Showing posts with label Encouragement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Encouragement. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2008

Work Every Possibility Out of Impossibility

'Impossible' - A favorite word some of us used, to dismiss tasks.

I asked, 'If there is still human life, what is impossible?'

Human, such a complex and unimaginable creation exists,
what else is impossible?

Don't give up exploring every possibility out of the impossibility.
There may be a limitation to every possibility, that means there is every chance of possibility may be sought from impossibility.

Keep searching, be amazed!

The next time we are challenged with a difficult task,are we going to reply with 'impossible'? or simply 'limitation to desirable results'?

The major challenge is always Time.. well.. I am still working on this issue though... :)

Does Time practice bribery? Guess not eh? hahaa.

Time takes no order from anyone. (sigh, therefore we all age!!!)

Before I point an accusing finger to other factors or people for a less desirable outcome, do I wish to look into myself first?

Imagine myself as a central power station, if the power supply runs low, is it more effective to work on this station first, or is it productive to attend to individual branched out stations?

Hmmm.... I say... situational, and debatable.

Too Many Problems

Humans are prone to memory failure when problems lump in together. Problem doesn't come singly, and it's very true.

Maybe it is meant to be God's will to test human's heart and brain, maybe it's human who brought linking of single problem to chained problems.

We may not be able to prevent obstacles, but we can select better ways to overcome them.

Sometimes problems may seem more than they should. Perhaps some are not, but we made them problems.

How so? With negative outlook, every small hiccups or events grow to be a problem too big for us to solve. When the hands are full, everything else appears to be surplus.

Example:

I fixed a date for celebration for some occasion with my friends. I woke up in the morning, with anticipation to the evening. It's been a long time since we had a gathering. Many discussions were done and we settled for the best preferred dinning venue and food. Everything was expected to be well.

This day arrived; I dressed well with excitement, hoping the evening would arrive sooner. My friends and I would have a wonderful dinner and many things to talk about.

With a cheery mood, I arrived in the office, only to know that nothing went well. Orders were not fulfilled, operations were not running smooth, system shut down unexpectedly, customers were yelling, manager reprimanded me for the things not in my control. Work was lousy. It affected my mood.

When the day ended in the worst imagined way. I wasn't in the mood to even meet up my friends.

While my friends, who may have their own share of problems at work, at home. They went to the dinner as planned. I called my friends to inform of my intention to cancel the dinner. After much persuasion, and compromise, they changed the venue and time and even food, to accommodate me.

I went there and sulked the whole night thru. When I got home, my mum told me the microwave was not working well, and I flared up on this slightest issue complaining how troublesome it would be to call for a service etc etc, which could otherwise be dealt with in the slightest effort.

Result:
Not only that I didn't enjoy the dinner, I brought my friends moody atmosphere. My mum felt bad about not using the microwave properly. I felt lousy that my problems were simply overwhelming.

To Ponder:
were the incidental matters really problems?

We could segment issues and not to mix them up. If this piece of bean curd turn sour due to improper storage or whatever reason, and we mix other food in it, the whole dish would be equally bad. But if we segment the bean curd, and take other food separately, it would turn out differently. We would still have good food, while managing the bad food. Options are there, to make smelly bean curd using the sour bean curd? Or discard it all away. Objective remains same, to manage things separately, be it simultaneously, or stagger it in different time slot. Whatever we do, the other food has no inkling with the problematic bean curd, we have to be fair to the other food. Problems get solved, unless we don't want them to. We can't punish the good food with the bad food's fault.

Even in the midst of solving this problem, we need not be afraid of eating, we can still be hopeful that other good food come along the way. So long we don't mix things up, the good can remains good. Agree? hmmm... get my point?? Also reminding myself this..

The Art of Remembering

Another teacher, a friend of long time, taught me the Art of Remembering
A friend of a long time, whom I met many years back

Was here to teach me something today
In a casual conversation, in reminiscing some good old memories of the past

He remarked of his many unsuccessful relationships
When engaged into deeper exchange of in-depth topics

A confession that he had spent all these years trying to forget me
In a state of confusion, I inquired into my personality

Had I caused so much harm then, that a person would require so much time to forget me?
My heart sank as quickly as Titanic may

What kind of hurt had I inflicted on this man, that is ruining his life?

Bucking up my courage to face my weakness and faults
I posted questions

To my amazement, I was spread with a table of compliments
I was filled with mixed feelings

Unable to hold back my desires to uncover more
I asked, why then, I am to be forgotten?

