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Dear readers, rather than asking you a question I would like to ask your opinion on the following subject.
The Toltec, a pre-Colombian culture, stated that we are a dream of God. We can also be his nightmare and what distinguishes the good dream from the nightmare is our presence in this world. In a way, fulfilling our personal legend brings us closer to the good dream of God.
Yet many don’t do that and they blame others for this frustration: they put the blame on their family, on their boss, etc… Of course, all these excuses prevent us from doing what can truly fulfill us.
So, share here your opinion on this issue: where is society heading to? Are people fulfilling their personal legend or do you think that – on the whole – people are still paralyzed by the fear society infuse in them?
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Who is this society thing anyway?
society is us.. We are the society..
our society submerge within capitalism. Mass media hypnotize our mind with the concept of capitalism. Make us believe that MONEY=HAPPINESS.
then people racing to make a big heap of wealth. Work work work. Becoming rich. And then they died. Wasting their short lives without ever taste the real happiness that they choose by themselves. They’re just gone.
we are the society itself. We know all of this fake happiness things. But why everything remains the same?
mass media have hypnotized society’s mind.
i think society is changin… each everyone has the chance to change inside and we r given many battles to make the change possible… what happens is that not all of us are ready, want to, understand, are willing to to just dive into this change, beacause they are afraid, used to act the old way, dont believe in dreams etc…
so the universe keeps pushin these people towards what they need to learn, i think each time people just crash into their own weaknesses until something changes inside of them and they make a small evoulution… but u can find even people who dont want to make that evolution.. and soon or later they will understand (i hope) and start living or just leave room into the world to those who want to go further in the new real life
Personal legend???!!!
well… how many people around us really feel we do have a personal legend?? Or how many times we contemplate on what a personal legend could be??
we are simply fighting to fulfill what the society convinces us as(could be a) personal legend. we never even had a time to stop to check whether this is what have been here for. but still we run in the race for others sake.
The problem with most of us is, We dont even know we have a problem. :(. Even if we realise it sometimes, we are just in the same situation as that of a king, whose entire people of the kingdom, except king, have drunk the water from a cursed well and got mad. Either we need the courage to stand against the entire society or we too shall simply drink the water from that well. I afraid most of us surrender to drink it.
On people pursuing their personal legends and living in Gods dream or nightmare and fear our society puts into them. I have different answers for myself and others. As an American, I believe non american as in not USA citizens are more open to pursuing their dreams. But while in the US Military and traveling to smaller countries. The humans I met there seem to say just the opposite.
It is true that some people blame others for not following their dreams or purpose in life. And for some I believe this a lame excuse while others feel society obligations are more important. Some of these obligation are less important. BUT if you feel whatever obligation that is stopping you is important to turn your back on that a walk away could undermine your personal legend. I do agree that we often make excuse then seek justification. When we make those justification with the right mindset it helps us in our pursuit of our personal legends.
I think there are two different type of obstacle mental one and physical ones. Mental one are sometimes our own obstacles or one our society has implied. The physical are land, space or our bodies. But they can also laws of the land like legal racism. When we feel that we are being denied because of someone who has control of our lives like a parent, spouse or a boss. I believe we can accept unpleasant influence when it done out of true love or intent even when we disagree with. When it is done out of malice, we have problems.
Every choice we make has some type of result or consequence. So in theory if you are unhappy and continue in that path, then only you have yourself to blame. For me I do not see life as that simply. RIGHT NOW in this stage of my life I make decision based on symbolic choices. I attempt to do what is right. For many years I wanted to a cartoonist. For about 4 years I did so. I had very little money and paid all my bills late and felt that GOD himself was working against me at every turn. I eventually had to take shitty jobs to pay the bills but I continued to draw and sell my comics. I was willing to continue doing that, knowing I had no pension, no health care and no savings. But I love drawing and comics. One day my sister died and Inherited her children. My friends said to abandoned the children. I could not make that choice. Life has since dictated choices. I make the best choice that are available.
If you asked me today I would say I am living in GOD’s nightmare. I would like to say we have two extreme choices to plan your life out and then execute those plans. Or allow life or Gods will to plan your life. If you are in a situation where ” life is dictating choices” maybe that means God loves you and has deicide you have to put on “this path”. One of my favorite black belt instructors GOD only test a few and he will test the to point you fail and then after that he will test some more. God hits like a freight train, he will not stop because it hurts or you cry. The good news once God has decided to test you he knows your name. Once he knows your name you can not be unloved. Those who have never been tested are unknown to GOD.
