LOVE LIFE!

destruction or construction?

2012-01-15T10:11:00.001+01:00

At first destruction and disintegration may seem much swifter than the process of construction and integration. Yet, once the initial rage of destruction has subsided, one must continue on a path towards inevitable transformation. A path that may at first seem destructive is in essence constructive. Those moments when we rigorously self-examine, those moments when collective abomination occurs, those human tragedies that we all abhor, those natural turbulences that leave a trail of destruction; all may outwardly seem as destructive and disintegrative, yet inwardly they are as the initial sun that starts to gleam on the horizon, they are those moments when we are actually polishing the mirror of our hearts, and the path of our existence comes sharply into contrast with our daily reality. These challenges we face are not made to ruin us, but to uplift us, they are not made to destroy us, but create us, we are in a never ending, interconnected web of happenings, that are made at all times for our betterment. Yet are we aware of them, do we see them as such? If not let us wake up from the daze and see the rather the morning haze, that will with time disappear as the light of the sun rises higher with even greater heat and intensity to illumine our reality.

Striving to just BE

2012-01-12T08:40:00.000+01:00

Now we just run around, heedlessly for money that we have already spent, for expenses we don't need, on things that are unnecessary. I wonder how much longer we will all suffer in our selfishness, oblivious to our true needs? A house filled with loved ones, isn't that our dream? Have we forgotten the reasons why we wanted those things in the first place? To create lasting, happy memories, or are we content with our loneliness, have we forgotten how to talk to people? Who knows? Everyone will just say its relative to your own experience and that nobody has the right to judge. I agree, its just that there are somethings that are just the same. The soul! No one would argue the fact that we all seek happiness in this life, of which the greatest way to experience it is with others. Those others in our lives are both the life and death of our existence. The challenge is just to be.

The Path

2012-01-07T04:32:00.002+01:00

The path with its up and downs

bends and blind spots, beckons me.

To walk.

As i walk from point to point,

step by step, i pass through

storms and sun showers,

sunrises and sunsets.

Is it i who is changing the weather with my every step?

Is it i who is changing the landscape with my every breath?

left, right, left, right, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale..

I keep walking on this path or is it a passage,

passed easily or with difficulty?

Why is it not a tunnel like all tales from darkness into light?

I guess there is no end to this path for it must be the journey.

We are all on the path at a certain place,

a specific time in our life.

On this path we sometimes walk,

shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand,

at other times we stop or slow down

whilst other continue to make strides.

It is neither ours nor theirs to judge the progress

of another. For all are on this path of existence.

It belongs to us all.

It is fixed, this path but no one knows where.

I walked and walked to the end of a path one day

thinking I had reached my goal, my destination, my will.

Were not these steps leading me aright?

A fork in the road back there was i right to have gone left,

or had i made the wrong right.

Maybe i had to create a new path all by myself.

Maybe others were to follow this new paved path?

Who knows for i was not at sea, where there is no path to see?

Maybe i should jump into the fathomless deep,

lost within the fluid path,

ocean moving me, wave to wave, from tide to tide?

It wasn't up to me to decide if the path was right for me,

it was just meant to be.

Every one is on the same path,

we just think it to be different.

You are you and i am me.

together we make unity

but why is it that we never see this beautiful reality.

You tell me i need to be on this path,

i say to you this one,

yet we fail to see that from the sun it is neither you or me,

neither land nor sea but specs of dust floating in the black sea

of the super strange galaxy.

What else can one say of an infinite path with finite words?

May this be fleck of dust,

this flower, this tree

this ray of sunshine,

this drop of rain,

be signs to you

on the path of your mystery.

The path that ultimately leads to eternity

though you'll never know nor see.

Just be....

Short Story - Shall i move or stand still?

2012-01-07T03:41:00.002+01:00

Thomas was a young man who was always filled with energy. Energy is a good thing people would tell him. He didn't realise it but he was always on the move from one thought to another, from one place to another. He was in motion. One day he found himself just sitting still. The sun was radiating on his face while he was reading as he waited to get to another place. He felt as though there was something new about this experience, but he wasn't sure. He closed the book and looked up. All he could see was movement, interspersed with pauses of motion. He thought to himself what was different about him and his experience? In a split moment it came to him. He was still, sitting, not moving. He felt a joy a curiosity that one experiences when they do something for the first time. This was the feeling he was having. He was still. His movement was animated by the movement that surrounded him. He was in motion while being still. This was the motion-stillness continuum of his reality!

I write while in motion.

How would I write in stillness?

Would these words move too?

Or would they stand still?

Is not the act of writing a movement?

Is not my speaking a movement?

Are not my thoughts movement?

Will they ever be still?

When i'm awake i'm neither fully still

or forever in motion. I am in transit.

What about my dreams?

What about my sleep?

There is no stillness in them either.

ah..maybe stillness is quite,

maybe its loud,

maybe its just the pause between

movement that we call stillness.

Whatever it is, it is...

for we will never know complete stillness

or perpetual momvent.

We will just be still in motion.

Moving from stillness to stillness.

The inner essence of movement.

Stillness or Motion

2012-01-07T03:23:00.002+01:00

Do we ever take the time to be still in the world that is constantly in motion? How important is movement to us both psychologically, physically and spiritually? We are constantly moving from one state of being to another, from one place to another, from one thought to another. It is fundamental to our existence. Without movement we would whittle away to nothing, we would be lost. At the same time something that is as paramount as movement to our existence is stillness. Stillness is the requirement of expansive movement. the ability to stay still, to rest are of utmost importance. Just like those who wander are not always lost. Those who are still, silent and reflective are just moving at a different pace. One could say that both are necessary elements of our existence if we are to be fully alive and perceptive of our every experience in every moment.

Obedience to Freedom

2011-10-22T04:55:00.003+02:00

To be fully liberated in this life one must be true to the natural callings and promptings of the human soul. Just as the creatures of the natural world obey unconsciously their needs, that sustain and perpetuate their growth. We as human beings must also obey the command of God and the emanation of such a God in our Universe; presented to us in our social, emotional, physical, and spiritual lives. To endeavour ceaselessly and sincerely in this task of obedience, we come to be free, available to live fully in a world struck by constant turmoil. We come to live by the boundlessness of the Kingdom and not the boundedness of the world. We become that drop that has merged with the might sea. We become free.

we are all so strange and beautiful.....

2011-08-29T01:31:00.000+02:00

The sun shines in my eyes, through the open window, I am reading, thinking, experiencing, this beautiful moment. In deep thought with music to inspire me on. We each get closer and closer. To what i don't know, to a place unknown, to a reality far removed from us. The breeze starts to to enter the room, the leaves and brancehs are swaying in the breeze. They form a moving barrier between me and the sunlight. It is an expericne that is not from this world. I remember that i am still in this world, who am what am i doing, are we lost, im smiling at the mystery....we are all so strange and beautiful.....

Yearning into Commitment

2011-07-31T02:50:00.003+02:00

The feeling to read and write has intensified since my return from the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity and my trip to Sydney, conversing with my fellow human beings on the meaning of my reality, seeking coherence and understanding. I was fascinated once again by learning. An idea Friere shares is that "education isn't for life, education is life". I realised once again at that moment the profound impact learning has on ones life as an essential requirement for advancement and growth in all areas of our existence.

