Los Justos — Jorge Luis Borges
LOS JUSTOS
Un hombre que cultiva un jardín, como quería Voltaire.
El que agradece que en la tierra haya música.
El que descubre con placer una etimología.
Dos empleados que en un café del Sur juegan un silencioso ajedrez.
El ceramista que premedita un color y una forma.
Un tipógrafo que compone bien esta página, que tal vez no le agrada.
Una mujer y un hombre que leen los tercetos finales de cierto canto.
El que acaricia a un animal dormido.
El que justifica o quiere justificar un mal que le han hecho.
El que agradece que en la tierra haya Stevenson.
El que prefiere que los otros tengan razón.
Esas personas, que se ignoran, están salvando el mundo.
Jorge Luis Borges
Note: My apologies to English readers, I have not found a translation that honors the original.
Another quote
What could be more important than educating your senses?
Frederick Sommer
This just in… un-edited.
The importance to express a realization is big, regardless of who is watching.
I see now that as I shed my need for approval from the external world, I accept myself.
I see now that acceptance of any issue, an illness, a fact of life, precedes even surrender, and after surrender, after realizing that you need the help of something bigger than your will, only then, you can ask for help.
To think that people will not be interested in my “non art related” experience, is to deny the all-encompassing nature of creativity… and its healing power.
Why is it important for me to express all this now… probably because I can not stand the opposite, it is like living a double life, where, at the end, I am depriving others (and myself) from the fully assumed acceptance of my self, as I realize it, part by part.
About loving myself, I can say that I have a lot to learn, which, I realize means that I have a lot to learn about loving others.
When my judge steps in and says… but what are others going to think if you share this in your blog? this is very personal… I guess I feel vulnerable, and yet there may be people who actually find meaning in these words and honesty, that… like me need to take off the mask and stand nude in front of a crowd, as a form of self acceptance… writers do it through their characters, actors through living their roles, living vicariously the different parts that conform you, therefore acknowledging that they ARE you. That you are THEM and, as you do it, you transform them, you free them from their fixed form and push them to their next incarnation, welcoming your next SELF; the one that unfolds, whose needs mutate, endlessly evolving towards our Higher Self.
Quote
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
El peligro para la mayoría de nosotros no consiste en fijar nuestra meta demasiado alta sin alcanzarla, sino en fijarla demasiado abajo y dar en el blanco.
-Miguel Angel Buonarotti
Anger is based on fear, choose love.
And meditate every day.
Whatever you give your emotion to, becomes your reality.
La ira se basa en el miedo… escoge amar.
Y medita a diario.
A lo que tu le otorgues tu emoción, se convertirá en tu realidad.
