Disney Wisdom

     Walt Disney understood that life was fight and fun, laugh and determination, freedom and leadership, and that reaching fantasy is not an escape, but a victory, an overcoming of reality.
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Disney Happy Ending

   Fernando Pessoa had the poetic and unabashed optimism to assert: “Everything ends well. If things are not well, it’s because it is not the end yet. “  Along these lines death is  an ending well, and the other world a possible  paradise, which it should be. Not as vague and equation like as Pessoa, Disney had enough innocence to specify this ending- well as the communion of love, faith and fantasy. Since love, faith and fantasy are equally transcendent, a Disney happy ending, like that of Pessoa’s, is beyond chronology: before having or not to happen, it is true in its very conception, self sufficiently true.

Disney Overcoming of Reality

With animation, Walt Disney turned movement, which is the most primary and immediate reality, (lets say, it's the "seed" of all reality) into fantasy; Into the very overcoming and liberation of reality itself. While movement, in reality, is pragmatic, (always in function of a determinate goal), in animation it is valid in itself; while in reality it is always means to an end, in animation, like in dance, it is meaning, or story's expression.
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Disney Advice

"The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." - Walt Disney 
It's kind of cute the way he defines authenticity, as "being like oneself", rather than the more usual "being oneself". It makes it as something to be attainable and something that admits of degrees "the more you... the less you...", but as something to be attained. He knew it, because he did it!
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Drawing by Eleonora Duvivier

Disney Coherence

Freedom from the laws of reality in the language of animation fulfills not just the inexorability of fiction lines, but the transcending of personality. Story events and personality, in Disney animation, respond to and reflect each other, so that the surrounding world is nothing more than the scenery, the meant-to-be stage for this exchange to happen.
   The unfolding of Disney animation therefore has the power of sheer coherence in turning action into magic tricks, plot into designation, personality into soul.
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Disney Freedom

                         


                            In the article Growing Pains, Disney expresses his freedom, identifying
                                                 ambition and humbleness:
                         

                                                 “That is what I like about this business, the certainty that there
                                                  is always something bigger and more exciting just around
                                                  the bend,  and the uncertainty of everything else".

                                                                                                        

Disney and Motherhood

To be a mother is to be able to not infringe the most difficult contract, the one mothers have signed, knowing or not, with divinity: To know up to what point a child is theirs, and up to what point it is God's alone. As for the sweetness, roundness and the cuteness which express maternal love, no one better than Walt Disney to know and show it! Being a real, traditional and even a conservative man, did not get in the way of Walt's having this wonderful feminine side, which, if not repressed, is the one to make a real man complete! Thank you Walt Disney, for also helping all mothers in teaching and ingraining the real ethical values in their children

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     It all started with a man, but this man was so humble, so capable of being at one with everything he created, had such a immense heart, and was so grateful, that he declared that " it all started with a mouse...." Disneyssence

Disney Liberation

Walt Disney said that laughter is the best American export, and I think it is because, Joy springs from liberation; rationality from rules;

 Joy is limitless, rationality is exactness;

Joy believes, 

rationality wants to prove,

Joy overflows,

while rationality dries. 

Joy is oneness;

 rationality is relativizing. 

Joy gives thanks; rationality fends for survival. 

Joy springs from excellence; rationality from debt. 

Joy is faith; rationality just control. 

Joy is license from God; rationality is the tree of knowledge. 

While rationality bites, joy is absolution.

Disney Absolution

To be optimist is to surrender, rather than ambitiously predict; it is to render to God what is really God's; the future; it is the humbleness, it is the courage of welcoming life, rather than the pretentious to be a smart ass about it; it is, ultimately, owning up entirely to oneself, to the moment, to "what is in front of you" (as Arthur Rubinstein referred to live)

To be a "behavioral optimist",
like Walt Disney was, is to be absolved.

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