Linking with this idea of life long learning was that I was thinking about how to translate a yearning for excitement into a commitment to long term action. I have come to believe that commitment to long term action implies spiritual qualities and attitudes. They draw on the sacred qualities of the soul such as steadfastness, perseverance, persistence and patience. Such commitment requires the individual to move beyond instinctual compliance to the pleasure principle, an animalistic trait that has man tied to the shackles of his material life, seeking at every moment, a superficial joy, a euphoric feeling that may sustain them at best for a day, week or maybe even a year, but definitely not a life time. To move beyond the hedonistic view of our reality that we exist for our simple momentary pleasures. To also realise the paradox we live in, to understand that we must be fully engaged in the moment not just for now but for tomorrow. To think of our present as the future in the past. If we take such a view we will not be living in the present for the pure recreation of so called beautiful feelings and experiences but will realise the enduring affect our thoughts and actions will have on the future, if we act with the intent for an enduring advancement.

It reminds me of the two lines in paragraph 5 of the December 28 Message 2010 of the Universal House of Justice where They write: "Unqualified love free from paternalism will be indispensable if they are to help turn hesitation into courage born of trust in God and transform a yearning for excitement into a commitment to long-term action. Calm determination will be vital as they strive to demonstrate how stumbling blocks can be made stepping stones for progress."

What crucial and beautiful ramifications such concepts would have on our thoughts and actions?

Red Reality

2011-07-31T02:18:00.003+02:00

The red in our reality is here, there and everywhere while at the same time nowhere. Colour as we know it, is the reflection of light transferred to our eyes and then through to our brain, when we register and recognise this particular shade or phase on the spectrum as red. The funny thing is how do we know, what is what, and how it came to be regarded in such a way. Red has so many cultural connections that in many places language has developed to cater for the variety of usage when describing something that is of the colour red. It even depends on the context in which that colour is presented.

Another interesting observation was that once red was raised from my unconscious to my conscious thoughts, as is the norm when something permeates your thoughts, it was everywhere. I may as well have had bright red glasses on, seeing everything with a red tinge. Things such as stop signs, lights, cars, clothes, and signs seemed to be in the majority. I was suddenly overcome by the redness of my reality. Even now as I look up around my room I can see a red book, red jumper, red speedos, and a red box thing that you can keep things in. The following story is based on one of those moments when red presented itself.

So the story goes....

"Hmmm" the old lady says to herself as she sits herself down on the bench waiting for her bus to come. I look at her as I ride past on my bike at a zooming pace, wondering what it is she is thinking about and where is she going, what has her life been like, is she happy, does she know what happens when she dies, I wonder if she is lonely? Suddenly I realise she is wearing a red jacket and adjusting her wide brimmed red fashion hat. I thought to myself, what occasion demands red, a colour of passion, life, beauty and emotion? I never asked her any of these questions but realised at that moment - red reality. Or was it all just my current perception, my current frame of reference?

Red reality I said to myself was my reality. It was the way in which I lived my life, filled with vigour, passion, beauty and emotion. The red stuff pumping throughout my body was red, most of my organs were a pinkish-red, I may as well have been called the red man or for that matter, maybe the whole human race should, could and will be called the red race. A race of men incomparable in character, but biologically identical - red.

How would this realisation of our redness, our oneness have on the way we perceived others? Would we come to see each other as collaborators working collectively, vigourously, and passionately for a better world for all? I saw hope. In the mean time the lady has probably got her bus, and gone wherever she had to go, wholly unaware of the impact her red coat and hat had on my life, my red reality.

The Emerging Culture

2011-01-16T04:53:00.002+01:00

Let us all strive to align ourselves to an even greater measure to this overriding life objective. The conscious evolution, the unremitting quest towards this unseen, mystic beauty of synergy. A synergy with the Kingdom, that will express the inner in the outer, the individual in the collective, the spiritual manifest in the physical. This is the supreme honour of man!

This Life

2010-04-19T08:40:00.001+02:00

The need to step out and experience LIFE, means that we must go beyond what we thought to be previously unreachable, unattainable, and illogical. To be audacious, courageous and confident in all that we do, are, and will be, is the surest way in developing a life of extreme beauty! To be conscious of the fact that living life in such a realm demands sacrifice. To understand that such daring moments are exhilarating...To understand that sacrifice is both the mystery and the energy of this cyclic scheme......P.R.A.

Mystery of a Reality

2010-02-25T09:40:00.000+01:00

Mystery

The mystery of life is the mystery of sacrifice,
The mystery of sacrifice is the mystery of love,
The mystery of love is the mystery of the Creator.

One lives to die, the other dies to live!
The binding force between the Creator and Creation
is forever One, but ever moving!
To see the end in the beginning and the beginning in the end.

This is the Mystery of eternity!

Service

2010-02-25T09:39:00.000+01:00

Service

May our lives be but a drop in service,
in the Ocean of the Absolute!
May our lives be devoted to Him.
May we live all the days of our life, with Him!
the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

State of Mind

2008-11-23T13:38:00.003+01:00

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart!

EINSTEIN!

Life is filled with many wonderful experiences, however it is up to us to go out there and seek them out! To gain experience in anything in life we must be prepared for the struggle, the challenge in which we will face at different situations and points in our efforts to gain a greater understanding of LIFE.

This quote from Einstein for me is one of the most beautiful, enlightened and powerful quotes in the world. In which it is purely stating the obvious about the power of the Universal Language of the world "LOVE"!

To do anything with LOVE and passion you will succeed. To love your work is to raise it to a form of worship, to love art work, to do art work with love can raise it to the rank of worship. To love absolutely anything in life, with a passion and desire to bring out the best in yourself, your family, your community, you will see the transforming affect that the Universal Language does have over the whole world!

In life we must not be afraid of love, fore it is the most beautiful, most unique experiences that will allow us to understand a life that is beyond a life without love! Love yourself, love family, love your community, Love your work, love your studies, love your environment, love the people around you, LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE and become overwhelmed!

To love is to be alive, to wake up in the morning with a LOVE FOR LIFE! To LOVE is beyond words! To put your heart and soul into your life, the people and places around you, the activities that you enjoy doing! This is what it means to be in LOVE!

JUST DO IT! LOVE!

We must live life, love life with no true intention but to grow and expand so that we may gain new and wonderful insights into Creation and humanities ever advancing life towards a predestined existence!

To love is but a state of MIND! Bring yourself closer to it!

LOVE LIFE!

WANT

2008-11-10T04:54:00.002+01:00

To have a desired want is crucial in all that we do in life. If we want a happy life, if we want a prosperous life, if we want a life filled with service, if we want anything in life we must have a desire for it.

If you have no desired want for anything you will continually fall in life, feeling as though nothing in this world ever existed, feeling that the world that is neglecting you and not listening to your needs and wants. If you have a want, you will have, if you have a vision, you will progress.

If you do anything with purity of motive and the desired want to achieve, learn, grow and develop from anything that you do, you will have all you ever wanted. Just remember have the desire, the patience, the love and you will come upon your want/s in the most beautiful overwhelming and joyous ways that words alone can not express the true feeling of having and arriving at your desired want!

