Table of contents hide 1 Existential Enthusiasm - Part 1- By Roberto Pérez - commented by Gisela S. Hurtado 2 So how to live that enthusiasm? 3 This passion has to do with the desire 4 Let's see the opposite of this what I call the "bad being" 5 This is the key basis of life 6 The person who is happy naturally is astonished, excited and has passion. It's like being happy, s the source of wonder, enthusiasm and passion. 7 So now we go deep, what is happiness?

In this article I will talk about one of the conferences conducted by Roberto Peréz since it is an issue that I see every day in my office and that afflicts many people. From this growing concern that I observe in many people and that, as an individual, has also crossed me is that I want to share their teachings and wisdom on the subject in question. Everyone at some point in life has lost the joy of living, the sense of existence. So to encourage them more and help them and help me re-build it, I leave you these wonderful words of the Anthropologist Roberto Peréz.

Existential Enthusiasm - Part 1- By Roberto Pérez - commented by Gisela S. Hurtado

Today I gave the title existential enthusiasm because it has to do with an attitude difficult to sustain . The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek theou, in God . And in Greek thought, enthusiasm was an inner experience of joy, but an inner joy of fullness . That is why we said it is like being in the divinity, being in the fullest that you existed . Enthusiasm is an inner state and is different from euphoria, euphoria is being outside itself . In the soccer field you are with euphoria, in a moment of passion you are with euphoria. Enthusiasm, on the other hand, is like a feeling of inner fullness that makes you scream or clap, but it is like a burst that sprouts from within. Then the enthusiasm has to do with something intimate, inner, that does more to the deep sensitivity. I repeat the euphoria is circumstantial and purely emotional.

So how to live that enthusiasm?

What attitudes do we have to have to live that enthusiasm? So first, let's put words. If one had to say, following those who already know me, it is the triangle of consciousness, yes? It is that from the moment we get up until we go to bed we think, feel and act. Mind, heart and will . I would say in the growth of our consciousness, there are three attitudes that are tied together. One goes hand in hand with the other. So, one might ask, what is the source of this that I am going to say here, but we could say that these three attitudes are key to a way of living with a consciousness fuller .

So the first thing is that if I go to the area of ​​the mind (tip of the triangle) the first attitude that is generated in life, it is a way of disposing, different, and it is the astonishment . The astonishment is this impact that life gives me, and from which I link with reality in a much more superlative way. When it amazes you and impacts you here, (third eye, front) you live it as something, something opens up, an inner clarity . The astonishment has to do with all philosophies, where philosophies are born, and for all Greek philosophers, that wonder is the knowledge of wisdom . If something does not surprise you, you are not going to put your heart or mind or dedication. When someone says I am no longer astonished at all, in this country I am not astonished at all, it is pathetic, because not to be amazed means that life does not impact me and the first thing that impacts us in life, is ac That feeling that there is something that catches my attention, that seems valuable to me. Then the astonishment is that impact that life has on us.

You have to let yourself be impacted, you have to stop seeing that the things that impact us are so extraordinary, when the ordinary is what impacts us, when the simple is what impacts us, one would say that you are living qualitatively better . If we are only amazed by spectacular things, and generally and unfortunately we are amazed by negative things, and so we feed our lives . When I learn to be amazed at the little everyday things, my consciousness, my quality of life is greater . That is why astonishment really depends on two things. It depends on the outside obviously, but it depends on my attitude of how I am out. If I am only seeing the utilitarian, the material, if I am only seeing the exterior. If I only stay in what happens, obviously I will have a look of two types.

Or of an indifference, today if they arrived here, with the full moon there, you looked at the moon and it struck you. If the simpleness of a full moon no longer amazes us, if only as I say, astonishment goes through spectacular things . One is undermining the quality of life, because the shadow is taking other things by the hand. So that amazement, I repeat depends on the outside but depends on my inner attitude. I decide to live astonished or not. I decide it is a personal decision. Certainly the outside shows me things that amaze me, but I decide to open myself to astonishment or not.

Then, this astonishment is the impact of life on us, which comes through our senses or what we perceive. But astonishment is the first key of the second door that leads us to enthusiasm . And here is the enthusiasm has to do with sensitivity, what does not surprise me does not excite me . Astonishment is an impact on the ability to reflect (mind), enthusiasm is in the heart . So when something amazes me and excites me, then what I do is put passion in what I do. Passion is somehow the daughter of amazement and enthusiasm. I can't live with passion in life if I don't have amazement and enthusiasm.

This passion has to do with the desire

And this desire has to do with a phrase that so many times I have told them "the important thing is not if you lose or if you win, the important thing is that you do not lose the desire". Feeding the desire, is done with a mind that is astonished and with a heart that is excited . The desire has to do with that, in whatever activity, if you are no longer amazed at what you do you have no enthusiasm, and you lose the passion, the routine begins to appear and apathy all the time.

