Submitted by someone on 12 November, 2010 - 06:55
Yesterday me and Dani were talking about inspiration and the divine hiding in our world.
I'm sure that we all had those moments reading, seeing or hearing something that made us feel that only 'God' could create it, inspired us and took us somewhere high , happy and even crying.
Many times in this site we sort of criticize the world and the humanity.
So I decided to create a place here, where we can tell about things from our world that inspire us and make a tribute to the beauty around.
Community:
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The mistery behind the man pasting the advertisment
12 November, 2010 - 07:09 — someoneI was on the bus on my way to work, looking out of the window.
My attention was drawn to a man, who had a big advertisement sheet in his hand, preparing to stick it to a wall.
My first thought was - what a terrible and useless job! In 36 deg heat, under the burning sun, this man puts another advertisement.
And it stroke me! I was looking around and seeing all those people around, working, like small ants. Each filling his place in the structure. This one is selling clothes, the other shoes, etc. I saw a street cleaner, someone had to do it, and this specific person was doing it. Then I looked at the bus driver. I felt he's taking me where I need to go. I didn't see a man working anymore, but a mind-blowing coincidence. I felt like he's my friend or something, and felt gratitude.
I saw the complexity and the enormous proportions of this moment, of this structure, created with many hundreds of years in spontaneous assembly.
Of all the possibilities, this one was created, our society today.
At that moment I was unable to judge it, I saw the perfection and the magnificence in it all.
At that moment I was sure, that something is moving this process, some kind of creative force. I was totally uplifted!
The perfection
12 November, 2010 - 07:22 — someoneI want to share something that made me cry.
I see it already a couple of days, each time feeling breathless.
I told Dani that I see this ballet, and the dancers are very professional, the music, everything is very beautiful, but.. There is one moment, that is so perfect, that I feel like my heart is going to explode when I see it.
I see that so many things had to come together - an absolutely crazy combination of events, just to create this moment, it's just...unperceivable!!!
I didn't tell him where this moment was, I was curious whether he can see it.. And he saw it!!!
Here is the clip...
Don't look here, this is spoiler, for those who didn't feel it:
0.53-0.58 - Ahh! The perfection <:')
Inspiration
12 November, 2010 - 07:23 — Chris BourneThanks for starting this wonderful thread Yulia! - Openhand is blessed to have you on board
It's truly when we keep looking past the initial judgments and to the light beyond that our spiritual evolution really takes off.
As I've just shared in our Malta update, we're being hosted here by a charming and humble man called "Godwin". Having served as a jesuit priest helping refugees throughout South East Asia for thirty years, you can tell by the glow in his eyes, he's had to overcome a great deal.
He's seen so much, yet he's still open and ready to receive. He can't do enough for us... he is truly a man of selfless service. A great inspiration to everyone he meets!
Chris
Inspiring people
12 November, 2010 - 08:09 — someone"looking past the initial judgments and to the light beyond"
For example, this line is just perfect ;D
Yes, I think know what you mean. It's not the happiness and lightness of people who don't see 'the dark side' that inspire me most, but of those who tasted life's 'ugliest' and most painful sides.
It's like loving something or someone not when you don't see it's flaws, and not despite the flaws, but fully and unconditionally, because of it's flaws. That's when the flaws stop being flaws. All you see is pure beauty.
A blade of grass!
12 November, 2010 - 09:11 — Fiona ReillyWonderful thread Yulia, thank you for sharing.
What I've enjoyed doing lately is lying on the grass and looking sideways at an "ants" view. It becomes a totally different world, there are giant lush green blades rising all around me, I can see the detail and beauty in each blade. Each unique as it grows and stretches towards the light. Often there are no thoughts just sittting in awe! It can often be in the little simple things, like Yulia describes in the mystery of the man with the advertisment, that we see the magnificient.
The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller
Inspiring psychology
18 November, 2010 - 10:05 — someoneIt's a long citation from Erich Fromm's work about selfishness. I felt so uplifted to see, how someone could see all that is happening and talked about it already in 1939!!
