If you don't cry in this one, you are not human!!
Victor French gives an amazing performance of a man in grief.
Victor French gives an amazing performance of a man in grief.
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Victor French shines!!
bucs-240019 November 2019
Be The Change
spasek29 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Gandhi said it best: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." This translates to the aptly chosen title fo this episode: Heaven on Earth. Or, to take it a step further. Change your Self and you create heaven on earth.
Unfortunately, most people spend the bulk of their time attempting to change others. Or attempting to change the situation. This is an endless battle that can only result in one way: defeat.
This is an especially powerful episode that sees Mark wracked with guilt because he firmly believes that he's responsible for the death of a little girl whom he helped earlier at a nearby amusement park.
The mind has only one function: to think. And in that thinking, we play a game that can only ever lead to misery. We play the "what if" game. We believe that if circumstances or if people were different, a different result would happen.
When a person passes away, there is no power in the universe that can change that. None. Allowing our mind to plague us with guilt with "what if" scenarios is not only pointless and counter-productive, it prevents us from accepting things as they are. It prevents us from being in the moment.
We can easily relate to Mark's anguish, for most of us have been in a similar situation at some point. Something bad happens, and our mind kicks into overdrive about how we could have done things differently.
Jonathan has to help Mark realize that if you want to see change in the world, you have to be the change first. And, yes, that does mean fighting. But the battlefield isn't the world. It's within each one of us. We have to fight to be the best version of ourselves that we can be.
This is a beautiful episode in which God grants Mark his wish to play "God." And yet, because Mark doesn't realize what this means (to let things be as they are), he finds that his changes (outward changes) aren't any better than how things were before. Eckhart Tolle wisely stated, "Our unhappiness does not come from any given situation, but about how we view/perceive each situation." In short, we refuse to simply let it be.
When we begin to change ourselves, we do indeed, create a spark of heaven on earth. Such masters and saints throughout history have proven this. Gandhi said to "Be" the change. Not "Do" the change. It begins and ends within each one of us.
Unfortunately, most people spend the bulk of their time attempting to change others. Or attempting to change the situation. This is an endless battle that can only result in one way: defeat.
This is an especially powerful episode that sees Mark wracked with guilt because he firmly believes that he's responsible for the death of a little girl whom he helped earlier at a nearby amusement park.
The mind has only one function: to think. And in that thinking, we play a game that can only ever lead to misery. We play the "what if" game. We believe that if circumstances or if people were different, a different result would happen.
When a person passes away, there is no power in the universe that can change that. None. Allowing our mind to plague us with guilt with "what if" scenarios is not only pointless and counter-productive, it prevents us from accepting things as they are. It prevents us from being in the moment.
We can easily relate to Mark's anguish, for most of us have been in a similar situation at some point. Something bad happens, and our mind kicks into overdrive about how we could have done things differently.
Jonathan has to help Mark realize that if you want to see change in the world, you have to be the change first. And, yes, that does mean fighting. But the battlefield isn't the world. It's within each one of us. We have to fight to be the best version of ourselves that we can be.
This is a beautiful episode in which God grants Mark his wish to play "God." And yet, because Mark doesn't realize what this means (to let things be as they are), he finds that his changes (outward changes) aren't any better than how things were before. Eckhart Tolle wisely stated, "Our unhappiness does not come from any given situation, but about how we view/perceive each situation." In short, we refuse to simply let it be.
When we begin to change ourselves, we do indeed, create a spark of heaven on earth. Such masters and saints throughout history have proven this. Gandhi said to "Be" the change. Not "Do" the change. It begins and ends within each one of us.
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