We Shall Never Surrender - Winston Churchill

...We shall go on to the end. 
We shall fight in France, 
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, 
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, 
we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. 
We shall fight on the beaches, 
we shall fight on the landing grounds, 
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, 
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

The Bubble Curve e o Ibovespa

E agora, para onde a curva ira?

Agradecimento ao Gustavo que me apresentou a curva da bolha.

Gandhi "On God"

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During his stay in England in 1931, when the Columbia Gramophone Company requested him to make a record for them, Gandhi pleaded his inability to speak politics, and added that, at the age of sixtytwo, he could make his first and last record which should, if wanted, make his voice heard for all time. Confessing his anxiety to speak on the spiritual matters, on October 20, 1931 he read out his old article "On God":

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"There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent. Even in ordinary affairs we know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules. In my tour last year in Mysore I met many poor villagers and I found upon inquiry that they did not know who ruled Mysore. They simply said some God ruled it. If the knowledge of these poor people was so limited about their ruler I who am infinitely lesser in respect to God than they to their ruler need not be surprised if I do not realize the presence of God - the King of Kings. Nevertheless, I do feel, as the poor villagers felt about Mysore, that there is orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of living being and thanks to the marvelous researches of Sir J. C. Bose it can now be proved that even matter is life. That law then which governs all life is God. Law and the law-giver are one. I may not deny the law or the law-giver because I know so little about it or Him. Just as my denial or ignorance of the existence of an earthly power will avail me nothing even so my denial of God and His law will not liberate me from its operation, whereas humble and mute acceptance of divine authority makes life's journey easier even as the acceptance of earthly rule makes life under it easier. I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. And is this power benevolent or malevolent ? I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is life, truth, light. He is love. He is the supreme Good. But He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. God to be God must rule the heart and transform it. He must express himself in every smallest act of His votary. This can only be done through a definite realization, more real than the five senses can ever produce. Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. Such testimony is to be found in the experiences of an unbroken line of prophets and sages in all countries and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself. This realization is preceded by an immovable faith. He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence the safest course is to believe in the moral government of the world and therefore in the supremacy of the moral law, the law of truth and love. Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love. I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason. Faith transcends reason. All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible."

Nietzche, Sileno e o Nascimento da Tragédia

Sileno (em grego antigo: Σειληνός, transl. Seilēnós; em latim: Silenus) era, na mitologia grega (e posteriormente namitologia romana), um dos seguidores de Dioniso, seu professor e companheiro fiel. Notório consumidor de vinho, era representado como estando quase sempre bêbado e tendo de ser amparado por sátiros ou carregado por um burro. Sileno era descrito como o mais velho, o mais sábio e o mais beberrão dos seguidores de Dioniso, e era descrito como tutor do jovem deus nos hinos órficos.

Quando estava sob o efeito do álcool, Sileno adquiria conhecimentos especiais e o poder da profecia. O rei frígio Midasestava ansioso para aprender com ele, e o aprisionou, laçando-o numa fonte onde Sileno costumava beber.

Segundo o filólogo e filósofo alemão Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900):

"Reza a antiga lenda que o rei Midas perseguiu-o na floresta, durante longo tempo, sem conseguir apanhá-lo. Quando, por fim, ele veio a cair em suas mãos, perguntou-lhe qual dentre as coisas era a melhor e a mais preferível para o homem. Obstinado e imóvel, calava-se; até que, forçado pelo rei, prorrompeu finalmente, por entre um riso amarelo, nestas palavras: - Estirpe miserável e efêmera, filhos do acaso e do tormento! Por que me obrigas a dizer-te o que seria para ti mais salutar não ouvir? O melhor de tudo é para ti inteiramente inatingível: não ter nascido, não ser, nada ser. Depois disso, porém, o melhor para ti é logo morrer" (Nietzsche, O nascimento da tragédia).

Fonte:  http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sileno

Inteligência, Imaginação, Conhecimento e Eficácia - P. Drucker

Ser eficaz é a função  do gestor. Os termos EFETIVO e EXECUTIVO são quase sinônimos. O que se espera é que o gestor FAÇA AS COISAS CERTAS ACONTECEREM. Em outras palavras, espera-se que ele seja eficaz.

É notória, porém, a ausência de homens de grande eficácia nos cargos de gerência. Grande inteligência é muito comum entre os gestores. A imaginação está longe de ser rara. O nível de conhecimento tende a ser alto. Mas parece que há pouca correlação entre a eficácia de uma pessoa e a sua inteligência, sua imaginação e seu conhecimento. Homens brilhantes são, muitas vezes, notavelmente ineficazes; não conseguem entender que ter um insight inspirador não é por si só garantia de alcance de resultado. Não aprenderam que o ..... só se torna efetivo com trabalho duro e sistemático. Inversamente, em todas organizações existem pessoas metódicas que trabalham muito e alcançam resultados. Enquanto alguns se movimentam com o frenesi e a agitação, que muitas vezes podem ser confundidos com criatividade, os metódicos, passo a passo, atingem os resultados, como a fábula do coelho e da tartaruga.

Inteligência, imaginação e conhecimento são recursos essenciais, mas somente a eficácia pode convertê-los em resultados. Por si, esses atributos apenas estabelecem um limite para o que se pode atingir.

Fonte: O Gestor Eficaz P. Drucker

Tantrik Cicle of Life

In Tantrik geometry, the downward-pointing triangle represents Prakriti while the upward-pointed triangle represents Purusha. Brahma causes the two intersect, creating a six pointed star that spins around Vishnu’s finger as the Sudarshan chakra. Shiva separates the two triangles to create his rattle-drum. The star-discus represents engagement of spirit and material reality that gives rise to the world of name and form. The rattle-drum represents the separation of spiritual and material reality resulting in the nameless, formless unmanifest. While pursuing the common goal of sat-chitta-ananda, God as Vishnu preserves the realm of rasa while God as Shiva destroys the realm of rasa in the flames of tapa.

myth = mythya

A Handbook of Hindu Mythology

Dr Devdutt Pattanaik

Tantrik Physiology and Clothes Colours

According to Tantrik physiology, the dead are reborn when the white seed of man successfully merges with the red seed of woman. Split semen holds the possibility of a new life. Split menstrual fluid indicates failure to create that life. Seed, white or red, is thus the most potent substance in nature.

White, the colour of male reproductive fluid, represents Purusha; red the colour of female reproductive fuid, represents Prakriti. The earth is red before the rains. After the rains, the earth is green. Red thus represents the virginal Prakriti who holds the promise of creating new life. Green represents the maternal Prakriti who has realized that promise and created new life. Men women such as monks and widows, who seek Purusha and withdraw from worldly life prefer wearing white clothes. Men and women who seek to celebrate the union of Purusha na Prakriti and enjoy worldly life prefer coloured clothes: red for brides, green for mothers.

Dhumavati

http://www.indianetzone.com/55/dhumavati.htm

myth = mythya

A Handbook of Hindu Mythology

Dr Devdutt Pattanaik