I find psychology very interesting and useful for someone who is looking for himself. It helped me to see so many times who I'm not, and find a way out of mechanisms or emotions I was addicted to, just by knowing it is there, because they describe them in their works.
I hope you'll enjoy just like I did:
„Don't be selfish“ is a sentence which has been impressed upon millions of children, generation after generation. It is hard to define what exactly it means. Consciously, most parents connect with it the meaning not to be egotistical, inconsiderate, without concern for others. Factually, they generally mean more than that. „Not to be selfish“ implies not to do what one wishes, to give up one's own wishes for the sake of those in authority; i.e., the parents, and later the authorities of society.
Aside from its obvious implication, it means, „don't love yourself,“ „don't be yourself"...
„Don't be selfish“ becomes one of the most powerful ideological weapons in suppressing spontaneity and the free development of personality.
The opposite doctrine is propagandized in modern society: have your own advantage in mind, act according to what is best for you - and by doing so, you will also bring about
the greatest advantage for all others.
It may seem strange that two such seemingly contradictory principles could be taught side by side in one culture. Of the fact, there can be no doubt. One result of this contradiction of ideological patterns certainly is confusion in the individual. To be torn between the one and the other doctrine is a serious blockage in the process of integration of personality and has often led to neurotic character formation.
...
It only becomes clear if we consider further the meaning of „selfishness.“ If it means to be concerned with one's economic advantage, certainly the taboo on selfishness would have been a severe handicap to the economic initiative of business men. But what it really meant, especially in the earlier phases of English and American culture was, as has been pointed out before: don't do what you want, don't enjoy yourself, don't spend money or energy for pleasure, but feel it as your duty to work, to be successful, to be prosperous.
The socioeconomic position of the urban middle class, the peasantry and the nobility were shaken in their foundations; impoverishment, threats to traditional economic positions as well as new chances for economic success arose.
Religious and spiritual ties which had established a rounded and secure world for the individual had been broken. The individual found himself completely alone in the world, paradise was lost for good, his success and failure were decided by the laws of the market; the basic relationship to everyone else had become one of merciless competition. The result of all this was a new feeling of
freedom attended, however, by an increased anxiety. This anxiety, in its turn, created a readiness for new submission to religious and secular authorities even more strict than the previous ones had been.
....
But even more important than the submission to external authorities was the fact that the authorities were internalized, that man became the slave of a master inside himself instead of one outside. This internal master drove the individual to relentless work and striving for success and never allowed him to be himself and enjoy himself. There
was a spirit of distrust and hostility directed not only against the outside world, but also toward one's own self.
This modern type of man was selfish in a twofold sense: he had little concern for others and he was anxiously concerned with his own advantage. But was this selfishness really a concern for himself as an individual, with all his intellectual and sensual potentialities? Had „he“ not become the appendix of his socioeconomic role, a cog in the economic machine, even if sometimes an important cog? Was
he not the slave of this machine even if he subjectively felt as if he were following his own orders? Was his selfishness identical with self-love or was it instead rooted in the very lack of it?...."
I can't not think how mysterious it is - the way knowledge of this kind found its way to just a "human". Amazing!!
I feel so blessed!
The divine in our world
25 November, 2010 - 06:56 — Trinity BourneI feel surrounded by Angels in my life :innocent:
Fiona - who is a continued Light of inspiration, supporting Openhand, supporting me personally as a friend in so many ways in order that I can be of greater service.
David - beaming with a Light so strong, just by being! He is a constant reminder of the Light within my soul.
My husband Daring to go to depths that no one else has, to walk together, share the joys, share the pain. A intertwining of two souls in Divine Union.
My son The wisest of souls. My closest friend, holding up the most divine mirror of all in order that I can find ever deeper aspects of my beingness. My deepest Love of all.
The Divine in my world!
Divine video!
2 December, 2010 - 11:32 — Fiona ReillyThank you Trinity, I feel ever so blessed!
This morning I see the divine in this beautiful song and awesome video! How wonderful life is with "Divine" in the world!
