What is Love?
WHAT IS LOVE? The first element of love is RESPECT. The second is TRUST, and the third is GRATITUDE.
Humility
“Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way…” – Mac Davis. From my own personal experience, I can understand how difficult it can be for someone who has an inherent inclination to “arrogance” to allow the understanding of humility. It feels like a loss of identity, a sense of deep defeat/failure, a strong feeling of vulnerability and helplessness – in fact, when-ever you get these feelings you can be sure that you are learning a lesson in humility. The mind has a feeling that arrogance is a positive deal and hence it constantly defends this attitude, in fact this arrogance gives you a sense of power and letting it go can feel highly counter-intuitive, and very much against the survival instinct.
Are you bored & lonely?
If man is totally ignorant of anything, it is that he is selfish. Human selfishness has no bounds. It is there in every one of us constantly expressing in subtle and not so subtle ways. Of course there are truly affectionate individuals that are utterly selfless. In such men and woman never mention what they own, or how useful they are to others.
Realities and Possibilities
“Life is often about facing reality without disregarding divine possibilities.” For all of us life is not always as you would like it to be. Life occasionally might well include problems, hard, or even hurtful circumstances. There are times when what you need is more than you have. Everyday life is not a movie, where if you “wish upon a star” all your dreams come true. Life is often about facing reality without disregarding divine possibilities.
Quality time
“A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.” ― Criss Jami
Don’t Take Life So Seriously
Everyone takes themselves and their personal drama way, way too seriously sometimes. So what if someone insulted you? So what if you’ve tried so hard to accomplish something, but when it counted, you failed?
Flat Out… Like a Lizard Drinking!
“Through stillness, each fulfills its destiny.” – Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu. A good friend Tim just told me that “it takes more energy to be patience and to stay still than being busy running around.”
Bewildered & Overwhelmed
No matter how hard you try to know, no matter how well you prepare or plan, you can never know what’s going to arise in the future. The more you struggle to make yourself secure, the more you live in fear of the future. However, if you simply relax and let go of trying to give yourself some pseudo-security, and are willing to face life in an open way, you will see that your are always fresh in your outlook, you are always coming up with new ideas/inspirations, new solutions, required understanding and clear perceptions, because you are not clinging to your old conditioning/plans.
Quest for Truth
The other night after dinner, Justin asked me this simple question: “Dad what is the difference between all religions, denominations, their teachings and etc.?” Last night Aliah also asked me another simple question: “Dad what do you think about all religion?” I tried to answer it as much as I could, but the reality is…there are many things that we don’t really know or cannot explain and pretending to know all the answers is a wisdom of a fool.
Relationship = +/-
While the word “relationship” is typically defined as the fixed association between people, a more interesting discussion takes place when we view a “relationship” as a profound and advanced set of association and consider the movement and fluidity the new identity reveals.
Father’s Day
Tomorrow is Father’s Day. It is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In general, a father wants unity and peace in his family. What father indeed would want discord and disagreement among his children? In the same way, our Heavenly Father, source of all unity and peace wants us all to live in harmony, cooperation and solidarity.
You Choose…
Indeed, in these tough economic times it can be truly difficult and painful for many of us. And while our economy appears to be healthy in some areas; contrasting with the turbulent emotions beneath our surface, especially for those feeling deprived or those dealing with loss. And while most of us make an attempt to put on a happy face, we often feel exhausted in the end, clearly a symptom of something amiss.
Who Knows???
We know that life flows in cycles and should expect famine and bounty, heartache and joy, sickness and health and success and failure. In fact, it is typically during the darkest moments, such as death and loss, that transformation takes place.
Be True
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” – Kahlil Gibran
Are You Ready?
How many emails have you missed because it either got lost in all the other email you get, or, even worse, was never delivered because it was considered to be spam by your spam filter, or maybe your email server was down for a while and the sender gave up? “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from social networking and emails.”