Spiritual Incubation Continues....

It seems that spiritual changes occur despite us. We can feel them and breathe them up in the air. It suffices to look all around and observe that.
For how long, no idea....

SPIRITUAL INCUBATION

Incubation in process

Results are expected soon...

From Money to Self-Respect via Education

Only when it's about gain, profit and financial profit, do we judge as important a humanity - humanistic change to the better?

I happened to read an article in NY Times today about a study showing that wheh kindergarten education is well provided, with excellent teachers, children tend to be significantly more successful in the adulthood, in every aspect of it (professional, family, savings etc...).
And that means gain and less trouble for the society.

So, in the aftermath of this study there are educational committees deciding to change their teacher-casting strategies. They (finally!) fire the worse of them, and hire and (hopefully?) pay more and support the best of them.
And this is good.

But, do we always have to make humanistic choices by financial gain?
When are we really going to choose the best for us humans simply by showing the self-respect and self-value that we possess de facto in our lives?
I really hope that this day is not far away.

Check the NY Times article on the link.

Will you will?

Summer has arrived (at least according to my calendar!). And every time that this divine phenomenon occurs, I feel calm, a kind of deep and implicit serenity that allows me to generate only positive thinking.
And then, positive thinking helps me generate positive feeling and after that positive emotion.
And somehow I observe that at these moments of mind-peacefulness the best things can happen in my life.

So, lately, after finally observing and realizing this reason-emotional equation, I have decided to produce more and more often, independently of the weather outside.
Yet, in order to do so, I may need some new "tools", so as to overcome the weather-power that for so many years I let influence me.
Funny how, by the laws of highly improbable but not impossible  chance, I have come across a video on TED website, explaining the power of the "will effect". It appears, that the more you exercise your personal, internal, spontaneous, independent of external frame will-power you can get that which you wish for and desire.

Right now, I'm at that phase of digesting this new piece of info, and putting myself into practice.
So far,  there is the small progress of the inertia-beginning. Even though these first results are not yet spectacular, what is most important is the emotion that this experience offers me.
It is WONDERFUL, it is motivating, it is a deep sensation of health and peacefulness.
Check the link. It is really worth it!

EYKIS or the WIshes of cosmic coincidence...

It's one of these "funny" things that happen and remind you that you are not alone in this world.

I just want to wish happy and healthy and creative birthday to a person I know from his writings and I find him precious and wonderful.
Here is the coincidence: his name came strangely on my mind a couple of hours ago, so I googled him. Then I found out that in a few hours it's his birthday. Then I watched a small video of his, explaining a short story about a parable and his daughter's name that when spelled the other way around it means "wishes" in Greek, which happens to be one of my mother tongues... then I saw that lately he is ill, and I really believe that it's up to him...
And finally, for a reason I can't explain, I'm writing this message to him, because I know deeply inside me that he will receive it, in a moment that a question will demand a cosmic answer.
Happy birthday, coincidental human and spiritual friend...;-)

The Creativity "Hut"

It appears that scientists search our brains in order to find where exactly creativity is nested (check the title's link).
OK, that's fine and hopefully their future findings will contribute productively (or even creatively) to social or political aspects of daily life. For example, if scientists finally really brain-map the creativity centrum (or centra), I suggest that the moment a political "man" or "woman" presents himself or herself to elections, we should first scan his/her brain while asking him/her questions about serious political affairs, and we should wait and see whether his/ her brain scanning shows any important activity to the creativity area.
Imagine what would happen! I fathom that we might have some difficulty to nominate the majority of the already existing politicians...
Huhhhh, it's so nice to produce high quality fiction (...!), but while we are still here and now, and before anyone can guarantee us our politically (or scientifically) correct creative behavior, can we do something really, really creative?

My suggestions on that, next time!

On Moral Equation Again - The Social context of Mind and Soul

Ideas like the one found on the present link (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jgreene/GreeneWJH/Greene-Last-Stand.pdf) are available in our society for many decades (I dare say even centuries), but the voices announcing them were not loud enough.
Somehow, I think the ages change, and we are entering into a new era of human history, a better one and more spectacular, I hope.
It is now more than ever indispensable to understand how important is to consider social web as an extension of individual's development, alias the microcosmos and macrocosmos of human evolution. What is more important is to realize that we are all of us, and each one of us on his/her own, all at once, responsible for those two levels of human behavior.
I strongly believe that the latter statement is not an extra "burden" on human's shoulders. On the contrary, it is a power-giving and motivational concept for life changing. Our life changing, as individuals, as ensemble.

spring is love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErVP6xLZwg
Is it hormones, is it the energy that was saved during last winter and now desires to be expressed? is it only my impression or loves is in the spring air?

