“The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of nonbeing,
cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.”
– Paul Tillich ‘
“The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of nonbeing,
cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.”
– Paul Tillich ‘
Existence is primarily the problem of either being, having a mode of being, or not able to be. When looking at it, it is also particular and individual— always my existence, your existence, his existence, her existence, but also bounded in time, because one moment a person can be and another moment in time he or she can not be any more.
In these days of lockdown because of CoViD-19 we notice too many people who worry too much about their existence and about the future, as if the present quarantine measures would be able to “kill” them, instead of making use of the now given free time to make something special for themselves.
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To remember
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
–Jean-Paul Sartre
- “existential” = loaded + defined = “relating to human existence” or, more broadly, “the analysis of existence + ways humans find themselves existing in the world.”
- “ergonomics” = not well understood => application of psychological + physiological principles to engineering + design of products, processes, + systems.
- philosophy of existentialism = concerned with finding one’s self + meaning of life through free will, choice, + personal responsibility.
- ultimate goal of ergonomics = reduce human error, increase productivity, enhance safety, + boost comfort (specific focus on interaction between human + product or system).
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Preceding
There can only be hope when there is a will to be and say “I am”
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Additional reading
- Wisdom Quote #21…..seeking within with Carl Jung!
- Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
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- Persistent Focus
- Pie in the Sky
- Teasing it Out
- Foothold Found
- Yes for the U-Turn
- Teachings Of A Crisis (II)
- Forever would not have been enough
- History in The Seventh Seal: Why historical accuracy doesn’t always matter
- Lyin’ to Yourself
- South Korea is asking residents to remain isolated. The U.S. military reports new cases of coronaviruses
- COVID-19: Social media overrun by DIY standing desks during lockdown (The Hindu)
- Setting up the home office: Ergonomics in the time of Corona
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
–Jean-Paul Sartre
What if we could wrestle down life’s big questions using the scientific method? What if we could systematically improve human thoughts, actions, and environments in a way that shapes personal meaning and significance? Existential ergonomics is my attempt to explore just that.
The word “existential” is loaded, and “ergonomics” is not well understood, so I’ll offer some perspective.
Existential is defined as “relating to human existence” or, more broadly, “the analysis of existence and the ways humans find themselves existing in the world.” The philosophy of existentialism is concerned with finding one’s self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility.
Ergonomics, on the other hand, is the application of psychological and physiological principles to…
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We had a look at Susan Billmaier her views on the turbulence of life, and the transformation of the self.
At her blog SusanWithPearls – Living Life. Learning to do that better. Sharing it here.- she often wonders how we know ourselves and how we do get at what is inside.
Lots of people question their own self and look for way to have a good life. For years they try out several things. Most often they go looking for
The self that… is a deeper self, some say a “higher self”, some say a “Christ self”, or the “Buddha/enlightened self”, in some Native cultures it is called, simply, “beauty”. {Knowing your Self is more than knowing the size of your stomach.}
She writes
Whatever it is– the moral self, the good will– I am not too particular about the label, or the words– it is simply the best that a person can find within themselves and everyone has it…whether they know it or not. {Knowing your Self is more than knowing the size of your stomach.}
She also knows that man has to come to a point where the individual comes to see that it has its own value and its own reason to be, demanding to take personal action and own personal focus on personal awareness.
My own Loving Presence is my Self. I turn my attention inward and become aware of my own Loving Presence. With my focused awareness, my own Loving Presence fills me, grows brighter, and grows warmer. {Claim only the Self that you love. A Journey of Purpose: Day 32}
Being faced with the self one may not loose that self nor the faith in the self. Being confronted with the surroundings one need also to be willing to go into confrontation with it and with the inner thoughts, at the same time willing to perceive the necessary changes to be taken or the changes going on around the self.
as a guiding thought can be notated
Accept your light and your lightness! Feel your Self expand! As you perceive change around you, remain anchored in your Being of Light. Allow yourself to sit peacefully in the still place of nothingness as life moves quickly around you. {Arguing with myself and losing: Journey of Courage 2017 – Day 19}
Too many people do forget that we are here on this earth because we are allowed to be here by the Most High Divine Creator. Many do not want to know about that Omnipotent, Omniscient, Powerful Eternal Divine Source of all life, existence and knowledge, but also of peace and joy Though daily they are confronted with “Existence” that surrounds them.
