The gift of peace

The tranquillity of the night
touches my heart and mind.
a stillness emerges and
reaches deep inside
connecting to my quiet soul

My soul shines a soft and glowing light
on all emotions and turbulence of the day
I relive them but without the edges
I re-feel them but there are no sharp points
bitterness morphs into softness;
softness transforms into love

The tranquillity of the night
listening to my soul
love and wisdom
the gift of peace

To know or experience

You may know about water, how good it is, how much it can relieve thirst and how clean it can make you. But if we do not drink it or bathe in it, the knowledge does not do us much good.

So is it with God, that amazing creative Power in the universe. We can read about, hear about, believe in God, but as long as we do try to internalize the Wisdom, as long as we do not experience God, and truly live in that supreme Love, we do not truly see, and experience the tremendous Peace, we are mere "knowers", hardly benefiting from this knowledge.

Sometimes I feel the leaders of organized religions pretend they can be the connection between God and their followers, which puts them in a seriously questionable but very powerful position towards those who choose to swallow that way of teaching.

Up we go

I get in the lift
I press the button heaven
and up we're going

Imagine that we could do that,
Just step into a lift, press a button, labelled heaven,
and there we go! We go to heaven for a while and
then we may come back
in case we start to miss our earth too much.

I enjoyed the imagination, and I hope you did as well.
The sheer impossibility of it makes it feel a bit nonsensical
Before getting back fully to reality,
please read on, below the picture.

If we imagine what heaven might feel like,
we do think about bliss, peace of mind, peace of heart,
we do think about intense uncompromisable happiness
and love, love, love.

If tomorrow we wake up and step in the lift of the new day,
we can choose to press the button heaven
by choosing a life of unconditional love and giving
by choosing a life of selfless service
by forgiving all our enemies, giving up our grudges
by choosing thankfulness for what we have
by choosing  a day filled with small random acts of kindness
and up we go to a state of bliss and peace and love.
Up we are going

Please now read again the small senryu (a haiku about human nature):
I get out of bed

I choose a life like heaven
and up we're going

When it is so hard to love

When it is so hard to love politicians,
it may be better to read a bit less about politics.

At first sight you may disagree with the above statement but deep inside I feel there is a huge truth behind it. Whenever I, or we, read about politics, we tend to end up hating more one person. These politicians achieve positions of great power, most often not because they have superbly good intentions. They want to be in power, they want to be rich, they want to control. In order to gain control there is a need to get votes and that is where all the promises come. Promises, they know they cannot keep and quite often promises, they have no intention at all to keep. A close call to be in power and for the sake of a coalition all the promises are thrown overboard.

You may think I am too negative about the people in power, but on average their egos are too big, and they refuse to think about what are the consequences of what they do. Democracy has dramatically improved to odds of avoiding tyrannical abuse, but we the people with our voting right, allow ourselves all too often to be manipulated by the psychological warfare against us. Politicians need to have a reason for you to vote for him or her. So they create fear and discord and blow problems out of proportion, to get our support for their cause. Look at what is happening in America at this very moment! But if we look at any other country, we will find politicians using the same tactics and techniques to create division, targeting minorities so the majority can vote for them. They are aware this is extremely dangerous and has led in the past to Nazism and ethnic cleansing, mass criminal activities against a target group, destroying nations, destroying the majority even more than the murdered minority, since the murderous majority will have to live with the crimes committed in the name of their false-politicians-induced-exaggerations.

Somehow, the limitation of democracy is the psychological manipulation of the voters. We are not always voting for who can lead the country best. After the disaster of the presidency of Ronald Reagan who was an actor and destroyed so many families in so many countries in south America and the rest of the world, who gave a real bad name to America, one would think the Americans would have learned their lesson, but no. Another TV personality comes along and wow, wow, wow, is voted into presidency, no matter how troubled his past how full of scandals his financial and personal situation.

Seriously, when I read politics, I tend to lose my peace of mind. And this is similar for world politics as for the local politics. Politicians, the media and their whole machinery can make us hate each other, can make us hate the persons in power.