In the end I have said may times for GOD to guide my life. So if GOD has decided to drag me through his nightmare, he better not complain about my complaining.
So my lame answer we are who choose are following our personal legends. Some of us just do not know it……….
Noppie
Society is heading where it always has, to death, it is fear that overrides love and maybe makes us become someone we did not set out to be. Is it because we are a product of god’s dream and the dream is our destiny. Is this why when things turn out differently than we expected we immediately blame others or should it be gods dream we blame, or more simply, just ourselves.
Hola, casualmente hace unos días mientras conversaba con mi mama, sobre los problemas cotidianos los cuales por lo general son de índole material, le decía que muchas veces los seres humanos nos dedicamos a sacrificarnos tanto en la vida que entre tanta rutina diaria y estrés nunca recordamos que debemos hacer las cosas que nos hacen realmente “vivir”, es decir, haces lo que nos gusta, lo que satisface a nuestras almas. Muchas veces dejamos de hacer cosas que nos gustan por complacer a alguien, sin embargo considero que cada ser humano es único e inigualable y casualmente lo que lo hace ser así son las virtudes, defectos y gustos que lo caracterizan, sin éstos no tenemos criterio ni personalidad propia, somos simplemente una copia, nada especial. Por eso, a pesar de las dificultades que enfrentemos, los obstáculos que aparezcan en nuestro camino, debemos de seguir adelante y no perder nuestra personalidad por vivencias que quizas simplemente estaban destinadas a enriquecer nuestra experiencia y hacernos valorar más aquello que realmente pertenece a nuestro destino.
We dont seem to have any ‘figure heads’ left in our society for people to aspire to – try to think of people that you really admire that are available to everyone?
Maybe the Dalai Lama? perhaps Kofi Annan? Barack Obama one day?
Most people idolise sports men, pop stars, actors or models – everyone wants to look perfect because looking is what we have learned to do – it seems we cannot appreciate beyond the visual?Has it always been this way? or is it getting worse.
When I am trying to fulfil my challenge I find that I become very alone very quickly and that sometimes what I may have to offer is not of value to anyone any longer?
To be honest thats what led me to this blog – a place to find some people that are living their lives according to their dreams.
I too thought that Reshmi gave a perfect summary of the main issues.
John
London
How lovely. Man is the dream of God. Yes if God created us, there must have been a need for that. So God needed us. How presumptious but nevetheless true. I think he needed us because being “Love” he needed to be loved. The rest of the creation could only adore Him. Man with his “free will” was the only possible source of reciprocal love. As in human love, sometimes it is heaven, sometimes it is a nightmare. He knew it. He knew also it was woth it.
People don’t even know who they are anymore and in the process do not know what they want or what they can be.
Knowing one’s personal legend entails that one knows one’s self. In the age of information overload and google-type mentality, it is ironic that few people go INWARD to know their own humanity.
Know thyself first…the personal legend will follow.
We are more afraid to face our own self than to face society…and why so? If we find that we are weak in morals and values as well as inadequate in a lot of things—THAT IS A HARD TRUTH to accept…and we have to live with this reality, for how can we escape OUR OWN SELF?
Society is heading towards escapism…we travel great light years to the stars, forgetting that the light within us should be the one we have to discover all along.
Dreams of God; the title touches me. We live in a world of thoughts, assumptions and prejudices. These “boxes” prevent the soul to bloom and show the unique inside each of us. We fear to make mistake, fear to be despised by society, and fear to suffer and to die.
All above is me. I am always dreaming to become free. I am stuck here inside the values and norms people has told over centuries. I am always questioning what is my role in this world, where will I go from this point, what is my dream, and can i reach it. I feel empty. I know I am not happy. And I hate it. I am not blaming everyone. I just need to find “it” and someone to help me.
Sadly I observe that most people aren’t even capable of framing their lives in terms of fulfilling their personal legend. I see people so inured with the pursuit of ease, peace, and security for themselves or for their families. They do not seem to realize how they’re sacrificing so much of the present precious moments of their lives in the service of such a vaguely defined future. Few seem to envision what it is that they can bring to the world these days; only how they might be capable of getting what they want. In giving up what is unique about our selves we willingly sacrifice a pleasure greater than anything we could obtain; our self worth.
When I speak of someone fulfilling their personal legend or any notion of destiny these days most people scoff, laugh, or dismiss it as impractical; even immature. It is a shame. Perhaps you are right Paulo, perhaps it is fear that has gripped so many and lead them to seek only those things that they think will make them feel safe.
