Your Nicest and Greatest Gift

by jf on 19/03/2012

Do not conquer Happiness, as Happiness can not be conquered. Happiness has to be decided.Claim joy within you because it is within you and thanks to you that the universe is inventing itself. The masterpiece of yourself is nourished by its own purpose. Your temporal being is a musical instrument you have chosen to play [...]

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Presidential elections: who’s the next captain of the Titanic?

by jf on 06/03/2012

You get it: everything, almost, is in the title. It seems that most people have a hard time making the distinction between the captain of a ship, and the ship itself. If the ship has structural issues in the way it’s been conceived, it matters little who the captain is: structural issues will strike someday [...]

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Sri Aurobindo: “The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts…”

by jf 6 March 2012
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The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation,—for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment,—is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth [...]

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Radical fearlessness, soul decides when

by jf 2 December 2011

Recently, after reading the post “Towards a life of charity“, a dear friend of mine wrote me: “Your steps towards a future submerged in a life of charity reflect your sincere belief in the goodness of mankind and the strength of your being.  It is indeed inspirational though I am sure that I would never [...]

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Towards a life of charity

by jf 1 November 2011

Audio text (click here for direct link) : [Audio clip: view full post to listen]  Charity… since childhood, this is a word I only whispered in my inner cloister. Charity… The original radiance of this word has been dulled by the patina of time and by the encroachment of merchant ideology. Charity… he who asks [...]

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15 days until Centifolia 2011

by jf 4 October 2011

For our friends who may not yet know, Fernanda and I are investing a lot of time, effort, and love in Centifolia 2011, a congress that will bring together players from the perfumery and cosmetics industries October 19-21 in Grasse, the perfume capital of the world. Gosh, what could we possibly be doing at such [...]

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Did these men crash the world?

by jf 28 September 2011
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I wholeheartedly recommend this excellent 4 parts documentary called “Meltdown” from Al Jazeera. Part one is below. It explains with many details how the top finance lords have deployed their most subtle and vicious art as predators that eventually lead to the 1988 crash. No need to be a Nobel Prize economist to understand the systemic [...]

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Freudian Slips of Pyramidal Collective Intelligence

by jf 19 September 2011
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A friend of mine wrote me this morning: “My school just cut off two positions that were necessary to pursue the deployment of our project. I was supposed to hire these two persons but the context is bad and the management is opposed to any hiring! Even though I have faith, I start to feel [...]

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Sharing vs exchanging

by jf 8 August 2011

This morning a person joined TheTransitioner online community and wrote in her profile that for her sharing was more important than exchanging. I couldn’t agree more with her. Sharing is much more than exchanging. It raises a core collective intelligence question: how can we build large economies that are NOT just about exchanging (market economy), [...]

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Viviane-Josée Restieau, my sister of light

by jf 16 June 2011

I would like you to meet an extraordinary and exceptional person. In every aspects of her life she manifests with light. Her name is Viviane-Josée Restieau. Viviane is a great, extraordinary artist. I consider her to be one of the most enlightened artists of our time (we can say so!), one of these artists that [...]

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