To however arrive at a destination one must go through the process of living. Through trial and error, sadness and happiness, crisis and victory. A twin process in all things existed, existing, and to be existed is ever prevalent in the two might connected processes of wanting and having.

WANT what you WANT!

Be HAPPY!

2008-11-02T05:53:00.002+01:00

Are you happy? Are you happy? Are you happy?

This is question in which we are all striving to find the answer too! What is true happiness? Where does this life pursuit lead us towards? How are we going to achieve this? Who is apart of this journey towards happiness?

The pursuit of happiness is a process of trial and error, crisis and victory, joy and pain! We must all be grateful for all experiences that we encounter! Fore they are the experiences that are apart of who we are striving to become and the people we are becoming!

True happiness is the fundamental basis for life's physical existence! In my mind, the one way in which we can find this true happiness is through allowing ourselves, our families, our communities and therefore our humanity to become happy is by being connected to the One All-Mighty Creator! When we are of service to His Creation, His Humanity, His Nature we are fulfilling our duty as human beings! To LOVE is the key to true happiness! To love all things! To see the beauty in all things! To learn from mistakes! Love is the Universal Language allowing the world to connect to the Soul of the World and therefore finding the key to true happiness! Loving this world and trusting in God is a test that is filled with joy and pain!

True happiness is again a unique and different feeling, places and existence for all beings! The point is though we are happy beings! We are beings made to be happy, to find happiness, to be apart of happiness, to be HAPPY! I would love to leave you with a beautiful Baha'i quote on Happiness!

"In this world we are influenced by two sentiments, Joy and Pain. Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of usefulness. But when sadness visits us we become weak, our strength leaves us, our comprehension is dim and our intelligence veiled. The actualities of life seem to elude our grasp, the eyes of our spirits fail to discover the sacred mysteries, and we become even as dead beings. There is no human being untouched by these two influences; but all sorrow and the grief that exists come from the world of matter--The spiritual world bestows only the JOY! If we suffer it is the outcome of material things, and all the trials and troubles come from this world of illusion."

So don't be afraid of the world of illusions however rise above it and be apart of the spiritual worlds that bestow only JOY!

Be happy! Be happy! Be happy!

Life is Beautiful!

Submission

2008-10-31T05:39:00.004+01:00

To submit our self to God's Will is a task in which is potentially the most challenging in this existence!

We have the capacity to bend our self into conformity to God's Will but sometimes we still choose not to as we feel we have the answer and know what God wants for us! This is a personal challenge in which only we can go through! It is apart of the journey of life! We will go through this struggle but must strive with all our heart to connect our hearts with Gods so that in time we can understand what it means to be in absolute submission unto Him!

The point of striving to do anything with absolute heart and devotion will bring about hidden blessings! When we strive to bring our self onto Gods Path, imagine what potential Hidden bounties may be bestowed upon us! We will experience, see, feel and be apart of certain experiences that can not be explained! I leave you with a beautiful Hidden Words selection from Baha'u'llah the Founder of the Baha'i Faith.

O MY FRIENDS! Have ye forgotten that true and radiant morn, when in those hallowed and blessed surroundings ye were all gathered in My presence beneath the shade of the tree of life, which is planted in the all-glorious paradise? Awe-struck ye listened as I gave utterance to these three most holy worlds: O friends! Prefer not your will to Mine, never desire that which I have not desired for you, and approach Me not with lifeless hearts, defiled with worldly desires and cravings. Would ye but sanctify your souls, ye would at this present hour recall that place and those surroundings, and the truth of My utterance should be made evident unto all of you.

Do all on your journey to make these surroundings, these truths manifest and evident in your life, so that you may once again be in His presence beneath the shade of the tree of life!

BE BRAVE! BE of SERVICE! BE OF GOD!

Predestined Flight

2008-10-31T04:50:00.002+01:00

The predestined Flight is one is which is forever going to be a mystery to humanity! It is a process of life and one in which will forever be a beautiful process of progression!

The point of passing on, is not one in which should be thought of as difficult one but rather a process of rebirth! It is a process in which is BEAUTIFUL!

Baha'u'llah the Founder of the Baha'i Faith in one of his most beautiful Hidden words on the progression of the Soul says: O SON OF THE SUPREME! I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendor. Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?

This quote for me is overwhelming and is truly magnificent! What does such JOY mean? We can not even comprehend the truth of these words for they are beyond the existence of the physical world! They are in worlds beyond our comprehension! All i do know, feel and love about these hidden Realms are that they are HAPPY!

However; how can we reach this happy station without being happy here first or submitting our self to the Will of God! This world is the only world in which we have the opportunity to develop and grow! The other worlds are totally up to God, the ways in which we experience those joyous moments of our spiritual existence are then beyond our capacity! That is why i am struck again by this other Hidden Word of Baha'u'llah's in which he prescribes unto all: " O SON OF BEING! Seek a martyr's death in My path, content with My pleasure and thankful for that which I ordain, that thou mayest repose with Me beneath the canopy of majesty behind the tabernacle of glory."

My grandfather having just passed away this morning in the early hours of today, allows me to reflect and think upon my own life and ways in which i will strive to bring out the best in my life and live my life to the absolute until my very last breath, moving every bone in fear of having reached that stage without having fulfilled my Personal Legend! My life's purpose! In fear of not being beneath that canopy of majesty, that one day i also will have the opportunity to be among those most Blessed Souls in the Tabernacle of Glory assisting the advancement of civilisation from another point!

To live beyond death starts at the point of conception! Our life is one great big mirror of our spiritual existence in the Realms to come! LIVE ON! LOVE ALL! Do all that you can in this physical world fore this is your foundation in the worlds to come!

May we all submit to the Lord of all the Worlds in this predestined Flight towards Glory!

Culture of Learning

2008-10-28T03:48:00.005+01:00

What is culture? What is Learning? What is a culture of learning?

This is a very new, special and interesting culture! It is the culture that will dominate the minds of millions across the globe, allowing each single person that partakes in this culture of learning to firstly expand on oneself, then being able to translate those personal interpretations into action in family life, community life and as a collective the ever advancement of this magnificent civilisation, humanity! This is a culture that should continually dominate the hearts of men for within this culture are all sub-cultures! If you allow this culture of learning to be your way of living and your outlook on life all other things in which you are interested in, and have a passion for will come into direct alignment with the culture of learning!

Through discussion, consultation, artistic expression, caring for ones health, meditation and prayer and many other means; ones life should be continually be immersed in a culture of learning, continually striving to expand on and express oneself in new and wonderful ways!

This is a culture that will allow humanity on a whole once fully understood to progress like never before! If however this culture does not take root in main stream culture and the people of the world continue to follow certain old traits of living and communicating; then this life will not only cease to progress but will in time decline. This culture of learning is intrinsically connected with trail and error, crisis and victory! This is a culture of learning!

The beauty of this culture is that it is never ending! It is forever, expanding and growing! Life should be a culture in which learning, advancing, growing and developing oneself in fields and areas of ones interest must be continually worked upon therefore making it the core of our culture!

