All posts by Gael GERARD

Aging alive

 receive life
 like a gift
 as a present.

 Inhabit all ages of existence
 childhood
 the youth
 adulthood
 old age.

 Improve like good wine
 too young the wine is acidic
 maturing is the work of time.

 Don't be obsessed with body stigma
 traces of time passing
 the bitter wrinkle is only the kiss in continuity of being
 Dwell in life and in intelligence.

 Every day make discoveries
 intellectual affective sentimental
 Everyday be in the new
 Vivre.

 Do not look on the neighbor's plate
 don't be jealous
 stay in oneself
 at the window of wonder.

 Grow again and again.
 Aging is not being old
 to grow old is to go in life
 to be old is to lose the taste for life.
 
Be intellectually curious
 look at existence like a child without being an eternal child
 look at existence from the perspective of youth without being an eternal teenager.

 Always go further.

 The longer we live, the more we build this distance
 which allows you to be there
 while already being elsewhere.

 With a single gulp seize the dusting of things
 before the lamp goes out
 so that shores reached
 to dissolve
 the space of a smile
 with the blowing wind
 in the light of the coming day .


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stand on tiptoe

 hands up to the sky
to touch the stars
and then realize
that they illuminate
these hands
hypnotic candle flame
that we don't want to see go out on a windy evening
beeswax hands
to spell your name on the clouds
slip off death row
Avoid trifles exchanged at Heaven's Gate
do nothing more
for bare head
in humility
receive
this outstretched hand
in the silence of poetry
clear sound
of the keyboard of all music
towards which to walk
slow explosion of sentences
on the invisible of the encounter
to make visible the pretty blue of a sky
smoothed by fairy fingers .


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A dot on the i

 pure space dans lequel fleurissent et se perdent les fleurs
 Le sens aigu de la citrouille se découvre calèche
 L'ange me convie à ne plus toucher terre with its diaphanous wings
 Un souffle
 Une caresse
 Un vertige tranquille empli d'exquises senteurs
 Les cigales stridulent
Tout concourt à la redistribution du livre d'heures
Du point pierre éclate l'envol soyeux de l'âme
Oiseau de passage et si présent
Éloquence élégiaque defenseless more like a fire
Et si persuasif
Que ces choses vides et indifférentes in tender familiarity
Me somment d'être en dehors de moi
Pour d'une mort éclose
Donner sens et amour
En retour de mission. 
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l’imagination créactive

     L'imagination active
 the creative imagination that creates in and through action
 imagining it letting itself be carried away by what is
 he is I' " being " in the thick of things
 the i-magine
 Maginot lines
 in their frozen concrete
 for measured defibrillation
 get in the airwaves
 which come and go and are spaced out
 creating the intracellular vacuum
 weaving logical associations .

     There is singular scope 
 every time a face
 lights up the top of the dark shale wall
 bright eyed face
 and white beard
 that the soft voice makes vibrate .

     Scale of Life
 torn from the first reptile
 that the wind blows away from the path to the prickly bugs .

     Fog horn heard
 when from the valley
 ride the breath of the beast .

     Stamped indentation
 Avogadro's number
 whose open jacket reveals
 the heart oozes with myrrh .

     Momentum in flight so slow
 angels above
 chestnut and holm oak
 candelabra in my house .

     Vertical thinking
 out of the impulsive wave
 imprinted scents
 the roughness of the glabrous exchanges .

     Monosyllabic return
 panting of the animal
 out of the woods
 edge of beginnings .

     just yourself
 in whom the other without ankylosis
 take the bloat out of tradition
 under the veil of acceptance .

     Sagacity at the risk of being
 just a turnaround
 at the dawn of the new day .


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Psychology, what heals

 Of point of the person who meets a shrink :

L’intention. want things change in my behavior, let the sufferings ease .

The relationship, the quality of the relationship, to face each other, where the individual becomes a person. The quality person is always interpersonal ; there can be no “is” without one “tu”.

“I do not really become a person only when I look you in the eye and I allow you to look into mine.”

Establish the link, a bond by which one feels welcomed and accepted in one's be, a connection felt deep within, far beyond what we can say and express, a bond that makes you feel naturally at home self, and that an essential exchange will take place .

the speech.To be welcomed with its own language. My language is me. It's what makes me be in the world, protects me and defines me. It's a essential part of my identity. my language, these are my words but also this that my physical body shows through movements and microphones – signs .

