It is obvious from your books, that contemporary world, or society, seems to you too oppressive, too uniform. That people live, as your heroine of the River Piedra, seeking, what, in fact, they do not desire. In your opinion, what is the balance between traditions, prejudice, upbringing, etc. and personal responsibility of an individual for his/her own destiny?
We cannot blame anybody but ourselves. Freud was a nice guy, but he created this idea that our parents are responsible for everything that went wrong with our adulthood. Of course, as Ortega y Gasset says, “I am myself and my circumstance” but everybody is different, and must accept this. The frustrated Marxist experiment reassured us that first comes our individuality, and our sense of responsibility towards our neighbor.
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Yes,
we, human beings, usually think we know what we want, but do we, really?
Many of us want to be somebody in life, somebody desired, admired.
We want success in every part of our life, whether it is the family, the career, the relationships with others.
We want everything, and when someone wants everything, usually ends up with nothing or very little.
In this race of life, we forget what it was, we actually truly…wanted, when we started this race.
We forget about the most important thing, we forget about our dreams,
but…those dreams we keep deep inside, in our heart.
Instead of stopping for a moment, to evaluate life, we keep on going in the direction, that’s just not…our direction.
We start to live….somebody else’s life, life…of this “outside” stranger.
So, do the man know what would bring him/her happiness?
Or rather, should he/she look for it… inside, in his/her soul, where the Light is.
On the other hand, can this superficial life, even the richest one, bring anybody peace, love?
Or would he/she become even more hungry?
And yet, eventually…so frustrated, that he/she would not know anything, anymore.
And in the end realize that…. something is missing.
Joy of life.
love
Agnieszka
We are born with our own distinctive personality and we are molded by our circumstances, so we are in fact a product of our circumstances, but in order to evolve as individuals, one must rise above their circumstances. As we evolve as individuals, we evolve as a whole and effect the collective consciousness.
We chose our lessons before coming here, signed our contracts and so forth ..you can end them and change them at any time as i do often as I change and grow,learn each lesson I take back my power and no longer need the contract ,I burn them and write my self new ones ..But part of this choosing is that we choose ,it not our parents …Us ..So once we know the truth ,we cannot blame or be victim to anything or anyone .Take responsibility for everything in your life .Blessings Tania
Freud was a good guy, and did not live with “neige”, only one season a year. :)
Sometimes, I think about all people that got drugs.
Alive, they can write and sings their nightmares, their dogme. Receiving by the whole.
In politics: also forget about it…
Isn’t it dangerous?
On the contrary, when I look at people that never used it, it seems something is closed in themselves.
But it’s just an idea.
Parents are the bound, between birth and independance. They are deeply important. First because the child like to mime what he loves. Then, he likes to impersonate what he will be later. Either he’s got some models around him. Those and no others. It could even be a cousin. Some people that are often in the area. Showing proudly what they do bad.
Child’s in dazzling love, the opposite of what it’s been living on Earth.
And if he opens his eyes clearly, there’s a first trauma there. Even if we forgot.
So I think one may be off-balance from childhood. Or not. It depends on the family in which he landed. And the Vision’s width he has precociously onto the world. Because it is so.
When we live with our heart every circumstance is in balance with ourselves …
When we don’t see the reflection as our own heart and point the finger to someone else
we stuck ourselves in tradition, upbringing, judgement,…without the awareness of yourself being the creator of every given perception.
When you live now in balance with your heart you fully accept every being and circumstance as one.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
WE HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERY ACT IN OUR LIVES,BUT ONLY WHEN WE TAKE OUR LIFE IN OUR OWN HANDS,WHEN WE STOP LISTENING TO OTHERS AND DO EVERYTHING OUR WAY. ONLY THEN WE ARE THE MASTERS OF OUR OYN DESTINY.