Quelques mots de Joe Sanders, George Carlin et Will Smith.

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La vie faisant, et la synchronicité y jouant à nouveau son rôle étonnant, je me suis retrouvé, ces derniers mois, face à la disparition brutale, soudaine, déstabilisante, d'un nombre conséquent de personnes de la même tranche d'âge que moi, voire même plus jeunes. Des êtres humains côtoyés durant de nombreuses années ( plusieurs décades, pour certains ). Ou croisés brièvement à ces carrefours de vie, mais m' ayant marqué sur plusieurs plans.

Tout comme leur fréquentation, brève ou sur le long terme, a impressionné ma vie d'une certaine manière, sinon d'une manière certaine, leur disparition m'a affecté.

Ces derniers temps, à plusieurs occasions, je me suis également retrouvé en une synchronicité  de pensée similaire avec un instructeur australien, lié au système Senshido, Joe Saunders.

http://joe-saunders.com/

Celui-ci  a dernièrement écrit deux sujets sur son site qui expriment, indirectement et au-travers de l'expression d'autres personnes ( George Carlin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin et Will Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith ) des pensées qui, si elles ne sont pas complètement le reflet des miennes dans le détail, néanmoins mettent partiellement des mots sur mes sentiments actuels.

Comme à mon habitude, je vous les livre ici, sans devoir les commenter.

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In a video I saw today on one of my new favourite blogs, Will Smith (yes, the movie star/rapper) had some very profound things to say about success and living a joyful existence. So many pearls of wisdom were contained in the video that I’m certain I could write a year’s worth of blogs just on the ten minutes I watched. However, one of the quotes that stayed with me was this:

“I think that there’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history… you have to believe that something different can happen.”

How many great people, when first presenting their ideas to a friend, spouse, loved one or potential financial backer, have been told that they are delusional? How many have been told that it can’t be done? Before someone tells me that question can’t be answered, I know, it’s rhetorical.

In the same video, Smith mentions that the idea of walking into a building, flicking a switch on the wall and having instant light must have seemed delusional at one stage in our not too distant history. Thomas Edison didn’t think so. Speaking of sitting inside a few hundred tonne of metal and flying across oceans, indeed to the other side of the world, would have been grounds for admission to an asylum (or burning at the stake?) just a few hundred years ago. The Wright Brothers and others disagreed.

Internet? Motorcars? Space travel? Keeping meat preserved and healthy 6 months after the kill? Lunacy at some stage! Hell, not too long ago even the idea of being able to live in the one place without moving with the seasons would have been ridiculous (and maybe still is. )

My point is, if you wish to break the mould, if you want to achieve something that no one else has, you cannot be afraid to be thought crazy. Every great mind at first met resistance before begrudging acceptance and begrudging acceptance before commendation.

Do you have an idea that seems too big? Too insane? Too unlikely? That’s exactly the kind of idea you need to run with. But first, do the following:

Close your eyes.

Visualise it.

See it. Taste it. Smell it. Make it real.

Do you believe it?

Do you love it?

Does it make you tingle?

Are you prepared to risk everything to make this happen?

Would you die for it?

If you can answer those questions affirmatively, then make the decision right here and now that you will make it so. Once the decision has been made, it matters not if you know the details of how to make it happen. Once you believe within your soul that you will make this your reality, nothing will stop you.

But stay focussed. The price of greatness is unwavering commitment, hard work and unshakable passion.

Good luck.

Live vibrantly!

Joe

Joe Saunders - © - 2011

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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. Wetalk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.

We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things. We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less.

We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorces, fancier houses but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.


George Carlin

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A la mémoire de Gégé, Piet, Edwig, Sacha, Bertrand, Marie-Paule, Nico et Thierry.
Vous êtes éternellement dans mes pensées.