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From Alienation to Appreciation

From Alienation to Appreciation

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At a certain point we reach a point where we are alone in other thinking or we are separated in our thinking with a group of like-minded people.  At this point we can either go it alone or become a niche group that has separated itself from society.  When the cause of alienation is one person who was right in a society that was wrong then that one person becomes an example of greatness for having persevered.  Unfortunately for many things we think are worth persevering for are not in anyway comparable to the rare individual who stood their ground.

This is where the phrase "standing on the shoulders of the great" becomes significant, because the world will have lost a lot of people whose position paved the way for breakthroughs that others built upon.  We don't have enough tombs for the unknown soldier to know this sacrifice.  Our singular humility is knowing that we are not like this people, we are not where the great will be the one's standing on our shoulders.  With this humility we do have an option that is a part of our mortality and that is appreciation.  It is merely vanity to think of life as being an immortal god or it is a foolishness when we do not step off a lofty perch, fueled by spiritual ego.

The process of alienation is the more travelled road.  This process is at front and center of most political crisis that registers as history.  Appreciation is the road less travelled.

Imagine an alienating version of Albert Einstein.  This Albert frequents a regular tavern and each night he gets sidetracked by the opinions of others.  One night another drinker seeing Einstein's vulnerability ridicules his "prattling" about the following light.  He manages to trigger a nerve and Einstein takes the bait, the net result is a fist fight, but on this night things take a turn for the worse and Einstein is stabbed and killed.  In such a hypothetical scenario, would the world ever know what it lost.  Yet if I say that I believe that every generation loses its Albert Einstein and its William Shakespeare, it is only far fetched if we think that they are lost through murder, more often than not they are lost through ignorance, isolation or neglect. 

The very system we co-exist in mean that something is being lost somewhere unless time and place come together and the few viewed as great are placed in the pantheon of the great.  In a rare case a poet is remembered for being a war poet, even though the same war takes his life.  What is war then but a culmination of alienation that destroys what was?

Is there a way to life where destruction is not the completion point of new beginnings?  This is where appreciation comes in, because the moment we either feel alienated or maybe unknown to ourselves, we become alienating - the path of appreciation can become a new beginning.  We can choose to begin again rather than get lost in the battles and wars that are not contributing anything but a collision point.   We are not the one who history will remember but the one that history immediately chooses to forget.  A few struggle for change, we are more apt to struggle because we struggle.  Our struggle becomes a means of alienation rather than victory.

Victory can be rendered a shallow word unless it is a victory for humanity.  Appreciation is an expansive word but we do not take much stock in it, because it feels false and weak.  True appreciation is courageous because we understand the full power and potential of this being.  True appreciation requires us to face up to our own truth, look at our own face and then not condemn that.  This appreciation ultimately leads us to new beginnings.

Beginners mind is not a cop out it is a reset.  The measure of whether this form of appreciation becomes a norm and nature in our world is when we see the next Shakespeare emerge.  That we do not just shows how much alienation takes up our field of attention and how little does appreciation.  Appreciation is more than just being humble, it is looking at life afresh.


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CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #6

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More like a life dance where it can be a piece of knowledge or if I am lucky get hit with an insight that I get to carry with me into life. The curiosity about why people use quotes revealed what? An insight that there is a religious context to the use of quotation marks that it has been passed onto us from generation to generation is an amazing realization of the actions we have inherited from centuries ago as an unconscious inheritance. Now there are more challenging moments such as yesterday when I came across Vincenzo De Florio and his link to Leibniz. I had to work hard at deciphering a complexity of thinking that is several leagues above what I am used to, which is credit to Vincenzo that his capability can decipher and build on highly sophisticated reasoning such as that the Dodo is a a monad that ceases to exist but yet exists in pictorial form for us to see. I can only touch the surface here but that is sufficient here. In the case of my response to Cyndi wilkins the paragraph which draws on a piano metaphor is wholly a new thought that emerged - something emerged from my mind, that was not there before and was not a product of additional inquiry. The "jolts of perspective" also served as new frames to describe my own life actions. When I talk about being on a "learning journey". This is what I am talking about.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #5

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Dear Cyndi wilkins we are beings that are going in a good direction. People who I think go in a good direction include the author Margaret Wheatley - her book The Simpler Way is the kind of thinking that helped me look at life differently, though the two chief perspectives that originally set me on a learning journey is in seeing the truth in the empirical study of Flow by Mihalyi and the laser beam way Jiddu Krishnamurti went about ascertaining what is truth. Truth and love is what makes appreciation a challenge because very few people have learned to touch that face of that and these are not superficial and if fear is bottleneck to truth and love but appreciation is certainly the doorway to love and truth. I am not usually discovering myself online, I usually discover myself offline in everyday situations and yes occasionally I read something that jolts my perspective, but that jolt still has yet to express itself in everyday situations. When appreciation becomes a way of life it becomes an alternative to alienation. This is not just feeling alienated but noticing alienating others. I totally agree about our intuitive being so long as it is one colour of our being - and in that harmony of the whole what would seem to be contradictory forces within are much like a piano called life. I welcome this inner diversity, this constant contradiction and it is not as if the black and white keys of our life must be played all at once, and in this finding out and this unfolding of our being in that finding, that music is in the air of everyday life, and one I am decidedly getting better at noticing.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #4

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Dear Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee that is the whole value of the learning journey, one learns as one goes. When I saw the quotes on the comment, a question triggered in my mind regarding the actual origin of quotes, so I searched it and in that search came to a conclusion that the reverence we have for quotes must be in part influenced by the historical origin of quotation marks to highlight "God's Words". Appreciation is in the moment, it is not necessarily something one knows but one which is discovering. This is why I like the animation from Jos\u00e9 Brito e Silva his language is Portuguese but I am always trying to figure out the back story of the caricatures he draws. Today he published a video about Bob Motta. It turned out this was a tribute to a poet known in Brazil and in this finding out, I learn a little bit more what poets in Brazil mean to the people there. Then there is information I do know like the physicists who worked on the Manhattan project who chose a different path, one that was life affirming which I shared with you on your buzz. Sharing information however is not my primary goal, it is to play with information and try to see it differently and then explore. I then flow with what I then follow (explore) rather than get lost in the flow of following (follow).

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #3

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Dear Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee since what I am focusing on here is appreciation, it has prompted me to appreciate the origin of quotation marks hence : The Long & Fascinating History of Quotation Marks http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/01/30/quotation_marks_long_and_fascinating_history_includes_arrows_diples_and.html which was initially prompted by my curiousity about the etymology of "quotes" http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=quote It is then interesting that in our technological world - we do not provide a simple thing like a MARGIN. It seems this is where the origin of quotes first appeared around the 14th Century. The original act of calling out "important text" is so much more powerful than our modern style of direct quotations. I should not be surprised but still am is how much quotations were devoted to "the words of God". This may explain our reverence for quotes but I think we may have forgotten how that reverence may have entered our psyche. I therefore bring this to an appreciation of modern thinkers like ourselves as pragmatic practitioners. Thus I conclude by this that to achieving a beginners mind - returning humility to the quotation is a really reset. Who would thought quotes were used for God first and not reserved for people who happy to be people :-)

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #2

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No :-) Credit for BRAVO belongs to Paul Walters

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #1

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Also Deb not to wear appreciation as a temporal fashion but as a supple skin. Skin may not help us breath but it should help us appreciate what is underneath. Even our skin is better off from the inside-out rather than be skin-deep about appreciation.

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