- I think that everybody is born equal
(woman and man, all races etc...) and stays equal (men's individual worth is
not related to status or money I mean)
- I think you can learn by reading books, by
being at school but you learn the most by life experience, by living between
men, with your feet 'on the ground'
- I think you can learn from the poor and
the rich, from the intellectual and the non-intellectual
- I think the environment/earth is now a big
concern for everybody
- I think we've to work together to face our
problems, we can't no longer ignore that cooperation makes us strong
- I think everything is connected, 'is one'.
So everything you do has also a consequence (the law of action and reaction, so
sometimes it will be better not to react to step out the never ending circle,
but to reflect)
- I think everybody is born gifted, but you
have to search those talents if you don't see them immediately
- I think everybody has a selfhealing power,
a big potential that he/she can explore
- I think everybody can be considered as a
co-creator of his/her own life. You have to do some thinking, set goals, act....
- I think men have a spiritual/philosophical
nature, but the spread of religion is cultural, geographical and even political
minded
- I think charity is very important but can
never be related to other goals, than we speak about opportunism and not about
charity
- if there is a God, God can not be claimed
by any religion, because that God loves us all. We can even not abuse that God
or our religion to find a reason to fight or to make war, to make difference or
distinction between men
- to me God is awareness, love and
compassion but what God means to you is up to you because there is freedom of
thinking
- there is good and bad in the world. What
is good, 'feels' good but than you may not loose the ability to feel (by being
angry, by being too disappointed in men or by being too rational).
- What is bad can be felt as bad by everyone
unless dogmatic rules we claim will avoid us to make the difference between
good and bad.
- I'm a spiritual person too, but I took
wise things out of different religions. Sometimes I don't even know where I
took it originally as I traveled a lot (my age: 49) and I spoke to so many
different people from all over the world. I consider myself as neutral or
impartial but in my opinion, I think that's okay too.
- I live among men, not above, not below.
Im almost invisible
- I dont claim these values, I only try to
collect them, spread them by the word and take them as the lead in my own life
by living my own life experience. Sometimes Im successful and sometimes I fail
because Im not a profete, just someone like you
- for this reason, Catherine Wheels is not
my real name, so you can not confuse me with these values. I mean, I cant
claim them.
16-04-2015, 19:10 geschreven door catherine wheels
At random impressions of New York (winter 2014-2015)
Although I was almost persuaded I was going to hate this big city, because of the concrete and the tarmac, and the lack of sunlight and greenery maybe? But this was not the case. It's even a rational use of space, not spoiling the open space (soil and see). I had it all wrong. My son and I we liked New York (Manhattan) very much. Why? Because of the favorable people who walk their daily tracks between home and working place and back, because of the amusing atmosphere, because of the mixed up cultures who live together in peace and without fighting, because of the people with headphones who were singing their favorite song aloud and without blushing? Or because there were less tourists in february, and less tramps too because of the cold (minus 20°)? Beggars do confront me with poverty and the big differences in luck between people in the world. So I feel sad at once. In Africa, Europe, Asia and America. New Yorkers seem to live peaceful together in a melting pot, but total equality between races, I dont think so. I do did notice black people did more jobs on the streets, regarding garbage, delivering pizzas No equal chances in life? Not in America and not n Western-Europe when you have a darker color?When I was there for a few days, I was totally absorbed as being one of them. One of this colourful melting pot. Quiet often tourists asked me to show them the way, but why did they take me for a New Yorker? Probably because I had no tablet in front of my face to take pictures, and I was not looking as if I was a lost person with a backpack on my back. Anyway, there is nothing difficult about it, because those roads and lanes have numbers. Just count the numbers please.I talked to a christian Egyptian cap driver who only lived there for three years. He had been a teacher in Egypt, even studied the Koran of the islamists. They all have to in Egypt because different world religions are represented in this country. He emigrated because with that salary he could hardly rise his family. If he liked his new job? I miss the teaching, but its okay. I have a better live here. I met a black female guide on the hop-on-hop-off bus. Here explanation was so different from her male colleagues, but I guess it was because she led here soul speak, about situations of nowadays and in the past, about the history of places. She let us fantasize about the past: Imagine, you were that Irish woman, who came by boat, to find a better future in America A guide with a personal voice, a broad view. She mentioned New York offered the tramps free beds in an old psychiatric clinic. A fine gesture, but did people forget that those dark buildings have stored a very dark energy too ? Are they really feeling better, by being kept in scary buildings? I met a young guy who had recently discovered Jesus. Before he was without religion, and just purchasing good notes, lovely girls, a good job with a lot of money and nice cars. Like every school boy, so he said. But he had it all and still he felt empty. Now he had found new goals in live, and his new believe made him feel more complete He showed me the old baroque theater that was turned into a temple for christian people. He was very enthusiastic and didnt want to readdress or force me in his direction. He didnt knew about the revelation of scandals in West-Europe done by the church, but he seemed to understand that a purification had to be done. Not by making war or fighting, but by revealing those abuse done by bishops and priests. Institutes of power have a strange effect on people. Some people think they have to obey (and boarding school children or orphans don't have a choice), and others think that they became untouchable. Why should religious representatives be untouchable, they can get of the road, get mad and starting acting like criminals too! He asked me for my personal goals in life, and about my family and than he said some prays aloud. I thanked him for his kindness.
