I guess the answers to all of the questions that we've been trying to find are all written in the nature and can be find in a natural way. Though,ironically, we are drifted by the things around us and we are bounded by ourselves, the imperfect harmony of the body and the soul. the body limits the capacity and freedom of the soul,while the soul nag the body. It turns out that the soul was caged by the body and the body was staggered and shaken by the soul. Since they do not conform and emerge together, the nature of the real self has become murky. i believe in the interrelatedness of things. If we can't arrive to the real nature of being a human, we can't get the nature of being in nature of human environment. The nautre is simply the truth that we seek, the truth that can set us free, that can make us grow, that can make our existence meaningful. when man can't arrive to his real nature, he was then creating another nature far from the nature he is suppose to be in. But human have to bear in mind that there is always hope while he lives,though he was triggered by the other nature that he created,there is always chance if he continue to strive and search for the real truth where the whole nature of its existence laid..
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-albert einstein
"change can be beautiful so do not be afraid to try,to learn, to grow."
Even a fool knows you can't reach the stars, but that doesn't stop a wiseman from trying.
"You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours." Life Philosophy of Gen. Colin Powell
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Life Philosophy of Benjamin Disraeli
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Life Philosophy of Zig Ziglar
You will never achieve what you never begin...
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Philosophy of Life by Andre Gide
"If one seeks advice, give them direction, not correction. "
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Philosophy of Life by Richard Bach
"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. " Philosophy of Life by George Macdonald
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Philosophy of Life by Peter Marshall
Don't take life too seriously. no one gets out alive, anyways.
Before you talk about what you want - appreciate what you have.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. Life Philosophy from Gene Roddenberry
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Life Philosophy from Anthony Robbins
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. Life Philosophy from Denis Waitley
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot Life Philosophy from Ben Stein
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. Life Philosophy from Harvey Mackay
human behavior is basically dynamic. The root causes of all human behavior are hard to dig up. many psychologist are and were on the hunt in excavating all the roots of our diverse behavior. one of them found clues that leads to the trail and tried to uncover it. Earnest Becker, in his book the denial of death gives hint and explanation on the root cause of human characters. He explained that most of our behavior is a vital lie. we tend to thwart away reality by covering our weakness and strength with a mask of fantasy. We are only evading the reality that we are supposedly seeking. we are afraid to stand alone on ourselves, we are afraid to take the risk to know ourselves because we might not be able accept the things that we can discover within us. In effect, we don't want to discover and test our capabilities to grow, to uncover the reality and become a real human of reality. we fear that our weakness and strength might swallow us,we might not be able to handle them. So in order to avoid the fear, we tend to formulate many defenses underlying fantasy, to act with a hoax to the world. Becker also explained that we fear death and at the same time we fear life. During our childhood,we are confused to where ourselves laid. We don't know the world, our environment, the reason and purpose of our existence. Hence, since we don't know anything about us, we tend to stick to our parents because we are afraid and unsure to what to do. We believe that our parents help us to discover ourselves. But, like our parents' parents, they failed to show them reality. Then, our parents probably will fail to show us also the reality. We then become afraid to live because of the fear of the unknown world because sometimes the world that our parents introduced to us is different from the world that we are experiencing. Yet, we are also afraid to die, afraid to risk discovering our real self. We are afraid that taking an action is too dangerous and we might not be able to take its consequences, we might die on it. For example, you have done wrong action or you have sinned to someone and telling it to that someone might pronounce a peril to you. You are then formulating defenses, forging away the memory and the action that might suppose to give positive growth on you. Knowing that life and death are so fearsome, we tend to dress ourselves with grandiosity of lie and fantasy just to cope up with the real world.
The second step requires that i go beyond the idiosyncratic and egocentric perception of immediate experience. mature awareness is possible only when i have digested and compensated for the biases and the prejudices that are the residue of my personal history. awareness of what presents to me involves a double movement of attention: silencing the familiar and welcoming the strange. Each time i approach an object,person or event, i have the tendency to let my present needs, past experience, or expectations for the future determine what I will see. If i am to appreciate the uniqueness of any datum, I must be sufficiently aware of my preconceived ideas and characteristic emotional distortion to bracket them long enough to welcome strangeness and novelty into my perceptual world. This discipline of bracketing,compensating, or silencing requires sophisticated self knowledge and courageous honesty. yet, without this discipline each present moment is only the repetition of something already seen or experienced. In order for genuine novelty to emerge, for unique presence of things, persons, or even to take a root in me, I must undergo a decentralization of the ego.
life is a constant change.we have to conform to it or else we would run out of the trend of the world,we would become stagnant. likewise to searching for knowledge, we can't hold all the things that we have learned throughout our life because it is not exempted from the infinite process of change. If we want to welcome new ideas and if we want to acquire new ideas, we have to set aside our old ideas or personal preoccupation so we can give way to a new one. Just like the last sentence of the poem say, we must undergo a decentralization of the ego.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life (Jung, [1961] 1989:140).
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith (Jung, [1961] 1989:140).
[Contemporary man] is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food – and, above all, a large array of neuroses. (Jung, 1964:82).
