Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
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I hardly ever comment on on this type of website. I did however really enjoy reading the primary article. I’ll go through the rest of the website. Thanks!
c’est vrai, cela me fait penser à Haïti
merci pour tes citations
bisou
Any thing can be ustified if we speak in terms of perception. Things can become so grey that there is no right and wrong. That’s why the individual’s journey is imperative.
It’s all about the energy, constantly changing…we are all one.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong …
And that other thought that is present for me these last couples of days. I was there seeing that when others are preparing for their retirement (time to live!) I was there putting up strategies to assure the existence and realization of my dream (professional centre in help and Foundation to bring that private service to the community on a free basis), and I thought: I have it all wrong. I have going in the opposite way that the world defined. And then, I stood there stunned. My references, well, what makes them right, so right! And then I realized that I was the one living, for I am entering a line of work that flows, that makes me full, that helps, and that I can do at all moments in my life, that retirement well is something not for me, that I am lived before, I live now and will live after.
Nothing in the “divine world” is ever wrong, and nothing is this world is ever completely wrong because the Source is always there to bring back, address, reform, transform, maintain from what is completely wrong. Jojo.
It’s funny but today when I came on that portion of the blog, I thought: Why always trying to understand what is right or wrong in the World (exterior) and why do I not put my energy to see what is right or wrong inside me (interior)? For I loose myself in that incomprehension that surrounds me, and find it more energy filling, more simple, more definite when I tend to put all my senses towards my interior. And then, yes, I need to look at the exterior, because I need it to contemplate my interior … Use to hate that kind of feeling that is there today … today I woke up with again a night filled of dreams, intense dreams, and with “what is the meaning of all this Creation, what do I need to comprehend”, and I need to comprehend … and then I come back to comprehend what is there for me to comprehend at this precise moment, today, this moment … Those dreams … are they dreams … I believe they are so much more … so much bizarre encounters … but I trust that I will be guided … so, I leave my lap top and go outside to attend gardening (a sunny day in Québec! Rare and precious before winter time that approaches). I trust that meanings and responses will appear to help me comprehend that for me, in this life, nothing is never completely wrong. Jojo.
This is especially true to those who are slaves of social norms. They suppress their inner instincts (which cause no harm to others) and when they look back when they are old, all they see is their life being lead by an imaginary social hand. Not by themselves.
Have you ever tried to wear your sweater inside-out? Wasn’t it light and warm? And you would never notice that it was not the right side even if ‘your friends’ wouldn’t laugh at you… Hmm… Maybe they all have lost their sweaters and now they are simply jealous of you…?
Be brave! And if you love to wear your sweater inside-out, just do that! Nothing in this world is ever completely wrong while it makes you feel warm and comfortable! :)
‘Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong’.
Now thinking again of it, I read ‘in the World’ and by that I think that it implies the world of creation after … ‘Paradise Lost’. When we entered the worlds of duality and separation.
So, I think, it is obvious, that nothing is … completely wrong. Everything happenes for a reason. To … restore ‘balance’ and for us to learn. To transform matter into spirit. To become the Alchemist.
Only the Eternal Light[Ανέσπερο Φώς] ΙS.
We are in the Cave, see the ‘shadows on the wall’, chained in Matter and think that what is happening to us is real.
But deeply inside us, the sparkle of Light, the … spectator ‘understands’ that these are just Illusions! The play of .. Light and Shadow.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
One of my favourite films.. :-)
Danny in the film, reminds me of someone I used to know, who smoked many a Camberwell Carrot…
a stopped clock is broken, it’s of no use..even the coincidence is irrelevant…it seems to me as if mankind relies on this coincidence and that this waiting of this coincidence to appear is all the effort it makes to change the life into something ‘working’..
My beloved and I live 3000kms apart. One night we spent 10 hours on the phone. The next day she noticed her clock had stopped at the moment we hung up. The coincidence was significant for us.
With love, Daniel
I liked it Marlene. Although, I looked at this motto at a different side of view at my post, you are absolutely right. Just throw the clock away and don’t have to wait for these 2 min (of the day’s 1440 min).
Very nice opinion!!
Does this quote also mean that
1. hitler was not completely wrong, 2. all the killing in name of releigion was not completely wrong, 3. the witch hunt in middle ages was not completely wrong.
…4. 5……
love
aditya
Depends dear Aditya how you interpret the word “wrong”, etc … For me that citation refers to “errors, mistakes, bad choices, things that seem to not go in favor of what one wished, prayed or intended. Also, for me, it refers to the relation me and the world. Yes, if I go on that road of analyzing actions, facts, history, I would ask myself the same questions, but again, I could not respond since I am not a part of that personally. But if I had been a Jew with Hitler, I would have found a meaning, a security that the world is ever completely wrong. Because if I had not, I would have been destroyed by other things (hate, revenge, abandonment, etc …) I am of the resilient type and that citation well is part of my way of having been able to fight the Good Fight. With affection, Jojo.
good thought
the start of the week might have allowed me more time to answer this jeje ;o)
right now, I must also ask… well, how did a ‘civilised’ nation allow Hitler to ‘happen’..?
