The primary lesson to learn in life is to love. Love is so strong that it is unbreakable, and yet it is intangible. You can know it; you can feel it; and yet you cannot hold onto it; for as soon as you try, it will slip away like quicksilver. Love cannot be possessed; it is as free as the wind and moves where it will. Move with it. Love is unity and wholeness. Love knows no limitation, no barriers. With love comes freedom. it is fear that binds and limits a soul; it is love that frees and cuts away all bonds. Love opens all doors, changes lives and melts the hardest of hearts. Love is creative; it builds up, creating beauty, harmony and oneness. It works for, not against, anything. Love brings such joy that it cannot be repressed. It dances and sings through life. Is there love in your heart? Love for each other? It starts in you and works out and out.
Eileen Caddy, Open Doors Within
The Persian Wars and all wars of Greece’s past have now come in the form of an economic calamity that makes those events look like the distant philosophers and Homers Odyssey an embarrassment to all that Greece’s Ancient History has given to the World.
Further, from the time of the Turkish occupation[ Greece profoundly missed the Renaissance] through all the wars that followed we have not moved forward, mainly through our lack of education and innovation and lack of Political Statemanship.
Understanding that we do not have to be bondage to our religion but to have love, faith and the belief in ourselves in creating the highest standard of living and an economic miracle through innovation, hard work and with our Politicians, Leaders and Elders dedicating their lives unconditionally and selflessly to the Country and its People.
Winston Churchill said Hero’s fight likes Greeks, well, it seems as though we have lost who we are and what we stand for in this Modern World because of our selfish, self serving attitude towards our own individual material needs instead of also thinking of our country and the next generation of Greeks, WHAT AN EXAMPLE!
We have discarded PHIL0RTIMO for selfish individualism. There are those that have abused the Blessed Democratic Freedoms that should have been used for the greater good of our Sacred Country - MANNA ELATHA.
Instead of thoughts, feelings and words of how can I play my part for the benefit of Greece’s future generations, we have inconsiderately burdened our children’s economic future that will haunt us even after we have left this life.
The demonstrations of these last few weeks should have occurred 10 years ago, 20 years ago. Where were you when all this was unfolding before your eyes, what did you do about it ---- nothing! You all made fun of how you did not pay taxes, how you retired at 42.
Don’t say I am only one person; a nothing; a nobody, we should remind ourselves of the “Butterfly Effect”. We should remind our selves of those great men and women who did stand up in our history’s past as in other countries when they knew their was wrong.
Above all, those great men and women stood up and made a difference, knew they wanted to make a difference, one person even at the cost of their lives, as we are now watching our brothers and sisters in the Middle East doing the same, Our Loving God be with them.
How dare you use the excuse that since our Politicians used and abused the system for their arrogant selfish needs, so will I Too---- WHAT AN EXAMPLE TO OUR CHILDREN!!! May god forgive them and us too, for the moment we give in to those wrong choices we are complicit and therefore condemn our selves to be slaves to our averis choices unless we replace them with the knowing belief in creating a GREECE free of debt with a high standard of living.
You the average Greek may not have caused this economic calamity, but to demonstrate now after all these years of abuse that you don’t want change, you are running away and neglecting your individual and collective responsibility to the economic wellbeing of our blessed country, present and future generation of Greeks.
To those of you who knew what was happening and did nothing SHAME on you and may God give you the grace to help your Country in its hour of need. To those of us who did not know the gravity of the unfolding Calamity SHAME on us for not making sure that their were responsible Economic Policies and leadership being followed by all for the greater good of GREECE.
PHILORTIMO encompasses many attitudes and feelings; Caring, Consideration, Helping, Understanding, Love, Honesty, Integrity, living a life of giving not just taking.
Therefore TRANSPARENCY and OPENESS must be the cornerstone of a Free and Democratic Society with Law and Order, Self restraint, Politicians that are their to serve the People and Country anything else can only be the Promotion of oneself and ones Ego with the possible misuse and abuse of Power.
Let us affirm our individual and collective responsibility to the greater good of our beloved GREECE, let us ask for help, guidance to create a vibrant economic Country with greater Education, Health and Wealth through the Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Work Spirit that the Scared FREEDOMS allows us and what us GREEKS need to reconnect too.
Remembering APOLLONIUS advise to Vespasian when he asked how to rule as a good prince, Apollonius replied, “you ask the impossible. Ruling cannot be taught, it must be acquired. Yet see to it that wealth seem to thee not too important, nor the money that is forced from the poor – all tarnished with their tears. Fear above all the freedom to do as thou pleasest. Let the law rule thee also, oh Emperor. Thou wilt give wiser laws if thou do not despise them. Consider the imperial power not so much as an inherited property as a reward of virtue.” Earlyne Chaney
There is no reason why we still cannot pursue Knowledge and Wisdom instead
of just the pleasures as Apollonius also said, while still pursuing greater prosperity for all.
No comments:
Post a Comment