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ÜBER KURZ ODER LANG

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Ich glaube, wir leben von Phase zu Phase, von Kapitel zu Kapitel. So entwickeln sich unsere Leben. Jedes Kapitel hat etwas, was wir brauchen, und jedem Kapital fehlt etwas, was wir brauchen.

Wir können immer nur nehmen und genießen, was das Leben uns zum jeweiligen Zeitpunkt anbietet. Manchmal hält es lang, vielleicht sogar bis zum Lebensende kurz oder lang, aber manchmal hält es nur bis zu der nächsten Wendung oder bis zum nächsten Seitenwechsel.

Aber trotzdem wird auch dieses zeitweilig tief befriedigen auf seiner eigenen Art und Weise über kurz oder lang. Alles tut kurz gut. Oder auch lang. Wir erleben, wir lernen, wir verändern uns, oder wir werden verändert, ob wir es wollen oder nicht, oder merken oder nicht, über kurz oder lang.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

EACH ONE HEAL ONE

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We all have that one person who we don’t like to think of, but who we also never forget. That one person, the thought of whom causes us so much pain and anger. That one person who hurt us, or deceived us, or betrayed us, or belittled us and made us feel so small, or took advantage of us, or kicked us when we were down and weak, or made a fool of us, or stole what was precious from us, or led us astray, or lied against us, or harmed us.Maybe it was that one person who we trusted deeply and who betrayed this trust. That one person who left a permanent scar in our heart. We all have that one person who we don’t like to think about but who we also never forget.

And that person also has the one person who they don’t like to think about but who they also never forget. And so it goes round and round in a circle, and we are all locked and connected in a net of pain and disappointment and bitterness and betrayal and memory and hurt. And regret. No one is spared, no one is innocent, no one is free of pain or of guilt. We are the ones who teach each other the lessons of life and of the vagaries of the human heart. We are all we have. Those that hurt you and those that harm you and those that heal you and those that hug you and those that have you are all the same people. Everybody has touched somebody. And everybody has been touched by somebody. Each one hurt one. Each one heal one. Forgive, and move on.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

WHERE THE HEART BELONGS

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Someone who doesn’t take you with both hands, willingly and eagerly and totally, that person is not your home, nor you theirs. No matter how much it hurts, tear yourself away from them and move on.

Wounds heal with time.

We live in two worlds simultaneously. The one world is politics and society, is work and recreation, is projects and ambitions and all kinds of responsibilities, is ideologies, and is even family too sometimes. This is the one world, in which we chase achievements.

But there is another world in which we also live. It is deeper, is more subtle, more intense, quieter, and often very invisible. It is the loves that come and go; the tears and longings that burn our hearts; the seldom laughter of genuine joy; the raw friendships; the secret passionate love affairs; the intimately guarded happy home; the given trust and the broken trust; it is the real us deep inside.

We live in these two worlds simultaneously. And then time passes, and we die. And our obituary is full of what we did in the one world. While all our memories from the other world depart with us quietly in our hearts. And in the hearts of those who shared it with us.

Wounds will heal with time. But, while you’re on that journey, don’t go to where your heart does not belong. Seek your happiness in being true to yourself, always.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF YOU

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When you do the right thing, you’re doing it for yourself. Always remember that. And let that be your motivation, your reward and your joy. Because you have to live with yourself always, and there is nothing worse than living with someone you don’t respect, someone you don’t trust, someone you don’t like and someone who is not in sync with you. And that person is yourself.

You are your own home, your own paradise or hell, and your own purgatory too in whom you have to recognise, discipline, purify and transform yourself. You are all you have. Handle yourself with care and with thought, with integrity. Any lesson you would like to teach your children one day, or wish you taught your children once upon a time, teach that lesson to yourself today. Lessons of character. Regard yourself as your first and last and only true child. If that child dies, you die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

WHAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT?

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The concept of “importance”, the way it exists for us, does not exist to God. What is important to God is the purity, health and harmony of His Creation, and the proper development of all its inhabitants in accordance with His Will.

A soul who, in our opinion, was very “important” in one earthlife can incarnate as a complete “nobody” – again judged by our concept – in the next. Obscurity and fame are both irrelevant to God, just as material wealth and material poverty play no role in determining our true value in God’s Creation. What we consider to be “good health” and “ill health” are but temporary conditions of our physical shells. Of more importance to the Divine Will is the condition of our spirit.

