Great thoughts...

In this post I would like to share with you a great quote from the philosopher E.M. Cioran and a few ideas that came to my mind when I started to think about it a little bit more deeply:

I think the big strength of this post lays in its irony. People work hard all day, suffer, endure, hope and sweat because they think that they'll get something for this. They would like to feel that they own something and they have power over something. But the truth is you will never really own anything. You are here on Earth just for a few years, and when you finish you journey, you will let everything here, even you own body. And what a revelation for a beings, who doesn't own anything, to discover this truth, really what a pride for a minuscule creation that he can observe this. Really, can he reach a higher level of knowledge, more than that can anything in the world reach a higher level of knowledge than that of being conscious of its own littleness and the negligibility of its existence. And from this point we can go to the next step where Cioran says: The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. And we can see that this pride, the pride that we are conscious of our littleness, is possibly the only thing that can be a reason for us to live. 

On the other hand, how good is to feel that you have power over the world surrounding you. You can change it, you can transform it. Moreover, this is your task here on Earth, to make your environment resemble your personality. To get to a level, when you can feel at home, and feel that you really do live life, and this has an effect. I think it is interesting to think in this duality. To always see both sides of an issue gives you maybe the only achievable freedom. Helps you destroy illusions and in the same time to destroy the illusion that you can destroy illusions. And I think somewhere at this level only begins the real human being. 

And what is the only sense of life is to give a sense to life...

Picture Meditaition

I think, meditating about pictures, paintings is a great way to relax, let your thoughts free and release the stress gathered during the day. You can do this in many ways. For me the best is simply to stop for a few minutes whenever I see a great picture, and let the rainbow flood my mind. Let the colors be my thoughts. It's a great feeling to do it, it stimulates creativity and in the mean time you can watch beautiful colors which make you happier and more optimistic. So here I will present a meditation of mine about a great painting of Cézanne about apples. I was just staring at it, and when I realized there were really interesting thoughts that flooded my mind, I just took a piece of paper an wrote them down. So here it is:

"Apples. Just a painting of them. Symbolic of still life - what we see, and what it is... it is NOT. Unpainted. Different and the same is the same. Unwriting language. Colors talk? Colors ARE. As green apples seem to talk in this stillness... rainbow of darkness. Shadows move as they are painted. Death surpasses us as we say it's holy name and life kisses apples to make them green. Colored shadows... move on. Let it dark. Feel it. Unfeel singularity risen by thoughts. Reach the peak as you dream away. Apples. Forget yourself."

I hope you enjoyed this. I encourage you to try it out yourself. You are welcomed to share any interesting thoughts, idea, really anything....

Magic of numbers

Today I would like to share with you a very interesting site, one that I really like and I could spend hours surfing around...

I'm talking about Numberphile. Here you can see many crazy videos about maths, but really not the maths that you learned at school, and which was very boring and uninteresting, but a real revelation about the world of numbers and their magical properties. 

Here is a small preview video for you:

Enjoy!

What do you think about this? What is your favorite number, why? Do you know any similar sites?

Community

Using Google+ Communities we can keep in touch really simply sharing all kind of stuff with each other. I think it can be a great possibility for us to cooperate, communicate and make the web a more personal place.

This is the link to our Community, please feel free to join and post anything that is important for you:

Rainbowminded Community

Freestyle dance - true movement.

Here I would like to consider dance in a broader interpretation, though I'd like to come up with an example that is really dance in it's everyday meaning as well, performed in the movie The cost of living signed by the dv8 physical theater from Manchester. So here it is:

Yes, I'm really lovin' it. It's simply great I think. The freedom which is expressed by these movements simply catches the viewers feelings. But this, from my point of view, is not only a thing that can be done by artists, dancers or actors. I think it is our every day task to find the movements which even if seem to be crazy and odd, express our mood, feelings, thoughts in the most appropriate way. It is great when you can give freedom to your movements. Most of our time we are in situations in which we must behave in certain ways, and we cannot simply do what comes to our minds, and this restriction then somehow controls our whole life, even the moments, when it wouldn't be necessary to be aware of it. So my number one hint for today for you is to find a few minutes for yourself and your body to break these crazy rules. I would suggest, for the first time, to put some music that you really like, turn the volume high - or even higher - close your eyes and do whatever you feel, and don't think please. 

And I would like to share a story I heard, and it is really about the true movement, which comes from the deepest reality of our life. It is a great story. A great dance master, who had his school in a hidden village, and lived with his community decided to search for some really true movement for his dance. He asked the dancers to do any movement that comes to their minds. They were doing this for hours and the master still hasn't found what he was searching for. He finally announced a small break, and in that moment he was astonished by a gesture of the oldest member of the group: he stopped moving and in the simplest possible way wiped off the sweat from his forehead. And the master said: That is the true movement I was looking for. 

What do you think about our movements? Do you have moments when you can let them free? What helps you? Any interesting experience, idea, anything that comes to your mind is welcomed....