Does Light consist of Darkness?
Aditya – there is no right or wrong – only effective and not effective! What Hitler did was not effective… thus he did not ultimately achieve his aim.
In my country, South Africa, what Nelson Mandela did after Aprtheid, was effective – he achieved peace & equality without war.
When we think of our choices in life as being right or wrong, we can often land up in self-blame, regret & GUILT (the most difficult emotion to deal with!!) We should rather think of our choices as being effective or not effective… there might be less “emotional wounds” (Paulo’s current blog topic) if we all thought like that!
x
Dear Aditya,
Interesting question. I was thinking along the same vien about how things are so wrong that we can’t even imagine something being right about it in any other perspective.
But as some of the responses say…Darkness is needed to define the boundary of Light.
I tried to imagine just one light never ending without boundaries..it would be blinding. WHen the light has a visible boundary of darkness we can see much better.
Maybe that is the purpose served by the wrong and it ends up right to define the light!
Love,
Laxmi
hello,
i was thinking about the same line Aditya, and wondered why one is never angry with a clock that doesn´t work. Like one doesn´t blame the weather for being bad or shouts at the brick that falls on ones toe.
A lot of people say that the really great wrong doings in our world actually started because the instigaters thought acting would bring peace and equilibrity. Did Hitler know he was doing something wrong? Or was he honestly convinced that in the end all would work out just fine?
And does it help us to be indignated and upset about it? Or could one better regard history as a clock that has stopped working? Beyond emotion?
U know paul, i love you ( with all my views against homosexuality, i won’t be misunderstoood, i hope, love between freids is something i have found to be more divine than between married couples, and sex is of course a situational by product, )
yes u guessed it right, tounge in cheek, i too join you in that prayer, let’s trust our collective intelligence and also our individual intents and being.
love
aditya
“160 million people died in wars during the 20th century:
1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (8 million)
1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)
1899-02: Philippines vs USA (20,000)
1900-01: Boxer rebels against Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA against rebels (35,000)
1903: Ottomans vs Macedonian rebels (20,000)
1904: Germany vs Namibia (65,000)
1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
1911-12: Italian-Ottoman war (20,000)
1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million)
1915-20: the Ottoman empire slaughters 500,000 Assyrians
1916-23: the Ottoman empire slaughters 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks
1914-18: World War I (20 million)
1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1917-19: Greece vs Turkey (45,000)
1919-21: Poland vs Soviet Union (27,000)
1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine (10 million)
1934: Mao’s Long March (170,000)
1936: Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
1936-37: Stalin’s purges (13 million)
1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
1937-45: Japanese invasion of China (500,000)
1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)
1947: Taiwan’s uprising against the Kuomintang (30,000)
1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)
1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus (20,000)
1949-50: Mainland China vs Tibet (1,200,000)
1950-53: Korean war (3 million)
1952-59: Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection (20,000)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000)
1958-61: Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” (38 million)
1960-90: South Africa vs Africa National Congress (?)
1960-96: Guatemala’s civil war (200,000)
1961-98: Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian (100,000)
1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal (?)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir
1965-66: Indonesian civil war (250,000)
1966-69: Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (11 million)
1966-: Colombia’s civil war (31,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1968-80: Rhodesia’s civil war (?)
1969-: Philippines vs New People’s Army (40,000)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1969-02: IRA – Norther Ireland’s civil war (2,000)
1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (50,000)
1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, etc) (120,000)
1972: Burundi’s civil war (300,000)
1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’s civil war (30,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
1975-90: civil war in Lebanon (40,000)
1975-87: Laos’ civil war (184,000)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1976-83: Argentina’s military regime (20,000)
1976-93: Mozambique’s civil war (900,000)
1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
1976-2005: Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)
1977-92: El Salvador’s civil war (75,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
1980-92: Sendero Luminoso – Peru’s civil war (69,000)
1980-99: Kurds vs Turkey (35,000)
1981-90: Nicaragua vs Contras (60,000)
1982-90: Hissene Habre, Chad (40,000)
1983-: Sri Lanka’s civil war (70,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1986-: Indian Kashmir’s civil war (60,000)
1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1988-2004: Somalia’s civil war (550,000)
1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
1989-: Uganda vs Lord’s Resistance Army (30,000)
1991: Gulf War – large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait (85,000)
1991-97: Congo’s civil war (800,000)
1991-2000: Sierra Leone’s civil war (200,000)
1991-2009: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)
1992-96: Tajikstan’s civil war war (50,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavian wars (260,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
1993-97: Congo Brazzaville’s civil war (100,000)
1993-2005: Burundi’s civil war (200,000)
1994: Rwanda’s civil war (900,000)
1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites (1,300)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (12,000)
1998-: Congo/Zaire’s war – Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)
1999: Kosovo’s liberation war – NATO vs Serbia (2,000)
2001-: Afghanistan’s liberation war – USA & UK vs Taliban (40,000)
2002-: Cote d’Ivoire’s civil war (1,000)
2003: Second Iraq-USA war – USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein (14,000)
2003-: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (200,000)
2003-: Iraq’s civil war (60,000)
2004-: Sudan vs SPLM & Eritrea (?)
