The earthquake of Haiti is terrible and the most difficult to process. The big question is: why this happens to them? The reactions are very diverse. One says that is God's Will and the other rebels: how is it possible if God is good? A satisfactory answer can not be found, because life remains a mystery. Is spirituality an answer that?
A rational response is sure to find. Nobody can understand why poverty-stricken Haiti now the blows get. They are mixed feelings that overwhelm us and where we often do not counsel me. Mentally we're not out. A spiritual response is to give but not to understand. Spirituality is realism.
Life is accepted as it is. It remains incomprehensible. The three stages that are repeated again and again, that is born, death and new life. Death belongs to life. A plant comes on, the seeds are going to die and new life that adapts to new circumstances. People undergoing this cycle, both physically and mentally.
It is necessary to let go in order to stay alive. A relative, a friend dies but comes into your heart to a deeper life with a beautiful memory. The greatest richness of my life is my experience in the cell of the concentration camp, when I plunged into the depths without some guidance and I suddenly felt supported by an inner strength which I have no name for it. I call it God. In the most hopeless misery of our lives the best things happen as in the dirty mud of the most beautiful lilies can thrive.
It is amazing how people from all over the world are in solidarity to help Haiti. But it is incomprehensible how helpless children are trafficked and people fight each other. That is the reality, that joy and misery, that there is love and greed. This world we can not change, but we can change ourselves. If we do that we radiate out like Mandela did. And Gandhi, and currently Obama. Then we contribute to a new world, even small and invisible.
| Sincerely, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business University |  |
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Someone The Obama Deception (google video Dutch subtitles) already?
1 but especially someone Zeitgeist part 2 already?
Someone or Endgame Terror Storm yet?
One of Obama's popularity numbers are already on nageslagen of this moment?
Anyone seen the statistics regarding his promised progress and present state? Mainstream media are lying and cheating (Bilderberg nepotism). All googling.
I believe in every person, the true man deeper into Obama, he plays his role, but blinded by lies I will not. He does not know exactly what he says. If you want to believe in the world believe the truth. Das my opinion. Meanwhile, I dedicate my part in my area. Gandhi, Mandela, Theresa: YES! But Obama in that list? No, sorry ...
In Love
ps. Everything is in my view, inextricably linked, that does not mean there is no duality exists or has existed (yin yang). This opposition has a function, the question is how it is conducted. To question the truth is no crime. You lose it proves the world, however, no service. Therefore own faith first. And this respect. I believe God is the collective name (the creature must have a name) is all that is. Everything and everyone is God.
Dear Mr. de Blot,
I was googling for someone here in Haiti to inspire. I found not much English literature. On your blog, I read that you wrote something about Haiti. Personally, I'm here now 2 months to help. This from my financial and economic background.
The positive of the natural disaster with the highest ever number of deaths is that there are certainly people who are 10-100 times more thankful to God that they were somewhere else or just like us in June 2009. Almost all of these people feel something in it to get moving. They realize that they are privileged and thus have something to do. 01/12/2010 is really a turning point. Towards an Emerging Haiti because we can still learn a lot from this proud country full of survivors. Note the first independent black state over 200 years ago.
But anyway. Weather beautiful spoken by you. For now I stay here another month for the economy to find new lease of life. Thank you again!
Greetings from Port-au-Prince by Dick Dijk (the rainy season has started ......)
Dear Mr. Blot,
thanks for the inspiring consciousness-raising blog!
As Mahatma Gandhi himself ever so nicely put it:
"Be the change you wish to see the world '
Sincerely,
Peter Duren
@ Peter Duren: Thank you for additional floor Peter
Paul Day,
Thank you for your as-always inspiring blog!
I think-like you-that we ourselves can indeed change. But I also think that change in ourselves in the long run will lead, we can change the world: possibly we will not remove the causes of natural disasters, but (much of) the consequences. If we have a fraction of the resources we now use to make selfish people begin to use their press to switch perspective, goes down a lot for the better.
@: Toon Bullens: Thanks for your beautiful reflection Show.
Dear Paul,
what an inspiring blog, but very true. Nevertheless, I share your view with regard to Mr.. Obama. I can assure you that this man is a puppet of a shadow government called Wallstreet. The facts are insurmountable. It is scandalous how hard this man the world is lying. Just for Notification: Haiti is $ 1 million donated by the best man and his government, while the budgeted military spending of 2010 527 billion dollars. The weight is at war and not peace. Sure the U.S. wants is peace, as long as the cooperative power but in our hands, worldwide. Colonialism is now called capitalism. And capitalism is nothing less than communism or fascism. I've done my research and the facts are shocking. Similarly, the abuses in healthcare, the sickening corrupt power of Big Pharma. This is maintained by the Monetary System, which in principle is fraudulent.
