The Blessed Life

What I am today is the result of what I do and think in my past.  How I end here today is the manifestation of all my dreams and goals I make from my yester-years.  Why is my life is the way it is today is the consequence of my past thoughts, words, deeds and actions.   Today is the sum total of all my yesterdays on what I think, I say, I do and I act. Today is a day for another chance to change, for the better.  It is a new day to harvest the future.  It is a gift and not a given right.  I should live as if today is my last day.  Today comes with the power to clean and erase the past.  Today, I have to learn and re-learn as if I would live forever. When I clean and erase the past, I rewind the moments of my life and get them mended.  I create for new opportunities.  Hopefully, the hands of time will land on my side.  I have to clean and erase my past beliefs, my past errors and all of my past wrong-doings. Today, I shall live by what is right by me.  But, what is right by me does not

All actions and reactions are acts of Love.  I do something and react to something because love moves me.  Love is the verb in getting me to act and react.  It makes me to deal with choices.  And, the choices may end up good or not so good. What makes me to act and react is because Love makes it possible.  Love is the motivating reason that moves me to act and react to all things.  What does not motivate will not end up with any actions and reactions.   In fact, without love, there will be excuses and more excuses and there will be no actions. Where there is love, everything is possible.  When there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there will always be time.  That is the power of love.  Love is a continual action, continual choice and continual promise.  It triggers the actions.  It engages to be proactive. It is said 'Love can move mountains'.  Love makes unusual sacrifices.  It defies logic.  Everything that is done with love has a place, even in the darkest and tinie

Should I want to know what is the healthy state of my emotional mind, mental mind and spiritual mind, all that I need to do is to look around everything inside the house.  Everything in the house tells stories on the states of these minds. I need to look inside my wardrobe and the drawers.  I need to look inside my kitchen cabinet and the drawers.  Next, I should look inside the fridge and the freezer.  And inside the store room.   How organized are my living room, dining room and my bedroom?  When was the last time I paid attention to all the things inside these places? Perhaps, I may want to place my fingers and wipe through the tops of the shelves.  And inside the drawers.  Are they clean?  Do I have things that I have not touched for the last one year?  Do I treasure each and every piece I have or they are now white elephants? Am I proud of what I see?  Or, I could not be bothered at all?  What I feel when I look at all these places is important.  They represent the accurate repres

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