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My Eye.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” ~ Marianne Williamson; American spiritual teacher and author.

The Fire and The Waters

There is a magic well up in the heavens,
Waters of life which carry your image.
There is fire over the waters which burns eternally,
And its flames carry the truth of the waters.
There is a source of life in the soul of man,
And the passion for freedom burns over it.
Man blindly poisons the waters of life
And treads over his own soul.
He blatantly denies life and buries the fire,
He chains himself and ignores the passion.

I am here to see far beyond worldly perception,
The life essence which the heart in fire knows.
I am here to understand more than minds tell,
The freedom essence is the truth in my soul buried.
But where is the rationale of the ordinary man…??
Is it buried under the mud of his ignorant footsteps…??
The fire which fuels his muddy footsteps still burns,
The waters still carry his image of sheer divinity.
My heart cries because true love has vanished,
My heart cries because self-knowledge has gone.

~ Asa.

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” ~ William Shakespeare.

My Eye

Over the mud of the past me and the trail of hazy vision

I rode the midnight train with doubt and indecision,

Where she stood as a mirage in the pantheon of My Eye,

Where she tempted my ignorance disguised as noble ally.

The stars and the moon were glowing but I was blind,

Time was the illusion of my impatience blooming in mind;

Man cannot see the vast forest when he sees the lonely tree,

Thought of aging is the obsession which cannot let you be.

My path was marked by my fears and frustrations,

As mankind hates itself and poisons all nations.

I saw it with My Eye as the night fell heavy on my soul,

The anger which distanced me from the universal whole.

As I made way through the station I saw destiny again,

As morning light woke me I saw the enslaving chain;

Then I contemplated myself as I awoke from the illusion,

The self-reflection fell upon the blind mob in confusion.

What is man if not his own master…??

What is destiny if not his creation…??

The darkness and light must be harmony inside.

The awakening in me lies in the visions of My Eye.

~ Asa.

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Keep it sacred.

“The smarter you get, the less you speak.” ~ Unknown.

“Stop telling your big dreams to small-minded people.” ~ Hakim Sagan; American spiritual teacher, philosopher, and author.

Our passions, our heartfelt motivations, our very important desires to develop ourselves further or to develop something new in our lives, are energies that we must nurture and treat with reverence and faith; because if we do not honor them and make them sacred to us, if we waste our energies telling anybody our innermost plans, is like spilling water outside the glass or spilling flower seeds on cement. We are going to lose passion and interest while wasting energy telling people whatever is in our hearts and whatever we are developing.

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The human being tends to get excited over ideas and passions and treat them as amusement for anyone, but this only depletes your energies and soon you lose focus and interest on following through with it.

The more awakened or conscious of your own state of development you become, the more vision and understanding of self-love and of how to attain goals you become; so, you begin understanding your priorities and to only share you innermost thoughts, feelings, and heartfelt passions with a select group of people.

This is not selfish but the center of knowledge of self, wisdom itself; for to know about life and your growth is to understand that everything you think about, you say and do are energies, and that you must not waste these energies by sharing with people who do not care and who will not support your advancement and inner and outer growth.

Stop the loud voice of your ego from making you tell everything you carry inside, everything concerning your development, inner and outer; because happiness and all success is something you cultivate, it is something individual and not collective.

So have faith, patience, honor and cultivate wisdom in this, keep the important things to yourself.

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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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Free to be…

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” ~ Astrid Alauda; motivational writer.

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ~ Steve Maraboli; American behavioral scientist, author, and public speaker.

Living your life expecting and desiring for something to happen is living in the illusion of the ego, in the illusion of the future, and it is not living the moment, enjoying every second of it.

You are mentally enslaving your whole body, with expectations, ambitions, desires, stresses which take this same body to illness; thus, you are projecting all these problems that do not exist or desires which are allowed to run your life, and you are inflicting suffering throughout your daily engagement. These are problems that are not really there but live in the imagination of your troubled mind, they seep into your psyche and then into your subconscious, pretty soon you make them into your habitual personality and your mind starts to think that this is normal behavior, while you become a magnet for illness and all kinds of hardships.

This ignorant process distorts reality itself because our minds live in constant agitation and worry about what we are expecting or about what we think it could happen in the future.

In order to live our lives with a peaceful and harmonious mind we must accept life and its events as they are, we must work towards a higher goal but never become obsessed or filled with expectation; so, just work towards something your heart desires but let it go in your mind, say “if it happens, happens; if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. It won’t affect me either way.”
And with this, your mind is liberated from all the chains of expectation and desire; then, your body feels free and no stress can overwhelm it, you become stronger and more confident, resilient and agile to endure all challenges.

