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That heavenly glory…

“Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.” ~ Wadada Leo Smith; American trumpeter and composer.

“If you spend your life over-analyzing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.” ~ Shannon L. Alder; American blogger, philosopher, and inspirational author.

The true beauty and great value of this life is in the mystery, is in knowing that no matter how enlightened and intelligent you are you can never know and understand everything; so, you get to always experience new things, always elevate your mind more and more, have deeper insights, develop more wisdom.

Of course, most people do not see life as rich and valuable as I just described it to you, because they focus on the details of what they go through instead of the whole picture, they tend to analyze to death every little thing, and this, of course, brings fear, confusion, daunting doubt which stops you from continuing forwards, and sometimes it also brings paranoia and terrible darkness to the already affected mind.

If you focus on the finger pointing to The Moon, you will miss the magical journey which is seeing all the beauty in between the finger and The Moon, all the wonderful creations of Nature, all the heavenly glory which brings happiness and understanding to your expanding mind.
When you have a problem, a challenge in your life, you probably tend to focus and analyze all the aspects of your life which will be affected now, you also tend to regret what you did and think about what you should have done better. “What’s going to happen now…??” “I cannot afford losing this or that!” “There is no way out! “This will bury me and destroy my future opportunities!” “I can’t move on with my life; it is too late now…??” etc. etc.

When your mind is overwhelmed like this, you are right, there is no way out, because you are willingly polluting yourself, willingly cutting yourself from clarity and love, peace and strength to create other routes; thus, you are focusing on the finger and missing all the heavenly glory of opportunities and clarity between the finger and The Moon.
Learn to see beyond the obstacles put in front of you by your own ego. Learn wisdom, quiet your mind, flow with life and the challenges like fresh water flows in the river, be one with your life, be true to yourself.

Do this daily and you shall master your own life.

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On your terms.

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt; American statesman, political leader, and President of The United States.

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” ~ Kinky Friedman; American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and magazine columnist.

We are creative in spirit and that is our essence, and so the mere concept and use of money must not drive you, but what must drive you forward in your life is to be free to express yourself and develop yourself in whatever your heartfelt passion is; for money is just a tool and, even though it is needed to buy food and shelter, it is something created by man, and something created by man cannot bring true happiness to anyone’s life.

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To live life on your terms means to free yourself from the chains of society–i.e., from constantly working and thinking about ways to better jobs and more money, from the opinions and beliefs of society, from the judgements and ruling of family and friends, from the habitual traditions of your culture and religion, etc. etc.

Your mind has to reach freedom and acceptance. So stop thinking about money and stressing about work, and remind yourself daily that freedom is the most precious thing; and that freedom is not found in your actions or in the money you can make, but that it is found in your mind and its content.

And to listen to other people’s opinions with the aim to please them, or to expect others to guide you or even respect your direction in life is the opposite of creating your life, of living life on your terms; for it deters you from being yourself, from being unique, and it blocks you from allowing your mind to learn on its own and develop itself.

See, success is not really a thing you get or a position in society, or achievement through the manipulation or command of others, no matter who those others are, but success is much like happiness–i.e., it is a divine condition you experience within yourself by starting with a free mind that is unique, and so let go of the mental conditioning and set rules of a society or culture. You bring peace and clarity to your mind by accepting life as it is and then by working towards a goal you have designed yourself; and also, by emptying the same mind from the set beliefs, ideas, expectations, and control of others, then, you master yourself, you create your own destiny.

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Love brings freedom, money brings worry and frustration.

Deep inside you know this.

So forge yourself!

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Flow with it…

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie; American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana; Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

There is no more self-destruction and constant suffering of the mind than that of constantly regretting and thinking about past errors and bad experiences, because this is feeding the ego who constantly likes to feel like a victim and hinder any real progress that means moving on and becoming wiser.

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The pain of the past and of the present also is there, in the midst of our experiences, for a noble and inspirational reason; and that reason is to help us evolve and absorb wisdom to move on and become better human beings. To learn and embrace all self-love.

All fear we have lingering in our minds and that we experience is either made by us a blessing or a curse, and we must embrace it and use it as a blessing to become stronger, thus grateful of past experiences of whatever nature.

Everything and anything in life, even if your ego cannot understand it now, is a lesson to be learned, it is for our minds to learn acceptance and intelligence in every step we take to move on with our lives.

Life flows just like a body of rich and fresh water, and your ways of thinking, your ways of behaving and interacting in your own life must match this, must flow with life, along life, through life, become one with life (and whatever happens in it); that is, just accept what you cannot change, learn from mistakes and past experiences, do not just rush into things but analyze and stop reacting without truly understanding something.

This acceptance is to nurture ourselves and become one with life itself, because in this acceptance we see and experience pain, fear, and all heartbreak as a lesson; however, in order for us to see and accept this, we must tame our ego and not become victims of its nonsense.

So, learn to be wiser and see beyond all the past experiences and challenges you had; then, be grateful and accept the wisdom in these past experiences.

