Having a sensitive human in your life

Artist Credit : Kat Fedora

We ourselves can be sensitive persons, but we also can have other sensitive beings (animals but also humans) around us. One could say that as a sensitive person, one runs the risk of being ‘injured’ more easily. Being more sensitive can make others see us as weaker and easy prey. In any case we don’t have the ‘luxury’ of avoiding things that matter. Our sensitivity means that we “attract” everything and that those things “touch” us. We are by nature, compassionate.
Our sensitivity is our vitality, our flexibility, but also our engagement, our passion and our inspiration. But our sensitivity regularly also brings with it anxiety and fear, which we are supposed to overcome.

However, we should be strong and use our sensitivity as a good virtue, giving our empathy the power to help and assist others where necessary.

If you have a sensitive human in your life…

Image source: Serendipity Corner

Everyone has at least a little, at least the potential of sensitivity inside .
Don’t let anyone put you down when they don’t like the way their own sensitivity is reflected in you.

Learn as much about your sensitivity as you can .
It is a beautiful gift and deserves honing and compassion … {Caroline Van Kimmenade}

Learn to leave the leeches behind

People who take the blood from under your nails

Throughout your life,
there will be people who take the blood from under your nails
and treat you disrespectfully.
Learn to leave them behind.
Prevent them from pulling all the energy out of you
and hardening your heart.

 

Feeling appreciated

Someone who feels appreciated
will do their best.

 

Getting more tolerant

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all get a little more tolerant.
More understanding, more respect, more love.

 

The best gift anyone could give is their time

Daily Prompt 2/18/24

Song of your heart

 

A friend is
someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it to you
if you have forgotten those words.

Making our stories and our lives by living them

We all make our stories and our lives
by living them,
by what and by whom we agree
or refuse to trust,
to hope for,
and to work for.

 

Judging or understanding

Text and image source: Serendipity Corner – Artist Credit : FrancesArt

It’s easy to judge. It’s more difficult to understand.

Saying #NoToHate

Hate speech and disinformation can spread quickly,
both online & offline.
We all have a part to play in stopping it in its tracks.
Amplify facts,
call out mis- and disinformation,
and educate yourself & others to say
#NoToHate.

https://un.org/en/hate-speech

 

Don’t forget that you are important

Don’t forget that you are important.
Let your thoughts and actions be sensitive
and do make sense.
You are beautiful and worth all love.
Be aware of it:
You matter.

 

Continuing Bloodshed

In a world where very many are celebrating today, claiming to carry peace high in their hearts, many continue to watch uninterrupted as fighting goes on in many parts of the world and a lot of people go hungry and thirsty while reeling under the ongoing violence.

035.044 أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الأرْضِ فَيَنْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَكَانُوا أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعْجِزَهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَلا فِي الأرْضِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَلِيمًا قَدِيرًا

035.044 Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the End of those before them,- though they were superior to them in strength? Nor is Allah to be frustrated by anything whatever in the heavens or on earth: for He is All-Knowing. All-Powerful.

Al-Qur’an, 035.044 (Fatir [The Angels, Originator])

A world of no mercy🛣️

Culture clash between Baby Boomers and Gen Z

For the first time, five generations are working together and leaders don’t know what to do about it. While older men are being given lessons on how to have a conversation with their younger peers, those at the start of their careers are pushing back on what they perceive to be a bizarre and claustrophobic corporate world.

The sensibilities of old and young workers are so stark that businesses are turning to so-called generational consultants for advice.

The real problem is that nobody is listening to each other. The concerns of younger workers are often grouped under the catch-all term “woke” and dismissed out of hand. Elon Musk typifies that attitude with his habit of dismissing anything he doesn’t particularly like the sound of as being part of what he calls a “woke mind virus”.

There’s no question that generational diversity is a great strength to any business, but too much is currently being lost in translation.

Find more about it:

A corporate culture clash means that Baby Boomers and Gen Z struggle to communicate at work, writes Lucy Burton

Man lives in some wrong, mistaken way…

* “….. Man lives in some wrong, mistaken way-the real joy of life must be to dwell on earth like a ray of light, warming and fructifying all things …

Man lives in some wrong, mistaken way…

Lots of people have chosen to live the way they want to live, without giving to much attention to others around them. Their selfishness has made them not to worry about mother earth, and lets them be deaf for the cries of that earth in need.

Lots of people do think they have an other opportunity to make the best of their life, in an afterlife. They ignore the writings of the men of God, who did their best to warn mankind for their position and limited time.

The Bible makes it clear

“It is here and now we have to make it!”

We are having only one life. We are born, and then we can use the given time as good as we can. But at a certain point, we shall have to face death in the eyes. When we die, everything shall be over and out for us. We shall not be able to do anything. Life shall leave us, leaving our bodies to deteriorate and become dust.

