When we want to express love, how can we best go about it? How do we best understand to ourselves, how do we explain it?
In English, love is sort of either an accident, a prison or a war: you fall in love, you are attached to someone, or you conquer the one you want. In some mediterranean languages, love is actually quite circular, looping back as it reaches brfore going back to oneself: lehitahev (Hebrew), s'enamourer (French) or enarmorarse (Spanish). I don't know other languages, but I wonder...
At the end of the day, it is feeling that best expresses the plethora of facets love has. It is the message in Extreme's 'More than words'. So why do we need still the words? Why do I sometimes crave hearing them? And why is it specially difficult to tell myself that I love myself when I look into the mirror?
Probably, because unlike the love of your parents, who can hug you; or your lover, who can kiss your body; or your friends, who show their appreciation in many cheerful and supporting meetings... unlike all those, we cannot feel any outer source filling up our emptiness. Thus, we rely on words - and those words fail us.
What to do, then? Reflect, on both its meanings: reflect on what love really is, what it means to share it; reflect the feelings that those who love you, so they multiply like in a never-ending caleidoscope. If so many people find you worthy, accept it! Love is speaking loud and clear:
With or without words, you are love. Inside and out.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Noetics
It is a fascinating thing: the world is full of information, but we are blind and deaf to most of it until we become interested in an issue. From that point on, most people, books, events that come into our life will be blatantly connected to that matter.
Take Noetics, which I did not know existed as a name, but which I have been interested in for a long time. It has been a long time indeed that I have followed the teachings of how the mind influences the world; or how the mind can cure the body; how the old saying "mind over matter" is actually true... but often considered impossible to prove. I didn't know Noetics, the scientific experimentation of this field, was active - has been active for years!!
So, how did I come to find out? Well, that's the whole matter at heart: connections of meaning and meaningful connections in our reality. To cut it short, I came across it on a novel (Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol). I got this novel from my mother's bookcase, on a "spur of the moment" choice before leaving for the airport. I did not want to keep on reading the book I had with me, as I was thinking a lot about energy, learning, and the power of the mind. And I was thinking about it from having met, in the last few months but particularly last week, people actively involved in that field.
Which is what I have meant to do for a long time. Although I just keep thinking about doing so. And I write about it all, here. So, in a way, I have brought it to me: of all the information that surounds me, I become aware only of that which is relevant to my interest. That is the information I need, and thus I atract it from among all the possible bits of perception I am not aware of processing. They say we go through thousands of thoughts daily, yet are conscious of only a percentage of all that mass. Imagine how much we would learn, we would experience, we would create, if we learned to be alert to all those "lost" thoughts!
Here is a call for the conscious generation of thoughts. The conscious generation of the world.
Take Noetics, which I did not know existed as a name, but which I have been interested in for a long time. It has been a long time indeed that I have followed the teachings of how the mind influences the world; or how the mind can cure the body; how the old saying "mind over matter" is actually true... but often considered impossible to prove. I didn't know Noetics, the scientific experimentation of this field, was active - has been active for years!!
So, how did I come to find out? Well, that's the whole matter at heart: connections of meaning and meaningful connections in our reality. To cut it short, I came across it on a novel (Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol). I got this novel from my mother's bookcase, on a "spur of the moment" choice before leaving for the airport. I did not want to keep on reading the book I had with me, as I was thinking a lot about energy, learning, and the power of the mind. And I was thinking about it from having met, in the last few months but particularly last week, people actively involved in that field.
Which is what I have meant to do for a long time. Although I just keep thinking about doing so. And I write about it all, here. So, in a way, I have brought it to me: of all the information that surounds me, I become aware only of that which is relevant to my interest. That is the information I need, and thus I atract it from among all the possible bits of perception I am not aware of processing. They say we go through thousands of thoughts daily, yet are conscious of only a percentage of all that mass. Imagine how much we would learn, we would experience, we would create, if we learned to be alert to all those "lost" thoughts!
Here is a call for the conscious generation of thoughts. The conscious generation of the world.
Monday 4 October 2010
Seasons - Autumn
Wisdom comes with time and changes. I was told a few weeks back, 'I want small surprises and big changes' (I paraphrase).
Here you have them, looking all around you and popping up all the time! Or rather, here you have them, deciding on the party they will throw you in six-months time.
It is Autumn: the Earth is getting ready to hibernate, to sequester itself in order to gestate the wonderful gifts it shall bring us in Spring. It is the time to gather the last harvests, to choose the crops to be planted, to plant and then protect them. Similarly, it is the time to find within ourselves what it is we really Want, to set in motion the plans to reap those things, and to understand the value of patience.
We live in a society of instant gratification - we decide we want something, so we go and get it. Simple. Quick. Painless. Patienceless. It can be a wonderful way to live, but it has its drawbacks. It is wonderful in what menial desires are concerned, as we meet them to instantly forget about them (no mess, no stress). On the other hand, it is a drawback in what understanding the value of what we get is concerned, for we seem unable to appreciate worth devoid of suffering / struggle. Thus, we are deprived of surprises, those little snippets of gifts, because we just miss the fact that there is a gift in all that! Worse still, we are thwarted in our ability to bring about changes to our lives, as we have un-learned how to work towards goals.
In this Autumnal period, we can all look at the stars before it is too cold to do so, to experience the wonder of receiving the gift of their light millions of years later on. Imagine that: some precious, amazing elements in your life have been on their way to you from before the time this planet was solid! Others, like clear water in the rivers, fruit in the trees or birds singing have been waiting for you from before there were humans around! Marvelous, generous, enriching gifts that make your life more beautiful, more comfortable, better - and they all have one thing in common: it has taken TIME to perfect them!
We all want our life to share in more moments to appreciate the "fine things in life", but clearly we need one thing: time! Take time, and go inside yourself, like the Earth. Prepare yourself to wait, like the Earth. Discover you inner Autumn and... wait.
Here you have them, looking all around you and popping up all the time! Or rather, here you have them, deciding on the party they will throw you in six-months time.
It is Autumn: the Earth is getting ready to hibernate, to sequester itself in order to gestate the wonderful gifts it shall bring us in Spring. It is the time to gather the last harvests, to choose the crops to be planted, to plant and then protect them. Similarly, it is the time to find within ourselves what it is we really Want, to set in motion the plans to reap those things, and to understand the value of patience.
We live in a society of instant gratification - we decide we want something, so we go and get it. Simple. Quick. Painless. Patienceless. It can be a wonderful way to live, but it has its drawbacks. It is wonderful in what menial desires are concerned, as we meet them to instantly forget about them (no mess, no stress). On the other hand, it is a drawback in what understanding the value of what we get is concerned, for we seem unable to appreciate worth devoid of suffering / struggle. Thus, we are deprived of surprises, those little snippets of gifts, because we just miss the fact that there is a gift in all that! Worse still, we are thwarted in our ability to bring about changes to our lives, as we have un-learned how to work towards goals.
In this Autumnal period, we can all look at the stars before it is too cold to do so, to experience the wonder of receiving the gift of their light millions of years later on. Imagine that: some precious, amazing elements in your life have been on their way to you from before the time this planet was solid! Others, like clear water in the rivers, fruit in the trees or birds singing have been waiting for you from before there were humans around! Marvelous, generous, enriching gifts that make your life more beautiful, more comfortable, better - and they all have one thing in common: it has taken TIME to perfect them!
We all want our life to share in more moments to appreciate the "fine things in life", but clearly we need one thing: time! Take time, and go inside yourself, like the Earth. Prepare yourself to wait, like the Earth. Discover you inner Autumn and... wait.
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