Do not add more suffering, but free yourself.

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The Spirit of All Things.

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Post date December 5, 2017
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“The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we’re not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.” ~ Gloria Reuben; Canadian producer, singer and actress of film and television.

The Spirit of All Things

The seas weep at the neglect,
The winds howl at the fog,
The busy man dwells in ignorance,
He does not know his spirit is The spirit of All things.

There is the deep beauty of the trees,
Where The Spirit Of All Things lives,
Where man finds true freedom,
Where man meets harmony.

True beauty is the love which eternally shines
Beyond all that man sees and hates.
True beauty is gentle and kind to the spirit–
So why cannot man see the true beauty in the tree…??

The great Spirit of All Things lives everywhere,
And it recognizes the gentleness of true beauty.
Man wears his mask of ugliness and cannot see it,
He treads on beauty and despises himself.

Man walks blind to reality and fears the love of all things;
He fears the truth of beauty for it rattles his ego,
He fears The Spirit of All things because it is him.
There is no heaven in the hell of his sin.

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Innermost.

“No one knows your situation better than you. Do what’s best for you. If they can’t love you through it, then they weren’t meant to be in your life.” ~ Tony Gaskins; American motivational speaker, author and life coach.

“Look inside yourself for the answers, you’re the only one who knows what’s best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.” ~ Charles De Lint; Canadian short story writer, novelist, poet, and lyricist.

Knowledge of self, daily reflection, routine meditation into yourself, is what one needs in order to embrace complete happiness and in order to be content with whatever you do in life.

This is self-love: when you only follow your inner self and take care of that inner self because you realize that you are the most important person you have to worry about, your mental elevation and emotional understanding; and so, from this process of self-love you can now expand love onto others.

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But this paramount process of self-love gets interrupted and badly tainted if you allow your focus to be on others, on others’ expectations for you, on others’ opinions and wishes for you, etc. etc.

No one, not even your loved ones, can tell you exactly what is best for you if you are mature enough to see it for yourself, if you are mature enough to know where you are going and enjoy the path you walk; therefore, it is of the ego to feel victim of the opinions, wishes, expectations of other people, for you must see the reality, that you are the god of your own life, that you are the creator of your own life.

Never allow guilt, shame, fear, to consume your rationale and affect your emotional understanding of yourself, because you are here on this earth to develop yourself, not to take care of others constantly and be the punching bag for their mental and emotional nonsense.

This may sound harsh to someone that is not well acquainted with self-love, but it is the absolute truth to me; and I live my life based on it.

You are the only one who knows your innermost desires and strengths, so do not let any tricks from your ego or from the ego of others to manipulate you into being less and staying less than what you are and can accomplish.

Do not give in to stress and frustration, but raise above it.

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Essential.

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“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ~ Maya Angelou; writer, poet, and civil rights activist.

“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.” ~ Mona Sutphen; Foreign Affairs Officer, consultant, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff.

Trust is the emotional connection in any relationship, being romantic, friendship, co-workers, or any other sort; and trust increases love and peace in the mind, thus creating a deeper understanding of the foundation of any committed and sincere relationship.

But trust must be earned also, it does not matter who you are, or who the other person is, and it does not matter the story in the relationship; and it must be displayed in behaviors and honest and open communication with one another, it must increase harmony and divine union–one must feel at ease and understood by the other, and vice versa.

And as with all serious interactions in the wide human spectrum, trust always must be founded on self-love, because if you love yourself, you trust yourself; and so, now you can carry this personal experience onto the outside relationships with another, you can truly give trust, and also recognize trust in the other person.

But you must be able to live and trust in the present moment, for the only true happiness you can fully experience is in the present moment, not in past memories or in future ones.

This is to say, that you cannot fully trust and be trusted only by what has been said or done in the past, or by what has been solely promised for the future, but you must watch the behaviors of the present and also listen to the words and thoughts being expound in the present.

People’s minds, egos, are tied to different moods and characters, so trust must be experienced in the present to know that is real trust. Watch for the signals in others, and also watch that you give the right signals so others can trust you.

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Not the end of the road.

“Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.” ~ Aaron Rodgers; American football quarterback.

“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.” ~ Sylvester Stallone; American actor and filmmaker.

The mind can be a fatalist making challenges seem daunting and mistakes seem like the end of opportunities for progress in life; however, these ways of the mind themselves are challenges, distortions of reality due to a lack of self-discipline, and this is what is needed for us to become stronger and master ourselves.

Nothing in this life is given to you, but you create it with your thoughts of inspiration and persistence, never stopping because you make a mistake or you fall.

How can someone learn to understand and appreciate life if that someone gives up because of a bad experience or mistake…?? How can someone really practice true self-love and at the same time stop the expression of his human spirit from pursuing his dreams and goals…?? How can that someone embrace happiness every day if there is neglect to keep going and learning from mistakes…??