Healing is belisten, it is to meet a professional who is in a present state and not tensevigilance, whose attitude of active benevolence can move me and make you want to confide in me. I wait for the other to be calmly centered in himself and that his unconditional acceptance of what is is full and whole .

is to be heard andwelcomed without judgment.

This isto feel by my body, my psyche, my soul and my affects what is happening in me about what is happening there, so different by the framework of the meeting and yet so close to me bytrust which is established .

This isnumberconcisely and most clearly possible what i feel .

For the practitioner :

It is to identify by listening as broadly as possible to all the elements of the process of meet, in a continuum of consciousness, in Le contact in the process of unfold there between us, in the contact that is established here and now but which nevertheless illuminates the past and the future .

It is to create a climate of lightness and freedom for the other, which also allows the identification analysis elements .

This iscreate a frame just as concrete as symbolic and imaginary, clear and safe, but which must not be a wall adjoining to allow access to the real setting .

It is to launch tracks, hypotheses, milestones, which the other can seize if they are its scope, without being redundant with what it is, nor too far from his emotional capacities and understanding of the moment. This isadjust creatively and with relevance to situation .

It's loving everything the having of this being before oneself in what it gives .

This isto love the being of that being, his accumulated wealth in his life story, its potentialities and what it is in the deployment of himself, in its unfolding towards its growth of being, in its opening to world .

This is maintainthe right distance between him and me in order to update and work on the disturbances in the relationship between him and his environment,  with maximum clarity in feel and readability in expression without forcing the other to be other than what he is where/and shows its entourage .

It's clearing all the elements ofconfluence, fromprojection, d’introjection, fromrétroflexion and D’egotism in what is being played out about our meeting. It is to be the tactful mechanic who sensitively dismantles and reassembles the small pieces of human machinery that remain very much alive during the existential transaction that connects us, conjugates us, declines us and we grows up .

It is to consider the other as a growing human being, like a pilgrim on a path initiatory, embarked on an uninterrupted path of consciousness. be a man, is to be a traveler, Always moving .

This isfrom the beginning, from where the other is, with his life story, with his emotions that feed the emergence of what unwittingly hatches in the crucible of our contact. The quality of being “nobody” and not an individual implies a quest for his true identity for the purpose of constant effective individuation towards what one is really .

It is to hold the course and be theguarantor of the frame, to record what is happening, was, in the space-time of the present encounter and in the succession of our encounters .

This isexperimentwith relevance, situations that happen to the rhythm of the one who comes in confidence to be treated and under the guidance of the one who is responsible for caring for him. So will be able to emerge these elements of the psychological mechanics at work in our psyche, not in hitting the other with peremptory diagnoses and restorative balms but by directing him towards paths where he himself may be able to give meaning to what is happening .

Do not use histheoretical knowledge only with caution. Theory and technique cannot embrace the whole of the psyche, the psychic treatment being a ” total relationship ” who engages the practitioner as much as the patient far beyond theory and technique .

This isto be patient without being wait-and-see .

This isbe stimulating without preceding the other on his way of life .

This isto be fair in his actions in the sense of“justice” so as not to deceive the other and give him desire to go even further in self-knowledge .

This is be in creative fit with what is there, correct the, in the here and now and aftercontact .

It is to live in simplicity, in humility and awakening the psychology session where the work also goes beyond our cognitive abilities to clarify situations, good beyond what is said here, and where the change that occurs there is as much skills matter, than vitality andself-healing abilities so stimulated that the no one possessed deep down .

It is to prefer the uncertain and sensitive value of human activity experiencing what happens the, to the reassuring tranquility full of a priori, of inferences and false certainties of those who know how to go about treating, of one who calms – although it is sometimes necessary – , failing to register the person in a step ofresponsibility and conscience to build itself his happiness .

Poetically your is to know that in the mists of the morning just as much as in the twilight of the evening, there is everything around us that is not us, that live or have lived by multiple people and that the world is full of possibilities for meeting and dialogue .

open up in self-respect to what is other can only be relationship who heals .

