The earthquake of Haiti is terrible and most difficult to process. The big question is: why this is happening to them? The reactions are very diverse. One says that God's Will and the other rebels: how is it possible if God is good? A satisfactory answer is not found, because life remains a mystery. Can spirituality is an answer that?
A rational response is certainly not to be found. Nobody can understand why the impoverished Haiti now receive the blows. They are mixed feelings that overwhelm us and we often do not know me advice. Mentally we are not. A spiritual response is to not understand. Spirituality is realism.
Life is accepted as 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 on, will die and the seeds are new life that adapts to new circumstances. People subjected to this cycle, both physically and mentally.
It requires a letting 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 was in the depths collapsed without any guidance and I suddenly felt supported by an inner strength which I had no name for. I call it God. In the most desperate misery of our lives the best things happen just as dirty in the mud most beautiful lilies can thrive.
It's amazing how people from all over the world to show solidarity to Haiti to help. But it is incomprehensible how defenseless children are trafficked and people fight each other. That is the reality, that joy and misery, that 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 joined a new world, even small and invisible.
| Kind regards, Paul de Blot Business professor of Spirituality Nyenrode |  |
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The Obama Deception someone (google video Dutch subtitles) yet?
Zeitgeist anyone but especially a part 2 yet?
Endgame or someone Terror Storm yet?
Someone from Obama's popularity numbers have already nageslagen right now?
Anyone seen the statistics regarding his promised progress and current status? Mainstream media is lying and deceiving (Bilderberg nepotism). All be googled.
I believe in every person, a true man deeper into Obama, he plays his role, but blinded by lies I will not. He does not think exactly what he says. If you want to believe in the religious world than 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). It has an opposition role, the question is how it is conducted. To question the truth is not a crime. You lose it proves the other hand, no service world. Therefore own faith first. And this respect. Me believe that God is the collective name (the beast must have a name) is all that is. Everything and everyone is God.
Dear Mr de Blot,
I was googling it to someone here in Haiti to inspire. I found not much English-language literature. I read your blog that you wrote something about Haiti. Myself sitting here 2 months now to help. This from my financial-economic background.
The positive aspects of the natural disaster with the highest number of deaths ever that there are certainly 10-100 times more people who are thankful to God that they were just somewhere else or as we say in June 2009. Almost all of these people feel something is in motion. They realize that they are privileged and has 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 land full of survivors. Note the first independent black state over 200 years ago.
Anyway. Weather spoken by you For now I stay here another month to the economy this new impetus. Thank you again!
Greetings from Port-au-Prince by Dick Dijk (the rainy season has started ... ...)
Dear Mr. Blot,
thanks for the inspiration, awareness raising blog!
As Mahatma Gandhi once presented so beautifully put it:
"Be the change you wish to see the world '
Kind regards,
Peter Duren
@ Peter Duren: Thank you for your additional floor Peter
Paul Day,
Thanks for your as-always-inspiring blog!
I think-like-you, that we can indeed change. But I also think that change within ourselves in the long run it will also mean that we can change the world: we may not be able to remove the causes of natural disasters, but (most of) the consequences. If we are a fraction of the resources we use to make people selfish people to use their perspective to share, going down a lot for the better.
@: Toon Bullens: Thanks for your nice reflective tone.
Dear Paul,
what an inspiring blog, and everything is True. However, I share your opinion does not regard Mr. Obama. I can assure you that this man is a puppet of a shadow government called the Wall. The facts are insurmountable. It is scandalous how hard this man the world is lying. Just for notification: Haiti is one million U.S. dollars donated by the best man and his government, while the budgeted military spending of 527 billion U.S. dollars in 2010 amounts. The weight is not on war and peace. Sure the U.S. wants peace too, as long as they are cooperative, but power in their hands, worldwide. Colonialism is now called capitalism. And capitalism was 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. 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. Still people know the truth. Obama is not holy, on the contrary. However, we are all spiritual beings having a human experience and not vice versa. We have the potential to remember our source and our physical bodies and our environment influence our spiritual essence. Therefore I forgive anyone who complies with a false agenda, but will result in the length of days on their conscience continue teren. Namely responsibility has limits. The only thing that can save the world is Love. Love is the only truly comprehensive universal truth, the core and the golden mean. Like I will end with a quotation 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 must 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 feeling of stability on-dua, and evaluations of the other. It seems to go from "I" versus "the other". Black vs. white, good versus wrong, better versus worse. There can be no love, no unity feeling ... 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. In nature life unfolds itself, and we know that not all paths were taken before the tree was tree that one flower flower.
Obama has touched the world in which all of us to shape the reality. His energy invites to feel where your self is. His famous statement is "... yes WE can". He puts 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. Therefor will be visible from which many 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 people who lived in that place? Nothing more, nothing less. The question is more why the man himself if necessary to center into his thinking. Centuries ago it was thought that the earth was the center of the universe, now that it's the human dimension. Also error! 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 on his appointment: "Our deepest fear is That we are poweful beyond Measure. It is our light, not our darkness That must frightens us. "Each cell is a whole person, in every human being a whole earth, in any ground, etc.
200,000 years ago, we were not there about 200,000 years, we do not. Let us, as Seneca said the time that 'we' there are good use. Fred
dear Paul,
A candle burning 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, and that in itself is a daunting task, for God what we place players!
Obama is a wonderful man that you see in his eyes, he can also learn a lot, luckily I'd say, just like me!
I long for mildness, it would solve many of the world.
Paul thank you for your wisdom.
will
@ Want: Thanks for your inspiration depth Wil
Dear Paul,
yes, the question is whether the people see things as they are, and also (can) accept as 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 will be willing to change ourselves ... .. Strong possibility that "the world" will follow. Thank you for this wonderful contribution Paul!
Nieuwenhuizen @ Richard: Thanks for your inspiration Richard
Dear Paul,
Every man in world now and not separate from it. If the world can not change how Can men change? The world changes every moment and so Does man it's all for part of the world, albeit illusory.
Regards,
@ Gerard: Thank you for your inspiring comment Gerard
Fine words, written with respect. Similarly, the reaction of Marcel Court. Yet I think more and more that we are unable to assess the back of a painting, when we barely understand the intent of the front. If God is the artist here, we are most of the paint, or brush. With us, by us, may be painted.
With warm regards, John Knappers
@: John Knappers: John thank you for your rich reaactie
Dear Paul,
how we perceive the world depends on our perspective. At times we can expect nothing more we can experience moments of direct observation in which all ideas expired and we become one with what we are part. Our identification with our little I deleted and then we feel life as a whole and feel supported and contained in the totality which is never lost but only changed. I would like to tell you about once more to talk, warm greetings, Marcel Court.
Court @ Marcel: 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 blasting nice to hear I got 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 shamelessly endorsed the (military-) moved forward puppet regime has made me realize that Obama is no better than its predecessors. For me than blasting Obama as equivalent to shine as Bush Jr. No thank you ... I do not share it here.
Best regards.
@ Bert Stam: Thanks for your comment. Obama also was not a saint but a reality
Dear Mr. Blot,
I do not think there is a God exists.
Personally I think nature is indifferent to us.
@ Henk van der Luit: This is a vision Henk. Remains: what do I do?