Once you said : “To change onself is to change the world”- when lately have you changed something in your life? How has that changed the world?
We never realize these changes. Try to improve yourself, and then the world around you will improve. This is what I try to do; most of the time the changes are very subtle, but if you spread love, you receive love. If you spread hate, you will receive hate.
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To change the world around you, you have to change yourself first. Then the world changes after you. We are the mirror that people around us reflect themeselves in and vice-versa.
In my country there is this wise ancient sentence:
“The man is the one that make “saint” the place where he stays/works”, meaning that one person transform the place/people he is living in/with or existing in/with.
Thank you paulo, I’m working on this one…
i think life is always movement,,,, every moment has its own little change,
in my personal life i have found my way to change the world by helping others, by doing lot of volunteer and by going to the hospital twice a week and help families in need, it feels amazingly good knowing that others in the humanity get that kind of support while they r in need!!!!! and little by little things get changed for better,
Estella maris ,
Attractive story. Thank you
[ And upside down, you tried ;-) : maybe you will feel the wind AND AND you will see it!!! Oh which show it would be ]
i hope that the wind will be comming near you
Estella maris , belle histoire merci
[ et la tête en bas , vous avez essayé ;-) : peut-être vous sentirez le vent ET ET vous le VERREZ ! ! ! oh quel spectacle se serait ]
i hope that the wind will be comming near you
Dear Paulo,
Can you tell me what you know about the Koh-I-Noor and the Dar-io-Noor?
hi!
after all good thoughts,good wishes and good wills, a little practical answer.
there it is:yesterday,at my work,while doing my duties, a colleague of mine began to show to everyone personally a video she made with her cellular of her grandson.as i was at the most difficult point and didn*t want to interrupt, i told her i will see it at lunch or after we finish working.i ensure u i was kind,for i am the only foreigner at work and i dont*t want any conflicts with nobody( and i don*t look for ones in general. my peace and love method finished with the fact that noone speaks to me and they all make as if i don*t exist,there*s only 1 and my boss who understand me).and so,teh lady,over 50,has the age of my mother,sent me to do things not exactly beautiful,and i deared to reply her that she shouldn*t use this languige anymore. this was my tryel to change sth in the world arround me ,and only for who had the patience to read this stupid story,there *S the happy end:all the girls sayd that i shouldn*t speak like that and blamed me for bad educated.
now the question is: should i leave this ignorant people live in their ignorance,do the make part of the world i want to change.
the answer: i have to go away as soon as possible,but i feel so good with my work and my boss.so the only way i see is continue to play deaf with them and read all the books i get and enjoy your company as soon as possible.
is it a betrayel?
I believe in law of attraction and only when a person changes himself for good he /she will attract positive energies and that will automatically bring about the change…though the entire process takes time …it works.
There is an Arabic story about prophet Solomon. Muslims believe that Solomon had power to control the wind.
Once wind blew in an opposite direction. Solomon ordered to the wind:
- You are blowing in the wrong direction, blow in the right direction!
Wind answered:
- My lord! As long as you live in a wrong way, how can you ask me to blow in a right way?
Our life is also like a wind, if it is going not in the direction we want, we have firstly to change ourselves.
Good to remember always,and I can add that the result of our changes or actions might not be very fast,but they will surely arrive.The Good wins in the end,always.Love you all
Of course! With no doubt oneself change could change the world. A very subtle change:
“I have the pleasure to be in holidays.
I walk for about an hour every day at the park. I was surprised none smiled, neither I was.
I decided to smile to people I would encounter in my way and so I did…and they did also smile.
Something so simple as a smile can change your entire day, at least it changed mine. Imagine how much more we can do.
Estela Maris (aquarious ;-)
Dear Paulo,
a happy epiphany day from me too.
Thank you for this thought…
I recently have changed my attitude towards the situation of college. I know it sounds stupid, but I used to look at getting into college as something to brag about to my friends. When I don’t get into a college I used to complain to my freinds. Now, I realize that no one wants to hear what I am saying because people are too worried about themselves to listen to the successes and hardship of others. Now I look at each decision made by a college as something to either teach me a lesson or that it is for the best. God will always let everything work out for me in a certain way, and I have learned to trust in God’s will and the path that he has laid out for me. It affects my life and perspective and also affects the world because, at least people in my town, because they can now deal with their own situations and not my own.
1)être disponible , et se rendre disponible
être bien dans sa tête et son corps : si vous êtes équilibré vous pourrez aider les autres, vous aider , voir différemment , vivre différemment et avancer
personnellement , j’ai réduit mon temps de travail sur la semaine : je travaille lundi , mardi , mercredi et jeudi et les heures du vendredi sont déplacés sur le temps de midi des autres jours de la semaine ( je mange avec un “lance pierre” mais pas grave / je travaille toute la journée , mais je ne travaille plus le vendredi : ainsi je me donne du temps pour pouvoir faire et agir = je ne cours pas après l’argent mais j’en gagne pour ce que je dois payer )
2) j’essaie de m’améliorer , d’être de plus en plus disponible , d’être de plus en plus humble , de plus en plus ouvert aux choses , plus et encore plus d’amour : si je donne une graine à quelqu’un et que je lui permette d’arroser cette graine …un jour en cultivant son jardin , il la fera fleurir ( et ce jour là , je serai comblée )
3) je fais et je fais encore , et je fais chaque jour , même si ce que je fais est petit , mais de nombreux petits ne forment – ils pas 1 tout qui peut se développer et parfois faire germer d’autres petites choses .. etc , etc
agir agir agir
4)mon rêve : pouvoir libérer encore du temps que je donne à mon job , afin de pouvoir FAIRE ( je ne suis pas vraiment “travailler plus pour gagner plus” , comme le dit le président de la république française ! ! ! )
je pense à d’autres valeurs bien plus importante à mes yeux ! ! !