I love it when the things that I say have nothing to do with extraordinary things, my grandmother when I was doing Milanese put passion on her, they understand me. She put all the desire and when he made the pasta, prepared and kneaded and had it. It took a longer time than obviously those bought, but she wanted to and you ate their desire, not pasta . You ate the enthusiasm he had when he did it, that the grandmother put on, and that he began to sing, for example. And it was always a moment of amazement to be with his grandchildren, with his children, he was always with a feeling that he was new . And this seeing as something new, with enthusiasm and desire gave the food a different flavor.

So if that happens like that, in more elementary things, let's take it to all the orders of life . These two attitudes, all these things are what I call, is "good to be . " Someone really is well, to be well, what is it to be well? Someone says to be well, is not to be wrong. No no no no. I'm fine as saying I'm not bad, I'm fine. Well-being has to do with something else, it has nothing to do with the emotional, it has to do with this. I can get up enthusiastically, with desire or not. And the day I'm going to dye it that way.

Let's look at the opposite of this what I call the mal be

When indifference is in place of astonishment, when instead of enthusiasm is dissatisfaction and when instead of passion is apathy. Imagine someone indifferent, someone with an attitude of permanent dissatisfaction and someone who has an apathy in life. Really those milanesas and, or I don't want to eat them, or that doesn't interest me. Because the person who begins to act in the other way, and who is wrong, is that the same will be. You will have what you do and what you live with that attitude. And that indifference, that dissatisfaction, and that apathy takes away his life and what he does is done by obligation . He does it for obedience, for compliance. And always remember that compliance is fulfillment and lie, then the person who does things for compliance is because if he does not do it they will tell him something, he does not want to do it. He does not do them from an inner enthusiasm, he does it because he has no other, he does it because I have to do them.

I say even in the simplest things and also in the most sacred things, those who share our Christian tradition, the person who says I have to go to Mass. If I am up, I say: No! stay at home because with that face Why do you come ?, stay calm, I do not need you to come . Say I have to go to no !. When everything is born of a I have to. . it is of an attitude opposite to this, and in that attitude as I say, indifference, indigestion and apathy . If they are throwing their lives like that, they know that one will end up having a face of terrible indigestion . He is a person who does not digest life, which is a bit of the sensation we have when we see, many people even, that when he has the corner of his mouth down, you feel that something is happening, not it's ok ( t be well ) And it does not happen because something bad happened to you, because even the person who is like that, when you get to difficult situations, manages to put another different obvious attitude. It is not that things do not hurt, it is not that life passes us outside, no, but walking through life like that, life's difficulties are experienced differently, but instead when negative situations come and they find you on the other side, the truth is that you make a drama of every little one. I believe that this is the case, the person who has well-being or who has this well-being that we are talking about, life becomes a little more relaxed, it does not mean that he has no problems, but that the drama of An inner state.

On the other hand, the person who, as I say, is on the other side, has a permanent malaise that enlarges things so much that sometimes the problem is small but it becomes capitalized by the state of the person . This for me is like a key to life, or what I call the artisan of living . The art of living healthy . It has to do with this, with this well be . That is why there is a phrase that is already old but I say it so as never to forget it that it says "we enjoy little because of how much we have, and we suffer greatly because of what little we lack . " We enjoy little for how much we have and suffer little for how much we lack. It would seem that many people in the daily life, in that daily malaise, always see what is missing . Then it is easy that in that state of seeing what is missing, those attitudes, which I say, are not, are rather, indifference, dissatisfaction and apathy . What am I going to do that for, and what am I going to change with that? I am with an inner state of feeling of helplessness, the person who has this state of being well, usually has a much stronger attitude and courage.

This is the key basis of life.

Now the fundamental question is, how do I do or what do I have to do to live like this? Then one would say see, let's go to this. What causes this? one would say well they are outside events that impact me and when they impact me they lead me to astonishment and enthusiasm . It is true, many times external facts lead us to astonishment, enthusiasm and desire. But it is certainly not the external, what moves this. This movement is really achieved when one manages to be happy.

The person who is happy naturally is amazed, excited and passionate. It's like being happy, s the source of wonder, enthusiasm and passion.

Recently I saw a movie that I highly recommend that is called "the Pacific warrior", look for it and watch it. The proposal of the whole film is of an older person who says to a young man "be happy", because if you manage to be happy this will come to you, but if you are not happy, that inner state of unhappiness takes away your astonishment, you Take away your enthusiasm and take away your desire.

So now we go deep, what is happiness?

Existential enthusiasm in life but also passion and wonder are supported by this happy being . So now let's see, what is happiness and what are the poisons against happiness, the poisons that do not poison life and happiness.

It is not a minor issue huh.

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PART 1: existential-enthusiasm-part-1-by-roberto-perez-commented-by-gisela-s /

PART2: existential-enthusiasm-part-2-by-roberto-perez-comments-by-gisela /

PART 3: existential-enthusiasm-part-3-by-roberto-perez-comments-by-gisela-s /

PART 4: existential-enthusiasm-by-roberto-perez-part-4-comments-by-gisela-s /

REDACTORA: Gisela S., editor of the great family of the White Brotherhood.

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqaFKoy2Is0