The Blessed Life

To live by my soul is when I surrender my thinking mind.  It is the surrender of reason and reasoning.  The mind is where the ego is.  It is where complication becomes more complicated and simplicity gets ignored.  With no simplicity, there shall be no peace. It is good to find a balance.  The mind must not rule all the time.  The mind does not have human emotions.  It does not know the functions of compassion, courage, empathy, friendship and relationship.  It exists on a selfish task to help me to survive, thinking it would make my existence easier. When I quiet my mind, I open my heart.  I open for love.  It is important to slow down my busy mind to get in touch with my heart.  My mind is constantly busy chatting, always thinking.  The mind is like an electric fan with thoughts blowing everywhere.  When not in control, it scatters aimlessly without clear intentions, purpose or direction. When I quiet my mind, my soul speaks.  While my mind can never be quiet, the objective is not to

When a mind is constantly chattering, it is not peaceful.  It is fretting on small stuffs.  It is assuming.  It jumps to conclusion easily and without facts.  Living in the busy mind can lead to exhaustion, fatigue, chronic stress and likely depression. Instead, it shall do me much good should I quiet my mind.  A quiet mind is a healthy simple mind.  It is good for the body.  When I quiet my mind, the soul will speak.  Answers that I seek become clear. I have to find ways to clear my mind from thinking too much.  It is important that I do that.  Thinking, as is, is already a great burden.  Clearing the mind is a good way to bring peace into my life even if I am not feeling particularly anxious. While self talk is good, I have to be aware that I am doing just that.  However, should my self talk is constantly filled with negativity and unwarranted beliefs, I am not doing a favour to my soul.  Engaging in negative self talk is usually full of opinions and judgements rather than facts.  It

Life is constantly changing.  Nothing stays the same.  Nothing stays forever.  Nothing lasts and nothing remains.  Yes, everything there is in life changes, moments by moments.  Everything transforms and evolves. Yesterday when I was young, I could run the sprint.  I had the energy of a bull.  And as life moves on and so is time and the space, today I am moving slightly slower.  Today, I make numerous stops to enjoy the breeze, smell the roses and taking to notice the nature more. There is a new normal to everything today, all around the world.  What shall be my psyche to understand to move forward with all these?  Will I be able to embrace it and to let go in order to grow? It is important that I stay flexible and adjust to changes.  I should not be too rigid with my lifestyles.  It is ok not to go strictly by the books as things may not happen the way I think they should happen.  And so are with people who mean a lot to me that eventually cease to exist.  I have to stop becoming atta

It is important that I forgive myself.  I have to forgive myself for making all the mistakes, for adding up to all the flaws and for effecting all the misunderstandings.  I have to forgive myself for all my bad decisions.  I have to forgive myself for all the misgivings. I have to forgive myself so that I can learn from my errors.  Forgiveness gives me the insight to move out of the past and into the present. It is this act of becoming fully aware of my imperfections that I write these prayers.  I am not perfect with my thoughts, my words, my deeds and my actions.  It is my humble request to wake up.  It is a deep hopeful wish to own those errors so that I can improve on the quality of life. These prayers are my conversation with God.  These prayers are my dire attempts to connect with the Divine.  These prayers make me to embrace peace and that, with God's grace, I will find the light. I write these prayers to clean all my past beliefs, errors, miscalculations, mistakes and wrong

The tragedy of a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.  But, the man who would know the world seek first within his being's depths.  And the man who would truly know himself develop interest in the world. I am not my thoughts and I have to let the thoughts to come and go like clouds just floating on by.  I am not my emotions.  I am not my feelings.  I am not my body.  I am, in fact, just the light of Divinity. In that light of Divinity in this House of Humanity, I have nothing to do but learn to be a witness to Life.  I have to participate to make the light brighter.  I have to engage in making the House of Humanity a beautiful transitory world.  I have to love the love of the Divine. It is, however, unfortunate that in the House of Humanity, I often forget about this Light.  Instead, with all the accumulation, creation and acceptance of life experiences, I use them against my own source.   The tragedy of a man is when he insists on looking at the past or the fu