I have decided to expose myself much less to reading politics. I will follow it from a certain distance. It is too important to ignore politics as a whole, but we do not need a daily dose of it. If I manage to update myself on a weekly basis, through an hour or two of scanning to websites of all sides of the political divide, I tend to get a much better image, get less absorbed and pulled over, and quite often see through the games of politics played by both sides.

If a political article makes you hate some politicians or makes you hate some groups of people, be careful before you let the intended toxic waste into your mind, heart and soul. It is not easy to remain neutral if people use all psychological tricks on us. I sincerely think the answer is to read less of politics, and to guard our mind from toxic waste as we would guard our garden from toxic waste if one was about to dump it there.

The above may seem to you as quite a negative post. And it is true. It is quite negative. So, perhaps now high time to read some very short essays about good things. Here is the link: essays on good things

Let it flow

In the physical world, our heart lets our blood flow;
In our emotional world it lets our love flow
In our intelligence world, it lets inspiration flow
In our spiritual world, it lets our soul shine.

Make a bit of time today
To do away with all obstacles, all sandbanks
Let it flow.
Let love flow freely
Get inspired and inspire
Let our light inside shine.

Please read a bit more about the greatness inside:
Short essays on good things

Fantastic definition of success

I was looking at a TED talk from a musician, Benjamin Zander,
and he was talking about a definition of success, I had never heard.

I am sure you had guessed already that it was not about material wealth.
That is not a surprise, is it?

But it was also not about being happy or having peace of mind.
He just played a piece of music
and gave a little explanation about it and then played it again.
He moved the audience
And straight after he finished, the audience clapped
and he went close to audience and was clapping harder than anyone in the audience.
He looked a bit like a madman.
But then he explained why he clapped:
Because you were listening.
And there are so many shiny eyes in the audience.
the one who is truly successful he said,
is the one who can surround himself with shiny eyes.

After his explanation, all eyes in his audience were shiny.
My eyes were shiny too.
I was moved by his wisdom more still than by his music.

Listen to a small piece of classical music,
let it move you, let your eyes shine,
then go on with your life and your work
with so much enthusiasm, that the eyes of those around you
shine too.

What a fantastic definition of success!

Essays on good things

When I was a bit younger, I really enjoyed reading essays about certain virtues. I had a book written by Sydney W Bremer, containing just that. Whenever I read something, about let's say politeness, it felt good. Of course, I knew that politeness was a virtue worthy of practicing as much as I can, but after reading the essay, I felt the need to be a bit more polite than usual. It was as if the reading of the essay had brought the virtue of politeness, that was sitting somewhere really deep in my consciousness, way back to the surface of my brain, to the surface of my being.

In today's news, I found hundreds of articles on gun violence, hundreds of articles on vicious politicians making the wrong decisions for the people. I think they do it knowingly which makes it worse.

But before this small post becomes yet another piece on all the negative, I want to announce a small initiative of myself: In an attempt to contribute a tiny bit to balance all negativity with some positivity, I started a series of essays on specifically named good things. Sometimes we want to read something very short and inspiring, but more than merely a quote. My first one is a small essay (less than 400 words, less than a full A4 page long) on respect, the origin and true meaning of respect. I hope you enjoy it:
To read it, please click on respect
I have also one on luck
one on nature
one on greatness
one on ideals
one on empathy
and one on openness
and still writing... 😃

New world view

The need to win and compete
and the need for greed
are the old world view. 

We are moving into a new world view. 
People sticking to greed in the hope to get happiness, 
tend not to find true happiness.
They just tend to want more and more and 
their chase for more and for happiness becomes a frustration.. 

The new world view is sharing. 
No compulsory sharing like in communism 
but voluntary sharing for the sheer happiness 
and peace of mind that it brings. 

Some people cling to the old view 
like an old grumpy typist sticking to an old typewriter. 
But soon everyone will see the truth 
and typewriters and greed will be a thing from the past. :)

I wrote this up in a small rhyming poem. 
please visit the poem at: Aufie Zophy 


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Note:Visit the Dutch translation, juweeltjes voor de ziel, by clicking here (hier:))

Experience

I was staying in Kuala Lumpur with my children.
Everything was fine and we stayed in a nice hotel.
The hotel-breakfast was really very expensive
and we had decided to take breakfast somewhere else.