The divine at the shopping mall...
2 December, 2010 - 17:05 — Chris BourneThe divine can be found in all places - even the shopping mall...
Absolutely hallucinated
3 December, 2010 - 06:13 — someoneWhile watching the mall video, I had a feeling as if it's a dream, some kind of hallucination :|
I guess I had exactly the facial expression of the blond boy with open mouth there
Fire and water
3 December, 2010 - 06:18 — someoneYesterday we tested our fast video camera, and shot a couple of demonstrations:
1. Burning nitrocellulose
2. Exploding baloon filled with water
These take about 1.5-2 seconds, but camera makes it 1.5-2 minutes.
It's shot at about 3000-5000 frames/sec.
Simple things, but just look at this!
Simply magnificent!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/kookoolab
Re: Fire and Water
3 December, 2010 - 06:42 — Trinity BourneWow! Incredible. For some reason I experience a highly transcendental state whilst watching the fire. And upon watching the water my attention was transfixed and totally captivated!!! Thank you for sharing.
Try again ;)
3 December, 2010 - 08:08 — someoneFirst it's wow, but when I watch it again, I feel some kind of trans, it just grabes all my focus..
This slow motion somehow also slows down the mind and brings stillness.
I'm glad you liked
From the fire
3 December, 2010 - 09:18 — Fiona ReillyHi Yulia,
That's really cool. When I watch the fire, I see an embyro, I see it form, develop and grow. Then it takes off with the fire spreading rapidly underneath and to some extent the form becomes absorbed, for me this symbolises life on earth with all it's intricacies and beauty. Again at the end I see a form rising and dissolving into the ethers... beautiful :love:
Thank you for sharing, love Fiona
The fire
6 December, 2010 - 15:24 — someonein Carmel forest this time.
There is a destruction part: people lost their houses, everything they had, even lives, whole villages are not there anymore, such beautiful places.
And with that, because of that, people came here to give a hand.
I felt really moved by it.
I felt some kind of unification and even love through it.
Opinion vs. Discernment
9 December, 2010 - 09:08 — tasneemGood morning, Chris:
In one of the posts you mentioned that an opinion is always ego-based. Wow – that kind of stuck with me, especially in view of the trillions of opinions that are sure to be voiced at any given moment on this planet. Whereas I understand the basic idea, I have difficulties drawing the line though. Since we all have to make choices all the time, there must be criteria for our preferences and and a quality that helps us decide, which I would call discernment. So where does discernment end and opinion begin?
To give a concrete example: Yesterday I saw a person in the street, an ex-teacher of mine, with whom I had unsuccessfully (for time reasons) been trying to arrange a meeting before. However, yesterday I did not feel like talking to him – I was wet and hungry and simply not in the mood. Therefore I just kept walking, pretending not to have seen him. Soon after, I felt I had done the “wrong“ thing – as opposed to a higher choice, which would have been to greet him and then may be explain why I did not want to start a lenghty conversation. (The good thing was it made me realize once again how a pattern of withdrawal kicks in as soon as I feel – or anticipate to feel – overwhelmed.) –
So would labelling this choice as „wrong“ invariably be an ego-based opinion or would that depend on the inner attitude and the fixedness that goes with it? Where to draw the line?
Love,
Tasneem
Opinions and truth...
9 December, 2010 - 10:33 — Chris BourneHi Tasneem,
Yes it's an interesting question indeed. What exactly is an 'opinion'? I observe that when most people use the word, what they really mean is something that they've rationalised in their minds, usually by weighing up the 'pros and cons' of different possibilities. In which case, it seems to me that such 'opinions' are ego based and essentially worthless. All they seem to do is lock people into the mind and into judgments based on fictional realities.
What seems to work much better to me, is to continually explore one's own truth and then ONLY to articulate that truth. ie no more than that truth. Not 'joining the missing pieces' research or speculation.
