being…

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a human being.

Cogito ergo sum?

Do you ever wonder about your soul? What it is? Where it is? Why it is?

Descartes said that I think and thus I am. But this is not, it cannot be the trademark quality, characteristic of a human being.

Each soul is here, to experience. Each soul, like my soul is here to go through, to feel through a certain experience.

What is my soul? Where is it?

The soul is not a substance – it cannot be named and it cannot be located. But when you feel a battle inside you; when you feel you don’t live up to what you once wanted, still want, can, should live – then you feel your soul. It is in these moments that human beings are in touch, literally in touch with their souls. And yet, just as we are not aware of everything we touch during a day, we don’t become aware of this moment when our souls vibrated.

We have to answer a call, click on a link, buy milk, concentrate on the traffic lights, argue with others, earn money, spend money, relax from doing all that…

But there are those battles, reminding us of the times when we were kids, when we were late because we were immersed in the football game we played, in the horse riding, in watching butterflies, in painting something, anything.

Who is winning the battles inside you? The complex life with its screaming commercials and alarming rush all around or the silent soul, somewhere?

I have heard the sound of a battle inside me. And this time I had time to listen to it. I listened – ears turned inwards. And what I heard was music…

Ich höre, also bin ich…

things you HAVE to do…

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for a better world;

or: less normative – for survival;

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

“Look around you. Get involved.”

If you want to lose weight, there are a few things you HAVE to do. Just like there are a few things you HAVE to do, if you want to get clean; or if you want to feel well fed;

There are a few things you HAVE to do, if you want to have and keep a job; or if you want to have friends; There are a few things you have to do, if you want to be part of a team; or of a society.

Now it is outright obvious that along this reasoning the things you “have” to do become increasingly disputeable.

But when we talk about something like being a democratic citizen, one cannot say: you HAVE to do… When we talk about decreasing/ stopping (depends on you) climate change, one cannot tell: you HAVE to do…

Why is it like that?

You HAVE to watch that video =))

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

You have to get involved. As I wrote before: “you are a part of it… so get to the heart of it…”

still standing, always standing, forever standing…

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Invincible

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley