PROFIT AND LOSS

FOR WHAT WILL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND FORFEITS HIS LIFE? —MATTHEW 16: 26




Recall the kind of feeling you have when someone praises you, when you are approved, accepted, applauded. And contrast that with the kind of feeling that arises within you when you look at the sunset or the sunrise or Nature in general, or when you read a book or watch a movie that you thoroughly enjoy. Get the taste of this feeling and contrast it with the first, namely, the one that was generated within you when you were praised. 

Understand that the first type of feeling comes from self-glorification, self-promotion. It is a worldly feeling. The second comes from self-fulfillment, a soul feeling.

Here is another contrast: Recall the kind of feeling you have when you succeed, when you have made it, when you get to the top, when you win a game or a bet or an argument. And contrast it with the kind of feeling you get when you really enjoy the job you are doing, you are absorbed in, the action that you are currently engaged in. And once again notice the qualitative difference between the worldly feeling and the soul feeling.

Yet another contrast: Remember what you felt like when you had power, you were the boss, people looked up to you, took orders from you; or when you were popular. And contrast that worldly feeling with the feeling of intimacy, companionship— the times you thoroughly enjoyed yourself in the company of a friend or with a group in which there was fun and laughter. 

Having done this, attempt to understand the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion, self-glorification. They are not natural, they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and to make you controllable. These feelings do not produce the nourishment and happiness that is produced when one contemplates Nature or enjoys the company of one’s friends or one’s work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement— and emptiness.

Then observe yourself in the course of a day or a week and think how many actions of yours are performed, how many activities engaged in that are uncontaminated by the desire for these thrills, these excitements that only produce emptiness, the desire for attention, approval, fame, popularity, success or power.

And take a look at the people around you. Is there a single one of them who has not become addicted to these worldly feelings? A single one who is not controlled by them, hungers for them, spends every minute of his/ her waking life consciously or unconsciously seeking them? When you see this you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul. For they live empty, soul-less lives. 

And here is a parable of life for you to ponder on: A group of tourists sits in a bus that is passing through gorgeously beautiful country; lakes and mountains and green fields and rivers. But the shades of the bus are pulled down. They do not have the slightest idea of what lies beyond the windows of the bus. And all the time of their journey is spent in squabbling over who will have the seat of honor in the bus, who will be applauded, who will be well considered. And so they remain till the journey’s end.

-The Way to Love

Loyalty

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

― Confucius, The Ethics of Confucius

Awhile ago I had an interesting conversation with some friends about the subject of loyalty. I stated my reason why I don't ask for people to be loyal to me or to the organization. It's simple, it's actually due to negative social conditioning.

Let me tell you why.

To my readers... please, take caution in reading this post because it will naturally squeeze your mind for a bit because of the mind bending and enlightening ideas that is contained here. But after reading this you will feel better and automatically be released for any commitments that you've made that is against your will.

If you think you are ready, then let's proceed.

ENVIRONMENT

“Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.”

― Steve Jobs

If you'll look closely and carefully study human behavior of our society, most people use "Loyalty" not because out of love but because of control. Don't you agree? I know you do.

I don't have to cite examples actually. You've felt it your entire life. Look around you. Every single person, teacher, guru, family,  school, religion, organization or group always demands loyalty. Most people's definition of loyalty that you see around you stems not from love but from fear, hate, jealousy, control and insecurity.

Also in the media, it is portrayed that if you are not loyal you are banished and people will look at you and label you negatively. It's very obvious that loyalty is mostly abused in religion, relationships and the business world to gain control and that is not love.

Don't get me wrong. It's okay to be loyal it helps organizations like, school, army, government or small groups to be organized. Be loyal all you want, but make sure you are loyal because you want to, not because you felt guilty or indebted to a person or a group. Because, once you feel uncomfortable committing or being loyal that means you are acting out of fear and not of God's love. Think about it.

Remember, the ego wants control. It demands loyalty to people. Because the ego is afraid to be alone. It needs to validate and prove something. Control comes from fear. As Yoda put it, Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to the dark side.   

“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself” 

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

HISTORY

“In the 17th chapter of Saint Luke it is written the Kingdom of God is within man, not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power!”

-Charlie Chaplin

In my years of research and study of thousands of spiritual literature, I've learned that in ancient times, people were trained to give oaths and promises to be loyal Only to God's principles and virtues- such as love, forgiveness, compassion, oneness and all those high ideals.

