{"id":187,"date":"2009-10-05T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-10-05T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:02:00","slug":"baraka-thread-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Baraka – Thread of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m now in Vancouver staying at my friends’ condo overlooking the marina beside Granville Island. I can see the gorgeous art deco<\/span>\u00a0pillars of the Burrard Street bridge and the shiny glass jungle of high-rise condos across the channel.<\/p>\n

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It’s fabulous.<\/div>\n
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Last night I watched “Baraka”, a film made in the early nineties that has no dialogue, only images and an accompanying soundtrack. If you haven’t seen it, the summary on the DVD reads:<\/div>\n
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“Baraka is a transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition… in 24 countries on six continents.”<\/div>\n
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The word “baraka” is from the Sufi language and it translates to “the thread that weaves life together.”<\/div>\n
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One of the most memorable shots in the film is of a Balinese monkey sitting in a hot spring in the middle of a snowy mountain range. The camera lingers on him for some time and the viewer is treated to a meditation on who he is, who we are and how we are indubitably connected.<\/div>\n
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One of the things I talk about in a speech I give about having a Higher Purpose and living according to a Higher Plan, is coincidence. (You can watch the speech on You Tube — Search “Let Go of Your ‘But'” and my name.)\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Coincidence means, “a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.”<\/div>\n
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The key word for me in this definition is “apparent”. Apparent means, “clearly visible”.<\/div>\n
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So when I experience coincidence, the reason is not clearly visible. I have to go deeper. I have to refer to the other word that stands out in that definition, which is “remarkable.”<\/div>\n
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Remarkable means “extraordinary”, which itself means “outside the normal course of events.”<\/div>\n
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When I arrived in Kamloops this past Friday I took a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. As we drove through the dark I listened to a man tell the woman beside him all about his trip to Germany where his family lives and where he was born and raised. I got to know something about him on that night bus and was inspired by his story.<\/div>\n
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When I arrived at the Kamloops airport on the Sunday to fly to out Vancouver, who do you suppose was the Air Canada agent that checked me in?<\/div>\n
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Mr. German Shuttle Bus.<\/div>\n
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Baraka! This man and I did not speak and I did not tell him that I knew the name of his hometown and favorite drink. Seeing him again simply confirmed\u00a0that the thread that weaves life together is always being spun.<\/div>\n
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Inspiring Message of the Day: Even the most banal coincidence is remarkable because it confirms that we are a part of something Greater that is guiding us in every single moment of our lives.<\/div>\n
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