Fear and frustration! Survival takes precedence over everything. No one wants to risk their lives fulfilling a purpose while on this planet. They would rather accumulate material possessions as a means to defining their worth only to realize when on the brink of death that none of it matters.
I don’t fear my personal legend I’m just blind to it.
reason is supposed to be inbetween
only ___ MOST
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reason
its not necessarily that people are scared of what society “infuses” on them its more of people are scared of what theyre subconscious feels they need to do to succeed. people are scared they wont fulfill what they think “society” asks of them. so they blame everybody except the one person it truely is… themself. as a person you have to follow your own path, not the path “society” makes for you.
“i have to be a docter,
a lawyer,
…etc… because it helps the world, because it pays well”
BULL SHIT! the only MOST people follow that path is because of
a. family history in that feild
b. because thats what society says you should do
c. because you dont want to let your family or society down
d. YOUR SCARED OF WHAT IS UNKNOWN!
the only way to live out you personal legend is for you to go which ever way FEELS right. to do what YOU love. to say what YOU want to say. not just kiss societies ass to have a good reputation
if you make $1000 a year or $1000000 a year you have to love and be pasionate about what you do to be truley happy and to have truley followed your personal legend.
~joseph sandler~
Everyone is living their legend, as all together make the story that is read by god. As there are more brave voices – s/he smiles and says it is good. The bravest voices are lived with a small ‘L’. For the fiercest battles are won for those without voice or media blog. You meet old warriors in solitary corners with lined brows and thrift shop sweaters. Their eyes sparkle when they see you found them. They pierce you with the sword to follow their steps which will guide you for a while. Sometimes you falter for your eyes distract you with false glitter, but the memory of the sparkling eyes laughing and calling from a grey brow keep you true. You then are the voice, the call, the promise of heart gold for those with quick darting glances who keep you strong and wary of soft pillows. It is all-right to rest, but rest to dream of smiles and know it is good to rise and walk the path of legends.
yes the dream does bring us closer to God ,and when people let the dream go -something in them dies …so they fight to live ,love and be all that God intended us to be .Today I think young people do not have as many dreams -they simply just need to get a job -they want more materialistic things and their satisfaction is out of balance ..Societies influence I guess ,,people need to learn to fight harder for their dreams not give up so easy and stay true to your gifts /talents -Parents can show their children so much more away from Tv ..for example ..Encourage -creativity -passion ,dreams and doing inspiring things -also not forgetting to teach them to concentrate on humanity as awhole ..helping others -having compassion and learning to give – instead of this take -take world alot live in …Where is it heading -I think in time when God is ready more and more people will wake up and smell the roses ..and see the light ,I think those already in the light -have a calling to help spread love and be love ..Doing Gods work is a dream..for some that is their personal legend ,,they are put here to inspire -spread love ,joy -peace ..Blessings Tania
I read a few books about the Toltec. I found it quite interesting. I agreed greatly with almost everything I read, and I do believe that we are living a dream. I feel that people don’t know that they have a personal legend so they live out their lives doing what they’re used to. I think that we are inching further away from making society a better place, not until we stop believing all the lies will we be able to live in peace, in Heaven on Earth.
People are spending time trying to tranform led into gold…
Depois de ler uma cronica de Rubem Alves sobre o simbolismo da pipoca no candomblé, compreendi a figura do pipoqueiro no livro “o alquimista”. Talvez ele seja o real alquimista do livro?
Muitas pessoas acabam sacrificando seus sonhos(eu também faço isso) pelo medo, talvez?, ou pela segurança, ou como em outra pergunta vossa, bread and circus, as pessoas precisam comer, precisam sobreviver. E para isso precisamos ganhar dinheiro, time is money, spending time to get money.
O dinheiro é onipotente(ele pode comprar tudo), onipresente(ele está em todos os lugares do mundo) e onisciente(ele é quem da suporte para pesquisas cientificas), deduzindo, o dinheiro se transformou em divindade, virou deus…
Society is heading to materialism day by day, é uma viagem sem volta, iremos descobrir a estrutura da matéria com aceleradores de particulas, ja sabemos o codigo da vida atraves do genoma, estamos chegando perto de nos igualar a Deus, mas ainda não resolvemos nossos problemas entre nós mesmos, ainda não achamos a solução para a ganancia.
De todas as obras de Deus, de toda sua criação, de tudo que o homem vem se igualando a Ele, ainda não descobrimos o amor.
