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!

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.

Soul ...management

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

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. 

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...