Showing posts with label Unity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unity. Show all posts

Jan 5, 2009

2008 Summary: A Look Back Towards the Future?!



What is 1 year? One year in all human history!


Quite an insignificant time-span on its own, but together each year is an important part in the human history sequence.
For one year little change may come to pass and again for one year everything can change!
1 year is not such a small chunk of time after all and sometimes so much things can happen during the course of an year that when you look back it seems like a decade!

This time-stretching feeling is a natural effect of the more rapid movement and development of events. You know, the faster you go the slower time goes for you. And that is why when you don't engage yourself in a lot of activities and don't do and create much new in your life and habits you get the feeling that time passes by you shockingly fast.

Nature has a cyclic nature of existence that repeats different processes over and over again to maintain balance and keep life going. Human life obeys more or less the cyclic law of nature and our daily lives are filled with repeating activities and things we repeatedly do. Everything we do today in our lives affects and shapes the events in our tomorrow.
Humanity as a whole is a reflection of our collective soul and, as people are becoming more and more aware, this soul obviously is in a very sick condition.

During the past year we didn't saw anything much different than the year before and all the trends that have began to develop long back in our regional and global history timelines. We saw military conflicts, people starving, religious tension, an incomplete and old economy system crumbling by its own weight. We saw prices rising, jobs lost, melting ice issue that escalates into
increasingly threatening Global Warming trend that brings up solutions like new taxes and a whole array of regulations all about taxes to be paid if any rule be exceeded. So in the end, the global warming turns out to be a new industry to make money of, a big industry and a lot of cash. Of course, the global warming is real and our society does need a change indeed, but this change must include a whole new level of advancement in our minds as well!

Problems, issues and unstable relationships have always plagued humanity and seems like they always will.
This is because we generally behave the same with little change as people always did, we cling to old views and follow rules and traditions centuries and even millenia old. All this makes us stagnant and underdeveloped in our minds.
The reason for all human conflicts is human nature itself that we barely understand and that blindly guides us driven by our instinctive programs and subconscious mechanisms.
The question is, will our past continue to be our future trapped in the ever-going circle of mental primitivity?

Of course, there is no universal cure for all global conflicts but there is one process that can deeply affect and change an individual's life and his/her relationship with the world. This is the process of knowing yourself or self-realization.
When a person consciously observes and analyzes him/herself reshaping and building their character for the better and more complete. The more people improve themselves and their relationships with others, the more we will advance collectively as one society with common goals: peace, understanding and prosperity for all!
It is acheivable, this is not some utopian dream.
The truth is that we must save ourselves, as one advanced humanity. No one else is coming to save us if we don't make this effort collectively together!

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The key is hidden in yourself. Search for it there!
All the answers to all the questions are always where you are! Ponder that for a while!

Improve yourself, change the world!



Jun 22, 2008

Questions, thoughts and reflections

"... I feel endless torment deep in my inmost self which grasps my soul like a cold gust of frost that engulfs my heart when I see all the sorrow, all the pain, all the tears, all the hatred, all the violence, all endless conflicts that engulf our world like the frost engulfing my heart. It burns of sorrow and melts the ice off of it, and bloody tears leak through my being, soaking my mind.."
Ateviel, October 28, 2006


Why people learn to apologize at an early age, instead of learning not to behave in a way that will require an apology?
Why when we meet something different our first reaction is aggression?
And why when our beliefs are questioned, we always assume defensive positions, without even taking the time to think about what is being said?

Why we overuse the words, so they loose their emotional meaning for us? For instance, we use "love" for just about everything we like and find agreeable - "I love chocolate", "I love pink", "I love this movie" and then we look at the people we share emotional affection with and say to them with the same "passion" that we love them too (almost as much as beer).

As for the opposite emotion - "hate" - things are the same. Just that I want to ask, why do we need to use this word at all? Why do we have to hate?!

Why we need religion to believe in God?
Does God need religion in order to exist?
If we do not think about the Universe, does it vanish?
Why we act first and then think about the consequencies?
Why there is so much discontent, unhappiness and conflicts in the world?
Why the human mind is constructed in a way, so that it prefers ignorance and inactivity rather than expantion of its conscious horizons?!
Why we don`t pay attention to the reasons behind our reactions and behavior?
Why we are used to not think too much and why it is so hard for the ego to overcome itself?
Why do we prefer to be instinctive, and unaware?
And why we prefer someone else to think for us?
Why people behave aggressively and become racists when meeting with different peoples?
And why we need to fill our lives with intrigues, lies, fights, insincerity and problematic relationships?
Why do we always search for the blame only in others and never in ourselves?

And why we read a question and forget about it at the moment we finish reading the sentence, instead of reflect on it and search for the answer and then imply it in our daily lives?


Know yourself is the answer key. You know, in my life so far I came to the conclusion that the ancient proverbs are indeed true. You do get to know other people and understand them much better when you understand yourself. When you understand the reasons behind your reactions, moods, affections and characterological traits.

In the upcoming series of lectures we will search and discuss the answers to all those questions and more that will raise in the process. I wish to share some poetry with you. The first is written in the old Persian Sufi style and the second is a spontaneous product of rushing emotions written in the summer of 2004 and it is an appeal to all those who are love-sick or brokenhearted.

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Look outside and see the morning glory blooming under the inspiring rays of the morning sun.
It`s light spreading across the blue sky, touching the clouds with mild pink and purple smile.
Hear the song of the birds, praising life and the air we breathe.
See the playful dance of the wind with the leaves of the lush trees - green, red, yellow and orange, like the rainbow in the summer sky.
Feel the tranquil rush of the river down the mountain hills, reaching towards the ocean.
Become one with the sounds of the Universe preaching a perfect unity of the whole of Creation.
Each atom resonates with the beat of your heart. Submerge into yourself, dissolve in yourself, fuse with yourself.
The whole Universe is listening to your song, don`t stop dancing, become One.
Fly with the light across every corner of the cosmos, reach each molecule with your thought.
Fire burns within your soul of water, filled with fresh air from the soft Earth.
Open your eyes and see the beauty all around, that fills your being and makes it shine as the brightest star!

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What is Love?
It is the fire within our souls!
What is Hate?
It is the fire within our souls!
What is the difference between Love and Hate?
The difference is that one is constructive and the other - destructive.
But to destroy, you must first create.
Don`t destroy what you have created!
Don`t hate what you have once loved.

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There are two criteria for the utter happiness - a sense of meaning and inspiration!
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This girl is not me, it is a photo I stumbled upon searching for visual material on a specific topic,
but her eyes got straight into my heart - as if they speak to you with the language of the soul, expressing thousands of words, as if you can peer into her young soul. Those innocent eyes of a child hiding much pain, yet a subtle smile is stretching for the photo, after all the smile is an international language that all people understand.