Allow yourself to be apart of this culture and see the transformation of not only yourself, your family but the whole world around you!

" The earth is but one country and mankind it citizens" Baha'i Faith

Life not yet lived!

2008-10-21T03:27:00.002+02:00

Life is beautiful! It is filled with potential that we can not even comprehend! However it is up to us to gain what is out there for us through seeking out as many experiences, as many places and as many people as we feel comfortable with in our life! Humanity is comprised of many, many millions of UNIQUE individuals that make up the world we live in. Each one of us has a special part to play in this life of connections.

To strive to live your life to the maximum is to seek out everything you ever wanted! The point of striving in itself will bring about blessings that you could have never ever imagined before! The point of not striving is when you will get stuck in a rut, go around in circles and get carried away in the problems of life rather than seeing that beauty that exists in all things!

You must keep running, keep learning, keep embracing! The second you stop doing what you want to do in life is the second you are not living your life! Go on! LIVE ON! DREAM ON! Keep doing all that you want to do for yourself, your family, your community, your HUMANITY!

La vita e bella!

Peace!

Light me from within!

2008-10-15T08:19:00.003+02:00

Well sometimes in life we are all struck by difficult situations. Certain experiences, feelings and worldly happenings make us upset, unhappy and sometimes overwhelmed with the idea that we can actually do something; that we are all actually apart this connected world! It is how we go about living this life that allows us to gain some insight into how we are able to emit the light that is within each of us. We need to strive to seek out and find from within ourselves the best way to ignite the flame of life!

The flame of life>? What is that? Well to me, it is being able to live life, with a level of happiness that is good for your health and the people around you!

How do we however get the flame of life to be ignited with such a passion and energy for living into our life?

I would like to make the suggestion that it would be through allowing each one of us to experience and seek out and find those things that make us truly happy. As unique individuals that we are the things that make us most happy also varie with a few things that may overlap with other people around the world! The people that we are most likely connected to.

However I was just thinking to myself what is the one thing that continually over and over connects the hearts of men and women not only to one another but to the Creator! This is the Word of God! The beauty in which these Words hold can be and are so powerful in being able to transform our being and light us from within! Cause when we turn to that Eternal Sun, we will forever be blessed with warmth and life! An energy for living that is like no other and can only be experienced through ones own search!

I would love to leave you with a beautiful Baha'i prayer allowing us an insight into how to gain this most fulfilling light of LIFE!

Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope! Through the spirit of power confirm Thou me in Thy Cause, O my Best Beloved, and by the light of Thy glory reveal unto me Thy path, O thou the Goal of my desire! Through the power of Thy transcendent might lift me up unto the heaven of Thy holiness, O source of my being, and by the breezes of Thine eternity gladden me, O Thou Who art my God! Let Thine everlasting melodies breathe tranquillity on me, O my Companion, and let the riches of Thine ancient countenance deliver me from all except Thee, O my Master, and let the tidings of the revelation of Thine incorruptible Essence bring me joy, O Thou Who art the most manifest of the manifest and the most hidden of the hidden!

Choices and Experiences

2008-10-15T08:18:00.002+02:00

In life why is that we are always given two options, when all we were seeking out was the "one" right answer, right way!

It always seems that every time we need to make a crunch decision that we are always put in between two options, two different paths, two different road, two different people! Why does life seem to always have this split line in the middle?

These choices in life are all so crucial to who we were, are and will become. There is a never ending process of connection in which all these different decision mould us into who we are continually developing into and growing from.

These different choices in life will forever be made manifest to us in all that we do. How is it though that we know we have chosen the right path, the right answer for what we were seeking in life?

On one level I believe it comes down to experience. Experience of life and the things that make you most happy. When you allow yourself to be continually put into the situation you feel most comfortable in; you will automatically have a sense of confirmation, a sense of relief, a sense of power. You will then be presented with difficult decisions and choices in which you will be able to make a conscious decision with wisdom (heart and mind)! As life goes on, so do these choices!

This however is the beauty of life, the point of LIVING! We are all in this big world of connections and must remember that any choice we make does and will affect people that we do not even know yet. We must remember that if the choice we have made was not the right one to learn from it, gain a greater level of insight from that experience and take that to our next choice, decision, connection in a never ending process of making decisions in a life filled with boundless potential!

Go on seek out the experiences, discover self, ignite the flame of life, make those decisions that will transform, not only your life but the humanity that surrounds you!

Birds in Search

2008-10-15T05:41:00.002+02:00

You know sometimes I just love to observe, people, nature and my surroundings. What makes up the world I am living in.

One day i was out walking about in the world with my grandpa and as we are talking about life, its processes and certain key aspects, I was somewhat drawn into the beauty of seeing the birds that were fly in the sky that evening, and how gracefully and beautifully with co-ordination they were flying as a unified whole! Then I saw some birds flying alone in the distant, looking for the flock he/she belonged to, then I had seen some smaller groups that also flew beautifully in the sky in unison.

These birds that night continually played through my head, the different groups, the different species, the different locations around the world that birds live and then I thought to myself, WOW! The birds in the sky are actually so similar to humanity, the way they function, the way they operate and the way they conform to certain groups, places and things. When stumbling upon this realisation it was as though it reinforced my absolute belief in the unity of all things Created! These birds, that were animals, in someway did and had characteristics similar to humans and humans in someway have similarities to those of the animal kingdom. The oneness of the world is overwhelming!

Humanity just as the birds are in search. In a constant search, for happiness, safety, stability of life and its resources. We are all in our own small flocks (our families) flying around this world, moving here and moving there, striving to find the best possible location that will provide us with the qualities of life we are after. Then we join up, make friends with and develop connections and certain relationships that are and will be with us forever. BUT? The ultimate search in my eyes is that of seeking out and striving to connect our hearts with God. This is the true search of each individuals life. If we are not immersing ourselves in this continual search of growth, development and connection to those beautiful things of Creation, we will struggle in life!

This is why the Baha'i Faith has come to unite and bring together the hearts of men from all walks of life uniting us in One Common Faith. We are just as the birds in the sky, in search. We are in this group, then with that group, then that flock and suddenly, sometimes we feel we can do it all alone. Let me tell you one thing, the more birds in one flock, the more beautiful, the more powerful, the humble, the more graceful, the more peaceful, the more knowledgeable that flock of birds will be! There is only one Human Race, let us join to together in love and harmony so that we can experience, see, feel and express, what it mean to be WHOLE! To be ONE! To be UNITED!

I will leave you with the Words of Baha'u'llah the founder of the Baha'i Faith. In which He express' the beauty and importance of SEARCH!

Know thou of a truth that the seeker must, at the beginning of his quest for God, enter the Garden of Search. In this journey it behoveth the wayfarer to detach himself from all save God and to close his eyes to all that is in the heavens and on earth....In this journey the seeker becometh witness to a myriad changes and transformations, confluences and divergences. He beholdeth the wonders of Divinity in the mysteries of creation and discovereth the paths of guidance and the ways of His Lord. Such is the station reached by them that search after God, and such are the heights attained by those who hasten unto Him.