While it felt like a good example for the children,
not to be wasteful with the money,
I think we as a family missed the special experience
of pampering ourselves and have a sumptuous breakfast together
during our very short holiday.

Surely, when considering the price of the food in the hotel,
it was far too expensive, but to have breakfast in a special place,
is more than the price of the food. It is the experience too.

On one side, it feels good to save money,
On the other side, experiences are what life is made off.
I am fully against overspending,
but over-saving may also deprive us from living life to its fullest.

Finding a balance between the two is a bit the art of life, I think.

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Dutch version of some of my post: Juweeltjes voor de ziel
Sister blogs:
Inspirational quotes
Small prayers for a big world
"Big" brother blog (selection of my poems, written under the pen name of Aufie Zophy):
aufiezophypoems

Eternal peace

Just now I went to visit the wife of a dear friend who died last week.
My friend was a little bit handicapped at his feet even though he could walk.
He was a teacher at a school for disabled children and had truly a golden heart.
I loved him for who he was.

I will not meet him again in this world.
But my memories of him will be alive.

When I came back from his place,
I was in quite a deep and pensive mood.
I had all those negative feelings about death
and about missing him for the rest of my life.
As I thought deeper and deeper about death,
I became a bit less negative.

At some time, at some place, for some people
death may be more of a soft longing than purely a fear.
For some people in big suffering it may come as a relief.
But still it separates us living people from the ones we once loved, liked, cherished.
Death, at the end of my reflection, I wrote a short poem about it:

Death

Robber of life,

Robber of love

Source of fear

Source of soft longing

Bringer of peace

Reliever of pain

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Dutch version of some of my post: Juweeltjes voor de ziel
Sister blogs:
Inspirational quotes
Small prayers for a big world
"Big" brother blog (selection of my poems, written under the pen name of Aufie Zophy):
aufiezophypoems

Peace

This morning I prayed
I prayed for peace
I prayed for beauty
I prayed for love

But then became aware
that peace was already filling my room
that beauty was in the colors of the sky
that beauty was in the song of the bird outside
that love was abundant in my heart.

I prayed again
now for guidance to be aware of all peace surrounding us
now for astuteness to notice and make time for all beauty
now for wisdom to share all the love in my heart

I felt the need to serve, to serve today
in a way not breaking any of the peace
in a way creating and sharing some beauty
in a way sharing love with whomever I meet.


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Dutch version of some of my post: Juweeltjes voor de ziel
Sister blogs:
Inspirational quotes
Small prayers for a big world
"Big" brother blog (selection of my poems, written under the pen name of Aufie Zophy):
aufiezophypoems

Choices, never easy.

There are a thousand paths in front of me

But I am sure and declare here solemnly

That one of them is always looking a bit brighter

Along that way, burdens seem to be a bit lighter

But even on that brighter path, we tend to meet a split

Choosing left or right, we are never so sure of it,

That is when the time has come to withdraw of all the buzz

A small reflection in nature and God will show the way to us.

I hope you enjoy the above small rhyme.
Rhyming verses tend to give us some inner joy.
But still, I think in any poem, I search for the message.
I do not like too much poetry that is hard to understand

Two days ago, I met one of my co-workers in USM,
and she was sharing a big dilemma she was facing.
It was quite a personal dilemma so was not in a position to give advice.
I just shared my own experience when I had a big dilemma myself,
that I went for a long walk on a magnificent stretch of beach and
stopped along the way to sit there and enjoy the beauty of the sea.
I said a small prayer and asked some help from above.
My train of thoughts that followed brought me straight "to the right station".
On the way back, I had close to perfect clarity on which choice to make.

When we face an important choice we have to make,
some time in nature, alone, can do real wonders.

Power shift

Why is it that the rich and greedy keep getting richer and greedier?
Why do they seem all powerful?
The reason is that we are greedy too.
The fact that we want their money more than anything else
makes them so extremely powerful.

