Empathy or sympathy?

What does humanity means, in other words what are we supposed to have to be more human, empathy or sympathy?

In empathy we know every feeling the other person have, his anger, distress, happiness, sadness, ecstasy.......

But we don't connect, we are feeling the same feeling with no opinion, we are imitating his feeling without examining their impact on our behaviour or values, so is imitation a connection?

Absolutely not, imitation is a mirror image of the problem, how that problem affects us or we can change it , that is the connection we can make.

And that takes us to sympathy, it is the connection, we role for the other party's feelings but we don't indulge in them till we lose our whole identity, we connect but we don't lose ourselves in the process, instead we grow, that connection makes us bigger than either of us alone, we become more human. 

Let it go......

Starting with the theme song of frozen isn't exactly what we call spiritual, but still it holds a great meaning to all of us. How many times have you asked yourself, this is of no use or so hurtful so I have to let it go.

Letting something go, meaning you set it free, and in response you will be equally free! 

But when to know it is the time, it is not your responsibility any more, because you are so much in pain or you are so much far away or you so much destroyed. It happens when you feel the burden you carry is not worth the effort. It happens when you are lost in the process of keeping hold of something or someone. It happens when you choke every moment and need the air to breath, then you MUST let it go.

When it is about someone , sometimes you have to let go  as freedom can be the point where you both grow, a relation based on emotional capturing cannot grow. What you have is not true except if you can let go at some point, feelings are not a prison, they are birds with wings that need to fly away sometimes, may be will come back, may be not. But if it does, then it is really there!

Lost

Lost isn't just a title to cool TV show, it the life we lead!

We are always lost in ourselves, lost in what we want , what we have, what we need, what are dreaming of! It is our mission in life to find ourselves from the LOST.

We search and search, we try different roads, meditations, religion, philosophy, music, but do we find who we really are?

Some try it the easy way, go for your goals and never think about anything else, go for the things you want and dont bother understanding who you really are, but in the end are they satisfied? Are they relieved inside by what they have reached or will turn their head the next morning I want another goal to keep me moving or I am still lost?

Things

When all the things you wish are the things that makes you happy as long as you wish for them, then what ? is this the life you desire?

You want a thing and when you get it , you feel that nothing happened inside you , although all what you have figured before is that you will feel ecstatic when you have it, you want another so badly, you think all your problems will be solved once you get it but it does not solve anything,  and what is more , once you have it and then have something else you kind of forget all about it , it is that bad, nothing lasts!

Even what we want does not last in our heads, it vanishes once we find a better object to put our eyes on.

So how to deal with the greed inside you , how to see things as they really are, just things, that is the hard part of our thinking process.

Life of a philosopher

What is the life of the philosopher?

Is it easy to be a thinker , a thought geek by today's language!

Actually we live in a life that is full of things, where things take the upper hand of our life,they constitute the greatest part of life.

We seek not the right or wrong meaning of life but the more expensive more shiny more valued by today's dictionary which is money.

Poor us !!

When we lost the enjoyment of life, we lost what is truely meaningful in life, we lost ourselves to the wheel of fortune!

But where to escape and how, look back in your mind, search deep in your soul for a question , even a simple question , try to find an answer, search for other answers to your question and observe the difference.

Congratulations , you are back to being a human, you have thought, you reached a conclusion, you connected with others to see what their opinion is, and finally you accepted the change!

Try it, it will be your baby steps to the human soul.

Do we understand ourselves?

This question is a bit tricky, do we understand ourselves, do we know where we are headed for, and do we reach that destiny on purpose or just by chance?

As life tries to make us understand, we resist the knowledge!

We are what we are, we never try to change and we try to accomplish all the goals that makes us more stable in the postion we have acqiured , to be nailed down in the ground more and more, flying is not an option to our limited minds. That is why philosophy gives us other ways to open our minds!

Our minds that has been used to the easy way to live, never tries to cross the boundaries that our human race wanted to protect the matter state to its core.

But light of thinking never fades away, it never goes, it is the future of human beings to see the truth, along the ages there has been this beem of light , from socrates to Neitzshe there has always been a different approach to see, they tried to tell us but have we tried to understand?! 

Ghandi

Is Ghandi right or wrong?

Ghandi sent a message to the whole world that you can both have peace and chance to change the world. Of course, you must be first peaceful inside, sure of your way, fighting your own battle in the most subtle way, which doesn't deny you the privilege of being called a fighter!

On the other hand, helping each other is what makes us human, if we forget that we all need one another then we are like one grain of sand by itself, it can't build anything by its own , it can't stand in face of the wind or even be blown, it is simply a grain of sand that no one desires to own, but collectively it builds the mountains, that stands in face of the wind.
History tells us that to change the world around you , you not only have to have new enlightening ideas, but you must also have power. This power could be the power of force, where most of the wars started with, or to have the power of peaceful unity and that is how most of the great ideas make change, by convincing people to unit on and put their full trust in their own need to change.
So the theory of Ghandi is useful but in its own way, it needs a united crowd to make a difference, peaceful yes but also and most importantly a united one (hopefully to the right goal), that is how your fight will be called a fight or a world changer, other than that, just standing by yourself, this is not changing the world, it will be willowing to the more powerful or in the very best standing still!

Spirituality

What do we need from spirituality? do we need to reach our inner self, to know the inside of our hearts or just to have inner peace with everything around us? in a way it is all of that! so we try philosophy, metaphysics, yoga and above all religion. This is what we do consciously to reach the unconscious in ourselves , it is very important to all of us if everything has a meaning behind. In a way it does, life is not a meaningless purposeless thing , or we will all die of boredom! , but that doesn't mean also that everything has a very deep unreachable meaning behind a closed veil. It is all about our perception of the whole picture, some see it full of green some see it full of red, or blue, and very rarely some see ALL these colors at once. What we search is inside our heads and souls , so no matter can solve THIS , it is the mind that always asks and never bothers to make it easy!

So spirituality is a search , for what, simply for something that each one has a different angle to in his own mind-eye, its aim mainly is to find the inner peace by answering that self questioning child inside! Lets dig deep on how great philosophers minds try to form their questions and how they tried to reach an answer for.