And with this kind of mindset, people are able to maintain harmonious relationships. Because they need only to be loyal to God's ideals.

In the bible Colossians 3:11, it said that "Christ is all, and is in all." that means God is loyal to everyone of us not just one person or group. Because God is in everything and in everyone.

Which means, they become even more connected to each other because, they only have to be loyal to God and everything of God's creation this in turn unites them all, they become one.

On the other hand.. What happened as the years, decades and centuries passed by, people started to drift away from a higher to a lower form of consciousness from the divine perspective they shifted to the human perspective and started personalizing it and totally forgot the principles and high ideals.

It means that, instead of being loyal to God and it's principles, people started being loyal to external things like persons, groups, organizations and this created all the isms, creeds, religions in our world and that lead to separation- The 'us' against them mentality.

“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?” 

― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

LOYALTY IS IMPERSONAL

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. 

It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice."

-Jose Rizal

If you'll be loyal to a group, person or God be loyal to it's ideals. People and Organizations will fade but ideals will stand and live on forever. Within the minds, hearts and lives of the people.

A Leader or an Idol should not be placed on a pedestal or be worshiped. An Idol should be an ideal state of being. Most people forgets the ideal and starts to idolized, objectify a person or organization than to idealized and personify the ideal and embody the vision.

Loyalty is about service and service is about unconditional love. Service to others leads to greatness. That means, when you serve, you love without expecting or demanding anything in return.

Inside of You

All the things that makes you angry and irritated exist only in you.




Nothing in the world can make you feel bad, angry, depressed, irritated, emotional or lonely unless you have trained yourself to be angry and irritated by certain words, conditions and people.


10% is what happens to you 90% is your reaction to it.

When you are not busy actively making yourself miserable, by reacting negatively to people, situations and circumstances, you will be happy.

What makes you unhappy is the programming you got from other people. The beliefs you got with the people or group you associate, the Media, your parents, your neighborhood.

What makes you feel bad is your social conditioning.

We live in a world where the society promotes getting angry, depressed, irritated, criticism, gossiping, judging competition, fear, jealousy, emotional, upset as something normal. How unfortunate.

We can't do anything about other people's belief, but we can do something about our beliefs. We can choose to live in the light or in the dark.

We are all okay. We just allowed other people to put wrong ideas in our heads that's why some of us are suffering.

Maturity

Maturity means nobody is to blame.




You don't blame other people for the irritation, anger, hate, depression, loneliness you feel.


You don't even blame yourself.

Just let it go, focus on what you want and you will be free.

It's all in your head

All the things that makes you angry and irritated exist only in you. 

Nothing in the world can make you feel bad, angry, depressed, irritated, emotional or lonely unless you have trained yourself to be angry and irritated by certain words, conditions and people.

10% is what happens to you 90% is your reaction to it.

When you are not busy actively making yourself miserable, by reacting negatively to people, situations and circumstances, you will be happy.

What makes you unhappy is the programming you got from other people. The beliefs you got with the people or group you associate, the Media, your parents, your neighborhood.

Competition

"I don't create some loser alter-ego just to make myself feel better."
-Angelo

Competition has brought more misery than victory. Instead of everybody succeeding only one makes it. Being the best at the expense of another does not benefit the world but yourself.

Companies, institutions and teachers insist on this kind of limiting belief that somehow in some hokus-pokus way they will be able to bring out 'the best' in people, It simply cannot. It just brings out more of their Ego for their benefit. Not because everybody is doing it, it is right.

A true Leader does not instill competition in people only a Boss does that. A true Leader teaches Unity, Teamwork, Cooperation.

Cooperation creates more winners than losers. Through unity there is speed of progress.

Anomalies

"We routinely look for patterns in the world that confirm the paradigms we already believe in. The things that do not fit our paradigms- the anomalies- tend to be ignored or explained away. In truth, anomalies themselves contain the richest information. They often reveal to us the flaws in our paradigms and open up new ways of looking at the world."




"They (anomalies) often represent the future, but to our eyes they seem strange. By studying them, you can illuminate this future before anyone else does."




- Robert Greene

Be Happy

"If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom."- Anthony de Mello

De Mello

Here are some of my favorites from Anthony De Mello.





“Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!”




“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”




“"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”




“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”




“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.”




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




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




“the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.”




“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 practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”




“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”




“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”




― Anthony de Mello, Awareness




“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. ”

― Anthony de Mello

The Cowboy's Lasso

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing




If you are in the process changing a certain area of your life, like a bad habit or a challenging situation, to something better than it used to and somehow it seems that instead of changing, to your surprise, the problem keeps on happening over and over again.

The reason is because, you keep on putting your attention into the bad habit or the problem. Maybe you have unconsciously allowed yourself to keep on talking about it, venting it our with other people,  sarcastically or in a joking manner or maybe secretly complaining about it in your mind.

Another is maybe, you have unconsciously drawn it to you by being self-righteous and seeing the problem in other people and giving them unsolicited advice. Or maybe, you have unconsciously drawn it to you by watching movies, joining organizations or group activities or trainings/seminars or shows that has the same theme as your problem or bad habit.

Remember, your thoughts and feelings have power. Where you place your thoughts, words and feelings you draw it back to you. 

Most people like to change for the better but they are like cowboys.

What I mean by this, is that cowboys uses a lasso for a purpose-> to 'pull something’ towards them.

And most people, most of the time have unconsciously allowed themselves to act like cowboys, who draws a lasso to pull an animal towards them.

That is what most people do whenever they put their attention to a problem or a bad habit, they pull it back to them. That's why they have a hard time changing. They want to change but they keep on pulling it back to them like a lasso.

Changing is easy. The best way for you to change is you say goodbye to the problem or the bad habit and leave it, forever and never look back. Like a love story that is not working out for you anymore, you have to say to it, "I am breaking up with you(problem/bad habit), this is not going to work anymore. I love you, Goodbye." And you move on and place your attention only on what you want in thoughts, feelings, words and actions-> and keep it there.

Keeping it there means not thinking, seeing, feeling or talking about it anymore with yourself, friends or colleagues. And to only think, see, feel and talk about the things you want to happen in your life.

Research has shown, that the mind do not recognize what is real from what is imagined. That means, whatever you think or feel the universe brings it into form and you attract it back to you.

The universe do not care if you are a good or bad person it is indifferent, just like gravity. the Law of Attraction and Vibration states that whatever you think and feel you draw it back to you just like a magnet.

We have to see people and the world the way  God sees it. Which is to only focus on the good and magnify it and let the negativity falls away.

We've all heard the sayings...

"Where you put your focus on you get more of that."

"Man becomes what he thinks about."

"As a man thinks in his heart so is he."

But how many people do really understand it?

Strong, Soft and Weak

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."-Plato


Strong people take life by the horns. They fight for those who can't fight for themselves. They are generous with their strength. They operate out of love and creativity. They view their problems as being things they can change and have internal emotional control. 

Soft and Sensitive people mostly are insecure and have low self-esteem. They operate to become better than the competition. And because of ignorance and lack of enough intelligence they rely too much on entitlement or outside things like money, skills, weapons for confidence, happiness and success.


Weak people, they view themselves as victims of the world. They don't take full responsibility for their fate. They operate out of fear, hate, anger and lives a life on revenge. They simply walk through life complaining, blaming and talks about how other other people made their lives miserable. And are easily shaken off by strong people but will latch on the sensitive people. They have no will to fight and will constantly use their past to justify their issues.

Herd Behavior

Perfect example of Herd Behavior.




"Kill him he's different!"




Why can't people stop this behavior?




This is how most people reacts to ideas that are different. In school, politics, business, religion, health, sex, family and relationships.

For more info read: THE MYTH 

Put the Glass Down

-Study this small story. Hope that it makes a BIG change in YOU.-

A Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.
He held it up for all to see & asked the students, “How much do you think this glass weighs?”
'50g!' ....'100g!' ..... '125g'..the students answered.
“I really don't know unless I weigh it,” said the professor,
“but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”
'Nothing' …..the students said.
'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.
'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the student.
“You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”
“Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!” … ventured another student & all the students laughed …
“Very good, But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” asked the professor.
‘No’…. Was the answer.
“Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?”
The students were puzzled.
“What should I do now to come out of pain?” asked professor again.
‘Put the glass down!’ said one of the students.
“Exactly!” said the professor.

