Can you say Play Doh? Looks like the clef in his chin was made with a toothpick....? 
2009 at London’s O2 Arena, fans were certain they were in the presence of a living legend. With all this, speculation is now running rampant that the person they got to cheer for and applaud was not even Michael to begin with, but a very convincing look-alike ...
For starters, the star’s chin was too square, even when accounting recent plastic surgery he might have had. However, if the chin is not enough to prove that the person on stage was not Michael, then there is the question of his voice, which was, according to Harris, too bassy to be Jackson’s. And that of his walk, which suddenly seemed more hunched – a strange thing for such a skilled dancer as Michael is.
The walk, an awkward, loping stride. He paused momentarily beside a golf cart, probably assuming it was going to take him into the arena – but was ushered in on foot. Next, the voice. The few words he stumbled over at the microphone had far more bass than many expected. If you closed your eyes you would surely have had trouble identifying him as the more familiar, childlike 50-year-old. Trouble is, surgery and image enhancement mean that few people really know what MJ will look like when they meet him.
According to this theory, and many others circulating freely on the Internet, Michael himself decided to go for a double for the press announcement either because of a tumble he had taken only hours before (which was caught on tape), or because he was too ill to attend. Canceling the announcement was not, understandably, an option on account of the fact that many fans and reporters had already gathered for it
I would suggest anyone who thinks that was the "real" Michael take the time to look at home videos and then you can see that what I am saying is true.
It is NOT Michael. A smile is a very personal thing and this "look alike" was NOT Michael.
Let me know what you think ... can`t wait your comments ...Don`t attack me .. hold your horses down
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Shout Out the Love
Wanna show you we can do this better
there´s no way we´re givin´up
Wanna show you there´s no surrender
there´s no way we gonna stop
We´ve been living far to long
thru the barrel of a gun
now is time to spread the love
and our hearts will beat as one
So put your hands up to the sky
I wanna see you wave them high
we gonna make it make it loud
when we shout it shout it out
So put your hands up to the sky
I wanna see you wave them high
we gonna make it make it loud
when we shout it shout it out
Take a minute take a breath to reload
spell it out and let `em know
that we´re never gonna loose our colors
we just gonna let `em show
Now is time to spread the love
and our hearts will beat as one
So put your hands up to the sky
I wanna see you wave them high
we gonna make it make it loud
when we shout it shout it out
So put your hands up to the sky
I wanna see you wave them high
we gonna make it make it loud
when we shout it shout it out
when we shout it shout it out
when we shout it shout it out
when we shout it shout it out
when we shout it shout it out
Monday, March 26, 2012
we all can take a valuable lesson out of this
I was watching YouTube and did see the video below. It is from Britain’s Got Talent audition 2012. It is really heartbreaking to see how people are wrongly judged. Get a tissue before you see this....
Now that you have seen it look again and look close at the audience and the judges, the way they behave before they start singing and when they hear how good it really is.
Now that you have seen it look again and look close at the audience and the judges, the way they behave before they start singing and when they hear how good it really is.
Something else that is touching the heart so deep is the friendship. They are there as a duo. She is there with him and when the judges starts to mention that they want only him to go to the next round he simply say, “we come on here as a duo and we’re gonna stay as a duo”. Aren’t true friendship wonderful!?!
Sadly, it have happend before on Britan's Got Talent:
Susan Boyle
Sadly, it have happend before on Britan's Got Talent:
Susan Boyle
You Know Me ....???
Robbie Williams has done some bizarre things during his pop career
perhaps, his most wacky yet as he turns into the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.
The singer hops around in a fantasy land
You Know Me and, naturally, exchanges the microphone for a carrot.
In the weird and wonderful landscape he inhabits there are singing frogs, talking cabbages and, as it draws to a close, sexy bunny girls turn up to spice things up.