To be Curious

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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Einstein

Life is journey in which we must all be passionately curious in all that we do, are and in search of! We all have qualities that are distinctly ours and that make us who we are. We are all special and to say that you are exclusively talented in one thing is wrong in my opinion. You rather have the potential to strive to do your best in all that life holds; in all areas and not only in one field.

We all have the potential to be amazing! We must strive to seek out and find the gems of life that are both within us and in this Most Beautiful Creation!

Live life with curiousity and strive to seek out the new experiences from within, that can be both manifested to you; inwardly in your character, through your actions and deeds and to your outwardly perceiving eye that has the opportunity to see the amazing and beautiful gems of Creation that are even hidden in a grain of sand. Be prepared to see the capacity! Be prepared to see the beauty! Be overwhelmed! Be Passionately Curious about living!

Coming soon!

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Pharan will be back on his LOVE LIFE blog soon! Just figuring out how to change it slightly and personalise it! Peace, P

Connected Power of Service

2008-07-25T17:15:00.006+02:00

The other morning i was just resting, had my ipod on, thinking about the world and everything that was happening and i couldnt seem to see a structure to it at all, a war here, a war there, a problem here, a problem there, some good here, some good there. Then something a more profound came to mind one in which was service. The power of service but not only the power of service but the connected power of service.

I came to the realisation that we are all at and in a constant state of service, first and foremost to God our Creator and through our deeds and our Service to Him (Humanity), we will then feel the progress and purpose of our life! One in which is service! Through our work, through our Faith, through our art, through whatever. I was again overwhelmed by the power of not only service but putting that together with the power of unity and the oneness of all things. I felt so excited, so happy, so scared, so overwhelmed, so amazed at the connected power of service that it made me think, how much more i can strive to bring myself into accoradance with this path of service.

As a Bahai, apart of the Bahai Faith, hearing stories and thinking of friends around the world that are striving to make it their dominating passion to assist Humanity on a spiritual plain to bring the oneness of the planet inline with God´s Greater Plan for this Ever Advancing Civilisation. I was struck and overjoyed at the potential the world holds and for that exact reason i felt the need more than ever not only to write this blog to express my thought on the connected power of service but also to share with you that life is so much more than what we can imagine, if only there was a spiritual foundation to all things would we then see the true potential. This is why, I feel it my duty to express myself and forever connect myself with the world and its people, to bring the message of God for this day to the people. You, me, millions are waiting for this Golden Age of Humanity but without action and deeds people will be still be lost for millions of years yet.

I urge you, to investigate the Bahai Faith and reassess what your life is really all about, what do you really believe in, who do you think you are, where do you want the world to go? I assure you, that if you do not only take a thourough search of yourself, your thoughts, your beliefs, a general investigation in what it means to LIVE, you will also without a doubt along with your investigation of the Faith be struck by this connected power of service and will forever want to be a Gardener of God, forever in service, to keeping it clean and happy, to allow the plants of life to bloom into full blossom, so that the real beauty may behold itself and unlocking the ectasy like fragrances of being able to serve humanity and bring it inline with this never ending process of progression.

As a Bahai it is my Duty to make it my Dominating Passion to bring the Message of Baha'u'llah, and in essence the message of God to the world, my world. I see this connected Power of Service as the strongest connection in allowing the world of God to meet the world of Humanity. To advance the world is not an option but a DUTY. To make the world a heavenly place, a place of peace, a place of unity, a place of joy! Join in, become a gardener, be overwhelmed and overjoyed at the potential of the world through the CONNECTED POWER OF SERVICE!

People come, People go

2008-07-25T16:46:00.002+02:00

The world is a big fusion of connections. You know me, she knows you, i know her, she knows him and you know him and the world keeps coming, just like that. The beauty of seeing the world, living the world and going around the world you really get to expierence this and really come to the realisation the world is truely One on all fundemental levels. The thing is that people come and people go in our lives, they pass in and out, they assist us, they teach us, they shape us and potentially we have also done the same in some way for them.

You know one day i just was watching the sky having one of those pharan days, observing the world, the birds the blue sky, the clouds, the whole moment! I was just struck by this moment and suddenly it came to me that life is exactly like this single moment.

We are all connected in the planet just as the birds in the sky flying in and out of each others life, one moment here, one moment there. We also do the same, sometimes we fly here and fly there make new friends, see new places, sometimes we pause and spend a moment, a year, a century in one place and not realise that this big connection is still happening continually from one person to another. This is why in life it is so important i believe to continually be striving to connect yourself to the world because even if you dont realise it you´re flying because you are apart of this big sky of life.

A Life of connections. Go on EMBRACE THE WORLD!

Hope is Eternal

2008-07-25T16:29:00.003+02:00

Hope is Eternal!

It is something in which we must always be doing because, to hope in life is to give yourself not only a tomorrow but a goal, something to want to be able to do with your life, one in which you are able to advance yourself. Without hope then people would be affraid of even doing, and then without even doing, then nothing would be achieved. Therefore hope is needed to keep you together, to make you have a wish, a desire, a hope to go forward. Hope is Eternal because it is connected to that Higher Power, that All knowing, that All Wise being that was the Creator of all. Therefore to Hope is to see a tomorrow and without that hope then tomorrow will never come. Be in Hope!

Follow the Captain

2008-07-25T15:58:00.002+02:00

Their are days in life, in which we are really lost about everything, from our maths exam to our purpose on this mortal plain. We all become lost in such troubles and get lost in daily activities and our own selfish problems that at some stages we can really destroy ourselves both emotionally and physically. The way in which we are able to over come these times of tests are through allowing ourselves to become submissive sailpersons on the Ship of Life and allow the Captain (God) to take control of what and where we are suppose to go and what we are suppose to be doing.

This is a Captain that will forever be able to confirm, guide and protect us in every situation from the most simple to the most unbelievable. Throughout Life waves of troubles pass through the journey, big storms come and go. We are sometimes lost about what to do in certain situations but in my view once we allow absolute trust in the Captain, if it is the Will of the Captain for us to get through this certain test or not, it is our duty to TRUST! The purpose of even striving to bring ourselves into a stance of Trust with the Captain, we will not only see major developments in our own life, our views on life but the whole advancement of Humanity.

Go on, LOVE LIFE but just remember the first key to the millions of doors of limitless joys lie behind this first one which is TRUST in the Captain. The one that will Guide you, Protect you, Confirm you in all that you do, if only you realise the importance of this trust, will then the Blessing and confirmations of Life dawn upon you in the most resounding ways in which inturn will allow you to grow a greater LOVE of LIFE!

Unity of LIFE!

2008-07-25T15:40:00.003+02:00

The unity of life and living and the insperable connection of ourselves with the world! The World is a creation of the All-Knowing, the All-Wise Creator in which we are here to enjoy all that was created for us to enjoy, for us to Love.

In the world, people are always wondering why they were here, what is their purpose in life, who should they be, what are they doing, is their order the right order or is it the mode? People are always in a mode of transformation.

The topic of this Blog the unity of Life, is something in which i feel deeply about, having seen, expirenced and continually striving to live a life that is one. One on a all facets of life! To bring myself to account each day through prayer and meditation, to move yourself into action and volition and then finally a reassessment of what was and what is to come, a point of striving to make tomorrow better than today. Just remember that everything in which you do, every action you take, every person you speak to, everything is connected. This is the unity of LIFE!

