The Blessed Life

All my life is a paper.  Once is plain, pure and white.  The paper is inked the day I start my journey greeting the world.  Slowly, day by day, my story unfolds. At every stage and at every breath, as I become one with my earthly life, that more and more texts are added.  At times, the paper is filled with paints of colours.  At times, I add some music too.   At the end of each day, a chapter is conceived.  Most times, there are different parts of something in the chapter.  Each part fill with smile and pain; with sweetness and sorrow and of love. There are days that these chapters are just one plain sheet.  Other days, when colours and music are mixed, they add to few more. How do I want the chapter to be at the end of each day?  What shall be on my final chapter?  What shall be the title of the book at the end of my life? My thoughts fill the paper.  So are my words, my deeds and my actions.  They build the contents.  They shape my life.  They spruce up the up and down. As I write, I

When I do not know myself much, how can others say they do?  Likewise, when others do not know themselves in and out, how can I say I know them?  Does being an observer put me in a position to know another person, better and more? Being aware is a good thing but awareness is one tricky thing.  Understanding who I truly am is not hundred percent possible.  Should it be possible, I will no longer have to struggle in pursuing my dreams.  I would have made better decisions, probably no need to work so hard, and should have led much better life. There are many ways I can get to know me.  I could engage myself with personality and behaviour tests.  I can ask the people who think they know me best.  I can go for therapy and self awareness workshops.  Or I keep records of my thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions.  At the end, I can get close in knowing about me but to truly know is a question mark. I am not what I seem to be.  I may be doing something when in actuality I may be doing it ag

What is time?  Is time a reflection of change?   A person may say that life is short.  Such, humans are told to do what is needed to be done and not to waste time.  Then, there is another that finds that time is such a long long road with no sight of an end. Is time all about perception?  Is time an illusion?  Is time measured by experience?   When in good times, it feels that time passes quickly.  On the opposite, a waiting (for example) makes time to drag on.  When a change happens in life, a sense of time is felt.  Change is real but time is? The reality is, time has direction.  It always has the flow and it advances forward.  Time has order creating one thing after another.  Time has duration where there is a quantifiable period between events. The purpose of time is in its appreciation.  Time is the fabric of reality.  How do I want to quantify it?  How can I make the time for a special moment with some kind of flow toward an absolute direction? As the world is constantly unfoldin

Everything is a gift of the Universe.  A loving person lives in a loving world.  A hostile person lives in a hostile world.  Everyone I meet is simply my mirror.  He or she reflects my belief systems and perceptions back to me. Like the mirror, the outside world throws back at me all my inner beliefs.  When I doubt about myself, the world will seem to doubt me too.  When I lack confidence, the world fails to see it too.  When I think I am an idiot, others will show me that they are right. Rumi says 'Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not!' Everything that is done in life, everything that I see in the mirror is for me to see who I am.  It is made for me to become aware.  It is to liberate me.  I have to take full responsibility and look inward.   Until I start believing in myself, I will continue to receive a reflection through others that is un-supportive, resistant and negative. People's actions and

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 whatever that I do, I should not neglect humanity. How goo

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.   Here is a good chance for me to tell myself that I am not, and

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 feel God, I do not have to be inside the church, i

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.  It is the only light that gives the most beautifu

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 never in their shoes, I should not judge but be kind.  Kindnes

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 emotional is important.  My emotions affect my immun