The video starts with a dreamy Robbie sat in the hairdressers. He looks deep in thought before falling down the rabbit hole into his very own Wonderland.
immortal birds
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged
Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows
numberless, Singest of
summer in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the
country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and
sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking
at the brim And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and
leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep
her lustrous eyes, Or new
Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven
is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness,
guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose,
full of dewy wine,The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a
mused rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I
have ears in vain - To thy
high requiem become a sod.
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery
lands forlorn. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu!
adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged
Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows
numberless, Singest of
summer in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the
country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and
sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking
at the brim And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and
leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep
her lustrous eyes, Or new
Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven
is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness,
guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
The coming musk-rose,
full of dewy wine,The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a
mused rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I
have ears in vain - To thy
high requiem become a sod.
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery
lands forlorn. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu!
adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
john cleese...it`s a muppet show
Fierce creatures
take control of the zoo and revoke the Fierce Creatures Policy. Vince instead comes up with many under-handed and vicious schemes to attract customers-unauthorized celebrity endorsements, shoddy, overpriced zoo merchandise, and using robotic animals instead of real ones.
Revenge of the pink panther
Chief inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead .. At least that is what the world believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau`s car after being shot off the road
The world believes he`s dead... and he even shows up at his own funeral
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
t's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.
It's time to put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight.
Why do we always come here
I guess we'll never know
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show
And now let's get things started
Why don't you get things started
It's time to get things started
On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational
This is what we call the Muppet Show!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
THE TRUE STRENGTH OF THE HUMAN BEING
We all have strengths on which we trust. In fact, we have formed an idea of human being as something that can be trusted. Some trust on their physical strength, while others trust on their mental capacity or intellect. Some people trust their friends and others in their family.
We all have strengths and we believe that can be useful in life. We can depend on them. However, in the case of human - just a being, breathing, living, existing in this world, what should be their strength?
I´ll tell you more, what is the true strength of the human being? Physical force one day disappear. You can see how some people have been weakened so that they can barely lift a glass. It's about time. That happens. In terms of intellectual capacity, there are people who can not even remember their name, they are unable to remember anything. You can not trust the intellect. Does the family? Sooner or later, have to follow your own path. Friends? While you correspond to your friendship, it is possible to remain at your side, but if one day you stop doing it, you may also leave.
So what is the real strength that has a human? To find that strength can not go out. You have to go INSIDE. And when you return to your interior, close your eyes and darkness is not what you see, that you see is your vision. When you "close" your ears, and what you hear is silence, what you hear is your sound, that nobody can take away. IS REAL.
We all have strengths and we believe that can be useful in life. We can depend on them. However, in the case of human - just a being, breathing, living, existing in this world, what should be their strength?
I´ll tell you more, what is the true strength of the human being? Physical force one day disappear. You can see how some people have been weakened so that they can barely lift a glass. It's about time. That happens. In terms of intellectual capacity, there are people who can not even remember their name, they are unable to remember anything. You can not trust the intellect. Does the family? Sooner or later, have to follow your own path. Friends? While you correspond to your friendship, it is possible to remain at your side, but if one day you stop doing it, you may also leave.
So what is the real strength that has a human? To find that strength can not go out. You have to go INSIDE. And when you return to your interior, close your eyes and darkness is not what you see, that you see is your vision. When you "close" your ears, and what you hear is silence, what you hear is your sound, that nobody can take away. IS REAL.
HAPPINESS
Are we happy? Or do we spend most of our time looking for something ... something new, something interesting, something that allows us, perhaps for the first time in our lives, relax and enjoy our experience without having to question our actions and ourselves ?
Many people seek happiness, but few people are really happy. Is it because it's so hard to find is discovered only by a few lucky people? And those who succeed? Do you have by luck, or earn it through their efforts?
Perhaps the most basic question we can ask in regards to happiness is: How I can get it? This question is interesting because it assumes that happiness is something external, something that requires effort to achieve.
Then began the great journey of our lives, looking for things that we believe will bring us peace, joy, comfort. Maybe if enough positive factors together, we can combine them and, as in a mathematical formula, get the result you want.
