inside the - Pró-Vida

PRÓ-VIDA
No. 3 YEAR 2015
INSIDE THE
LABYRINTH
our stories
Image: PRÓ-VIDA Archive
thinking
The point - this merely conceptual element
without dimension or shape - is an abstraction. It is unity,
the base of all geometry. Points have no volume, area, length or any
similar dimension. Thus a point is a zero-dimensional object. But from a point
other concepts can be defined. Euclid says that a point is that which "has no parts."
So would the point contain the Whole?
The point expands into a circle or a square. Or otherwise, a circle can be reduced
to a point. And so does the square.
Labyrinths have in their basic shape a circle which is combined with a spiral.
Mandalas on the other hand, have a circle that may end up in a square.
At the center of both - circle and square – there is the point
that expands itself.
What part of the Whole do you see in the expanded?
Notre-Dame
de
Chartres
"Man is a Universe in miniature"
Edouard Jeauneau, School of Chartres,around 1148.
Image: Benutzer Honge/ Wikipedia
world
curiosity
The stone
labyrinths
are well-preserved. Along the seaside or in
Over the centuries, a monastery has
the deep woods, there are at least 18 stone
expanded through the islands, reaching the
labyrinths, 600 funerary megaliths, and
coastal areas of the territory: the Solovetsky
various
megalithic
complex, an extraordinary example of
circles. The archipelago has been a place of
monastic settlement of the far North of
great monastic activity since the 15th
Europe. That is the reason why it has been
century, with several churches dating from
classified a World Heritage Site.
alignments
and
the 16th to 19th centuries.
Image: Vitold Muratov/ Wikipedia
In the
Arctic Path
curiosity
Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands, Russia
A UNESCO World Heritage Site
In the
Arctic Path
history
A coin that describes
the labyrinth of
Knossos.
Legenda figura : imagem
evocativa do mito do
Legenda figura : imagem
Minotauro e do labirinto
evocativa do mito do
de Knossos.
Minotauro e do labirinto
de Knossos.
how is your mind
A
person enters a city, one which has many streets and
alleys, and he keeps on walking along the streets and alleys of
this city.
He notices that everything is very difficult. He notices that the
streets are very narrow, and that the people bump up against
one another. He has no idea how the traffic runs. He doesn't
know who's going that way, who's coming this way, who's
moving in all directions. And so he tries to organize the city.
But, as he is unable to see everything, he stops and then says,
"All right, on this street let's all walk this way and on the
other let's all go that way, and here only this way..."
And after a while, he sees it didn't work, because it would
cause trouble over on the other side. And he starts to despair
and wants to find a way out. But he tried something!
You too—you have always been trying to do something in life.
Everyone tries to do something in their lives. Everyone tries!
But, after some time, feeling that you won't be able to
organize things so that you can have a better life, you search
for a way out. And then you go about desperately looking for
an exit, and so you run down one street and find no way out,
you run down another and find no way out, and you don't find
a way out...
One day you end up finding a way out and you leave the city,
get on the road once again and go.
But if the keeper of facts weren't defective, if the keeper of
facts were perfect, you would have learned the lesson well.
And upon encountering another city while walking along the
road, you would not enter it so recklessly. You would stop at
the city gates, look for a hill, a mount, because your keeper of
facts would have registered the previous experience and
would have taught you that you need to base yourself on
previous experiences, and you must always be alert so as to
better use your mind, for if you don't, you will always be
banging your head against walls.
>> To be continued on the next page
how is your mind
So you would then climb up a hill before entering the city.
You would gaze down from the hilltop at all the streets and
alleys of the city. You would observe how everything works.
You would look, analyze and then, before going down into the
city, you would look for the exit, figure out how to get out.
Then, with complete knowledge, you would enter the city,
and even choose the location that pleased you most. You
would live there long enough to nourish yourself before
getting back on the road. So you would go down, feed, try to
help organize - since you know more, for having seen from
above. And after you've undergone all the required
nourishing, you would easily go back and find the way out.
You would walk through the exit, find the road and follow the
road: the Road of Evolution, until you find a new city.
that exists in the keeper of the previously registered facts. But
the keeper of facts is broken in most people. So they do not
know that they must climb the hill before continuing on.
And they have every opportunity.
DR. CELSO CHARURI
Creator and Founder of PRÓ-VIDA
December 18, 1979
All this would normally happen for any person that starts to
better value his own mind: that has begun to correct the flaw
HOW IS YOUR MIND, published by Associação PRÓ-VIDA, São Paulo, Brazil, p. 52/53. Any reproduction, in whole or in part, is forbidden without the express authorization from the publisher.