In this light conversation
We played the role of Teacher of each other

I learned that human tend to adopt the easiest way to move on
In order to move on with his lost

He believed that by forgetting me, whom he failed to 'possess'
That he believed was a regret
He was beaten down by his own pride of lost

By embracing such regret, he'd rather forget what he think is good
I ask, Why choose to forget something you think is great?
How many beautiful pictures can be painted in this short life time?
Wouldn't it be good to remember the good, and discard the bad?
Now, he has to decide what is good and what is bad

It was such coincidence that I just learned about the Art of Letting Go
So I shared my lesson learned with him

He had in turn enlightened me with affirmations of my newly learned lesson
Let go of the pride, and false beliefs
Letting go, doesn't mean forgetting
Letting go, of the right component, to enhance the holistic human mind environment

If he stops seeing me as a lost, a pain of lost
Will he be able to let go of me

Each time he thinks of me again, there is no pain, but fond memories of a great friend
The next time he speaks of me again, he is able to hold pride in such encounter of a friend

I almost regretted being good
Yet, such timely lesson of the 1st teacher, brought me to another light of wisdom
that I am able to counter this conversation better than I could

The Art of Letting Go
The Art of Remembering

I've learnt to let go too... so that I can be remembered

The Art of Letting Go

Today my 2 teachers enriched my day with great wisdom

One teacher, I shall address him as my dearest confidante
He taught me the Art of Letting Go

When I met him, he led me to my most fearful desires
A dream I hadn't been able to summon enough courage to pursue
He showed me to great light of love
Love - My ultimate desire, yet my greatest fear

Along the journey of such pursuance
He showered me with more wisdom each passing day
Today, he taught me of letting go of physical desires
In pursuit to higher spiritual attainment

In integrating this love into my life
I gradually pick up the desires of physical possession
A most easy method to secure oneself of possessing love

Such false beliefs left me thinking
I started to doubt myself of my self-worth and self-quality
I started to question myself if I am no longer good enough
This confidante, through his silent teachings
Imparted me the wisdom of freeing up the emotional distress

To let go, in order to gain more
To let go, does not mean erasing the feelings away
In letting go, are we able to love at ease
In letting go, are we able to discard physical entanglement
In letting go, are we able to love freely
In letting go of expectations, are we able to love unconditionally
He is practicing the Art of Letting Go
To let go of me, in order to love me more adequately
In letting go of me, he frees his hands, in order to embrace more
In letting go of me, he believes it's his best way of loving me

To let go, simply three words, takes a great deal of courage to accomplish
To let go of a love, requires great deal of appreciation to understand such act

When he lets go of me, I am left with options
To think that I was no longer loved, no longer worthy of love
Or, I can adopt proactive positive directions
To think that it was never easy for him to let go of me
It may be tougher a task to let go of me, than to hold me dear

I choose to understand
Here I stand up on my feet
In the act of love
I am showing him that I understand his pain
As he tries to lessen mine, I am soothing his in this gentle way I know
Though apart, the love we share formed a cushion
To guard us from being hit on the bumpy road of letting go
Love is at its greatest, when we try to love our love to his interest
Praise love

Test of Situations

Words can't describe the magical things that happened to us.

Tests of situations are always stringent.
Each time, there's a lesson behind each incident
The question here is.. Do we learn from it?

Today, God teaches us that it exists in the real world that...
In couples, there are situations whereby both were met with bad days/moods
God has helped us realise the worse situtations that any couple may meet
Many only encounter much later, not earlier

God has given us the intense treatment of life, praise God
The tougher and sooner the situations set for us
The clearer the path is paved ahead for us
How so?

Each time, each difficult situation is tide over
It meant that no worse would bog us down in future
If we clear up the worst, what's next?
Better, improved mindsets

The snap-off point here is that, it's 'show-hand' situation each time
Coupled with positive mindsets, we can always turn the table around
Make the best out of the worst

Don't blame situations, they are meant to do us good
What good does it make for us, if the journey set out is all too smooth sailing?
Only by surviving the tough, we make the best out of ourselves.

The message:
"Struggle the rough waves in youth,
Enjoy the fruitful peace in old age" - Lainsil

Remain positive...
No waves too rough to tide over
No dreams too high to reach
No mountains too tough to conquer

No love like this love
No man like you, no lady like me..
Believe in yourself, believe in me.. Believe in this love

Selfless Love

I learnt to love myself once more, discard the isolated self, and regained Self love and gradually developed selfless love.

First come first, I started to re-appreciate myself as a person who is worthy of love. Once this was achieved, I took a step further, and through a natural course, learned to provide love at zero expectation for returns.

