jonasvt
male, 36 |
Teacher, supposedly
Rønne / Danmark
member since 19.10.2009
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Avid reader (sometimes), very eclectic, however. Also at least as fond of nature and life itself as reading. Intend to always look at the bright side, but that can be challenging when you have an innate sense of melancholy ...
Love music (lots of genres, but jazz-blues-folk-country is probably at the core of my preferences), play a little, dream big about how life could be if humankind got into the habit of thinking/acting globally, instead of just "me, me, me" or "my family, my country" ...
I could also dream about living a simple life like Diogenes the Cynic:
Once, while Diogenes was sunning himself, Alexander The Great came up to him and offered to grant him any request. Diogenes told him to "Stand less between the sun and me."
This was the same man who said:
"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
A couple of my favorite quotes:
"Alt er såre godt" (Everything is quite allright.)
- Said by the Danish Mystic Martinus (who lived for 4/5 of the 20th century) to express the "highest cosmic analysis" - of which he made a great deal in his Opus Magnum, "Livets Bog" (The Book of Life, or The Third Testament) in which he stated a lot of "facts" about the nature of the Cosmos, as he perceived them. The line could be interpreted to say something like: "If only you had the divine perspective and overview of things, you'd know that everything is just as it should be". One can only hope that's true ...
Another favourite:
"Politics is your spirituality, demonstrated"
- Said by "God" (or his own "inner voice" or whatever) to Neale D. Walsch in a conversation with this god/voice within about many things, among these politics. That one-liner says something profoundly, and, I'm afraid, rather discouragingly, true about us, the human species and how "highly developed" (or in fact the opposite) a spirituality we have at this point. I mean: just look at the current state of affairs, worldwide, geopolitically ...
But hey, instead of just "waiting on the world to change" (to quote John Mayer), maybe we should "Be the change you want to see in the world"? - Quoting Gandhi.
Hm ....
Let's wrap it up with a qoutation by yet another true favourite of mine:
"Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing."
- Plato (Seventh Letter, 344 c)
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