Luck or Lack?

Only recently has it crossed my mind that these two words -luck and lack- apart from their almost common spelling, they also may have something else in common. This could be the filter through which we see life. If we feel lucky, no lack is present. If we feel lack, we see no luck in our life.

People believe that it's not really up to us to choose between luck or lack in our lives. Nevertheless, I believe that the choice remains strictly in our hands. 

Whether we feel lucky or in the lack of something, it is our own very personal decision. I guess that this personal decision is the primary button for activating the law of attraction in our lives.
If I believe that I am lucky, luck (good luck, to be more precise and clear) appears in every possible ways in my life. On the other hand, If I feel that I lack of things and chances in my life, then I will experience my life through the perspective of complete lack, starvation, poverty, and all the relative expressions of "lack".

Maybe, the color of life depends on the way our eyes see it...

spring of joy

Spring's here and it makes me think of this wonderful song, that everytime I listen I feel a wave of euphoria blessing me.
Enjoy the link...
Delta S

Soul ...management

is it necessary to "cultivate" our soul? or its innate properties all always active and functioning? 

Check the link...

What is the "moral" equation?

is the "moral" issue a good pretext so as to start realizing the connection between emotion (soul) and reasoning (logic)?
check the link ...

the ''loneliness'' bet

The other day I've been to a concert. I was supposed to meet some friends inside the concert hall, but that didn't happen.
At first I felt quite uncomfortable, looking all around me that everyone was there with some company, big or small, it doesn't matter.
So, one "easy" choice, after my vane research to find my disappeared friends, was to leave the place.
But I really wanted to attend this concert. And, besides, I couldn't understand, why on earth a person alone has to be considered as lonely and miserable. I mention that, cause I've heard that a lot.
"We"(undefined quantity or quality this "we") are supposed to be happier when we dine with company, when we drink our coffee with company, when we travel with company, or even when we go to concerts with company.
To make myself clear: company is GOOD, but should it always be obligatory? If we don't dare to be on our own, and spend good time on our own -that is to feel good and loving for ourselves- how can we ever be in a company, and share real moments with other people?

Loneliness is merely the way we treat ourselves...

After this internal questioning.... I finally decided that it was a great opportunity for me to enjoy my concert and keep great company to myself.

When one feels great, this feeling radiates all around to others. During the concert I've met another company,we introduced ourselves, spent a wonderful time together and had fun. 

I didn't find my own friends until the end of the evening, but that was ok!

Being alone, being with other people, everything is wonderful as long as it feels natural and sincere. 

Human vs. Human : I didn't know that my fear hurts you, oh brother....

The idea that a human being has to fight about his / her right to declare his / her "humaness'' still remains for me the craziest crime of self-destructive humanity...

Is there a price for free will and free choice?

And if there is how much does it cost?
Can we afford the price? until where?

Is the price called "fear", "insecurity", desire to fit the average people, do "normal" stuff and live normal lives?
I believe that until nowadays, following our free will and choice it is not considered as "normal" nor "average".
Thus, when actually one respects one's free will and choice, one outstands but is not considered as outstanding. One is rather considered like a plague menacing the rest of the average-normal world. Possibly because the one reminds them the free will and choices that they never took, because they continuously hesitated to pay the price.

But is this "normal" -"average" life free of charge? I don't think so. As I look around me, I observe people, couples, families, I see huge prices cashed every single day in the memory of the "sold" right to freely live, dream and create.
Once, I've tried to follow this "average" way of life, by the fear of making my self visible far away from the crowd. It was intolerable! It was costing me myself.

So, I finally decided to pay the price for my free will, for my free choice, 'cause that costs so much less. Ok, may be some groups of the crowd won't talk to me anymore. But since I've established a clear, sincere, insightful, breathtaking communication with my inner self, I deeply know that I don't wish this type of "massive-average" social interactions.
I mainly need to feel FREE every single day to dream and create.
And that pays back all the possible prices...

