CHANGING ONESELF
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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The Story of the Hummingbird
One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was
suddenly engulfed by a raging
wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of
the forest. As they came to the
edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling
very discouraged and
powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every
one of them thought
there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little
hummingbird.
This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped
into the stream and picked
up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire.
Then it went back to the
stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again.
All the other animals
watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments
like, "Don't bother,
it is too much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is
too tiny, it’s only a drop, you
can't put out this fire."
And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts,
the bird noticed how hopeless
and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged
the hummingbird in a
mocking voice, "What do you think you are doing?" And the hummingbird,
without wasting time or
losing a beat, looked back and said, "I am doing what I can."
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ARTICLES :
NEW 04/2022 : Our Influence
RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
Global/individual scale :
- Economy and human dignity (conf Joan Mellé) S
- A definition of sustainable degrowth S
- Ecological footprint S
- A plate for our health, the one of the planet and of all its inhabitants S
- Ecological footprint and passive violence S
Doing our part :
- Voluntary simplicity S
- What if we started de-clut-ter-ing? S
- Decluttering - 2006 file S
- 10 tips for starting degrowth S
- associated tales :
INNER EVOLUTION :
Beliefs and external influences :
- Our complacency S
- From opposition to non-violence S
- associated tales :
Communication:
- Argumentation and power relation S
- Opening up to communication S
- Stop being nice, be real S
- associated tale:
Brain - thoughts and emotions :
- Managing thoughts - managing emotions S
- I think therefore 'm not following anymore S
- Dispenza - You are the placebo S
- Your thought is not you S
- Collective intelligence S
- Dementia and youth S
- The boomerang of thoughts S
- Dispenza Ted conference S
Video in English - transcription in French - Our own violence S
- From fear to peace S
- EFT S
- associated tales:
OPENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS :
- The qualities of our defects S
- The rice experiment S
- The Four Agreements S
- The fifth Agreement S
- The heart intelligence S
- associated tales :
- The Wolf you feed
- Stones, pebbles and sand
- Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Autobiography in 5 chapters
- Rebuilding the world
WHY CHANGING OURSELF -
OUR INFLUENCE :
- Presentation of the site S
- The morphogenetic fields S
- Our influence S
- associated tale :
- The Story of the Hummingbird
- Grain of sand
- Rebuilding the world
NON-VIOLENCE AT ALL LEVELS :
- Argumentation and power relation S
- From opposition to non-violence S
- Our own violence S
- From fear to peace S
- NVC - Stop being nice, be real S
- Ecological footprint and passive violence S
STORIES AND TALES
- The Story of the Hummingbird
- The wolf you feed
- Following or not
following
- Stones, pebbles and sand
- Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters
- Grain of sand
- White
Birds and Black Birds
- Mexican fisherman, American
fisherman
- Rebuilding the world
- The boiled frog