Monday, April 25, 2005

All in One...

"That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try to always recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women." D.H. Lawrence
We are all in One, maybe born with somethings (skills, talents, perceptions, characteristics, etc) more developed than others (karma?), then the surrounding environment/multitude of forces, our path, our evolution and constant transformation, develops and forms our being (in the present life).
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I am One, life is ONE, precious, all "bad" and all "good" and all whatever, living, changing and transforming at every moment, always new, unique. ...
My Soul, my Center (integrity, purity, love, real sense, peace, freedom, balance, silence, lightness, fluid, "Simple Happiness", God, nothingness, vacuity, no choices, nature), Body and Mind (The Mind, where the EGO lives, the periphery, which is never satisfied, enjoys the fight, selfishness, futility, pride, envy, doubts, contradictions, sufferings, possessions/obsessions, judgments, desires, tensions, pressures, conditionings, fears, where you can be lost, the place where the "bad" phantoms come, where the "perfect illusions", imaginations, past, future, dreams are formed, Jealousy, the way which can lead you to a path of pain, pointless and without sense. Why does the ego exists? I guess it has a role to play also? Yes, oh, the survival instinct!) are one.
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Accept it all and live in communion, with existence, face the way, the challenges, accept the obstacles, the demons. Its also in the uncertainty/the unknown/confusion/errors that you learn, but dont be violent with yourself, live in Consciousness/Awareness (and the ego disappears). Live, be one full of life, overflow good energy! And good energy is what you will have around you, unconditional love!! Dont compete or compare yourself, or else you will lose the beauty of your present, its uniqueness/purity in every aspect. Love the present (the only time that really exists) no matter what!!
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Be an Observer, of the impermanency, the endless lives and beings and experiences, testify all the multitude of forces! Between Indifference and involvement there is balance/ the witness, the Peace and Freedom. ...
My goal is to walk in the way of my Center, which must not be compromised by other less relevant matters (also because that is where the real wounds can be delivered, and are more hard to heal). Away from your center you can be lost in the periphery. The way to your center is the way of your inner voice, your conscience. ...
The existence, the universe leads/guides you, listen to the signs of the universe, to the path you must take in life. Walk naturally, face the challenges you have to face, face it with no fears! No real sacrifices in the end, its never too late.
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In your mind there are all sorts of thoughts. Dont react to them. Meditate on them and only transform them into words and actions (much more powerful for good and evil) if your heart, your conscience tells/elucidates you to do so. Also in words and/or actions you will realize the futility of your thoughts. ...
Trust, in you and in others, accept your beautiful unique path/role naturally. Only existence knows all. Laugh from/observe all the futility, know your inner self. Each experience is unique, there is no sense to compare it, no competition. Feel more, think less. Also your unique path forms you, each moment is unique. Feel the subjectivity of concepts. Oh! And man/mind needs to catalogue everything to his perception! The most magical things in life can not be understood; only the eyes of the heart can discover them.
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To live in the moment, you are not far from nothing, each thing is part of you. You carry each experience with you. There is not any moment like another, each one is unique with all their multiple forces and influences. Be yourself, respect your truth in any given moment. Existence knows everything, be creative! ...
All that is life, lives forever, only the package, the futile passes, dies, the soul lives on!? ...
Only you can save/know yourself and the true freedom is spiritual! To be a free being, a spirit, an observer of all the uncertainty, magic and fascinating life is my goal, my inner voice (The warm in my belly!). We are responsible for our feelings. ...
Observe the uncertainty, even in knowing how you are going to act/feel in any given moment. Its not up to you to decide the journey you will endeavor, you only have to decide what to do in each moment given to you!
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The universe leads, guides you, posses the challenges, you must, you will naturally overcame. ...
True, complete, total ecstasy/sharing, Love, can only happen between soul mates? (Moon/Sun) Yes, but soul
mates with conscience over flowing with life on their own! (Everybody should first be in peace alone, then that being can give love, since you only give what you have in you) ...
Some words of Osho: (www.osho.com)
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"From the head to the heart. The mind only can analyze. The heart synthesizes, the mind only can dissect, divide. Its a divider. Only the heart gives unity." "Love is blind; the meditation gives it eyes. And once your love is both love and meditation; then you became partners of journey." ...
"If the beginning is wrong the end can not be right."
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"The paradise is where your truth self flourishes." "We are already divine, perfect just the way we are." "Remember: nobody can stop the desire, but it is when the desire stops that reality happens." "Flow with the river, dont pressure the river." ...
"There is no unhappiness in the present."
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"The Budas have a love that is not from this world, their strength is totally the force of love. Like a rose, their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not the one of death, the power which creates, not the power of violence and aggression, but the power of compassion. Only pay attention to his love, his compassion, his truth, even if you take advantage of his truth, that does not changes his truth. Even if you abuse from his compassion, if you are dishonest with his love, that does not make any difference. That is your own problem. His truth, his compassion, his love, are still the same."
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"If you play a stone to a flower, nothing will happen with the stone but the flower will die. But even so you can not say that the stone is stronger than the flower. The flower will die because the flower is alive. And the stone, nothing will happen with it because the stone is dead. The flower will die because the flower does not have the power to destroy. The flower will simply disappear and give its place to the stone. The stone has the power of destruction because it is dead." ...
"Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, and it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be".
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Have the courage to become the flower that you are meant to be, value yourself! Dont suffer. ... The Buddha's Last Instruction ...
"Make of yourself a light"

Monday, April 11, 2005

State of the World 2005...

