What is it that makes people stay up until the wee hours of the morning one night out of the year? My primary objective in life is not to see how late I can stay up, but getting up in the morning.
Posts published in “From belief to daily life”
This section explores how beliefs, values, and spiritual understanding shape everyday life.
Here we focus on how meaning influences the way we live, make choices, relate to others, and face difficulty — not as self-improvement, but as the natural result of living with purpose, clarity, and inner grounding.
Here we focus on how meaning influences the way we live, make choices, relate to others, and face difficulty — not as self-improvement, but as the natural result of living with purpose, clarity, and inner grounding.
How many of you had the experience growing up of being told in various ways to limit yourselves from being all you can be? The movie The Incredibles is a wonderful metaphor for this. In this movie, the superheroes the people with extraordinary powers are restricted from using their powers.
The proper fruit of knowledge is action. It is true that gaining knowledge can make us feel more capable but knowledge in itself will not produce the results we really desire. One of the biggest myths that is prevalent in the information age is the notion that knowledge is power. Knowledge is not power. It is only potential power. What you do with what you know is where the real power is.
They say the world will end in 2012, I think I have made a few points here to destroy that theory. Please read on and you will see how I have disproved this theory.
No matter how much wealth we manage to accumulate in this world, it is virtually useless without good health. This is tied closely to the knowledge of our own mortality. Deep down, we all know that we only have a handful of decades on Earth and then it's over.
This is a time of year when many people take stock of all that they are grateful for -- or at least when we should do so. But this should also be a time when we take stock of all those people who contributed to those gifts -- especially the intangible ones. Those gifts such as our self-esteem or confidence, our love of sports or music, and our spine. What person or group do you owe the greatest debt? Was there a special person or group that really helped you become the person you are today?
Ever wonder what Angels do, and why they do it? Learn to call on them for help.
No doubt individual efforts and endeavours are important and they should be respected and encouraged. At times these lone individual efforts are so intense that it not only influences the individual but transforms and influences the cosmic world. Of course these are exceptions but it proves beyond doubt that each human being is Gods prince and that he potentially has all divine powers albeit latent in his psyche. If man so desires he can convert these latent powers into active powers.