Talvez o materialismo, a necessidade de transformar qualquer materia em ouro, por essa razão é que muitas pessoas abdicam de seus ideais, people are occupied with being born and with dying.
Life is about risk and resilience. The ability to bear hurt, learn, and bounce back. Life is about stepping outside of our comfort zone, and going against what everyone thinks is right for us, especially those who think they know us well. Life is about taking the pain and accepting it and moving through it in order to get to the other side. Life is jumping from one cliff’s edge to the other without looking at the chasm separating the two. What is life but knowing that we cannot take it for granted, since we live under the illusion that we will not die, anyway? Life is giving everything up to leave space for more…
VOCACIÓN; Rabindranath Tagore:
Todas las mañanas, a las diez, cuando suena el gong, por el camino de la escuela encuentro al vendedor que grita:
-¡Brazaletes de cristal!
Nunca tiene prisa, ni está obligado a seguir ningún camino ni llegar a ninguna parte, ni volver, ni volver a una hora fija.
¡Cómo me gustaría ser un vendedor y pasarme el día por las calles, gritando:
-¡Brazaletes, brazaletes de cristal!
Cuando, a las cuatro de la tarde, vuelvo de la escuela, contemplo por la verja de aquella casa cómo el jardinero cava el jardín.
Trabaja como quiere con su azadón, se llena el vestido de polvo, nadie se preocupa de él si se tuesta al sol o si lo cala la lluvia.
¡Cómo me gustaría ser jardinero y cavar, cavar siempre sin que nadie viniera a interrumpirme!
Al anochecer, cuando mi madre me mete en la cama, veo por mi ventana abierta al vigilante, que pasea arriba y abajo por la calleja.
La calleja es estrecha y está solitaria, la farola se yergue como un gigante con un solo y enorme ojo colorado.
El vigilante hace oscilar su linterna al andar, su sombra anda junto a él y nunca, nunca se va a acostar.
¡Cómo me gustaría ser vigilante y andar por la calle toda la noche, y hacer correr las sombras con mi linterna!
Amor
LOS BARCOS DE PAPEL; Rabindranath Tagore:
Todos los días echo mis barcos de papel al río, donde flotan y, uno tras otro, son arrastrados por la corriente.
En ellos he escrito, con grandes letras negras, mi nombre y el nombre de mi pueblo.
Confío en que alguien los encontrará, en un país lejano, y así sabrá quién soy.
Cargo mis barquitos con flores de shiuli cogidas en nuestro jardín, y espero que estas flores abiertas al amanecer tendrán la suerte de llegar al país de la noche.
Después de haber echado al agua mis barcos de papel, levanto los ojos al cielo y veo que las nubecillas preparan sus velas blancas y combadas.
Tal vez algún amiguito juegue conmigo desde el cielo, lanzándolas al viento, para que compitan con mis barcos…
Cuando llega la noche, hundo la cabeza entre mis brazos y sueño que mis barcos de papel bogan sin cesar, cada vez más lejos, bajo la claridad de las estrellas de la medianoche.
Las hadas del sueño viajan en ellos, y llevan por carga sus cestos llenos de ensueños.
Amor
I think the majority of people are still afraid or unaware of their personal legend. Most people are caught up in the Rat Race to a huge extent. Some want to get out, and some do not.
I thought I was following my personal legend. I was going to be a Literature professor, but then I became extremely dissatisfied with academia. It began to feel stifling, dogmatic, and lacking in creativity. I did finish my BA, but I have no desire to go back for further education.
I’ve always been writing. I have documented my inner life through journaling since the age of 9, and I’ve been writing poetry and fiction since I was 12. For the past seven years, I’ve been studying acting, and I’ve acted in independent films. One film was recently featured at the Toronto International Film Festival.
I’m 28 and finished my BA at the beginning of this year. I am now working a 9 to 5 job in the corporate world. I feel that some of my personal legend is being fulfilled (when I can pursue it, on the side…after work and on weekends), but I am brought low by the whole 9 to 5 thing. I feel stuck in my job, and don’t know which direction to take. I have all these ideas and plans, but no time. I have a son, as well, so my life often feels unbearably busy.
