Opportunity possibility potential

Our economical system is immature

It is based on greed, not merely the greed of the rich and powerful

but equally much or more on the greed of the middle class.

 

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with accumulating wealth,

the insane power gathered by the super-wealthy 

is only possible by the greed of each of us.

 

We think the billionaires in the world are the most happy people 

But they are not; they are certainly not. It is time to be aware of this.

We do not have to look up to them as symbols of happiness.

 

If we look up at those wealthier and more powerful than us,

we give them the power, they often do not deserve 

and put ourselves in a position of continuous dissatisfaction 

dissatisfaction with what we have, with who we are. 

 

It is time to be proud of who you are. 

Instead of focusing on the people above us

let us look at the people below us. 

 

The super-wealthy have gathered an insane level of power. 

They can control so many things, including the information that we get

Their control of the info we get is making their power more insane

 

Insane levels of power are addictive. It leads to loss of touch with reality.

Insane levels of power lead often to insane thoughts, insane actions.
Any loss of power tends to hurt them and insanity becomes only worse. 

We can disconnect ourselves from that insanity.

All we need to do is to stop looking up at the extreme wealth, the extreme power. 

All we need to do is to start focusing on the people who have less wealth,

less power than us: what are their needs, how can we help them ?

That is exactly where true happiness resides.
Helping a person in need, going out of our way to help 

Performing a random act of kindness to anyone we encounter

 

That is where opportunity lies, that is were the possibilities are 

That is where we can unfold our true potential.

If we manage to live a life of selfless service

we will get wealthy, powerful, beyond our dreams

 

The power we get will be authentic, undestroyable.
We will not have to do insane things to be able to cling on to our power.

It will be the power of love, of respect, of sincere appreciation. 

 

That is the power that brings true happiness

 

Let us in this very second decide to look for ten opportunities 

in the next 24 hours to do good, to help to be kind. 

Let us explore the world of possibility: if our focus is on those who have less,

there are millions of possibilities to help. Our creativity will create possibilities

 

The world, the universe is with those who believe in service

The world, the universe, our Creator is with those who want to help, do good, be kind

The possibilities are endless, the creative mind is filled with ideas and all these ideas

are real possibility, no matter how big and outlandish they seem. 

 

Let us look for ten opportunities

Explore the creative ideas and turn them into possibilities

This is THE WAY to live up to our true potential.  

 

 

 

 

 

Fear Folly

Some of your griefs you have cured,

And the sharpest you still have survived

But what torments of pain you endured

From evils that never arrived?

        (French proverb)

 

Fear works paralysing, can make you ill, can interfere with your defense against infections

Worry can make you sick, spoils the present and weakens your immunity

 

There is NOT a single benefit for worry or fear. 

The only certainty they carry is to have a bad time 

and to increase the chance of the bad event you fear or worry about. 

 

Let us shift our focus away from fear, away from worry. 

While it is wise in these times to follow the SOPs put forward by experts, 

Let the fear of COVID not dominate your thoughts

Skip reading the latest figures for a few days. They do not help in any way.

They may be useful for epidemiologist but not for you and me. 

 

Deaths of infections do occur at any time. 

Let us not be busy with that in our head. 

We accept that the pandemic is here and we take rational preventive measures

but let us be busy with what we do best. 

 

I have decided for myself to update me on COVID news locally only once per week. 

I wear a mask and limit my own movements, attend no mass gatherings since this is what sounds logical and the right thing to do. But my thoughts are no longer controlled by pandemic news. 

Fear is equal to folly

Worry is equal to folly. 

I truly encourage you to read "in tune with the infinite", a book first published in 1897, but containing so many gems of wisdom, still valuable, IMHO especially valuable still today. It is freely available on the iternet. The author is Ralph Waldo Trine. 

In Tune

When all of heaven seems filled with clouds and rain
when love seems to render betrayal and abuse
when the world seems a barrel of greed and madness
a streak of bliss tends to appear from an unknown place

Sometimes it is a small spot of blue with a sunny ray
Sometimes it is a word of hope, a word of truth
Sometimes it is a miniature gift of love, of gladness
It's like a slap on the back, a bliss, a little grace

When all seems dark, blue or filled with gloom
On a spot along our way, a flower will bloom
There is no doom, no storm that is big enough
To become immune to God's always-present love

Let us fall in tune…

                                                 By Aufie Zophy 

My dear friends, 

Sometimes we feel a bit lost,a bit fearsome, a bit isolated, a bit lonely

or sometimes even completely lost,very anxious, completely alone

 

Such moments appear in everyone's life. We do not share them easily with others.

