The Blessed Life

All throughout my life, I have been told to be good and to do good.  My loving parents often reminded me to do that when I was growing up.  So were my elders, my teachers, my friends and almost everyone in my social groups.  Be good, do good is what I should be doing, no questions asked. When I am good with life, life will be good to me in return.  It is the law of cause and effect.  The more I engage with meaningful life, it will provide me with a happy and fulfilling life.  Purposeful life requires me to be patience, to be kind, to be loving and to think wisely for the long term. Be good, do good is a life with purpose so that I can feel good.  It is a life where I make the most of everything in any kinds of situation.  I have to know I can never please all men.  But, when I can be a blessing even to one human being, it shall be good enough. Every day grants me opportunities to do good.  God helps me when I help others.  I have to...

Anger and hurt are two different things.  I can be angry but not hurt.  Likewise, I am hurt, yet I am not angry.  While both emotions cause degrees of distress, they breed resentment.  It is the hurt feeling that gives rise to anger. I am no saint.  Anger and hurt are what I have created. I have hurt people and make them angry too.  I am not perfect and I make many mistakes.  I say stupid things.  I annoy people and piss them off.   All these bad habits have made me to hurt others.  Often I am too arrogant, I have too much ego.  I need to properly see myself so that I see what bad things I have done, not only for myself but others too.  It is a painful sight to see anyone who gets hurt and be angry thereafter.   I have to learn not to cross the boundary to cause more pain.  I have to be mindful of my thoughts.  I should have been more sensitive and thoughtful.  I should be more human.  I should not put ...

Every moment of my life is without limit.  And so is the Universe with her endless bountiful.  I can ask her for anything and I just need to know how.  All I need is to put forth a clear enough request and everything my heart desires shall come to me.  I must not let my mind to trick me to limit things in life. It is said those who have less have asked for less.  And, those who have more have asked for more.  The Universe works with the law of attractions and vibrations that is linked with my unconscious mind.  The unconscious mind is where imagination lives.  It is where manifestation takes place. Asking for something from the Universe can happen.  It starts with a believe and, importantly, a want and a why.  In order for the Universe to provide for me, I need to know what I want and why I want it.  There has to be a degree, or sense, of certainty on what I actually want. At the same time, I need to let go any feelings of desperati...

The day I connected with my Inner Child, years back, my soul spoke.  For the longest time, I abandoned my Inner Child that let me to live rather a clueless journey.  Then, I used to feel of an unfamiliar emotion inside of me.   I used to wonder why did I have an emotional sense that I had a bleeding heart.  Why, when I was always laughing, felt loved and life was good, I felt something was amiss. Moving forward, the reunion with my Inner Child changes the psyche of my being.  It makes me to understand the buried emotional issues.  My Inner Child let me to go deep into inner works and transforms the ways of my life.  Like me, he has been longing to re-connect.  I have to be the one to initiate it. The conviction to walk with my Inner Child, for the rest of my journey, needs to happen.  It is happening.  It will do me good to return home with him, reunited and as one.  My Inner Child needs to feel that I am serious.  He need...

Peace is a state I want to attain.  Not only for myself, but for my loved ones and for the world I live in.  I am in love with peace.  I want it and I need it.  It has to live inside me as well as outside of me.   I genuinely wonder how lives can be when humanity lives in one truly peaceful world, with only love among us? Why is peace so important to me?  Peace gives me tranquillity.  It comes from the comfort in knowing that I have a roof over my head, food to eat and surrounded with loving family members and friends.   When I am with peace, there is a presence of good health, serenity, happiness, harmony and safety. Peace gives me great solace.  It helps me to be optimistic with everything that is happening with me, the good and those that are not so good.  To be at peace is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become.   It drives me to accept with everything and expect nothing, even though I may grumb...

My life is either a daring adventure or nothing.  I am not here to survive but I am here to find my freedom.  I am here to push all boundaries and to be the human I am supposed to be. I have to know life in its full multi dimension.  To know life in its richness and in all its varieties.  I am here to make things right and to find wisdom in my thoughts, words, deeds and actions. I should not just think but be proactive.  I should free myself from the burden of too much analyzing and thinking.  Too much analyzing can be paralyzing.   I am here to understand about responsibility.  To own the responsibility for anything and everything that is happening to me.  I must own all that I think, all that I say, all that I do and for all of my actions. I am here to become conscious with all that is happening around me.  I am here to find meaning and to understand my purpose.  I am here to undertake the tasks and finish them. I am here to find ...

I need to ignore the negativity that I cannot control.  I need to be present, mindful and grateful.  I need to treasure the moments I have in spite of everything else that may be happening around me.  When I do not, I am not appreciating life.  At the end of the day, everything that is happening to me is a gift. I should live above my pleasure.  I should make life my treasure.  Whatever is going around me is beyond my control.  I can only save myself.  I have to make the collective, conscious and concerted effort to focus on the positive pieces of my life. Let's face it, my life can end in a blink of an eye.  Knowing that, I should treasure each and every things that are important to me.  I need to treasure the people that make my days.   I have to treasure all the experiences for letting me be the person I am today.  The values of each individuals interacting with me along my way and all of my life experiences are unique ...

Should I want to achieve anything of value and meaning in life, I need to be consistent.  To succeed, there should be a desire to keep a constant momentum.  Being consistent is the difference between failure and success.  When I take any tasks lightly, there's a chance that I will simply give up half way.  Worse, I am losing myself on my own evolution and purpose of life. I have to be consistent in my endeavours.  There has to be conviction to gain greater insights and understandings.  The push has to come from within me, nobody else will be able to do it for me.   Like Rumi says 'It is your road and yours alone.  Others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you'.  There is a feeling of inner peace and joy when there is constant purpose of doing things consistently. Consistency is an act of courage.  The courage to persevere and the bravery to know that things work.  It is about being regular and steady.  I have ...

I should not hang around with people who make me not who I am.  I should live for who I am and not by what others want me to be.  Pretending to be will only hurt my soul.  I should not mix around for the mere sake of appearing to be popular.  It is better to be authentic rather than about being good.  I have to be who I am.  I have to be where happiness is. But, before I get to know where I should be, I have to know what I want to be.  And, before I get to know what I want to be, I have to have the identity of who I am. Who am I?  Am I just this body?  Am I a label of my name?  Of my status?  Of my achievements and experiences?  Of what I have and what I do not?  What is my Self Identity?  Is there more to me than my physical image? When I introduce myself to others, how do I let them know who I am?  I can describe myself with my name, my occupation and my interests.  But they are all the physical aspects of...

The mind can be a friend or an enemy.  Very often, the mind relies on the past to predict for the future.  While the past is a good gauge to safeguard on my well being, it can also stop me from progressing.   As a human, I hinder my own growth by over thinking.  Sadly, the mind often tends to form an idea about something before it really knows much about it too. I have to look forward and not to be stuck in my past.  I have to dream big, the bigger the better.  When I set my goals higher and should they fail, I will fail not at the very bottom.  Aiming high gives me better results. I should not downgrade my dream to fit my reality.  Instead, I have to upgrade my conviction to match my destiny.  It is such conviction that motivates and pushes me to success.  When there is such a conviction, it accelerates my ability and builds bigger courage to handle all kinds of challenges in life. There is nothing wrong to think big.  When my...