In search of “Truth, Beauty and Goodness”
Thoughts and reflections for a purposeful life
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Striving only for material wealth is incompatible with our latent personal longing for love and recognition. Simon’s discourse identifies a remedy available to all of us, that of adopting an attitude of love, and then putting that love into action in whatever way is open to each of us. We admire and appreciate those among us who overcome the natural impulse toward individual comfort. Currently, the organization of Doctors Without Borders, people who have eschewed financial gain and devoted themselves to bringing medical care to others in disease-ridden and war-torn areas, accepting danger and poor living conditions as they do so, is an example. Two individuals, also, come to mind. The late Mother Theresa practiced love as few in history have done, and remained an outspoken advocate for the poor and oppressed throughout her life. Canadian Stephen Lewis, who works tirelessly for the people of Africa who suffer the consequences of the AIDS epidemic is another such person. But, few of us are able to enact such extreme values. We have our familial commitments, our societal demands, our need to ensure that we ourselves will not become a drain to others, and these hold us in a sense of impotent guilt and envy. The answer? Start small, with ourselves. Live in and through an attitude of love. Become channels through which Universal Love can flow toward our families, our neighbors, our friends, and our fellow people. Marnie Atkinson, M.A. Ed.
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Striving only for material wealth is incompatible with our latent personal longing for love and recognition. Simon’s discourse identifies a remedy available to all of us, that of adopting an attitude of love, and then putting that love into action in whatever way is open to each of us. We admire and appreciate those among us who overcome the natural impulse toward individual comfort. Currently, the organization of Doctors Without Borders, people who have eschewed financial gain and devoted themselves to bringing medical care to others in disease-ridden and war-torn areas, accepting danger and poor living conditions as they do so, is an example. Two individuals, also, come to mind. The late Mother Theresa practiced love as few in history have done, and remained an outspoken advocate for the poor and oppressed throughout her life. Canadian Stephen Lewis, who works tirelessly for the people of Africa who suffer the consequences of the AIDS epidemic is another such person. But, few of us are able to enact such extreme values. We have our familial commitments, our societal demands, our need to ensure that we ourselves will not become a drain to others, and these hold us in a sense of impotent guilt and envy. The answer? Start small, with ourselves. Live in and through an attitude of love. Become channels through which Universal Love can flow toward our families, our neighbors, our friends, and our fellow people. Marnie Atkinson, M.A. Ed.
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Simon Peter Bargetzi, a Swiss immigrant to Canada (1981) uses his free time to contemplate life in general and specifically in regard to the value and quality of life. He grew up in Switzerland and immigrated to Canada. Europe, with its crowded population and all its restrictions and laws, appeared to be a caldron of boiling danger overflowing with an artificial lifestyle that had become too restricted and confined. He realized, however, over several decades in North America that it was catching up fast to the European rat race. The environment in daily life was not always pleasant. For instance, he realized that what in the world was happening in politics and economics was increasingly limiting the freedom of the individual and the nation, and it was progressing toward the enslavement of mankind. That realization greatly disturbed him. He wrote this discourse to encourage an exchange, thoughtful conversation, between people of all walks, creeds and nationalities. The subject is not a simple one. Its complexity is too great to be solved in one discourse. It is impossible for this writer to provide all answers to all questions. It is the writer’s hope that the reader will be able to open his mind and soul and to be inspired to find his own understanding and draw his own conclusions as to why we are on this planet earth and what are our duties in a functional and moderate society. Simon believes that love should be the major motivator.