Stress and all worry can only live and thrive in the past and future, as you recall memories that were and also expect the future to be the way your desire wants it to be. This is forcing yourself, not respecting nature to do its job; and it is the opposite of love, it is fear.

You owe it to your inner self to be stress free.

You owe it to your inner self to work and focus upon the moment.

This is embracing self-love and wisdom as you live in the Eternal Now for a better life.

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The Unbreakable!

“Truth and Honesty is the oldest and most powerful of all of the human values.” ~ Gary King; American political scientist and quantitative methodologist.

“Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.” ~ Oprah Winfrey.

People tend to follow their egos and always seek the approval and attention from others, they say and do to be liked, to be praised by others; however, this is as superficial as the understating of true love that they have, because this is the opposite of love, this is fear of not being accepted and liked by others.

And while you cave into this fear and focus on being liked by others, you neglect and disrespect yourself, you distance yourself from all self-love.

In this ignorant process of the mediocre mind then, one forgets one’s own deep value, namely the truth, God, peace; for truth is not to follow the ego and the selfish desire to be praised and liked by others, because if you do this you will never have a peaceful mind but an agitated one which always tries to please everyone you meet.

The truth is whatever is eternal and not tied to thoughts and characters of man, and this is why the truth will stand on its own and will strengthen the man and woman who lives based on on it, who experiences it in his thoughts, words, and behaviors every single day. To live with the truth is easier than not, because all that which is not the truth makes a cause for man’s deceit and ego-centered activities.

One must realize that man dies (ages and changes under times tyranny) and is ruled by his ego, which creates moods and characters within him, which may make a man weak and distanced from all love and rationale; however, the truth is what makes man elevate himself because there is nothing that can overcome the truth nor deny it, and the truth is eternal and to be 100% relied upon.

Furthermore, man is ruled by good and evil, all types of characters, moral and philosophical changes of all kinds, decay and death. But the truth stands by itself, rules itself, and it is freedom, it is one and is eternal.

Living and experiencing the truth in your thoughts, words, and daily behaviors is real power, because with the truth you are free to be yourself, unique, and so you are not chained to opinions, beliefs, influences, and the fear of not being liked by others.

Embrace this every day and become the truth to light up your mind and elevate yourself, and even help elevate others with your superior example, your superior behavior.

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Choosing right.

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” ~ Hans Selye; pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist.

“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle.

What good is it really to always complain to yourself and to others, and have negative self-talks about your own life…?? Is your life really that bad and dark that you do not have any positives and so you must always focus on the negatives…?? Perhaps you shouldn’t always analyze and think things to death, but accept things the way they are and feel more while moving on.

People tend to live and subconsciously choose in their minds to experience the negative more than the positive, and this comes about because the human mind, which is the ego, is more attracted to chaos and entertainment, something to analyze and dissect; however, positive and all things of the heart are not that attractive to the ego, because these things of the heart are purer things and experiences to feel and not analyze to death.

Analyzing and formulating opinions, over and over again, quite often non-stop overthinking, is the realm of our mortal mind, the purpose of the ego; but one cannot wisely trust this process of over-analyzing because the deeper things in life, the ones which matter more mostly, are the more emotional things, the more direct in regards to life itself, thus just flow and acceptance. Flow and acceptance means that they cannot be questioned over and over again, because if they are then the process of questioning will make the mind focus on the pain or failed attempts, and so the mind will suffer, soon poisoning the whole body and leading to illness and all decay.

When challenges arise and your mind feels confused and bent on the negative, you must remember that in focusing on the wounds you may have or on the negative, then your whole experience, your whole world, is going to be negative and confusing; but, however, you will find strength and wisdom if you choose in your mind to see the positive, the things you can feel with your pure heart, without the analysis and stubbornness from thought, the things from the challenge that you can learn from.

Furthermore then, where you allow your focus to be is where your experience will be; so, the human mind is that powerful, and it will create your own experience based upon the attention you direct in life.

As Buddha said, “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice.” So, pain is in the challenges and obstacles to make us grow and learn wisdom, but suffering that pain is a choice the human mind makes by allowing your attention here or there.

So, choose wisely.

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Through our hands…

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.

