We have been taught apathy for a very long time.
Ever since we were students: the teacher knew, and the students were taught; the teacher talked and the students listened; the teacher chose and the students complied.
This type of interaction makes us- both the teacher and the student, less human. It turns us into adaptable, manageable and apathetic individuals.
In this state of being, the world will never be transformed. It leads us to adjust, and it inhibits creative power. We never learn to challenge an answer, we almost never create using only our humanness. The part of the brain that we lose here, is the part in which, inside, holds the hope of our world. We must train ourselves to imagine things differently than the way they are now, and we must find the bravery to take action. A great mind attracts great things.
I am becoming freedom. I am freedom. It is not an ideal located outside of myself;
freedom is the indispensable condition for the quest for my completion.
December 9th
It is difficult for me to believe that God knows what is to come.
It's sort of like having a one way ticket to a different place on the planet; if there is no plane ticket to look at and know that you will be leaving, then your experiences become more real, and you are able to feel things with a greater intensity. You will hate it with everything in you, because there is no concrete hope. You will love it like you have never loved anything, because you know you are not leaving. You would give that place your whole self, because there would be nothing to hold back.
If God breathes with us, and feels with us, then perhaps God does not know the future. Perhaps God really does feel what I feel, and is confused when I am confused. If God knows what is coming, then would God be able to experience fear when bombs flew in a war zone? Would God cry with an African child when he is orphaned by AIDs? Maybe God does not know the plans of the universe, perhaps the thing that God knows is that everything is going to be alright.
If God knows all the answers, then I don't know how anyone can tell me that I could identify with God, because all I know, is all the questions.
Perhaps the future of this world is inside of us,
instead of God's day planner.
It's sort of like having a one way ticket to a different place on the planet; if there is no plane ticket to look at and know that you will be leaving, then your experiences become more real, and you are able to feel things with a greater intensity. You will hate it with everything in you, because there is no concrete hope. You will love it like you have never loved anything, because you know you are not leaving. You would give that place your whole self, because there would be nothing to hold back.
If God breathes with us, and feels with us, then perhaps God does not know the future. Perhaps God really does feel what I feel, and is confused when I am confused. If God knows what is coming, then would God be able to experience fear when bombs flew in a war zone? Would God cry with an African child when he is orphaned by AIDs? Maybe God does not know the plans of the universe, perhaps the thing that God knows is that everything is going to be alright.
If God knows all the answers, then I don't know how anyone can tell me that I could identify with God, because all I know, is all the questions.
Perhaps the future of this world is inside of us,
instead of God's day planner.
December 7th
The people who I admire most are the powerful people:
those who have allowed their power to spring up from their weakness, and in doing so, become stronger and and more powerful than they ever could have imagined.
It's this sort of unspeakable, awe-inspiring power that rises up in places of war, tragedy, hunger, despair; places of weakness.
The power of the oppressed means liberation for all mankind. Men who have never known real pain, or turmoil, who do not know the pain of starvation and who cannot identify with loneliness-- these people do not have the capability, the capacity or the power to free us.
I do not have the capacity to liberate the oppressed, I only have the capacity to struggle along with them, and to learn all I can from them.
That's what I commit myself to do.
those who have allowed their power to spring up from their weakness, and in doing so, become stronger and and more powerful than they ever could have imagined.
It's this sort of unspeakable, awe-inspiring power that rises up in places of war, tragedy, hunger, despair; places of weakness.
The power of the oppressed means liberation for all mankind. Men who have never known real pain, or turmoil, who do not know the pain of starvation and who cannot identify with loneliness-- these people do not have the capability, the capacity or the power to free us.
I do not have the capacity to liberate the oppressed, I only have the capacity to struggle along with them, and to learn all I can from them.
That's what I commit myself to do.
December 4th
I am not afraid to confront, to listen, or to see the world unveiled;
Being afraid of these things leads to neutrality, pride, destruction and injustice.
I am not afraid to meet people, or to enter into dialogue with them;
I am who I am because of who we all are.
I do not consider myself the proprietor of history,
or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed, but
I do commit myself
to fight at their side.
I pray that I will never be satisfied until we enter a new earth: one which every child determines their own destiny, instead of becoming victim to a system the instant they are born. I pray this, but so often, I do find myself satisfied. That is okay. It is okay for me to be happy, I need to learn that. I need to learn that I need not feel guilty for sharing a laugh, or a coke. It is okay that I have a bed, and a mom and a dad. Most of my life is spent doing nothing at all to make the world a better place, but all I can do is keep breathing. Each breath is becoming a permanent part of the universe, and I cannot find an argument against the fact that it is enough. If we all just keep breathing, and continue to become whatever it is that we are; if we practice differences, float free of time and remind ourselves that life is rich and beauty is everywhere, this world will become a better place with every moment: it must.
Being afraid of these things leads to neutrality, pride, destruction and injustice.
