Motivation

So, what do boxing and philosophy have in common? That's its own philosophical debate.
The short answer is...me. Boxing taught me how to focus, how to harness what i felt and make
constructive use of it. It taught me humility. It taught me sportsmanship, and through the years
and lives of boxers who came and went, it offered me a intricate look into complex lives.
There are a lot of stigma's associated with the sport and its fighters, much of it often never how
it was presented to the public. There were a lot of great moments and a lot of lives enriched and destroyed.

I came across this short video and it reminded me just how long the road to what one wishes
to accomplish...is, and just how short it can be.

Boxers whom i enjoyed (shout out):

Mike Tyson  (heavyweight)
Evander Holyfield  (heavyweight)
Marvin Hagler  (middleweight)
Shane Mosely  (welterweight)
Arturo Gatti  (welterweight)
Kevin Kelly  (lightweight)
Pernell Whitaker  (welterweight)
Bernard Hopkins  (middleweight)
Jermaine Taylor (middleweight)
Marco Antonio-Barrera (lightweight)

Carl Jung: A short Film

                                         -Short film by Michael Landrio / Moodswing Media-

Jung in 1910
Born	26 July 1875 Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland
Died	6 June 1961 (aged 85) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Residence	Switzerland
Citizenship	Swiss
Fields	Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Analytical psychology
Institutions	Burghölzli, Swiss Army (as a commissioned officer in World War I)
Doctoral advisor	Eugen Bleuler, Sigmund Freud
Known for	Analytical psychology
Signature

(Source: Wikipedia)

Two To Create (excerpt)

III. Two to Create

          It is said nothing can be done of self, only through the power of God. It is known among unmolested nature, that only when two join can life be extended. It is only in sharing that it all becomes worthwhile. Understand this, and then try to understand it beyond your current threshold. Life is not partial. It does not revolve around you and yours or for you and yours, until you realize that all is yours and you belong to all. Only then, can it be remotely possible for a true balance. Only then can one hope to find the real questions. Until then you are a simpleton. Embrace this, or you deny yourself. Deny yourself and you deny me, and then God help us both for all is lost. 

       Those who stand alone can only do so for so long, before they are withered down and become a shell. Those who battle anything outwardly battle themselves within tenfold and tear themselves apart from within. Life divided- shall die. If you have considered much, then I ask you to consider more. I ask you to shut your eyes and ears to your left and right, to your up and down and all around you. Look to the one place – within yourself. If you are scared, you should be. The monster you created is an ugly abomination guarding the pristine waters of your life, and like a chained pit bull around a delicate flower – it is only a matter of time before it is trampled. You will die, and all that you left around you in life will also wither and you have done, nothing. In this place, this self , lays the only salvation for yourself and for mankind. It must be found, or we are lost. It must be shared, before you steal it from yourself.

       This is the inner voice whom knows better. This is the child who dared to dream and without the worlds education, simply knew, somehow – all things were possible. Have you noticed the child who speaks his mind? How the adults, blush around him and trot their superiority while being incredibly envious of him? He is the fresh take on old ways. He is the voice that reminds the older ones just how far they have fallen from any grace. He does not condemn or pass judgment; this only arises in his final rebellion of adolescence. He gives you the look as if it speaks in whispers, asking you why you have given up. Just as it took two to create this voice, it takes two to stand as adults and say – no more. 

       Those two must find two more and then repeat these words. The two then must travel one way, the other two, another – and each must find two more. They must know that as they travel in twos, the two they meet are themselves reflected having only journeyed differently, therefore they appear as such. They must understand that they lack nothing the other has. They then understand the nature of all or nothing


~ Minoa