The Blessed Life

The essence of my own soul is Love.  When I say "I love you", I am starting the process to merge back into the essence of life itself.  I am starting to merge back with the Divine and my devotion to the Creator that creates me. "I love you" is my connection to all relationships.  Importantly, it is my relationship with the Divinity.  It is my relationship with people, with events, with resources and all sources, and with all the breaths that keep me to be thankful to life itself. It is my basic association with life.  With growth.  With survival.  With existence.  With my soul. "I love you" makes my consciousness alive. Saying it can be the most appreciated words.  Saying it means that I have come to appreciate the positive and negative, good and bad, happy and sad, and ups and downs in life. "I love you" creates the impossible possible.  It aligns people with me.  It aligns me with people.  It puts all sources of Life in one straight alignment.

Dear my dearest Self, When your world is crumpling down, can it be it's your own actions are causing it?  Can you accept there is nobody else to blame but you?  When you start to have issue with your health, when your heart is broken, when you cry the whole night out of confusion .. can you accept these mishaps are the karma you inflicted upon yourself? How often do you watch your own thoughts?  How aware are you to observe your mouth inventing negativity?  How much do you blame others and not taking full responsibility to own your words, thoughts, deeds and actions? For that matter, are you capable of saying 'I am sorry and please forgive me'?  When saying these phrases, are they said from your soul or just lip service?  Are you capable to recognize and owned your errors, mistakes and wrong doings? My dearest Self, as long as you live, there will always be something that will not be right.  It is a hard truth.  Your intellect is ego driven.  The ego will not let you go eve

When I say 'I know', do I really know?  What am I trying to imply?  Can I accept there are gaps in my knowledge?  When I say 'I know so-and-so', do I really know that person in and out?  When I say 'Oh yes, I know what you are saying', do I know how he or she truly feels inside him or her and the real context? All my life, I am half baked.  What I think I know, I actually do not know.  I am only conveying, expressing, sharing and stating a little of the big thing.  Most time, this deliverance of a 'little of the big thing' is of a personal view based on a personal experience, even when it is of an objective topic. Knowledge is too huge for a human to understand it all.  It is as vast as the universe.  A mind can only comprehend so much in one lifetime.  A mind has limits in the ability to digest information.   The five senses and how the mind processes information are designed for survival rather than seeing reality.  What is out there may not be what th

Anger is a secondary emotion.  Typically, there is always something underneath that is triggering it.  The underlying primary emotion could be fear, jealousy, insecurity or sorrow.  Or, it can be disappointment, embarrassment, frustration or humiliation. Should I do not want to be an angry person, I must not be a control freak to control the world around me.  I have to let that negative feelings go.  I have to learn, in life, that I have my limitations.  I have to learn not to blame others for everything that goes wrong. When I do not take charge and refuse to take full responsibility on my actions and emotions, I will end up an angry person.  I need to recognize my anger and what is lying behind it.  To brew an angry feeling, and let it creep, will not make me to be a happy healthy person.  Nor will it give me the peace of mind. Anger is like a fire that destroys everything.  I should not let it push me and have its energy burns my soul.  When anger starts to spread inside me, I will

It is a beautiful gift to my soul when I can commit to spend time sitting in meditation and in prayer.  The time spent to surrender to nothingness brings mental benefits, increased happiness and emotional stability.  It elevates peace of mind and shall decrease anxiety.  The healing effect is enormous. When I chant a mantra or a prayer meditatively, I regain my footing with my soul.  It is the song for my soul and a very personal relationship with the Divine.  I am reconnecting the soul with my life at a higher level. With the chant, the prayer and the meditation, I am recognizing that I am a spiritual being having a human experience.   At this state, I will be able to appreciate all that I have.  My soul shall rejoice. It is the energy in meditation and in chanting prayers that brings a sense of oneness.  The soul understands this exact feeling of tranquillity and how important it wants it.  It is as if, while doing that, the present moment expands to fill all of eternity, with the un

