Showing posts with label message of love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label message of love. Show all posts
June 25, 2014
“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul,
and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”
Michael Jackson
In the 5 years since Michael's passing people (younger fans and people outside the fan base) have discovered or re-discovered his talent and the beauty in his work. His legacy as an amazing artist, musician, entertainer, humanitarian is less clouded by hate-noise.
A lot of tributes have poured in showing how much Michael influenced people from may fields not just musicians.
For me today, the most impressive (and my source of comfort) is the amazing energy that comes from the MJ family - the core fan base - that is carrying on the legacy of love.
Munich, Germany
Denkmal fuer Michael Jackson
Best, Netherland
Michael Jackson Memorial Place
Mistelbach, Austria
Denkmal 4 Michael Jackson
This places speak about the bond between the fans.
The love we share is so valuable.
This blog too is an expression of our group's connection and the love we share.
And this is a blessing.
I love you.
"Love is important, to love each other. We're all one. That's the message."
Michael Jackson
...
"Through my joy and my sorrow, In the promise of another tomorrow, I'll never let you part - For You're Always In My Heart."
In 2012 the UN's Secretary-General's UNITE to End Violence against Women campaign declared the 25th of each month as Orange Day. The initiative comes as a result of the need to further promote the cause and raise awareness to the ongoing struggles to eliminate violence against women.
To this day this is one of the most widespread violations of human rights.
FACTS
Up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime.
Between 500,000 to 2 million people are trafficked
annually into situations including prostitution, forced labour, slavery
or servitude, according to estimates. Women and girls account for about
80 per cent of the detected victims.
It is estimated that more than 130 million girls and women
alive today have undergone FGM/C, mainly in Africa and some Middle
Eastern countries.
The cost of intimate partner violence in the United States
alone exceeds $5.8 billion per year: $4.1 billion is for direct medical
and health care services, while productivity losses account for nearly
$1.8 billion.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
identifies violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence
that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or
psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such
acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in
public or in private life.”
Starting today, the next 16 days (up until Human Rights Day on December 10) are dedicated to providing education, awareness and a platform for individuals and groups to come together and join efforts in ending violence against women.
"The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved"
Michael Jackson
More on Universal Children's Day / Children's Rights:
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
Friedrich Nietzsche
For children play is the
way they learn about the world, themselves and others. Play is their
laboratory in which they can experiment with being anywhere, anyone,
anytime.
At least that is how it should be ...
“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.”
Kay Redfield Jamison
To some children I know play is hard work as they have to learn how to play, it doesn't come naturally. And as they discover bit by bit the wonder of play, they find themselves and meet the others. I also know children for whom play is a distant dream. It's something that they crave but seldom get a chance to experience. I know children who have been fortunate to be able to play with almost no restraints, who's play is nurtured and protected. I know children who live in fear, forced out their homes, forced to work, being abused and have no place to play outside their minds.
"A child's play" is often use as a way of describing something that is easy, simple, trivial.
To me nothing could be further off reality. Child's play is complex in both it's construction and effects on the development, child's play is most important for the development of imagination and social, emotional, language and thinking skills.
“Play is the work of the child.”
Maria Montessori
Teachers, scientists, philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, authors from the earliest times have argued the importance of play for both children and adults.
When we grow up we chose to forget about play. We dismiss it and get caught in our serious business. We have no time to play and we rush our children along.
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
Around the world there are people dedicated to bringing love, joy, laughter, escapism to children and adults who find themselves in difficult situations and would not have otherwise access to such wonder, through play.
The Flying Seagull Project is an example of dedicated individuals who donate their time and talents to create opportunities for children and adults alike to play with all the resulting benefits.
We believe everyone has the right to laugh and enjoy their life,
no matter their financial, physical, pychological or societal situation. We believe every child should have the right to play freely without risk or threat. We believe play, creativity and laughter is essential to a child’s development
and therefore to the community as a whole. We believe that energy and positivity are contagious
and intend to spread them as far and wide as possible. We believe that everyone, everywhere is entitled to communicate and to be heard in whatever way is possible, and we hope to give people voices wherever we go. We believe that the purpose of learning something is so that you can offer to share it with someone else, somewhere else, sometime else. We believe that a stranger is a member of the family you just haven’t met yet. We believe the first point of contact with anyone should be a smile. We believe in FUN as a philosophy. We believe in you!
You can visit their website and find out about their work and ways to help.
If you know about other such projects you can leave a comment and we will add them to this post.
"Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and
forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless
message that says, 'Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!' Without
the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist."
Michael Jackson
Justice for Michael has become the one cry that raises above all in the Michael Jackson fan community. During the 2005 trial it was what kept us going through and showed Michael he was not alone in his fight and showed the world that Michael meant so much to so many people.
After June 25th, 2009 Justice for Michael become an outcry of pain and sorrow and as details of how Michael died we all wanted for the doctor and the others to be brought to justice.
This year with the wrongful death trial Justice for Michael is a way of keeping strong through the details and attitudes and the grief.
