On Awakening

Collection of Quotes about Awakening






"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth."
"Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?"
"I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?"
"You will have grown accustomed to it." Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19




Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know — all mystics — Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion — are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare. As quoted in Approaching God : How to Pray (1995) by Steve Brown, p. 94




The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body. Awakening : Conversations with the Masters (2003), p. 24




"What, concretely, is Enlightenment?"
"Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master.
"Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?"
"Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is."
"What's the difference?"
"The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around." Awakening : Conversations with the Masters (2003), p. 221

One Minute Wisdom (1989)


Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words, that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed. Introduction

To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." Transformation

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower."

"Whom, then, shall I follow?"

"No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth." Discipleship

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?"

"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master.

"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?"

"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside." Projection


There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law.
"Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them." Revolution


"You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone."
"What then is a Master for?"
"To make you see the uselessness of having one." Blindness




The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two. Identity
"Help us to find God."
"No one can help you there."
"Why not?"

"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean." Discovery

To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, "If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else."
"I know. An overwhelming passion for it."
"No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong." Humility




When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. Violence

Is there life before death? — that is the question! Irrelevance

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. Wisdom

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. Wisdom

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. Flow

The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?" Restriction

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. Healing

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?"

The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God." Belief

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Comprehension

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know.

When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant.

Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"

All of them indicated that they knew.

Then he said, "put it into words."

All of them were silent. Words


When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. Comprehension


Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. Emptiness

The Master is not concerned with what we believe — only with what we see. Non-Instruction

The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen. Trust

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Thought

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. Thought

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise. Revelation

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God." Incompetence

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries.

Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy. Persecution

The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain. Prayer

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories. Cultivation

The feigning sleeper can delude others — he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself. Deception

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. Judgement

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait."

Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait."

One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?"

Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you." Aggression




"What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master. Fearlessness




The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing.

His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped. Purification




A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master.

"People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked.

"You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly.

"And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?"

"The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being." Genius




Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on The Destruction of the World and a large crowd gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him.

The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was:

"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness." Humanity




"What kind of a person does Enlightenment produce?"

Said the Master:

"To be public-spirited and belong to no party,

to move without being bound to any given course,

to take things as they come,

have no remorse for the past,

no anxiety for the future,

to move when pushed,

to come when dragged,

to be like a mighty gale,

like a feather in the wind,

like weeds floating on a river,

like a mill-stone meekly grinding,

to love all creation equally

as heaven and earth are equal to all

— such is the product of Enlightenment."

On hearing these words one of the younger disciples cried, "This sort of teaching is not for the living but for the dead," and walked away, never to return. "

Being a Vegetarian

A change of diet will not change a man who will not change his thoughts. Pure thoughts leads to a pure actions and diet. Impure thoughts leads to impure actions and diet.

A change of consciousness will lead to a change of diet. High levels of consciousness leads to a high standard choice of food. A low level of consciousness leads to a low standard choice of food.

As within, So without. As abo
ve, So Below.

Its not something you force yourself to do. When your consciousness change your diet will naturally change too.

It all starts from the inside.


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These great vegetarians, such as Pythagoras, Plato, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Nikola Tesla, Shopenhauer, Thoreau, Leonardo Da Vinci, Voltaire etc. knew there could be no spiritual advancement while attaining ones nourishment from cruelty and the exploitation of others.

Albert Einstein:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

Leonardo DaVinci:
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." DaVinci claimed that flesh eaters were using their bodies as "grave yards."

Charles Darwin:
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

Thomas Edison:
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

George Bernard Shaw:
"We pray on Sundays that we may have light to guide our footsteps on the path we tread; We are sick of war we don't want to fight. And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead."

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
"Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth and, plunging his head into its vitals slake his thirst with the steaming blood."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden, "Economy" (1854):
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Henry David Thoreau:
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Mark Twain:
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Benjamin Franklin:
Flesh eating is "unprovoked murder." On the subject of vegetarianism, Franklin noted that one will achieve "greater progress, from the greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."

Thomas A Edison, 1847-1931:
"The Doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Francis of Assisi:
"Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission-to be of service to them wherever they require it."

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi:
"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

Abraham Lincoln:
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

Thomas Paine:
"Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty."

Henry Salt:
"The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring with it in due course the emancipation of animals also. The two reforms are inseparably connected, and neither can be fully realized alone."

Albert Schweitzer:
"...the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life."

George Bernard Shaw:
"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."

Leo Tolstoy:
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."

Alice Walker:
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men."