You were not meant to just cruise by and admit defeat, put a fake smile and pretend that you love your life as it is. You must understand that life is not random, life is conscious, much more conscious and wise than the highest human I.Q., and even highest than any Enlightened human heart. You are the creator of your life all the time; when you are conscious of what you create, you control what you create thus beauty surrounds you; but when you are not conscious of what you create, you are not in control of what you create thus ugliness surround you.

There is no mistake in life, not even if it is a major crime, that will mark you as garbage or sinful for ever, you have always the power within yourself to change and raise above yourself and what you did; so, your next choice, your current moment will modify it in your mind, you either learn from mistakes and bad experiences or you drown in a dark pool of self-pity and self-destructive thinking.

Life in its wisdom moves and never stops, and the clock never stops either; therefore, be wise as life itself is wise, mind your time and your thinking, act accordingly and keep going always aiming to be better than yesterday.

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Clouds of Dreams.

“Write about the dream you see during wakefulness.” ~ Debasish Mridha; American physician, philosopher, poet, and author.

“With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life.” ~ Roshan Sharma; meditator, self-help blogger, and author.

Deep beyond our thoughts and desires, our perceptions and feelings, there are waters of light, within each of our atoms, within us all, within all; and so, these spaceless and timeless waters of light refresh us, give us the inner energy, the fuel to create whatever we are passionate about in this physical life.

This can be called Wakefulness as it is the eternal condition of our souls, of what we truly are; and this is why we cannot fail at anything in this life if we train our mortality, our ego-minds and our corrupted bodies, to sail these illumined waters into the right direction, the direction of our dreams and goals.

The sailing of these waters, through patience and faith, with self-love and self-inquiry, shall awaken us into new perceptions and horizons more like the dreams we carry with us at night; such dreams of mystery and, quite often, new enlightenment into many things lived in our waking days, and dreams which carry the reality of our innermost beings.

You must trust your path then and not be swayed back and forth by the turbulent waters of your life, by the pressures imposed by your own ego and the ego of others around you; and you must hold on to your inner dreams and reach for strength and passion to endure the superficiality of this physical manifestation we call life.

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So, make your dreams wake, let them carry you along and manifest what you truly are, namely the fresh waters of light.

The fear you can encounter along your path is just the superficial manifestation of your physical life and not the reality of it all, because your dreams are.

Clouds of Dreams

And who are we? The conscious or the unconscious…??

And what is reality? The world of form or the Clouds of Dreams…??

And whoever said we are the appearance of a thought-form…??

And whoever said we are the very experience in the dream…??

They walk tired and frustrated amongst the myriad of shapes,

The shapes and colors in the vain places are all they see;

The dreams are real but far from the vain places they visit,

For the essence of dreams are within the shapes and colors.

I experience Clouds of Dreams while they try to see it with their eyes.

Dreams are eternal clouds behind the shapes and colors in disguise.

~ Asa.

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The Truth.

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ~ Galileo Galilei.

The truth

There exists in the beyond a place,
Of no existence of time or space,
Within me deeper than my sorrow,
Belonging to no past or morrow.

Where the heart is pure and the word is weak,
Peaceful and eternal are the waters of the creek,
I will bathe my conscience and elevate my mind,
I will let go all impurity and outside poisonous bind.

This miracle is a place of divine essence,
Of these glowing waters I feel the presence;
For within me they use no words of woman or man,
For within me it magically emerges my life plan.

I meet no quarrels or disputes here,
The ego of myself and others I don’t hear.
The fete, the fountain of eternal youth;
For all here is the discovery of The Truth.

~ Asa.

Truth lights the heart and clears the mind

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The Way…

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ~ William Arthur Ward; American inspirational writer and poet.

“A good teacher is a determined person.” ~ Gilbert Highet; Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian.

To guide somebody with sincerity and truth is to really love yourself and that other person, because in this process you are putting yourself in the shoes of another, you are walking with another, and experiencing an awakening of sorts with another, and this is a deeper connection.

But most people tend to judge other people and force them to see the truth, through heated arguments, through competitions of who is right and who is wrong, through displays of knowledge and all sorts of egotistical nonsense.

And therein lies the problem. Seeing the truth, choosing the truth and living it is not a desire you can introduce in others by force, but it is an experience which the other person at some point awakens to.

A person with good intentions and the heart for teaching others is a mere guide, a beacon which lights the way over the rough waters, a pointer of the truth; and so, one must not argue with others and think that the responsibility of making that other person see the truth is his, for this is the ego aggrandizing itself and distancing itself from the loving intention to help others.

The guidance and heartfelt desire to help someone develop himself is a strong character of wisdom and maturity; however, if you just desire to show off and display your understanding or knowledge unto others, then, you have been swallowed by the illusion of your own oversized ego.

Think in terms of sharing the truth and your own experience with your example, perhaps, too, with kind and honest words; but do not see it as giving lessons or shaping the individual’s character or ways of thinking, because that is not your responsibility nor your mission in life.

Let it go, let the others be as they are; their own experiences carry the responsibility of shaping their characters, and not your massive ego.

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