Prayer

Dear friends,

Prayer, true prayer is not about receiving
It is more like a process of conceiving
It is more like a becoming-aware
that all the love we want is already there.
It is like suddenly it becomes bright and clear
that all the peace we long for is really here.

That enormous creative Intelligence
has given us so many gifts and talents.
it becomes normal to be well and healthy
abundance is everywhere, we feel wealthy
Let us pray with our whole heart and soul
and see the world getting better for all.

Purpose or discontentment?

I like this thought provoking quote. There is much more to it than initially meets the eye. The inner longing for continuous growth and living a life filled with purpose is the positive explanation, while the endless discontentment with what we have, with our little imperfections is the negative one. Giving up the negative one, accepting our small imperfections and becoming aware of our true strengths will help us grow into the positive interpretation :)

 https://reflectionsbyhans.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-wrote-poem-some-time-ago-and-its.html?m=1

Amazing flowers of love

If your words contain seeds of hatred
I will catch them before they enter my heart
I will remove them from my being
Crush them, destroy them, flush them away

If your words contain seeds of love
I will open all doors and let them in
I will plant them in the soil of my heart
And let them bloom into amazing flowers

Amazing flowers of love

Aufie Zophy

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I hope you enjoyed the above small poem

Let us not allow politicians, religious bigots or anyone else

to manipulate us into any form of hatred.

  Let us choose love.

  Let us guard the doors of our mind and heart 

  and NOT let in any words that cause us to hate

  Let us open the doors of our mind and heart 

  for any words that encourage to love :)

Endless

We are on the road to a better world
It is easy to see if we look back far in time:
Two hundred years ago.
We have travelled far on that road.

We kept going, one hundred years ago,
up to now, what a difference we have made.

And we are still driving on that road.
We are going faster and faster,
and the journey becomes nicer and nicer.

We have travelled far since ten years ago too.
Even since last year, our world has kept improving.

People are getting nicer to each other,
friendlier and friendlier
Every little act of kindness
is amplifying, multiplying
more people than ever
appreciate what brings true peace of mind,
appreciate what brings true happiness.

We are still driving.
The road seems now idyllic
but as nice as it is now,
it keeps getting more and more beautiful.

Allow yourselves to be amazed
Enjoy the amazing journey and
bit by bit let's actively contribute to that world
that tomorrow will be a bit better than today.

The road seems endless.
And endless it is.
This ever-improving, wonderful journey!

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A good idea to make good progress on the journey
is to read a few very short essays on good things.
This is the link https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/

What a miracle

If I think about toes,
each of them has 2 or three bones,
tendons muscle, skin, nailbed,
blood vessels, nerves and so much more.
I can move them, feel them, use them for walking.
Just now I went to the beach and my toes were in the seawater.
It felt nice, the water of the waves gushing against my toes,
tickling all spaces around them

I could write about my feet now in a very similar way,
but I choose just to do it in my imagination,
to let the miracle of my feet penetrate my full consciousness

As I move up from feet to the rest of my body,
it becomes more and more miraculous.
How my internal organs function and keep me alive.

My heart, my lungs, my skin, and the miracles of my face and brain.
Thanks, gratefulness, thanks, thanks, thanks.

Surely some of us think it all organized by itself,
while self-organizing things tend only to become more chaotic.
To have an organism like we have there would have to happen
so many one in a quintillion events simultaneously.
There is a Creative Intelligence in this world pushing forward our evolution.

Sparkling light

If a jar is filled with sand, we can still add water,
If a bottle is filled with water, we can still add gas,
to make it carbonated, and sparkling

If a heart is filled with blood, we can still add love.
Added love will make our blood shine though our skin,
provide light for ourselves and our family and friends,
as vital as sunlight for the green leaves on my trees,
which floods them with goodness,
so essential to live and grow.

All we need to do is open our heart
for the peace in which we bathe every morning.
let the love flow, sparkle, and shine and share it with all we meet.
Every simple loving kind act will trigger similar responses from others
and soon the world will be engulfed by the next revolution:
a kindness and wisdom revolution, triggered by a few simple acts of love.

Maybe

Maybe you have heard the story of the Chinese farmer:

One day, the horse of a Chinese farmer ran away.
In the evening the other farmers came to visit and said: How Sad!
The farmer said: "Maybe"
The next day the horse came back together with seven wild horses.
In the evening the other farmers came to visit and said: How fortunate!
The farmer said: "Maybe"
The next day the son of the farmer tried to tame one of the wild horses
He fell off the horse and broke his leg.
In the evening the other farmers came to visit and said: How Sad!
The farmer said: "Maybe"
The next day conscription officers came to enroll people for the army
They did not enroll the son because his leg was broken. 
In the evening the other farmers came to visit and said: How fortunate!
The farmer said: "Maybe"

What a great story! (maybe 😅)
Whatever happens in our life, as good or bad it may seem initially,
may be happening for a reason and the real effect, sometimes,
we see only much, much later, maybe 😀. 

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Victorious attitude

"Carry yourself as if you are on a great mission."
Actually, you and I are on a great mission, aren't we?
Let us be continuously aware of this and show it to the world.

"Let us make a triumphant first impression. Act and behave like a winner.
The places given to whiners in this world are not among the best.
A victorious attitude is important.

We all have qualities that will help us to be a success.
Let us be aware of these qualities and carry this awareness on our face.
Keep such awareness on the surface of your mind.
Allow this awareness to generate positive expectations, positive thoughts.
Do away with negative thinking. Let us become the master of our minds,
not a slave of the negativity projected by others, not a slave of pessimism

There is not much place in your life for gloomy face, for gloomy gait or manner.
Look everyone in the face and talk to all as if they will give you a gem of great value.
Most people we meet can indeed give some information, teach us a lesson that will help us achieve our goal, our great mission.

Once we convince ourselves of the above, we will have set our internal compass for success.
Let us follow this compass, even if we are in the middle of dense fog and we cannot see our destination. Let us sail on and do not turn back.

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The above is a condensed version of a chapter in a book by Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924). I came across this chapter, read ït and felt differently after having read it. I really needed this type of talk at this time. There is a saying: when the student is ready, the teacher appears. For me, this happened just now, by bumping into this text and reading. It is my wish and my hope that some of the readers of this blog may experience something similar, if not for this post, maybe another one. Please visit in the archive also the posts of 2014. 
I have also written some really short essays on good things: https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/