President Abraham Lincoln:
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Pythagoras:
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

Pythagoras:
The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

George Bernard Shaw:
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw:
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw:
Animals are my friends; I don't eat my friends.

John Robbins (p. 49 Diet for a New America):
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi:
"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

"I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian." ~ George Bernard Shaw

In addition to his writings on non-violence, Leo Tolstoy's advocacy of vegetarianism led to his friendship with Mohandas Gandhi. He wrote several essays about vegetarianism, but perhaps never more compellingly than when he said:
"flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing."

Nikola Tesla was a humanitarian who loved animals. He argued that animal slaughter was “wanton and cruel” and eventually became a vegetarian.

Voltaire was an advocate of civil rights and freedom. He also believed in the virtues of vegetarianism. He once wrote that "men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and arid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways." This sounds like an early precursor of the phrase "you are what you eat."


-Borrowed this from Dawning Golden Crystal Age

Law Abiding Citizen

Conveyor Belt

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

 -Steve Jobs

The unfortunate thing is that most schools and educational systems operates just like religion. It does not teaches us to question and probe. It teaches us to be dependent upon authority and that it is always correct and absolute which is often incorrect and dangerous for a person's independent development. 

And because of that, we have a society where most people are lost and lives in fear and guilt every single day of their lives. Either you go to hell or you get punished by the environment when you don't follow the herd.

This kind of conveyor-belt factory approach does not work and does not allow the person to discover its true identity towards self-actualization. 

Just like a forest, it will be sad if it only has one flower or one plant or a single tree. Being different and diverse is lovely, It brings color to life.

I have seen good and great schools but they all suffer from a tendency to reward conformity and to punish anyone who questions or does not conform to their ideal. 

We were not taught the causes and the effect of history and the events and dates. We were not taught to think for ourselves but to know the facts rather than to bring out the best in each of us and be independent and self-reliant.

The most dangerous person for a government or any authority figure is the person who thinks for himself is independent, wealthy and sophisticated individual who can take care of his/her own needs. The perfect citizen for a authority figure is a needy one because the more you need an authority figure the more controllable you are. 

True power comes from within. Think for yourself. 

Think different.

Emotional Roller-coaster

“The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. 

The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.” 

― James Allen

Mankind most of the time, only engage in intellectual ideas or concepts about loving one another and thy neighbor. 

Love, often times becomes just a wonderful idea but they don't know that the moment something or someone displeases you, you have forgotten there was Love in the Universe for the moment. When the anger goes forth or the criticism or the condemnation or blame or discontent-or whatever it is- the moment the feeling is there, Love is gone from your world.

This happens most of the time, because mankind is not taught how to govern their feelings we go to church attend seminars just to feed our mental hunger for knowledge. And most Godly virtues only exist in the intellect and not on practice. Just like a boat, knowledge without action is like a boat on dry land.

Now, many times when your intellect knows that you want to handle a disturbing condition by your mind but your feeling doesn't want to do it. Your intellect may know it's correct, and that you ought to do it; but your feelings rebel like fury against it. Because people lack the control in their feelings and only strong people could handle their feelings well, weak ones easily give in to temptations.

From the cradle to the grave Government, Religion, Church, Groups, Organizations in this world mostly only teach ideas or principles that nourishes the mind (food for thought), but not how to control their feelings. That is why even intellectually, you know what's the right thing to do, but the feelings or emotions takes over then you are easily swayed into doing the undesirable thing.

It is easy to judge, condemn or criticize another human being because that is what most people do (Herd Mentality) you see it in the news, facebook and in the environment and sometimes they even make fun out of it. Even me, slips from time to time because of the pressure of the environment but at least, I make effort to stop myself and stand for what is right even if I'm alone. And not because everybody is doing it, it is right.

I've always believed that no matter how much you criticize, gossip, blame, condemn another it will not change you or the situation. We have this saying in tagalog that "Kung wala ka din naman sasabihin na matino buti pang tumahimik ka nalang."

Imagine, if the time spent criticizing is spent on productive things like praying for the person to improve and sending loving thoughts or talking to the person or better yet taking action of becoming part of the solution instead of the problem, will do wonders not only for you but for the nation and environment as well.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, 

whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, 

whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence,

 if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." 

-Philippians 4:8

Highly evolved people never talks about another person's flaw even in a non-threatening or joking manner.
When your mind and feelings is not focused on what you like, it is then focused on what you don't like- and you attract that in your life.

You have to lead by example. For things to change, you have to change.

People are bind because they bind others.

A Jar Full of Balls

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles roll
ed into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed..