In ““Self Fulfilled”: Journey of Fulfillment 2.0 – Day 05” Susan Billmaier looks at the guiding thought
In Divine Mind, I am filled full! All are equally filled full. All are equal in Love. I fill my mind with thoughts of fulfillment and remember what I already know. I am determined to fulfill my purpose, to know my Self as Divine Love, and to share the fullness I am.{“Self Fulfilled”: Journey of Fulfillment 2.0 – Day 05}
For her “Guiding Thoughts”
acts like a guided visualization and I see/experience the words. There are days when reading the Guiding Thought seems to open a channel within me and I can feel energy within me moving in a new or different way. {“My Self Has My Back, Now if It Would Scratch…”: Journey of Abundance 2.0 – Day 33}
We can only ascertain that lots of people are afraid of looking at them self in the light of a Higher Being that would be Master over them and would be responsible for their being. We can enact that it is difficult for man to accept that there is a Higher Being Mightier than them and giving them all what the can see around them. That High Being wants us to come into a good relationship with our self, with others around us and with Him. He wants us to get filled with that what made Him create us in the first place. Even when the first man rebelled it was His love for man that made He wanted to allow them to take care of themselves and to find solutions for themselves, but providing also The solution to bring an end to their agony, suffering and continues wandering. Also that foreseen solution, the sent one from God, the Messiah, God His own begotten beloved son shared that love of God with mankind and gave his life for all. Like that man of flesh and blood did not want to do his own will, but only did the Will of God, we too should come to a point where we want to do the Will of God and share His love with others. Only that way we can come to fill our mind and heart with love, aligning with the Light of Truth. Steadfast and focused on our own Loving Presence, than we shall be able to live in the peace of fulfilment of our own Divine Identity.
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Preceding
Transformation is easy, when you step into something that already IS.
In the turbulence of life, listen and wait.
How to Live Beyond the Ordinary
Learning that stuff is just stuff
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I do hope the author of the nice blog Reflections on Existence does not mind having my mind having gone wild by the dramatic photo on her site, bringing up a lot of thoughts in my whirling head. Often having to go over the edge, seeing many people not knowing where to jump over the stones lying on their path to somewhere in the future, I wondered.
Many may
skip and plummet into the void
Chasing the edge of an
Our lives are not agonizingly static, stationary bike
Tires ceaselessly, maddeningly, spinning
Going nowhere. {When Words Fail}
Many roads in this world may be full of pitfalls and weeds growing everywhere. It looks like many do not want to go in the woods any more because it looking to dark for them and to much overgrown.
People have become afraid of taking risks or to show their inner being, letting know others what they really think or how they really feel. Lots of people do think they have to go with the mainstream and have to be popular, following the popularism of the present society where some politicians try to bring fear over the population, to enlarge their power and to exclude others to enjoy some of the welfare they might have.
Instead of trying to build up their own strongly funded future, many do hope others can do such building for them. Though those do not create the good pastures and many of those politicians have planted harmful weeds in the fields, infecting the wild and domestic horses. As such them jumping over the wild waters will not always bring them in the safe fields or bring them to good grassland.
Let us hope more people will have their eyes opened, not blinded by the low hanging sun of misleading politicians. That they take the risk jumping over the wild streams, daring to hang over the now and then, the between here and there containing all the risk
man could ever bear but has to do it for his own security and better life.
It is in the silent breaths between the lines we craft,
The mysterious space where words fail,
That our deepest truths are told, {When Words Fail}
that we may recover our deepest self and become pure again by a brighter light than the human being ever can present, making the grass grow and giving oxygen to the world, us being free again to run wild and to enjoy the life Allah has in mind for us, where all overs of God can be together in peaceful surroundings, giving each-other energy and hope to continue spreading the Good News of a coming Kingdom that shall be better than any human kingdom or republic.
Let us therefore look for words that may bring our heart to life, stirring our depths, carrying on the whisper of our clean breath. {read: Bread}
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- Fishing
- This World, A Seat
- Emotions
- Bits n pieces
- Passing time.
- Lazy Eyes
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- A Very Thin Line: A Poem
- Worlds Between
- Look Around
- My Well
- Why Are We Here?
- The miracle of being able to experience an abandoned celebration of victory, before it exists in the physical world…
- The Unseen Chains / Comfortless
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- Seeking Relief
The road that once used to be grey
Now glowed in its chilly white
As I ambled ahead on the snowy evening
My engraved footsteps, were left behind
All that it took
Was a gust of wind
To blow them off, erase my trace
Seeming so, they had ever existed
And then I wondered,
is that how little I mean
In this world so huge,
With all that I’ve never seen
So small, yet ours truly prideful
Existence, that we cherish so much
So lets better make it worthwhile!