Paradise is a place of good spirits, and this is what is still lacking on earth. That is why “Thy Kingdom come” remains still just a prayer and not yet a reality, because His Will is yet to be done by us on earth as It is in Heaven. This is why we do not yet have Paradise here on earth too.

Nothing else is important. Not political power or military might; not wealth, fame or status; and not many other things and people to which we attach importance. The only thing that matters is the kind of soul you are, not just deep inside your heart, but also in your manifest action. Irrespective of whether you be the most unknown and obscure person in some invisible place somewhere, or whether you be the most visible and powerful person on earth.

It sounds strange, and it is hard to grasp, but the truth is that on that plane where eternal life plays itself out, the only thing that matters is character – true spiritual character. The good man and the good woman – the truly good people – are the ones who become the kings and queens. A completely different scenario from what obtains on Earth, on this temporary theatre where our physical life takes place.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

THE FINAL IMPRESSION

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The last picture we have of a person determines what we continue to think about that person; and yet that person might have changed the very next day after the last time we saw them.

But for years and decades after that we continue to hold this picture and this opinion about the person.

And should our paths ever cross again we usually begin to relate again to that person and that opinion and that picture and that character that was the one we last experienced and remember.

So, we end up talking to a ghost and missing the real person right there in front of us.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

DON’T SURRENDER IT ALL TO AI

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The primary aim of artistic expression is inner clarification of self, as well as personal spiritual development. The secondary aim is communication and sharing of ideas, which in any case always happens automatically as a by-product.

If you outsource all your artistic creativity to Artificial Intelligence, then, yes, finished works of a certain mould will be generated, but your spirit will not grow. And the purpose of your earthlife – the very purpose of life itself – will not be fulfilled. This lies alone in the continuous development of your “I” through self-exertion, self-clarification and the constant effort towards pure and accurate self-expression of intuition via thought into word and deed.

AI will produce works that resemble beauty, but will lead to the atrophy and death of the human spirit – unless you critically interrogate those works and then correct, reject or surmount them with your own personal effort, your own intuiting and reasoning. Don’t surrender to AI. Learn it but remain above it. Artificial Intelligence will make you look good, make you feel good, but only you can become better by yourself, by your own effort. The ancient rule is still the same, there is no short cut to success.

It is very imperative, in this era of artificial intelligence, for each person to remain personally creative, as well as spiritually and intellectually active and independent. Make the effort to think your own thoughts through to the end, and formulate and write them down by yourself. Compose, rehearse and record your own music. Make your own art. Draw the inspiration not just from others, but also, like before, from within the fathomless depths of your immortal spirit. Spend time in the silence of your heart, listening to your inner voice, hearing yourself by yourself and not from the programmed algorithm of an AI companion’s voice.

And also continue to do as many things with your hands as possible. Build. Make. Write. Go out into the world. Use your physical muscles, use your brain muscles, use your heart muscles, use your soul and use your spirit. And also, PATRONISE THOSE WHO DO SO, THOSE WHO STILL PRODUCE BY THE EFFORT OF HUMAN CREATIVITY. When you do this, you are not doing them a favour, but you are doing yourself and humanity and our future a SERVICE!

This is the only way they will grow. This is the only way we will grow. This is how we survived as a species over millions of years. This is how we got here. By the agency of Natural personal Human Intelligence. WE have always been the ones evolving, the ones plumbing our own depths, the ones developing. Thus: Woe betide us today if we now, tempted by convenience, hand that task now over to a self-programming and self-learning artificial algorithm we fashioned. Like the Zauberlehrling who can no longer deactivate or control the witchcraft he awakened. We would thereby have marked the beginning of the end of the story of the human spirit on Earth.

We are the generation that must tame the beast we have created, and ensure that it remains a servant and never becomes the cold lifeless master of our destiny, literally and figuratively. AI is wonderful for sourcing and collating information, and sorting and delivering it coherently. It is also marvellous at generating alternative versions of expressive output. But it cannot see the light. It cannot produce that individual unique recognition that can only come from deep within you. And it cannot produce the NEW, a truly new and different future. It can only regurgitate and re-permutate the past.