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else---the small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.' The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

Be Right or Be Kind?

Inspiring words from Dr. Richard Teo

This article perfectly resonates with THE MYTH . How HERD MENTALITY listening to the media could kill people. Read on.

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In Memory of Dr. Richard Teo (1972 - 2012)

Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012.

Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I'm a medical doctor. And I thought I'll just share some thoughts of my life. It's my pleasure to be invited by prof. Hopefully, it can get you thinking about how... as you pursue this.. embarking on your training to become dental surgeons, to think about other things as well.

Since young, I am a typical product of today's society. Relatively successful product that society requires.. From young, I came from a below average family. I was told by the media... and people around me that happiness is about success. And that success is about being wealthy. With this mind-set, I've always be extremely competitive, since I was young.

Not only do I need to go to the top school, I need to have success in all fields. Uniform groups, track, everything. I needed to get trophies, needed to be successful, I needed to have colours award, national colours award, everything. So I was highly competitive since young. I went on to medical school, graduated as a doctor. Some of you may know that within the medical faculty, ophthalmology is one of the most highly sought after specialities. So I went after that as well. I was given a traineeship in ophthalmology, I was also given a research scholarship by NUS to develop lasers to treat the eye.

So in the process, I was given 2 patents, one for the medical devices, and another for the lasers. And you know what, all this academic achievements did not bring me any wealth. So once I completed my bond with MOH, I decided that this is taking too long, the training in eye surgery is just taking too long. And there's lots of money to be made in the private sector. If you're aware, in the last few years, there is this rise in aesthetic medicine. Tons of money to be made there. So I decided, well, enough of staying in institution, it's time to leave. So I quit my training halfway and I went on to set up my aesthetic clinic... in town, together with a day surgery centre.

You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out average GP (general practitioner), family physicians. They don't. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous. People who are not happy to pay $20 to see a GP, the same person have no qualms paying ten thousand dollars for a liposuction, 15 thousand dollars for a breast augmentation, and so on and so forth. So it's a no brainer isn't? Why do you want to be a gp? Become an aesthetic physician. So instead of healing the sick and ill, I decided that I'll become a glorified beautician. So, business was good, very good. It started off with waiting of one week, then became 3weeks, then one month, then 2 months, then 3 months. I was overwhelmed; there were just too many patients. Vanities are fantastic business. I employed one doctor, the second doctor, the 3rd doctor, the 4th doctor. And within the 1st year, we're already raking in millions. Just the 1st year. But never is enough because I was so obsessed with it. I started to expand into Indonesia to get all the rich Indonesian tai-tais who wouldn't blink an eye to have a procedure done. So life was really good.

So what do I do with the spare cash. How do I spend my weekends? Typically, I'll have car club gatherings. I take out my track car, with spare cash I got myself a track car. We have car club gatherings. We'll go up to Sepang in Malaysia. We'll go for car racing. And it was my life. With other spare cash, what do i do? I get myself a Ferrari. At that time, the 458 wasn't out, it's just a spider convertible, 430. This is a friend of mine, a schoolmate who is a forex trader, a banker. So he got a red one, he was wanting all along a red one, I was getting the silver one.

So what do I do after getting a car? It's time to buy a house, to build our own bungalows. So we go around looking for a land to build our own bungalows, we went around hunting. So how do i live my life? Well, we all think we have to mix around with the rich and famous. This is one of the Miss Universe. So we hang around with the beautiful, rich and famous. This by the way is an internet founder. So this is how we spend our lives, with dining and all the restaurants and Michelin Chefs you know.

So I reach a point in life that I got everything for my life. I was at the pinnacle of my career and all. That's me one year ago in the gym and I thought I was like, having everything under control and reaching the pinnacle.

Well, I was wrong. I didn't have everything under control. About last year March, I started to develop backache in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe it was all the heavy squats I was doing. So I went to SGH, saw my classmate to do an MRI, to make sure it's not a slipped disc or anything. And that evening, he called me up and said that we found bone marrow replacement in your spine. I said, sorry what does that mean? I mean I know what it means, but I couldn't accept that. I was like “Are you serious?” I was still running around going to the gym you know. But we had more scans the next day, PET scans - positrons emission scans, they found that actually I have stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I was like "Whoa where did that come from?” It has already spread to the brain, the spine, the liver and the adrenals. And you know one moment I was there, totally thinking that I have everything under control, thinking that I've reached the pinnacle of my life. But the next moment, I have just lost it.