Slowly, we as a human community are discovering a new truth;
Slowly, we are discovering the power of kindness;
Slowly, we are discovering the power of selfless service.
Kindness and selfless service are so extremely powerful,
yet undiscovered by many of our human friends.

Why are kindness and selfless service much more powerful than money?
because they bring us peace of mind,
because they bring us true happiness
because they make our life better
because they make us feel TRULY good,
all things money seems to do, but doesn't.

Let us speed up this wisdom and kindness revolution.
Let us give due power to kindness and selfless service.
The rich and greedy will fight the wisdom and condemn it,
because it will make them lose their enormous power they have.
The more they fight it, the faster the revolution will spread.

Let us give a boost to the wisdom and kindness revolution today,
and this week, by being extra kind and plan to go the extra mile for one friend.
Let us give it a boost by sharing the good news, that a tremendous shift in power is coming our way.
It has started and is unstoppable. The more we practice, the more we share the news, the faster it will move.

Learning

It is late in the evening
I have some time.
I make some time to think about my day.
What can I learn from my experiences today?

I vividly remember the time I woke up.
Tomorrow I want to wake up in a slightly different way.
I want to be a bit more grateful, and make a bit of time
to at least look at the beauty of dawn.
I hope for a wonderful sunrise but even if it is cloudy,
I will look at the skies, at the trees and flowers in my garden
at least for five minutes, to boost the beauty of my morning.

Tomorrow I want to share my wishes with each member of my family
for them to have a day filled with our Creator's blessings, before I rush
out for work.

Then I think about the encounters with each person at my work.
Today I met with so many people, each enriching my soul at least a bit.
The students, I met.
The datuk professors.
The nurses
The babies I took care off
The parents of my patients
My wife, my children,
My neighbours.
The love I experienced,

I end this small reflection with a heart filled with thanks.
Thanks to all the wonderful beings I was blessed to meet
Thanks to our Creator for allowing me to meet them.
Thanks for being able to make this small reflection a
and share it with all my friends here.

Best wishes to you!

How clever!

How superbly clever must our Creator have been,
to create world with so many different people,
so many cultures, so many religions,
so many opinions, so many talents
so many perceptions, so many convictions,
so many faiths, so many people who are each
so extremely unique!

How could anyone of us experience any growth,
any spiritual growth, emotional growth,
personality growth, character growth,
if we would all be the same, think the same,
feel the same, believe the same!

How superbly clever must our Creator have been!
How exciting is the eternal search of humans
for the Truth with capital T?
How superb is the feeling of discovering ancient text
that said some things you felt for a long time already?

Let us today celebrate our many differences,
see the world as our biggest possible school
We can learn from/respect all our brothers and sisters.
Enjoy the differences between you and your family members,
the differences between you and your neighbors and friends,
the differences between  you and your colleagues
the differences between you and all other people.

How unwise still are so many people
who lock themselves up in one single creed,
condemning to hell all people who think differently;

who refuse to even access the huge wealth of wisdom
found in nature, found in our own soul, found in the whole world.
If our faith is strong enough no need to be afraid of pluralism.
Pluralism is richness that can enhance your faith, ensure your continued growth.

Listening to others, reading widely,  will help us understand, respect.
Of course we do not absorb all ideas offered in all we read or from whomever we meet.
We think, we critically analyse, keep our own faith, but increase our understanding and respect.

Let us today all benefit from our Creator's cleverness and
open up to the whole world!

Dad

My father, lovely and dear,
while ten thousand miles away from me,
our souls were forever near!
Closer perhaps than any son to father could be

Open and frank about all thoughts in our mind;
criticizing our own ways respectfully and kind.
But more often giving sincere appreciation;
no secrets, sharing our wildest imagination.

When we were alone,
We left unturned no stone.
Talking about simple facts of reality
reminiscing about things of great beauty,
Sharing wonderful memories from the past,
Small and big achievements that last.
Going into life's truest meanings:
A wide range of our heart's deepest things
but then a practical joke or funny face
would bring us straight back to the surface.

Gratefulness has replaced the sadness;
now thankful for your wonderful dad-ness
I loved the moments we shared.
For the times we were together, I cared
if not physically, just through some thoughts in our mind
a letter, a fax or just thinking some words that were kind.