My heart cries out every single day. I am mentally and physically incapable of conforming to my present situation, after what I have experienced and lived through. I know what I want, I just don’t know the steps I should take…
Dear Paulo, might it be that we just forgot to follow our dream? We forgot our roots of wisdom and freedom, you’re perfectly right it is just in us, we are the dream and life is a journey to learn we’re the dreamer too. Our oneness is so hidden to our rich and civilized eyes that is it hard to see the dreamer and dream the real dream, what you call the legend. We forget we are the dreamers and we let other dream for us, we’re like puppet in the hands of some forces that we consider real gods, especially the golden one: MONEY.
I believe life has a wisdom in itself, has a profound dignity that no man, even the evilest one, looses. I believe in life and I hope that breathing it as naturally as I can (with all my mistakes and imperfections) will eventually make me wise and human
of gods , demons and their stories…
when my mind was easily impressionable and young,
my grandmother used to tell me all about gods etc,
loved every one of them, kept thinking how they could fly,
disappear, appear not forgetting the miracles,
but out of them all the one who aroused an inner vibration,
was Shiva, he was an inspiration, a human more than god,
the story goes,
gods and demons got together ,
decided to create immortality ,
they churned the ocean,
they toiled together, generation after generation,
soon every one forgot about churning,
a back lash in time ,
and kalahalam was born,
threatened to destroy past,present and the future,
all the gods and demons , ran to the oracle,
all the oracle said was Shiva,
they ran to him , and even before they could request,
all Shiva said was done, that was how he was stoned and all,
so he took up this kalahalam and drank every drop,
he then suspended it in his throat, and went into,
the universal eternal trance, of one energy,
then came amrut , nectar of immortality,
the gods created a duplicate bowl ,
the demons were duped then slain,
that’s gods for you, oh how they sinned,
when Shiva felt this vibration,
he cursed them human life’s,
and gave life to the demons ,
and powers to live without physical realities,
Shiva the unifier,
Jesus found Shiva,
Allah found Shiva,
all consciousness is Shiva,
lets awaken the Shiva in each one of us,
save our planet,
let there be no more gods or demons,
lets discover the next evolution,
lets put an end to destruction,
let us share,
let us care,
just listen and you will feel his vibration,
bo0om…bo0om…bo0om
let us all become one vibration,
lol
bo0om
fLUXman
I have come to realise that people very often don’t live their own personal legends, because all dreams were killed by adults when they were children. Just pay attention to what adults say to children – it’ frightening!! Hardly any adults I have come across believe in encouraging their children to dream big. This is very sad – and unfortunately, I’m one of them! Only now, early in my forties, am I starting to dream again, am I realising that there is more to life than just surviving from day to day. Only now do I start to allow myself to believe that there is more to life, more to do, more to be, more to feel. Now do I start to believe that if your dreams aren’t scary, they’re not big enough!!! So, my conclusion is to encourage my children to dream wild, crazy, scary dreams – only that will help them live their legends.
bo0om p a u l 0->
love to you all,
___
the dream of god _ ,
and you immerse yourself in your own god,
consciousness of a soul ,
we get into the grind , we expand our mind ,
we try to find solutions to never-ending selfish loops,
sometimes we drop out , and sometimes we find god ,
we have our conscious dreams , wet and wild , a transition from a physical plane then we find the shepherd in us , so happy to be smelling the scent of mother earth , rearranging stones , inducing spins to counter our perceived imbalances.
sometimes we silently suffer all , for the sake of humanity. trying so hard, holding on .
bo0om
Don’t know the response, though it looks like a bilge I believe that we were created.
Believe that our future this one in the stars, that our world is very young, but that we have a common destiny, to part of the living together.
do not believe that the justice or injustice are judgments it brings over of a sky or a hell, since only they live in our conscience.
But if I think that one day we will need some to others, and on this day we will collaborate … for survival, or for what else.
The difference of cultures and Third world current, they create these incompatible and inhuman conditions(states), which with the time were vanishing, as any evil.
On this part, I believe that each one follows(continues) a personal way for ” his(her,your) social achievement ” of the one that can make then real a lot of dreams.
Though today they are not priorities, the generosity, the kindness, and the commitment with the time we will achieve it… Rome was not done in one day.
