The Blessed Life

     Dear You , Everything has an end.  Everything has a beginning.  It is the end of a year and a new beginning is about to happen. It has been one good year where our paths crossed.  Where you have made a presence in my life.  To teach me with something, to impart me the knowledge about life.  Without you, I will not have learned.  Without you, I will not have known on the facts, the information and the skills to go through the divine experience of what life encompasses. To this 👆🏻, from a soul to another, "I love you, love you, love you." It has been another year where our experiences bring us to agree and disagree.  Where my mistakes have to be owned and where my wrong-doings need to be acknowledged.  I am not perfect and so long I am called a human, without doubts, I make mistakes along the way.  I may have imposed my presence onto yours.  I may have inflicted pains.  And, I may have taken advantage. To this 👆🏻, from a soul to another, "I am sorry, I am sorry, I

 See, observe and watch how babies grow.  How these innocent souls try anything they will.  They are not afraid to venture.  They do not know what is failure and strive to make things work for them.  They make attempts to do practically all kinds of things.  They are free spirited. It is when the parents, and everybody else major around them, start to nurture and teach them that their utmost potentials get inhibited.  Fear is being introduced in their lives.  And so are the many rules and restrictions.  They grow according to what is told to them. All parents love their children.  They want the best for them.  Be known as, much of the children's values are those of their parents.  Children are influenced by the parents' likes and dislikes, the parents' principles, morals and standards. What I am today is the product of my upbringing.  At the critical period of development, at my young adulthood, I become almost like my parents.  I live with the standards and values of those

Perfect joy is in the little things.  Are we nourishing the little things in our lives?  Are we making the little things to spark joy?  Are we allowing them to spark the light and letting them, with gratitude, to burst with opportunities?  Or, are we taking all the little things to be unimportant?  Are little things too insignificant and they don’t matter?  Are they too inconsequential and too trivial?  It is often said we are not to be petty.  We are told not to fret over small stuffs.  We are frequently reminded to let go of things that are not important, in the grand scheme of life.  Essentially, life is better when we do not let life forces to focus on things that do not hold significant importance.  It is good to take the best and trash the rest.  While there is meaning to everything, not all things are meant for immediate actions.  Do not count the chickens before they are hatched. That said, does it make us, unconsciously, to be complete

  Forgiveness has to be done from deep within, with heavy feelings of regret and remorse.  It is not an act to get away or to sweep things under the carpet.  It is always easy to say ‘I am sorry and please forgive me’.  However, these words mean nothing when they are not sincerely meant. We have to be mindful on why we need to forgive.  Importantly, why is there a need to do it?  What is the purposeful purpose?  Can forgiveness erase the past, all the wrong deeds?  With forgiveness, will it make us a better person moving forward? Let us forgive ourselves every day.  Let us forgive others every day.  Let forgiveness be a norm every day.  Let us forgive to become a better human. Whether we are to forgive ourselves (and/or others), the mind needs to concede to the resolution.  The alignment is crucial to make things right.  The heart needs to internalize.  It must not be for the mind to take a stand to brush away on what was wrongfully schemed.  There should

Forgiveness opens doors.  Forgiveness is for my growth and happiness.  It sets me to live in the present.  It aids healing and well being.  It frees my soul of any earthly burdens.  When I am healed, it brings unspoken peace that helps me to go on with the journey in life. I must not be ashamed to initiate 'I am sorry.  Please forgive me'.  When I can do that, I am accepting my flaws.  I am taking full responsibility on my actions and I have chosen not to push blame.   I am acknowledging that I am the problem and that I have a role in contributing it.  Everything in life has two sides.  One does not exist without the other. Yes, forgiveness is a choice.  Sometimes it is a difficult choice.  To resist to forgive is to consent my ego to control me.  I am drowning myself to live in anger, bitterness and rage.  Doing so, I am not empowering myself to be human, to be kind and compassionate to one another. It shall do me good that I ask myself 'Why forgive?'.  I have to find