I am not afraid to meet people, or to enter into dialogue with them;
I am who I am because of who we all are.
I do not consider myself the proprietor of history,
or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed, but
I do commit myself
to fight at their side.
I pray that I will never be satisfied until we enter a new earth: one which every child determines their own destiny, instead of becoming victim to a system the instant they are born. I pray this, but so often, I do find myself satisfied. That is okay. It is okay for me to be happy, I need to learn that. I need to learn that I need not feel guilty for sharing a laugh, or a coke. It is okay that I have a bed, and a mom and a dad. Most of my life is spent doing nothing at all to make the world a better place, but all I can do is keep breathing. Each breath is becoming a permanent part of the universe, and I cannot find an argument against the fact that it is enough. If we all just keep breathing, and continue to become whatever it is that we are; if we practice differences, float free of time and remind ourselves that life is rich and beauty is everywhere, this world will become a better place with every moment: it must.
September 24th
I think this whole humanity is connected by the creator. One giant process of people who need each other, everyone. There is an infant in Africa who somehow makes God who he is, and makes me who I am, and an elderly person in Europe who does the same. This means freedom for all humanity, ridding all people of the bondage that the feeling of not being needed creates. Scientifically, we are all made of the exact same things, we are all human beings. Yet, we can not be so vain to say that the creator only works this process out in humanity, but it is reflected so much in nature too. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances- if there is a reaction, both are transformed." The second a person on planet earth draws breath, we receive the God-given right to be needed, and to be loved.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed today.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed today.
September 20th
As is was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.
One love,
One heart,
One soul.
You have been turned into something humanity
can "walk away" from:
yet,
humanity could never leave you.
You have been divided:
yet,
you are not divided.
You are lovely.
One love,
One heart,
One soul.
You have been turned into something humanity
can "walk away" from:
yet,
humanity could never leave you.
You have been divided:
yet,
you are not divided.
You are lovely.
September 10th
I watched Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, and I thought about my friends in Nepal. I thought about how if I could just simply remove my memories of them from my brain, I wouldn't have to miss them anymore, and I wouldn't have to spend every minute thinking about how they are in Nepal, growing, learning and loving without me.
But, I think it's when you realize you have met the people you could not bear to live without, even if it just meant living without their memory-- once you realize that at some point you have had, or that you do have the people in front of you who you need, the people's who's souls match yours, that's when you meet those people. That's why you love, and that's where you live... at home.
But, again. Chris Martin said, "we'd all like to meet the right person one day, but in one sense of my life, I've already met the right people." So, I suppose that wherever you are, and whoever you are with are those people you cannot live without, not even without their memory. I have a friend who says experience is simply taking things from people, and offering them things in return... things learned. I have met all the right people, for one sense of my life, and I am learning from each one.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed that night.
But, I think it's when you realize you have met the people you could not bear to live without, even if it just meant living without their memory-- once you realize that at some point you have had, or that you do have the people in front of you who you need, the people's who's souls match yours, that's when you meet those people. That's why you love, and that's where you live... at home.
But, again. Chris Martin said, "we'd all like to meet the right person one day, but in one sense of my life, I've already met the right people." So, I suppose that wherever you are, and whoever you are with are those people you cannot live without, not even without their memory. I have a friend who says experience is simply taking things from people, and offering them things in return... things learned. I have met all the right people, for one sense of my life, and I am learning from each one.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed that night.
September 12th
It's somewhere in the middle of September only because the calendar on my fridge says so. Nothing in my soul says its the 12th of September today, but still, I live my life according to September 12th; today.
Last night, I went to my first Voices for Peace rehearsal. When I walked in, I saw about 12 woman, a little over middle aged... according to calendars and birthdays and I instantly adored each one, except for one, in the front row who sounded a bit like a frog and almost never stopped making noise. When I sat down, I noticed a piece of paper with the words printed on it, "Breath connects the physical to the spiritual." Then, we sang words that echo peace. Things like United We Stand, and Divided We Fall. I believe it with my whole being.
I talked to Christa, and I talked to Kate. Christa told me love is color, and Kate told me that Jesus learned from a woman, that maybe, some people in this world would look down on.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed last night.
Last night, I went to my first Voices for Peace rehearsal. When I walked in, I saw about 12 woman, a little over middle aged... according to calendars and birthdays and I instantly adored each one, except for one, in the front row who sounded a bit like a frog and almost never stopped making noise. When I sat down, I noticed a piece of paper with the words printed on it, "Breath connects the physical to the spiritual." Then, we sang words that echo peace. Things like United We Stand, and Divided We Fall. I believe it with my whole being.
I talked to Christa, and I talked to Kate. Christa told me love is color, and Kate told me that Jesus learned from a woman, that maybe, some people in this world would look down on.
I guess what I am trying to say is that, my life was changed last night.
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