The Blessed Life

There is always an unspoken great feeling after spring cleaning.  There is a big surge of energy being uplifted.  For that matter, a clean and uncluttered environment brings a heightened sense of joy and peace.  It invigorates the feeling of renewal, of refreshment and vitality. This very similar good feeling is how my thought process can experience too.  My thought process has to adapt with time.  It is not wise to live with old beliefs that are no longer applicable with current times.  These old beliefs stagnate my growth.  They fill me with hesitation and stop me from adjusting to new conditions. When there is too much stagnated old beliefs, I am stuck with old conditioned ideas.  Such, I keep living in my past.  This is the reason why I feel that I do not get ahead as quickly as I would like to.  The world where I live in today has evolved.  It has definitely changed and it will not revert to what it was before. I have to 'sprin...

Everyone has a path to walk.  As an individual, I have to decide what I am here to do.  I have to find the meaning of my existence.  I have to learn to live my own life and find the purpose. I have my own story.  I write my own story.  Just like me, others are doing exactly the same thing too.  Each one of us is learning to make things good.  Each one of us is making efforts to survive.  To live our life right, inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Like them, I have to take charge.  I have to take full responsibility for my growth and own all the decisions I make.  When I succeed, it is the effort that I put in.  When things fail, it has to do with my choice. Others will be my teachers.  They are the mirrors to my soul.  Our existence is to inspire and help each other indirectly.  I have to recognize that I am a part of the big thing.  Without them, I will not know how to love myself.  Without them, I wi...

Self talk is important.  It frames self perception.  It is my internal dialogue.  It is what I am thinking about.  It is the source of my emotions and mood.  The conversation that I have with myself can be either destructive or beneficial. I have to listen to my inner dialogue.  I need to hear what my mind thinks of me as it plays a big role of who I will be.  Am I supportive of myself?  Am I critical or negative?  Are there dominant thoughts that keep replaying?   My mind is the verb and my life is the noun.  My mind influences how I feel about myself and how I respond to events in my life.  It is important that I engage self talk in a positive way and not to compound negative thoughts.  I should cultivate positive self talk to increase self confidence and motivation. I am not perfect but I have to love the light inside of me.  To love myself, I have to banish my inner critic.  I have to learn to love my soul....

It is very easy to tell myself to be happy and not to worry.  To accept things as they come but it can be a little hard to do it.  At times, it can be a little painful to surrender to the works of the Divine and let life flows with the flow.   I need to accept life for what it is and learn to have trust and faith.  I should not resist the flow of life.  I have to embrace it and get myself to open to things that come.   I have to acknowledge my reality. Sometimes facing reality is not the easiest thing but accepting the situation can make me be happier.   Understanding, accepting and embracing reality is practical and purposeful.  Failing to connect with reality breeds unnecessary worries and not getting me to be happy.  It is important that I own any outcomes, the bad and the good.  For everything that is to happen has its own good reasons. Repetition is the mother of all learning.  It is good that I keep reminding myself to be...

To be in love with myself is not self indulgent.  It should not be seen that way nor it is a cheesy thing.  Learning to love myself is a powerful and important thing I can do in life.  My soul is the driving force and when he becomes the source of love in my life, everything changes. It will be a happy life, it will be filled with peace.  That is exactly what happened when I start to love myself.  My world, my relationship with others, my dreams, my health, they all flourish.  The Universe will celebrate my existence and I shall move along according to my energetic vibrations - like attracts like. I have to create the Me time daily, the more the better.  It will be my sacred moments.  I have to be positive, be an energy giver and not otherwise.  The Irish poet, Oscar Wilde once said, "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance".  Do I want to start the romance?  How shall I learn to love myself? The Covid pandemic teache...

I trust that the little gentleness I give will bear many fruits.  I trust that all my little prayers I make are heard.  I trust on walking this unknown unscripted journey.  I trust, in full recognition, that it is for good. 'Trust' is a calling from within.  It is no longer about looking for inspiration but of a spiritual conviction.  It requires a leap of faith. Above all, I must trust that God has never abandoned me.   Above all, I must trust that God will never give me anything that I cannot handle. To live I must have faith. Yes! it is the 'must' that sets the tone.        I must make myself a vessel, an empty vessel that is ready to receive.  I must make myself an instrument, a useful instrument for all the divine works.  I must brighten my light, the divine spark that is luminating within me.   I must nurture the seeds of faith, the love seeds within me that propel life in motion.  I must feel and recognize...

Differences arise when I cannot make peace with the opinions of others.  When I cannot agree to disagree.  When my ego keeps telling me that I have to be right, and not them.  Where my self righteous attitude demands that I am better, and not them. I need to learn the art of making a compromise.  Harmony has to be, foremost, in my heart and it has to be the way I should live my life.  I need to learn that my intellect is actually limited and not to let my arrogance run free.   I have to know there is no right and there is no wrong.  It is just my opinion verses someone else's opinion. How I deliver that opinion could make the difference.  All ideas are just ideas and I should not discard ideas as 'bad'.  Idea is an inspiration and it has the element of no right or wrong.  Idea is only a different path to open the mind.  It is an innovation, a consideration, as a guide to make things better. What I think is right is not the same...

Oh my dear self, do you have a big halo above your head that you expect others to give you every respect?  Do you fart Chanel no. 5 and judge those who comment on your bad attitudes?  Do you think, with whatever title, label or status you earned, puts you on higher levels above others? Just because your neighbours know you, are nice and kind to you, that the world must do the same?  Just because you pray and practice mindfulness every day that God is blessing you more?  Just because you think you are blessed today, that God will bless you tomorrow and all the days after? What will you do when you see a blind, handicapped tissue seller on a wheelchair?  What is your reaction when a stranger who looks healthy asks you for $5, telling you he/she needs it to buy dinner?  Why do you disrespect others and shame their dignity in public?  Why do you think that things happen, not the way you expect them? Don't you think everything is to be earned?  Don't y...

With my freewill to build my life, I face challenges.  There are ups and downs.  There are days that I walk into a road less traveled.  Yet, at the end of each day, I thank the stars that keep me safe.  I thank the angels, my Inner Child, my loved ones and importantly, I thank God. It is okay to take the road less traveled.  I should live the way it feels right for me.  It has to be a life that I am happy with, that I can feel at peace constantly.  I do not have to conform with the majority. Taking the road less traveled can heighten my senses.  It makes me to value myself and makes me to realize the importance.  It is teaching me that life has a price to it.  I have to work for what I want. The road less traveled gives me the insight about Self, about Love and about making things right.  It is showing me that I have to be willing to go through hardship and work it through.  I have to learn to quiet my mind and not to let it be...

It is better for me to stay quiet rather than I say something that I do not  know much.  Hindsight is not wisdom and second guessing is not effective.  To voice out for the mere sake to be heard is not good communication.  It is an act where I am listening, not to understand, but for the sake to reply. The more I take the silence pills, the more that I am trying to reach out for Divinity's Hand.  That, with a quiet mind, the light of the Divine brightens the consciousness within me.  When I silence my mind, my soul speaks.  It is where I allow love to manifest. Silencing my mind does not mean that I stop to think.  It means that I think when I need to think.  It is to keep all the unnecessary thoughts to calm down.  Not to entertain them so that my ability to focus improves, with better clarity. Wish I know how to free my soul from the prison of my mind.  Wish I know how to wake my soul from within.  For him to reach out to me,...