We evolve and still we learn of the good and of the bad.
srry about my english, :P
hello,
i think that we all at least, wish to follow our dream and create our own legend… but society makes it hard. and i think that nowadays, the society made people kind of weak… people are scared to be different but aren’t we all? and because we are scared, we try to hide the truth from other people and even from ourselves. we try to convince ourselves that getting a good job, make good money, have kids..etc is our dream…while it actually isn’t. and deep inside, we know that we are not fulfilling our dream so we get frustrated, mad which makes us hate other people and the world we live in.
i just think that people should just try to look deep inside and try to figure out what we really want…even if it’s hard and maybe painful…but it would make the world a better place :)
Our personal legend can be a frightening thing. It takes incredible courage to first, realize what we really want, then second, to go after it. We can be our own worst critic in holding ourselves back.
bo0om paulo,
the dream is god…
born are we all gods…
soon we are customized to other people’s needs___
wandering like lost ghouls ,,,
we try to find ourselves again ^^^
why this foolishness of want, of desire …
look at all the impurity we have got ourselves into$$$
so fickle so crazy now they have to bear the bush $$$
his mistakes and we have to pay…
and god maybe is sick of this bullshite …
just imagine how it would have been …
gods dream , your dream , our dream …
bo0om
The problem is ,there are not much references in this
world and can’t blame the majority of the people who
don’t take their responsibilities because, before i
was one them. About 11 years ago i lost my daughter
of 4 months old.Because of her i was starting to think
about live. Then i met a wise men were i could ask
about questions of live and what about God.Now a know
i am here with certain purpose on earth and i choose
already a path.Regulary i have to consult my friend
if i take the right decision.
Sometimes i can consult my heart but sometimes it’s very
difficult to reach it.
I have a lot to learn ,it’s not easy
It wil take lot time that the society will take the
real values of live.
We have to be patient
I think that as a whole we are perfect so society as well .
Then, when we go case by case I think that a lot of people do not leave their lives. But, and that’s the good thing something is changing, I feel new wind (as Mary Poppins jeje). As more and more people live their lives from the love and keep fears aside, the better we are, and the nearer we are to God’s dream.
Have a nice day!!!
Maria de Lourdes
http://www.mariadelourdeseguren.blogspot.com
One afternoon, few years ago…I dreamt of God or, better saying , he decided to appear in one of my best dreams…and the memory of His face encourages me many times.
But, answering to your post, I want to tell you what more fascinates me about God. Yes , it’s absolutely true that we all are fruits of His imagination but more than this I love the fact that we all have been dreamt of and thought by the Lord since the eternity and that we’ll be back to eternity again one day .
So, I prefer not to think about the past anymore because is gone neither about my future because it’s not in my power to know it…but simply offering my exact present to God hoping that this litlle offer of mine will be accepted and will adere to his Divine Will on me…then this little exact present offered in this way can become my little piece of eternity….and so I don’t need to ask more.
I was standing at night on a street corener waiting for the bus sensing the shared dream of the world in the angle of the power poles, the trash gathered along the alleyways, the colored lights crowning the heights of the downtown cityscape and I had a sense of comfort and location to know that we are all interlocking pieces of that dream and we can come to understand one another and the part each one of us plays.
It is also a relief to see the process of that dream within me and find that I can end it. I can wake up to the repeated patterns of behavior in my life that bind me and that consitituee my dream, my mitote as Wanbliska points out.
Yes, we may very well be headed for destruction but isn’t that sense part of the dream too? What do we expect should persist to the benefit of the All?
Who’s in charge anyway???
I am not the perpetrator nor the victim. The universe just continues on, flowing mysteriously to and from epiphanies…
I assume my responsibility, rise up and greet them. But I am not going to take the charge for running the show since I have agreed to disabuse myself of the notion that I am in charge of anything, or that I even know what it is, what is going on…
Interesting article claiming that the dinosaurs were lucky rather than being a better species (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-lucky-dinosaurs.html?source=rss).
I accept that we are on the verge of great changes that are only vaguely visualized by anyone. Refer to Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan”. And the changes can readily mean lower standards of living, fewer people on the planet and changed political structures governing us.
Anyone ready for that???
My agreements are to take care of my responsibilities as best I can, serve my fellow man and be as attuned to my God as I can, to wake up to my dream and become a conscious instrument of God’s intent.
Ultimately I agree that there is no blame or judgement worthwhile engaging in. Those are shifting sands and history is written by the conquerors. I just want to let the light shine through me and that means, first, to find the light and then to be transparent enough for the light to find it’s way through me…
Olá Paulo,
Creio que as pessoas, ainda não perceberam que possuem escolhas…
E o incrível é descobrir mais tarde, que na verdade não temos escolha nenhuma!!!
Não temos mais a liberdade de não querer traçar o caminho da nossa lenda pessoal, e isso torna-se nossa obrigação. Mesmo que você queira abandonar tudo isso, e voltar ao mundo das ilusões da sociedade, não lhe é mais permitido. Sua vida vai ser destinada a chegar ao final da sua lenda.
