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The way of courage

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Did you know that the word courage comes from the Latin word
"cor" which means "heart"?
Very often the word refers to heroism and does not seem to suit us because we do not recognize ourselves in the role of the hero.


To be courageous is to see with our heart, to listen to that little voice that knows what is good for us. Is this the right choice? If I say yes, it is from the bottom of my heart.

The way of the heart is the way of courage, it is to live what comes, it is insecurity, love, trust. Life presents dangers, but we must take risks to move forward.

The mind reasons, analyzes, questions and it is useful but without a little bit of madness we risk to restrict ourselves, to stay in the past, in the known.

                                                                                                                                              - Osho -

 Our attitude towards death

If it has varied throughout history, our attitude towards death has not always been so distant.

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Thus, in the Middle Ages, we experienced a conscious death, preferably in bed (the theme of the deathbed is omnipresent). The dying person is warned that he is going to die and accepts his death; he can thus make his arrangements on all levels, from the most concrete to the most subtle. The end of life gives rise to a ceremonial, codified, in connection with the religious tradition.

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It is a true spiritual preparation that includes several steps: regret for one's life, asking for forgiveness for the evil one has done, recommendation to God of those who survive, prayer (penance) and absolution. This protocol is public: the bed of the dead is surrounded by an often large audience, including children. Death is accepted peacefully, without excessive drama. It is part of life: it is tamed death.

Subsequently, things changed, notably because of the emergence of individualism, which referred death to the failure of man; it gradually became an enemy.

From the XVth-XVIth century, it exerts however a certain fascination; Eros and Thanatos join together... to better sublimate death. A kind of romantic cult that goes crescendo until the XIXth century. Once eroticized, death acquires the status of an object "out of life". If one fantasizes about it, one rejects it in reality.

The XXth century deeply upsets the deal: death becomes taboo.

From the middle of the 19th century, the question of whether it is

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necessary to reveal to the patient the seriousness of his state of health, in order to spare him, but also to spare his entourage, was raised. Death must not interfere in life! It is enslaved (Philippe Ariés - Essays on the history of death in the West, from the Middle Ages to the present day).

From then on, the act of dying is no longer a community matter, nor a matter of prayer: it belongs to the medical world. Denial and medicalization contribute to the fact that people die more and more frequently alone, in the aseptic world of the hospital, without having entrusted their last wishes to their loved ones. These loved ones are often absent from the final moments, because they are not prepared or are too afraid of the end of life. This refusal of death contributes to the current loss of meaning. Without being aware of death, what weight, what content can be given to life?

"When death arrives: an investigation at the border of life Stephane ALLIX and Carine ANSELME" - (Éditions de la Martinière - April 2013 - ISBN 9782732452142)

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What is time?     - "Leave time to time"

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To wait is to let time do its work. Isn't it the worst kind of resignation? No. Because time passing is life looking for a way to sneak in and flow again.

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Biological evolution shows it well: time is nothing else than an immense effort of the life to clear a way between thousand possible deaths: here it is, the life, which raises the matter, obtains from it fins, a skin, wings or petals; here it is which rises in the flower, flies in the bird, palpitates in the heart and the thought of the man.

 

Time is the art of life to constantly invent solutions to the obstacles that arise, in order to obtain from the environment or from the matter of which the bodies are made what will make it grow.

To give time to time is to give life time to emerge.

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- From the book of Martin STEFFENS "La vie en bleu" - (Why life is so beautiful in times of trial) - (Éditions Marabout - 05/02/2014 - ISBN : 2501084454)

 

 

 

 What is being human?
 

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"The word human comes from the Latin "humus" which means
"earth".

To be human is to be neither angel nor beast: feet on the ground always, but to raise the head and look at the sky.

To be human is to be vertical. Such is true "humility," another word derived from "humus": it is to have a sense of heaven, while knowing the earth from which we come."

 
- From Martin STEFFENS' book "Life in Blue" - (Why life is so beautiful in hardship) -