Oprah Winfrey scares me. Not because she can be perceived as being larger than Life {no pun intended, for Ms. Winfrey!!}, but because she projects herself to be bigger than anything permissibly possible being created.
This desire to be greater than great is very apparent in most American celebrities where Media plays a majority role in their lives – without which, I can only agree that empty vessels make the most noise – though one can literally see and feel within the emptiness. The Heart never clamours for global domination nor attention – it seeks only to return. The heart always play an opposite role to the mind wherewith realities of the common entices it to cling to, to settle therein, a reality which is convenient. For a heart to want to be bigger than life, it has to be nothing in life, to make it bigger than itself.
The Soul, the hidden essence potrays itself in smaller, finer things – where Media cannot touch it, nor condemn it.
I was expecting Oprah to say something from the heart in reference the late, Michael Jackson, King of popular Music – R & B Fusion inclusive. There was none to come, nor did Whitney Houston’s failure to get a grasp of her reality talking as if that’s what Idols do – resorting to drugs and more drugs as if their lives are basically based on it, and if all else prevails, then tragedy is part papparazzi to make them larger than life. It is sad. When one voice, one hand can touch so many lives elsewhere beyond their backyards, they cannot perceive themselves, the workings of the Media, making or breaking them. Surely after Ms. Monroe, one must have learnt something, at least if not more, in the art of closure… and darlings, I’m not talking of stack overflows as in computer science.
I know many women who attempt to live their lives by Oprah’s standards. That should be a compliment to her – but really if she had the power of attention, she would have at least ruled America, and made it into a nation of magnanity, of tolerance, of spirtual conscience rather than of war, bigotry amongst the many negative traits one would find in a society beset with lacklustre inferiority complexes. A big nation as in a powerful leader calls not unto its allies to wage war unto others but instead would take to task intelligence to encourage excellence rather than destruction, in whatever form.
I felt exceedingly small, but also exceedingly large, and the things that had once seemed so important now appeared trifling. Actually, those things had never even existed. I’d imagined every last one of them. Nothing ever really existed. Somehow, just then, navigating that cosmic ocean of sky, this was everything I needed to know. ~ Sol Luckman – The Toy Buddha: Book II of the Beginner’s Luke Series {The Beginner’s Luke Series}, Page: 15
Chivalry is not in the taking but rather in the giving and in that, accounts for growth irrespective the realities, one is subject to – for how can freedom in its truest sense of the word be when imperfect laws are part parcel of the society one is in – the flow would be too ambiguous, sardonic.
It is not pursuing after joy that results in disappointment, it is the incorrect method adopted in the pursuit of joy which brings, instead of joy, sorrow or disappointment. … Nothing can take away joy from the man who has correct understanding. Through all conditions of life he will retain it, but the one who lacks understanding, nothing in the world or Heaven there is which can bring him a lasting joy. This shows that, in reality, joy does not come from the external life, though always it seems so. Joy has only one source and that is the heart of man, which is the globe over his soul’s light. The soul has the tendency to look forward to what is going to be, or at what has been in the past.
It is the light of our soul, the intelligence that does this. Intelligence working through physical means is no greater than intellect. But intelligence working freely and independently from physical means is wisdom. And wisdom is not cleverness, but infinitely superior to it. Wisdom works independently of the physical means, and therefore, requires intuition. The clever person works by means of his physical body, but the wise… works independently of it. The Qur’aanulQariim states, “Allaah is the Light of the Heavens and of the earth {AllaahuNuruusSamawati walArdh}” and if there is any spark of The Lord that can be found in human kind, it is his intelligence.
Naturally, therefore, when this divine light which is hidden in man is once brought to a blaze and has risen as a flame, it illuminates his path towards perfection. This perfection is what is meant by freedom, in all totality of its essence.
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