This is a CT scan of the lungs itself. If you look at it, every single dot there is a tumour. We call this miliaries tumour. And in fact, I have tens of thousands of them in the lungs. So, I was told that even with chemotherapy, that I'll have about 3-4months at most. Did my life come crushing on, of course it did, who wouldn't? I went into depression, of course, severe depression and I thought I had everything.

See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But i was feeling really down, having severe depression. Having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy. The thought of... You know, I can hug my Ferrari to sleep, no... No, it is not going to happen. It brought not a single comfort during my last ten months. And I thought they were, but they were not true happiness. But it wasn't. What really brought me joy in the last ten months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through. That brought joy to me, happiness. None of the things I have, all the possessions, and I thought those were supposed to bring me happiness. But it didn't, because if it did, I would have felt happy think about it, when I was feeling most down..

You know the classical Chinese New Year that is coming up. In the past, what do I do? Well, I will usually drive my flashy car to do my rounds, visit my relatives, to show it off to my friends. And I thought that was joy, you know. I thought that was really joy. But do you really think that my relatives and friends, whom some of them have difficulty trying to make ends meet, that will truly share the joy with me? Seeing me driving my flashy car and showing off to them? No, no way. They won’t be sharing joy with me. They were having problems trying to make ends meet, taking public transport. In fact i think, what I have done is more like you know, making them envious, jealous of all I have. In fact, sometimes even hatred.

Those are what we call objects of envy. I have them, I show them off to them and I feel it can fill my own pride and ego. That didn't bring any joy to these people, to my friends and relatives, and I thought they were real joy.

Well, let me just share another story with you. You know when I was about your age, I stayed in king Edward VII hall. I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we're still good friends. And as I walk along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it's just a snail. If you can't get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn't it? What an irony isn't it?

There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn't. As a house officer, I graduated from medical school, posted to the oncology department at NUH. And, every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer department. When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went through. I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just to relieve their pain. I see them struggling with their oxygen breathing their last breath and all. But it was just a job. When I went to clinic every day, to the wards every day, take blood, give the medication but was the patient real to me? They weren't real to me. It was just a job, I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't wait to get home, I do my own stuff.

Was the pain, was the suffering the patients went through real? No. Of course I know all the medical terms to describe how they feel, all the suffering they went through. But in truth, I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. It is until now; I truly understand how they feel. And, if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were to re-live my life now, I can tell you yes I will. Because I truly understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to learn it the hard way.

Even as you start just your first year, and you embark this journey to become dental surgeons, let me just challenge you on two fronts.

Inevitably, all of you here will start to go into private practice. You will start to accumulate wealth. I can guarantee you. Just doing an implant can bring you thousands of dollars, it's fantastic money. And actually there is nothing wrong with being successful, with being rich or wealthy, absolutely nothing wrong. The only trouble is that a lot of us like myself couldn't handle it.

Why do I say that? Because when I start to accumulate, the more I have, the more I want. The more I wanted, the more obsessed I became. Like what I showed you earlier on, all I can was basically to get more possessions, to reach the pinnacle of what society did to us, of what society wants us to be. I became so obsessed that nothing else really mattered to me. Patients were just a source of income, and I tried to squeeze every single cent out of these patients.

A lot of times we forget, whom we are supposed to be serving. We become so lost that we serve nobody else but just ourselves. That was what happened to me. Whether it is in the medical, the dental fraternity, I can tell you, right now in the private practice, sometimes we just advise patients on treatment that is not indicated. Grey areas. And even though it is not necessary, we kind of advocate it. Even at this point, I know who are my friends and who genuinely cared for me and who are the ones who try to make money out of me by selling me "hope". We kind of lose our moral compass along the way. Because we just want to make money.

Worse, I can tell you, over the last few years, we bad mouth our fellow colleagues, our fellow competitors in the industry. We have no qualms about it. So if we can put them down to give ourselves an advantage, we do it. And that's what happening right now, medical, dental everywhere. My challenge to you is not to lose that moral compass. I learnt it the hard way, I hope you don't ever have to do it.

Secondly, a lot of us will start to get numb to our patients as we start to practise. Whether is it government hospitals, private practice, I can tell you when I was in the hospital, with stacks of patient folders, I can't wait to get rid of those folders as soon as possible; I can't wait to get patients out of my consultation room as soon as possible because there is just so many, and that's a reality. Because it becomes a job, a very routine job. And this is just part of it. Do I truly know how the patient feels back then? No, I don't. The fears and anxiety and all, do I truly understand what they are going through? I don't, not until when this happens to me and I think that is one of the biggest flaws in our system.

