Some people see good in all. Like Sister Antonia in the Mexican prisons.
Sometimes I want to do everything but then I remember to do what's in front of you.
We have to expand the notion of humanity to all creation and not just think that we're at the top.
A Tamil Tiger emailed me today -- if you were in my shoes, what would you do? Be non-violent or live as a marked man?
Why is this called "new" humanity? Humanity is humanity.
The man who frisked me at the airport, later helped me buy my tickets because I couldn't speak the local language.
Humanity is alive everywhere!
Nisha's story about walker?
In oscillating between micro and macro, I remember to start with myself.
Reading Friedman's 'World is Flat' where he says that as the world gets more interconnected economically, we're less likely to go to war.
What would you do to save something? Don't look for this one thing. Do something that will make you come alive.
In the movie, Shawshank Redemption, they play classical music in prison. No one understands it but everyone is happy because they're not exposed to anything beautiful. Like that, do something, even if it means you just sing a song.
Change within, they say. But it's so much easier to change others!
Saw celestine prophecy -- I don't think everything happens for a reason. Movie talked about the next step in evolution being not dominating others for their energy ... at a personal and societal level. Cooperation.
Dream -- got seized by militants, but was let go. Felt bad about it. Didn't get my share of suffering.
Cellist in Sarajevo: they bombed and he kept playing music on the streets in protest.
I have the conviction but I don't know for sure
not to pollute the noosphere with my negativity
Authentic self -- be in the present is the best way to reach that voice; suffering that exists in the world due to ignorance.
Everything is in cycles; if you look at the sun, it gives energy. It harms life, it helps life.
Different to be a good person and to be aware of what needs to be done.
Stay away from concepts but go with one's own resonance.
If everyone simply just listened, that would change the world.
On Jun 7, 2006 Nipun wrote :
Notes from the Wednesday discussion ...