Saturday, December 17, 2016
Pandora's Box, Hope
"In one of the classic myths of the Creation, one of the gods, furious at the fact that Prometheus stole fire and in doing so gave men their independence, sends Pandora to marry her brother Epimetheus. Pandora brings along a box, which she is forbidden to open. However, just as happens to Eve in the Christian myth, her curiosity gets the better of her: she raises the lid to see what is inside, and at this moment all the troubles of the world spill out and spread all over the Earth. Only one thing remains inside: Hope, the only arm to combat the misfortune that has scattered throughout the world."
paulocoelhoblog.com
paulocoelhoblog.com
The Velveteen Rabbit, Komako Sakai, recognition,realness
The Velveteen Rabbit
Alan Watts:
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others,”
Margery Williams:
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,”
quoting end of article:
..."Why should it all end like this for someone who had been loved so much and become Real?"
And then something magical happens — a flower emerges from the ground where the tear had fallen, and it blossoms to reveal the beautiful nursery fairy, who takes care of the most beloved toys after their children outgrow them.
With one kiss on the nose, the fairy transforms the Velveteen Rabbit into a Real rabbit — real not only to the boy who loved him, but real to the world, to all who judge the realness of others.
The seasons turn and when spring arrives again, the little boy treks back into the woods, where he has a strange and wonderful encounter with a wild rabbit that looks remarkably like his beloved lost toy. The rabbit looks at the boy, and the boy at the rabbit, they are elevated in a quiet moment of recognition — the mutual beholding of another’s realness of which all love is made"...
This is so beautiful that i woke up to a day not so good in the beginning.,
a friend had sent me this article.
Alan Watts:
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others,”
Margery Williams:
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,”
quoting end of article:
..."Why should it all end like this for someone who had been loved so much and become Real?"
And then something magical happens — a flower emerges from the ground where the tear had fallen, and it blossoms to reveal the beautiful nursery fairy, who takes care of the most beloved toys after their children outgrow them.
With one kiss on the nose, the fairy transforms the Velveteen Rabbit into a Real rabbit — real not only to the boy who loved him, but real to the world, to all who judge the realness of others.
The seasons turn and when spring arrives again, the little boy treks back into the woods, where he has a strange and wonderful encounter with a wild rabbit that looks remarkably like his beloved lost toy. The rabbit looks at the boy, and the boy at the rabbit, they are elevated in a quiet moment of recognition — the mutual beholding of another’s realness of which all love is made"...
This is so beautiful that i woke up to a day not so good in the beginning.,
a friend had sent me this article.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Simon , Homeless
"Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
We are homeless, we are homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
And we are homeless, homeless, homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake "
True, text in English and in Zulu are quite different but go
together in a very beautiful way.
A song on the "past" of South Africa, on suffering and victory,
on impermanence of life and and continuing threat, a song
expressing identity and giving a home in this, shared identity to and
with their people in sadness, hope and persisting courage.
Home is inside in "foreseeing" and together.
And foreseeing and courage rise out of loss.
And in this way everybody can "identify".
a blog with a comment which i found good
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