We’re being trained to be healthcare providers, professional, and all and yet we don't know how exactly they feel. I'm not asking you to get involved emotionally, I don't think that is professional but do we actually make a real effort to understand their pain and all? Most of us won’t, alright, I can assure you. So don't lose it, my challenge to you is to always be able to put yourself in your patient's shoes.

Because the pain, the anxiety, the fear are very real even though it's not real to you, it's real to them. So don't lose it and you know, right now I'm in the midst of my 5th cycle of my chemotherapy. I can tell you it’s a terrible feeling. Chemotherapy is one of those things that you don't wish even your enemies to go through because it's just suffering, lousy feeling, throwing out, you don't even know if you can retain your meals or not. Terrible feeling! And even with whatever little energy now I have, I try to reach out to other cancer patients because I truly understand what pain and suffering is like. But it's kind of little too late and too little.

You guys have a bright future ahead of you with all the resource and energy, so I’m going to challenge you to go beyond your immediate patients. To understand that there are people out there who are truly in pain, truly in hardship. Don’t get the idea that only poor people suffer. It is not true. A lot of these poor people do not have much in the first place, they are easily contented. for all you know they are happier than you and me but there are out there, people who are suffering mentally, physically, hardship, emotionally, financially and so on and so forth, and they are real. We choose to ignore them or we just don't want to know that they exist.

So do think about it alright, even as you go on to become professionals and dental surgeons and all. That you can reach out to these people who are in need. Whatever you do can make a large difference to them. I'm now at the receiving end so I know how it feels, someone who genuinely care for you, encourage and all. It makes a lot of difference to me. That’s what happens after treatment. I had a treatment recently, but I’ll leave this for another day. A lot of things happened along the way, that's why I am still able to talk to you today.

I'll just end of with this quote here, it's from this book called Tuesdays with Morris, and some of you may have read it. Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live. I know it sounds very morbid for this morning but it's the truth, this is what I’m going through.

Don’t let society tell you how to live. Don’t let the media tell you what you're supposed to do. Those things happened to me. And I led this life thinking that these are going to bring me happiness. I hope that you will think about it and decide for yourself how you want to live your own life. Not according to what other people tell you to do, and you have to decide whether you want to serve yourself, whether you are going to make a difference in somebody else's life. Because true happiness doesn't come from serving yourself. I thought it was but it didn't turn out that way.

Also most importantly, I think true joy comes from knowing God. Not knowing about God – I mean, you can read the bible and know about God – but knowing God personally; getting a relationship with God. I think that’s the most important. That’s what I’ve learnt.

So if I were to sum it up, I’d say that the earlier we sort out the priorities in our lives, the better it is. Don’t be like me – I had no other way. I had to learn it through the hard way. I had to come back to God to thank Him for this opportunity because I’ve had 3 major accidents in my past – car accidents. You know, these sports car accidents – I was always speeding , but somehow I always came out alive, even with the car almost being overturned. And I wouldn’t have had a chance. Who knows, I don’t know where else I’d be going to! Even though I was baptised it was just a show, but the fact that this has happened, it gave me a chance to come back to God.

Few things I’d learnt though:
1. Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart – this is so important.
2. Is to love and serve others, not just ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with being rich or wealthy. I think it’s absolutely alright, cos God has blessed. So many people are blessed with good wealth, but the trouble is I think a lot of us can’t handle it. The more we have, the more we want. I’ve gone through it, the deeper the hole we dig, the more we get sucked into it, so much so that we worship wealth and lose focus. Instead of worshipping God, we worship wealth. It’s just a human instinct. It’s just so difficult to get out of it.

We are all professionals, and when we go into private practise, we start to build up our wealth – inevitably. So my thought are, when you start to build up wealth and when the opportunity comes, do remember that all these things don’t belong to us. We don’t really own it nor have rights to this wealth. It’s actually God’s gift to us. Remember that it’s more important to further His Kingdom rather than to further ourselves.

Anyway I think that I’ve gone through it, and I know that wealth without God is empty. It is more important that you fill up the wealth, as you build it up subsequently, as professionals and all, you need to fill it up with the wealth of God.

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Life Is Awesome (LIA)

Eighty Six Thousand

(Reposted from Vindi Chase)

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.

Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.

What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. It’s name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.

If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow.”

You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!

The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

Anger, Hate, Resentment, Irritation, Revenge

Making Money

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

-Albert Einstein

You are not paid by the hour or by the day.

Because if you are paid something like 5k per day then, you don't have to show up in the office and they just send to you the money at the comfort of your home.


It doesn't work that way.