Life's problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK. Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything. It's important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to ‘PUT THEM DOWN’ at the end of every day before you go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh & strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!
So, When you leave office today..

Remember my friend to … 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!

The Idea of Heaven

Process over outcome.

Action creates Results.

There is only the moment of Now.

Begin by knowing that you've already arrived.

BE, DO -Have.

Thoughts becomes things.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

What you visualize, materialize.

There is no such thing as an idea that you are going to heaven, There is only the knowing that you are already there.

For things to change, you have to change.

Being not doing.

In order to manifest heaven on earth it must start with all of us.

Idealize the Idea.

Doing things Differently

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

- William James

I realized that the more awakened you become the more you understand the world. And the less you conform to the society's level of thinking, because you understand how the power of your thoughts affect things and the world around you.

Since you understand the natural order of things, the less you criticize, the less you see and respond to the negativity around you. Because, things are not what they seem. The eyes and words are a bit primitive way of communicating information.

Most people would rather follow the herd. Since the rest of mankind would fight, hate, condemn, criticize, be right, than live differently. And it's sometimes hard to stand alone when everybody around you is doing the same things.

From womb to tomb, not a lot of people are taught how to control their feelings and that is the danger lies. School, parents, church, religion, government, media will not teach you how to control your feelings they will teach you just to obey and not question authority.

And people who do not know how to control their feelings is in a bad way, because they will easily give into feelings of hate, irritation, criticism anger and what-not. They would easily be swayed to what the rest of the world is doing, even if in their heart they know its wrong.

Sometimes its a bit challenging to live in a society where you see a lot of chaos and most especially ignorance, because nobody wants to question what their parents, families, school, government, religion have taught them. Most people would rather allow other people to do the thinking for them, than think for themselves. Which is maybe, one of the reasons, why there are some people who choose to live a monastic life.

But I believe we have the power to change things. And that a developed man is not somebody who is well read, intelligent, speaks well or possesses the most skill or riches.

The developed man is the one who spends most of his attention in improving himself than improving other people. He focuses in the higher virtues of Life (love, peace, understanding, tolerance, giving) than that of the physical senses (fear, irritation, criticism, hate, selfishness).

Because he understands and do thinks differently than the rest of the world. He maintains obedience with the higher laws in every area of his life, even if he is alone. Because he doesn't conform, he do things differently.

And I believe that when you use your thoughts in ways such as these you will become a bonfire of blessing in your corner of the world.

You can't change other people, you can only change yourself. And when you change everything around you changes.

Bonds that Last

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon





People who use fear can never build strong and lasting organizations. They always operate alone why? It's because people who uses fear and intimidation are always paranoid and on the look out of possible danger, it is their nature.

It doesn't trust anybody but itself. It doesn't even trust its family or even its friend. It does not even trust its team or anybody because it only operates alone for its selfish purposes and will leave anybody in the dirt anytime, if the cookie crumbles(everyman for himself). They treat people as tools for their selfish motives. And without the foundation of trust, we have nothing.

You cannot trust anyone who doesn't trust anybody.

Think about these examples.

Can a robber trust a fellow robber? I don't think so, right?
Can a swindler trust a fellow swindler?
And a corrupt politician does not trust another corrupt politician.

Makes sense, right?

Throughout history you've heard the stories of Hitler, Stalin, the Spaniards, japanese invasion, where are they now? These people used fear to control and manipulate their people and they are all gone now together with the people who followed them all gone.

When Light is turned on in a room, darkness instantly disappears, just like that. And no matter how hard it fights it has no power of its own because, it needs other people to survive.

In every story that you've seen about any battle like Dragon ball Z, Ironman Superman and Green Lantern the Light always win, always. Without contest. Fear never last.

Experts say, that the universe is made up of energy, it is made up of Light. And the darkness that you see in the sky at night is not darkness but your eyes just couldn't see beyond the spectrum of that light, that is the reason for the term 'color-blind'. Your eyes couldn't see beyond ultraviolet or infrared not possible, thus you see darkness in the sky, unless of course you use a high-powered telescope.

So basically yes, there is only Light in this Universe.

Darkness and fear only exist in the human mind. It is created by humans because of their ignorance and their stubbornness to snap out of this hypnotic social conditioning of the environment(media) that there is fear. (False Evidence Appearing Real)




"For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves." - Carlos Castaneda.