I loved to share my wisdom, and to listen to yours
I loved to talk about my stories and to listen to yours.

The moments I hurt you, I still regret
but now they do not longer make me sad;
because forgiveness, I am certain of that.
long, long before your death.

I think of it like an enormous big lottery I have won,
It was such an enormously huge privilege to be your son.

I share this with my friends on the eve of father's day
And I can see your bright smile from heaven, so far away.

Your Hans, @ Aufie Zophy

An example for me

My father in law, ayah,
was not wealthy, he had just enough
but almost all of the time, whenever I met him
he looked happy and possessed a wonderful serenity

Oh, ayah, I possess a lot more
I have many friends possessing a lot more,
but none of us is as serene as you
none of us is as happy as you always seemed to be.

My father in law was praying,
not a whole lot, but apparently just enough.
He was always modest and I never,
never I saw him lose his temper or self control.

And yet I have so many friends and acquaintances
who pray a lot more and are so proud of their prayers
but so often they assume an air of arrogance
and quite often their self control is lost.

My father in law, this simple and friendly man
lovely and humble, dignified and lovely
taught me so many valuable lessons.
We do not have to be rich to possess love and happiness
We do not have to be proud or show off to be dignified,

He died very suddenly in 2002
but up to today, I do remember him
I do remember the valuable lessons I learned from him,
without him attempting to teach me anything.

Little Light

"I am not bound to win
       but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed
       but I am bound to live
              by the light that I have."

I came across the above quote from Abraham Lincoln.
It resonated with my heart as soon as I read it.

Made me think of a small poem I wrote a few years back:
 The Little Light
Let the little light shine :)

The Power of Words

(available in Dutch as well: Juweeltjes voor de Ziel  )

Words are powerful indeed.

Putting the right words and thoughts in our mind
will influence how we think, how we act
and thus influence the outcome
and what happens in our life.

I love to think positive words. It boosts my spirit.
Here is a list of positive words.
Just reading them may have already a positive effect:

Abundance,     Benevolence,     Love,      Truth,

Patience,    Calmness,    Honesty,      Gratitude,

Elegance,     Sweetness,    Charity,     Success,

 Wisdom,   Wonderful,   Goodness,   Understanding,

 Service,    Fabulous,   Prosperity,      Miraculous,   

Virtue,   Helpfulness,   Grace,    Hope, 

Beauty,   Confidence,    Harmony,   Brilliance,
  
Caring,    Peace,    Fantastic,   Compassion,

Handiness,     Superb,     Heart,   Friendliness,   
  
Serendipity,    Health,    Faith,      Smiles,

Sympathy,    Positivity,     Courage,    Openness,
      
Empathy,      Safety,    Kindness,  Ideal.

 Greatness,  Giving,    Forgiveness,    Nature,
        
 Luck,    Nice,     Sharing,    Respect,       

......


Please add a few of your own,
Most likely, you love positive words,
as much as I love them.

I wish you a day filled love
and all other things, listed in the above list :)

Peace within

Sometimes we pray for peace,
as if peace is a gift that comes from far away.

We wish each other peace, sometimes without even thinking;
without even sending the thought of peace out.

Our Creator, and if you do not believe in a creator, the Universe,
has created our world around us in such a way
that peace is naturally present, most of the time for most of us.

If we walk in nature, if we sit in our room, If we do our work,
peace is all around us, it surrounds us in the air,
it even enters our lungs, flows through our veins.

Once we become aware that peace is not something far from us
but that most of the time we bathe in peace,
and once we manage to consciously experience peace,
we will value it sooo much that we will not let little things
make us so upset that we disturb the peace for ourselves and for others.

If during our prayers we become a little bit more aware of that,
our prayers will have brought us a little closer to our Creator,
to that creative Power in the Universe.

Our prayers will give us a bit more peace,
a bit more patience, if we manage to truly value that peace,
a bit more love, a bit more honesty, a bit more of all good things.

Peace is all around us;
let the peace enter our body,
let the peace enter our mind,
let the peace enter our heart and our soul.

