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People will tell you that if you are too close to a problem, you should just step back and take a look from a different angle.
Sometimes though that is not enough; for some problems objective distance is impossible for stakeholders so you really need someone else to look at your situation and tell you their perspective.
It takes maturity and integrity to recognise those times when you can’t see the writing on the wall because you are one of the bricks.
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“Many people have travelled this world with different dreams ,purposes and aspirations. Many are masters, teachers, inventors and followers.They were all sent by the creator of the Universe to achieve one just course:” global peace and unification”. But this course cannot be achieved without unconditional love, which possesses the magical powers of the Divine for transformation. When the human race embraces love unconditional, then the lost will be found, the naked will be clothed, the hungry will be fed, the bombs will be destroyed and there will be peace and unity which will make us all to speak one language :”LOVE” Let love abide.” Philip Brown
There is a good video “The God Code” by Gregg Bradden - the author of “The Spontaneous healing of belief”, “The science of miracles” “the Divine Matrix” “The Good Code”, etc on Paulo’s My space or
http://www.myspace/com/greggbradenfriends
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CYBERNATION: FLIRTING AND SEDUCTION
Usually Eros as Cupid is represented flying around or sneaking up on two human lovers with his quiver of arrows. This is a rare print (in my experience) of Cupid kissing. Perhaps he has already shot himself in the foot and she is Psyche. Is the shot in the foot the essence of Seduction?
http://www.bloodmother.com/2009/03/cybernation-seduction-flirtation.html
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Um artigo publicado há cerca de dez anos pela revista Seleções Reader’s Digest (09/88), relata a história de um homem, chamado Stan Belin, o qual, desde pequeno, sonhou muito alto. Aluno exemplar, formou-se em Odontologia. O dinheiro começou a surgir em abundância. Teve dois filhos saudáveis. Conseguiu uma casa magnífica, automóveis luxuosos. No entanto, Stan se sentia imensamente triste e desesperado.
Logo chegou a depressão. Ele se sentia desalentado, infeliz. Almejava comprar confiança e tranqüilidade, mas elas não estavam à disposição no mercado. Se perguntava: “Por que estou tão vazio por dentro? O que me falta? Pois não conquistei tudo? O que me falta?”
À exemplo dele, muitos seguimos a vida sem objetivos verdadeiros. Idealizamos metas fictícias e as perseguimos para descobrir, ao conquistá-las, que elas não nos preenchem as necessidades íntimas.
Não percebemos que o sentido da vida não está nas pessoas e muito menos nas coisas. A razão de vivermos está na relação com as pessoas, na maneira como nos conduzimos perante os amigos , parentes, conhecidos e mesmo em relação àqueles que não nos são caros. Poderia dizer que a razão de vivermos é Deus, mas não. Ele nos deu a vida, nos orientou através de um espírito especial (que foi Cristo), mas não poderia ser resumido como sentido da vida. Simplesmente porque a nossa criação também tem um sentido : nos tornarmos, sozinhos, pessoas melhores, integrais, capazes e equilibradas. Por isto, o sentido da vida confunde-se com o sentido do que chamamos “religião”. Longe de representar uma organização espiritual, de instituir dogmas e cerimônias, as “religiões” tem o único objetivo de indicar um simples exemplo de conduta. Cristo fez isto, sua missão era “simples” neste aspecto, a de mostrar com exemplos como cada um deve comportar-se no dia-a-dia. Tudo o mais que se fale dele é bobagem.
O que, então, realmente importa na vida? A resposta é uma fórmula simplória, composta de três palavras : bondade, simplicidade e compreensão. São termos vazios para quem não deseje compreender, mas englobam em seus significados outros tantos termos igualmente importantes : caridade, perdão e amor. Vivemos, então, para aprender. Esta a explicação para a oportunidade das vidas sucessivas, para o mistério da reencarnação. É a oportunidade que nos é dada, com a paciência extrema de alguém muito especial (a quem chamamos de Deus), para que aprendamos a respeitar, gostar e ajudar as pessoas. Para que aprendamos que a vida é simples se a encararmos como uma caminhada composta de estações, na qual devemos interagir com nossos acompanhantes, aqueles que encontramos e reencontramos para nosso próprio aperfeiçoamento. Somos, todos, metal bruto, sendo forjado por nossa própria vontade. Queira, então, ver o sentido da vida. Dê importância ao que realmente tem importância. E aprenda a viver, mas sem ansiedade, pois cada vida é um passo (um único passo) nesta caminhada.
Marcos Grignolli
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Thank you munrocea for the information you put in your comment. It is devastating to hear such things are going on in Sudan and maybe even in other countries. What have some human beings become!??
I also admire what you are doing!
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TREE OF LIFE, in all civilizations and beliefs
http://sido66.blogspot.com/
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I just returned from a debrief on an NGO [ILO funded] project for anti-child trafficking and child labour.
