9/22/2008
2:12 pm
And you do it like this!
RE:
lets groove. Sergio Mendez - Magdalenha
as promised...lets check out prof morrie!
have i told you about the tension of opposite'? he says
the tension of opposite?
'life is a series of pulls back and forth. you want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. something hurts you, yet u know you should never take things for granted'.
'a tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band.And most of us live somewhere in the middle'.
'sounds like a wrestling match', i say.
'A wrestling match'. he laughs. 'yes, you could describe life that way'
'so which side wins', i ask
'which side wins'?
he smiles at me, the crinkle eyes, the crooked teeth.
'love wins. love always wins'
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'do you know how they brainwash people? they repeat something over and over. owning things is good. more money is good. more property is good. more is good, more is good.we repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to tink otherwise.the average person is fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
wherever i went in life, i met people wanting to gobble up something new. gobble up a new car. gobble up a new property.gobble up the latest toy.and then they wanted to tell you about it.'guess what i got?guess what i got?'
these were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. they were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. but it never works.you cant substitute material things for love or gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.i can tell you, as im sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
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people are only mean when they're threatened and thats what our culture does.that's what our economy does.even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them and when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. you start making money a god. it is all part of this culture.
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death
fear
aging
greed
marriage
family
society
forgiveness
a meaningful life.
thanks morrie.
________________Your's truly, Nashady__________________