– Divisha Rastogi 🙂
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In life we do have to relate in first instance to our self, next to the creation, and then last but not least to the Creator Himself.
An “I-Thou” relation with understanding of past, present and future, is essential to build up something positively constructive.
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To remember
- Martin Buber (I and Thou, 1923)
- Humanist variant of/alternative to existentialism: Relationship precedes essence.
- Identity = by-product of “I-Thou” relation
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Preceding article: Curious creature or Positivist man
Next: Sacred formula of positivism
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The way I read the Jewish theologian, Martin Buber (I and Thou, 1923), he offers a humanist variant of/alternative to existentialism. Where Sartre might say, “Existence precedes essence,” Buber might say, “Relationship precedes essence.” In contrast to the stark “thrownness” of the existentialist, who finds himself alone in an indifferent universe, Buber finds identity itself to be a by-product of the “I-Thou” relation (connections both to fellow humankind and to Being itself). Having shuffled off the existentialist’s burden of aloneness, however, Buber is not exactly the Walmart greeter to Happy Valley. Like the existentialist, he is weighed down with responsibility. For now he carries forever — past, present, and future – the built-in burden of all that connection, the “exalted melancholy of our fate” (16).
Hope: expect and desire. Without a ‘Desire of fulfilment’ there is no soil for a seed of hope to grow.
When we do want to build up hope we do have to be willing to be, to stand strong.
Therefore we better considered the power of the statement “I am” which we use so many times a day. When we answer the phone or when we are asked if it our us entering the place or when we give others an idea of who we are or how we feel.
You might be surprised what is hidden in those two little words. They also can say a lot to the others, even making them cross, like it happened some two thousand years ago, when the Pharisees asked Jesus if he was that person been spoken of, and he confirmed that he was that man. (Too many Christians today still do not understand the answer nor the question posed that day, and take it because Jesus said “I am” that he is God.) All the people who continue to say “I am” are not all gods and mostly do not think to be a god nor the God. but they have good reason to keep saying “I Am”. Because without ‘to Be’ there is no being, no existence. Jesus existed and therefore he also could say “I am”. He also could confirm he was the person the Pharisees heard speaking about, the one man preaching fervently about his heavenly Father Who would be not only his god but also The God. That was what made the high priests so mad and shouting it was blasphemous. Jesus never did say to them he was God, nor did he say such a thing to the people. He always said he could not do the things he did without his Father in heaven, the God of Abraham, Whose will he wanted to do and not his own will.
First, we have to be, before we can have any hope. Without being there is no hope at all. Thanks to the Creator we can be. Without Him there is no life possible at all. Without the God of gods there is no being no way of saying “I am”.
To many people do forget how these two simple words will determine what kind of life a person lives.
We when we say ourselves “I am” or when we hear others saying “I am” generate an idea of feeling and being. A Christian should be best in being able to say:
“I am blessed.”
Because we are blessed, by the allowance to be in a living condition and by the Grace of God, having become accepted, washed clean by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus. It is in that Jewish man we have found “hope”. In him we should place our hope. He is the one who has presented the world with the most high hope, the possibility of the best possible life on earth, a never ending life in the Kingdom of God. that should be our real Hope.
Knowing that we can live by the Grace of God we should not fear man, but with the fear of God, should also be happy that Jesus reconciled ourselves by his heavenly Father, the Only One God “The I Am Who Is”. He is the Most High Being, the Supreme Being. It was the son of the Elohim who gave his life to the One and Only Who gives life. He is it who can make us weak or strong, slow or fast, stupid or wise. It is Him Who can make us say:
“I am strong”. “I am healthy.”
Or,
“I am slow”. “I am unattractive”. “I am stupid.”
The “I am’s” that are coming out of our mouth will bring either success or failure. Not enough people are aware how the thinking about themselves shall decide how they themselves shall be or become. Unconsciously and for some consciously, all through the day the power of “I am” is at work in our minds. And there is the problem of denial. The will not to see the “I am” in ourselves. Many people also place the “I am” in the wrong phrases or in the wrong context, making life for themselves more difficult.
Too many people are not aware how they themselves can use the “I am” for them selves but also against themselves. Mostly they have no idea how they use the power of “I am” against themselves and how it is affecting their future.
