The Blessed Life

Whatever I do, I should not forget to be human.  To be human, I need to show humane qualities - love, kindness, empathy or generosity.  And honesty, integrity, courage, self awareness and wholeheartedness.  To be human, I should have the ability to choose between right and wrong.   I need to treat others the way I like to be treated.  I need to be nice to others for others to be nice to me.  When respect is important to me, I have to respect others first.  It is when I appreciate humans, I will be human. Being human means I accept that I am not perfect.  That, I will make mistakes.  Making mistakes allows me to learn what I value, what I like, what I do not want and what I do not need.  Mistakes are to make me a better human for they are learning opportunities. To be human is to experience life in all its colours and all its potentials.  But, while I am experiencing life, I must remember to remember that I need to be human.  In...

When and where there is love, there is life.  With love, respect comes naturally.  Feeling love and sharing love toward others, including nature, opens up space for growth.  It changes everything. When and where there is love, hate has no room to breathe.  There shall be no room for indifference too.  Love unites.  Love understands.  When and where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there will always be time.  Love brings all relationship closer. Without love, all things break loose.  The passport to bind and bond takes effect.  There shall be unwritten conditions, limitations and rules.  Without love, it is easy to condemn others, insult others and judge others.  Without love, it is easier to throw someone under the bus. When and where there is love, I should not be making errors, mistakes and wrong doings.  Fact that I am repeatedly making errors, mistakes and wrong doings shows that I have to work on love....

Till my mind can fully understand, it will always wonder.  Day by day, as long the questions are not answered, my mind shall roam.  But, is this the way I should live?  Does not it make me to be aimlessly 'chasing after the wind'?  To do everything I ever want and to find that moment of happiness and peace and still feel a void that the wind could just blow through? Life is best lived when I can be in the present.  I should live in the present, here in the Now, and not bound by the past nor the worries of the future.  In the Now makes me to practice realistic approach to things.  I will not be carried away with past recollections or futile dreams about future. Life is best lived when I stop chasing but living.  Everything there is, is here.  There is nothing outside and I should not neglect what is inside me.  I am the driver of my life.  I am the captain to set my directions.  The only journey is the one within. When I want to...

When I cannot be kind to others, I cannot hurt them too.  I should not, intentionally, flame off their lights.  I hold no right to do that.  I should avoid thinking I am always good, much clever and perpetually wise.  By what measures do I think I have 'eaten more salt than they have of rice'? When I think I am hurt, I need to learn to turn the pains into wisdom.  I need to heal the wounds without blaming others.  Instead, I should spend the time to look at the light within me.   I have to own my actions, my feelings, my thoughts and take full responsibility of them.  What have I created within me to cause the pain, for me and for others? While I am what I am, unique in my own ways, I am not special.  I am just an ordinary living human committed to clean my own perceptions, thoughts and tendencies.  Such, I cannot exert others.  Nor should I impose on them. It is the love for the light within that lights humanity and the world....

To be kind takes a lot of effort.  It takes both awareness and consciousness.  It requires mindfulness and the understanding toward Love.  It is an alignment process of a human with the soul, the very thing that breathes life for humanity sake. Kindness begins with respect.  It needs the kindness of the heart and actions.  It needs me to watch my mouth, my words.  The words of kindness heal the world.  Just like the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes bitterness, hate, grudges, ill will to evaporate. When I want compassion in my life, I have to give compassion.  Kindness begets kindness.  Being kind not only makes the world a better place but for humans to feel good too.  What's more, it has a positive impact on myself as well. Kindness is more important than wisdom.  It is an act where it makes the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  It transforms hurt and heals the pain.  When I do not know about how others live and ne...

Next to prayer, the next best thing that I should instill inside me is to boost my immune system.  It is what I have to do with the ongoing pandemic, which is experiencing new wave with the new variant.  I have to help myself to help the world. I have to let go all negativities.  I have to stop being angry, being bitter, being resentful and being uptight.  These negative emotions are not going to help my immune system.  These negative emotions will make me vulnerable. Is this what the virus wants from humanity?  That we extinguish all negativities on Mother Earth?  That we focus on the next best thing, that is love and only love? Not letting go of all these negativities will not help my body to heal itself.  It will not aid nor support the divine inside me.  For the body to heal itself, for my immune system to boost, it needs both the mind and the divine within to work together, in total partnership. The health being on my mental and emotiona...

As many other humans, like them, I have different perspectives on life.  There are times that I take different decisions in life each day based on my conviction.  I may take wrong or right decision, knowingly or unknowingly.   I may regard the decision of others as right or wrong.  I may have a right or wrong reasons to judge others.  I have a choice to condemn or uplift others, regardless of their situations. These are humans' weaknesses.  They could be mine too.  That the mind is often drifting.  That the mind is often thinking and wondering.  This is to show that humans are flawed; that I am flawed.  That, I have to work on myself constantly.  That, I have to keep on reflecting and bring my mind back to the presence. While I can always close my eyes and be in the world of oblivion, sadly the mind cannot stop from shutting down.  The mind has been conditioned to think, even on issues that do not concern me.  Mentally I m...

Peace is very dear for my well being.  It relaxes my mind and makes life beautiful.  It fills my soul to appreciate what I have, what I can do.  Peace makes me to acknowledge and to accept reality.  It stops me from measuring myself against the odds in life. As I go about my day, I want to be filled with peace.  I have to remind myself to calm my mind, to watch my words and to appreciate every moments.  While I have no control on everything outside of me, I can control what is inside me. The more I take charge of my actions, my feelings, my thoughts, my words, the more I am in charge with the ways to live.  I should not be chasing the rainbows.  I should not make myself to be busy all the time.  I need to have time to enjoy and to have quality time with myself. It is possible to live a simpler life, where I can enjoy what I like to do and find my internal peaceful place.  When I want to live a peaceful life, I have to slow down.  Ru...

However many meaningful words I read ..  However many inspirational quotes I hear ..  However many motivational writings I come across ..  Nothing will be good to me if I do not act upon them. Inspirational quotes and meaningful sayings have great ability to change the way I feel about life.  They are insightful.  They transform the quality of life.   But, should my mind is rejecting to realize what they can offer me, I lose the divine connection.  When I fail, I fail to progress. Understanding them is crucial.  However, it shall be just words should I do not believe and internalize them.  Internalization has great impact.  I have to live by those beautiful insights to improve the way I live.   I have to integrate them into my attitude, my values and make them into sense of self.  The only way for me to live with these insights is by repetition.  I have to use them like a mantra.  Repetition is the mother of learning....

Life is a blank slate and I fill it in to make the story.  But, at the end of the day, what I do matters most.  The things that matter most are the things I act and not simply just think or sit on them.  That I made them to be meaningful.  That I embraced them to provide me with joy and uplifted my spirit. Every day is giving me the chance to make things matter.  What I do each day matters.  I should stop giving excuses.  When there is love and when the matters matter, I should make the time.  When there is love, there is always time and nothing is too much trouble. For the sake of my well being, it is important that I know what really matters to me.  I have to create the time and space to listen to my heart and my soul.  It does not matter what others are doing.  What is, is that I know what I am doing. I create my happiness.  I create my peace.  In life, it does not matter what people say about me but what is important i...