You are paid by the VALUE you put in, in the market place.

When you put in more value, you make more money. And when you put in less value, you make less money.

So, if you want to make more money you have to increase your value and give more value. Invest in yourself. Read books, attend seminars, make friends with people of high value. Just like athletes, celebrities, authors, entrepreneurs, scientist etc.

Remember, it works two ways.

Increase your Value and Give Value.

Now, watch your income grow

If you are Hurt

HIV-AIDS is non-existent?

HIV-AIDS is non-existent? Its a Hoax? Get Ready to be Blown Away!



December 7th 1994 Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Greensboro, N.C.,

Dr Willner (a medical doctor of 40 years experience) an outspoken whistleblower of the AIDS hoax.

Infront of a gathering of about 30 alternative-medicine practitioners and several journalists, Willner stuck a needle in the finger of Andres, 27, a Fort Lauderdale student who says he has tested positive for HIV. Then, wincing, the 65-year-old doctor stuck himself.

In 1993, Dr. Willner stunned Spain by inoculating himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, an HIV positive hemophiliac. This demonstration of devotion to the truth and the Hippocratic Oath he took, nearly 40 years before, was reported on the front page of every major newspaper in Spain.

His appearance on Spain's most popular television show envoked a 4 to 1 response by the viewing audience in favor of his position against the "AIDS hypothesis."

When asked why he would put his life on the line to make a point, Dr. Willner replied: "I do this to put a stop to the greatest murderous fraud in medical history. By injecting myself with HIV positive blood, I am proving the point as Dr. Walter Reed did to prove the truth about yellow fever. In this way it is my hope to expose the truth about HIV in the interest of all mankind."

He tested negative multiple times.
He died of a Heart attack 4 months later 15th April 1995

http://www.whale.to/c/willner_deadly_deception.html
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/rwcall.htm


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This is what I learned after watching the first 15mins of the video. Scary stuffs, how the Media has hidden the Truth about it. So that these Big Pharmaceutical Companies could make money. BUT still its True.

HIV does not cause any serious disease.

The causes of AIDS are:

-Malnutrition and Starvation
-Medical and Street Drugs
-Radiation
-Chemotherapy

Dr Robert Willner, He even offered $100k to anybody who could prove that he is wrong.



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Some additional infor Below from: http://reducetheburden.org/?p=3960

by Liam Scheff

AIDS, as in immune deficiency, is real enough. It certainly can be ‘acquired,’ either through drug abuse, poverty, toxic exposure, or antibiotic overload. It can be congenital – some people are born with broken, weak or deficient immune systems. AIDS is real enough.

HIV, as in “HIV tests,” and the ‘wily retrovirus,’ however, is an invention, or really, a conglomeration or accumulation of separable phenomena – cross-reacting protein tests, budding ‘exosomal’ sub-cellular particles, bits of broken cellular structures – brought together over time, by different researchers at different labs, all believing that this hodge-podge of cellular detritus adds up to one thing (but only in the gay men and African women they like to target for the make-believe ‘HIV test’ rigmarole).

The drugs that come next will knock out any fungus or bacteria that’s growing in you – but it will destroy your blood, intestines and bone marrow too, leaving you lifeless after extended use. It makes the drugsdangerous to take, and hard to quit.

AIDS is real enough. Immune deficiency exists, and has many causes. It’s the idea that this diagnosis has one, and only one cause, that is the greatest medical fiction of our age.


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The arguments of Dr Kary Mullis, Dr Peter Duesberg, Dr Robert Wlllner and Dr David Rasnick regarding the HIV/AIDS hoax are on youtube. Here are some facts which you can verify. 1. HIV does not cause AIDS. 2. HIV/AIDS are not sexually transmitted. 3. The vast majority of the people in America who have died from diseases associated with AIDS have destroyed their immune system through drug abuse or have been murdered with AZT or other so called HIV/AIDS dugs.  

Characteristics of the Human Ego

"The ego is a false sense of self based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and mind-identification with form, which primarily means thought forms."

-Eckhart Tolle

Examples of Egoic Patterns:

-Blaming, Judging, Accusing, Gossiping, Complaining.

-Identifying with mental positions, needing to be right, needing to have "enemies", applying negative mental labels to people.

-Demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don't get it.

-Trying to get attention by talking about your problems, the story of your illness or making a scene.

-Giving your opinion when nobody has asked for it and it makes no difference to the situation.

-Being more concerned with how the other person sees you than the other person, which is to say, using other people for egoic reflection or as ego enhancers.

