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2011 In A Nutshell
This past year, more than ever, I learned that life is all about choices, and owning the consequences of those choices, whether good or bad. It is always easier to blame someone else, but to choose true humility, and face our consequences with ownership is the ultimate race in life.
Can you imagine a world where each person took full responsibility for their life? That would mean spending the majority of our time bettering our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual states. In return, we could feel so free that the essence and energy surrounding us could uplift whoever or whatever was near. We wouldn’t need man’s laws to tell us how to act, because we would simply remember the laws built within us. So instead of spending and wasting so much time trying to solve other people’s problems, we all could focus on solving our own problems, and be enlightened by each other.
Maybe I’m asking too much of this world. For now I will continue to dream, work, live, and pray for a world in which peace really does and can exist. With so many cultural, political, religious, and personal conflicts in life, may God grant us all true inner peace so that we may live a prosperous and enjoyable new year.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect.
It’s hard to find someone who wasn’t bullied growing up. I myself am a stronger person emotionally and spiritually because of it, but it still doesn’t mean bullying is acceptable. I don’t blame the bullies though. I think parents just need to teach their kids to be nice. Bullies have to learn the behavior from somewhere, and it’s usually from their own parents bullying them in various ways.
I’m thankful for parents who knew enough to raise me spiritually strong. When I was 12, I had a long talk with God and we made a deal. He was going to give me strength to live through the bullying, and I promised to pursue my passion, so one day I could help others to also follow good. Each day I strive to follow good.
Ever notice how good is similar to God and evil is similar to devil? As Oprah says, “I don’t believe in coincidences”.
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.