It is never a good feeling to live in fear, with fear.  The fear of getting hurt, of losing something or someone, of getting harm, of change or of failure.  The feeling of fear comes from a mindset that a lifestyle is being threatened.  This threat can be physical or emotional. Fear is one powerful emotion.  It has strong effects on the mind.  It can take over a life, affecting the joy to live. Fear paralyzes lives. Fear happens because there are many unknowns in life.  There are many questions a mind can ask but only God has the answers.  It is this uncertainty that fear creeps in.  The physical feelings of fear can be scary in themselves. Fear prepares me to be strong.  It draws me to have the courage and to keep my head up.  To have faith, as I am told, helps to lessen the anxiety and stress.  So is letting go of the fear and move on. But, before I can stand on my two feet and gain momentum to find the strength, how can I eliminate fear completely?  How do I prevent myself from gett

This is a beautiful simple quote with such an amazing deep message.  It will be good that I think of it carefully and take heart.  It is good that I understand it and get to be real with reality.  Buddha says 'The trouble is, you think you have time'.   Indeed, there are many times that I have taken my life for granted.  That I dismiss not to carry out doing things as the mind thinks there will always be tomorrow.  That I ignore to follow my heart and missed the boat.  That I disregard my intuition and lost an opportunity.  That, I think I have forever.  Reality is, I don't. The more I procrastinate, the more that things do not get to complete.  Likely they will be left on the shelves and, a high chance, they get overlooked.  I have to know that opportunities are not things to be waited for, they are something to be pursued and worked on.   My mind, conveniently, forgets that I cannot turn back the hands of time.  I have to live as though today is my last day.  When I remin

Life is what I make it.  When I choose to see only the bad things, I will continue to see the bad things.  When I choose to think that life is hard, it will be hard indeed.  I have to be aware of my thinking mind.  I should not have a mindset that works against me.  I have to take charge to be positive and think positive. All self created problems in life are the result of my expectations not met.  I have to reduce them should I do not want to feel the lousy miserable feelings again and again.  Instead of looking at problems as problems, I have to shift my paradigm.  I have to look at them as lessons that I need to learn to turn me into a better individual. In order for this paradigm shift to be effective, I have to accept the problems.  Running away or to sweep them under the carpet is not the good way.  It will be helpful should I ask these questions.  Why are they happening to me?  What are attracting them to keep popping up?  Am I the source of the problem? Life is too precious an

When there are people who are disappointed, who are angry and upset with me, this is where that I have to realize about my imperfections.  This is the right time for me to take full responsibility to own and realize it.  This is the time that I have to take charge to look within.  This is when life's real lessons kick into high gear. Such animosity has nothing to do with them but it is about the big lack off that is missing in my personality.  Obviously, my attitude and character are questionable.   I should be thankful that these people, for all the differences, are crossing into my path so that I can wake up.  Everything has reasons. All beings that are in front of me are godsend.  They appear so that I can learn about myself.  They come to let me to realize about my limitations.  They are the earthly divine angels to make me to be a better person.  Thank you, thank you, thank you. The common element with everything that happens in my life is Me.  Everything comes down to Me.  I

The day that I lost the child within me was the day I became a human.  It was the day that I was exposed to the man-made world of sociology.  I had no choice but to adapt to all my surroundings, mostly unknowingly, to survive. At that tender age, I was made to uncover on every aspects of human social relationship.  At that innocent age, what could possibly happen to any child was the start of many subtle traumas that changed all purity and goodness. Today, after many years, I want to heal that child that I had abandoned.  I want to heal my relationship with him.   I want to heal all pains, all wounds and any deeply distressing or disturbing events that have inflicted me to be helpless.  That have made me to diminish my sense of Self and the ability to live life with full of courage. It is important that I re-engage with him.  Re-connecting with him will help me.  It will lead me to a complete, more confident and self actualized human being. It will make me to recognize my purpose.  Hig