Natives and Disney

     Why do I love Walt Disney and the Natives? The reasons in common, may be these: they love nature; in their primitivism, they do reach the religious essence; they honor another reality, they see the whole creation permeated with equal life, they identify with animals, they open doors to wonderful worlds.... What else? Disney was reported to not want to make a garden in one of his houses, in order to let nature wild, which he preferred. One more thing: they look at artifice with delight and poetry... Have you seen an Indian at the computer? It's beautiful, he kinds of communes with it, as if diving in the screen, and handles it with respect and familiarity... Like Walt handled technology as well.....

Transcendent Disney

     Through Mickey, Disney expresses full awareness of his own attuning to transcendence, and, in finding a common essence between what lays hidden in every human being and Mickey himself, Disney also gives a beautiful description of innocence. In the article "The Cartoon's contribution to Children", he says of Mickey:
"... we see to it that nothing ever happens that will cure his faith in the transcendent destiny of one Mickey Mouse" and further: " ... the Mickey audience is made up of parts of people, of that deathless, precious, ageless, absolutely primitive remnant of something in every world wracked human being which makes us play with children's toys and laugh without self-consciousness at silly things, sing in bathtubs and dream and believe that our babies are uniquely beautiful. You know... the Mickey in us".

Disney Soul

Disney made a hero out of the most insignificant, unwanted mammal. But Mickey's real heroism is his becoming a someone, his being feelings and not just lines, personality and not only visual shape. Mickey is the transformation of what was just animated, drawn lines, into heart, of physical movement into emotion: Mickey's real heroism is Disney's assertion of soul.

Disney Perfectionism

Perfectionism is integrity: the drive to reflect one's soul on what one does.
It is coherence: the wish to make the best, if one is making something at all. 
It is dignity: the effort to give the best of oneself
It is courage: the absence of self-sparing
It is mystical: the obliging of wholeness and impeccability. Like Jesus said: "Ask to be perfect, knock, and the door shall be open"
Walt Disney was always knocking, and having the door opened. That's why we have gems like "Snow White".... (Disneyssence

Disney Purity

      In the movie clip "How Walt Disney's Cartoons are Made", one can see  young Walt introducing the seven dwarfs of Snow White.
     The pride and care he describes them with transmits the innocence of a boy talking about his favorite toy, but the awe of a creator in love with his universe. The respect with which Disney holds each dwarf, pushing it to the front, as he characterizes it, his touching honesty in doing so, expresses an integrity as immaculate as that of Snow White.
       Most remarkable is how, at the two last dwarfs, he introduces Grumpy by skipping Dopey, so as to save Dopey to the very end, like a kid that keeps the “treat” for dessert.
     "And last but not least”, Disney says of Dopey,  proceeding:  "He is nice” and, looking at the camera, concludes: “ but sort of silly”.
     The smile that accompanies these last four words, contrasting with the concentration Disney characterizes the other dwarfs, like a happy-ending to the whole introduction, is finally relaxation and self-satisfaction.
     It turns the restrictiveness of “but sort of silly” into a blessing.

Disney 2012 !

Let's believe in 2012!
To make believe is to pretend one believes, To believe on purpose is to make oneself believe, To make believe is to forget rationality, to believe on purpose is to overcome it, to make believe is to buy into, to believe on purpose is to edify, to make believe is to fantasize, to believe on purpose is to discover a deeper reality, to make believe is whimsical, to believe on purpose is redeeming, to make believe is the purity of childhood, to believe on purpose is the conquest of a rebirth! Walt Disney made believe and believed on purpose!
(Disneyssence)

Disney and Christmas

‎"...It's not the days in life you remember, it's the moments." WALT DISNEY
A truth that could only come from genius, humbleness and an amazing capacity of appreciation. Xmas is the precious moment that the whole 365 days of the year culminate, like a constant rebirth of Jesus, the moment when transcendence and generosity became one.

Disney Universal Heart

The universal heart loves, like you and me,
The universal heart speaks to all other hearts,
The universal heart is creativity, for creativity is undiscriminating givingness,
The universal heart transcends, for it is beyond yours and mine,
The universal heart is essence; what is beyond every particular heart,
The universal heart is timeless; it is never forgotten, it is always around,
The universal heart quenches different tastes, soothes all ages, inspires all races
Walt Disneys had a universal heart

Disney Essence

    










       Walt Disney remade himself, the Disney studio and Disney entertainment so many times, keeping, through all change, the Disney essence intact, like someone who, through disappointment, contingencies and randomness, is capable of finding the truth within. (Disneyssence)

Thank You Walt Disney!

Beyond entertainment, Walt gave us magic.
Beyond laughter, he gave us healing;
Beyond delight, he gave us fantasy,
Beyond reality, he gave us awe;
Beyond everydayness, he gave us dream;
Beyond rationality, he gave us Faith;
Beyond appreciation, he taught us thankfulness and, with the storytelling Disney rides,
Beyond participation, he gave us contemplative experience; much
Beyond "escape", he gave us overcoming.
Thank you Walt Disney!
(Disneyssence)