-> ???? -> prendre 1 année sabbatique pour vivre différemment ( 1 ) et aussi avoir du temps pour faire ce que j’ai à faire (2) et aussi avoir le temps d’organiser pour agir (3) : mais difficile à réaliser lorsqu’on est seule avec 1 enfant …… et aussi quand son travail est de rééduquer les autres (orthophoniste et neuropsychologue ) et que mes patients comptent sur moi et que je ne veux pas les “abandonner” ( mais je ne suis pas indispensable !! et tant d’autres ont besoin de moi !!! )
->??->accorder moins de temps à mon ami qui se trouve à 800kms et qui a aussi besoin de moi ,et à notre vie pour me libérérer : c’est un grand sacrifice !
->??-> partir loin de ma famille qui compte tant pour moi : c’est un grand sacrifice ( pour mes parents surtout ) et un changement de vie pour moi et mon fils
je SAIS que 2009 est un tournant dans ma vie , mais je souhaite tant être éclairer à nouveau ( mais les “voies” de Dieu sont impénétrables “, “que ta volonté soit faite ” , mais je suis impatiente de savoir où ce tournant doit me mener et où et pas trop difficile seigneur ! ! amis bon j’aime aussi la difficulté : 1 stimulant pour moi …. ( …sourire :-) )
1) Be available, and make available
Be, please, in the head and its body: if you are balanced you can help the others, you help, see differently, live differently and advance
Personally, I reduced my working time over the week: I work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday , and the hours of Friday are moved at the time of 12h00 – 14h00 of the other days of the week (I eat with one ” lance stone ” but not grave / I work all day long, but I do not work any more on Fridays: so I give myself of time to be able to make and act = I do not run after the money but I gain it for the fact that I have to pay )
2) I try to improve, to be more and more available ,be more and more humble, be more and more opened to things, more and some more of love: if I give a seed to somebody and that I allow him(her) to spray this seed… one day by cultivating its garden, he will make it decorate with flowers(bloom,prosper,decorate with flowers)
(and this day there, I shall be filled)
3) I make and I still make, and I make every day, even if what I make is small, but numerous youngs trainform- they not 1 everything who can develop …….and sometimes make germinate the other little gifts etc., etc.
Act of acting of acting
4) My DREAM : be able to free still from the time that I look to my job, to be able to MAKE (I am not really ” work more to have more money”, as says it the president of the French republic!!!)
I think of the other values more important for me!!!
- >???? – > set on 1 sabbatical year to live differently (1) and also have time to make that I have to make (2) and also to have the time to organize to act (3): but difficult to realize when we are alone with 1 child …… and also when my work is to re-educate the others (speech therapist and neuropsychologist) and when my patients count on me and when I do not want “to abandon” them (
But I am not indispensable!! And so many others need me!!! )
->?? – > tune less time to my friend who is in 800kms and who also needs me, and in our life for me to libérérer: it is a big sacrifice!
->?? – > leave far from my family which counts so much for me: it is a big sacrifice (for my parents especially) and a change of life for me and my son
I know that 2009 is a bend in my life, but I so much wish to be to shine again (but God’s ” ways ” are impenetrable “,” that your will is made “, but I am an impatient person of knowledge where this bend has to lead me and where and not too difficult Lord!! But , so , I also like the difficulty: 1 stimulant for me…. ( smile :-) )
I truly believe that if we are to change the world, we must not put the responsibility on other people or even God. To change the world we must change our own hearts. The Dalai Lama has said that “world peace begins with inner peace” – Mahatma Gandhi told us “You must be the change you want to see in the world” – and even Jesus told us that “you can do all that I have done…and still greater things.” These great spiritual warriors have continually reminded us that, we are the change – we are the peace – and a better world becomes possible when we express our divine purpose here on earth…to serve, to love, and to meet all of life with a kind heart. And as we begin to think and act from our hearts, we will see each other as God sees us…as six billion miracles, which make up the totality and very essence of life.
With love and kindness,
Michael
http://www.thekindnesscenter.com
Happy Epiphany Day!
Thank you all, thank you Herman Vilar and thank you, my dear-est Paul from Austria, it is good to hear a … stubborn, handsome.. Aquarius admit his .. stubbornness!!! I am with an Aquarius for more than … 40 years and I have never experienced it!! It seems the rising ‘Krebs’ have done a good job!;]
Changes happen every minute, inside us and outside us. In my mind it came: “the similar attracts the similar” and then the ‘LAW of Attraction’. There is a big bibliography about this.
The Universe ‘echos’ the … voice of our inner thoughts [our vibrations] and thus we create our future.
LOVE,
Thelma
All,
Allow me to quote Hermeticism once again: “The Art of Hermetic Alchemy,” which, contrary to the general belief, dealt in the mastery of Mental Forces, rather than Material Elements – the Transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into others, instead of the changing of one kind of metal into another.
And the text continues: “”THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental.” – The Kybalion.
This is the reason why we endeavor to change the world we see in a material way, when in fact the change due to take place is mental. A small mental change (a little magic, so to say) can most definitely change the world, following the principle of correspondence: “As above, so below; as below, so above.”
All the best,
Hernan
I think that improve ourselves and improve the relationships with people near us is the best way to improve the world.
Infact every body is always with himslef/ herself and ofted with people who live closer to him/her, jesus said to “love our neighbours like ourselves”.
Come on let’s not be defeated by the news of these days!
Have a nice Epiphany everybody!
And love says, I will, I will take care of you!