Awareness is not good enough when I am not going to live by its true insight.  It is useless to tell myself that I am aware of what is good and what is not and yet fail to act on its real meaning.  It is more an ego thing to say that I know what is right and what is wrong and, yet, continue to live in oblivion. I live in a society where humans live and strive with what they think about each other.  There can be realization, understanding and wisdom but the weakness in humans, in me, still strongly prevail.  Like most, what I see is basically what I believe.  Unfortunately, that is not necessarily true. As much as I am telling myself to live with 'Life Is Beautiful' and 'Don't Judge' modes, it is not easy to consistently stay inside that perimeters.  I am living in a society that feeds on criticism and I am part of it.  Whatever I think of my society, their likeness and personas lie within me too. I cannot change my world when I am not changing myself.  I cannot embr

As a human, I possess the Four Control Dramas.  As I live, they have become part of me. I am the Intimidator, I am the Interrogator, I am the Aloof and I am the Poor Me.  I recognize these behaviours in me. (Dear James Redfield, Thank You for letting me to reflect.  Thank You for 'The Celestine Prophecy'.) Whether I act them consciously or unconsciously, they tell a lot about myself.  Whether I react them knowingly or unknowingly, they highlight my imperfections.  Whether I behave them intentionally or unintentionally, they prove that I am flawed.  Aren't these enough to be the case that I am full of wrong-doings? Would I accept and admit their existence within me?  How much do I want to acknowledge that these control dramas are part of me, in each day I am here on Mother Earth?  Should I be proud?  Should I be ashamed? Now, should I completely recognize these behaviours (and I must), what do I want to learn here?  Accepting them, can I admit that I am, literally, the probl

With every face I meet, there is always a story to tell.  Everyone, including myself, has at least a story.  Everyone, in their unspoken ways, is fighting a battle that I know nothing about.  Sometimes, the strongest individuals in the morning are those that cry all night. I live in a world where true emotions are always buried deep within.  For sure, I can never know what it takes for someone to get out of bed, look and feel as presentable as possible and face the day.  I have to understand that everybody has their own hardships and struggles, regardless of whether I can see it or not. Reality is, there is no way I can accurately tell what every individual's life is truly like.  In life, I may walk with a friend but I cannot take his or her path.  That path of life, in everyone, is his or hers alone. I can never know until I make an effort to ask.  And, that does not mean that I will eventually know.  When I am not asking, I must not judge.  I must not look down on anyone nor I cr

When life is teaching me lessons, about acquiring experience every day, I should have a mindset that today has to be better than yesterday.  This philosophy has to make me to be proactive.  This gift has to make me to appreciate all the breaths I take.  That I am alive for another day to make things right. Life is a journey of becoming better human.  It is to prepare my homeward bound for the after life.  Life is not about being better than someone else but it is about being better at myself.  Today is my chance to work harder and be better than I was yesterday. Since life moves forward and does not allow me to go back and fix what I have done wrong in the past, the only choice I have is to look at today.  I have to earn it with a sincere longing to make it right.  I have to be committed, to have better thoughts, better decisions and better actions. As I look back at yesterday, I shall clean, delete and erase all the unwanted data, all those beliefs, conditionings and programmings that

Words are energy.  They live, they grow and they become actions.  Words underscore all actions.  They can either confirm or betray.  It is important that I use words to say the actual thing.  I must not say one word and use it to mean something else altogether.   I shall not talk for talk sake.  That will help me not to let words fly out unnecessarily.  Sometimes, the things that would serve situations best are contemplation and quietness.  When I have nothing better to say, it is wise that I take the silence pills.  There is no necessity for me to be heard nor I have the last words.  Listening will be better, instead.   The words that I use to communicate are reflection of my thoughts.  So is the tone I use to say out the words.  Words act out what is in my mind.  Words have meaning and are powerful.   With words, I build a story, create an action and make someone to feel comfortable and welcome.  Conversely, words can also ruin the story, disarray the actions or hurt someone. Benjami