Gypsies are the conscientious objectors to factory work
and to all the soul killing inventions of a haphazard society...
Gypsies retain the good human sense to enjoy life.
They remember on a deep knowing level that life was not always like this...
They may disdain society's harsh ways, ignore, stand aside, do without if necessary;
anything but let their life force be compromised by inhumanity in the form
of self-important institutions and self-declared authorities.
kindness, generosity
Man is free. Man is sovereign. Of course that encompasses women...
At times, they will suffer these things, but they will never ally themselves with them.
They will not forget. They will retain the truths at their core...
The gypsy vocabulary lacks the words for duty and possessions....can you imagine?
My first experience of this was on Cape Breton Island many years ago.
I lived down the way from a Welsh village. I tell people to this day
that everything I ever learned about giving I learned from those good folk.
If you were walking down the road on a fine day and the weather turned blustery,
it was perfectly acceptable to enter the nearest house and find yourself a sweater
or jacket to keep you warm.
You might return it or you might not... No one gave it much thought.
I was told that the Welsh language also lacked a word for personal possessions.
No word ....thus no mental concept.
It was a shared life.
It allowed for the unfolding of kindness and generosity in a soul...
These are needful things for a good life...
Consider the difference for those living at the opposite end of the spectrum.
How much energy and precious life force is lost to greed and overconcern with possessions?
I know a woman who meticulously destroys everything she discards
so that no one else can have the use of them. Old lamps, clothes, what nots...
What madness and ill-will...
Why would anyone hinder anyone else's course through life? Curses are born of this...
As a wise Gypsy observed:
' Duty and possessions limit the emotional capacity of modern man...
they are the boundaries beyond which he cannot go...' Bercovici
My first experience of this was on Cape Breton Island many years ago.
I lived down the way from a Welsh village. I tell people to this day
that everything I ever learned about giving I learned from those good folk.
If you were walking down the road on a fine day and the weather turned blustery,
it was perfectly acceptable to enter the nearest house and find yourself a sweater
or jacket to keep you warm.
You might return it or you might not... No one gave it much thought.
I was told that the Welsh language also lacked a word for personal possessions.
No word ....thus no mental concept.
It was a shared life.
It allowed for the unfolding of kindness and generosity in a soul...
These are needful things for a good life...
Consider the difference for those living at the opposite end of the spectrum.
How much energy and precious life force is lost to greed and overconcern with possessions?
I know a woman who meticulously destroys everything she discards
so that no one else can have the use of them. Old lamps, clothes, what nots...
What madness and ill-will...
Why would anyone hinder anyone else's course through life? Curses are born of this...
As a wise Gypsy observed:
' Duty and possessions limit the emotional capacity of modern man...
they are the boundaries beyond which he cannot go...' Bercovici
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