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What the bleep

What the Bleep Do We Know. I still like the movie What the Bleep Do We Know (What the Bleep Do We Know on Wikipedia) very much and I don’t fully get the comment in Wikipedia that the film was criticized for misrepresenting science. I very much like how all kinds of things related to quantum physics and a multiple dimension Universe are being visualized in this movie. And what do scientists know anyhow more than you and me? And know, I don’t want to criticize science here, as science is very useful and interesting. I am even a scientist myself as I have a university degree in Mechanical Engineering, so I know a bit how science works.

So why am I writing about this today? Well, our TV card had ended, so I could not watch TV, so I was looking for some movie to watch and ended with watching What the Bleep Do We Know for no real reason. And it always inspires me, as it tells me that there is more beyond this life,beyond what we, humans, experience. Of course if humans exist anyhow…

And today I was a bit curious about the people behind the movie, the people who make all the statements and such, the people telling the story, giving the (scientific?) background. So let’s make a list first:

And strange, making this list. As it took me quite a while to find and put all the links. And that amazes me more and more, how much time it takes to make something very small, let alone a movie like What the Bleep Do We Know. And yes, it also goes all back to the ideas of Napoleon Hill and Abraham Hicks. Like that you cannot do things alone and that somehow we are part of a system, a system like the cells in our body.

And strange, reading about Ramtha/JZ Knight, another type of success story where I indeed now I doubt her honesty, but a business woman she is. And still, to me she is the greatest person in the movie, how she looks at life. And about the priest possibly or probably being involved in sexual abuse. But still, again, his story in the movie is great.

So yeah, again, life is strange. And no matter what, I would certainly recommend you watch What the Bleep Do We Know, as it gives a very nice view on life.

Being flexible

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It was not really easy to skip my posts and the sending of my daily quote and the update of my gratitude diary yesterday. Or maybe it was, as I just did it, especially keeping myself from sending the daily quote yesterday, which I could have relatively easily done. And behind it is still fear I think, fear of letting go of the routine of ‘planning the work and working the plan‘. But somehow I have the feeling that I am overdoing things, that I am too rigid in following my plan, my daily to-do list. And what triggered me thinking that was a remark a few weeks ago of a friend of mine, something like that he would leave me behind, let me alone if I really wanted to push through with meeting someone who skipped a meeting we had planned because he was sick. And yes, that was the first time or one of the first times that I really didn’t make my daily planning, really could not check an item on my list as ‘done’. And no, I don’t think it hurt me in my discipline really, maybe even the opposite, although I’m not fully sure. As somehow I continued making my daily plan and doing the things I planned for the day, maybe even more conscious than before. Actually it made me think a lot about being rigid or flexible and somehow it gave me more options, more choices.

And yes, somehow it still makes me scared that I am now able to indeed decide NOT to finish my daily to-do list. As I did yesterday, as I had decided to attend a funeral, meaning I left Wednesday end of the afternoon and returned today, Friday morning, as I had to travel for around eight hours to the city where the family lives,where I spent most of yesterday attending the funeral, including preparations and aftermath.

So maybe it did or does take courage NOT to do things, like not to send my daily quote yesterday and not to write my posts and not to update my gratitude diary. And yes, it still makes me feel a bit scared, as I no have given myself the option to NOT finish my daily to-do list.

But even while scared, scared of falling back to not doing things anyhow, no matter whether I planned them or not, somehow I have the feeling I gained some flexibility, lost some of my rigid thinking by indeed allowing me to be flexible, even where the cost is NOT doing the things I planned, so not working the plan.

But it made me more human, as being a human being you can’t control everything. And you certainly need to take the time to be with family, friends, to share a loss like the death of a loved one.

Worried

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Caterpillar Tomorrow I am planning to go to a funeral and that got my worried about how to deal with my posts and stuff. And that feels a bit strange, how I am obsessed with not missing one day with posting and such, like if I miss one day that would be the end of the world. And that makes me think how obsessed I am with these kind of things, that I am not so flexible, something people often said about me. And right now I am a bit torn, as everything I have learned about ‘success’ also points to persistence and do what other people don’t. And I have the feeling I am doing all those things, learning all those things, especially ‘plan the work and work the plan’. And discipline of course.

But somehow I have the feeling I am overdoing, that I am doing it in a very strict, inhumane way. And that that way of doing, thinking, may exactly be my problem (in life). That I would need a little more flexibility.

Anyhow, that’s not really what I wanted to write about. What I wanted to write about is about the caterpillar and how that image came in this post, as the caterpillar image is what I started this post with. And it is a good sample of how things come into being, how thoughts work, how events work, how things are connected. As I started today with ‘funeral’, which made me look for a ‘life and death inspirational quote’. And then I found the quote “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” from Richard Bach. And that made me search for ‘caterpillar’ as I wanted to put an image of a caterpillar.

And the results of that search amazed me, as the first results were all related to the Caterpillar brand, the manufacturer of heavy machinery. And then of course the thought came to me how commercialized the internet is, as ‘commerce’ is one of my personal struggles. And then the thought came to me how the two are connected, the animal and the brand, as I’m quite sure the company Caterpillar was named after the animal, especially as their logo is similar to the colors of the animal. So that’s how a human being can start with funeral and end with animals, machinery, the connections between them and logo’s and images.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Self love

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Strange, I just got an e-mail from Marc and Angel hack life and while searching for the link I find it’s kind of a copy of 7 Things to Remember When You Think You’re Not Good Enough.

And then I ended up here: http://journeyofasoulsearcher.blogspot.com/

So a lot to read, but not here right now.

Small bright spot

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I was in a terrible mood yesterday and today and actually I wanted to skip this post or write something very negative. But then, when I opened the computer I normally use for my Inspiration for Success stuff, there was a reply to one of my e-mails that I had been sending around to get in touch with Mr. Sam Morgan related to a large project I am working on. So while I had the feeling nothing was moving, nothing was fun, nothing was happening, someone had taken the time to reply to my e-mail, where most people would not reply to such an e-mail as it was just a generic request about someone who is quite, well famous and rich.

And while writing the last sentence I realize one of the questions in Think and Grow Rich is something like if you look up to people for whatever reason, like if they are better educated or richer or something like that. And I realize I do, a lot. And that often I feel so small. But actually that is strange, as of course no one is ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than anybody else. As we are all humans and basically all the same. And I also know that we often more ‘look up’ to people than that people would ‘look down’ on other people.

So yes, strange. Feelings and ratio are still two very different things.