The Ego Dissolves

The red roses had nearly died,
The passionate youth had begun its cry,
As my heart rose with a poor beat,
As my ego had increased its bleat;
The winter was here and I immersed in pain,
Air terribly cold and full of memories the rain.
As I saw the cattle in tender embrace,
The birds in love under God’s grace,
The sky giving birth to the lovely cloud,
The currents whispering sweet care loud,
While I walked the lonely road
And depression within me flowed,
Felt I the sins of my mind,
Illusions of separation which led me blind.
You and I had grown apart,
We had neglected the pure heart,
Our pride and foolishness had won,
Ego as powerful as the loaded gun;
Our first meeting had begun red as the flower,
Then our eye deviated from the flame of all power.
Surely the one I was which buried the soul,
The one which took from us the goal;
You were the firm and steady rock,
Of this tender strength I admit I was the block.
But later my heart contemplated the truth,
Yes, Of the heart the passionate youth.
A wise lesson hidden under the painful story,
Your voice came to my mind and this was glory,
God throughout my form, the energy was intense;
The wisdom of love and the growth of character hence.
With the free flow of love The Ego Dissolves,
With the full expression of the spirit the mind evolves.

“He who treats his woman like a princess is a living proof that the woman who raised him is a Queen.” ~ Unknown.

Through our hands…
From many a travel beyond the stars,
From two passionate soul memoirs,
The energy which sizzles connection,
Profound love through our affection.

Through our hands we feel the stars so bright,
Into the cosmos the link when they hold tight;
The purest sensation of warmth and care,
The love incandescent which the souls bear.

The mysteries of Creation so vast
Meet not in the future or the past;
The present holds the secrets of All,
As our love dances in the Celestial Hall.

Through our hands the sleeper wakes into reality,
Into the horizon we gaze the heavenly totality;
The magic now overtakes us in sacred communion,
Love expands within us to make the purest union.

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Chains of illusion.

“In search of the Truth that shall sustain, uphold, and guide you, you have looked outwards and sought for it objectively, and thus have been lost in the shadows of manifestation. To find that spring of Truth you must look within, you must purify your heart and mind.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti; spiritual teacher, philosopher, public speaker, and author.

Everyone in the world falls in confusion, they search for that truth which will give them happiness and freedom; but, not knowing what happiness and freedom really are and feel like, they believe ignorantly that acquiring pleasures in relationships, economy, and societal positions in general will bring this happiness and freedom into their lives.

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Even though they can be spiritual and kind people, the ego has a massive hold in each their lives, so much so their heart’s purity is buried under all this poisonous garbage without their awareness.

While they search for this divine Light outside, they neglect more and more what they have within them. Because they admit that they are weak, because they maintain that they cannot stand without the support of another, they have been given crutches that will support them momentarily, instead of developing their own strength to go forward in search of the pure waters of Truth. So, they lean on churches and temples, on philosophers and saints, on the Quran and the Bible and other texts.

Thus, they, by neglecting and burying deeper and deeper the Light within them (under beliefs and the words of others), imprison themselves, chain themselves without knowing, farther and farther away from true happiness and freedom.

But if you are wise, you must free yourself and search for the key to freedom within you.

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Giver.

“True love stories never have endings.” ~ Richard Bach; American spiritual writer.

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” ~ Ellen G. White; prolific author and American Christian pioneer.

Human love, in most people, is guided by chemical interactions within the body. By science, the highest dose the brain gets lasts for about 2 to 3 years–that is when the desire and passion, thought-products, are young and intense in the person. Then the intensity starts declining, and that is why the break-ups and divorces; because if there is no real connection, if there are only the chemicals working in you and fooling you into a deeper connection, then the relationship wont last long.

Connectivity is what humanity is, we are social creatures, whether romance or dear friendship we need connection; because our souls, our spiritual existence is one, and so is always expanding and embracing the same love-substance beyond what human thought knows love to be.

And it is this way, of course, because human thought, even though it is helpful in many instances, is prejudiced and bias, opinionated and judgemental. Common thought, even though there might be knowledge, knows nothing about the true essence of love, about true connection.

Beyond our humanity, we can sense something that connects us, and sometimes we don’t even know why we feel attracted to somebody. But when thought, throughout months or years of a relationship, begins to judge and create confusion, we lose that sensitivity or sixth sense, and so thought infiltrates the relationship with accusations and all sorts of ignorance.

We must let time and respect, sincerity and harmony take over our relationship before thoughts of intense desire do; for only in this manner we can be sure it is real love and not a mirage which will soon disappear in front of us.

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