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"BE YOURSELF”
These two words are enough to transform the whole of humanity; they can give birth to a new man.
They are immensely pregnant with meaning. The past of humanity has been a constant effort not to be yourself, hitherto we have been told by the priests and the politicians and the pedagogues to be somebody else. ”Be a Christ,” they say, and the people who are trying to be a Christ are the Christians. ”Be a Buddha,” they say, and the people who are trying to be a Buddha are the Buddhists. No other Christ has yet happened, neither has a Buddha, and it is not going to happen ever. It is not in the nature of things.
History repeats, existence repeats never. History repeats itself because history is constituted of the unconscious humanity. Existence never repeats itself because existence is nothing but godliness, creativity. Creativity is non-repetitive, consciousness is non-repetitive. Unconsciousness is bound to repeat, it moves in a circle: it goes round and round in the same circle, it becomes more and more efficient in doing the same thing again and again. And the more efficient it becomes, the more difficult it is to go beyond the known.

The creative person is always leaving the known behind and moving into the unknown. To repeat somebody else is nothing but pretending, cheating, deceiving. It is beautiful to know Christ, it is beautiful to love Buddha, it is beautiful to understand Lao Tzu, but it is ugly, humiliating to repeat them, to be imitators.

But for centuries man has been conditioned to be somebody else. There are vested interests against you being yourself. The vested interests want you never to be yourself because they are afraid of anything new; everything new seems to be a danger to them. They are at ease with the old, hence they say, ”All that is old is gold.” The older it is the better.

It was on a coastbound train Mieczyslaw was slumped in his seat and every few moments he sighed and cried, ”Oh my! Oh my!” Forbes, sitting nearby, heard him cry but did not butt in, thinking the fellow was troubled by some great personal tragedy.

The next day it was the same cry of ”Oh my! oh my!” And again the same the day after.
Finally, Forbes leaned over and whispered, ”Anything seriously wrong?”
”Oh my, yes!” said the Polack. ”For three days now, I have been on the wrong train!”

This is exactly the situation of humanity: everybody, almost everybody, is on the wrong train! Hence there is so much misery. Misery simply indicates that you are not where you are supposed to be, that you are not moving towards your own destiny, that you are not flowering into your own potential, that you have been diverted by others, distracted by others. Maybe those others were not intending any wrong to you, but they were unconscious people Just like you.

Every parent distracts the child from his essential being, leads him astray. Every teacher, every priest goes on doing the same. Nobody respects the individual. They have already decided what is right and what is wrong, and for all!

Each individual is a unique phenomenon. Hence no law no morality can be applicable to all. Of course, we have to agree on a few minimums, just to exist together, but those minimums have to be the non-essentials.

That is the fundamental message of the Desiderata. ”Desiderata” means the fundamentals, the essentials. About the essentials there should be no compromise at all, with nobody, not even with God, because you don’t know anything about God. The priest goes on speaking on behalf of some God which nobody knows. It is the priest, the cunning priest, who pretends that his voice is God’s voice.
Religion means one is trying to transcend the mundane; otherwise, religion loses all its meaning. But the Rig Veda is full of the mundane. It is really a miracle that once in a while you come across a statement which can be called significant, concerned with the essential and not with the peripheral.

”IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, YOU MAY BECOME VAIN OR BITTER. . .

AND NEVER COMPARE Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases. And we are taught from the very beginning to compare. Your mother starts comparing you with other children, your father starts comparing you with other children. The teacher compares you: ”Look at Johnny, how well he is doing, and you are no good at all! Look at others! From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul – because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you an be compared with.

Do you compare a marigold with a roseflower? You don’t compare. Do you compare a mango with an apple? You don’t compare. You know they are different! Comparison is not possible.

And man is not a species because each man is unique. There has never been any individual like you before and there will never be again. You are utterly unique. This is your privilege, your prerogative, God’s blessing, that He has made you unique. Don’t compare. Comparison will bring trouble.

The Desiderata says:
”IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, YOU MAY BECOME VAIN OR BITTER, FOR ALWAYS THERE WILL A GREATER AND LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF ”

If you fall victim to this disease of comparison, naturally you will either become very egoistic or you will become very bitter; it depends on whom you compare yourself with. If you compare yourself with those who seem to be bigger than you, higher than you, greater than you, you will become bitter.

You will become a complaint against God, an anger: ”Why am I not greater than I am? Why am I not like that person? Why am I not physically so beautiful, so strong? Why am I not intelligent? Why am I not this, not that?” And there are millions of things in the world....
If you compare yourself with the people who are greater in some way than you, you will become bitter, very bitter. Your life will become poisoned by the comparison. You will remain always in a state of depression, as if God has deceived you, betrayed you, as if you have been let down.

Or if you compare yourself with people who are smaller than you, in some way lesser than you, then you will become very egoistic. This is one of the reasons why politicians are always surrounded by people smaller than themselves. They collect them; that is their joy. They collect smaller people around themselves so that they can look bigger than they are by comparison. It is stupid, but one cannot expect anything more from a politician.
Rich people are always surrounded by those who are smaller. They feel good, very good, great in comparison to those people.