Go on, dont be affraid, embrace the world, connect to the world, we are one, now, tomorrow and forever. It is what you think and do, not what others think of you. So go on and Live LIFE, Love LIFE, enjoy LIFE. Forever Excel in bringing yourself into this circle of LIFE!

This is the unity of LIFE!

The Will, Love and Confirmation

2008-05-30T11:36:00.003+02:00

Today is another amazing day, just as many that i have been having of late! Life is Beautiful!

The whole understanding of relaying on God and allowing for His Will, Love and Confirmation to be showered upon each and everyone of us, came to light!

There are some days people think to themselves why is this happening to me, why am i doing this, i should be doing something else, always questioning that All-Knowing, All-Wise Being! People always thing that the worst is happening to them, when in actual fact they have had their eyes closed to all those potential amazing things, oppurtunities and expiereces that are waiting for them. Always thinging I am worth more than this but in actual fact when you allow yourself to become humble and emmersed in Gods Love will you then come to the understanding that his Will is your will and that with time through your trust will he then shower upon you these Divine Confirmations whether they be small, big, tiny, Overwhelming or Empowering!

We are nothing but Servants of that Almighty Being in which we have been given this life to strive to know, understand and Worship God, for he is the the Creator of all things in which we can not even comprehend for it is in the realms of the Infinite!

This whole idea is one in which we are all always striving to come to terms with, even when we go through test and difficulties in ones life, this trust in the Will is a portal to the next day in which you can learn, expand and further your personal life both spiritually and materially through that Love and Confirmation!

Love you all! Love the World! Love LIFE!

Praise and Gratitude

2008-04-13T03:22:00.004+02:00

This is such an important part of LIFE!

To be able to be thankful for what you have, right here and now, to be grateful that you do have what God has given you. Not to say you should sit back and be pitiful if you have nothing and start begging for the heck of trying to make it! God has instilled Gems inside of all of us! Seek out your Gems be grateful for what you have, where you are, where you are heading in life! This is the fastest way to happiness! Praise be to God for all that he has given me and you, to the World!

Gratitute towards God is never enough but just strive with your utmost to thank God for what you have here and now, for what tomorrow might bring! Thank God that you are alive, that you are able bodied, Thank God for the Bounty of Living! Thank GOD!

Children and Babies

2008-04-13T03:13:00.002+02:00

I love children and babies so much! Through my observation of the world, i have noticed how much joy they bring to the whole world, how happy they make people. Children are such full of life, such joy! They are amazing to be around! Such a vibe for LIFE is wafted over you, that you feel like being a kid once again, talking baby talk, smiling aimlessly at the beauty in LIFE, with no care in the world just as they do!

In other words, if you are not a baby or children person today, become one tomorrow, because to be around children and babies brings a euphoria undescriable, such joy, such a feeling of freedom! Remember that also the education of these babies and children is paramount as they will grow up to be the amazing people of the future! Shower them with love so that, they will bring about the amazing truths of God, to pass!

WOMEN

2008-04-13T02:52:00.003+02:00

WOW! Really, i just have to say it once more! WOMEN! POWERFUL ENTITIES God has given the world!

Women are the greatest untapped developed natural resourse we have today!

Really i love women, such amazing beings, not only are they beautiful in my eyes now, they are gems, every women i meet, i seek to learn something new from her. I think of the great women in the world in the past, present and the will be ones of the future! Women are Grand!

Women for me are something unique, special, something that as mother always told me have something different about them. The love they show for their children, their parter, their work, the Passion in all they do! Is truly something amazing! Women are the key to the FUTURE along with a few other key ideas along the way, but through them, their help, ideas, creativitity, love for the world will be become a successful Human Race.

The equality between Men and Women will be a key point in civilisations history it will be something to be written about in the annals for eternity to come! Once this equality is established will men fully realise the importance respecting women on another level that what we already do today. Women amaze me more and more everytime i am with them! They are really a great accect to men!

Not only do we get to make love to them, make babies with them, we will be able to learn from you, grow with them. They will not only become the educators of children but on a much larger scale Humanity!

Women are amazing! Be grateful at every oppurtunity you have to meet a new one!

Roundness

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Roundness!

Look around you, ROUNDNESS SOOOROUNNNDs YOU! Meaning that it is also in a circlular motion! Think about it, what is not really round! Round is what the World is, our head is, our ass is, our other parts are, our eyes are, our hands and toes are rounded, our hair when looked through with a microscope is a circular strand, not flat!

Another interesting point to make which sport is played with a square or rectangle ball. You wouldnt even be able to call it a ball, because dictionary.com told me that a ball is a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape. I cant think of one, but if you can, it would be interesting to know. The thing is that balls are moveable, maliable, they have room to make different things happen, the bounce, the roll, the practically do what you want them to do. Thinking about the sport thing again, nearly all sports, are played in a box, or somesort of distored pentagon or quadragon, if not an actual square or rectangle. Why is this? This is because, anything but a circle, a sphere, anything other than round is restrive to progress! Just an interesting point idea!

Remember like the nature thing, we are Round and therefore we will be Round forever!

Some thoughts to leave you with.

The head is round to let thoughts change direction.
Circular movement is perfectly immutable, without beginning or end. Which is why nothing can better symbolise that time itself is an invariable succession of movement.
I love everything round. I love curves, wave motions. The world is round, the world is a brest.

Be Round today! Not a square! Just like the freedom add kept telling us all, live outside the square you live in! FREEDOM!

Power of the Mind

2008-04-13T02:26:00.002+02:00

This is a mix of thoughts and ideas, put into a little summary.

Well the power of the mind, is an esential part of LIFE! The way we use it, the way interpret things, the way we live our life is something unique that God has given us the boutiful Human being a brain to function, to think over our thoughts and to use the Power of the Mind!

To use the Power of your mind all comes down to you, you are the sole controller of your mind! You must learn how to navigate it, how to make it process information, how to diliniate information, how to make descions. It all comes to the Power of your Mind. It is not easy to do, but throught, meditation and therefore through prayer, this is one means of strengthing ones mind to a state in which one can make CRUNCH descisions and feel GREAT or at least satified at doing the right thing. Dont be affraid, whatever way you train your mind is fine, just remember the importance of being able to fully use the capacity of your Mind! Being able to make your mind realise that Happiness is in a Higher State of Being, that being able to make hard descision lyes in how Powerful your Mind is and how you have trained it.

Instead of going around in circles in Lifes catch 22, something wont occur or will occur due to the past or the future. Use the Present, use your Mind, use what you have right now at your disposal.

This unknown quote is quote interesting, "Breaking up viscious circles and finding a way out is entirely up to our own thinking and acting"! Think it, then do it, it will surely come to pass and even not, be pround because even to get to optimal Mind power capacity one must fail to become stronger!

The Power of the Mind is in your hands!

Nature!

2008-04-13T02:18:00.003+02:00

Nature, it is apart of us, we are nature, atoms are who we are, where we live, what we have done, what we do, what we will do, what will happen, where we will live, we live in Nature, we are Nature.

