MidweekMINDFUEL

For years now my mind keeps trying to build ways and possibilities how to go on with Life, and all sorts of dreams about what I want to do with it. There are loooads of things, paths, places and works I could imagine and huge amounts of wishes fairly "realistic"... Most of these plans still seem extremely improbable and/or really hard to accomplish.
But WHAT THE HECK?! - why should THAT destroy golden plans for this splendid single one of LIFE one has been lucky enough to have on this earth??

Trying and failing is ever so much better than not trying at all...

When it comes to Belief...

Today I'd like to share something about a topic I originally meant to keep out of this blog.

But since I do want these pages here to be an instrument to share my worthiest inspirations with you guys, here's some meaningful words of a person I feel much intellectual and philosophical admiration for:

 Richard Dawkins

.. to whom I owe a lot of MINDspiration... or to put it clearer a lot of "THANKs to the Universe, I'm NOT crazy, and NOT the only one feeling a little off and out of society's common beliefs"-kinda thoughts.

This is balm for the soul of a wondering mind!

CAUTION: might cause critical reconsideration of faiths...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Disclaimer: Because it's maybe a critical topic to some people (though I think it shouldn't be so taboo to discuss about, actually).
I never intend to judge any whatsoever sort of religious beliefs of any person or group, do not mean to offend anyone's faith, far less to missionize my own beliefs and opinions (if you feel anger about atheism, just do not watch the video OR even better WATCH IT and learn to see unbiased with your own eyes;)
May everyone find out for themselves, what sort of thought and faith brings out the best in them, makes them strong, happy, caring, loving and peaceful! I say whatever works, goes! ;P

love to you all!

Tiki

MidweekMINDFUEL

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midweekMINDFUEL ~ Young-Ha KIM: "Be an artist, right now." ~

Today I want to share someone's words with you, that I believe should be heard by anyone who ever felt the slightest hint of creativity-craving inside their souls. . . but hesitated to live it out loud.

Kim Young-Ha (Kim is the surname, which in Korean - as well as Japanese - usually precedes the first name)  is a Korean novelist, who has an outstanding talent in vivid storytelling and engages in encouraging children and everyone else, too, to believe in their artistic vocation and let their fantasy and imagination strive. . .

His talk on the TED conference gives an insight in the possibilities of cultivating arts and boosting (hidden?) talents in everyone of us. And he does it in a really humorous way! ;)

Only a few quotes of his site at TED's

“We are all born artists. . . . Almost everything kids do is art.”

“The magic question is, ‘What for?’ But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.”

 

But you should better listen by yourself. . .

 

 

New to the schedule:midweekMINDFUEL

THANKS to minnamay.com

As I stated before in my restart post, as part of this blog's development I wanna try keeping a regular posting schedule. . .next to random inspirations and discoveries. ;)

Normally, wednesdays are the busiest days of my week in college, which is why I thought it's best to keep it short then . . .

Therefore I'm going to just drop in some inspirational words, that - under all those miiiillions of quotes you can find on the web, these days - caught me most.

And hopefully these thoughts are going to call out to something inside you, too. . .

. . .Today's quote is mainly speaking for itself, I guess.

But since I find myself having more time today, than expected. . .I'm going to try being a little more specific about, why I choose this one.
(This might become awkward, as this could get a little deeper than a usual post... but whatever, right?! You can still decide whether to read or not, or you can just hate what I say and shout at me in the comments afterwards. . .;b)

Why it means something to me, is because I think I know a lot of people having some kind of a foggy idea of their "DREAM". . . but they don't really try to live up to it!
Most of them are simply not certain enough of what they want to do with their lives. They can't be blamed not to purchase their dreams, if they don't have something precise enough to put their finger on it, right?
But I believe they DO . . .somewhere in their soul. . .have a Dream / a purpose for being alive.
But because somewhere along the way they were taught to suppress daydreaming and focus more on "doing something's solid and more useful", they never allow themselves to really figure it out.

Personally, I've been lucky enough to have an outstandingly liberal education and my open-minded parents allowed - or even invited - me and my brothers to freely try ourselves to find out our strengths, our weaknesses and of course our passions.

Now here's the good thing for all, who weren't that lucky.
You can start EVERY single day anew!
 If you don't know what your soul knows (. . .your purpose and special task in this world), it's never too late to find out.
Dare to think outside the box, defy yourself by trying different things, leave routines behind and take byroads or curved trails. . .
If I have learned ANYthing in life, it's that by taking detours you're mostly going to see and experience waaaay more beautiful things, than if you had walked straight towards the goal. . .