What I did hate in America were the news reports. In a big country they like to simplify things, so it seemed to me. T simple to be true. They think between frames they install themselves. But is that reporting about truth? Is it even objective? Being a journalist myself, I even became so mad that I wanted to visit a journalist of the Fox News myself. But that was not possible. You can address them a letter, so they answered. But Im here now, my hotel is only 100 meters away. But that letter will of course be without answer... (I posted one, so I found out.) Those news stations define the views (or the glasses?) of the American people on the rest of the world. And because there were things told about the situation (attacks) in Belgium at that moment, I could see that their vision didnt stroke with reality at all. The perspective of people, and bad news reports from ivory towers who put filters on the world) can poisoning our mind. Images and even live films seem to give prove, but they're only trying to convince you with'so called evidence'. The press can be so dangerous for world peace. Not only in America, in England, in Belgium.... everywhere. Our world is full of communication, but what about the quality of real interaction between people...? Did computers replace everything? Do invite them distortion because of the lack of human contact and double reality check...? Or is our reality only our cultural loaded illusion?
Only if you stay healthy and connected, getting old can be fun.
Our
oldies in western countries as for example Belgium...
They don't live with younger families
anymore.They even get little
respect. We often see them as a burden. Sometimes it is reality. Not everyone was kind to his
children.They didn't all take care
for their children, so what can you expect as a service on return?Intitutional care. If they can be of
any utility, they are often overexploited by joung families or by one of the
many one-parent families. Otherwise grandparents set too many limits and youth
are on their own, what is very difficult at this time.They are often very dominating during
education, but grown up with other postwar values. Such interferences are shunned
by younger generations. The toll for all this kind of disagreements is very
high.Even for the state.Not uncommon there were generation
conflicts whereby old parents were avoided.They may take care of the grandchildren, but they better
keep their mounth shut.Or they
better take their medicines that make them dependent from the care system.Too much parents depend on drugs.That's why they aren't themselves
anymore.They vegetate.When they are not capable of taking care of
the children nor themselves, they are often placed in homes, where they are
strongly uprooted and disoriented.Some parents choose to go by themselves, but let's be honest, they will
only go if they can afford a housing that is big enough, humane care, enough
freedom and nice leisure.Or else,
it will feel like imprisonment you must stay in until you die.Only if you can afford the luxury, you can
choose 'yourself' for an uprooting from the community in which you have spend
the biggest part of your life.In
most cases, rest spots are forced by the children who do not want to care. Nevertheless to spread the care is not that
heavy.Kangaroo houses are also a
good solution because you don't live together nor completely unrelated.You respect eachother.
Real friendships in homes are often
terminal friendships and this makes them extremely depressed, because one
disappears after the other.They
remain limited to the warmth of the staff, because they hardly see little
children who are the source of lifejoy.It is the only (but time-limited) warmth those people can get.Those carers keep the contactsuperficial for self-protection,
because after a short period, they see them leaving. They cannot afford a
concatenation of losses and they have too less time per 'patient'.Time is money and dislocation is a good
word in this situation.
13-04-2015, 00:00 geschreven door catherine wheels
About love, but different from what it suggests in your mind
In my opinion, we do come from
the stars and as a soul, we are already 1000s of years old. Our
mortal body is only a vehicle for that soul. Together, they give us life, but often our soul is too much
separated from our ego. This is
often problematic because how can you feel 'one' or how can you feel good with
eachoter or become 'one' with all and 'the all'? Even the connectedness with nature is then hard to
find.
I think, our life has a
spiritual basis. If you can't fill
up the void in yourself by 'believing in' your connectedness with the cosmos
(but you can also entitle it as believing in God or JHWH = the unnameable, the
reason why there are no vowals) and can not handle no morality in your life or
not sufficiently consistent, you wander about aimlessly. Some fill up this void by looking for
fame, stardom, business status or having power of money, loveless sex. They
somethimes fill it up in knowledge, but it remains imperfect or not satisfying the gap.
Love in broadest sense, is what
we miss by the separateness and
computers do help because they almost reduce personal contacts etc and the real
life. I experience it myself, because I make less efforts to meet people. To come back to some people who ask me
for rational evidence, often they are investigating spiritual things very
intensively, but this desire remains even unsatisfied, because they hope to
find by rational proof and because I can not give them this about irrational
things (I cannot pass on my personal
spiritual experiences to them), they can really got upset about that. The only thing he has to do is letting
go his holy faith in science.
Science is good of course, but not if it blocks experiences or put
limitations on those experiences (double blind proves etc ) Besides, our
universe contains basically mathematic laws. Laws we cannot possibly understand with our limited
brains. We will never be God, even
if we have that much knowledge, hidden knowledge, a divine spark in us. Consequently, we remain limited, but at
the other hand, we are bigger and stronger than we think. Via our spiritual strength, we can for
example cure ourselves etc...because a lot of diseases are trauma-bound and
have therefore a pycho-emotional basis.
We must at the same time remember our real strenght and not give it to
others and at the same time, we have to experience our own rational limitations. This is, in my opinion, 'heaven and
earth'. Not floating whereby you
lose grounding. Not imagining
yourself to be divine by a holy faith in science or religions, but keeping your
feet on the ground and staying connected with everything what determines your
identity...
13-04-2015, 00:00 geschreven door catherine wheels