Getting knowing Samantha Reed Smith

I was very young, still in primary school, when the book of Samantha Smith came to me. I started reading it and realized that a young child had once the "magic" recipe to change the world to the better. Just a young child asking the right questions, with no fear, with acceptance of the other, with love, enthusiasm, happiness and SMILE.
I wondered if all children could speak the truth that they mostly know the better, how intolerable that would be to the big fat lies that we've put around us. Those lies that sometimes are even greater in number than the air we breathe, so that we sometimes,ever more often everyday that passes, feel suffocating in this lack of real air.
Samantha lives in another world since 1985, after her airplane crashed. Today, she would be 38, but that's not important anymore. In the wholesome of 13 years that she lived, she managed to shake rotten beliefs of human "status", of rigid human societies that are not so human.
Her ideas are still working. She left us a legacy that now finds its major application in the modern world.
We remember her and honor her contribution.
But most importantly, we are aware about the new kids of this world. They also know the same innate human truth, and if we let them, even more if we help them, they can show us the next steps of the path Samantha traced first.

PS: the title links you to Samantha Smith's official site

Have you ever heard about the wonderful girl called Samantha Reed Smith?

the LOVE - ''law of attraction"

For those that speak french, I've been sent this radio program, it's a meditation about the "law of attraction" that brings love into the heart. It feels great doing it, enjoy it.

You can find the link by clicking on this post's title.

The Chopin I like

Everything is said in this music

About Living and Reasoning

I've just read the following article in "Science" Magazine.
It gave me unexpected new information about human state of "being", feeling, thinking, existing.
It appears that things may be more deep or crucial than we could have ever thought.

You can find the link by clicking on this post's title.

To fear or not to live?-Part II

...mmm ok, this lunch lasted a bit longer.. more than 1 week. I needed to think about it. Things started changing so rapidly, that I'm not quite sure whether I can keep up the pace. To continue my previous problematic, I realized suddenly that fear occupied a great part of my way of thinking, of my behavior, of my desires, of my dreams, of my relations with other people, especially friends, family and romance. I started suspecting the length of this "occupation" last week. (Actually, the initial suspicion about fear's involvement into my life dates back to many many years). This realization infuriated me, against myself of course. How could I possible be so blind about life, in this one and so precious lifetime given to me, and sacrifice valuable time, energy, ideas to the temple of fear?
I started thinking about the way I usually acted in the past, when I was facing possible decision-making with unknown developments ahead, by being so doubtful and so skeptical, that in the end I was remaining numb and silent by the idea of a "potential" negative result. I was not doing anything, by the fear of doing the wrong thing. Now that I think about it, it sounds so silly as if the idea of not taking the decision to breathe, by the fear of breathing the "wrong" air. Thus, suffocating may easily become one's reality.
And then, I was so mad against me, when, as you all know by mow, last week I saw a new different shade of sun light shining in the sky, that I couldn't stop asking myself why I was not able to see all that before.
After the first shock, I bizarrely felt profoundly relaxed, peaceful and satisfied, though no material reason was there for that feeling. At that very moment, I knew, deep inside me, that in life everything is possible, and all of my dreams really can become true if, and only if I start working on them. Joy is the feeling that derives from this realization.
Then, I looked around me. I was not the only enslaved by fear. There was all my life, all the people I knew, all the people I was passing by, all the people I haven't yet met. They are almost (there are those enlightened exceptions that will lead us eventually to the different human state) all isolated by fearful attitudes and ways of thinking.
Now I begin to better comprehend other people's reactions, words, or feelings. I can better tell that fear is behind strange or unpleasant, or joyless behavior. And that's comforting for me. It gives me hope. The kind of hope that dictates that the person will eventually see this different shade of daylight, like I did last week.
And then I remembered what William Shakespeare quoted in his Julius Caesar: "Cowards die many times before their death" (or something like that). Now I see...

To fear or not to live?

A thought is bothering me, and I'll be back soon to work more on it (after lunch;-))
Are we certain that fear is not the major parameter that ponders on our decisions about life, about love, about creative activities (as an antidote to "job" & "work")?
Yesterday, I would definitely and passionately deny it.
Today, though, living experiences made me so skeptical about it. As if I've discovered that till now I was wearing colored eye-glasses. And as if now, something (like a small rock) has broken them and I start to suspect that true life has a completely different shading of colors...