It is to bethe adventurer of his future, onwonder and in view of its behaviours, on the way to well-being on your lifeline. This is belibre, which is not easy because as Kirkegaard says : ” The most terrible thing given to men is the choice, freedom . “

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to like, yes but for good

There arethree initiatory modes of the meeting allowing love .

The best isa sudden emptiness of the soul in which the images disappear, ideas and words are silent, freedom and clarity open up suddenly within us in such a way that our whole being is seized. Everything becomes prodigious, deep, evident in what is distant and infinite incomprehensible. This contact is a pure breath of intelligence .

A way more ordinary crosses the desert in which, although we can't see anything, understand nothing, feel nothing, otherwise a kind of pain and anguish, we are drawn and dwell in this darkness and this aridity because it is only there that we find a little stability and peace. As we progress, we learn to rest in this arid quietude, and the soothing assurance of a comforting presence and powerful at the heart of this experience is growing more and more. Reveals in a light which is painful for our nature and all its faculties in walk of being, the hard-to-sustain attraction of becoming much more than what that we seem to be. We are then infinitely surpassed and the purity of this attraction conflicts with our selfishness, our blindness and our imperfection .

And then there ison the way to tranquility full of flavor, of rest and sweetness in which, without there being nothing that satisfies especially the senses, l’imagination et l’intelligence, the will rests in a deep, luminous and absorbing experience of love .

It is then that raise before you the Person, ce support, this soul mate, this mirror, this otherness, this extraction out of its own image, this requirement to resemblance, what I exist for in the encounter, what i can do drown and that by which I may also be revealed. Place your bets, do your “is”, necessarily in relation to the other, trying However, do not get too attached to the other .

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loneliness can be learned

   The physical loneliness, external silence and true recollection are essential for those who want to lead a life in conscience. but like many things in this world are only means to achieve a end, and if we don't visualize the end we will misuse the means .

It's not to run away from men, that we ourselves retire to the desert but to better see the world in which we are and seek ways to be more useful. Some who have never experienced true solitude will be able to affirm without hesitation that the solitude of the heart is the only one that matters and that the other, outer loneliness, doesn't matter. But these two solitudes are not incompatible. One can lead to the other .

The most real loneliness is not outside we, it is not the absence of noise or the absence of being around us ; it's an abyss that opens in the depths of our soul, a need for food never can be satisfied. Only one way leads to loneliness, that of the hunger, thirst, pain, vulnerability and desire, and the man who has found loneliness finds himself empty, as if drained by death. He crossed the horizons, there is no longer a way for him to take. He found in a country where the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. He do not travel anymore because it is by remaining motionless that one discovers this country .

And it's there, in this loneliness, what begin the most fruitful activities. This is where you learn to work in the relaxation, to increase their vision, to see in the darkness and find, beyond desire, a door that opens to infinity .

Materially, conditions are necessary. You have to have a place, in nature or in a room with a room where no one can find us, bother us or just notice us. He we must be able to detach ourselves from the world to really be of this world. We must liberate ourselves by untying the tense and tenuous ties that bind us by seen, hearing, the smell, the feelings, thinking about the presence of men. And when such a place is found, let's be satisfied but let's not be troubled if we are forced to leave it for a good reason. love this place, let's go back as soon as possible and don't change it for the slightest peccadillo. And in this place, let's breathe easy, naturally, without precipitation, so that our minds can rest, forget your worries, to plunge into the silence and the secrecy of all things .

Some men evoking inner loneliness think it is possible to live in the middle of the world and its confusion. They admit that outer loneliness is good in theory, but argue that it is better to safeguard inner solitude while living with others. In fact, their life is devoured by activities and strangled by attachments of all kinds.. They fear inner loneliness and do everything they can to escape it.. And what's worse, is that they try to draw others into activities as vain and all-consuming as their own. They are great servants of “the cause”, great creators of more or less useful work. They print programs, write letters, and phone for hours. They are happy to organize meetings, from banquets, conferences, courses and events. They animate and spend themselves without counting. They will even be able to bring together a large number of people around the theme of loneliness with so much solicitude that the tumult, interpellations and applause can only remove the spirit of loneliness from its unspeakable accuracy .

