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A Warm Weekly Recap
The Promising Truth of the Contemporary World, Sculptures by the Sea, quotes, poems and all cozy themes of life
Charbel Zeaiter
November 04, 2024
Good morning!
Welcome to the Monday wrap-up edition. This issue will be a good head start for this week’s adventures. So here we go:
My Week Wrapped Up
Inspiring things I’ve seen
Music that makes me smile
Tools I’ve used
Quotes I love
Things I’ve written
Inspiring Things I’ve Seen
Sculptures by the Sea
Last week I attended the famous annual outdoor sculpture exhibition of Australia called “Sculptures by the Sea” and it felt as though the beach gained a new life. A universal soul of art and creation was endowed into the environment there.
Artists from Australia and all around the world have manifested their artistic imagination through great site-specific sculptures that naturally go really well with the scenic landscape.
The Promising truth of the contemporary world:
Spiritual Insights from an episode of Next Level Soul Podcast with Kyle Cease
“Guru, I can’t do this. I don’t know if I can give up all those things I enjoy to do these teachings.”
“Do you smoke?”
“Yes.”
“You may continue that. Do you drink?”
“Yes.”
“You may continue. Are you promiscuous with women?”
“Yes.”
“You may continue.”
“But Guru, how can I do all these teachings and yet do all these things?”
“You can continue to do all those things, but I cannot guarantee you will want to continue after you take these teachings in.”
In this eye-opening podcast episode, Kyle Cease and Alex Ferrari discuss how today’s seemingly gloomy and chaotic world isn’t a result of what it seems to be. It’s rather something extremely essential for us humans.
Kyle beautifully explains that the world falling apart is not the end of humanity. Instead it’s the collapse of our “false selves” that we’ve been creating thought by thought and desire by desire and were so drowned in such darkness that it became the normality for us.
And now that the Universe, according to Kyle, is gradually pushing us out of this darkness into the light with self-realisation about all these lies, filters and layers we have been carrying wrapped around our truest self, we’re feeling overwhelmed.
Because the doom, though real and harmful, isn’t doom to us until we realise it’s a doom. Once we realise, the doom becomes foreign to us and we detach our pure self from the package of romanticised and normalised evil.
Ultimately what presently appears to be an utterly horrifying and devastating reality is just a painful yet necessary process of change. Process of transforming or better put, reclaiming our souls in their purest form; abundant with God-endowed stillness and power.
Music that makes me smile
Glam Slam by Prince: I once had the mini-disc which was a tiny CD that had three versions of this incredible track. Dang, why did I give it away?
This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) by Talking Heads: it was used as the final credit sequence for Umbrella Academy. Great TV series, great finale.
Tools I’ve used
This is not sponsored - it’s an exploration of what’s out there.
Meshy AI - a rapid 3D modelling tool. I dropped one of my rocket photos from Sculptures By The Sea, and I had a 3D model in less than 2 minutes. Will this put 3D Modellers out of work? I don’t think so, I see it as getting them to a point much more quickly than they could have in the past. What do you think?
Runway ML - another interesting tool that I’ve only just started using to see what can be created. Here’s a demo video of something I created - which will give you a hint as to what else I’ve been up to lately :)
Quotes I love
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” – G.Michael Hopf
“The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our feet.” –Swami Vivekananda
“If you will not imagine yourself as other than what you are, then you remain as you are.” –Neville Goddard
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Andre Gide
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’” –Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Things I’ve written
An extract of a poem I wrote recently-
It’s called “Echoes of Regret in Stone”
Rows of stone, silent witness
To lives lived, dreams unfulfilled
Whispers of regret on the wind
Forty echoes, stories untold
Courage faltered, truth untold
Time ticked away, joy unsold
Feelings bottled, words unspoken
Connections faded, promises broken
Work consumed, life unlived
Present moments, unappreciated
Happiness denied, self-unkind
Challenges dodged, growth left behind
World unexplored, sights unseen …
Read the whole poem here.
Pondering the Role of Fury combined with Ikigai
Amidst the ruin exists a thread — one that’s delicate, fierce, and ours to hold.
It’s the will to create.
Angry? Create.
Despair? Create.
Fury? Create.
Whatever the feeling, create.
For humanity’s sake, create.
Create, build, make.
Every product, every piece of art, every idea, every shared thought becomes an act of resistance, a counterforce to destruction. Creation isn’t just expression; it’s rebellion. It’s an act of refusing to sit still while self-interest fractures the world around us.
Read the article here.
What we’re working on
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