And all that was and is amazing.
But Justice for Michael should mean more.
The success with the Jackson 5, the success with the Jacksons and as a solo artist, his talent, his work has brought him great joy, admiration, millions of fans but also envy and hate. For braking barriers, for reaching new heights, for transforming the music industry and for doing that while speaking in a soft voice. That contrast between the fierce artist and shy person has brought much comments, a lot of them mean and in tabloid style.
But in my opinion it wasn't the commercial success that attracted the hate. It was the raising up of his voice and profiting the success of Thriller and his work and starting to push for a message that brought together millions and made it possible for me to call family someone from Hong Kong, some people from the USA, some people from Germany, someone from Argentina. And I am sure I am not the only one who can say that.
And it is not like he started to be preoccupied about the state of the world and the well being of children after the sparkle dust from Thriller mania settled down. He was involved with charities and helping people from an early age. His music contained his concerns and expressed his willingness to act. His actions spoke of his kindness and determination to make a change within himself and bring people together for a better future. It's usually things that we admire in the people around us.
Yet he was ridiculed and criticized for it in many situations. His advocacy for children causes has been used as a way in to hurt him and since there was no way of limiting his talent and creativity people (and corporations) tried, and succeeded at times, to control his outreach around the world with the help of mud throwing.
If you take any Michael Jackson album review most critics you'll find are about the songs with messages about the greater good. With few exception. Even to the point where I felt some people wouldn't allow for him be anything else but a dance floor wonder. He was supposed to come up with as many Billie Jean as possible.
I don't intend to go further in this direction.
What for me would truly mean Justice for Michael is that Earth Song, Heal the World, Cry, They Don't Care About Us, Be Not Always, Another Part Of Me, Why You Wanna Trip On Me, Man In The Mirror, The Lost Children, We Are The World would be the most viewed and most listened songs.
I got nothing against Thriller. Or any other song. I love them all. Equally - even though I do prefer one over the other depending on the state of mind I am in just like everybody.
But when these songs will be most talked about and consequently reach that many people, when his work as a humanitarian and environmentalist will be recognize in full, then Justice for Michael would have been achieved.
And what is most amazing is all the people working towards that.
I miss you Michael.
Thank you.
"There is no one in the world like MJ. Never
has been. Never will be. We all know him in one way or another. In some
way he has touched us, been the voice of one of our sweetest memories.
And what a wonderful, genuine, compassionate, soft-spoken giant so full
of love. He gave us love, excitement, one-of-a-kind moments in a mundane
world. I can't believe he won't be with us here on earth anymore. But
long from now, when we are all dust, he will still never be forgotten.
To the best that ever did it!
You are loved, admired and respected
forever."
I can´t count how often I have watched the most famous scene from "Gold Rush Rolls" - without growing tired of watching.
Charlie Chaplin - famous all over the world- was one of the very few unique one of a kind artists, always creating something new, bringing joy, many smiles and laughters to the people and influenced with his 'Tramp' character many, many other artists. (It is told Chaplin once entered a "Chaplin look-alike" competition and did not make the final round.)
The tramp character character is possibly one of the most imitated on all levels of entertainment.
picture source:http://1.bp.blogspot.com
Michael Jackson saw himself in Charlie Chaplin....in life- story as well as in star image.
The London Evening Standard reported that Michael Jackson was in the process of rehearsing Chaplin’s song SMILE at the time of his death. Michael´s version of "Smile" was the final track on HIStory. His favorite line from the song was "smile, though your heart is breaking" as it was a mantra he lived by himself. Jermaine Jackson did sing a version of the song at Michael's memorial on July 7th 2009 at The Staples Center.
picture source: http://www.jackson.ch
Charlie Chaplin is mostly well known (and loved!) for his work during the silent film era. In his first talking picture, The Great Dictator, an act of defiance against Nazism, we find one of the most impressing and moving timeless speeches. At the end of the film Charlie Chaplin dropped out of his comic character to address the audience directly in a speech [transscript below] denouncing dictatorship, greed, hate, and intolerance, in favour of liberty and human brotherhood. Chaplin was accused of "un-American activities" as a suspected communist.
"It´s not socialist - its not capitalist - its not communist - its just human."
~ Comment of Youtube user sirwence
on Charlie Chaplin´s final speech in "The Great Dictator"
Charlie Chaplin´s "Speech Of Humanity" in "The Great Dictator",
Below please find the transscript of Charlie Chaplin’s moving oration from The Great Dictator.
"I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls – has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish…
Soldiers – don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written ” the kingdom of God is within man ” – not one man, nor a group of men – but in all men – in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness."
Our international It´s-All-For_love-Webteam bows in gratitude to Sir Charles Chaplin, for all the joy, he brought to us through so many years, connecting generations and people all over the world with their laughter and smiles together. He had both:the humour of a young boy and the wisdom of an old man with much experience in life.
We are thankful for the inspiration he was, is and will go on to be.