The basic line to live a life is probably beginning from self (Intrisic). A person needs to be sufficed with love to live to the fullest. Yet, to expect love to be provided by another, is asserting pressure on own and others. The simplest way is to self-supply, by simple method of self appreciation.

The strength that love can help you along the rocky path, is not to be belittled. It made me strong. I then managed to, and wanted to love people the way I love myself. I do not instruct people how to love me, but I would rather show people how I love them. Some may feel my sincere heart, some may not. This is not too much a concern to me now. I do not manipulate people, I merely manage my thoughts. I leave people with their rights to choose to be touched or to ignore.

My concern is my ability and capability to express love.

Love doesn't hurt, it heals pain. Love doesn't punishes, love forgives. Love appreciates, and be appreciated. Love doesn't expect, love fulfills.

One of my favorite quotes:
"No one pushes the river, it flows just fine by its own"

I imagined myself gliding along the river flow, and picking up the goodness along the ride. Rocky and steep it may sometimes be, but I don't stop at the less preferred stage, I let it flows on.. As long as there is movement, there is hope for better life. Get past with the bad element, be washed by the river water, ready yourself to receive the goodness of challenges.

Choose to love life, live to love.


Positive Thoughts Formula

Have we not learnt the formula in mathematics subject, negative multiplies by negative equals positive? I wonder if this was developed from Real Minds operation.

If we 'add' negative thoughts with more negative thoughts, we would probably still get a higher negative figure. (eg. -5 + -5 = -10)

However, if we multiply negative figure by another negative figure, we would get a high positive figure (eg. -5 x -5 = 25)

The difference is by escalating the process of mind thoughts.

Before they sink in deep down our minds and grew bigger in size, we can 'choose' to convert such negativity in successive stages development, to a high positive thoughts.

I was amazed myself with such development in mind, when I was almost grabbed in complete control of negative power.

I realized that I had been led on, throughout the day, by the shadow of blues.

Facing a problem, I zoomed in in details, so much so that my small problem developed to such big patch that I overlooked many other issues.

Soon, this small problem grew so huge, 'truth' and 'goodness' became further in reach.

I 'choose' to zoom out and look at this in a wider picture, see issues in the eyes of your view.

My gracious! This was just a small dot in the big picture.

The 'truth' (which I chose to believe in positive light) and 'goodness' revealed in their forms effortlessly.

I had verified the 'new-born' positive conclusion with you, and was glad, I saved myself in time.

How close was I to have ruined a precious and wonderful relationship with my own 'assumptions'.
How would I have displayed my wrong assumptions across to you, should I not arrived in deeper thoughts?

Would my upset tone in voice disrupt proper understanding?
Would my negative responses lead to your undesirable reactions?

Thank goodness! Only by arriving at zero substance in mind, cleaned and cleared, was I able to sense and decipher the genuine understanding of complicated feelings.

My choice is always not to run away and hide away, only confronting problems solve problems.

Keep an open mind to accept the outcome of each confrontation.
In my opinion, nothing is going to be so bad, as long as the problem get rectified.

This move itself, is already good. 'Choose' goodness.

Yes, we need to 'sense' movement in the flow of river, and not get 'stucked' in the still water.
We need not push the river, as it flows just fine by itself, but we should remain 'aware and conscious' of the flow and current.

Appreciating Goodness

Now

We may make plans for the future, for it is wise to set objectives and goals, to provide direction of our journey ahead.

We may review events of the past, for it is important to learn from our past, to better ourselves and improve on our weaknesses.

Set plans in wider scope, not in detailed planning, for plans are not meant to be realised accordingly. No plans are foolproof, therefore, it should be vague, but a flag stalking move to position yourself well to pursuing your dream. 'Time' is always the greatest challenge to fulfilling dreams.

'Past' only serves as memory to be reviewed. Confronting 'Past', we are helpless, for we can't do anything about it, yet it is such important stage we all have to go through, for it made us what we are now. 'Time' has served its duty to accomplish each person's past.

'Now' is what we can do. A fast decisive move decides this moment, even time has not enough time to stop you. The only power we have over time is 'Now', not the future, not the past. Then, we realised how quickly, everything moves on once again. Grab 'Now', don't let it pass without doing your best.

Missing Chapters

There are something/someone in your life that you can't bear to leave any missing chapter in her book.

However, in the arena of choices, some gave up the opportunity of his lifetime to see, feel and be presence for the whole process of development of this person.