-Trying to make an impression on others through possessions, knowledge, skills, abilities good looks, status, physical strength and so on.

-Bringing about temporary ego inflation through angry reaction against something or someone.

-Taking things personally being offended.

-Making yourself right and others wrong through futile mental or verbal complaining.

-Wanting to be seen or appear important.



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Thank you to Dr. Strix for sharing.

A Lesson on Selecting Groups

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
― Marianne Williamson





Experts say that energy is contagious. Just like when your friends are excited you get excited too.

If you associate yourself with people who are successful then the odds of you succeeding dramatically improves. And when you associate yourself with the unsuccessful the inevitable will happen, you will fail.

"You are the sum of the 5 people you are with everyday."-Robert Kiyosaki

I know some people who associate themselves with groups and leaders who are happy, successful, industrious, confident, open-minded, kind, loving, courteous, speaks kind words, eats healthy food, intelligent and positive find themselves becoming happier, more successful, more industrious, open-minded, more confident, more loving, kinder and more positive in their overall outlook in life.

And I know some good-hearted people, who have unconsciously or accidentally associated themselves with groups and leaders who are unhappy, unsuccessful, lazy, insecure, close-minded, says bad words, swears, judging, condemning, rude, angry, irritated, hateful, unintelligent, drinks, takes drugs, eats unhealthy food, criticizing and negative… find themselves slowly becoming all of those unfortunate qualities that the group have.

Then they are wondering, why they experience those things in their lives. And the worst part is that they don’t know that their family and loved ones too, gets infected unconsciously by the virus that they have infected themselves with.

"Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association." -– Jim Rohn

You will not stay in a place where there is a lot of poisonous rattlesnakes right? You don’t want to get close to it. Especially, if you are with your friends, family and loved ones correct? You will leave that place because, you don’t want to be bitten by the snake’s sharp fangs and get poisoned, it will hurt you or kill you and your family, friends and loved ones.

It’s the same thing you do when you find yourself in such groups, you leave, instantly, without hesitation.

And now, what you want to do, is to go ahead and spend your time, energy and associate yourself with people, groups and organizations that aligns with the constructive way of life. That is founded in love and that allows you to become a more loving and caring person. This not only benefits you but also benefits your family, friends, loved ones and the world.

Core Confidence

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. 

Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. "

-Lao Tzu 

Psychologists believe that material things used as bragging rights is a sign of insecurity.(i.e. money, car, house, college degree, clothes etc.) A form of defensive shell to hide the true feelings of a person from the public.

Be sure that when you buy things, it is because you truly want it and you are not just buying it to please other people to feel good.

The saying that when you give an insecure person success, then you have a successful insecure person. A mouse driving an expensive car is still a mouse. While a confident and comfortable person who achieves success is a confident and comfortable successful person.

Money will not change you from within. It will just make you more of what you are right now.

People who draw confidence from external forces don't get ahead much in life. Because, all these insecurities always holds them back especially in dealing with people. 

Ask yourself this question: "Will you still be happy, comfortable and confident if all your possessions or status taken away from you?" If the answer is no and if you are thinking of what other people might say, then you are in trouble.

Absolute core confidence is being comfortable and feeling good with your own skin, irregardless of your economic state. It comes from within and not from external factors. This is what real champions are made of.

Effect of Thought on Circumstances

"The proof of this truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of easy investigation by systematic introspection and self-analysis. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot. It rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution and disease."


-Impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances.

-Thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence, and slavish dependence.

-Lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary.

-Hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution.

-Selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more of less distressing.


On the other hand...

-Beautiful thoughts of all crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances.

-Pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace.

-Thoughts of courage, self-reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits, which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom.

-Energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness.

-Gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances.

-Loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.






From As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

@via Alex Manabat

Push and Pull

Whatever we resist, will persist. 

Whatever we push down, will rise to the top. 

Whatever we resist to change, will change us. 

Whomever we hate, we will become. 

Just release and be free today, Forever. 

Just Love and Just Be.

UPGRADE COMPLETE

"People ask the question... what's a RocknRolla? And I tell 'em - it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot."
- Archie, (from the movie RocknRolla.)



This has been percolating in my mind since yesterday.


Question: In life, what is the difference between Geometric growth and Linear growth?

Answer: Geometric Growth is like body building that is focused on the entire body. Which means every part of the body is exercised and taken cared of. And this makes every part of the body powerful.

While Linear Growth is only focused on one part of the body. And only one part gets strong and other areas are taken for granted. Sometimes it doesn't proportionally look right. Get the idea?