Bon appetit...

the "love" factor: choice beyond bonds and guilts

The other day, a friend of mine told me how she described to her parents the way she was dealing with their relation. She merely told them that she loved them both dearly, but she didn't like hanging out with them. She was acknowledging the fact that they were her parents and that wouldn't change, but she was feeling that they had nothing in common as far as choices in personal life, art, food, politics, dreaming, goals-setup were concerned.
She put a lot of effort to describe to me the awe and the astounding silence that dashed into that living-room, the moment she spelled the words! After all these years of "civilized" discussions and not-so civilized ones; after all the times she tried to explain to them that she could not lead her life the way they wanted; after all these years she was accusing herself of feeling profoundly ashamed of them; now she finally said the very few but decisive and sincere words.

I want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for sharing with me this precious episode of her life. These few magical words liberated me from my own family-bonds confinement. This magic spell gave me the possibility to observe the dimension in my life that was always there, but my eyes -full of remorses, well educated guilts and social ''musts''- were untrained to see.

It can be so true, you know, to love one's parents profoundly for they've given one's gift of life. But that does not mean one has to mimic one's parents choices, points of view, lives. If that were the case, imagine what would happen (and it had happened plenty of times in the human past). It means no boldness to new adventures and new life pathways. No boldness equals no creation that is needed order to bring progress and evolution to humanity. No creation equals no pleasure, no joy, no laughter, no reasons for true life.

Now, in my early thirties, I know I love both of my parents, but they are so different from me. I cannot be (or worse, become) what they wish me to; or better become that lost and unrealized ambition they keep on their minds, which they project on me. I knew ever since the beginning of my life that I was different from them. I guess most children do. I cannot blame them for not sharing this opinion with me.
Right now I'm happy to admit that my priority is to consciously give my unconditioned love to the person that is always around me, following me so devotedly, with a lot of support and precious consulting. Myself.

I cannot help it, if they are angry with me. It's their choice, and I fully respect it. But the most important this "magic spell" offered to my life was that I'm not afraid any more of the "oneness" effect, because, even this one is a mere illusion. We are never alone or abandoned. It 's always up to our personal choice the way we feel.

expectations - the trial and error procedure of personal hurt and learning

what happens when we realize that people we love are emotionally unavailable?
when, suddenly, we manage to see that our life's photo had a sepia-style, nice, nostalgic, ideal and old look, and then one day (one day at last, after a long long period of internal and silent personal changing) we finally see the actual colors, the shades of truth and we decide we don't like it anymore?
This new reality is hard, I know you know. It's as if an invisible hand comes and smashes your heart so hard, that you feel you cannot breath anymore. As if you start walking on a very slow motion, while the rest of the world speeds up so fast, that you are left behind. As if you become just a mere observer of your life, of your story, of your past.

But that's not all u have.

That's not at all all u've got.

Deep inside you already know the truth. You knew it for a while (since your birth). You were destined to live, and to create. That makes you a creature. A perfect, wonderful, human creature. And a creator. But have you ever seen a creator enslaved in situations, in ''musts", in rigid social frames (family is also a social frame) that don't let him proceed to his creative work?
No, by all means, no. A creator is by definition free. Otherwise he cannot fulfill his role of creativity. And expectations are by definition the ropes that tie us so tightly with those social frames that enslave our souls. If I expect things from others (family, friends, partners, colleagues, society) it is as if I'm trying to control and manipulate their behavioral outcome, that is their creativity. And if I give all my energy to this expectation procedure, I actually spend all my precious energy not to create the fabulous works I can give as a unique individual, here on this planet, but to observe other people's lives passing by in front of my eyes. And from creator, I become a spectator. I don't like that.
So I take back my smashed heart, I cure it patiently and passionately, and turn around my expectations so as to point towards me. And then I remind my self how much I love my self, how unique and wonderful a human self is (by definition, by birth, by nature) and I get inspired and start creating.

The pain that the deceitful expectations provide won't go away so easily, so perfectly, so rapidly. it'll take time, mostly because, I'll need to stop producing any new expectations for the others. Actually, the way I see it, expectations are ways to through away our responsibilities to others and then be ready to accuse when they don't fulfill the task we assigned without even asking them. And that's giving away our one personal energy.
Such a waste...

A new year has arrived. I don't know why, by my "expectation" for this new year makes me feel relieved, hopeful, well, free and especially happy. Because this new year, I expect myself to expect things only from myself and enjoy it!!!