Expressing our truth can be done as truth but without stating absolutes. So you'll notice I often use the wording "seems like", "in my truth", "from my perspective". These are not opinions they are my truth, but I accept that I may see things differently to someone else expressing his or her own truth. I accept that we may all see absolute truth slightly differently and that each person's truth can evolve and change.
One can instantly tell when someone is expressing opinion rather than their truth by feeling it. If we stay in the heart and keep doing that, it becomes absolutely obvious that opinions carry no weight! In the world of truth, they don't land. They're light and ineffectual.
That's why to me, opinions and worthless and I tend to throw them out. I'd rather begin with what we truly know.
Chris
i think you all will be happy to hear this.
9 December, 2010 - 17:38 — rayko12hello everyone,
A couple of days ago i saw the most wonderfull thing i've seen in a long time, i basically live in exeter uni, in the first year halls, but my halls are the most expensive and in turn the richest kids live here (not banking rich but parents with salaries of 50k) and they are the most spoiled and in turn the most asleep people u ever get.
Anyways i'm catered and coz of this i have to eat with all these people. A couple of days ago i couldn't help but overhear some of these kids conversations, they were talking about their views on the higher powers and stuff, and basically one of them said he belives in the higher powers because his experiences can't be happening by chance, and another one was saying that "christianity is fucked up! its good but at the same time bad." and then he went on and explained his reasoning which requiered u to consciously think for yourself. (his reasoning was something along the lines of: christianity sais be good, loving and sharing with ur fellow man, but give a lot of ur money to us!)
And at that moment i felt so happy i couldn't stop smiling, because i was there witnessing them become more awaken and best part was they were doing this themselfs.
Re: i think you all will be happy to hear this.
9 December, 2010 - 20:32 — Trinity BourneHi Rayko12,
Must have been reassuring :innocent: to hear this in the most unexpected place. Thanks for sharing.
x
The Unseen Sea - simply beautiful
22 December, 2010 - 23:37 — holly...http://exposureroom.com/members/seemoo/8d13ea8361dc41c3a5dd629de3e9624e/
Re: The Unseen Sea - simply beautiful
23 December, 2010 - 06:25 — Trinity BourneDivine indeed!
Unseen Sea - simply beautiful
23 December, 2010 - 18:11 — holly...I feel so moved when I watch this video, it feels like seeing the gentle divine grace and love that touches our lives in every moment - unconditional to whether we know it or not
Now that got me
23 December, 2010 - 19:26 — BillNow that got me crying....Thats the first Christmas thing that has moved me in a long time.... the singing by the first girl WOW !
Man living here in the United
23 December, 2010 - 20:04 — BillMan living here in the United States life has kinda been about Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell movies, Professional Sports, golfing, and a few friends.... Im embarrassed to say I never thought much of Opera or Ballet, however it only took seconds into each vid to well up in tears, the thing about it for me is I cant explain it, I just feel it , it just strikes me, like a part of me just opens up and this wave of feeling/emotion I go into a deep slow motion hyper venilation... How beautiful the human spirit can be... maybe I should start going beyond jokes....haha...
Love
-Bill
Coincidence? I don't think so...
5 February, 2011 - 09:13 — someoneThe probability for this to happen is like what? going to zero?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezhh436CXM
Heart-warming creation
22 February, 2011 - 11:28 — someoneMy professor sent me this, and it made me feel such strong wave of kindness and cuteness, and this is just beautiful :')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA
It also somewhat metaphoric for me...
Heavenly
12 May, 2011 - 18:54 — someonebrought tears to my eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxhjVRiozK8&feature=related
Mythodea... divine...
1 June, 2011 - 15:26 — someoneI could put it to inspiring music, but to me it is more divine than inspiring.
I listened lying with eyes closed to all movements 1-10, and it felt as if I melted into these sounds, not 'from this world'...
