35. Blue like jazz.

Los decisiones:
- otra vez es un libro sobre el grande problema de humanidad: nosotros nos mismos estamos sirviendo siempre.  La cosa es que es bien difícil a hacer algo diferente.  Debo decidir en algunos acciones especificas para empezar:
1) voy a trabajar mas con el gobierno para crear leyes que va a proteger los mas vulnerables.
2) voy a sentarme y hablar con los que no tiene un hogar.
3) voy a traer comida para dar a ellos que tienen hambre.
4) voy a dar mas dinero a kiva.
5) voy a intentar a elevar las expectativas de mi sociedad y enseñar los demás por que es importante a vivir como este.
6) voy a tratar cada persona como ellos son mis hermanos o hermanas.
Con estos voy a empezar.

Los puntos claves:


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35. Blue Like Jazz.

The decision:
- Again is a book on the great problem of humanity: we are always serving ourselves. The thing is that it is very difficult to do something different. I should decide to start some specific actions:
1) I will work with the government to create laws that will protect the most vulnerable.
2) I will sit down and talk to those who do not have a home.
3) I will bring food to give them hungry.
4) I will give more money to kiva.
5) I will try to raise my expectations of society and teach others that it is important to live like this.
6) I will treat each person as they are my brothers and sisters.
I'll start with these.

The key points


Jesus calls us to do so many things.  Why don't we do them?
If we could fix our self absorption we could fix a lot of problems in the world.
Jesus didn't play favorites.  He loved all who were broken.  Aka all.
Don't be too proud to receive gods charity.  Its called grace.  We don't deserve it.
God should a being with whom we interact, who we believe likes us and wants to be with us.  The way I miss those I love he misses me.  The way I am lonely or feel their absence when they don't call or write, he feels for me.
Faith in god produces humanitarianism.  At least it should.
Love certainly has some data involved, but mostly it is a deep deep conviction.  Something that happens to you more than you actually control it.  Life is about this thing, there really is no option for it to be about anything else.
We follows pop culture icons not because we resonate with what theory believe but because they are cool.  We desperately want to Be cool: to have acceptance that is far reaching and impactful.   Sometimes we believe things because they are cool or trendy to believe, and what we say de believe because a trend statement.  It is so important to actually believe things.  See below for what that looks like.
People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something.  If you believe something passionately people will follow You.
Spirituality should rid you of hate, not give you reasons to hate the other.
Love people because they exist.  Its the only reason you need.
The machinery of attraction does not shut down after you walk down the isle.  You will find other people hot.  You will not find them as attractive as your wife.  This is because marriage is teamwork, and teamwork is very attractive.
Nobody will listen to you unless they sense you like them.
Every conversation has two parts.  The words you say: the surface, the subject.  The second is a heart conversation: you communicate whether you like this person or not.
Too often we use love like a currency: we reward those people we like and chastise those we do not.  We withhold love to punish or change people.
The fact that people exist is reason enough to love them.  Others are important because they exist.  They are just as important as you and there are so man more of them.
It is so much easier to be selfish than selfless.
What you believe is not what you say you believe.  What you believe is what you do.
It is a lot more difficult to live for something than to die for it.  Dying for something is associated with glory, with a single momentary decision, with a strong will at a single time.  Living for something requires daily decisions, daily sacrifices, daily action and reaffirmation. It goes beyond glory and recognition and fashion because you must continue.  And continue.  And continue.  A better question: what would you give your life for?
If you met Jesus, would he like you?  Lots of people don't like Christianity, but you will be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't like Jesus.
You never question the truth of anything until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
When in love it is finally easy to think of someone else before yourself.  So our job is to be in love with everyone?  Love is a little bit of heaven, isolation a little bit of hell.
Alone, lonely, loneliness are the most powerful words.  They are like hunger and thirst but for the soul.
The soul aches for companionship, relationship.  We need other people.
If we are not ready to wake up every morning and die to ourselves perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are following Jesus.
You cannot let your self worth be derived from the love of others.  It has to be that god loves you.  Unconditionally. God wants you to receive his love and you love yourself.  Irrespective of the love we get from someone else.  Thus a key to happiness is the ability to receive love.  To accept the love of god and others.