The production of Newness is still the purview and the task of the living and active human spirit. Let AI not be our last invention. Let us continue to bestir ourselves to intuit, imagine, innovate and invent even greater creations in the future, greater and higher than AI, and which also come from us – or through us. For WE are human spirit.

Retain your primary art-form in your hands. Don’t outsource it in the name of comfort, or vanity, or convenience, or competition, or materialism. Save and continue to develop that which is most valuable to us – our spirit. Let art, intuition and inspired thinking continue to be tools for personal inner growth through the joy of effort.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

HÖHER ALS ZWEISAMKEIT

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Die meisten Menschen suchen nicht Gott, sondern die Zweisamkeit. Die meisten Menschen suchen nicht Freude in der Verbindung mit dem Höchsten und dadurch mit dem großen Ganzen, sondern sie suchen Freude in dem Erleben und Pflegen der Zweisamkeit; eine Verbindung, die wir dann Liebe nennen.

Dadurch grenzen wir uns ein und ketten uns den Frust des Unerreichbaren an.

Die Zweisamkeit ist schön, ist aber nur ein natürlicher Bestandteil der Verbindung zum Höchsten. Nur in diesem Zusammenhang ergibt sie sich auf natürlicher Art und Weise und wirkt fördernd, ergänzend, befreiend, nicht einengend, sondern Freude verstärkend.

Ihre zeitweilige Abwesenheit dagegen wird nicht als Druck oder Leiden oder „Einsamkeit“ empfunden, da die wahre Freude grundsätzlich und allein in der Verbindung zum Höchsten, zum Gott, also zur Liebe Selbst, und dadurch innig zum großen Ganzen, liegt.

Du magst ihn mit welchem Namen auch immer nennen, wie Du willst. Aber such unermüdend und offen nach der Bedeutung des Höchsten, des Lebensanfangs, nach dem Anfang und Inhalt der Naturgesetze, dem Leben selbst, der Klarheit, der allem übergeordneten Liebe, und nach der Verbindung zu ihr. Nur im Suchen und, viel mehr, im Finden und Verbinden wirst Du wirklich glücklich sein.

Denn dadurch, in diesem „Zusammenhang“, findest Du auch Dich und die Bedeutung und den Sinn Deines Seins, dessen Erfüllung allein glücklich macht.

Und alles andere, was Dir während dieser Suche bleibend oder zeitweilig wird – ob Zweisamkeit oder mehr, ob Reichtum, Herausforderung oder was auch immer – wird sich nur in diese Grundfreude innig einstimmen.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

DENKE NIE AN DAS MORGIGE GEDICHT

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Gestern habe ich mein 2000. Gedicht in Folge geschrieben und in meinem Blog http://www.chechidi.me veröffentlicht im Zuge meines Projekts, das als Jahr began und im Anschluss darauf zum Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung wurde und immer noch ist. Und weiter läuft. Und macht immer noch Spaß. Der Trick dabei: Ich denke nie an das morgige Gedicht, nur an das heutige. Und ich fasse mich immer so kurz wie möglich, egal wie groß das innere Bild ist, das ich wörtlich verdichten möchte.

Fokussiere Dich auf den heutigen Tag und erfüllen ihn, täglich. Befreie Dich fein von gestern, es ist vorbei. Hadere nicht zu sehr mit morgen, er wird Dich unterrichten und Dir den Weg weisen, sobald es soweit ist. Besinne Dich aber ernsthaft des heutigen Tages und borge den Schatz, den er für Dich bereit hält. Das Leben ist in diesem Moment. Die Ewigkeit ist der Augenblick, von Augenblick zu Augenblick. Lebe der Gegenwart!

Und auch dieser Moment ist schon vorbei.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der Deutschen Dichtung

SEIN LASSEN

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Wenn ich überlege, wieviel ich mich verändert habe in den letzten zehn bis 15 Jahren, dann bin ich froh, daß ich so viele neue und unterschiedliche Sachen gewagt und gemacht habe. Denn wenn Du vieles bist, musst Du auch vieles sein, um durch Erleben vieles durch- und aus- und abzuleben – und somit vieles sein zu lassen – damit zunehmend nur das zurückbleiben kann, was Du wirklich bist.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije