caring – Harmonia Philosophica

Give care. Give love. For ever…

Robbie Pinter’s 21-year-old son, Nicholas, is upset again. He yells. He obsesses about something that can’t be changed. Even good news may throw him off.

So Dr. Pinter breathes deeply, as she was taught, focusing on each intake and release. She talks herself through the crisis, reminding herself that this is how Nicholas copes with his autism and bipolar disorder.

“This has happened before”, she tells herself. “It’s nowhere near as bad as before, and it will pass”. (1)

Think of time as a dimension.
Then travel back to that dimension.
Go and see Pinter as he tries to calm.
Go and see Pinter as he loves his child.

This has happened before.

And it is always happening…

Give love. For ever…

[written on 1/8/2014]

Living. Dying. Taking things as they are… Setting barriers.

Knowingly taking placebo pills eases pain, study finds. (1)

A 600-years old tree finally died. (2)

What can one say about a death? What can one do when he is ill?

Try not to think of anything. Try to take things as they are.

You see? Not too difficult.

You do NOT see that oak tree.

You do NOT care about whether the pills were placebo.

You ARE feeling better.

Like a small crab caring only for things happening within a 10-inch radius. Like a butterfly caring only for how it will spend it’s only day in this cosmos. Like a kid laughing at his father while everything around them are falling apart.

It’s feeling weird isn’t it?

It feels like…

Life.

Empathy: Feeling sad for one death. Not caring for millions… All a matter of choice.

ONE death is a tragedy. One million is a statistic.

You’ve probably heard this saying before. It is thought to capture an unfortunate truth about empathy: While a single crying child or injured puppy tugs at our heartstrings, large numbers of suffering people, as in epidemics, earthquakes and genocides, do not inspire a comparable reaction.

Studies have repeatedly confirmed this. Not only does empathy seem to fail when it is needed most, but it also appears to play favorites. Recent studies have shown that our empathy is dampened or constrained when it comes to people of different races, nationalities or creeds. These results suggest that empathy is a limited resource, like a fossil fuel, which we cannot extend indefinitely or to everyone.

Now scientists believe that empathy is a choice that we make whether to extend ourselves to others. The “limits” to our empathy are merely apparent, and can change, sometimes drastically, depending on what we want to feel. (1)

Everything seems to be a matter of choice.

Quantum mechanics has showed this.

And yet some of us do not want to believe it.

You see the belief that we are soulless meat seems more appealing to them…

Choose to extend yourself to the cosmos.

Choose to love everyone.

Choose to choose.

Make God Be.

Be God.

A deaf kid. A loving mother. A smile.

A deaf boy listening to his mother for the first time with the help of a hearing aid…
(1)

Is that lifeless matter organized into something that gives us the impression of consciousness?

Can we really degrade pure happiness and love into lifeless particles?

How much more will we let our beliefs guide our thoughts?

Listen to your heart. Trust your eyes…

Smile.

🙂

20/20 vision…

Previously blind patients who receive the recently FDA-approved Argus II bionic eye system will regain some degree of functional sight. The retinal implant technology, developed and distributed by Second Sight, can improve quality of life for patients who have lost functional vision due to retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that causes retinal cells to die. [1]

We are not machines. But we wish so much to become one. Help to the suffering will come with love and compassion. Not with artificial components. One can lose an eye and still be happy. But a man with 20/20 vision could still be utterly miserable without love and caring… A life in the dark can be glorious. A life in the light can be full of darkness…