Post by Monica on Jul 22, 2006 12:24:30 GMT
Hi all,
A friend of mine gave me this book yesterday and I started to read it. It impressed me much. I received it in my language and I searched on the net, so I could share with you, properly, what I found. Though, I won't post here what I found in English, because all of the links I found tell you just to buy it
.
I translated some fragments. But be aware: it's MY translation, so I am sure that you will find much better translations than this one ;D ;D ;D.
“Look at the 2-3 years old: they play all the time, they laugh all the time. Their imagination it’s powerful and they live their dream as an adventure of exploration. When they meet an obstacle, they react and defend, but they forget and live the next moment as much intensely; they restart their game, their exploration, their amusement. They continuously live in the moment. The little kids express exactly what they feel and they are not afraid to love.”
“Imagine a three years old kid that runs and plays in the park. His mother looks after him and she is afraid that the baby will fall or will be hurt. At a given moment, she wants to stop him but the child thinks that mummy plays with him, so he tries to run faster than her. On the street, the cars pass, thing that scares the mother more, but she catches the kid. The child expects to play with her mum, but she spanks him. Wow! What a shock! The happiness of the child was the expression of his love and he cannot understand why his mother treats him like this. In time, the accumulation of these shocks stabs at his love until disappearance. Even if the child doesn’t understand the words yet, he asks himself: “Why?””
“The happiest moments of our lives are the ones when we play like kids, when we sing and dance, when we explore and create things only for amusement. […] The kids are innocent and it’s natural to express love. But what happened with us? What happened with the whole world?
The trouble is that the adults around the kids are already mentally ill and their illness is contagious. They capture the kids’ attention and they teach them to behave exactly like them. That’s the way we were infected when we were kids, from our parents, our teachers, our relatives. […] Capturing their attention, we teach the kids a certain language, how they suppose to read, how they suppose to behave, how they suppose to dream. So, the people are domesticated the same way we domesticate an animal, using the penalty-reward mechanism. At first, the kids are afraid that they will be punished, in time they learn to be afraid that they will not be rewarded, that they are not good enough for they parents, their bigger brother or their teacher.”
“People live with a persistent fear not to be hurt and this creates a huge drama, which we can find wherever you might be. The way we communicate with the others it’s so emotionally painful that, without any apparent reason, we are angry, we are sad, we are jealous or malicious. Even saying “I love you” can be dreadful. [….] To protect their emotional injuries and not to be hurt, people create a very sophisticated denial system in their minds. This system transforms them in perfect liars.”
"Sometimes, the little child that it’s still in each of us comes to the light; he is our real self, he remains at 3 years old. In that moment, we live that moment and we have fun, but something inside us drag us back; someone from inside feels he doesn’t deserve to be happy. A voice within tell us that this happiness it’s too good to be true, that it’s not good to be too happy. The entire accumulated guilt and the poison from our emotions emerge, trying to drag us back in the drama world."
“Love means no obligations. The fear means obligations. When we walk on the fear’s path, we do everything because we have to and we expect that the others to do some things because they have to do them. We have obligations and, when we can, we resist. As much resistance we oppose, as much we suffer. On the other hand, love doesn’t resist. When we love, we do everything because we want to. Every action becomes a joy.”
“To heal emotionally, we have, first, to open the wounds and to clean them, to put on them a curative and to keep them clean until they will heal. But how can we open the wounds? We will use the truth as a knife. 2000 years ago, one of the humanity Masters told us: “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” […] We can start practicing the truth with ourselves. When you are sincere with yourself, you start to see the things as they are, not as you would want them to be.”
With love,
Monica
A friend of mine gave me this book yesterday and I started to read it. It impressed me much. I received it in my language and I searched on the net, so I could share with you, properly, what I found. Though, I won't post here what I found in English, because all of the links I found tell you just to buy it
.I translated some fragments. But be aware: it's MY translation, so I am sure that you will find much better translations than this one ;D ;D ;D.
“Look at the 2-3 years old: they play all the time, they laugh all the time. Their imagination it’s powerful and they live their dream as an adventure of exploration. When they meet an obstacle, they react and defend, but they forget and live the next moment as much intensely; they restart their game, their exploration, their amusement. They continuously live in the moment. The little kids express exactly what they feel and they are not afraid to love.”
“Imagine a three years old kid that runs and plays in the park. His mother looks after him and she is afraid that the baby will fall or will be hurt. At a given moment, she wants to stop him but the child thinks that mummy plays with him, so he tries to run faster than her. On the street, the cars pass, thing that scares the mother more, but she catches the kid. The child expects to play with her mum, but she spanks him. Wow! What a shock! The happiness of the child was the expression of his love and he cannot understand why his mother treats him like this. In time, the accumulation of these shocks stabs at his love until disappearance. Even if the child doesn’t understand the words yet, he asks himself: “Why?””
“The happiest moments of our lives are the ones when we play like kids, when we sing and dance, when we explore and create things only for amusement. […] The kids are innocent and it’s natural to express love. But what happened with us? What happened with the whole world?
The trouble is that the adults around the kids are already mentally ill and their illness is contagious. They capture the kids’ attention and they teach them to behave exactly like them. That’s the way we were infected when we were kids, from our parents, our teachers, our relatives. […] Capturing their attention, we teach the kids a certain language, how they suppose to read, how they suppose to behave, how they suppose to dream. So, the people are domesticated the same way we domesticate an animal, using the penalty-reward mechanism. At first, the kids are afraid that they will be punished, in time they learn to be afraid that they will not be rewarded, that they are not good enough for they parents, their bigger brother or their teacher.”
“People live with a persistent fear not to be hurt and this creates a huge drama, which we can find wherever you might be. The way we communicate with the others it’s so emotionally painful that, without any apparent reason, we are angry, we are sad, we are jealous or malicious. Even saying “I love you” can be dreadful. [….] To protect their emotional injuries and not to be hurt, people create a very sophisticated denial system in their minds. This system transforms them in perfect liars.”
"Sometimes, the little child that it’s still in each of us comes to the light; he is our real self, he remains at 3 years old. In that moment, we live that moment and we have fun, but something inside us drag us back; someone from inside feels he doesn’t deserve to be happy. A voice within tell us that this happiness it’s too good to be true, that it’s not good to be too happy. The entire accumulated guilt and the poison from our emotions emerge, trying to drag us back in the drama world."
“Love means no obligations. The fear means obligations. When we walk on the fear’s path, we do everything because we have to and we expect that the others to do some things because they have to do them. We have obligations and, when we can, we resist. As much resistance we oppose, as much we suffer. On the other hand, love doesn’t resist. When we love, we do everything because we want to. Every action becomes a joy.”
“To heal emotionally, we have, first, to open the wounds and to clean them, to put on them a curative and to keep them clean until they will heal. But how can we open the wounds? We will use the truth as a knife. 2000 years ago, one of the humanity Masters told us: “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” […] We can start practicing the truth with ourselves. When you are sincere with yourself, you start to see the things as they are, not as you would want them to be.”
With love,
Monica
;D
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