Do I know?

Knowledge is power.

I try to read a bit every day, to gain more knowledge.

It feels good to know more. 

But we cannot allow knowledge to render us arrogant

Arrogance is a sign of ignorance

Arrogance is a sign of extremely limited knowledge.

I just looked at a video from Sadguru. 

While I do not agree 

with quite a number of things he says,

he does share several times some great wisdom.

In that video, he said something like this:

"If you ‘d read all libraries in the world,

You will know something 

But compared to this existence, this life

Still our knowledge is minuscule 

Our ignorance is boundless

If we identify with our ignorance,

We become boundless, limitless 

If we identify with our knowledge 

We become constipated

Constipated means it happens little by little.

And that is how many people live 

They need so much things to happen 

To find a little bit of joy in life

We have too strive, to do so many things 

To find a moment of joy, of ecstasy

 

If you want to live a life

Drenched with countless ecstasies,

In every cell of your body at any moment, 

we are to embrace our ignorance. 

If we come to terms with our ignorance.

 

We will pay attention 

If we accept our ignorance 

We will naturally pay more attention"

 

And this is so true!

No matter how much we read,

let us remain aware that we do not know.
So many explanations, we tend to accept blindly and make it a belief.

It is a curse rather than a blessing. Our believes become convictions

and they will make us disrespect anyone who believes differently.

Our convictions make us fight with each other. 

 

The key to a happy life, filled with bliss

is to come to terms with the fact that we do not know

We do not even know an atom in its entirety. 

We have no clue what happens 

in the space between the protons and the electrons

Quantum physics, the science, which

NOT a person, fully can grasp, 

may be the thing that rules every process in our cells.

 

Let us embrace our ignorance

Pay attention 

and do not blindly swallow what big media wants to indoctrinate us with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relatively

When life seems like a drop 

and death seems like an ocean

Then an hour of life seems like a molecule

 

To a molecule, a drop seems like an ocean

 

We are drinking molecule after molecule

and sometimes we forget to taste every bit...

 

Within our life we have many hours,

but sometimes we waste hour after hour with nonsense,

forgetting to build in some beauty, some love, some peace,

some creativity into our days. 

 

Let us become more aware today of the drop that our life really is,

and appreciate every molecule inside the drop that was given to us

:) 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃:) 

I wish that lots of love, peace, beauty and creativity may adorn your life

 

Let it in

Foam, abundant foam on breaking waves 

Everyone has seen it

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in

 

The wonderful orchestra of birds in the morning

Everyone has heard it 

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in

The amazing shapes and forms of clouds in the sky

Every one has seen them 

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in.

You could easily add a thousand beautiful things

We have all seen or heard

But we did not take the time to let the beauty in

Let us let in every thing of beauty we encounter.

Let it touch our inner mind

Let it touch our heart and the deepest of our soul.

 

 

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Safe 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/

What a power!

I was thinking this morning. 

 

I was thinking this morning, about all my problems, about a busy week ahead. But then the sounds of nature in the early morning reached my ears and were touching my heart. And I chose to put all thoughts of the challenges and problems in my life aside for awhile and simply become aware of the beauty of the natural sounds that color the peace of the early morning.

 

We were endowed with, we were given the power to think. Not only the power to think, but at any moment in time we have the power to choose what we are thinking about. We can just decide to put our worries aside for now and get focused on the peace that surrounds us early in the morning, on the silence, on the lovely natural sounds from an awaking nature in our garden. 

What a power! What a great gift of nature, we humans received! 

It may be only us, humans who have this gift.

But how often do we use this enormously big gift? I have been guilty of living days after days, just focusing on the daily routines, without taking time to make use of this power to free our mind of all the things that bother us, and just become fully aware for a few moments of the wonderful peace that is ours almost every morning, every night. I have been guilty of not making time to notice the beauty that surrounds us. If we just look in the morning at the sky or some trees, and free our mind of our daily thoughts, we can enjoy the beauty of nature, the beauty of the birds. We simply have the power to do that, but so often we do not use it for days and days in a row. 

 

I have been guilty of not appreciating this power to choose our thoughts, when it comes to appreciating the love that surrounds us, when it comes to simple opportunities to be kind. How often I passed the beggar, hardly noticing him or her, because I was too absorbed in my daily routine of being busy with work and problems?

 

We have the POWER to think, the power to choose our thoughts. Let us be fully aware of that and make full use of it to create a life that contains enough peace, beauty and love for us to enjoy life. 

 

Let us not blur this power by the use of things like alcohol, or other mind altering  substances. Simply making time for peace, love and beauty is the true source of happiness. Happiness, true happiness is never found in the use of mind altering substances.