May the Peace of our Creator be with you in the coming seconds,
the coming minutes, the coming day, the coming week, the coming month, ...

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Please visit also my poetry web-blog:  Aufie

Let us work on it

It is normal to get angry every now and then
even though deep inside we know that anger brings misery,
while kindness brings peace of mind and happiness

It is normal to get confused and depressed on and off
even though deep inside we know that there is beauty in the world
and that kindness brings peace of mind and happiness

It is normal to get upset and shout sometimes
even though deep inside we know that harshness brings sufferng,
while kindness brings peace of mind and happiness.

We are all human
We do lose our temper
we do get sad
But... Let us work on it.

Sincerely, I am believing in the supreme value of unconditional love.
I put as one of my greatest ambition to achieve this level of love
But up to now, I keep failing, falling.

I think it involves giving up all types of judgement
and perhaps I need to experience my own shortcomings
in many ways, for me to judge others much less.
Being aware of our own limitations, tends to create understanding.
I hope our Creator allows me to move into that direction,
that direction of less and less judging
less and less losing my temper
more and more understanding
more and more unconditional love

Debate

A drop

Drip drop, tic toc, another drop falls down
another drop of love is entering our heart
A drop of wisdom, a drop of kindness
coming from the clouds above

If we don't share it, if we don't use it,
we may be drowning soon...


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A small poem, i wrote under the pen name, Aufie Zophy
A selection of my other poems can be found at https://aufiezophypoems.blogspot.com/

Yeah!

I am working with children. It is among the amazing things in my life.
Every little baby, every infant, every toddler, every child carries so many miracles
that just simply working with them is a true joy.

When students come for training to my place, some of them are a bit scared, a bit reluctant to really approach the small kids. Simple friendly approaches, like giving the children praise, talking to them, using their name, making eye contact at the same level, offering toys and allowing the child to be held by one of the parents, may make the encounter with a child more pleasurable.

But the most important thing is still our mindset:

If we go to the children's ward (pediatrics) with a mindset of "yeah, I am going to the paediatric ward" and expect the very best, this will help anyone, to see the miracles, these children carry with them and to have a pleasant and enjoyable experience with the children and the parents. It will become easy to see opportunities to help and make a positive difference for these children and their family.

Compare this with someone entering the ward with a mindset of "Oh no, I have to enter the paediatric ward". Will they see the miracles? Will they see the opportunities to do good? Will they enjoy their time learning about children?

Our mindset is our self-talk. We have the perfect free choice to choose either a "Yeah,..." or an "Oh, no,..." in the morning.  Let us make this choice consciously and most importantly choose the right one for making our day, a good one. 😉

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Hans Van Rostenberghe writes poetry under the pen name Aufie Zophy 

Find his mind-tickling spiritual and inspirational poems by clicking here 

(link is perfectly safe - Google Blogspot page)

Rain and hail

Let the cloud of kindness
rain out its nourishing rain
over the shore

Let the clouds of greed
rain out their thunderous hail
far above the ocean

Let the drops of kindness
fertilize our soil
and let the seeds of love blossom

Let the rocks of greed
drown in the deep sea
never to be recovered

Let the kindness flow
Let the greed be buried

a forest of kindness
a graveyard for greed.

A smile

This is a literal quote of the ending lines of a chapter on smiling written by Dale Carnegie:


"It costs nothing, but creates much. 
It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. 
It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. 
None are so rich they can get along without it and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and nature's best antidote for trouble.Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anyone 'til it is given away. And if in the hurly-burly bustle of today's business world, some of the people you meet should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you to leave one of yours?

For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give."

I have not ever found any better piece of text on smiling than the above one.
I hope you enjoyed it too and that in the next hour each of us manages to smile to 3 people
the next day to ten and ever thereafter more than ten per day :)

And then listen to this fantastic song: 
Jermaine Jackson -smile

Relax and grow

Oh, my God,
tonight I was free.
I had nothing on my to do list
I wanted to use tonight for some growth;
some growth in character;
some growth in wisdom;
some growth in personality,

But somehow along the way, I got lost
I got stuck in a video and then a webpage,
clicked on the next link and then on the next,
getting further and further away from my initial intention.