But throughout life we checked again and again that this method does not work, and every time we fail we lose a little faith in our ability to affect our environment and grow the necessary conditions to enable us with gladness .
Back to the question: How I can get happiness? Our parents tell us that if we get a stable, through studies, work and family, we are well placed to find it.
The church tells us that through our faith in a god, one day come to know happiness. Maybe not in this life, but someday we'll get the most valuable reward of all: a paradise in heaven.
But: if we accept the whole idea that as individuals, we are insignificant to the will of an omnipotent being. We have no control, we are not responsible for our lives.
Television tells us that happiness is a direct product of our skill at using.
And who are we to believe when we leave home, we went to the church, turn off the TV? When they fall outside voices into silence, and their echoes are fighting in the field of our minds, what conclusion can we draw? At present, we only know one thing: that we are confused.
We know we do not experience the happy life we want. Happiness is something that too often eludes us, which is not sufficiently present in our lives.
It is natural to try to increase our joy, to live a happier life. But here's where many people make the mistake to be mounted on a circuit or over, or give up, because happiness is not something that can be purchased.
And this is the central problem: the habit of seeking happiness outside. Like any habit, inertia is accumulated through the years, and once started is incredibly difficult to stop. And the more time passes, the harder it makes us admit that we use a method useless to increase our happiness.
Happiness is our natural state. If not happy, is because we are adding something artificial to all our lives on this planet as humans. That something is the need to find something, become something we are not, reject our intuition and our natural impulses in favor of artificial rules that we impose, thanks to pressure from our society.
Be, simply be, exist, live experience life ... is a tremendously beautiful. We lose it because we get too much in our mind, we spend too much time thinking about things and we plunged fully into the moment.
Many people seek happiness, but few people are really happy. Is it because it's so hard to find is discovered only by a few lucky people? And those who succeed? Do you have by luck, or earn it through their efforts?
Perhaps the most basic question we can ask in regards to happiness is: How I can get it? This question is interesting because it assumes that happiness is something external, something that requires effort to achieve.Then began the great journey of our lives, looking for things that we believe will bring us peace, joy, comfort. Maybe if enough positive factors together, we can combine them and, as in a mathematical formula, get the result you want.
But throughout life we checked again and again that this method does not work, and every time we fail we lose a little faith in our ability to affect our environment and grow the necessary conditions to enable us with gladness .
Back to the question: How I can get happiness? Our parents tell us that if we get a stable, through studies, work and family, we are well placed to find it.
The church tells us that through our faith in a god, one day come to know happiness. Maybe not in this life, but someday we'll get the most valuable reward of all: a paradise in heaven.
But: if we accept the whole idea that as individuals, we are insignificant to the will of an omnipotent being. We have no control, we are not responsible for our lives.
Television tells us that happiness is a direct product of our skill at using.
And who are we to believe when we leave home, we went to the church, turn off the TV? When they fall outside voices into silence, and their echoes are fighting in the field of our minds, what conclusion can we draw? At present, we only know one thing: that we are confused.
We know we do not experience the happy life we want. Happiness is something that too often eludes us, which is not sufficiently present in our lives.
It is natural to try to increase our joy, to live a happier life. But here's where many people make the mistake to be mounted on a circuit or over, or give up, because happiness is not something that can be purchased.
And this is the central problem: the habit of seeking happiness outside. Like any habit, inertia is accumulated through the years, and once started is incredibly difficult to stop. And the more time passes, the harder it makes us admit that we use a method useless to increase our happiness.
Happiness is our natural state. If not happy, is because we are adding something artificial to all our lives on this planet as humans. That something is the need to find something, become something we are not, reject our intuition and our natural impulses in favor of artificial rules that we impose, thanks to pressure from our society.
Be, simply be, exist, live experience life ... is a tremendously beautiful. We lose it because we get too much in our mind, we spend too much time thinking about things and we plunged fully into the moment.
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