Comments on: Sharing What You Love

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:23:42 +0000

tikno,
Thank you! I like yours too. I think most problems in human relations are caused by each person wanting to feel important and thinking that means being more important than others.

By: tikno

tikno — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:46:37 +0000

Jean,
So beautiful! I noted it in my mind and thank you for sharing.

Jean, when I was teenagers, I likes watching a talk-show “Salam Canda” (difficult to translate, it may be “joke greets”) guided by Ebet Kadarusman. Each end of the show he always say this sentence: “It is nice to be important but… the most important is to be nice”.

Until now I still remembered it clearly and love it. But from now I will add yours.

By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:25:26 +0000

tikno,
Ah, yes:

Stay curious and open to life. No matter what happens learn and grow from it. Find what you love to do and find a way to share it with others.

Thanks for asking.

By: tikno

tikno — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:07:19 +0000

Jean,
By reading to your replies to Rummuser, then, may I know what is the philosophy that you love the most?

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:15:13 +0000

rummuser,
About the Bhagwat Geetha: Yes, I came across that concept when I was looking for my philosophy of life in high school. It was the only approach that made sense to me. Then my task was simply to find what my work in life was. That took a bit longer.

By: rummuser

rummuser — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:17:58 +0000

Jean, you never fail to amaze me with the range of your reading. It is also quite eerie, that we seem to share some reading tastes. I have read Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way too and it is a fascinating one at that.

Bhagwat Geetha, Chapter II verses 47 and 48. Very well known verses say,

Your right is to work only,but never to the fruit thereof, Let not the fruit of action be your object, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

Established in yoga, perform your duty Oh, Dhananjaya, abandoning attachment, being even-minded in success and failure; even-mindedness is called yoga.

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:38:34 +0000

rummuser,
I just listened to the end of her talk. Yep, she’s talking about the age-old wisdom, “Play your part well and let go of the results.” And, implied, “Keep your ego out of it. Just do your job and (my addition) feel privileged to be able to do it.”

As I recall The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron talked about getting your ego out of the way. Our job is to show up and do the work. The results are in the hands of the gods.

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:39:12 +0000

rummuser,
Thanks for the link. I’m now in the process of watching it. It’s clear the problem is worrying about how other people will judge what we create, our letting our egos trip us up. When we take the attitude, “It would be nice to be appreciated, but this is what I was put on earth to do so I’m doing it,” we set ourselves free.

That’s what this post is about, of course.

By: rummuser

rummuser — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:40:38 +0000

Eat Love Pray is a wonderful book. I read it after seeing EG on video at TED. http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

Nineteen minutes of sheer fascination. I strongly recommend it to you and to BHB!

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:25:11 +0000

suzen,
Thank you!