Never to be left behind

 Honesty, humility, helpfulness,...

Take them with you wherever you go

Do not leave them at home!

They may evaporate and never be found back.

 

Let's take them along on our journey;

incorporate them in whatever we do,

and they will grow inside of us,

making ourselves the wonderful persons we are 

 

 

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Links to other blogs/sites that may be worth a bit of your time:

 

A look at some beautiful skies: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/mysite-1/skies-seen-by-hans 

Beautiful flowers: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/flowersbyhans

 

Inspirational poetry https://aufiezophypoems.blogspot.com/

Some beautiful inspirational quotes:  https://quotesfromhans.blogspot.com/ 

A fantastic short story: https://afishwithawish.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-fish-with-wish-whole-story.html

Simply some essays about good things: https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/

Small prayers for a big world: https://smallprayersforabigworld.blogspot.com/

 

Planet of Hope

Is there hope for the world as it is? 

Is there any hope at all?

Is there hope for our children?

Or are we heading for an endless fall?

 

Is there hope that one day,

The world will be nice and kind?

Is there hope that almost all living here,

Will be able to enjoy peace of mind?

 

If all of us get desperate about the future

Because of all negativity we see on TV

There is indeed no hope for the world

Barren and lifeless, soon it may be

But if we keep believing in humanity

If we are ready to make small changes every day

At least in our house or the place where we live,

If we are ready to give a smile to anyone crossing our way

 

If we are ready to stand in awe for all of nature’s beauty

If we are ready to be grateful for all the love and peace

If everyone ‘d perform in the next hour an act randomly kind

Then the world 'll change and provide all with ease

 

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Links to other blogs/sites that may be worth a bit of your time:

 

A look at some beautiful skies: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/mysite-1/skies-seen-by-hans 

Beautiful flowers: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/flowersbyhans

 

Inspirational poetry https://aufiezophypoems.blogspot.com/

Some beautiful inspirational quotes:  https://quotesfromhans.blogspot.com/ 

A fantastic short story: https://afishwithawish.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-fish-with-wish-whole-story.html

Simply some essays about good things: https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/

Small prayers for a big world: https://smallprayersforabigworld.blogspot.com/

And the winner is...

Mike A and John K had a quarrel.

Mike was very upset with John. 

He scolded John and called him an extremely nasty name.

Having been friends for a long time, the name calling was hurting John badly.

In John's head there was pool of nasty names appearing 

that would equal of even exceed the one he received just now. 

In the time it took find the most nasty name,

the soul of John nudged him.

He remembered a saying, he had read somewhere, 

'first try to understand before being understood'

Even though John felt he was not at fault for the subject of the quarrel,

he tried to understand the anger of Mike. 

He left in his mind,
the pool of nasty names behind and within seconds,

his heart made him reply:

"It must be hard on you, Mike, I understand"

This totally unexpected answer took Mike off guard.

His perturbed mind became a bit more peaceful 

He was aware of the mean name he had called his friend and the kind answer he received.

He suddenly tried to understand why Mike had done the thing that upset him so much.

A wave of remorse for the name calling entered his heart and he almost instantly apologized.

 

 

They managed to talk in a gentle way and agreed that there had been a misunderstanding.

John agreed not to do the things that were upsetting Mike so much again and Mike agreed

to try to look at it from a different point of view. 

 

The friendship was blooming and it felt good for both. 

And the winner was...

 

~  KINDNESS ! ~

    (it always is...)

Change

Are we right now aware of the beauty of the sky?

Are we aware that someone loves us?

Are we aware right now that a bird is singing?

   Or is our mind drowning in the bad news,

   that is brought to us incessantly by the media?

 

Please go near a window and take a look. 

I think reading "news" more than once a day,

is like killing our liveliness

 

Let us take a break from news. 

Whether or not you worry about the war in Ukraine, will not change a thing.

Whether or not you worry about a variety of potential corona variants, it will not matter to the world.

Politicians will create some more destruction and in the end agree to stop the war.

The pandemic will not last forever, it never has.

We feel for the victims of war.
We feel for the hungry children in the world

We feel for the victims of covid

We feel for Yemen and Ukraine and Palestine

We may not be able to change these situations from where we live!
 

But we CAN change the world. 

HOW?

 

If in the coming hour, you take a picture of a beautiful flower,

send it to at least two people who, you feel, are in need of some beauty right now,

then you will have changed the world a tiny little bit 

If in the coming day you give a smile to at least three persons

you will change the world a tiny little bit 

Just by making tiny little changes in our own world, in our house, in our workplace

in our village, we ARE changing the world.

The more tiny changes we make, the more of these tiny changes can inspire others too. 

If we reach a certain % of people in the world, working on daily tiny positive changes,

the whole world will evolve into the next revolution, which will be a wisdom revolution,

which will be a kindness revolution

Please start today, right now. 

Take break from the news for a week or two and focus on changing the world!

Death of a parent

I thought of the death of my mother. 

 There are two things that helped me deal with it better: (1) the visit from a friend in the days following her death who explained that our loved ones automatically forgive us things we did or did-not do to/for them. I think the biggest and worst part of grief is the feeling of guilt. I am still grateful for that friend since he made the grief a bit lighter. (2) The fact of being never able to meet her again was gnawing on my inside until during a prayer I became really grateful for having had a such a wonderful mother. Quite suddenly the focus from bitterness of not having her anymore switched to a gratefulness of having had her.
 