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Tradition and revolution

   There are human traditions which tend to stagnate and alter. They are those that attach themselves to objects and values ​​that the time ruthlessly destroyed. They are linked to contingent things and material – customs, modes, styles, attitudes – which inevitably change with time and are replaced by others .

He is also traditions that are like the breath of a body, that renew life preventing stagnation. They are calm and peaceful revolts against the dead .

These traditions to stay alive must be revolutionary. They will always be there because they refuse the norms and values ​​to which human thought attaches itself with ardor .

To those who love money, pleasure, the honours, the power, this living tradition tells us to see the other side of things, to seek the true meaning of our life, peace of mind .

Les révolutions lorsqu’elles ne sont que politiques transforment les choses en apparence. Elles s’effectuent dans la violence. power changes hands, mais quand la fumée se dissipe et qu’on a enterré les morts, the situation is the same as before. Une minorité d’hommes forts arrivent au pouvoir et font disparaître les opposants, for personal purposes. Greed, cruelty, debauchery, l’ambition, greed and hypocrisy are the same as before .

The alliance of a living tradition and a humanist revolution can set the course for a existential unfolding respectful of the fragile and shifting balances every human group needs. This alliance cannot be closed on agreed archaic principles, nor open to the modernist all-comers. She must make you want to grow, it must make the spirit of the group hungry crossing the surface of the words will have to go beyond what the words express. mysteries, for in the humility of silence, intellectual loneliness and a a certain inner poverty to combine with desire – engine of our human human-animal condition -, the momentum of a unique intuition, towards a truth unique that we possess deep within ourselves and that we know sometimes, intermittently .

At this stage of understanding of this human condition in motion, between tradition and revolution, emergence from the depths of the psyche and the soul, traits of lucidity and intuition, encounters the existential experience in the necessary communicating relationship of this research process involved with men of good will, to all men in the making to be .

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hatred overwhelms

She brings together beings who have nothing in common with each other, beings who are in the impossibility of fleeing from themselves or from others.

Forced to stay whole, men and women of hate burn in place while trying to repel each other. What they hate most is less what they see in others that the hatred they feel others have for that what they see in them. It is what others send back to them of their own image and their actions and gestures which makes them wallow in hatred. They recognize in their brothers and sisters what they hate in them. selfishness, jealousy, impotence, terror, the despair, hatred, it's bad .

It is not the evil which is a negative entity, but rather the absence of a perfection that should be. Evil is boring because it is the absence of something that could interest us body and soul, and the intellect .

What can we entice into evil acts, it's not bad, but the good that is there find, a good seen under a false aspect, in a distorted perspective. A good that we see like a mirror to the larks, who makes us reach out, but who is only a bait in a trap. And when the trap closes, there is nothing left than disgust, boredom or hatred .

People of hate live in a world full of betrayals, d’illusions, manipulation, lies and boredom. And when they try to drown out this boredom with noise, unrest and violence, they get even more boring. They are scourges for the world and society .

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integrity and humility

 Integrity is to be yourself. It's not believing you have to become someone else .

It is not to use his mind and body in the mad enterprise of living the another's experiences, to write the poems or to live the spirituality of the other. Too often men hasten to give themselves importance by imitating what is successful, because they are too lazy to imagine better. They want quick success and are in such a rush that they don't take time to be themselves .

Integrity coexists with humility. For the truly humble man, manners to be, the customs and habits of men are not matters for conflict. Humility is not about trying to be different, as if we knew better than anyone what we are and what we should be .

How can we be ourselves if we lead the life of another ? And it takes courage to just be yourself, in line with our destiny. As well the anxiety we may experience in maintaining our balance, to be honest, in difficult situations, to continue to be yourself without harshness, without impose our false personalities on the false personalities of others, may teach us to become deeply humble .

One of the characteristics of the humble person is that others do not know what to think from her . They wonder if she's crazy or just proud .

Humility has loneliness as a sister, that of infinite spaces where everything happens, even the postponement of things said and by which everything contributes, in the coming and going of the conditions of the mind, with the wind of instincts , crumbling passions and wonders of his own image .

Integrity to sister Athena, the pride of being a man/woman standing, to hold the bar, to be vertical, ready to face adversity, to commiseration-reflex, to doubt and self-puffiness .

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