Que destino capicioso!!!
Abraços, muito sucesso e excelentes vendas!
Welcome back, my dear Wanbliska, we missed you here, all your friends.
I admire children and youth. They have so many things to learn, so much competition, they are all beautiful souls and then…they enter the ‘society of the wise adults’.
Their dreams, their goals, their expectations become.. a big NULL. They must learn how to live and survive within the SYSTEM. The system that kills imagination and creativity, because those who hold the posts and the keys for success are afraid of loosing the power and the wealth of the Earth.
LOVE,
THELMA
Hi Paulo,
I do believe there is a sea of change, gradual, but it is happening. I am fortunate to see it first hand, as I work with people who are faced with new life choices as a result of redundancy. I have noticed quite a change over the last ten years. In the past it was employees in their fifties, who were more fincially secure who made the more creative choices aligned with their changing values and needs. Today this is happening in all age groups. I think because job security has been taken away, people are slowly realising that nothing in life comes with a guarantee and they ought to make it it as fulfilling as possible.
Also there is a younger generation of workers who are clearly looking for more than monetary gain. This new wave of thinking rejects the ‘me only’ culture and seeks more challenge, creativity and personal fulfilment. A phrase I hear often is “I don’t just want a job that is about making money, I want to contribute more to the community and do a role that is more fulfilling”. So I believe it is happening, slowly but surely.
Eu acho que somos muito imperfeitos ainda para entender os designos de Deus. Acredito que existe os iluminados e que de bom grado consiguam atingir essa plenitude que tanto Deus almeja que façamos.
Mas a meu ver ainda falta muito, porque senão as Almas não retornariam tanto com outro espírito. Eu acho que a partir do momento que o “ajuste ao bem” se concretiza, a Alma, conecta direto com a luz quando o espírito ou corpo morre. Mas se prestarmos atenção a população só aumenta e prá mim isso é sinal que falta muitas batalhas a enfrentar a favor do bem.
Beijos
Mari Raphael.
We seem confronted by a lot more than anyone can handle these days. And yet, a lot of what confronts everyone is a little bit shallow and forgettable…So maybe the problem with fear and society, is that people are not holding onto things they can truly believe in, yet they are bombarded as never before. I think that is what we, as a society face at present. We, like many civilizations before, are at a special place where we can see a lot of change, and there are many opportunities to make the structures and ideals better…But there lies a lot of fear in how equipped we are to face this change.
I think there is a lot of awareness that society is indeed heading towards something, which is perhaps a big step in itself. Many people are aware of the cycles of civilizations, and many are fortunate enough to be able to step outside of their days even a little to acknowledge that they may impact thier own direction. There is a certain ripeness of consciousness right now, and many who have opened themselves up to a fearlessness that is required to embody their personal legends.
As Reshmi stated, we do have a society where success is measured in terms of money and fame. Furthermore, it is getting more and more expensive to just cover basic living expenses, so too often we have to make a career choice that pays the bills. We compromise our gifts so that they are used as a hobby, at best, instead of a focal point for our lives. Some lose track of them all together. And, once we’ve done this and have become accustomed to a certain level of income, it feels impossible to undo it. It takes great courage to fight the norm and follow your personal legend, but if we don’t we will never complete God’s plan.
I include myself in this group, and I am challenging myself right now to rediscover this personal legend. I am also fighting the fear that I won’t be able to afford to follow it. I have to expect that the universe will support me if I follow the right path. I am afraid of not financially surviving, but I am more afraid of not following my path and not truly living a life that I feel is true.
I think people are either trying to realize what they imagine their personal legend to be, or they’re doing their best to hide from it.
Dear Mr Paulo,
I’ve done a couple of post regarding the topic you’ve mentioned above about achieving personal legends as well as the society’s influences on the process.
For those interested: http://metallic-stains.blogspot.com/search?q=personal+legend
Many in the world today do not believe in the existence of personal legends, for many view the subject with much skepticism as well as doubt.
The society defines the way people live their lives in our current era and rightly so. But when it starts restricting the endeavor of pursuing personal legends, that’s when the development of the society degenerates the entire process.
Only few in the society sees this in effect and against all odd and difficulties, struggle between the social faux pas and the right to pursue their personal legend.
I hope everyone will be able to defy their insecurities and pursue their respective personal legends regardless of the society’s development.
Cheers,
Kenji
Dear Coelho! You (or, to be honest, I) need a search-bar on this blog!
