With Fullness in Life, Everything is Possible
​No estás deprimido; estás distraido.--por Facundo Cabral
No estás deprimido, estás distraído, por eso crees que perdiste algo, lo que es imposible, porque todo te fue dado. No hiciste ni un sólo pelo de tu cabeza por lo tanto no puedes ser dueño de nada.
Además la vida no te quita cosas, te libera de cosas. Te aliviana para que vueles más alto, para que alcances la plenitud. De la cuna a la tumba es una escuela, por eso lo que llamas problemas son lecciones.
No perdiste a nadie, el que murió simplemente se nos adelantó, porque para allá vamos todos. Además lo mejor de él, el amor, sigue en tu corazón. ¿Quién podría decir que Jesús está muerto? No hay muerte: hay mudanza. Y del otro lado te espera gente maravillosa: Gandhi, Michelangelo, Whitman, San Agustín, la Madre Teresa, tu abuela y mi madre, que creía que en la pobreza está más cerca del amor, porque el dinero nos distrae con demasiadas cosas, y nos aleja porque nos hace desconfiados.
Haz sólo lo que amas y serás feliz, y el que hace lo que ama, está benditamente condenado al éxito, que llegará cuando deba llegar, porque lo que debe ser será, y llegará naturalmente. No hagas nada por obligación ni por compromiso, sino por amor. Entonces habrá plenitud, y en esa plenitud todo es posible. Y sin esfuerzo porque te mueve la fuerza natural de la vida, la que me levantó cuando se cayó el avión con mi mujer y mi hija; la que me mantuvo vivo cuando los médicos me diagnosticaban 3 ó 4 meses de vida.
Liberate del tremendo peso de la culpa, la responsabilidad, y la vanidad, dispuesto a vivir cada instante profundamente como debe ser.
No estás deprimido, estás desocupado. Ayuda al niño que te necesita, ese niño será socio de tu hijo. Ayuda a los viejos, y los jóvenes te ayudarán cuando lo seas. Además el servicio es una felicidad segura, como gozar a la naturaleza y cuidarla para el que vendrá. Da sin medida y te darán sin medidas.
Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la idea de que perder algo es imposible? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de cuando hiciste algo por amor en lugar de por obligación? ¿Qué te ayuda a ser consciente de que la distracción es la semilla de la depresión?
Poeta Guatemalteco – sacado de aquí.
Facundo Cabral is a visionary Gautemalan poet. This passage is excerpted from here.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that losing something is impossible? Can you share a personal story of a time you did something for love instead of obligation? What helps you stay aware that distraction is at the root of depression?
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On Dec 5, 2022 JD wrote :
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On Jul 28, 2016 jenn wrote :
Losing something is impossible, it is only a matter of our perspective of seeing things differently of what is left over what is lost. There were times of my life I lost my pride when I got a child out of wed lock and raised him alone. Thereafter I was criticized, ashamed by my family, next thing that happened is I choose a guy to marry that in reverse they hardly disagree. But, I did this all out of love by standing of what I believe than seeing things that it is an obligation to follow what is right in their eyes. Life is a matter of perspective, seeing things according to your points of view. What keeps me away from depression is realizing that things happen naturally when even we are not aware or eventually know the result may come. There is no such thing as losing, only gaining what is left and what is already there. Life is beautiful.
God Bless!
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On Jul 19, 2016 Kristof wrote :
When we live without claiming proprietorship over anything,emptying our self every day ,every moment of this wrong concept then we may see interdependence of all existence at that state we have the opportunity to make right choce.
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On Jul 19, 2016 colleen wrote :
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On Jul 18, 2016 Bradley A Stoll wrote :
When I first read this, I immediately recalled a Prince Ea video that I recently watched, which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykvC3QXJb18
It seems that much of what is written about in this passage causes sadness, and I'm not sure that sadness is depressions equal. To me, depression stems from a feeling of hopelessness. I've certainly had my share of sadness, as we all have. I'm not so sure that I would classify any periods of my greatest sadness as depression, though. I've known several beings, including family members, friends, and students, who have died by suicide. To me, this is the pinnacle, or maybe depth is a better word, of depression. To not know the kindness, love and compassion that others have for you; to not know the beauty that you have to offer the universe; to not feel meaning in your life...that, to me, would be depression.
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On Jul 18, 2016 david doane wrote :
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On Jul 17, 2016 rahul wrote :
Another way of re-stating this is that life is offering sufficiency at every turn for the task at hand. Our distractions keeps us unaware of the underlying ebb and flow, and never quite clear enough to know our purpose in the moment because of the momentum of the past or the grasping for the future. We experience that dissipation and energetic gap as depression. For all those who face some form of clinical depression, the question I hold is whether depression preceded thought, did thought precede depression, or do they arise together and support one another? Do we believe what we experience, or do we experience what we believe? I suspect that getting to the bottom of these questions will create the space and energy to rise from the downward spiral we experience in depression.
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