Love Yourself
Loving ourselves heals us and makes us happy. And loving ourselves is the best gift we can offer others…!!!
The lyrics of this song by The Beatles (“All You Need Is Love”) are very, very simple. It simply says, in a few verses, that there is nothing impossible, that there are no obstacles that can not be overcome… and repeats over and over again that all we need is love…
Here are three different versions of “All You Need Is Love”…
Axel
This first video corresponds to a Starbucks campaign to generate awareness about the AIDS problem in Africa and to provide financial support:
“All You Need Is Love” video, Starbucks.
This is another video featuring children from the SOS Children’s Villages of Zambia, India and Zimbabwe. In these villages, distributed in different countries, children who have lost their parents live in a family environment.
“All You Need Is Love” video, from “SOS Children’s Villages”.
And this last one, it is the closure of one of the “Pavarotti & Friends” concerts (during 2000 in the city of Modena, Italy), also with charitable purposes, in this case in favor of children from Cambodia and Tibet. Besides Luciano Pavarotti’s interpretation, this concert included performances of George Michael, Annie Lennox, Tracy Chapman, Zucchero, Caetano Veloso, Enrique Iglesias, among others (full list presented at the end of video).
“All You Need Is Love” video, from “Pavarotti & Friends” Concert.
“I believe that if we always looked up at the sky, we would end up having wings.”
Gustave Flaubert
The message on this famous French novelist’s quote, Gustave Flaubert, perfectly matches the message that this short video seems to be wanting to transmit:
Short film “Garuda”, created by Gobelins.
Let us always look up at the sky, at that unlimited potential that is our destiny to develop.
Let us expand our consciousness, give up our attachments, love ourselves and others unconditionally…
And sooner than we think, we will be the first to be surprised that we have finally learned the mysterious art of flying.
Axel
Link to this short film creator’s web site
Our thoughts come one after another without resting, and that appears natural because we believe we are the one who`s thinking. But through meditation we could keep at a distance and observe the speech of that tireless inside voice which is reciting the thoughts, showing we are not that voice, breaking the “enchantment” that usually gets us submitted and reaching high levels of consciousness and inner peace.
An excellent video about the power of meditation to make it up with that inside dialog which never comes to an end…
Axel
Animation Short Film “The Fly”, by Hanjin Song.
About thoughts, by OSHO.
The mind is just a process. In fact, mind doesn’t exist, only thoughts, thoughts moving so fast that you think and feel that something is existing there in continuity. One thought comes, another thought comes, another, and they go on. The gap is so small you cannot see the gap between one thought and another. So two thoughts become joined, they become a continuity, and because of that continuity you think there is a mind. There are thoughts – no mind – just as there are electrons, no matter. Thought is the electron of the mind. Just like a crowd… a crowd exists in a sense, doesn’t exist in another; only individuals exist. But many individuals together give the feeling as if they are one. A nation exists and exists not; only individuals are there. Individuals are the electrons of a nation, of a community, of a crowd.
Thoughts are like clouds – they come and go – and you are the sky. When there is no mind, immediately the perception comes that you are no more involved in the thoughts. Thoughts are there, passing through you like clouds passing through the sky, or the wind passing through the trees. Thoughts are passing through you, and they can pass because you are a vast emptiness.
Mind is nothing but the absence of your presence. When you sit silently, when you look deep in the mind, mind simply disappears. Thoughts will remain, they are existential, but mind will not be found. But when the mind is gone then a second perception becomes possible: you can see thoughts are not yours. Of course they come, and sometimes they rest a little while in you, and then they go. You may be a resting place, but they don’t originate in you. Not a single thought has come through your being. They always come from the outside. They don’t belong to you. Rootless, homeless they hover.
Sometimes thoughts rest in you, that’s all; a cloud resting on top of a hill. Then they will move on their own; you need not do anything. If you simply watch, control is attained.
OSHO
We can choose seeing the nice side, on others and ourselves.
We can choose seeing it always…
Short film “Validation”, written and directed by Kurt Kuenne.
About approval, by Louise L. Hay.
Almost all of our programming, of negative and positive, was accepted by us by the time we were three years old. Our experiences since then are based on what we accepted and believed about ourselves and about life at that time. The way we were treated when we were very little is usually the way we treat ourselves now. The person you’re scolding is a three-year-old child within you.
If you’re a person who gets angry of yourself for being afraid and fearful, think of yourself as being three years old. If you had a little three-year-old child in front of you who is afraid, what would you do? Would you be angry at it, or would you reach out your arms and comfort the child until it feels safe and at ease? The adults around you when you were a child may not have known how to comfort you at that time. Now you are the adult in your life and if you’re not comforting that child within you, the matter is very sad indeed.
What was done in the past is done; and it is over now. But this is present time, and you now have the opportunity to treat yourself the way you wish to be treated. Scolding yourself only makes you more frightened, and there’s nowhere to turn. When the child within feels unsafe, it creates a lot of trouble.
Remember how it felt to be belittled when you were young? It feels the same way now to that child within.
Be kind to yourself. Began to love and approve of yourself. That’s what that little child needs in order to express itself and its highest potential.
from “You Can Heal Your Life”
The flea circus shows are mounted in small settings where common fleas, after a period of training, are able to carry out simple tests. These particular circuses do really exist and some of their performances can be seen in videos, YouTube is a really good example where these videos can be found.
All available information agrees that the initial stage of training of these fleas consists on making them to stop jumping, so they can be easily manipulated and to carry out satisfactorily their acts during the show.
But, how does a flea abandon a habit as ingrained as it is to jump, if there is no way to contact her to convey that idea, even that it looks very simple?
Well, the procedure is very simple: Fleas are kept in glass containers, where they can jump as much as they want. Logically, each time that the flea jumps she is hurting herself. Finally, at one point, obviously after hurting themselves many times, fleas understand that they must stop jumping.
We too, in our lives, we are free to act at will. However, many times we repeat behaviors that lead to painful situations. And as some of our habits are deeply rooted, we repeat over and over again these attitudes that we resist to change, even if always generate conflict situations around us.
It is as if, after having interrupted the profound communication with others, the Universe, God, there were no other resource than allow us to make these mistakes, trusting that the pain we cause to ourselves finally will make us reflect and ask ourselves if there is not a different way to lead our life.
Axel Piskulic
This Need Not Be
If you cannot hear the voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen…
When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be…
When you are sad, know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and then decide otherwise…
Have you really considered how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many of them you have refused?
from “A Course in Miracles” (Chap. 4, V)
The real flea circuses are not as funny as this video, a sequence of “Limelight”, one of the last films of Charles Chaplin:
Flea circus: a scene from the movie Limelight by Charles Chaplin.
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