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. Some say it is God's Will and the other rebels, how is it possible if God is good? A satisfactory answer can not be found, for life remains a mystery. Spirituality can be an answer that?
A rational answer is certainly not to be found. Nobody can understand why poverty-stricken Haiti now the blows given. They are mixed feelings that overwhelm us and we often do not counsel me. Intellectually, we are not. A spiritual response is to give, but not to understand. Spirituality is realism.
Life is accepted as it is. It remains incomprehensible. It consists of three steps that are repeated again and again, that is born, death and new life. Death is part of life. A plant comes up, dies and the seeds are new life that adapts to new circumstances. People undergoing this cycle, both physically and mentally.
It is necessary to let go 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 had no name. 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 thrive.
It's amazing how people from around the world are in solidarity to help Haiti. But it is hard to understand how helpless children are trafficked and people fight each other. That is the reality, that joy and misery, there is love and greed. This world can not change, but we can change ourselves. If we do that we radiate out like Mandela did. And Gandhi, and now an Obama. Then we are working on a new world, even small and invisible.
| Kind regards, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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The Obama Deception someone (GoogleVideo Dutch subtitles) yet?
anyone but a Zeitgeist part 2 yet?
Someone or Endgame Terror Storm yet?
Someone figures of Obama's popularity is already nageslagen right now?
Anyone seen the statistics regarding his promised progress and current status? Mainstream media are lying and cheating (Bilderberg nepotism). All to google.
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 religious world than the truth. Tie my opinion. Meanwhile, I dedicate my part in my area. Gandhi, Mandela, Theresa: YES! But Obama in that list? No, sorry ...
In Love
ps. I think everything is inextricably linked, that does not mean there is no duality exists or has existed (yin yang). This opposition has a job, 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 that God is the generic name (the creature must have a name) is all that is. Everything and everyone is God.
Dear Mr. de Blot,
I was googling to inspire anyone in Haiti. I found not much English-language literature. I read your blog that you wrote something about Haiti. Myself sitting here two months now to help. This from my financial and economic background.
The benefits of the natural disaster of the highest ever number of deaths is that there are certain 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 is in motion. 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.
Anyway. Weather permitting spoken by you For now I stay here another month to find new economic impetus. Thank you again!
Greetings from Port-au-Prince by Dick Dijk (the rainy season has started ... ...)
Dear Mr. Blot,
thanks for the inspiring, consciously making blog!
As Mahatma Gandhi himself once put it so beautifully:
"Be the change you wish to see the world '
Kind regards,
Peter Duren
@ Peter Duren: Thank you Peter for your additional floor
Paul Day,
Thank you for your as-always inspiring blog!
I think-like you-we really can change ourselves. But I also think that change in ourselves in the long run will lead, we can change the world: we may not be able to remove the causes of natural disasters, but (much of) the consequences. If we are a fraction of the resources we use to make selfish people to use their press to change perspective, goes down a lot for the better.
@: Toon Bullens: Thanks for your beautiful reflective tone.
Dear Paul,
what an inspiring blog, but very true. Still, I share your opinion does not regard Mr.. Obama. I can assure you that this man is a puppet of a shadow government that called Wall Street. The facts are insurmountable. It is outrageous how hard this man the world is lying. Just to notice: Haiti's $ 1 million donated by the best man and his government, while the budgeted military spending of $ 527 billion in 2010 amounts. The weight is at war and not peace. Sure the U.S. wants peace too, but as long as the cooperative power in their hands, worldwide. Colonialism now called capitalism. And capitalism is nothing less than communism or fascism. I've done my research and the facts are shocking. Similarly, the abuse in health care, by the disgusting corrupt power of Big Pharma. All this is maintained by the Monetary System, which in principle is fraudulent.
Yet the despair and negativity prevails to carry anything but my intention. Yet people need to 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 bodies and our environment with our spiritual essence to influence. That's why I forgive anyone who complies with a false agenda, but will result in the length of day on their conscience remain teren. Responsibility is marked by boundaries. 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 Love,
Timber Mart
Timmer @ Mart: I admit that Obama is not a saint, but a reality. We should also take it as it is.
Dear Mart ... .. your comment prompts me to comment, share what came to my mind: the "concept" of "forgiveness" reminds me a sense of Du'a facility, and an opinion on the other. It seems to go 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. To me the words are accepting what is ... and make choices in how I view myself in the world. 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 to flower.
Obama has touched the world something about us is to shape the reality. His energy invites you to feel where your Self is. His most famous statement is "... yes WE can". He expresses hope (for me) that many in the world who want to make choices from a single source and are feeling. We can sit and wait until he changes everything ... nothing will happen. Together, we will move to another world. Purpose will also be visible from where many people in this world now live and work. And that also brings an Obama movement.
Dear Paul,
Is it not simply that there was an earthquake, and those people living in that place? Nothing more, nothing less. The question is why more people herself, if necessary, to put heart into his thinking. Centuries ago it was thought that the earth was the center of the universe, now that it focused on the human. 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. "Each cell is 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 are not. Let the time as Seneca said that 'we' there are good use. Fred
dear Paul,
Burn 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 view without looking at, which is itself a daunting task, for God that we place players!
Obama is a wonderful man that you see in his eyes and he can learn a lot, fortunately I should say, just like me!
I long for mildness, it would solve many of the world.
Thank you Paul for your wisdom.
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@ Will: Thank you for your inspiration To deepen
Dear Paul,
Yes, it's about whether people will see things as they are and also (can) accept, as it is. And whether one is willing to not 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 that "the world" will follow. Thanks for this wonderful contribution Paul!
Nieuwenhuizen @ Richard: Thanks for your inspiration Richard
Dear Paul,
Man in the world 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. Still, I think more and more that we can not judge the back of a painting, when we barely understand the intent of the front. If God is the artist here, we are at most paint or brush. With us, by us, may be painted.
Sincerely yours, John Knap Press
@ John Knap Press: John thanks for your rich reaactie
Dear Paul,
how we perceive the world depends on our perspective. At times we can expect nothing more we can have moments of direct perception, where all ideas and we lapsed union with that which we belong. Our identification with our little, I deleted and then we feel the whole of life and feel supported and secure in that totality is never lost but only changes. I would like with you on again to talk further, Yours sincerely, Neville 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 shine 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 as bright as Obama equals Bush Jr. No thank you ... just because I do not participate.
With kind regards.
Tribe @ Bert: 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: This is a vision Hank. Remains: what do I do?