The Blessed Life

Life is just life.  It is As-Is.  It is how I view it that makes the difference.  Everyday, there are constant countless happenings of events in life.  They happen and they are to teach me lessons.   Any experience I have is not, by itself, negative or positive.  It is the meaning that I attach to that experience that gives its positive or negative connotation.  When things happen, it is good that I ask myself, 'What will I learn from this?'.  Importantly, it is good that I ask 'What have I created that it is happening?. I am not the product of my environment.  And, I should not think that I am.  I have to break away from such dogma.  When I think that I am, I am not taking the responsibility to own my life.  I have to look at life in a way that it could be, not what it was or what it is.  The story of my life is not my life; it is just my story. I am a soul and I have a body.  My mind is just a tool that my soul is u...

God, in Your beautiful name, I seek and I pray. I am sorry for all the thoughts, words, deeds and actions that I think I am good above others. I am sorry for all the judgements I pass in life.   I am sorry for all the judgements I place on my ancestors, father, mother, uncles, aunties, brothers, sisters, cousins, children, nephews, nieces, husband, wife, partner, in laws, teachers, students, friends, colleagues and to all other souls that I cross path with - today and everyday. Please forgive me for my ignorance. Please forgive me for my arrogance. Please forgive me for my ego. Please forgive me for my pride. Please forgive me for my stubbornness. Thank You for listening to this repentance. Thank You for the silver rod to ground me. Thank You for granting me new opportunities. All that I want is the flame of Your Light.  All that I desire is the purity You desire. Let me be useful.  Let me be a blessing.  Let me be Your instrument. Let me live my live on Yours. ...

There's a Divine spark in everyone.  You and I, when we completely open our hearts and minds, will realize that God is always using each one of us as His instrument for each other, quietly. Will I want to believe this? Will I want to acknowledge it?  How can I know it?  Can there be signs or even proofs? Believe. Trust. Faith. These are what I need to embrace, in full totality.  When I do not believe, I will not have the trust.  Without trust, will faith get me to believe that everything is possible? The total embodiment for all good things to take place in my ways of lives, as a human, requires total surrender. Should I am skeptical, I should ask myself why am I so.  What is cynicism?  What is faith? Life is As Is.  All good and bad are perceptions.  All good and bad are conditioned by my traumas.  By my past experiences. I have to find my ways to light up my life. I have to work to feel my joy and peace. Acceptance. Let go. Surrender. ...

Nothing in the world is permanent.  What is, is change.  It will be foolish of me to think that my earthly success will be forever.  Or my material gains last eternally and I get to bring them over the rainbow bridge on my passing.  Or my physical relationships with my family, my friends and others be for all time. Change is constant.  It occurs continuously in every stages in one's life.  It is a permanent fixture of life.  To embrace it makes me to flow with life's momentum.  To resist it makes me not to grow.   Refusal of any type of change can lead me to have negative side effects in life.  When I can no longer change, I am challenged to change myself.  When I do not change, nothing in the world will make me happy and there will be no peace of mind. I have to live my life in such a way that this moment is the last.  At all times, an old thing ends and a new thing starts.  I must not be afraid of any change.  I am ...

  I need to spend time everyday to reflect on who I am.  It will do me good should I am able to have adjectives to describe about me.  It is good that I write them down.  I have to be honest with all the bad and the good.  And, I need to admit that my attitude, behaviour or character is not all roses. I should not allow my ego to guide me when I am reflecting.  I have to be truthful to my soul.  I should not let my soul be lied just because I need to look good to others.  Or to make myself sound good with all the adjectives describing me. Everyday, I have to go through the list.  As I go through it, I have to take the time to reflect.  I need to think why I gain that adjective, or lack of.  The more I go through it, the more I can become aware.  Repetition is the mother of learning and that is how my consciousness shall evolve. This exercise will make me to find about myself.  About my sense ...

As a human, I make mistakes.  I have to own them.  I must not shift my faults to others.  Shifting to make others be responsible for my mistakes reflects badly on me.  When I cannot take full responsibility on my bad acts and judgement, will the divine light within me get brighter? I need to check my pride.  Too much of it alters communication and connection.  Too think so highly of myself will make me to focus on the downside of others instead of their beauty, no matter how significant.  How can I allow myself to think such thing when all men are created equal. Should I put myself high up on a pedestal, it changes my relationship with others.  It can ruin on the ways I live to reach out to them.  I need to stay humble, regardless of any achievements. Success and material accomplishments are temporary.  Plus, I do not get to bring them with me on the day I leave this world.  Getting myself too attached with them all will, unconsciou...

I need to remember this wisdom, always.  You said (something like) "Do not complain the mess on your neighbour's front door when there's ton of untidy state of things at your backyard". I want to be reminded too with this: "how people treat me is their karma; how I react is mine".    Yes! I should not judge.  When I do not want to be judged, then I should not judge others.  I should learn to refrain from negative utterances in all conversations - when making comments, when giving opinions, when telling jokes and when sharing - at all time. Life is like a boomerang.  When I throw it out, it keeps coming back at me.   Life is like an echo.  When I shout, it yells back at me. To be upset when others are judging me is the result of my own doing.  What I give out is what I get back.  I am my own greatest enemy.  I am the one that sabotages myself.  It is circle in the sand - what goes around, comes around. The law of cause and effec...

Kindness facilitates humans to understand and reducing the chances of friction and conflict.  It is an act, a moral code, that makes interaction among humans gainful.  It imparts richness and ethical beauty to social dealings. Kindness is selfless, compassionate and merciful.  To be a good human, I have to be kind to one another.  It includes in all my acts, my words and my thoughts.  It is good that I nurture my heart to be tender and that I easily forgive. The more I practice kindness, I will experience positive mental and physical changes.  My acts have to be friendly, generous and considerate.  My thoughts have to be filled with love and peace interacting with others. In everything that I do, I must do to others what I would have them do to me.  When I want to be kind, I must not think to gain any explicit reward or to avoid certain punishment.  My acts of kindness are to strengthen relationships.  They are to give me a sense of joy,...

Should I go by the principle 'when I point a finger at someone, there are three fingers point back', I should accept that, yes! only my fart smells.  This acceptance should wake me up.  I have to own this realization.  I should take full responsibility.  And, I should fully be watchful that the smell does not affect others.  My duty is that I must be aware of what I am doing.  I must take charge not to impose on others. I have to learn to be sensitive.  I have to learn to love the fool in me.  I must not fight but accept all my imperfections.  Any struggles are futile but God's love is constant. I have to learn to know.  Then, when I know, I have to learn to know better.  Perhaps, by then, I will also be able to do better.  That is what kindness is too. I have to, continuously, make me a better person with a good soul.  After all, the most important value of Life is the happiness of the soul, not anything outside of it. To...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  Yes, that should be how I live.  I have to believe in who I am.  I have to have faith that my life is guided and protected.  It is all in the mind and the more I stay positive, the easier life is. It is good to think positive.  All my troubles are to make me stronger.  All my troubles can be solved.  I should not give up.  Confucius says 'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall'. If I cannot fly, then I run.  When I can't run, then I walk.  When I can't walk, then I crawl.  Whatever I do, I have to keep moving forward.  These should be how I am to live my life with my head up. The better me is not where I stand in moments of comfort and convenient.  But, it is where I stand at times of challenges.  As another saying goes, in which I have to live by it, 'You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you thin...