In death, no way to act or think anymore, we are just like dead animals, having come to our end, to deteriorate or by decay ending up in dust.

Shall you prepare some special meals the coming days

Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

Lots of people shall have a good reason to prepare some special meals for the coming holidays.

I don’t mind having some special food for these days. I am blessed with a fantastic woman, who does not mind preparing some special dishes. I myself also shall spend some extra time together with her in the kitchen to make something special for our guests, but also for us both, just two of us enjoying a glorious meal between us both.

I do hope you shall not have to sit on your own, or have to feel like on a desert island.

Shall you have something special for Hanukkah, Christmas or Old Year’s Eve?

Family meals time for warmth of togetherness

In Ukraine, in our family, it was the custom to gather at least once a day all together round the table. On the sabbath, each meal was a sacred moment of togetherness.

Sitting around the table with all the family was considered something sacrilege. It was also the time we took for each other to listen to each other and to talk about what happened to each other during the day. Family meals emerged as

the vibrant threads that weave generations together. {Family Meals | Family’s Meals that Define Togetherness}

During the moments of eating together, we were willing to feel each other’s heartbeat and support each other in every less pleasant event of the day, while we tried to pass on the fire of life to each other. In the end, we certainly did not forget that spiritual food gives the greatest added value to life.

The Technical Project Manager Joe who is an avid explorer of all things beautiful, inspiring, and delicious, his greatest passions are writing about personal development, international university education, travel, and food. At his “Joe talks” he seems to like Indian food. He writes

As we delve into the heart of family traditions, we uncover the flavours, stories, and laughter that define these cherished gatherings, transforming a simple meal into a profound celebration of connection. {Family Meals | Family’s Meals that Define Togetherness}

Come here, in the West side of the European mainland, I see and hear from many children and families where there is no sense of togetherness to sit around the table together. Parents and children often eat separately and while they are glued to the television screen. No wonder I meet so many divorced families here. Even though we had much less than they have here in the rich west, we were much happier than most people here, who have much more than we ever dreamed of.

They seem to have forgotten the real values of life and how

Family meals transcend the act of eating; they encapsulate the essence of shared experiences around the table. These moments become the cornerstone of familial bonds, from the meal’s preparation to the shared laughter over dinner. {Family Meals | Family’s Meals that Define Togetherness}

Cooking together takes place here in a few families, but it is not exactly a daily or very regular occurrence. Perhaps they would better go back to that time when time was allocated for cooking together.

Startling statistics reveal that men experience kitchen anxiety, leading them to shy away from the culinary world.{From Panic to Passion: Unleashing Your Inner Chef}

Today people hear more from children who have found joy in cooking and are very happy to prepare something for the family or others. That promises to the future, if they, in turn, will pass on that taste for cooking to their children. Perhaps by those kids this world can come back to the time that

The dinner table transforms into a sanctuary where relationships are nurtured, stories are shared, and the warmth of togetherness is savoured. It’s a space where family members connect on a deeper level, creating a reservoir of memories that stand the test of time. {Family Meals | Family’s Meals that Define Togetherness}

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Family Meals | Family’s Meals that Define Togetherness

War and peace, are still a problem in our world

Even though we have been spared from wars in our own areas for several years already now, we still see many war zones around us.

Artist: Gaelle Boissonnard, France

Sunday reflection . . . And it will be our love…

Necessity to be cheerful to help yourself and others

Around Thanksgiving Day, in addition to showing gratitude,
it is not bad to take a moment to focus on the need to be cheerful and positive thinking.

At our other website which you also might not forget to visit now and then, we started also looking back at 2023.
Each time, we will highlight some highlights or happenings, or bring up a few things that may have escaped your notice and had not yet been mentioned on that site.

Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

Our chief preacher, Marcus Ampe, (during the course of this year, before his heart attack) emphasised how we need to ensure that we strengthen ourselves spiritually to keep us healthy and to energetically stimulate others as well.

He stressed that the inner man, the wellbeing of our soul, is the most important thing to help us and others move forward in life.
In these times of a shortage of real conversations, as everything is done fleetingly through social media, our society, according to him, lacks self-confidence and a healthy state of mind.

“The surest sign of wisdom is a constant cheerfulness,”

wrote the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne in the 16th century.

According to Mr Ampe, in the long run, we should ignore people who influence us badly and focus more on positive impulses we can get in life.

He also said there is no point if we are too preoccupied with the things that go wrong in our lives. We need to learn to worry less about all the things we see going wrong around us.

“Be cheerful,”

commands the fictional character and the protagonist (Prospero) of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest – arguably the wisest of all of Shakepeare’s characters – in The Tempest. Yet the impact of cheerfulness – and the power it gives us to get through difficult moments in our lives – is hard to define and easy to disregard or dismiss, even as we strive to be happy.

Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in his behaviour and makes that person have or express a buoyant or self-confident air. With good humour we should try to spread God’s Word which is a message of joy and gladness, bringing the Good News of better times to come.

The ITMA cast at rehearsal during a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, January 1944

Marcus Ampe also warns us, that we need to prepare spiritually for much more difficult times ahead. To get through those terrible times, we must have a sound mind that will not let itself be dragged into the depths by what is happening around us. He reminded us of the BBC’s wartime radio comedy It’s That Man Again – or ITMA – that kept British peckers up during the blitz. It was a morale-boosting cavalcade of wacky characters, cheeky catchphrases and proto-Goon sound effects, in which the recurrent character depressed charlady Mona Lott, played by Joan Harben, in the 1929–1949 BBC Radio series would drone the latest awful thing that had happened to her and then hit you with the devastatingly deadpan punchline:

“It’s being so cheerful that keeps me going.”

Let us not forget

“Saint Paul had pointed to cheerfulness as the mediating affect that defines our relationship to the mystical body of Christ in the community of the new church”.

It is a learned discipline, to be taken perfectly seriously as something that promotes social cohesiveness and personal humility. He finds Friedrich Nietzsche to be a key figure in the history of modern cheerfulness. While not obviously Mr Cheerful, the philosopher was someone who rejected the idea of it as mere placid wellbeing.

Marcus Ampe is totally aware that it is not, or will not always be easy, to be ‘cheerful’ or to be friendly and receptive to everyone. It is something we shall have to learn and work on.

We should also remember that our face speaks volumes and no false facade should appear on it. As followers of Christ, we should always be honest and our faith in the future should radiate through our attitude. Even though we may be handicapped or in great pain, we should make the best of ourselves and always remain open to the pains and complaints of others, whom we should then relieve and give hope.

Cheers is also about a community spirit, or a kind of moral hospitality, a rejection of self-indulgence and a prioritising of the general mood.

“Cheerfulness is a psychological and emotional resource, a way of approaching actions and situations,”

says Timothy Hampton, a professor in the department of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

“I can say hello to you – but I can also say hello to you cheerfully. It’s not part of the saying ‘hello’, it’s some kind of colouring of what I am saying.”

And what we are saying and what we are doing as Christians is very important. We should be an example to others. An example of good spirit. According to Hampton, for whom getting through the day was very difficult is cheerfulness a resource

– you can make it, manage it and put it into action.
And that seemed to me to be a really precious and interesting thing that we don’t think about as much as we should.”

he says.

> Read more about it:

Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

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Related

1. Something to Remember
2. Accepting the gift of God’s peace
3. Loving others when you don’t feel like it
4. Laugh Often
5. “Janice’s Attic: Giving Thanks” (Episode 4)
6. Unhappy with Life? Thankfulness Produces Joy!
7. Thought For The Day: Feb. 5, 2018 “Being Cheerful”
8. Reasons to be or not to be cheerful, or not. Or something.

De geest wordt niet zwak, maar het instrument verslijt – The mind does not become weak, but the instrument wears out

Erg genoeg kunnen wij bepaalde processen in het leven van de mens niet tegenhouden.

Het is heel mooi wanneer wij de pasgeborene de eerste geluidjes en bewegingen zien maken. De eerste stappen mogen ons ontroeren. Trots mogen wij zijn op die eerste verwezenlijkingen van die oh zo jonge mens.

De mens groeit op en wordt wijzer, steeds meer vaardiger om zich uit te drukken en uit de slag te trekken.

De wereld begint te vertragen nu de winter nadert en we hebben deze gelegenheid om dankbaar te zijn.

We hebben de tijd om de heiligheid van het leven te eren, tijd om blij te zijn met ons verleden en hoopvol voor onze toekomst, tijd om blij te zijn met de mensen in ons leven en tijd om eerlijk en oprecht te zijn in alle dingen ❤

Het komt zelfs zo ver dat niet enkel het lichaam de jaren begint te vertonen, maar dat ook de hersenen niet meer mee willen, zoals vroeger.

Met de jaren zou men denken, komt de wijsheid en kunde, maar ook begint men de weerslag te zien van meerdere tegenslagen en ziekten. Na een tijd kan men het verouderende lichaam zien.

Men gaat zich afragen hoe het gesteld is met de geest van die ‘bejaarde’.

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Bad enough, we cannot stop certain processes in human life.

It is very beautiful when we see the newborn making its first sounds and movements. The first steps may move us. We can be proud of those first achievements of that oh so young human being.

Man grows up and becomes wiser, more and more skilled at expressing himself and getting out of the way.

The world begins to slow down as winter approaches and we have this opportunity to be thankful. 

