CHANGING ONESELF
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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WISDOM OF LAO TSU
There was once a farmer. One day the farmer’s only horse broke out of the corral and ran away. The farmer’s neighbors, all hearing of the horse running away, came to the farmer’s house to view the corral. As they stood there, the neighbors all said, "Oh what bad luck!" The farmer replied, "Maybe."
About a week later, the horse returned bringing with it a whole herd of wild horses, which the farmer and his son quickly corralled. The neighbors, hearing of the corralling of the horses, came to see for themselves. As they stood there looking at the corral filled with horses, the neighbors said, "Oh what good luck!" The farmer replied, "Maybe."
At that same time in China, there was a war going on between two rival
warlords. The warlord of the farmer’s village was involved in this
war. In need of more soldiers, he sent one of his captains to the village
to conscript young men to fight in the war. When the captain came to take
the farmer’s son he found a young man with a broken leg who was
delirious with fever. Knowing there was no way the son could fight, the
captain left him there. A few days later, the son’s fever broke.
The neighbors, hearing of the son’s not being taken to fight in
the war and of his return to good health, all came to see him. As they
stood there, each one said, "Oh what good luck!" The farmer
replied, "Maybe."
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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