I agree that without an evaluator, then it would be difficult to understand where this project has taken the NGO and its regional work in the last 3years.
It also meant new laws and policies were instructed… and so, the NGO next project had to be ammended to align…
without the external view… no doubt the forum would end up with the male participants making silly jokes, the women waiting patiently for real action to get underway etc etc..
we would all be in our own little bubbles believing in our ego’s confidence.
thank goodness for ILO i say today… my heroes ;o)
but I also heard a really disturbing story - as the forum moved on to illegal immigration and smuggling of people… to talk also on organ theft..
it’s a story i’ve heard before perhaps on the news?
a young person in a new city, maybe a tourist - is decieved, tricked etc… and ends up waking up..
they are in a bath of ice cold water.
on the ceiling written above are the words “don’t move or you will die. call this number xkquetdheodj and someone will come and help you.”
this is the way organ theft can take place - if its one of your kidneys… the other case would be your heart…
and lastly.. i heard that since human trafficking faces less risks than drug trafficking - as a result of improved detection and tracking of drugs being smuggled….
that many drug traffickers are turning to the trade of human trafficking.
i have to say, that this is perhaps one of the sickest manifestations ever to prominate in our global society and i pray fervently that this terror and its foul participants can be stopped.
— but like prostitution, whilst the demand is there {ie: men wanting sex with a prostitute]
then likewise the crime will continue..
since many doctors are even involved in these removal of organs … since it requires serious surgery…
since many immigration and police are involved in the trafficking of children for child labour [including the sex trade]..
I am, thus in awe of work done by people of ILO, UNICEF etc..
and it is a terrible outcome for the people of Sudan that this week the NGOs have all been told “to go” by the ruling party leader.
imagine how the situation will change for those in refugee camps… who fear getting raped just going to fetch water, or fear dying of thirst if they don’t move…
imagine all these people supported in one way or another by these NGOs…
because their government is failing to do so ..
because, like Zimbabwe, Sudan is allowed to continue to be abused by it’s own so-called empowered leaders.
……………………………………………..
i wish the world would wake up to its own mirror - for people to not just see themselves reflected back all the time - and to “be the change” instead…
rather than allowing these bullies and tyrants take a hold…
on the day mugabe had his lavish bday party {85th} … i listened to an announcement on ghana tv of this event…
it’s strange, i haven’t heard many other birthday wishes by this news station to other presidents birthdays…
how can he receive so much acknowledgement?!!??
so, i shall be praying for the future of places like Sudan - because these people are in for a rough road ahead.
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I do agree with Mierin 100%.It’s by developping intuition that you get a better understanding of people around you.You need to stop “interferences” as well by focusing more on what you “feel” instead of what you “think”.Developping your intuition is very important if not to say vital.
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Dear Colin,
I do sometimes think of myself as one of the bricks. But what would the solution be? A therapist? Because anyone else already in your life would already be a stakeholder, as you call them, since they have an interest in you or your situation… And therapists do help (this is experience talking), but I think the actual solution is to learn how to see yourself in the mirror.
Andreea
http://www.almostperfectperson.blogspot.com
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People will tell you that if you are too close to a problem, you should just step back and take a look from a different angle.
Sometimes though that is not enough; for some problems objective distance is impossible for stakeholders so you really need someone else to look at your situation and tell you their perspective.
It takes maturity and integrity to recognise those times when you can’t see the writing on the wall because you are one of the bricks.
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A major question in the field of phylosophy of language is “How does a meaning of a sentence emerge out of its own parts?”
Answer: words just transmit thoughts, the act of envisioning your idea and passing it to the other can be thought as telepathy.
People with similar backgrounds tend to exchange ideas faster. Maybe the gaining of this background can be seen as synchronising their mental processes, and therefore explaining the lesser need for words, and therefore jumping on a semi telepathic level in the communication with the other person.
Synchronizing would then can happen with time by equaling body language and semantic perceptions (i.e. getting a mutual agreement on the exact meaning of every word).
From just words to undestanding the envisioned idea comes into play the intuition, that literally like a child pulls you by the coat and points the right direction.
So the more you trust your intuition the more you get into a higher level of understanding with the people around you.
http://mierin.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/communication/
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Hi everybody,
There is a good article from the Scientific American.
-Building the 21st century mind-
Professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Howard Gardner, reveals the five minds you need for success, how to make better decisions and why ethics are critical.
I remember attending a workshop in childcare and his methods were discussed.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=multiple-intelligences-divisions-ethics&sc=CAT_MB_2C
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Joseph believed (by the message of the angel) and accepted.
Tomorrow I shall pray for our listening to God’s messages and to our acceptance.
I even I had a story similar to Joseph, and tomorrow I shall also ask that God helps me to have the courage of; and what he(it) helps all those who received a message (and they are many: some come to see me, the others write me: thanks to all for your testimonies = I feel less alone)
http://www.inxl6.org/article1920.php
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