CHANGING ONESELF
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling
water,
it will leap out right away to escape the danger.
But, if you put a frog in a kettle that is filled with
water that is cool and pleasant,
and then you gradually heat the kettle until it starts boiling,
the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late.
The frog's survival instincts are geared towards detecting sudden changes.
This is a story that is used to illustrate how people
might get themselves into terrible trouble.
This parable is often used to illustrate how humans have to be careful
to watch slowly changing trends in the environment, not just the sudden
changes. Its a warning to keep us paying attention not just to obvious
threats but to more slowly developing ones.
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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