Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Playing...

" Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way
to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. "
Donald Trump

Sunday, February 25, 2007

CREATION IS MAN" S DESTINY ( Lucian Blaga )

When they think of creation, most people have in mind genius artists, musicians, painters or sculptors or scientists whose inventions had a true value for mankind.
The more people are “touched” by the creation, the more important the creation is considered. The best example is that of musicians like Mozart whose creation has touched the souls of billions of people and will continue to do so.
People do not generally pay a lot of attention to the person behind the creation or to the act of creation itself. Then another creator, director Milos Forman, creates a movie, Amadeus, and he unvails the man behind the creation. We then have a picture of what creation meant to Mozart together with all other aspects of his life, family, friends, social life. We wonder what was the drive allowing him to forget everything around him while he was creating. We can guess that this creation drive originated in his intuition that he may “touch” an impressive number of people and this surpassed everything else.
It may be that, as Einstein said “he was moving the centre of gravity....in search of peace and stability..”. We will never know how much pain Mozart endured because of life misery or how happy he was as a creator.
Should Mozart have been our contemporary, would he have endured the same miseries, we may ask. Would he have received material compensation as recognition for his creation?
Such creators have allowed us, common people, to understand creation as the joy to create something for the sake of others, be they many or few.
Daniel Goleman has a very interesting definition of creation. He calls it “a state of trance” when our dedication is complete. Ordinary people have come to realize that, no matter how small a thing may be, when they invest themselves completely while achieving it, they too become creators. A great poet said “MAN’S DESTINY IS CREATION”.
A child who pays his full, enthusiastic attention while playing, is a simple example of creator. Adults too can create, as they reach a number of people in their lives. We can create a harmonious family, or we can create in our profession. We can be a teacher who teaches a child to learn instead of memorize. We can be a medical doctor, an IT specialist, a carpenter or a farmer who enjoys his work and shares his knowledge.
People are aware of a person who joyfully shares his knowledge. People love those who take joy in doing something, rather than those who know best how to do something. We can create our own collections (stamps, drawings). We can create the joy in practicing a sport (golf or birdwatching). We can create the joy to travel or to read or to surf the internet.
It is also possible that we do not create anything, not even the wealth of our families because we do not have the basic instrument: knowledge.
Knowledge means power, access to the information that allows creation: our own creation as individuals who are touched by others’ creation and our product offer that can “touch” others.
But each person is unique, has his own self knowledge, knowledge of his creation and of the environment, as creation of the society.
This is where the internet comes in. I would call it the eighth wonder of the world, though I would rank it first as importance and social impact. We cannot see it but we feel it and it offers the most valuable asset: information.
Information is the only resource that cannot be lost. As the president of Google puts it “internet will obviously influence elections because internet recalls everything that has ever been said”.
Not only that internet allows the creator and the one who wants his creation to meet, but it also makes the meeting profitable.
Internet means the world brought in your house and your “creation” offered to the world. Internet has changed the world and will continue to do so because knowledge is wealth.
Author Lazar Valentina jan 2007 All rights reserved

Saturday, February 24, 2007

WINSTON CHURCHILL

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

OSCAR WILDE

When I was young I used to think that money was the most
important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Friday, February 9, 2007

The Art of Imagining

Whatever we imagine our reality to be, that is what it is. Is it really that easy? Can we imagine abundance, good health, unconditional love, happiness and peace? If that is the case, then why don’t we have those things right now? The answer is both simple and complex. The simple answer is because we don’t really believe that having everything that we want is that easy. The more complex answer is that we have forgotten how to practice the art of imagining. Because having what we want in our lives is as simple as learning how to imagine it.

Somewhere between imagining and reality lies experience. Experience comes from the past, and somewhere along the way our experience taught us that we can’t have what we want, that life is hard, that suffering precedes joy and even suffering does not guarantee that joy will follow. We know that because at one point in time we imagined what we wanted and when it arrived, it disappointed us or caused us pain. So we learn to ask for nothing or less than what we want and then expect that we would be dissatisfied with the results.

When we believe that past experience is the benchmark for the present, we relegate ourselves to creating a future that is a carbon copy of the past. As long as we believe this to be true, our present circumstances will always repeat the past. But if we allow ourselves to imagine something different, we can change that and create a different reality for ourselves. For that to happen we have to do two things:

be willing to try and

believe in our power to imagine our reality.


Until we truly make an effort to try to change our reality, we are not aware of how comfortable we are with the past. As soon as we try to change what we do, all sorts of fears, doubts and misgivings come crawling out of the depths of our unconscious, reminding us that while we’re not happy with our present circumstances, we have tried this before and unpleasant things happened. Each time we try to imagine, to bring our dreams into our reality, we must first deal with our fear. Our ability to imagine a different reality is based on what is stronger, our fear or our dreams. We must simply be willing to try, despite our fears, and start the process of imagining our reality.

The unpleasant experiences of the past can make us feel powerless and if our life currently feels like it’s spinning out of control, we don’t feel very capable when it comes to managing what we have already created, much less trying to create something else. When we look at our personal power from the standpoint of what has happened, we forget that all we are experiencing is what we created. If we remember that we were feeling powerless when we created those circumstances, we are looking at the situation from the right perspective. If we make decisions when we are feeling powerless, the result will manifest our powerlessness. But if we make decisions from a point of power, the result will be totally different.

Learning the art of imagining takes practice and focus. Start with something that you truly want and imagine that it is part of your reality. Feel the joy that you will experience when it is manifested in your life. Trust that everything you want will be brought to you with divine timing. Know that it is yours because you want it and the Universe always brings us what we want. Know that it can be yours because you deserve it—the Universe does not judge whether or not we are deserving. Finally, remember that you are powerful beyond measure; you are part of the Source and the power to imagine is yours once you believe it.
Article Copyright © 2005, 2006. by Jennifer Hoffman. All rights reserved.
Jeniffer Hoffman www.urielhas.com, email healing@urielhas. com.