It so resonates with me that it seems impossible that it's not me who created it
Here are two movements:
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHAX_QGHTU
10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObT8y6uH9fQ
and the full video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0noyQpzEY&feature=fvwrel
From this plane and not from this plane
28 June, 2011 - 22:09 — someoneI have this disc, Red Planet OST for years, so while clearing everything I found it and listened to it and this song... is like some flush of light on me, I begin to smile and cry and expand and it is not 'human', but at the same time this is such a miracle, that this body and the physical dense plane allows to create such sound and harmonies!! So not trivial! I sometimes wonder how would the world be if people would connect to their soul and be all that they can be. Wow!!!
Another thing I felt when I was listening to it and felt all the beauty of it is that only the fact that I am the one now who hears and experiences it means that I have it inside, ALL THIS tremendous amazingness! And I began to cry even more... My heart is broken...
So here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lYohPMB4I&feature=related
:')
what a wonderful world...
30 June, 2011 - 01:01 — alohai thought this was a good thread to share this video on
the song started playing randomly in my head today, made me really feel how truly wonderful this world is, that we all share as one, in all our lifetimes, how truly MAGICAL a place it is, and what INCREDIBLE beings we are...it's hard to remember this in these tumultuous times. I love the simplicity conveyed in this song, through his beautiful voice...
I also love the end scene, his funeral, when they're spreading his ashes at sea. The community spirit and oneness gives me chills. He was only the third Hawaiian in history to lie in state and the only one who wasn't a gov't official...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k&annotation_id=annotation_5417...
in oneness & spirit xo
L
DANCE! SING! LAAAAUUUGH!!!!
2 July, 2011 - 04:33 — alohahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG92NUXKzZ0
Haahahahahaaaa HA!
LET GOOOOOO!!!!
BIG HUGS!! Especially to everyone at Transfiguration!!!
xo
L
love eggs
2 July, 2011 - 18:49 — alohaI don't eat eggs for breakfast very often, I can't remember the last time I had "fried" eggs either. I keep eggs in the house for baking or i make them for the dogs. this morning I was reading various enlightening things and really feeling the presence and energy of my being flowing through me, the awareness watching the awareness, i was surfing the net a bit, then popped over to openhand saw the "thought of the day" (& heart formed with hands pic), smiled, then decided to play my Iceland video again and started laughing uncontrollably (this has been happening a lot lately, jumping & dancing around the house, laughing like a crazy person), the joy so deep within it was boundless and the laughing and laughing, and i'm watching my laughing and the watcher is laughing and there was just so much laughter and joy! and i'm tingling and vibrating all over from the energy flowing and flowing out into everything and dissolving me, no meeee, heeeee, just laughing. i calm down after a bit and try to go back to my reading, and I recognize that the body is hungry. i contemplate what fruit i'm going to feed the body, but the body wants eggs, fried eggs in particular, with toast to dip, I laugh and say fine, let's make eggs! love and joy and eggs!! why not? and i love the eggs so much as i'm taking them out, there's just love love love and singing in my heart with joy joy joy cooking eggs! sounds ridiculous and i feel like a crazy person, yes! but who cares! and then as the eggs are cooking a bubble forms really big and when I go to pop it, this is what happened:
http://loveurlife.smugmug.com/Other/LoveEggs/17847595_ZV4LBp#1364856443_...
I started laughing hysterically all over again! (recovering long enough only to take the pictures!) The universe sending me LOVE in my eggs!! what could be more hilarious?? I know we all have these moments, but they ARE divine, magical, there are NO random events, everything is happening for a reason, the divine is everywhere in this world speaking to us through everything, always. Telling us that we are so loved, so deeply loved.
i hope you enjoy my love eggs
I wanted to share the love with everyone!