The beach

Breaking waves

Breaking waves from the azure blue sea
are touching the deepest of the soul of me
A flood of thoughts that are pure and kind
Inundate and refresh my heart and mind

The broad smiles of foam on the wavy tops
makes my problems light and worrying stops
Well-wishing roars of the waves so sweet
make me see the good in everyone I meet

Come, my friends, come to this beach too
And let the waves of the sea inspire you.

A flower on the path

This afternoon my wife's elder sister would visit us. She has four children and six grandchildren who all would come too. So around midday, as I walked along the path from my garden to the beach, I picked up a number of dry leaves that had dropped during a heavy bout of rain, early in the morning. 

I noticed between the dry leaves, a beautiful yellow flower that had fallen of the tree, that carries the name, sea-hibiscus. The tree is mainly leafy, but it carries a number of flowers, standing quite far apart. The flowers are yellow with an orangey pistil that is longer than the petals of the flower. I purposely did not pick up the flower and silently hoped our guests, of later in the afternoon would notice it. Actually I put it a bit closer to the path, very clearly visible. 

 While doing that, I got struck by an idea about life. Did not the universe (or its Creator) put so many beautiful things along our path in that big journey of life. But do we notice them? When I drive to work, there are literally so many things of beauty clearly visible along the road, but there are many days that I am so occupied with thoughts about work, about home, that I fail to notice them. Even inside the workplace, there may be not so much beautiful nature inside that place, but then there are the beautiful opportunities to make a positive difference in other people's life. And again there are days, that I hardly notice them and fail to act on them. 

I have made up my mind that tomorrow, I will have short reflection in the morning with the aim to try to increase my awareness of all beauty in our lives. I hope that I will be aware and notice the beauty of nature, the beauty of all opportunities to help others, the beauty of all the love and friendliness that comes my way...

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

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

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

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

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

Letting love flow

You cannot give away what you don't have. 

 

While the above sounds obvious, so obvious that it is almost ridiculous,

there is more to it, than initially meets the eye

If you are not good at giving away love, 

it may well be that there is not much love in your heart

If your heart is filled with contempt

that is what you can give away

If your  heart is filled with hatred and anger

that is what you can give away

If your heart is filled with old grudges, 

that is what you will give away.

While we get a short ego-boost, when we give away contempt,

It hurts our soul, it hurts our good-natured self

While we get a short ego boost expressing anger and contempt,

it hurts our heart, it hurts our body, it hurts our happiness

While we get a short ego boost expressing grudges,

it takes away our own peace of mind

While we have to put our ego a bit aside to give love,

that is what brings us a good feeling, peace of mind and happiness

We were made like that. Contempt, anger, grudges, hatred was useful when we were living in caves

But its usefulness has waned and the creative force in the universe, that many call our God, has given us a constitution, a inherent nature of our inner being,

that we thrive on love, on giving praise, on being nice and kind.

If we manage to push aside contempt, anger and grudges,

and let in the Love of our Creator,

it will become easy to give away love 

If we allow our hearts to be filled with love 

happiness will lurk around every corner, 

every second of the day. 

 

 

For our heart to be ONLY filled with love may seem an utopia,

but we can work towards putting in our heart more love and less contempt.
What is inside, will come out.
If we press an orange, orange juice will come out, nothing else because nothing else is inside

If somebody presses us, stresses us, what will come out? Anger and hatred,

or will we have stored enough love inside our hearts to let love flow no matter what?

(the above was inspired by W Dyer)

That's who we are

Whether you believe in evolution or creation 

Whether you believe in capitalism or socialism

Whether you are religious or not,

All of us have one common trait

 

And the common trait is that we are happy 

if we make a positive difference in this world.

 

Please my dear reader, think about this:

Compare your level of happiness 

the day after you attended a big party

to your level of happiness

the day after you really helped a person 

who needed your help. 

 

Please my dear reader think about this:

does giving a helping hand not make you far more happy

than buying an expensive gift for your self?

 

Please dear reader, try to push aside all preconceived ideas

about how to get happy and just put the two experiences 

next to each other. 

 

I have experienced both.
I have bought myself lots of expensive things.
Each time I was happy but it was short lasting 

It was of a completely different, lower quality, when compared to the very good feelings I experience while and after going the extra mile to help someone who needs it.

 

We were made like this. 

We evolved like this.
Not a person can deny this giant truth

Happiness, true happiness lies in helping others,

in going the extra mile

Happiness, peace of mind, true peace of mind

resides in selfless service

Happiness, true happiness does NOT reside in spending lots of money

Happiness, any happiness does NOT reside in getting drunk every weekend

Happiness does not reside in partying throughout the night

 

Happiness does not reside in showing of our luxurious living style

Happiness resides in selfless service

Happiness resides in going the extra mile

Happiness resides in kindness

in random kind acts

Please my reader, be aware of this giant truth

Happiness is worth trying to get.
It is so easy to get it, if we just put our own ego a bit aside

and start to think, what can I do to make someone else happy. 

WE WERE MADE LIKE THIS
We evolved like this.