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Now, looking for labels, it is hard to call the Hell's Angels anything but mutants. They are urban outlaws with a rural ethic and a new, improvised style of self-preservation. Their image of themselves derives mainly from Celluloid, from the Western movies and two-fisted TV shows that have taught them most of what they know about the society they live in. Very few read books, and in most cases their formal education ended at fifteen or sixteen. What little they know of history has come from the mass media, beginning with comics ... so if they see themselves in terms of the past, it's because they can't grasp the terms of the present, much less the future. They are the sons of poor men and drifters, losers and the sons of losers. Their backgrounds are overwhelmingly ordinary. As people, they are like millions of other people. But in their collective identity they have a peculiar fascination so obvious that even the press has recognized it, although not without cynicism. In its ritual flirtation with reality the press has viewed the Angels with a mixture of awe, humor and terror -- justified, as always, by a slavish dedication to the public appetite, which most journalists find so puzzling and contemptible that they have long since abandoned the task of understanding it to a handful of poll-takers and "experts. ↗
I sentimenti sono anche il modo primo di conoscere un romanzo; e i romanzi sono il terreno di prova per conoscere il mondo, santuari dell'immaginazione dove affinare e mettere alla prova i nostri valori, le nostre scelte. I sentimenti sono lo strumento di lavoro dei romanzieri, i colori della loro tavolozza. ↗
The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time. ↗
We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗
#addictions #consumer-culture #consumerism #creation #creativity
May there not be some subconscious jealousy that motivates our reactions to other people? Why do we eat chocolate sundaes when we know that we should reduce? Are we free from the influence of parental training? The Scriptures say, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Parental training and all education proceed on the assumption that the will is not free, but can be trained, motivated, and directed. Finally, beyond both physiology and psychology there is God. Can we be sure that he is not directing our choices? Do we know that we are free from his grace? The Psalm says, "Blessed is the man whom you choose and cause to approach you." Is it certain that God has not caused us to choose to approach him? Can we set a limit to God's power? Can we tell how far it extends and just where it ends? Are we outside his control? ↗
When I pursued an education in healing in the USA in 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crownchakrahealer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalyst for spiritual energy from the 7th chakra through the heart. At that time I had no idea what a crownchakrahealer really was and since than it has been a continuous process during the last 17 years to deepen and develop my understanding about what a crownchakrahealer is. This process has resulted in a way of working I call "Synchronicity – Transmission of the Light", which uses healing and energy work from the Source on a formless level. With this way of working I have worked with groups up to 80 people. It is really a way of working, which goes around the ego and speaks directly to the heart. It allows a person to come in direct contact with his own inner being, with his own life source. With my intellect I still do not understand how this way of working functions. It is not a way of working, which can be understood on a method plane. It is a way of working, which relates directly to the heart and which can only be understood through insight and experience. One participant in Gothenburg in Sweden described his experience of Synchronicity as being like a thousand suns suddenly had been lit in his own consciousness. He says: "It was like an inner explosion, an expansion of my own consciousness – and I felt only love for the other people in the room". ↗
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بُنَــــيّ لكي تكون ملكاً مهاباً بين الناس إياك أن تتكلم في الأشياء إلا بعد أن تتأكد من صحة المصدر .. وإذا جاءك أحد بنبأ فتبين قبل أن تتهور.. وإياك والشائعة.. لا تصدق كل ما يقال ولا نصف ما تبصر .. وإذا ابتلاك الله بعدو .. قاومه بالإحسان إليه .. ادفع بالتي هي أحسن .. فإن العداوة تنقلب حباً إذا أردت أن تكتشف صديقاً .. سافر معه .. ففي السفر .. ينكشف الإنسان .. حيث يذوب المظهر .. وينكشف المخبر! ولماذا سمي السفر سفراً ؟؟؟ إلا لأنه عن الأخلاق والطبائع يسفر! وإذا هاجمك الناس وأنت على حق .. أو قذفوك بالنقد..فافرح .. إنهم يقولون لك .. أنت ناجح ومؤثر .. فالكلب الميت.. لا يُركل ! ولا يُرمى إلا الشجر المثمر ! بُنَــــيّ عندما تنتقد أحداً .. فبعين النحل تعود أن تبصر .. ولا تنظر للناس بعين ذباب ... فتقع على ما هو مستقذر! نم باكراً يا بني .. فالبركة في الرزق صباحاً .. وأخاف أن يفوتك رزق الرحمن .. لأنك تسهر ! وسأحكي لك قصه المعزة والذئب حتى لا تأمن من يمكر ... وحينما يثق بك أحد فإياك ثم إياك أن تغدر! سأذهب بك لعرين الأسد .. وسأعلمك أن الأسد لم يصبح ملكاً للغابة لأنه يزأر!! ولكن لأنه .. عزيز النفس ! لا يقع على فريسة غيره ! مهما كان جائعاً .. يتضور .. لا تسرق جهد غيرك .. فتتجور ! سأذهب بك للحرباء .. حتى تشاهد بنفسك حيلتها ! فهي تلون جلدها بلون المكان .. لتعلم أن مثلها نسخ ... تتكرر ! وأن هناك منافقين .. وهناك أناس بكل لباس تتدثر ! وبدعوى الخير .. تتستر ! تعود يا بني .. أن تشكر .. اشكر الله! يكفي أنك تمشي .. وتسمع .. وتبصر! أشكر الله وأشكر الناس .. فالله يزيد الشاكرين! والناس تحب الشخص الذي عندما تبذل له .. يقدر! اكتشفت يا بني.. أن أعظم فضيلة في الحياة.. الصدق! وأن الكذب وإن نجى .. فالصدق أخلق ! بمن كان مثلك! بُنَــــيّ ... وفر لنفسك بديلاً لكل شيء .. استعد لأي أمر! حتى لا تتوسل لنذل .. يذل ويحقر ! واستفد من كل الفرص .. لأن الفرص التي تأتي الآن .. قد لا تتكرر!! لا تتشكى ولا تتذمر .. أريدك متفائلاً .. مقبلاً على الحياة .. اهرب من اليائسين والمتشائمين! وإياك أن تجلس مع رجل يتطير!! لا تتشمت ولا تفرح بمصيبة غيرك ... و إياك أن تسخر من شكل أحد ... فالمرء لم يخلق نفسه .. ففي سخريتك .. أنت في الحقيقة تسخر ! من صنع الذي أبدع وخلق وصور !! لا تفضح عيوب الناس .. فيفضحك الله في دارك .. فالله الساتر .. يحب من يستر ! ولا تظلم أحداً .. وإذا دعتك قدرتك على ظلم الناس .. فتذكر أن الله هو الأقدر! وإذا شعرت بالقسوة يوماً .. فامسح على رأس يتيم .. ولسوف تدهش .. كيف للمسح أن يمسح القسوة من القلب .. فيتفطر ! ↗
I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans. By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation. ↗
When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then – bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss. ↗