On and off we have to get off the internet,
make it quiet and reflect
or read a book
I love to read a book,
but do not manage to read as much as I would imagine is good.

Spontaneous grace

If I want to be grateful,
I say thanks and it feels good.

But if I think about the greatness of our God
and manage to feel that huge Love and Mercy,
gratefulness emerges from deep inside
without even saying thanks,
and it feels great.

The sun

The sun is always there.
All of us know it, it truly is.

But when dark clouds are hiding it,
we tend to forget that the sun is always there
When the earth is casting its shadow,
we tend to forget that the sun is always there.

It is.
When the fog is getting thinner
when clouds do part,
When dawn peeps over the horizon,
we become aware
The sun was always there. Even when I did not see it.

If bullies cast their shadow
and your world experiences the night of ignorance
That knowledge that the sun, the love, the kindness, the wisdom
is always there, strong, shining forever, will help you not to vibrate
at the frequencies of the ignorance, the bullies, the hatred, the blinded

Even though it seems dark because a wave of ignorance has come,
keep your vibration of your mind and heart at the level of wisdom;
Let it oscillate at the higher frequencies, let the waves of kindness flow.

Haters will be around for some time to come
Let them not bring us down to their level,
Let us bless them, wish them relief
of the irrational fear that caused their hatred

Ignorance, racism, oppression, nonsense will be around for some time
extremists in religion, in nationalism, in false beliefs; they will be here.
Let them not bring us down to their level
Let us bless these people and wish them relief
of the immense pain that must have caused such lack of love
lack of wisdom, lack of kindness, lack of peace of mind.
They deserve our pity, our unconditional love: send them love and blessings.

The sun is always there,
the light of love and kindness is never far away
and ignorance will turn around.
the clouds will part and we can all together live as one
in the light of wisdom and love
Love and kindness
Always there, even if do not see or hear it.

Our God is always present.
Sometimes our thoughts, our emotions, do lock him out.
We tune out of that superb vibration, giving us power,
the power to love unconditionally, to be kind selflessly
to smile at a stranger, to say a lovely word to anyone you meet,
This power, this divine power is always with us, all we need to do
is tune in

Even when the un-free world seems to send a lot of noise,
Even if we lost the signal and hear that awful noise between two radio stations,
Let us be aware, that God is always there.
Let us just tune in to his Wisdom, Love, Kindness and Mercy.

(Inspired by Michael Bernard Beckwith)

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Miracles

There are two ways to live:
You live as if nothing is a miracle or
You live as if everything is a miracle
(Albert Einstein)

The bright blue bird that just now was flying thru and fro in my garden
a miracle

The grass turning a bit greener just after a few minutes of sprinkling
a miracle

The deep blue sea below the high blue skies
a miracle

Me, sitting here thinking about and jotting down miracles
a miracle



Today I chose to live as if everything was a miracle
How about you?
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Peace of mind

Have you been in such a beautiful place
that it gave you, as by magic, a giant peace of mind
making you think: what else can I wish for?

Have you been doing such a beautiful job
that gave you, as by magic, a giant peace of mind
making you think: what else can I wish for?

I think if every day we consciously search for some beauty in our life,
if everyday we try to do a wonderful, beautiful deed, no matter how small,
that we will get a lot more peace of mind in our life, a lot more happiness.

Let us start now, in the next one hour, to search for a thing of beauty (in real life or even a photo from the internet);  to say a few nice words to a stranger or make a call to your mom.

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http://quotesfromhans.blogspot.my/
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http://smallprayersforabigworld.blogspot.my/

Never hurt

"We all face death in the end, 
but on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart"
Rumi

One of the gems of Rumi.
Perhaps none of us has truly never hurt anyone's heart.
At least a few times we did hurt others.
But the less we do hurt other people's heart
the more peace of mind is ours
The more we support and try to heal other hearts,
the more peace of mind is ours,
the more true happiness is ours.

Let us all try never to hurt a human heart.
Even though none of us may succeed in this almost impossible aspiration,
trying, consciously trying will make a huge difference in the number of people whose heart gets hurt :)