  Peace is something to live by and live on.  It is highly a valuable feeling where words are not good enough to describe.  It is far more than an emotional freedom and a stress free mental state occupying the empty spaces within our well being with the most extreme feeling of serenity and tranquillity. As living humans, we need to want it just as much we need the water to survive and the air to live.  It is of paramount importance that changes everything on the path and journey on one’s life.  When it is shrunk to a point where there is only peace, and just like that, the soul is liberated to do what it is supposed to be.  There will be harmony, trust and inclusiveness.  The soul gets to claim the purpose of purposes.  There will be calming balance, no matter how much hardships are thrown at us. When we act from peace, we get to feel the river of love moving within us.  We maintain the connection with our higher state of being and, importantly, with div

  When a tie is cut, it is as good as letting things go.  While there could be an unsettling feeling, letting go should not be an act that is about anger.  It is not about hate.  It is not about being mad.  It is not a feeling of being annoyed.  Nor, it has to do with giving things up – be it with relationships and/or events.  Nor, it is about taking a bitter action of severing ties with the past. Letting go can be easy to the mind when the good lesson is learned.  It makes the cut to be less painful.  Yet it is liberating should it be looked in the positive, bigger picture.  Letting go is a gift on awareness; it is wisdom in itself.  It is the willingness to surrender to become comfortable with not knowing what will come next.   Not able to let go will not make us strong.  To live life not knowing when to let go is to live in the world of insecurities.  It is not necessary to make life happy but we should not make it sad either.   The trick to live is to s

To be in a vacuum can make one to feel empty.  It is an empty space where, most likely, emptiness occupies so much room.  When such a space is too large and not carefully occupied, the feeling of lost can become overwhelming.  Worse, the spirit and the physical body begin to separate and become disconnected.  In a vacuum, one may lose with almost every possible associations.  It is easy for the mind to get fried, the emotions to get drained and the spirit to lose the will to live.  Losing makes one to feel odd at sorts. Life, in general, gives and it can also take away.  The lesson to learn is not to take things for granted, at all times.  One has to be mindful of what he has in hand.  He has to be grateful before these things are gone.  What he has today may change with a blink of an eye.  What he has lost will never be the same.  What is then occupied can be filled with the state of containing nothing.  An empty space can fill one with a sad feeling of emptiness.  I

 I am a human of mental belief.  My beliefs drive me.  They shape all my days.  By design, these beliefs are cultivated from my social environment.  All my beliefs and values are part of the environment.   Is it true that there is no way for me to be human without other humans?  What makes me human?  What makes me me? I am human, I have feelings and I have intellect.  To be more human, I have to live life with empathy and sensitivity towards others.  I have to be submissive to the power of love.  I have to embrace life that is full and over flowing with the new.  I have to live to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. At the end of the day, I want to go to bed with the feeling that today was a good day.  That all my days are like the flowers that the Divine opens millions without forcing the buds.  That all my days, like the flowers, bloom freely.  They flourish candidly, openly, voluntarily and willingly. When the Divine opens all the flowers, there is divinity in every

  A life is precious and to live the life to its fullest is even more.  To lead a life with purpose should be my birth right.  It has to be the way I should live.  I should inspire myself to enjoy the little things in life, for one day I may look back and realize they are the big things. I have to live and speak from the truth of the heart.  I must not live by the ego of the tongue.  I have to learn to critic on myself rather than to judge others freely.  I have to stop blaming others when things are not going my way.  Taking responsibility is a virtue - it is a gateway to divine opportunities and heavenly freedom. For me to have success in life, I must love my life.  Every breath has its importance.  I must build the courage to live it.  I have to be what I do and not what I say I do.  Action speaks louder.  I must not be an empty vessel with the loudest noise.  I am born with a big canvas and I need to learn to paint it beautifully.  I must make every strokes