A father I know, has opt out to participate in his kids' role play in their entire childhood. When the kids grow up, what do they remember of the father? Just a father, not quite a loving and caring one though.

It's very difficult to get the father to be interested in participating in their lives if he is of a different mindset. He probably just want to provide materials for the family, but not interested in putting efforts to improve the quality of a family.

For the 1st few years, the wife will try hard to get him involved, but if his heart is not there for them, he is only physically there, sitting, sleeping, hoping that any outing could end earliest possible.

Soon, the family would slowly die out of hope in persuasion, everyone is taking everyone for granted. This is a common phenomenon of family lives these days.

Think deeper, look at a wider picture, if you don't love your loved ones when you still can, this opportunity missed cannot be returned. The childhood of your kids will be outgrown, there's no way to return to past and make it up.

I am glad though that I jhave outgrown the emptiness. No one can survive on stale air for long enough a time. I have chosen to take a step out and open up the windows and doors to circulate the air in the room...

Now I can breathe better, people who visit me in my room are glad to know it's a nice place restored.

Make Peace with Imperfections

To be imperfect is human
Let's not just count the low volume of rejects in a production
let's also evaluate outcome against the quality of the good end products of the majority

Take me for example
I have this terrible fiery temper, that even most people can't receive it well at times
But nevertheless, I still receive love
Because I do possess the good quality in my inner self that people fell in love with
That could compensate for the some defects in my personality

Take our fingers for exampleThere are shorts and longs
Every each of them serves a purpose
In achieving one task, the thumb may not be as capable as compared to its fellow fingers
Shall we then, in doing this task, fully maximize the potential of other fingers
Let's make full use of the strength of other fingers to compensate for the thumb that falls short

We need not be perfect
Each imperfection is a mean to provide space and room for improvement
We can improve and compensate for the imperfection by other means
We need not be perfect
How boring if all of us are standard perfect?

So please, do not belittle yourself
There is no better other person than you
There is only a better you each time
Each time, you are better than your best self
yet, no one can ever replace you
Therefore, there is no other better person than yourself

As human, we learn to compensate and make up for our defects
If I am short, I dress tall
If I am fat, I dress slim
If I am ugly, I enhance my inner beauty
If I am poor, I add value to my dignity
If I am bedridden, I train my hands to move the wheelchair
If I am blind, I try to sense by my ears
We can always do better
But don't aim to be perfect
But do be hopeful that we can always improve
For there is a will, there is a way

Love Others, Believe in Yourself

If no one in this wide world is confident enough to love me
If they always think I deserve more
If I am the only person who is able to love
I still, wish that everyone loves

If you can't love me, because you feel inadequate
If you can't figure out, you are holding the precious gift in your hands
Bestowed by God of love

If you can't recognise the good love you have found
If you are not able to feel happy about this love
If.. If.. You don't believe in yourself
No one could help

My wish is not to get people to love me
My wish is hope that everyone loves himself

If you are not able to love me, love yourself
If you can't find the motivation to drive you up
If you can't find the inspiration to pick you up
I am here, but do you want to consume me?

I can't force the food down your throat if you don't believe it will do you good

I remember my innocent smiles of my childhood
I want to retain that innoncence at heart

Now when I see a small child, I can't help feeling warm for them
Because... I was once like that..

Now, the only difference I have, is my grown up physical shell
My matured mind
But what about my heart, what about my psyche?
I can keep it as pure, as innoncent, as a child can be.

Love Is Strength

To Live is to Feel, To Feel is to Love..

Look around you and you find children everywhere. Do they not look happy and innocently naive? Did we all not been through the days of no worries? Among the happy children, there are some distraught ones that only sadness is seen in their eyes.

All sadness derives from the absence of love.

When a couple bring a new life, what are their mindsets and objectives? Have they considered well enough deep in their hearts and souls, what they can bring out a child with?

All lives feel, and grow to feel. This is what life is all about. When we detach ourselves from feelings, and emotions, we are just zombies living out in the empty shells. If we allow ourselves to descend to this stage, why produce another innocent life to live life our pathetic way?

The folk's trait of 'A family is only complete with children', surely has contributed greatly to more sad, unfulfilled lives of today's world. The spiritual attainment is out of reach with the minds lose their grounds, detaching from the genuine truth of living.

To begin with... A family bond begins with the 2 persons, who are the key elements to form a family bonding.

To start from the right foot, they have to love each other deep enough, so much so that it grows large enough to extend their devotion of love to another new life of their own.
In a box, human are bound with duties and responsibilities to carry on their family line. Some hope to have a child in order to secure their partners (these people probably don't have enough faith and trust, let alone love for each other), the question here is, why is the child a tool to tie them up in the first place? Human must first establish their own grounds before bring a new life around them. They may love each other, but secure own selves first in order to prepare a new path for a new born.