But ordinarily people always look at others’ houses, their successes, their achievements, and feel very bitter against God. In the world, religion cannot prosper because people cannot pray to a god who has betrayed them from the very beginning, who has made them so small, so ugly. How can they be thankful towards him? Impossible. And without thankfulness there is no prayer, and without prayer there is no religion.

But a man who understands the uniqueness of everybody can be religious, can only be religious, because he feels immense gratitude for whatsoever God has given to him. If you don’ t compare, then you are neither bigger nor smaller, neither ugly nor beautiful, neither intelligent nor stupid. If you don’t compare, you are simply yourself And in that state of simply being yourself, spring comes, flowers come, because a deep acceptance of life and a deep gratitude towards God helps to bring the spring.


Taken from:
CHAPTER 5. GOD NEVER REPEATS
CHAPTER 9. BE YOURSELF

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	Read more about Elizabeth Gilbert.
	Live as Woody Allen says, through the persistence of showing up.
	Practice patience in your life when working with the genius, and be tolerant of the whimsy of genius in others.

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Mantra from the Dalai Lama

 Just a short Buddhist outlook on life.

 

  1. Take into account that great love and great achievements
     involve great risk.

 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

 3. Follow the three R's:
    Respect for self
    Respect for others and
    Responsibility for all your actions.

 4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
    wonderful stroke of luck.

 5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

 6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great
     friendship.

 7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take  immediate
    steps to correct it.

 8. Spend some time alone every day.

 9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think
     back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the  foundation for your
     life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal  only with the current
     situation. Don't bring  up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve  immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never  been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is  one in which your love
     for each other exceeds  your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to  give up in order to get
     it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

I also know that dreams really do come true and you  have my Best Wishes and my best efforts in those.

Streisand - The Concerts Coming April 28, 2009

Barbra Streisand, the most acclaimed female artist of our time is world renowned for thrilling audiences with her magical performances. In October, 2006 Streisand embarked on her first North American tour in over decade and her first tour of continental Europe ever - thrilling both audiences and critics alike and setting new box office records at the same time!

Now, you have a chance to get front row seats to the very best of Barbra Streisand captured in Streisand - The Concerts, a brand new Deluxe 3-Disc DVD Set showcasing some of her most memorable concerts…ever.

The main highlights on this stunning 3 DVD collection include:

• Disc 1 features the previously unreleased Fort Lauderdale show, with special guest and multi-platinum recording artist, Il Divo. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine called it “Sensational! A Brilliant Show! A Major Musical Triumph!”.

• Disc 2 is The Concert LIVE at Arrowhead Pond from Anaheim, CA. A sensational event which documented her first concert tour in 28 years.

• Disc 3 Never before released on DVD, ‘Putting it Together'- takes you behind the scenes of the making of the Broadway album.

There are over 60 songs including all the classics: "Funny Girl," "The Way We Were," "People," "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers," "Don’t Rain On My Parade" and special exclusives including 10 songs never-before-seen on DVD, including: "Unusual Way," "A Cockeyed Optimist" and "My Shining Hour," all of which are the first time Streisand has ever performed them either in the studio or live.

PLUS bonus features include five additional songs as well as behind-the-scenes captivating moments with one of the most beloved artists of all time.

This highly anticipated Deluxe 3-Disc DVD Set is available now arriving just in time to be shared with loved ones on Mother’s Day.

“Streisand has never sounded better! She’s astounding!” - The New York Times.

Don't miss the CBS TV Special on April 25, 2009!   For those in other countries please check your local tv listings.

For more information including exclusive video footage from the 2006 Concert DVD click here: http://barbrastreisand.shop.musictoday.com/


Last few moments from Yentl, a Barbra Streisand film that is honored as part of Films That Changed The World. (info on first comment)

Barbra Streisand on Imeem
http://www.imeem.com/tag/?f=music&q=artist:Barbra+Streisand

Share your favorite links, your favorite Barbra Streisand song, a poem you made, anything goes, for the love of Barbra and her birthday on Friday.

Go on a conversation spree on the comments using Barbra Streisand's song titles or lyrics from her songs.

I am a woman in love and I'll do anything to get you into my world...,

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
Now open in Cleveland

From Asbury Park to the Promised Land:

The life and music of Bruce Springsteen is a comprehensive look at Springsteen's music, from early bands as Child, the Castiles and Steel Mill through work with the
E Street Band and as a solo artist.  The exhibit includes several of Springteen's guitars, including the Fender Esquire on the cover of Born To Run.  It also includes the outfit  he wore on the cover of Born in the U.S.A., as well as numerous handwritten lyric manuscripts, posters, handbills and various awards and honors from all phases of his career.  In addition, the exhibit includes Springsteen's 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, which he purchased after the success of Born To Run.  Open through spring 2010.