Não existe maior aventura, senão aquela que nos incita a explorar as profundezas de nosso próprio Ser.
Não existe maior coragem, senão aquela que nos leva a assumir nossos erros e medos.
Não existe maior sabedoria, senão no conhecimento de sabermos quem somos.
Só com persistência, fé e verdadeiro amor poderemos cultivar a capacidade de nos abstrair de tudo o que nos é externo, permitindo assim envolvermo-nos num constante silenciar interno.
S.A.

English version:

Bigger adventure does not exist, than the one that in stirs us up to explore the deepening of our purpose to be.
Bigger courage does not exist, than the one that takes us to assume our errors and fears.
Bigger wisdom does not exist, than in the knowledge to know who we are.
Only with persistence, faith and true love we will be able to cultivate the capacity of abstracting ourselves from everything there’s external, allowing us to involving in one constant internal silence.
S.A.

terça-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2015

CULTURAL IDENTITY

When I listen native people speaking I feel from most of them a kind of bitterness... I’ve been feeling this same bitterness in many native American people in their talks or writings, and it makes me sad because it shows how lost they feel when not being able to bring the appropriate sense of meaning of being who they are to the heart of their people, like not knowing what to do to feel the “alivingness of being and belonging with true sense and meaning”. Maybe these are not the right words to explain what it is felt within me, maybe this bitterness is my own bitterness that shows off coming from others…

We all are here for a reason. We all came to born in a specific culture and country for a valuable reason. Cause each one of us is a little piece of the grand puzzle. And each little piece has a meaning for being placed where it is. Not to be placed there to act alone, but to connect with others. To find the understanding of what has put them into that particular place, of what values their existence in that same place. We all are acting like a singular string that needs to be played with other singular strings. This singular string can not create a perfect harmonic sound when standing there alone with no outer connections, no affinities, nor without a reason to love what it is. The past can’t define us, nor what we do for living. Only the present can do this, in what we choose to think, to speak or to write, and our actions or absence of action in the physical world shows it out. And even if past, present and future may be one, we can and should only define us for what we are in this present moment. So, are we acting according to what truly define us?

If we are not able to find the reason that brought us here, or if we have find it , but keep without being able to understanding it, we can always choose to accept it as it is. Trying to work with it until becomes clear to us, that it was important to be like it was. Believe it or not, there’s always a reason for things turn out as they have been. Because what has brought our spirit to rebirth in a physical form here is so far beyond of what can be reachable by common understanding. This is something not to be explained. It is to be felt.

I Can not say I am sure of many things, but I’m sure of one thing, it is not the personality, the gender, or the physical form that can connect us to certain time of history, to places or people, to the prison or freedom of mind. Only the spirit can do that. But like a bird it has to be set free to move freely in his natural environment. And a free spirit can not be free when confined to a space, place or time, he has to be truly free to overcome all that confines the physical form but cannot keeps confining as well what should be left free. The Spirit.

Our spirit will only put us in the right place when we be able to overcome all our quarrels with the physical world. When what moves us is not emotions like hatred, fury, madness, discrimination, racism or envy. For sure these emotions will put us in the wrong place but only to teach us in the right way. And is up to us to learn and move. Is when we refuse to learn that our spirit keeps putting us in a environments that make us deal directly with all that can bring to live those kind of emotions, because we so well master all of them.

To be put in a place of love, understanding and acceptance you first need to learn to master this other kind of uplifting emotions. Until then, you will be put in places where you will feel you don’t want to be, and to feel things you do not want or should not want to feel. It is only up to you to refuse to feel them by stop giving them energy, or keep feeding them.

No matter what your beliefs are, the power to choose to where you want to direct your energy, it’s only yours. And you can do this in the wrong but easier way, or you can do it in the long, not easy, but right way. In each way it will be a persistent work road.

I choose to bring here the Native American Indian nation, because I feel so close to them, as being my own people. And most important is the fact that they are the people that more have fight to keep their identity. Also, we must try to keep in mind something else that we all should already know. For spirit there are no limitations, not for attain the good nor will be to attain what we may feel to be the bad. But everything has a purpose.

Many Native American people have lost connection with their culture. They have lost their sense of being. They have lost their identity as a people and cultural nation. We see many of them acting and speaking with hatred or bitterness. So many are putting them selves to a place of alienation by taking drugs and alcoholic drinks and many reasons can be given to explain this. One is to say that when not being able to be who they are, instead of becoming what the government wants them to be, they prefer to become nothing in order to survive. I can’t argue with this statement, in fact I can understand and respect it. But, there are other reasons that could be told, but those concerns only the spirit that gives life, so they will not be mentioned here. But after what has been said, I dare to say that for a good listener will be enough half a word…

For much that I may believe that America could supposedly become the heart center of all nations, I can’t deny that this could be said for any other country on earth. But the American nation as well as any other nation will need to clean its blood shed. And in order to clean the blood trace that was shed, it will be need to forgive the past. Taking American as example, this can only happen when those belonging to first nation become able to find the way back to their own heart by making peace with the past, and also by recovering all the values that once have made of them an honored nation of warriors and keepers of the true wisdom. They also will have to accept that many fragments of this wisdom have been kept by keepers that will come from places out of its borders. But they will not be felt as strangers… Only by joining all the fragments will the puzzle be completed.

What have been happening with the Native American Indians can as well apply to all of us, no matter how different may be the history and culture of the Country where we have born, with a single difference. Many nations have long ago let go the connection with their identity, while the Native American Indians still keep refusing to let go their identity. That’s why they keep open the chance to make of America the heart center of all nations

It’s up to each one of us to think about this and understand its real meaning.

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