Nature is such an important element in all our lives, it is something that will never escape anyone! Wether you want to deny it, shut it away, it will come back to you in some way. You are from nature, therefore you forever will be apart of it.

Go and enjoy the nature, in the world, not just the trees, the grass, the sun, the rain, the whatever! Nature is the world and we are apart of that nature. Your surroundings that is nature! Nature is something so beautiful that it is energizing, it is powering, it is relaxing, it is just nature, it is just there always an forever until eternity. NATURE! Love it!

The Beauty in ALL!

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The amazing beauty in everything and anything!

We must all come to the realisation that everything is so Beautiful! Within each an everyone of us, within each and everything there is beauty. Life is Beautful as we all know! Why do people however, put barriers, between themselves and the beauty. They must embrace it! They must, be involved in it! They must make the beauty of this world, become manifest in a small way through themselves, their thoughts being manifest into actions.

Look around you, look at your street, look at the people, look at the world, look at the shelf in the supermarket, look at the person at the cash register in the eyes, look at the round world, look at yourself in the mirror, look at the table, look at the jar of Nutella, look at the grey clouds, look at the SUN, look at nature, look at animals, look at everything and anything, embrace the beauty in the world, let the eye of imperfection pass you, into something that can see everything!

Then, close your eyes, listen to the street, the TV, the radio, the people, listen to the soul of the world, go to the park, feel a bit of nature in the middle of craziness, listen to the birds, listen to water, listen to the rain, listen to the crazy sounds of the city. Just listen!

Then taste, whenever you put something into your mouth, think of the beautiful taste that thing possesses. Enjoy every minute of it, let it become apart of you, taste everything, dont be affraid to try new things, because, they also have a beauty in which you still havent discovered.

Then smell, really, consciously think about, the different smells that pass us on a day to day basis, the bin man, the underground, the great food after someone has cooked something, the street, the grass, whatever you smell, just smell and seek out the beauty!

Then touch everything, feel the world, embarce it! Dont be affraid, just close your eyes if you are and feel away, it might be a sensation that you have never felt or wanted to feel again, just remember that it is beautiful!

Now, hoping that one time within the next few days or weeks you will be able to strive to go and seek out the beauty in the world, consiously but forever remember that the world is filled and created with Beauty. Just remember EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL! What you might think is über beautiful might not be for the person next to you and vice versa, just bare this in mind the beauty factor, EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL!

LIGHTin UP!

2008-03-27T20:30:00.002+01:00

You know, it's like that with you and all these people! You just "LIGHT UP!"

The other day, I was doing my best to Spread the Word of God! I was fortunate enough to talk to someone that had already been touched by the power of love, energy and devotion.

Thinking back on this encounter I had, it was a confirmation in my head, that what I was doing the right thing, that my life has so much more of a profound purpose. I realised even more how much i love the Baha'i Faith and all that it stands for, How happy it makes me and how much i want to spread this happiness to the rest of the world! I still have so many more people to meet, see, love, be touched by?

It made me really, want to do more and more! Teach the world more and more about the how beautiful life is? How with the God in your Heart it can make things happen!

Any way, so i was talking to this young lady about my Faith! She seemed interested so I just kept going with it. Then suddenly she stopped me and said " You, your Friend, you JUST LIGHT UP, when you are talking about your Faith...I don't know what it is...but it is something else.."

I had never realised that me or my friend or for that matter anyone of us in this world had such a potential to influence or touch anothers life. This is when i, myself, got moved at the thought of thinking, that through my words and actions i had the potential to help the world and in the process improve myself. I was touched that night into a state of Humility and Gratitude!

Just something small i wanted to share with you all!

I have been so blessed to have met the people i have met in my lifetime and am excited at the prospect of tomorrow and the next day and the next and so on and so on, until my very last breath, I want to share the message of Baha with you all, with the world. It makes me happy and I feel it will also make you happy! I wish you a happy life!

Houses

2008-03-22T00:19:00.003+01:00

So houses what are they, what do they mean to you? To me, my house is my surroundings, the world and it´s people! Narrowing it down slightly to those buildings with roofs, doors, windows, kitchens and toilets! All the usual things........

One of the dictionary meaning was: a building in which people live; residence for human beings. This is exactly it but a House is also something else for me. It is a place in which i can, feel comfortable! My home is in everyone´s house, wherever i am in the world! I hope one day I will make it to your home, if i already haven´t so that i can see where else i live in the world, what other beautiful places surround me and my millions of home around the world!

Some of you would be like, dude he is crazy, but yeh, this the strange but cool feeling i get whenever i enter a new house, that is filled with love, joy, music, laughter! Whatever it be, that house surrounds me with what it can offer me. I take it with open arms and am grateful for all that I have been able to experience and see in Life!

I have been so fortunate to have been raised in a Bahaí household and through my own initiative and investigation could not deny the Truth of this Faith! Any way so again through my travels, I have noticed how each Bahaí house has a strange connectivity to it! A feeling of being home, every time i step into a new Bahaí house. The same sounds, the same images, the same symbols, the same books! I feel totally at home whenever i enter another house that is filled with all these things, because it is exactly the way i left my own home back in Australia!

I wanted to share this with you! I wanted to share the Bahaí Faith with you, so that you can also feel these feelings! That is why, i will try my best to make it to all of your house´s before i die, if i already haven´t so that i can grasp what i can from your house, learn what i can from it and share what i can with it and the people dwelling in it!

Love you all! See you at home sometime!

People/? (Surroundings)

2008-03-21T23:57:00.002+01:00

So going on in a slightly different tangent! People, are amazing! Hope the previous post made you, feel whatever Unique feeling you had about it!

People and the surroundings that are around us are also a very important part of daily living! Life in general!

The People that are around us, the society we live in, the music we listen to, the TV we watch, the films we enjoy, the nature that is around us are all continually surrounding us both internally and externally!

On different days and moods we feel the need to surround ourselves with different things! Just remember that who, what, when and where you surround yourself will have an impact on you right that minute or 10 minutes from then, or it might make an impact 10 years from now! Surroundings are so mysterious! Mystery is in everything! Life is a Big Mystery! We are Surrounded!

Surroundings a very important and just remember to always surround yourself by those things, people, places and times that make you happy! Happiness isn´t here or there! It is right NOW! It is surrounding you! Look around! Be happy, if you´re not! Pack up and leave, move on! If the your surroundings are not ones that are conducive to your health MOVE! Just remember that moving isn´t always easy on you or those things, place or people that surrounded you for so long, but remember to be happy sometimes might mean you need to make that move for yourself to in turn make yourself happy, progress yourself, help the world progress in the idea of connectivity we all have to one another and the duty we all have to Shape the World we live in!

Surroundings are everywhere and everything around us!

Not sure if this post made much sense to anyone, it is again another one of those in the outer realms of the Pharan-o-sphere.

PEACE

People/?

