The Blessed Life

When I fully accept my flaws - the errors, the mistakes and all the wrong doings - within me, the lighter I shall feel.  But, I cannot lightly accept them.  It has to be done with full wanting, full realization and full acceptance.  I must not give excuses for my bad attitudes, bad behaviours and bad manners. Acceptance is a tricky word.  It is an active verb to mean that I have to know what I really am.  That, I have to take it in and be non judgmental about myself (and others). I have to look into my attitudes, behaviours and manners.  In the way I think, the way I speak and how I act and react to every situations.  Is my body language showing compassion?  What about the tone of my voice?  Is it a tone of arrogance?  What about my words?  Are they encouraging and positive?  When communicating, do I engage or do I debate? Should I want to reform, I have to accept the ways of my actions.  How aware am I with my own outward bearing, the ways of behaving, towards others?  How can I ever

The mind is always hard at work all the time.  It picks up everything from what the senses feel, hear, see, touch and taste.  Each of these senses is a tool where the mind uses to build a clear picture of what life means.  From there, it allows the learning process and decisions making about the world. I have to be conscious to be kind to the mind.  My consciousness needs to nurture the mind so that all the data collected from my sensory organs is in touch with the purpose of the soul.  It has to work together and not against each other. I have to take time to allow my mind to rest, to slow down and recuperate whenever it needs.  I should not let it overworked.  It is good to practice daily meditation to calm down the mind.  Or, taking a walk in the nature to ground it.  A walk in nature walks the mind back to innocence. The mind learns from repetition.  It is important I speak to my mind often on what I want out of life.  When I want peace, for instance, I have to repeatedly let the m

To be a good human, I need to know what empathy is.  To be a better human, I have to comprehend what suffering is.  I cannot think I know and yet be oblivious to sense other people's thinking and, more importantly, their feelings.  Thinking and knowing are totally different.  And, I should not even try at assuming. To understand another, I have to know how he or she feels.  Do I have the ability to identify and understand another person's emotions?  Does my limited experience qualify me that I truly care for others, the way my intellect thinks I do?  Do I react with others with my IQ or EQ?  Am I swayed by arrogance to think my intellect knows it all, all the time? I have to find time to know and how much I know.  Have I really gone through the feeling of abandonment, betrayal, hurt, neglected, pain (the list goes on) before?  Have I dealt with grief of losing a loved one?   Have I been misjudged, threatened and struggled to prove my innocence?  Have I been without money? It is