Yet in the towel and negativity prevails to carry everything except my intention. Still people know the truth. Obama is not holy, on the contrary. Well we are all spiritual beings having a human experience and not vice versa. We have the potential to re-member our source and our physical body and our environment with our spiritual essence to influence. So I forgive everyone who complies with a false agenda, but will result in the length of days on their conscience remain Treat. Responsibility has namely borders. The only thing that can save the world is Love. Love is the only truly comprehensive universal truth, the core and the golden mean. I like to close with a quote from Jimi Hendrix:
"When the power of Love over comes the love of power, the world will know peace ..."
In Light, Peace and Liefe,
Timber Mart
Timmer @ Mart: I admit that Obama is not a saint, but a reality. We should therefore take it as it is.
Best Mart ..... your comment prompts me to respond, to share what came to my mind: the "concept" of "forgiveness" reminds me a sense of supplication facility, and an opinion on the other. It seems to start from "I" versus "the other". Black versus white, good versus wrong, better versus worse. There can be no love, no sense of unity ... for me. If the other "I", then I condemn myself. For me are the words of acceptance that what is ... and make choices in how I view myself in the world. Also in the natural unfolding of life itself, and we do not know all the paths that were taken before the tree was the one flower that flower.
Obama has touched the world what all of us is to shape in reality. His energy invites you to feel where your own state. His most famous statement is "... yes WE can". He expresses hope (for me) that many in the world who want to make choices from that source and sense of unity come. We can sit and wait until HE everything changes ... nothing will happen. Together we will be moving to another world. Prior will also be visible from which many in this world now live and work. And that brings an Obama movement.
Dear Paul,
Is it not simply that there was an earthquake and people who lived in that place? Nothing more, nothing less. The question is why the man himself more centrally necessary to put in his thinking. Centuries ago it was thought that the earth was the center of the universe, now that it is humankind. Also wrong! if we dare to accept that we are part of the whole and 'self' does not exist, we are free from fear and limitation. Or as quoted Mandela at his appointment: "Our deepest fear is That we are poweful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us. "In every cell contains a complete man in every man a full earth, in every soil, etc.
200,000 years ago were not we, about 200,000 years we exist not. Let the time as Seneca said that 'we' there are good use. Fred
dear Paul,
A candle and think of all who suffer ...... our energy is much larger than we can realize the suffering in the world I can not change what I can do is look at without judgment, and that in itself is a chore, for God what are we resort handlers!
Obama is a wonderful person that you see in his eyes and he can still learn a lot, fortunately I would say, just like me!
I yearn for mildness, it would solve many of the world.
Paul thank you for your wisdom.
will
@ Will: Thank you for deepening inspiration Want
Dear Paul,
yes, it's about whether people begin seeing things as they are and also (can) accept, as it is. And whether one is willing not to judge, but more and more to let go .... and the chance to find and exploit. What would be nice if we are going to be willing to change ourselves ..... Chances are that "the world" will follow. Thank you Paul for this wonderful contribution!
Nieuwenhuizen @ Richard: Thanks for your inspiration Richard
Dear Paul,
Man's world in every moment and not separate from it. If the world can not change how man can change? The world changes every time and so does man for he is part of the world, albeit illusory.
Regards,
@ Gerard: Thank you for your inspiring comment Gerard
Nice words, written with respect. Similarly, the reaction of Marcel Court. But I think more and more that we can not judge the back of a painting, as we hardly understand the intent of the front. If God is the painter, we are at most paint or brush. With us, by us, may be painted.
Sincerely, John Knappers
@ John Knappers: John thanks for your rich reaactie
Dear Paul,
how we perceive the world depends on our perspective. At times when we can expect nothing more we can have moments of direct observation where all ideas and we lapsed union with that which we belong. Our identification with our small I canceled and we feel than the whole of life and feel supported and secure in that totality which is never lost but only changes. I would like to tell you about another more willing to talk, Sincerely, Marcel Court.
@ Marcel Court: Thanks for your inspiration Marcel, you are absolutely right
Dear Mr. Blot,
That you Mandela and Gandhi gives as examples of how we can go rays I like to hear but I have a problem with the comment that Obama also belongs. Where was Obama when the democratically elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of Honduras was deposed by a military coup? The fact that the United States of America shamelessly endorsed the (the soldiers) pushed forward puppet regime has made me realize that Obama is no better as its predecessors. For me, than that shine like Obama equals shine like Bush Jr. No thank you ... I do have just not participate.
Sincerely.
@ Bert Tribe: Thanks for your comment. Even Obama was not a saint but a reality
Dear Mr. Blot,
I do not think that a God exists.
Personally I think nature is indifferent to us.
@ Henk van der Luit: That is a vision Henk. Remains: what do I do?