Foreword Adapted from Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Chairman, Green Cross International
Five years ago, all 191 United Nations member states pledged to meet eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability. These critical challenges were reaffirmed by health officials from across the globe in October 2004 at the tenth anniversary of the landmark International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo.
The overarching conclusion from this 2004 meeting was that while considerable, albeit erratic, progress was indeed being made in many areas, any optimism must be tempered with the realization that gains in overall global socioeconomic development, security, and sustainability do not reflect the reality on the ground in many parts of the world.
Poverty continues to undermine progress in many areas. Diseases such as HIV/AIDS are on the rise, creating public health time bombs in numerous countries. In the last five years, some 20 million children have died of preventable waterborne diseases, and hundreds of millions of people continue to live with the daily misery and squalor associated with the lack of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation.
We must recognize these shameful global disparities and begin to address them seriously. I am delighted that the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Wangari Maathai, a woman whose personal efforts, leadership, and practical community work in Kenya and Africa inspire us all by demonstrating the real progress that can be made in addressing environmental security and sustainable development challenges where people have the courage to make a difference.
Humankind has a unique opportunity to make the twenty-first century one of peace and security. Yet the many possibilities opened up to us by the end of the cold war appear to have been partially squandered already. Where has the "peace dividend" gone that we worked so hard for? Why have regional conflict and terrorism become so dominant in today's world? And why have we not made more progress on the Millennium Development Goals?
The terrible tragedies of September 11, 2001, the 2004 terrorist attacks in Beslan in Russia, and the many other terrorist incidents over the past decade in Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere have all driven home the fact that we are not adequately prepared to deal with new threats. But better preparation means thinking more holistically, not just in traditional cold war terms.
I believe that today the world faces three interrelated challenges: the challenge of security, including the risks associated with weapons of mass destruction and terrorism; the challenge of poverty and underdevelopment; and the challenge of environmental sustainability.
The challenge of security must be addressed by first securing and destroying the world's arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. We must accelerate these nonproliferation and demilitarization efforts and establish threat-reduction programs around the world if we are to be truly successful.
The world's industrial nations must also commit greater resources to the poorest countries and regions of the globe. Official development assistance from the top industrial countries still represents but a tiny percentage of their gross national products and does not come close to the pledges made over a decade ago at the Rio Earth Summit.
The growing disparity between the rich and the poor on our planet and the gross misallocation of limited resources to consumerism and war cannot be allowed to continue. If they do, we can expect even greater challenges and threats ahead.
Regarding the environment, we need to recognize that Earth's resources are finite. To waste our limited resources is to lose them in the foreseeable future, with potentially dire consequences for all regions and the world. Forests, for example, are increasingly being destroyed in the poorest countries.
Even in Kenya, where Wangari Maathai has helped plant over 30 million trees, forested acreage has decreased. The global water crisis is also one of the single biggest threats facing humankind. Four out of 10 people in the world live in river basins shared by two or more countries, and the lack of cooperation between those sharing these precious water resources is reducing living standards, causing devastating environmental problems, and even contributing to violent conflict. Most important of all, we must wake up to the dangers of climate change and devote more resources to the crucial search for energy alternatives.
It is for reasons such as these that I founded Green Cross International 12 years ago and continue to advocate for a global value shift on how we handle Earth, a new sense of global interdependence, and a shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature. It is also for these reasons that I helped draft the Earth Charter, a code of ethical principles now endorsed by over 8,000 organizations representing more than 100 million people around the world. And it is for these reasons that Maurice Strong, Chair of the Earth Council, and I have initiated the Earth Dialogues, a series of public forums on ethics and sustainable development.
We need a Global Glasnost—openness, transparency, and public dialogue—on the part of nations, governments, and citizens today to build consensus around these challenges. And we need a policy of "preventive engagement": international and individual solidarity and action to meet the challenges of poverty, disease, environmental degradation, and conflict in a sustainable and nonviolent way.
We are the guests, not the masters, of nature and must develop a new paradigm for development and conflict resolution, based on the costs and benefits to all peoples and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than by the limits of technology and consumerism.
I am delighted that the Worldwatch Institute continues to address these important challenges and goals in its annual State of the World report. I urge all readers to seriously consider their personal commitments to action after finishing this volume. Only with the active and dedicated participation of civil society will we be successful in building a sustainable, just, and peaceful world for the twenty-first century and beyond.
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Monday, April 04, 2005

As Dez Maiores Crises Esquecidas pelo Mundo...

Ten Major Crises which the World forgets... http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=8448430&size=o ... http://archive.aiesec.ws/joseparreira.aiesec.ws/

Rethinking our "Development" Concept...

The Basic idea, in my opinion, of the study below...is to show that we should change our "developed" life style. To be more in harmony with nature, since we are part of it! We should respect it, again think about our "material necessities" and look for "quality" indicators of our achievements.... in the end ..."The world is enough for everyone needs but not enough for everyones greed" Mahatma Gandhi It is often said that the Civilised way of life uplifts the man from the beast in him to spiritual height. When today all-around primordial established values, that sustain inner joy and beauty, are being uprooted while the materialistic philosophy is gaining even more ground and people are feeling alienated, can we call it a Civilised way of life?
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