2004-: Yemen vs Shiite Muslims (?)
2004-: Thailand vs Muslim separatists (3,700)
Arab-Israeli wars:
I (1947-49): 6,373 Israeli and 15,000 Arabs die
II (1956): 231 Israeli and 3,000 Egyptians die
III (1967): 776 Israeli and 20,000 Arabs die
IV (1973): 2,688 Israeli and 18,000 Arabs die
Intifada I (1987-92): 170 Israelis and 1,000 Palestinians
Intifada II (2000-03): 700 Israelis and 2,000 Palestinians
Israel-Hamas war (2008): 1,300 Palestinians ”
source: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html
Every day we can add more and more to this list….
How many wars are going on right now? Genocide anywhere?
Are human beings ever going to stop making war?
If you don’t stop your “war” on a personal level how on earth do you expect it to stop on a world wide level?
With loving kindness,
Satora
A story for Paulo and WoLs – from Women who run with the wolves, Estes 1995.
A man came to a Szabo, Tailor, and tried on a suit. As he stood before the mirror, he noticed the vest was a little uneven at the bottom.
“Oh,” said the tailor, “don’t worry about that. Just hold the shorter end down with your left hand and no one will ever notice.”
While the customer proceeded to do this, he noticed that the lapel of the jacket curled up instead of lying flat.
“Oh that?” said the tailor. “That’s nothing. Just turn your head a little and hold it down with your chin.”
The customer complied, and as he did, he noticed that the inseam of the pants was a little short and he felt that the rise was a bit too tight.
“Oh,don’t worry about that,” said sthe tailor. “Just pull the inseam down with your right hand and everything will be perfect.” The customer agreed and purchased the suit.
The next day he wore his new suit with all the accompanying hand and chin “alterations.” As he limped through the park with his chin holding down his lapel, one hand tugging at the vest, the other hand grasping his crotch, two old men stopped playing checkers to watch him stagger by.
“M’Isten, oh my God!” said the first man. “Look at that poor crippled man!”
The second man reflected for a moment, then murmured, “Igen, yes, the crippling is too bad, but you know I wonder…where did he get such a nice suit?”
Like it, thanks Catherine.
Bonjour Catherine!
I appreciated your sharing. And most of all, seeing its source, Clarissa Pinkola Estès and her book. For me, when I came across it, some years ago, it came at a time where it had to come and I was amazed. That book became a great instrument of healing, comprehension and changes for me. I was touched to revisit that moment for me by reading your comment. With affection, Jojo
That was great!thanks Catherine!:)
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What? was that???lol
I laugh for the nonsense……lol
But funny the use of Hungarian…
What do I do about it when I’m wounded?
I’ve found that making a legend out of it helps a lot. I’m not just a guy clicking around, coming up with nothing, his desire to express himself growing stronger and stronger by the minute, even though he knows he’ll just be 1 out of 725. amd he’ll not get the recognition he needs.
No, indeed. This is part of my personal quest. The rock is covering the well of (living) water, and I can’t get it off. But it can be done. That’s the moral of all these quest legends, and it’s the moral of my own quest legend as well. How do I position my body, my outer and inner stance, as I pull all my various parts, conflicts, loves, and hates together in one strong package, a package able to remove that rock from the well?
I visualize myself at the well, not at the computer any more, and I work with it. I see myself approaching it, using wisdom more than bodily strength, and I know enough not to push it.
In some of these quest legends, the one who fails has a pit open up underneath him. He wasn’t so foolish as to approach the well with nothing. He believed that he understood and embodied all that he needed to perform the task and drink from the well of living waters and receive the hand of the daughter. And some of them may have actually had all that they needed.
Their only mistake may have been that they didn’t wait for the moment when they were synchronized with the hands of the clock. They had 2 moments in the day when it would have been possible, but with all they had, they weren’t expert enough in knowing the times, which, when all is said and done,and ready to go, may be the most crucial factor.
In Judaism, we say that the way of Chasidut is the way of the eyes, seeing what’s in front, even the times…
Very good Story. Thanks for sharing.
Love,
Laxmi
Querido Paulo
Esta semana pude leer y ver su entrevista para tv azteca, estoy encantada de escuchar de viva voz parte de su vida, es muy grato, aunque la entrevista me pareció corta, ojalá y tenga oportunidad para poder escucharle nuevamente, y deje de lado la idea de no estar en contacto con sus lectores a través de la televisión. un abtrazo
I remember this sentence from one book (R. B.)
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