There is actually a third thing too: (3) her almost extreme level of care and love, I experience now again and again, are living on in me. Thanks to her love and care, I have been the person I am until today. Love and care for others is what brings us most happiness and I am quite convinced that i manage to pass her love and care also on to others in my circle of influence. I know somewhere inside, that that part of her is definitely not dead and perhaps may never die :)

Turning off TV

Even if the TV keeps showing terror

Even if the TV keeps showing war

Even if the TV keeps focusing on all negativity in the world

We cannot let ourselves be consumed by what we see on TV

What we see on TV affects 0.1% of the world population or often less. 

While we feel compassion for that part of the world population,

TV will almost never show the millions of heart warming events

The billions of kind acts, the thousands of selfless sacrifices

made by billions of people.

So it is OK to feel compassion for people in the horrific images on TV

But let it not consume our own peace of mind

because there are literally billions of reasons to rejoice

for all people in the world who help, for all people who are helped

because there is so much good in the world, never shown on TV

Because there is so much beauty, so much love, so much creativity 

and yes, so much peace all over the world, that we have at any time

more reason to rejoice for our fellow human beings than to feel sorry. 

 

What can we do for peace?

Increasing the hatred in the world towards the attackers does not help.

We can make the peace within our family, within our neighborhood,

within our workspace, something all important for everyone. 

We can stop talking bad things, we do more random kind acts, 

always be ready with a helping hand. Peace will increase in the world

If we reach a critical number of people who practice peace, there will be no more place for wars.  

Try to share some good news today. 

TV is showing already far too much of the bad news. 

Journalists tend to proudly wear tiaras of tears.

It may be good if we stop being so interested in the tears,

in seeing all the calamities  of others.

It is our almost pathological keenness to see all ('sensational') suffering in the world

that gets TV to focus on that alone (not rarely presenting exaggerated truths)

Let us get more interested in the joy of kindness,

we will be able to cut out TV. 

Once less people look at all atrocities,

TV will be forced to shift its focus 

Can it be?

Can it be that life was meant to be filled with pleasure?

Can it be that life was meant for us to be rich?

Can it be that life was meant for us to be powerful?

 

We risk risk to become slaves of pleasure, chasing it, only to see it run from us.

We risk to become slaves of money, thinking that the end justifies the means

We risk to become slaves of power, clinging to imagined greatness, never satisfied

Could it be that life was meant to serve the force that brought us here. 

Simply serving life's principles of love, peace, beauty and creativity

Simply helping human beings in need, serving humanity, serving God?

 

Let us not become slaves of bodily pleasures, of money, of power.
Let us not become slaves of our desires. 

Let us find the path of that Force that put us here, and serve...

Happiness boils up from inside.

Peace

Peace starts 

Deep inside 

Right in our hearts

 

Peace, gently it blows 

The magic of silence 

It flows, it flows, it flows

 

Have you been aware

That late at night 

Peace is there. 

 

Have you been aware   

That early in the morning

Peace is there

 

Let us find peace where it is 

And send to this great big world 

A little bit of peaceful bliss 

 

Wars may rage, 

filled with hate 

We can bring to all some ease 

By sending a bit of awesome peace 

Just through becoming aware 

That there is sooo much peace to share.

 

The ant, the flower and the stone

 A little ant

saw a small flower

spouting from under a stone

The little ant 

moved some dirt

on the other side of the stone

The stone rolled over

and give more space 

to the small flower

The small flower grew

into the most beautiful rose

the little ant ever had seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Note by the author:

If pessimists happen to read the story, they may think: "Wasn't the ant crushed by the stone?"😁

The answer: admitted, it was a high risk undertaking but the ant managed to get out of the way before that happened 😀.

Highest potential

Can everyone reach their highest potential of functioning in this world?

Right now, this may be not be possible!

 

Will it become possible in the future? 

I am a believer of "yes" to that question. We do need however a critical number of people believing in unconditional love and kindness. Right now this simple truth that the highest level of happiness lies in unconditional love and kindness, does not reach the mind of so many people. Not yet.

 

Let us all think about it thoroughly today:
What is bringing REAL happiness?

Kindness without expectation of any favor return.

How can we practice more of it?

How can we make it a daily part of our life?

How can we spread it to as many others as possible?

 

Spread this piece of truth

150 years ago, people who believed that humans flying through the air would become possible, were considered illogical unrealistic dreamers. Flying has been always possible, throughout history. We just did not manage to put things together in a certain order to allow us to fly.

Now, people who believe in a society where everyone is honest, and everyone is caring and kind, seem like unrealistic dreamers who are in urgent need of a reality check.

Let me tell everyone, I am among these. Not only because it is the most logical thing to happen, but because it is slowly happening already. We are in the slow part of the exponential curve. People have become gentler, kinder and more loving, honest and caring over many years.

Why did I say it is the most logical thing to happen. Because kindness is the most authentic source of true happiness and peace of mind. In an age, when a majority of people get neurotic and stressed and in an age where media successfully instill limitless anxiety at the cues of politicians, we need peace of mind more than ever

The way to get it, is to stop listening to the mass media. To stop listening to politicians. To stop swallowing unfiltered what big corporations want to tell us. It is time to start spreading the message of kindness and love.

There are a multitude of messages and videos already available. Let us make a million more!

There are already societies focusing on how to spread kindness. Let us create many more

Let us create the true news, the giant truth that kindness works. It certainly works for making anyone happy, especially the doer. It works for peace. It works for so many things, perhaps even our health will improve if we manage to set aside all media reports and get fully focused living a life filled with kindness.

It is a revolution. Be part of it. Enjoy it. Spread the kindness, spread the news.