corimagua

exploring my mind and spreading the light through blogging

The Law of Love

The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not… a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work great wonders… The men and women who discovered for us the law of love were greater scientists than any of our modern scientists… The more I work at this law, the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of this universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have to power to describe.

-Mahatma Gandhi,  quoted in P.Crean and P.Kome, eds.,

Peace, A Dream Unfolding

IMAGINATION

http://vimeo.com/34902950#

Let your mind be blown as you listen to Jason Silva go on one of his interesting rants, this time about the power of the imagination.

Feed the light Side

 

A very old and wise Native American Cherooke story that highlights the dual aspect of life and its oppositional forces, good and evil, yin and yang. The battle wages in the external world and inside every single one of us. We decide which side we listen too. I hope you feed the right wolf and like always, keep growing in the light direction. 

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La siguiente es una una fábula vieja y sabia de los Indios Cherokee del sudeste de Norte America que usaban cuentos para transmitir importantes lecciones y filosofias de vida. Este habla de la las fuerzas de oposición dentro de cada momento y de la estructura dualistica de la vida. El yin y yang, la noche y el dia, la tristeza y la alegria, el odio y el amor, la vida y la muerte. La lucha eterna del bien contra el mal se pelea no solo en el mundo exterior sino también dentro de cada uno de nosotros. Somos creadores de nuestra realidad y como tal decidimos a que lado le hacemos caso, al bien o al mal.  Somos nosotros quienes decidimos con que lado dirigimos nuestros acciones y vivimos nuestras vidas. No dejes de crecer en la dirección de la luz.

Un abuelo hablando con su ñieta le dice, 

“Hay una pelea dentro de mi. Es una pelea terrible entre dos lobos.”

“Uno es malo: Es el ira, la envidia, el dolor, el lamento, la codicia, la culpa, el resentimiento, la ignorancia, la inferioridad, las mentiras, el falso orgullo, las ideas de superioridad….. el ego.”

“El otro es bueno: Es la alegria, la paz, el amor, la esperanza, la serenidad, la humildad, la gentileza, la amabilidad, la benevolencia, la empatia, la generosidad, la verdad, la compasión….. la Fe.”

“La misma pelea se esta luchando dentro de ti y dentro de cada persona”

La ñieta le pregunta, “Cual lobo va a ganar?”

“El que le das de comer”, le responde el abuelo.

 

El Gran Discurso

El video es el discurso final de la pelicula El Gran Dictador, una comedia-drama Americana de 1940. La estrella de la pelicula es el gran Charlie Chaplin que aparte de ser el actor principal tambien fue el escritor, el productor, el director y el compositor de la musica. Un genio famoso por sus peliculas silenciosas, El Gran Dictador fue su primer pelicula hablada y su mayor èxito comercial.

The greatest speech ever made

This is the Closing Speech from the film The Great Dictator, an American comedy-drama form the 1940’s. The film’s star was Charlie Chaplin who aside from being the main actor in the film, he also wrote it, produced it, scored it, and directed it. Famous for his silent films, The Great Dictator was his first true talking picture and his greatest commercial success.

In Context

I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or from the right or the north or the south. They will come from…. islands of people with integrity who want to do something…. This is what a network should do–Identify the people who would like to do something good. And they are everywhere. This is how the change will appear–you won’t notice the difference. It won’t be anyone winning over anyone. It will just spread…. It will be something that the intelligent people do…

-Karl-Henrik Robèrt, In Context

@Simply Living

To become human, one must make room in oneself for the wonders of the universe.

-South  American Indian Saying

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Para convertirse en humano, uno tiene que hacer lugar en si mismo para las maravillas del universo.

-Dicho Indio de Sudamerica

LET’S BE HUMAN BEINGS

Human beings have survived on planet earth because we posses certain traits which secured a place for us in the evolutionary struggle of life. We don’t have exceptional speed, strength, or agility so how is it that we became the dominant species ? We are incredibly slow in comparison to other species, running away from predators is unlikely since we don’t posses exceptional speed. At college, two of my friends and I tried catching a squirrel once and I quickly realized that human beings are not very agile in comparison to other animals. Even though some of us like to think we are strong because we lift weights and go to the gym. We are scrawny and weak in comparison to our closest genetic relatives; the chimpanzees, whose DNA is 98% identical to ours. We can’t hear as well as a bat, smell as well as a dog or see as well as an eagle. Regardless of all these weak points, not only have we survived on the planet, we have flourished and thrived and rose to dominance in an incredibly short time on the evolutionary scale. How did we do this? what is in that 2% of genetic material that makes us so different from chimpanzees? The key to our success is the possession of the most complex structure on earth. Weighing in a mere 1.5 kilograms and occupying the space of two fists, the one, the only: The Human Brain

The human brain is a big part of what makes us human and it’s sad to think that most people don’t use it, they run on autopilot almost never resorting to the true power of thought. The power of the human brain is unmatched by any supercomputer. The human brain might be the most important thing ever created, we cannot let it go to waste. Maybe whoever designed all this realized how precious life was and entitled us humans, to look after it. With our brains we could observe, understand and protect life. There is an age old saying that says that with great power comes great responsibility. Humanity, as a whole is far from being responsible and our species needs to grow up and we need to do it fast. 

Exiting and challenging times lie ahead. The great river of change is upon us, its waves are crashing evermore violently against our shores. We cannot set up barriers to stop it, we cannot build dams to try to control it. We must let it flow through us, wholly and completely and embrace this change. Modern industrial civilization has only been around for 200 years, thats it. 200 years is nothing, it is a tiny little blimp on the evolutionary scale yet most think life has been like this forever and that nothing can ever change. Don’t be fooled, this is just a short little experiment humanity has been on, and in many ways it is failing. We must change and adapt our course or we too will become part of the the millions of species who have gone extinct. We will become just another failed evolutionary attempt. Life will re-group and start over, and all our power, all our magnificence, all our potential will be……… forgotten. 

We need to grow up, become responsible, and utilize this great power bestowed upon us. We are the protectors and nourishers of life, the single greatest miracle in the universe. Wrap that through your mind, internalize it and accept it. We are on the brink of extinction and we still want “business as usual”. We want everything to continue just as it is, steadfastly refusing to allow change to flow through us. How is it that the protectors became the abusers? Where did we go wrong? We might never now, but what i do know is that we can change. We can assume our responsibilities and build a new and better world for our children and grandchildren. We can start building today the world of tomorrow where life and love are abundant, a world that acknowledges our interconnectedness and as such, values collaboration and cooperation, compassion, wisdom, and above all love.  Let’s be human beings and like always keep growing in the light direction.

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It’s what’s awakened inside you that gets interesting, much more interesting than impressing the world, or even yourself.

-Dynamo Jack

Java Native, Indonesia

Back With a Vengeance

I have been busy for the past two weeks and I had to put the blog on a back burner and haven’t posted anything. I have more free time again so I’m back on it, stronger than ever. Expect a lot of material coming out of Corimagua in the near future. Thanks readers !