In the Bible the answers are given. It tells us clearly how we are to be ‘in-breath’ with the “I Am”, the most High God. all being created in the image of God, having received life from God “The I Am”, should be willing to have The Elohim living through their “I am”. According to the Holy Scriptures The “I Am Who Is” (The Elohim Hashem Jehovah) is always there for His Creation. He is always looking for us, and as such our “I am” is also always looking for us.
Each individual has given the breath of God, i.e. life, because otherwise he would not be living. This breath of life, i.e. the soul, is our being our possibility to say “I am”. Without life we shall not be able to say “I am”. When death, you also shall not be able any more to say “I was”. Others shall be able to say that ‘you were’, but once the light of life has gone out, it its finished with the being, the “I am” shall not sound any more.
Therefore, as written in the Holy Scriptures, it is in the “Now,” that we have to make it. It is when we live and can say “I am” that we can be and that we can do things. Jesus gave several parables as examples of what happens when we do not follow the good direction as the “I am” and do not make work of being the right “I am”.
The “I am” expresses a hope, or it should do. When you go through the day saying,
“I am blessed,”
blessings come looking for you. The same way when you say
“you are blessed”
you give the expression of the I am who wants to bring over the other blessings by your loving-kindness for that person.
In case you want to build up hope in your life you first have to believe in yourself and secondly have to believe in the Most High “I Am” to get you there where He wants you to be and to succeed. but you have to be willing to give yourself in the hands of the “I am” to get the feeling of growth in assurance you can do something. as such you, yourself have to believe in yourself and have to dare to say
“I can”
And continuing to think you shall be able to reach your goal and as such to be able to say:
“I am talented.”
Only when you are willing to go for the hope in succeeding you shall be able to succeed and to become talented.
Let blessings and talent come looking for you. Let health come to you and come to say
“I am feeling fine”, “I am healthy,” “I am strong.”
You might be surprised how much the “I am” can do wonders in yourself. How good feelings, good health and strength shall come on your way. Are you willing to surrender to your own self? To surrender to the “I am” in you?
Not to be ‘be good’ or ‘do better’ but to surrender to the amazing person I am and what I might create with a deep appreciation of all that is abundant in me. {Hope}
Your “I am” has to start tracking you down, by your invitation into your life.
Get up in the morning and invite good things into your life. Declare
“I am blessed. I am strong. I am talented. I am disciplined. I am focused. I am prosperous.”
And always make sure God’s truth follows “I am”!
Are you able to say:
I feel complete with who and where ‘I am’.
What is your answer when asked: Is it you, Pete, John, Mary, Sonia, Vicky, or ‘so and so’? “Are you him or her”?
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What is your answer when asked: “Are you feeling all right?”
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Are you believing in the power of perspective and positive outlook?
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Are you willing to choose to live into today with hope in your heart?
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Are you able to honour all aspects of your being and let go of any judgement and attachment that might divide you or leave you feeling broken.
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Are you willing to be whole in all your imperfection and brilliance.
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What would be you you answer when asked “Are you a Christian”?
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Do the give your answer in big capitals, to this question:
Are you a believer in the Son of God, and willing to follow this Jewish man who gave hope for a better future? Are you a follower of Christ Jesus, the son of God, accepting he really did die for the sins of the whole world, and who now has been made higher than the angels, though he was lower before, in the knowledge that God is was and always shall be the Most High?
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* Note: If you could not answer every-time with “I am”, than you have a problem and should reconsider your way of thinking and should go to examine your self and your believes. If you could answer all questions with “I am” than we want to invite you to continue your way with us, helping others to find their “I am”.
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“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:” (Eze. 11:19)
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We can see lots of faces around us. When we look carefully we can see through them different characters and different moods, which can influence others.
With Positive Attitude
Not in million, a single face
Can have similar traces
Is it not great design by invisible scientist?
Still we refuse to believe and act as atheistDid any one think about existence?
Why we stress more on religion at once?
Why we still leave it to the grace of almighty?
Whatever rich treasure we have but we live on pityHow many changes can one make on face?
Let him have freedom to have as many changes
I think not more than thousand faces can be made
Thank God, he has not given any one the secret of tradeWe have billions of population
Each carries different kind of identification
Even face lines differ with each individual
Such is beauty with almighty to tackleSo we pray and surrender
Go to sacred place and offer
Out sincere gratitude
With positive attitudehasmukh amathalal
attitude you bring to life
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