Be fair to our seed of love. The child is not to be responsible for the love-ship of the parents, but turning it around. The parents are liable to what this child may become. The relationships between human are never a simple mathematical sum. We have to deal with it separately. The love you have for your partner is different from the parental love for your child. They are intertwined, but it moves in a circular motion, and one affects another. The main energy generates from the 2 elements, if they stay strong and emits love, the secondary (child) will receive and respond accordingly, and enhance the whole environment.

It's a shame, if the only stories you can share with your child are simply fairy tales or books from some authors whom you don't even know about. These kids' reading stuff instill knowledge to the child, while your true life stories which posses a direct connection to him/her induce wisdom of life. It will live with the child. The child will feel secure in heart/mind/soul when he knows where and how he come to. He will feel proud to be the offspring of a great love.

Child born in genuine love grows up stronger, secured and caring. He can feel and willing to care, and understand love exists in all forms.

On the other hand, if we ever thought of getting a child to bond a relationship, think deeper... The child is likely to grow up feeling responsible and stress out, as the parents have heavily loaded the responsibilities of family maintenance to him, instead of embracing the love a family can offer.

The child born under such great responsibilities is likely to grow up to be an insecure person, hesitant to love, little understanding or misunderstanding what love and emotion are all about. He is likely to live with uncertainties and low confidence, as all relationships seem confused to him.

Look into our childhood, and know why we are what we were. I won't point accusing finger to my parents, but I thank God for letting me understand things beyond my parents knowledge, so that I will not put my child to what I struggled through. I shall live life in pursuit for true feelings, to show my child the strength of love.

Freedom

Love is a unique creation of the two of us.
Both of us are free persons, continually re-inventing ourselves.
And in this phase of our lives, we are writing our stories together.

Each morning we must reaffirm our projects-of-being.
Our projects cannot re-start themselves.
We must bring them back to life—or let they die away with yesterday.

Love is one of these ever-fresh projects.
Today we must love in a new way if we are growing persons.

Yesterday can add little to what is happening between us today.
We may have pleasant memories, but memories alone are not enough.

Sad would our relationship be if we had only beautiful memories.
To the degree that we are growing, creative persons,
our love is full of surprises rather than governed by expectations.
Love may only be freely given, not expected or demanded.
Demands yield not love but duty—perhaps unwilling duty.

Therefore, love freely, give freely, receive freely...

Ain't No Angel

I am no angel
But I wish I am
I will name myself Baby Angelis

I have no wings
But my soul floats in the air of love

In my world, there is no boundary
In my world, everyone is beautiful

Don't make Baby Angelis shed tears
The tear drops of Baby Angelis will be heavier than the ocean

Baby Angelis is small
But she wish to lift up the heavy soul of yours
Bring it up to the heavenly world
To sniff the sweetness of flowers
To feel the softness of the clouds
To sense the lightness of love
To see the colors of rainbow
To touch the gentleness of breeze

Baby Angelis only hope to smile her way to your heart
But.. I am no angel... even if I may be, I am a flawed angel

God has sent me a mission
To be flawed like a human
To be tempted by Satan
To be faced with failures and challenges

Facing all humanly hurdles, HE is hopeful I retain the angelic heart and soul
Everyone's an angel at heart
Surface it... Work intrinsic
The halo will soon be seen

All children of Lord are angels...
All are given a chance to 'graduate' from tests
Be not afraid.. Tough times are just tests
Deep down, you are still the most beautiful Angel..

When Emptiness Is All You Have

When there is nothing else you are looking forward to
When there is no one else you are pinning for
When the stormy downpour blurred your vision
When the path ahead is overshadowed with uncertainties
When you are no longer certain what to do, where to go, who to talk with, how to move on
When all you are left with, is a vacuum space

You may take a quiet moment and lie low
Just a moment, not too long a moment
Short enough to rest
Not too long to transform the 'moment' to habit
Visualize this quiet moment as tranquility
Visualize the momentary stillness as serenity
Feel a sense of peace in the bustling surroundings

Perhaps, lies within, there is a slight sense of uneasiness
I would identify that as ‘resistance to change’
A sudden switch from heavy to light mind activity
Often, it leaves people to ‘momentary lost of direction’
Take heart, your mind is merely asking for maintenance downtime
It will pass in no time

For now… just take a seat back and relax