The Blessed Life

Joyful, peaceful or respectful relationship is when I can put my feet to feel the emotions of others.  Where I can be thoughtful of the rights and feelings of others.  Where I do not get into their personal space without getting their permission. I should not take matters, in life, for granted.  It is always good that I put myself in someone else's shoes before I jump the gun.  It is good that I take the time to think about how others are feeling.  I have to have tact.  I have to be kind.  I have to be gracious. Being considerate is an integral part of what it means to be human.  It is one thing to feel but putting that feeling into action is another big thing.  What I feel may not be what others feel.  I need to think about how others would react.  I should put myself in their frame of mind.  Everyone that I meet is, somewhat, fighting a battle that I know nothing about. I have to exercise considerate perspective.  When I...

What a wonderful world it will be should I be able, for the love, to inspire and motivate everyone I meet.  That, along the journey of my life I can make aware of God's light.  That, I can illuminate love and kindness.  That, with all things done for the love, the Peace of 'I' will be with me. For the love, I have to start with myself.  I have to let my soul descends to my mind and give it greater knowledge and understanding.  My soul has been waiting to merge with my mind.  My mind has to be ready to accept it.  My mind has to open and not stuck with senseless intellect.   I have to have a mind filled with only love.  When I let down the barrier and open myself to the need for love, divinity fills my well being.  With love, I can live well and be loved. For the love, I must not be selfish.  I have to give love for love to come back to me.  But, love is not a trade off.  I cannot give and expect for some returns or be rewa...

How can I be happy and want to live a life of love but I do not know what love entails.  Love is a four letter word.  Yet there is so much about it that varies from one person to another.  Every human has different perception of what real love is.  And, it can be dramatically different too. Though love encompasses all the intense feeling of extreme happiness, elation and deep affection for someone or something, there is no one best definition of love.  The meaning might not encompass all the emotions that are flowing from one individual to another. To grant love into my life, I need to enlighten myself with its magical wondrous energy.  I need to be able to describe, explain and interpret it.  Only when I appreciate it that the right energy of love comes naturally. I have to define love in accordance to my needs, my wants.  It has to be dear to my heart, meaningful to my mind and very valuable to my soul.  It is a qualitative emotion where I ...

The essence of my own soul is Love.  When I say "I love you", I am starting the process to merge back into the essence of life itself.  I am starting to merge back with the Divine and my devotion to the Creator that creates me. "I love you" is my connection to all relationships.  Importantly, it is my relationship with the Divinity.  It is my relationship with people, with events, with resources and all sources, and with all the breaths that keep me to be thankful to life itself. It is my basic association with life.  With growth.  With survival.  With existence.  With my soul. "I love you" makes my consciousness alive. Saying it can be the most appreciated words.  Saying it means that I have come to appreciate the positive and negative, good and bad, happy and sad, and ups and downs in life. "I love you" creates the impossible possible.  It aligns people with me.  It aligns me with people.  It puts all sources of Life in one s...

Dear my dearest Self, When your world is crumpling down, can it be it's your own actions are causing it?  Can you accept there is nobody else to blame but you?  When you start to have issue with your health, when your heart is broken, when you cry the whole night out of confusion .. can you accept these mishaps are the karma you inflicted upon yourself? How often do you watch your own thoughts?  How aware are you to observe your mouth inventing negativity?  How much do you blame others and not taking full responsibility to own your words, thoughts, deeds and actions? For that matter, are you capable of saying 'I am sorry and please forgive me'?  When saying these phrases, are they said from your soul or just lip service?  Are you capable to recognize and owned your errors, mistakes and wrong doings? My dearest Self, as long as you live, there will always be something that will not be right.  It is a hard truth.  Your intellect is ego driven. ...

When I say 'I know', do I really know?  What am I trying to imply?  Can I accept there are gaps in my knowledge?  When I say 'I know so-and-so', do I really know that person in and out?  When I say 'Oh yes, I know what you are saying', do I know how he or she truly feels inside him or her and the real context? All my life, I am half baked.  What I think I know, I actually do not know.  I am only conveying, expressing, sharing and stating a little of the big thing.  Most time, this deliverance of a 'little of the big thing' is of a personal view based on a personal experience, even when it is of an objective topic. Knowledge is too huge for a human to understand it all.  It is as vast as the universe.  A mind can only comprehend so much in one lifetime.  A mind has limits in the ability to digest information.   The five senses and how the mind processes information are designed for survival rather than seeing reality.  What...

Anger is a secondary emotion.  Typically, there is always something underneath that is triggering it.  The underlying primary emotion could be fear, jealousy, insecurity or sorrow.  Or, it can be disappointment, embarrassment, frustration or humiliation. Should I do not want to be an angry person, I must not be a control freak to control the world around me.  I have to let that negative feelings go.  I have to learn, in life, that I have my limitations.  I have to learn not to blame others for everything that goes wrong. When I do not take charge and refuse to take full responsibility on my actions and emotions, I will end up an angry person.  I need to recognize my anger and what is lying behind it.  To brew an angry feeling, and let it creep, will not make me to be a happy healthy person.  Nor will it give me the peace of mind. Anger is like a fire that destroys everything.  I should not let it push me and have its energy burns my soul...

It is a beautiful gift to my soul when I can commit to spend time sitting in meditation and in prayer.  The time spent to surrender to nothingness brings mental benefits, increased happiness and emotional stability.  It elevates peace of mind and shall decrease anxiety.  The healing effect is enormous. When I chant a mantra or a prayer meditatively, I regain my footing with my soul.  It is the song for my soul and a very personal relationship with the Divine.  I am reconnecting the soul with my life at a higher level. With the chant, the prayer and the meditation, I am recognizing that I am a spiritual being having a human experience.   At this state, I will be able to appreciate all that I have.  My soul shall rejoice. It is the energy in meditation and in chanting prayers that brings a sense of oneness.  The soul understands this exact feeling of tranquillity and how important it wants it.  It is as if, while doing that, the present mo...

It is never a good feeling to live in fear, with fear.  The fear of getting hurt, of losing something or someone, of getting harm, of change or of failure.  The feeling of fear comes from a mindset that a lifestyle is being threatened.  This threat can be physical or emotional. Fear is one powerful emotion.  It has strong effects on the mind.  It can take over a life, affecting the joy to live. Fear paralyzes lives. Fear happens because there are many unknowns in life.  There are many questions a mind can ask but only God has the answers.  It is this uncertainty that fear creeps in.  The physical feelings of fear can be scary in themselves. Fear prepares me to be strong.  It draws me to have the courage and to keep my head up.  To have faith, as I am told, helps to lessen the anxiety and stress.  So is letting go of the fear and move on. But, before I can stand on my two feet and gain momentum to find the strength, how can I elimina...

This is a beautiful simple quote with such an amazing deep message.  It will be good that I think of it carefully and take heart.  It is good that I understand it and get to be real with reality.  Buddha says 'The trouble is, you think you have time'.   Indeed, there are many times that I have taken my life for granted.  That I dismiss not to carry out doing things as the mind thinks there will always be tomorrow.  That I ignore to follow my heart and missed the boat.  That I disregard my intuition and lost an opportunity.  That, I think I have forever.  Reality is, I don't. The more I procrastinate, the more that things do not get to complete.  Likely they will be left on the shelves and, a high chance, they get overlooked.  I have to know that opportunities are not things to be waited for, they are something to be pursued and worked on.   My mind, conveniently, forgets that I cannot turn back the hands of time.  I have t...