in love & divine laughter,
L
love leaf
3 July, 2011 - 22:44 — alohaI had a rough evening/morning. For some reason, I found myself caught up trying to figure out/intellectualize oneness, non-duality, (as concepts, dumb, i know) trying to capture the "feeling" again, trying to sustain it. For hours my mind just kept going, sitting in nature. then I tried some kundalini yoga, thinking maybe this will open something up and i'll feel it again, so I can understand. Then realizing/remembering at one point (bc I was so lost in thought and mad at myself for being lost for so long) that my mind can't get it, i have to "realize" it, and, something else I've noticed about everything lately, it has to be spontaneous - everything that's happening to me lately is spontaneous, it's when I'm not doing anything that something happens. The yoga didn't do much except cause a burning in my third eye area that was really bad. It didn't start until an hour after I stopped and went on for over an hour. But nothing happened, no feeling of "oneness". I went to bed, which is usually a time when vibrations start flowing through me, lifting and lightness, but nothing. I felt blah this morning, with a feeling of not knowing what to do. Not feeling what to do, not feeling the desire to do anything. i just sat. waiting for something. nothing. finally i gave up and started playing with the dogs in the pool, which made me feel better, then i just floated on the raft, finally relaxed again, finally more free, watching the trees over me, knowing that we're all the same, of the same stuff, accepting that "knowing" this is better than nothing, that I'm not going to be able to always "feel" it. And right at about that moment i blindly reached my hand into the water, not even aware of what i was doing at all, that sort of involuntary movement like swishing your feet in the water because they're dangling there, I was swishing my hand in the water and picked up a leaf, which I didn't know I had done (I was watching the trees) and held it up in front of me and had a second of "oh I picked up a leaf" then looked at it and there it was:
http://loveurlife.smugmug.com/Other/LoveEggs/17847595_ZV4LBp#1364856443_...
Another love heart from the universe
more divine love. Wow. these synchronicities are happening so frequently lately, I'm not sure what to make of them. There was another heart in the road later (but not just the love hearts, many other things). I have to wonder if I'm manifesting them - i mean I guess I am to the extent there is a co-creative effort, & law of attraction/all is energy, but I've been assuming the universe is sending me love, like a love exchange. With the eggs, I was definitely in a place of love/joy, so I get that, but when I was floating in the pool, it wasn't necessarily love/joy, just sort of calm, content acceptance; but preceded by inner turmoil and discontent. When I went into the inner discontent, I felt sadness because the feelings of joy, oneness, bliss, etc, are so wonderful but they don't last and I was trying to go deeper to see if I could get them to be more sustained. I also feel like I get the ordinariness of it all, that there's not "something" that's going to happen that is going to turn existence into some sustained blissful experience. I think I look to the coincidences as signs from the universe to keep the faith, and the love hearts in particular, to remember what's important? I don't know. i don't know! all i know is that I don't know!!!
but after the eggs, I had to share these pics with you too!
Thanks for listening. I'm thankful every day for the openhand website xo
L
so awesome!!
7 August, 2011 - 23:25 — alohahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
Too perfect...
7 September, 2011 - 06:59 — someone... to be made by a 'human' :')
I can't help but hold the breath.
Unbelievable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjuExoxvxI&feature=related
It is bringing tears of joy to my eyes...
This is just more than words can describe
7 September, 2011 - 19:29 — MenoHeartwarming & truly divine… To me, this is a pure illustration of unconditional love, just when it’s least expected... No more words, see it for yourselves and enjoy the joy, if it does it for you...
Heart warming
8 September, 2011 - 05:04 — Chris BourneThanks for posting Meno.
Heart warming indeed.
Chris
wow
8 September, 2011 - 08:04 — Trinity BourneThat's an amazing story Meno.
Thanks for sharing here.
The sentience of nature is breathtaking...
Trinity
x
A divine gift
16 April, 2012 - 08:51 — someoneThere are inspiring things in this world, things that uplift, that I might resonate with deeply, but once in a while I feel the calling, as if God himself is touching me, or the whole universe is smiling at me and everything else is disappearing. This video made me feel this way, so I share it in this thread, as I feel it is a divine gift, at least to me:
Deeply moving
16 April, 2012 - 09:16 — Chris BourneThanks for sharing - it is deeply moving.
It inspires me to write something about free flowing movement.
Chris
Open hand
16 April, 2012 - 09:21 — someoneHi Chris
Have you noticed it? The open hand...? (Look up)
Formless form
16 April, 2012 - 09:38 — Chris BourneYes - that's what is so inspiring for me. It's the formlessness that comes from form.
Chris
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