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The History of Fraternal Humanity
Let's take a maternal look at our humanity. Live on Earth is a flm with more than 7 milliards of participants, Nature, Earth. It takes place in the Universe. We have all a role to play. Tere's the frst roles, the seconds roles, the extras,... It requires directors, stage directors, assistants,... Te decor is the result of the work of researchers, engineers, technicians,... Politics is the soundtrack, she gives rhythm; if she is in symbiosis, it is a plus. In each domains, the precious help of « the small hands », without whom nothing would be possible. For magic to work, everyone is as important as the other and must be in his place. Imagine one of the extras of Te Lord of the Rings, playing in a swimsuit with « In the moonlight » like soundtrack.
« The shortest way from man to man is art » André Malraux
Let's play the movie of the Peace on Earth. The Peace on Earth will be. When the World, freely will express. The Dignity « inherent of all members of Human Family »
« Nobody is the solution to the common happiness. The common happiness is the solution for everyone. » Obel'Isa
« Liberate the Oppressed and the Oppressor » Nelson Mandela I always knew that deep down in every human heart there was mercy and compassion. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Even in the grimmest of times in prison… I would see a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards, perhaps just for one second, but it was enough to reassure me and keep me going. Man’s goodness is a fame that can be hidden but never extinguished. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. Te oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. Te truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the fnal step of our journey, but the frst step on a longer and even more difcult road. For to be free is not merely to cast of one's chains; but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.
« Imagine all the people living life in peace » John Lennon
« Letter to an hostage » Antoine de Saint Exupéry Respect for man! Respect for man!... Tis is the touchstone! When the Nazi respects only those who resemble him, he respects nothing but himself. He denies the creative contradictions, ruins any hope of ascension, and establishes for a thousand years instead of a man, the mechanism of an ant-hill. Order for order's sake deprives man of his essential power which is to transform the world and himself. Life creates order, but order does not create life. It seems to us, on the contrary, that our ascension is not achieved, that the truth of tomorrow feeds on yesterday’s mistake, and that the contradictions to be overcome, form the very compost of our growth. We acknowledge, as ours precisely, those who difer from us. But what a strange relationship! It is founded on the future, not on the past. On the aim, not on the origin. We are, for one another, pilgrims toiling up diferent paths to the same goal. But today, respect for man, condition of our ascension, is in danger. Te fragmentation of the modern world has dragged us into the darkness. Problems are incoherent, solutions contradictory. Yesterday's truth is dead, tomorrow's is not yet built. No valid synthesis is foreseen, and each one of us grasps but a tiny particle of truth. For a lack of proof to impose them, political religions appeal to violence. If we disagree on the methods, we are liable to forget that we are hurrying to the same goal. If the traveller, ascending his mountain, in the direction of a star, is completely absorbed by his climbing, he is liable to forget which star is guiding him. If he acts only for the sake of acting, he will get nowhere. Te cathedral usher, in thinking too much of hiring his chairs, is likely to forget that he is serving God. Tus if I withdraw myself into a partisan passion, I am liable to forget that a policy has no meaning unless it serves a spiritual truth. We have known, during miraculous hours, a certain quality of human relationship: there is our truth. However urgent the action, we must not forget the leading vocation, otherwise the action will remain sterile. We want to found respect for man.
« As I began to love myself » Charlie Chaplin -Charlot
As I began to love myself, I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it… Self-Confidence. As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional sufering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is Authenticity. As I began to love myself, I stopped craving for a diferent life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow Today I call it Maturity. As I began to love myself, I understood how much it can ofend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it Respect. As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At frst I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.
As I began to love myself, I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it Simplicity. As I began to love myself, I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is Modesty. As I began to love myself, I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it Fulfillment. As I began to love myself, I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection Wisdom of the heart. We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know That is Life!
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¡¡¡Use your Imagination!!! He told his children
« Utopia is not the unrealizable, but the unrealized. » Téodore Monod
Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658, « The courtiers manual oracle – To cultivate and embellish » Man is born barbarous. He is ransomed from the condition of Beasts, only by being cultivated. Te more he is cultivated, the more he becomes man. In respect of Education, Greece had reason to call all the rest of the world barbarous. Tere is nothing so rude as ignorance; nor nothing that polishes more than knowledge. But knowledge itself is rude, if it be without art. It is not enough that the understanding is cleared, the will must also be regulated, and the manner of conversing more. Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, « this blood flowing it is your » We do not replicate to the scafold by the scafold. We repudiate the old and inept law of retaliation. Justice is not revenge. Te republic, it is the union, the unity, the harmony, the light, work creating the well-being, suppression of the confict man to man and nation to nation, the end of inhumane farms, the abolition of the law of death, and the establishment of the law of life.
Aung San Suu Kyi,
1945-
, « A Revolution of Conscience »
Te quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing ofcial policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. Tere has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifces in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting infuences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are frmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must frst learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.
« I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. » Martin Luther King
« Cloud Atlas » Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others past and present, and by each crime and every kindness we birth our future. « Matrix 3 - Revolution » You have never heard a program speaks about love. But it is a human emotion. No, it is a word. What is important it is the interaction that this word implicates. « Fast and furious 5 » If you subjugate a people with violence, they always end up rebelling because basically he has nothing to lose and that's the key. I go in the favelas, I give the people things they can lose, electricity, running water, a school for their children and making their lives more enjoyable, I hold them. « Hunger Games » Ofer entertainment so that people forget what their real problems are. « Batman Begins » Tat's not what we have deep inside us, it is our actions that bear witness to who we are. « Fast and Furious 8 » Do like you feel it! You know the theory of rational choice Dom. there are a lot of actions but two that you have interest to take into account: - Te only human behavior that you can control is yours, - Te second, the only thing we can give someone is information. « Equilibrium » I have a question for you. Why are you alive?
« The important thing is not to convince but to give to think about it. » Bernard Weber
BLIND MEN AND AN ELEPHANT Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them,"Hey, there is an elephant in the village today." Tey had no idea what an elephant is. Tey decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant. "Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the frst man who touched his leg. "Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail. "Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant. "It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant. "It is like a huge wall," said the ffth man who touched the belly of the elephant. "It is like a solid pipe," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant. Tey began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" Tey said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. Te wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said." ∞Θ∞
Let's take more overview up and let's move away for a moment from our vision of life.
Let's look at humanity like an elephant and Us as blind men; Each country, religion, culture,... is one part of the elephant. We all, individually, by people, by ethnic group, ... lived a specificity of our fraternal humanity. But,... Humanity is AN -elephant- with PARTS -peoples, religions- different. ∞Θ∞
Each of Us is one part of Fraternal Humanity in becoming. Life is Beauty
