DISCOVERY

   I like when I discover that I have no control over something, when I find out that I don’t control certain issue, when I realize that I don’t determine my feelings, when I recognize that my arguments are not as consistent as I thought, when I feel discomfort over somebody or in some place, when something positively opposes against myself, when I certify my inferiority over someone, when I assume my intelligence doesn’t reach some idea, when I feel impotent over sickness, when strength fails me to conquer an obstacle, when I’m deprecated being the most able, when everything seems to conspire against me, when I see myself in plain inadequacy, when I retract myself over the inevitable, when my freedom is curtailed, when my idea is stolen, when I lose in competition, when my limitations prevent me of winning e, mainly, when my huge shadow appears. I like it because I can say out loud: I’m a human being and I have all overcoming possibilities, resilience and self-determination.

Translation and picture choice by Flau Fontenelle.

ELECTIONS

   The voting day is, really, a big party. Party for Democracy and the opportunity to make choices, even if it’s in the dark. People vote, but don’t know the future performance of the chosen candidates. Promises, expectations and competition are the tone of all period before the plea. All in the name of political management of the country. Even if abuses, irregularities and injustice occurs, the elections end by leveling the people. The richer’s vote weights the same as the poor’s vote. Equality is uncontestable. This represents the right of choosing and freedom’s manifestation. Spiritually, one sees it as free-will and the consciousness of participating of collective destiny. We still don’t have a system for choosing governors and administrators of the “public thing” that put the best and more capable to manage society in favor of all. This will happen in a way that each citizen thinks and yearns the best for everyone. As a last analysis, when selfishness succumbs to love. Love is the moving force of the Universe and the deepest feeling that exists in the human soul.

Translation and picture choice by Flau Fontenelle.

JOURNEY

   Human beings are the same spirit that is, for millenniums, trying to find itself. Their glance isn’t complete yet. Their instrument for that, the ego, isn’t totally mature yet. Many factors interfere in their perception. They haven’t yet learned that they don’t need to see everything, but just the essential. They must understand that, to know things, they need to turn around themselves, looking for their own inner world. They don’t realize, in their momentary blindness, that God has hidden in their unconsciousness. They accumulate many things in their selfishness and pride in excess. There will come a time when they’ll be ready to find and perceive divinity. One day, free from their own fears and prejudices, weaved by ignorance related to divinity and themselves, they’ll reach the freedom of thinking a Personal Religion. The path will be long, bit extremely valuable for them. When, then, they initiate their experience through Personal Religion, they will suffer setbacks by the traps they created themselves, fearful of losing themselves in the complex labyrinths of their religious psyche. And these setbacks will happen mainly by the childish desire of saving themselves from something they had as tragedy. Unconsciously, they believe that a big danger or threat and that it will take them to be banished again. They fear what they’ve built themselves. Their mind is still structured on the GoodxBad dialectics. They fear the divinity abandonment, like a child clutch to its mother, fearing to lose her.

MYTH AND PSYCHE

   Myth is a psychic construction favorable to maintenance of balance and consciousness. Without it, human beings would be at the mercy of the dangers of their own unconsciousness. It’s automatically forged to maintain the relation between consciousness and unconsciousness. The first myths that appeared to consciousness were words or verbal expressions that, lately were transformed to signs. Afterwards, appeared the cosmogonic myths and those that tried to explain human behavior. Within all myths, those which represented religious aspects of the human psyche are, in fact, the forgers of collective religions. Many are still alive, and others were dissolved by the appropriate comprehension of their meanings. Myths are born and die, day by day. Its roots are found in mystery, in the complexity and in the depths of human psychism. Some religious dogma point, directly, to them. They are indecipherable as it is the nature pf God.

Translation and picture choice by Flau Fontenelle.

I WANT A RELIGION

   I want a religion that doesn’t forbid me, but that teaches me; that doesn’t incriminate me, but offers me solutions; that doesn’t repress me, but that teaches me to find better means of expression; that doesn’t condemn me, but that offers me an adequate sense of justice; that doesn’t abash me, but that puts me close to the Creator of Life. I want a religion that let me smile on Sunday mornings, allowing my prayer to be the look for nature. I want a religion that, on the darkest day of my living, from it I don’t remember when feeling afraid and, on it, don’t shelter myself like a child in infant consolations. I want a religion that motivates me to offer roses to the sick and to bring happiness to burials, and to cry only when knowing the pain was understood and that the dead is alive and well. I want a religion that guides me to revere innocence and applaud standing those that respect the wisdom of the elderly. I want a religion that I can find with whomever I am, wherever I go, even in the heart of those who hurt and scream, imagining they’re right. I want a religion that shelters those who take the risk of living and bless those who are lost in the dark labyrinths of their own ignorance. I want a religion that can be felt in compassion, be it with the abundance of the thriftless or with the misery of the seemly incapable, not lacking me the needed solidarity. I want a religion that makes me feel like brother to those who displeases or takes my hope away, also to those who revere me, innocently. I want a religion that takes away the veil of my blindness without taking away my whole ignorance, teaching me to the continuity of learning. I want a religion that doesn’t exclude or stigmatize any creature, nor creates castes of elected or saved by the adoption of logical principles. I want a religion in which chants and liturgy include the voice of the soul and the pulse of hearts, for one day, when I don’t need anything else, I find myself.

Translation and picture choice by Flau Fontenelle.

ANOTHER SHORE

   Everyone wants to go to the other side of the river. Cross obstacles, delve frontiers, meet the unknown, surpass limits, commit some hybris. This is the reason for progress, ‘cause it’s born from the desire of leaving merely human condition and transcend to the divine. Everyone wants to go further, reaching the frontiers of knowledge, not satisfying oneself with the obvious or what settles the mind. Take off towards what has been forbidden to humans, from what wasn’t allowed by God, paradoxically, must be everyone’s desire. Psychic limits are invitations to growth. Who thought in paradise, with pre-established rules, there, for humans to live indefinitely, forgot the intelligence and loveliness of the Creator, ‘cause Himself provided the arouse of opposites, to urge humans to integrate them. The whole sea must be delved, all pain must be eliminated, all space must be conquered, the whole horizon must be surpassed, all ignorance must be overcome, all life must be lived with love. On the other shore will always have an opposite.

Translation and picture choice by Flau Fontenelle.

ANGUISH OF THE SOUL

   Anguish is the symptom to indicate that the heart wants to speak, but there’s no language capable of translating it. It’s the heaviness of the soul that feels end that needs to be eased. It’s the pain of existing not handling to stand the lack of some undefined thing and that completes one’s craving of life’s desire of expressing itself. It’s an illness that stifles within, sucking its living energy and acting as a free and self-determined form. It is compared to missing someone that you love too much and can’t stand anymore. Its cure becomes possible in the connection reached with the sacred, that permeates and completes everything, making possible a sweet and mysterious encounter with the Creator. Only, as a matter of fact, love is capable of easing the anguish of the soul, raising it to the most reachable feeling to human being. To love; to love always and never letting anything prevent your expression. When love is present in the human heart, nothing can be reprehensible or discriminated. Love is the propulsion of the Universe. Let’s always love.

Translation and picture by Flau Fontenelle.