We have the time to honour the sacredness of life, time to be happy with our past and hopeful for our future, time to be joyous with the people in our life, and time to be honest and truthful in all things ❤

Rudolf Steiner said:

As people grow older, they do not become weak or even feeble-minded, but they become more spiritual (German: geistig-seelischer). Only then the body is worn out and one cannot bring the spiritual-psychic, which one has formed, to revelation through the body.
This is similar to a pianist, who could become an ever better player; however, if the piano is worn out, one cannot notice anything. If you want to know his abilities as a pianist only from his piano playing, however, the piano is out of tune and has broken strings, you will not be able to tell much from his playing.

Thus, Kant, when he was an old man and feeble-minded, became, for the spiritual world, not feeble-minded but great (German: glorios) {Rudolf Steiner – GA 181 – Erdensterben und Weltenleben – Berlijn, 2 april 1918 (bladzijde 185)}

Als de mensen ouder worden, worden ze niet zwak of zelfs zwakzinnig, maar ze worden geestelijker (Duits: geistig-seelischer). Alleen is dan het …

De geest wordt niet zwak, maar het instrument verslijt

Conversation starters or Talking points from this week’s news

Dear readers,

We would like to remind you that we provide a News site, where you are presented with a free view on important news facts and religious topics.

Apart from the general news of the day, we bring political and social news there, but are also not shy about how wretchedly bad things are with our natural environment and what we can do about it. But on the religious front (be it Christian, Jewish, Islamic, or other), things are not going so well in this world and it is also necessary to turn an open eye to that now and then.

Our own existence is very important and, in doing so, we have to take into account not only our environment but also our own body, its needs and how to nourish it physically and mentally. This is what we try to pay attention to regularly in “Some View on the World“, as we also try to do here.

We are convinced that “Some Look at the World” can offer you and people around you some food for thought and topics for discussion on a daily basis.

For example, we propose topics such as these:sujets de discussion

Make meals and car rides more engaging when you toss out one of these questions to family members.

1. The American Ornithological Society (AOS) has announced that it will rename all birds that are named after people. The change is being made to ensure that names of people who engaged in discrimination are not attached to the birds. Ultimately, the AOS plans to change the names of 263 birds. What do you think about this decision and why?

2. Your family may have special traditions, especially now as the holidays approach. Whether it’s making cookies, walking around the neighbourhood to enjoy colourful lights, or watching a favourite holiday movie, these traditions can help you feel closer to the people you love. What are some of your favourite family traditions, and what new ones would you like to create? 

3. Earlier this year, the US Senate relaxed its dress code—then reversed the decision days later. That got a lot of people talking. Some say it’s fine to dress down, even at work or in other formal situations, while others say that’s not a good look. What do you think? Has casual dressing gone too far?

Or find messages to think and talk about, like:

1. Messages leading to an earthly utopia
2. Leaving their land the death of their cause
3. Want to make a difference on air pollution? Cut down on your meat and dairy
4. Melting ice, species going extinct, cow dung zero waste and
5. A lightning bolt through your brain
6. Smog in New Delhi, elimination of hepatitis C, global tuberculosis rates & Gaza’s hospitals
7. Anglo-Saxon era church bringing the church into disrepute
8. Reasons why Christianity is declining rapidly in America
9. The countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian
10. How Evangelicals betray Christians in the Holy Land
11. Hamas opened the gates of hell on the Gaza Strip
12. A world needing more time

and many other articles of interest

As we may find you here, we also hope to find you on Some View on the World. You might find it quite wise to subscribe there too so that you will be automatically notified every time a new article appears.

 

Don’t forget our overview of daily facts

Not closing ourselves off to what is going on in the world

For those who would not yet know or have forgotten, we would like to remind you that we provide a daily summary of daily facts on our news site: Some View on the World.

A lot of people are preoccupied daily with their obligations to provide sufficient income. As a result, they may not even get sufficiently informed about what is happening on a global scale during the day. When they return home in the evening, they are often too tired to watch news broadcasts and insight programmes or current affairs (news format).

Did you know that Marcus Ampe has created a site, especially for this purpose, which gives a regular overview of what is happening in the world and how we can view it? His intention was to allow several voices to speak, even if they might even contradict themselves in certain circumstances. But according to Marcus Ampe, it should be possible to juxtapose different opinions and give the reader a chance to choose which side of the story he prefers and which he also wants to delve further into.

Being able to follow the important news of the day on a daily basis is not obvious, completely free Some View on the World provides that option.

We would like to invite you to take a look. We would appreciate it even more if you would also register to be kept informed of new publications.

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Find to read:

1. Journal for you
2. Aims
3. My faith and hope
4. Independence
5. Weekly World Watch (WWW) looking at a few key developments that have happened during the past week
6. Presenting views from different sources
7. Journo tips: Newsgathering
8. Written-down thoughts
9. Not enough time to keep pace with writing for different websites
10. The Media and Democracy
11. Regarding guest writers

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“Our World” Moving from Blogspot to WordPress

Invitation to the news platform that brings a view of the world