The Principle behind the foundation of Trust is Love. Look at every major religion in the world that up to this day are still standing. Christianity, Islam and Buddhism to name a few, these organization were founded in Love by their leaders. Love remains forever. It has no beginning and no end.

People who love people, are loved. People who love, trusts everybody and everybody trust them. They don't walk around paranoid but they walk with pride and in peace. Only people who have fear in their hearts are the ones who are paranoid and always in the look out for danger and ready to fight.


Peaceful thoughts leads to peaceful words and actions that results to a peaceful life.

Just like our country and the founding fathers who protected and gave us our independence. Heroes like Rizal, Aguinaldo and Bonifacio they dedicated their lives on the line for the love of our country againts those people who intimidated and threaten the freedom of the people of the Philippines.

Love is the bond that unites people. Love is the bond that unites families and friends. Love is the bond that allows people to build a foundation of trust that creates lasting and timeless relationships that leads to massive organizations.

So always ask yourself this question. Is my organization coming from a place of fear or love? Am I operating from a place of fear or love?

Think about it.

The Value of Experience

“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.” 

― Anthony de Mello

If you are into any spiritual or religious practice the real truth is, you are finding out who you really are, not what religion tells you who you are. 

Most people want to be taught what to do, instead of learning from experience and thinking for themselves. 

Life is not a step by step system, it is free flowing, it is like water. What you should do is learn from your experience in life and drop those beliefs that does not work and adapt those that work. 

Experience has taught me that separation, hate, fear, criticism, condemnation, gossip, being right, selfishness, and competition has created more misunderstandings in my life and hurt. Not only to me, by most especially to the people that is around me. 

But if you look closely and sensitive enough, most religions would rather create separation, hate, fear, criticism, condemnation, gossip, being right, selfishness, and competition. They would follow blindly what is written in Holy Scriptures even if it doesn't feel right. Even if it would cause pain to another individual. Even if it will make them hurt another person gay, lesbian, sinners or whatnot.

 

"We think too much and feel too little." -Charlie Chaplin

Useless and unnecessary misunderstandings, fights, wars, murders in families, society and nations have been done in the name on what is written, than be sensitive and love one another.

Sad truth is, people will do and follow what is written and follow it blindly that to truly listen to their hearts and be compassionate with people. .


Most people don't live their lives fully aware. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts- generally somebody else's mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. (more info read: THE MYTH)

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. 

Most people put too much emphasis on what they learn or read about Life. So, when what they've experienced is different from what they've read or been taught in religion, they disregard what they've experienced and follow what religion says, and which by the way results to more misunderstanding and hate.

Experience will tell you that putting your finger in the flame of the candle will burn you, not books. Experience will tell you that the food taste bad, not books. Experience is the best teacher not religion or holy books.

You can lie to other people but you can never lie to yourself. That is how your conscience works. You know in your heart what is right and what is not. It is not found in religious books or any book. What you know and feel is right is found within you.

When you see somebody sick and dying you feel compassion, and what you feel could not be explained in books. When you see your mom crying you feel sympathy for her and you reach out your arms and embrace her, you want her to feel your love, and that is not found in holy scriptures. You only learn that through experience.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

If you center your attention and start to feel your heart, you will begin to realize that you would rather be in harmony with another individual than say or do something negative to them. Nobody wants to hurt another individual you are by nature loving just like how your father above is. 

In the ancient temple of Luxor; the outer temple where the beginning initiates are allowed to come, and the inner Temple where one can enter only after proven worthy and ready to acquire the higher knowledge and insights. One of the proverbs in the Outer Temple is "The body is the house of God." That is why it is said, "Man know thyself." In the Inner Temple, one of the many proverbs is "Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know the gods. This understanding is one of the keys in truly understanding who you really are. 

One of my favorite author said that: "As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”



Enlightenment really means you become who you really are and not what other people, religion or media tells you what to do. What you want to do is to creates more love than of the opposite it.  You want to focus on the constructive side of life regardless of what the scriptures says. You want to forget and drop what is written and listen to what your heart tells you is right.

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I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible- Jew, Gentile, black men, white…

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery ,we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a loveof humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate!

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

Let us all unite.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

"Waste no time talking what a good man should be, be one."

-Marcus Aurelious

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