You will not find these moments on facebook or instagram.

 

In these moments we want to pray.  

Sometimes we pray for our Creator to change the world for us, to change our fortune.

But our God is not a man sitting in heaven conducting our life

Our God is a presence, a wisdom, a peace, an intelligence that is around us.

Our God is always maximally present. 

 

We are the conductors of our life. If we pray, let us pray for our own awareness.

If we are aware of the Presence, that huge intelligence, that flow, that power;

the light is shining on our consciousness, on our mind, in our heart, on our conscience

 

If we are filled with fear and worry, if we feel lonely and lost,

we tend to be a bit out of tune with that ever present Presence.

Let us tune in.

 

Let us pray for guidance to tune into the light, the presence, the wisdom, the intelligence of God

Let us pray! Not for a gift dropping at our doorstep, but for the understanding and the wisdom to tune into our Creator's grace, peace, mercy and light. 

 

I wrote the poem at the beginning of this message in October 2018

If you want to read more poems of Aufie Zophy, click here

 

I wish that the coming moments for you are filled with a silence, with grace

I wish that you manage to connect to the supreme source of wisdom and peace

I wish you light and understanding.

 

Words, words, words

 It is truly astounding how words may influence our life. Even simply reading a series of words on one topic may affect us in truly unexpected ways. I share here with you an experiment that illustrates that in a fantastic way. 

The experiment 

Participants were asked to perform several tasks testing their IQ. In the first test the task was to rearrange words into a sentence. For example:

men/slowly/old/walk (solution: Old men walk slowly) or:

ride/ teenagers/ bicycles (solution: teenagers ride bicycles

 

Each participant was asked to solve five of these. 

After the task was completed they were asked to move to another room which was about 5 min walking away from the first room, to perform the second task. The experiment was arranged as such that all words in the sentences of one group of participants were somehow related to old age and slowness and the other group got sentences about young age and speed. The real purpose of the experiment was to measure how long they would take to walk to the next room.   

The participants solving the task receiving the words related to old age were very significantly slower in moving to the next room than the ones who solved the tasks with words relating to young age and speed. 

So, simply reading and rearranging words, can really affect how we function in life!

I have read about this experiment in several books. Each time again, it elevates my awareness of how important to us is the choice of our thoughts, our spoken words and even our written words. 

 

So, yes positive thinking makes a difference. 

I have made a list for myself of positive words, that I sometimes manage to read (I planned to read them every day but like many good intentions, it did not work out as such). I have shared a list here: 

https://reflectionsbyhans.blogspot.com/2019/06/words-are-powerful.html  

I have also written a blog with essays about good things: 

https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/

 

I hope you enjoy playing in your mind with words. More exciting than simply reading positive words is trying to find words with similar meaning for words as 'beauty' or 'superbness' and then look up the thesaurus for these words. Here is something like that:

https://hansjovich1.gonevis.com/superbness/ 

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Seeing the miracle, even in the middle of a pandemic

All of our life is a miracle. 

Think about it. Be aware of it. Enjoy the miracle.

Somewhere, not far from where you are 

at this very moment a flower is budding, 

another one is blooming 

and a tree is blossoming. 

Oh my God, let us see the miracle of life

All our life is a miracle

Our lungs taking up oxygen

Our food being processed and

being made into a human

Our brain thinking about this all

Oh my God, let us see the miracle of life 

All of life is a miracle

Even if we are in the middle of a pandemic and our governments try to control it in ways we do not agree with, let us still live our life, aware that all of life is a miracle. We do not have to accept the fear, fear mongers want to induce. It makes sense to take precautions not to get severely infected, but let it not affect our positive outlook on life. 

If we cannot go to schools or on vacation, this may be an opportunity to truly enjoy the beauty of the skies that show up early in the morning, to look at and take every opportunity to help the people living around us, to love and be kind, to think deeply, to relax in nature and pray, to envision a life of beauty of love for everyone. 

It may be an opportunity to write a short story or a novel. Or some poetry. To listen to our favorite music and maybe explore genres of  art that were up to now unknown to us. 

 

It may be.... I am sure can fill up so many more ideas about positives that the lockdown may bring with it, as long as we just take the effort to think some positive thoughts. 

 

No matter what happens around us, the world is filled with so many miracles. 

Let us be fully aware of that giant truth, now, in the next minute, the next hour, the next day, the next week.