Life is like a violin

One gets born, but life has to be molded. Life is not received made out – it has to be patiently, wisely, carefully given shape.

Life is like a violin, we all have it but the art to use it is learned by very few. A violin can be with you for a very long time but touching the strings without training and practice, can create only discordant noises, far from the melodious music that it is capable of producing. One thing to remember, learning the technique to play the violin is only the first step, the technique is only opening the door, the path is lightened in front of you. The jump to the art of living is possible only when the heart takes over, the technique is forgotten, the violinist and the violin become one, and lovable melody pours out.

Life's goal

Our goal should be to be much, not to have much.

Zorba

Be a Zorba, sing, dance and laugh; love life to the fullest; don’t choose, accept totality, show your gratitude towards existence.

“Boss, only one thing is wrong with you - you think too much. Just come on! This is not the time for thinking; the moon is full, and the whole ocean is dancing. Don’t miss this challenge.”

Vulnerability

Video: researcher Brene Brown talks at TED on “the power of vulnerability”

If you are really vulnerable, nothing is negative for you – because the negative is your interpretation. Nothing is harmful to you – because the harmful is your interpretation. If you are really open, then nothing can harm you, nothing can be felt as harmful. You feel something is negative and something is harmful because you resist, because you are against it, because there is no acceptance of it.

The enemy exists there because you are protecting yourself against him. The enemy is there because you are not open. If you are open, then the whole existence is friendly; it cannot be otherwise.

If you are vulnerable, it means you are ready to live in insecurity. Deep down it means you are ready even to die. You will not resist, you will not oppose, you will not stand in the way. If death comes, there will be no resistance. You will simply allow it to happen. You accept existence in its totality.

Have the courage to be vulnerable, open, true. Unblock your emotions so that love, creativity, life can flower within you.

Creative potential

Life is the ambition to make the ugly beautiful, the imperfect perfect
and when the perfect is achieved, life is complete.

A great mystic last prayer to God was:
”Send me back. Remember, I am not perfect. Send me back. Your world was too beautiful and you gave me such a precious life. And I don’t want to disappear yet: I have yet to sing many songs, I have yet to paint many paintings, there is yet much in my heart which needs to bloom. Send me back, I am not perfect! Send me back.“

You have infinite capacities to create; you are unlimited, you don’t have any limits to your potential. You are not aware what you can do, and you will never be aware unless you do it!

Life is very shy

If you want to be happy you cannot move directly like an arrow towards the target of happiness; if you do, you will miss it.

Because life is very shy, it hides from people who are aggressive.
It reveals itself only to those who persuade it in a very subtle and indirect way. You need to be a little more poetic, you need to write beautiful love letters to life.

Keep life in balance, avoid the extremes

Always remember: life is never unjust. If it looks unjust then you must have done something wrong. Somewhere you must have gone beyond the balance; then life seems to be unjust. And whenever you feel the unjustice it is better to look at yourself; you have done something wrong and you have been punished.

Meaning of life

 Life is not a chaos, it is a meaningful cosmos.

Choiceless

You always choose: you choose to be beautiful and ugliness becomes your shadow; you choose to be a saint and sin becomes your shadow. Choose – and you will be in difficulty, because the very choice has divided life. Don’t choose, be choiceless, create a harmony, let life flow in its own beauty.