as a parting note: there are many voices speaking from inside of us. there is the voice of our parents, the voice of our teachers, the voice of our spouse and the voice of our children. there voices speaking from the past in the shape of our ancestors; they speak through our parents, and through our parents parents and so on it goes forever. there are voices from the media and the government, from doctors and friends and the list goes on and on. but there is one voice that is all so important and that voice is us. it is at times the hardest voice to hear. regardless if due to the noise from these other speakers or the fear of hearing what our own voice is telling us or because we have forgotten what this voice sounds like and we cannot recognize it any more – it is the one true voice that matters in the end…i can only say that after so many years, i am at last not only hearing this voice clearly again, but am back to acting upon it. and it feels great.
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till when the road
till we have shed all barriers and have fused completely with ourselves and with each other
till then
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in a different time, in a different place, i was a…
in a different time, in
a different place, I was a
kite
floating in the wind, stretching in all directions, the wind pushing against me, my colors so bright
in a different time, in
a different place, I was a
dog
running, barking, chewing, playing, biting, snarling – grrrrrrrrrr
in a different time, in
a different place, i
was a monk,
a bird,
a rock,
an ant,
a tree,
a bee,
a lizard,
a dolphin,
a spider,
a king,
a horse,
a pawn,
a-fool-a-wizard-a-warrior-a-doctor-and-priest
now I am me
and tomorrow?
tomorrow what shall i be?
one hour for planet earth
Tel-Aviv took part in turning out the lights for 60 minutes. I was there with my wife and kids. The mayor gave a speech to a few hundred and at the count of three, all lights in the city hall went out. To be honest, I was expecting a bit more. I was naive enough to think that all the lights would go out.
Apart from the city hall, most of the lights in the area did not go off as expected. A friend of mine said to me a few days ago that Israel has not reached the point where global warming and environmentalism can be taken too seriously. According to him, we are still pretty low on the maslow’s pyramid; an emerging economy, most of our budget is directed to defense and our school system is deteriorating at a very fast pace – we are still struggling to survive at a very basic level.
Well, that might be true, and we do have our challenges ahead of us, but for a few minutes on the 27th of March 2008, we joined the rest of the world in celebrating the existence of our lovely planet earth.
Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges
“Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so:
‘Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the
Ranges–
‘Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you.
Go!'”
– From Rudyard Kipling’s “The Explorer” – 1898
it is a test of one’s will and conviction to follow one’s inner voice that quests for that which is lost.
we all start out young pioneers in the world, delighted with all that is new, seeking to learn more with each and every day. as the days go by, we become wiser to the subtleties of life, we carry the scars and memories which are the source of fear.
both internal and external change becomes harder as we loose flexibility. at some point we become “comfortably numb“.
Terry Pratchett….
There is a book store near my house that i like to go to. it is owned by a gray haired, middle aged, straight faced Yemen and his wife who looks roughly his age, only with long deep black hair, a thin face, and a wide smile.
A few weeks ago i dropped in on a friday morning and bought a Terry Pratchett book. it was my forth or fifth. Continue reading
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