Helene
female, 50 |
musician
Stockholm / Sweden
member since 01.09.2004
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My favourite musicians are Joshua Kadison (great singer/songwriter/pianoplayer! and also a writer...), check out his website www.joshuakadison.com
you can download his songs for free at his website!)
and, Michael Ruff, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Sting, Eva Cassidy, and many many more....
I play piano/synt, african drums, and a little bass, guitar and flute....
I also like to read.... Tom Robbins, Neale Donald Walsch, Rumi, Hafiz, Rabindranath Tagore....
you can download free books from N.D. Walsch's website - very interesting!
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/ click on "part of change"
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/ click on "freebook"
and here are some of my favourite quotes from Joshua Kadison's book 17 way to eat a Mango:
"Once I was sitting with Dragonfly Watcher gazing out over the water when a little girl came to him and asked what he was doing.
Ah, he said, I'm studying the lost language of dragonflies. At one time we all used to speak it fluently, but that was long ago, before many things happened. Now we've almost all forgotten....
The child pondered this for a long while. Then she said:
Lost language of dragonflies.... that's funny... I talk to them all the time and they never once told me that they lost anything."
"The ones who fight each other because of their own beliefs are like specks of dirt fighting each other about the nature of their world, refusing to see that they are all in the same mud puddle on the side of the road."
"Trying to make too much sense of life is like taking a cup of water from this stream because you want to understand the stream. But you soon find that all you really have is a cup of still water, not the stream at all. If you want to know the stream, you must come to her, where she dwells."
And about Gandhi: Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in modern social and political activism,
considered these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity.
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice
And another quote from Gandhi:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
And some quotes from Neale Donald Walsch:
Nine New Revelations:The new revelations are contained in a series of nine statements that the book offers for readers to consider as they explore the possibility of changing their present beliefs about God and about Life.
These nine statements are:
1.God has never stopped communicating directly with human beings. God has been communicating with and through human beings from the beginning of time. God does so today.
2.Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or ever will live. You are all messengers. every one of you. You are carrying a message about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.
3.No path to God is more direct than any other path. No religion is the "one true religion", no people are "the chosen people", and no prophet is "the greatest prophet".
4.God needs nothing. God requires nothing in order to be happy. God is happiness itself.
5.God is not a singular Super Being, living somewhere in the Universe or outside of it, having the same emotional needs and subject to the same emotional turmoil as humans. That Which Is God cannot be hurt or damaged in any way, and so, has no need to seek revenge or impose punishment.
6.All things are One Thing. There is only One Thing, and all things are part of the One Thing That Is.
7. There is no such thing as Right or Wrong. There is only What Works and What Does Not Work, depending upon what it is that you seek to be, do or have.
8.You are not your body. Who you are is limitless and without end.
9.You cannot die, and you will never be condemned to eternal damnation.
Five steps to peace:
1.We can choose to acknowledge that some of our old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
2.We can choose to acknowledge that there is something we do not understand about God and Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3.We can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, the understanding that could produce a new way of life on our planet.
4.We can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with our inner truth and knowing, to enlarge our belief systems to include it.
5.We can choose to live our lives as demonstrations of our highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
found another way of describing those ways to peace too...
1.I acknowledge that certain old beliefs about Life and about God are no longer working.
2.I acknowledge that there is something I do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which could change everything.
3.I am willing for new understandings of God and Life to now be brought forth, understandings that could produce a new way of life on this planet.
4.I am willing to explore and examine these new understandings, and if they align with my inner truth and knowing, to enlarge my belief system to include them.
5.I am willing to live my life as a demonstration of my beliefs.
5 Fallacies About God
1.Humans believe that God needs something.
2.Human believes that God can fail to get what He needs.
3.Humans believe that God has separated them from Him because thay have not given Him what He needs.
4.Humans believe that God still needs what He needs so badly that God now requires them, from their separated position, to give it to Him.
5.Humans believe that God will destroy them if they do not meet His requirements.
5 Fallacies About Life
1.Human beings are separate from each other.
2.There is not enough of what human beings need to be happy.
3.To get the stuff of which there is not enough, human beings must compete with each other.
4.Some human beings are better than other human beings.
5.It is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.
I'm also learning an healing art form called Jin Shin Jyutsu - check out www.jinshinjyutsu.com for more information - I have tried several healing forms, this is one of the better I have found! |
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