Society is heading in different directions on different levels of energy vibration. You have indiviual conscious and unconscious awareness, as well as different levels of collective awareness that all interconnect in forms of energy on an energy grid. Some human beings develop heightened sensitivity and view this in terms of energy via pulses, intensity, color, texture and emotions. The waves of energy flow in different directions simultaneously. Different beings are resonating at different levels of awareness. Ultimately, the soul moves to unify with everyone, everywhere.
Society is heading towards self destruction. Although we may be among warriors I can’t help but to think that we’re losing the fight. However, only when we are fallen then we are able to start picking our self up. That is the cycle of life ain’t it?
People no longer have the sense of identity, they can no longer remember their personal legend. Even if they do remember, they can’t move because they are following the drift of the society. Society teaches you to conform, to refuse it, you are a deemed deviant. Who controls the society? I believe it’s each and single one of us. Will we give the deviant-nist a chance to make a difference? To fight the good fight?
Courage is needed to answer the calling of the personal legend. Persistent and faith is required to follow it through.
I am happy that there are still people able to chose and use their experience to perform their role in that world.
They are not the majority,this is a certainty.But there is still hope,and maybe some will wake up reading your books.
Nevertheless,patterns functions still nowadays,and many people are afraid of taking different paths ,only in order to please their mates,their priests or their family.Is the most painful thing when hindering sons is their parents.
Sometimes is only cowardice.Taking responsibilities is not easy for everyone.What saying about children grow up,live with their parents till advanced age.I think one need courage to take his chance and to fulfill his task in this world.Also common sense mingled with intuition.Faith helps us every step of the way.
Good afternoon to all of you,
I’m sorry, I have to quit a bit. But when I woke up, my first thought was to come here with you.
To overcome the fears that the society tends to give, has become a real challenge for me. Though, it is more out of pique, I think. Also, the fact people tried to prevent me from fulfilling my personal legend, by condescending words, (I believed), made me doubt about my purpose, doing a job of words and no money. Suddendly, how could I really interact with so?
They filled my “Mitotè”. For toltecs, our mind live in “Mitotè”, which means a big cooking-pot, whose ingredients are our thoughts, our wishes, our dreams, as bad as good. It is also told to be the potful where material ideas lay. Thus, maybe in this world, “mitotè” is full of dreadful components, and so long, creations could be trivial and bad.
People could get out of “mitotè”, with thoughts expurgated of evil, and good attitude.
But it appears that people are willing to be uncousciously caught up by “Mitotè”, though they have free will with.
Enjoy your day
Love
Personally, I feel that throughout the world there is a movement towards enlightenment, though you would never know it from looking at the news. There is an undercurrent of urgency towards a more spiritually based life, and the realization that we are all connected – we cannot separate ourselves and our own wellbeing from nature or other societies. Every time a person dies as a result of a violent act, an act of hate, it affects the Universal consciousness, of which we are a part. Every time a species of animals becomes extinct, our souls feel it, just like every time an affront to nature and the environment occurs, our spirits cry. To willfully hurt another creation of God is to go against his (or her) wishes for us and the world.
I believe that we are created in the image of God, and God is a part of us. When we are separated from our own divine natures, we seek to absolve ourselves of responsibility for the choices we make, and to place the blame on others. To become God’s dream, then, we need to accept responsibility for our thoughts and actions and become conscious of them. As a global family, our responsibility is to make the respectful and responsible use of our gifts and to share it with the world. When we live our lives from a place of love and respect for ourselves and our world, then we fulfill our personal legend and God’s dream for us.
By instinct, human beings resist to take risks or to change. Everyone is going by the book even if they say they don’t. The society forces its values and principles over everyone who thinks of rebelling.
Only those who are different can overcome the pressures.
Only those who are exceptional can defy those rules that are put and forced by the society.
I feel that a majority of people waste their life living out someone else’s dreams. At the end of it, they are frustrated and put the blame for this on others, whereas it was upto them to make the right choices.
We have people walking out of relationships because they could not convince their families to accept the soul mate they chose. We have people who supress their innate talents and try to make their mark in another profession, just to gain acceptance from others. And yes, society does make life difficult for people who dare to break the norms and do something different. This very society is made up of people who never had the courage to follow their heart and hence will not allow others to do it either. This never ending chain of events has created a society where success is measured in terms of money and fame and not happiness and satisfaction.
But it is upto each one of us to break free from this vicious cycle-by living out our dreams and by not stopping anyone from living out theirs.
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