The Blessed Life

With love to Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, I learn the term 'Spark Joy'.  It teaches me on the importance to keep things that only sparks joy.  The idea of sparking joy is to live with the tidied important things, minus all the junks and clutters.   The effect from these organized and sorted main essential items will let me to experience true joy. Holding on to too many unimportant things will not make life easy.  It makes me stuck and inflexible.  I will end up with an attitude of not willing to change nor compromise.  A cluttered mind, a cluttered personal space will not let me breathe peace.  It will not give me emotional and mental clarity. When I de-clutter my mind together with my personal space, it will be easier for me to let things go.  There is definitely freedom in a vacuum.  De-cluttering allows me to create more space for good things to fill in.   The act is a reset button to start things all over again on a clean slate.  It is also about change wi

There have to be meanings for everything.  They are the main ingredients to make lives meaningful.  Having a sense of meaning brings fulfillment with purpose.  They make lives useful.  And, to make my life to be useful, I have to love my purpose.  I have to love all the best possible meanings for all my thoughts and actions. Because I love my parents, for example, I will do whatever to make us happy a lifetime.  Because I love God, I ask Him to provide peace in my life.  Because I love life and I wish to find the how to make me happy.  Because I love you and I must live to be good at loving you. There is nothing in the world I would not do because of love.  In the endless pursuit of happiness, happiness should not be the goal.  By itself, happiness does not give a full meaning to life.  It is merely a by-product of being useful. What really makes me happy is when I can be useful, when I am useful.  When I can create something to bring meaning to myself and the world.  When I create use

The pandemic has made travel rather impossible.  Even when it is possible, there are now strict restrictions.  There are pandemic control regulations every where in the world.  Serving the Stay Home Notice is a must and quarantine violations carry heavy penalty. This current situation is a good call for me to travel within.  It is about coming home, a journey within, to my soul and tame my mind.  It is taking the opportunity to give attention to what is within me. Taking a trip on the journey within makes me to gain knowledge and understanding of who I am and what makes me me.  When I get to know myself better, I get to know who I truly am and what I can achieve.  I have to find time to take on this journey. Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, says 'One who knows others becomes wise, but one who knows himself becomes enlightened'.  The journey within will make me to understand my own nature.   It is about getting in touch with what I already am.  As I sit and contemplate on this