There are I think, 5 Major parts of a person's life that he/she must put careful attention to Health, Wealth, Relationship, Spirituality and Education-Overall Personality Development.

Most people (due to our society's programming perhaps?) are focused on only one area of their lives for growth to the expense that the other areas are sacrificed. Like how they focus on money first then relationship second. I think that this is unhealthy.

Just like how some retaurants have good food but the waiter is rude. The management only focused on one area of development and training which is cooking and the waiters were not trained properly thus the results of bad reviews.

Or another example is a businessman who focuses only on product development and failed to hire a good marketing team and the results were not that delightful.

While there are firms and companies who have developed all the areas of the company. From the President down to the R&F are the dream team. The cook, staff, waiters, marketing, managers, accountants, lawyers were all the best in their field and the results were all excellent.

I believe, with every fiber of my being that a person who chooses the path of Geometric Growth outperforms by lightyears the person who chooses Linear growth. Geometric Growth might be a slow process compared to Linear Growth but nevertheless is the best way to take. Geometric Growth vs Linear Growth is like the classic children's story of the Tortoise and the Hare.

Now, I think the person who focuses on Geometric Growth becomes more well developed and holistic in a lot of areas. There is harmony or synergy in every area of its life. Like a body builder who has perfected every part of its body. Think about this, what if you have applied the principle of Geometric Growth in your life 10 years ago and developed each and every area as well? How would your life be now?

Remember, you can have it all.

Trapped

This post is a bit deep, too deep perhaps. But bare with me.

This has been brewing in my mind for a number of days already. If you have already read about The Myth.

This is about to blow your socks off.

"It's called the American Dream because, you have to be asleep to believe it."-George Carlin

Have you ever asked yourself  if there is anything more than this so called LIFE? I mean, is that it? Study, Work, make money, buy stuffs,  make friends , get married, have children, act normal and die? Same damn boring routine everyday and not everybody ever questioned WHY are we here?

I believe that the life that we have is a spiritual one. And most of us heard this before, that we are only living in a physical body and this body is but a container for our spiritual body.

You could compare your physical body to a puppet and You(your true spiritual self) are in total control of the puppet.

You feed it. You make it healthy. You allow it to have friends, have relationships, create a family, fall in love, fail and succeed to gain experience. Study spirituality and religion. You enroll it to a school to study and a whole lot of other things.

I'll use this wonderful metaphor to easily explain it.

Imagine yourself inside a Computer Gaming Shop and there are numerous games available. Now, compare this to this thing we call life and these games are what you play.

Games about finances. Games about relationships. Games about school. Games about health. Games about spiritual growth. Games about entertainment and other games that are available in this world that relates to life.

Now, with some of these games you play, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But as long as you learn your lesson and keep a positive attitude you will win and succeed.

And now, here is where most of us get trapped.

Most of us gets trapped with this Physical Experiences and appetites that we have and instead of YOU- having total control of all your Physical Body, the Gaming World is now in control of you. According to scientist all the sensation that we experience is but a chemical reaction that is done by our minds.

The Gaming World tells you what to do, what to wear, what kind of life to live. Who wins and who loses. Who is rich and who is poor. Who to hate and who to love. Who is accepted and who is not.

In other words, you lost control of your Physical Body and thus fell into a dream.

Sad, but true.

Instead of having total control of your Physical Body you lost control, you lost your way. All these external factors are now in control of you. Instead of  what is within you that controls you, what is outside control you. Most people allow themselves be controlled by external factors than them having control of their reality. And most of us got trapped into this Physical Plane of existence and totally forget about our Higher Spiritual Nature.

That body that you have that is supposed to be controlled by you, is now controlled by the Gaming World. And you can't get out, because you got addicted to the physical stimulation and totally have forgotten the Spiritual Path.

Ancient experts on spiritual teachings says that we all got 'amnesia' and got trapped in this stimulating maze. Because of all the physical distractions there is. And we got fixated to this Toy( Physical Body) just like a kid who never wants to go home and just wants to stay inside the playground because it feel so good there.

The so called 'Prodigal Son' has to return to the Father's house where anything is possible and you have total control and stop this insanity someway, someday, somehow.

Now I know the full meaning of the phrase '"You are not your body and you are not your mind". As Eckhart Tolle put it- Most people think they are their mind and that brings them all sorts sadness.

Sometimes when you are so deep asleep somebody who is awake needs to wake you up.

Have you ever experienced having a good dream where you don't want to wake up? You are in It. Time to wake up. See you on the other side.

Life Begins with Waking up.