2008-03-21T23:00:00.007+01:00

The past few days, I have been think about people and our interaction with one another. I really don't know how to properly express what I am feeling inside of me (Pharan-o-sphere almost entered the Black hole!). It is something strange how we are all connected and have this special bond even though we may have never met each other or potentially never will meet everyone in the whole world or ever pass everyone in the whole world. We are all which ever way you want to think about it CONNECTED! I do something, that affects you, you do something that affects another and this connection in the world has been continuing from that very minute, that very instance the letters B and E came to together and formed the world through the Power and Might of this one Word ¨BE¨!

I just watched LA CRASH for my second time. Any way what a fantastic film! Please do watch this film if you already haven´t.The first time I had watched it was back in 2005, i think.

Any way i remember i really liked this film, for what i don´t really remember other than it covered the issue of racial prejudice. An issue that i feel is something that is without a doubt along with the understanding and realisation that all forms of prejudice are something that are of total and absolute lowliness to Humanity. People seem to sometimes forget that we are all from one place, the Earth and that we are people! We must all remember that ¨The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens¨! Why do we hold differences against us or them or him or her or black or white or happy or sad or whatever you want it to be. WHY DIFFERENCES ?

Sure, sure I can come up with a million ¨difference¨ myself don´t worry about that, not to say that i am perfect or you are or anyone is perfect! We are all Human, we just need to try and get more and more people to grasp this idea and understanding that we are all the same as much as we are different! That we are all from the same Earth, we are all from the same stock! These potential in the world can only be truly understood through the absolute Unity of World and it´s people!

I just think that we must all realise that these so called ¨differences¨are really the uniqueness in all of us. That we are all Unique, amazing people that are connected to one another either directly or indirectly.

People are so interesting! Through my few experiences of traveling, I have always loved observing the way people think and do things in each different part of the world! The different sets of Human nature different parts of the world possess! I love saying Hello to everyone and anyone I can! I love the idea that we are all connected so to everyone that i pass, i usually most of the time feel the need to stay hello to them, even if it might only ever pass them once in my life or i might only know a few words in their language; I try and immerse or just smile at them! I feel the constant need to meet more people, make new friends! To make people happy, to be happy!

I want to connect to each person i meet or ever pass, even if it is for a split second, a smile, a hello, a how are you, or comment or whatever you feel the need to do or not do to connect yourself to the Soul of the World! The Human Race!

We live in a Beautiful World!

Life is Beautiful!

Enjoy the Moment!

Love Life!

Be AMAZED at what is right in front of you! This WOLRD and the People within it!

I love the World, I love the people of the World, because we are all connected! I feel it! I hope you soon do if you already haven´t!

"Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own selves...Do not busy yourselves in your own concerns; let your thoughts be fixed upon that which will rehabilitate the fortunes of mankind and sanctify the hearts and souls of men." (Bahaí Writings)

The TREE

2008-03-16T06:35:00.002+01:00

The Tree, what is it all about it! Well, just recently, I had this metaphoric tree popping in and out of my head! I knew about this Tree and had heard about it a long time ago several times when i was younger by my grandpa but I never really understood what it ment or what he was trying to instill in me. Even though it kept popping in and out of my thoughts, I was unsure of the ending, I wanted to talk to my grandpa about this tree again, I knew he would know the answer and tell me this wonderful metaphor. Last night my Grandpa called and I was like YES!!! I will find the answer. You know the feeling when you have those dreams that you can never find the ending to until maybe a week, a month, a year, a life time later! I realise what this tree was now and will never forget it again! On the contrary i want to share the beauty of this tree with you all!, through this short story I made up as I went along.

So for me the tree was a mango tree.......so if you can imagine a Mango Tree, please do so if not any Fruit Tree will be sufficient for your fruit this story.

So one day this little boy was walking home from school in the hot mid-summer sun when suddenly he walks past his favourite fruit tree a Mango Tree! He was so excited because he always loved to have a refreshing mango after school, to get some juices from the earth to keep him going for some homework or some playing around on his bike or with his friends before dinner time. This year though he had been noticing that, the Tree had hardly any fruit from it and that by mid summer it had normally dropped most of the mango for the peoples pleasure. He wondered the rest of the way home thinking what was wrong with the tree, maybe it hadn't had enough water, maybe it wasn't happy, maybe it was sick, maybe it was just dieing, maybe it didn't want to drop the fruit anymore........

The next day, he walked passed, not one fruit. The next day the same thing, the next week still no fruit. In one month the summer would be over and the mango tree at the end of the street would not have dropped one mango all summer! At this point the little boy, goes to his grandpa and tells him about what had been occurring with the Mango Tree and he was wondering if maybe his grandpa would know what was wrong with it!

So his Grandpa, thinks for a while.....Tells him to come and sit on his Lap and he will explain what is wrong with the tree. "So, this tree of yours hasn't dropped any fruit this year?", I said "Yeh, no fruit all summer, i think it's sick or its just dieing"

He looked into my eyes and said " Yes you could say that the tree is dieing when it starts to behave like that, just make sure that you never become like that tree".

"What? I would never become a tree!"

He starts to laugh and replied " No not like the tree with leaves and fruit, just make sure you always drop your fruit"

"Drop my fruit, what does that mean?, I never had fruit, never will"

"Of course you have fruit, we all have fruit, just make sure that whenever your grow up you continually, drop your fruit for others to enjoy. You are the like the beautiful tree, that has the these fruits for others to enjoy, the green leaves to shade and protect them from the hot summer sun, to drop your fruit is a bounty that has a blessing we never understand straight away. Just promise me you will always drop your fruit, whenever you get some, oh make sure they are rip before you drop them though...Promise?"

"aahh, ok, Grandpa i promise but i don't get it....but because you said i have to drop my fruit, i promise, i will drop my fruit when i get any." With a slight smile and a giggle the conversation ends. I go back outside, walk to that mango tree, look at it and think, you are naughty, I am going to drop my fruit when i get some, because grandpa said thats the right thing to do and your just not doing the right thing.

The END

So after reading my little short story, I was wondering if you got the metaphor behind it.....I am not sure if it was that clear or if i should tell you now or let you realise it for yourself? I think, i am going to make you contemplate about your tree for a while, if you really get stuck FB me or email and if you like i will tell you the hidden meaning behind it.

One HINT though, Humility has a big part to play!

Barriers

2008-03-12T09:49:00.004+01:00

Barriers, why do we put them up between ourselves and others? Why are people so hung up on the way others perceive or feel about them. Going on from my last post, it is like we must all realize that our relationship with everyone is different in this world. We are not perfect and we do not get along with everyone. It is up to us to accept this, break down those barriers and enjoy what we do have with others.

We must stop putting barriers between ourselves and others, there is no problem, this is just the way our relationship is with that other person. There is no problem, people in the world have different relationships with different people. One example is that someones mother, son relationship is different to someone else's mother son relationships, we have to accept that and the sooner that we do accept this the better we will feel in ourselves and the easier that relationship will become. We must not distract ourselves by putting up barriers or feeling that this is wrong, it should be a certain way or that it should be better. This is not to say that we shouldn't strive to improve, get to know that person better or what not. Still love them, learn from them but accept that some relationships that you will have in your life will be different to others.

Just accept that this is the way it is, and in a strange way you will start to realise how things between the two in that relationship will naturally fall into place. So relax, live life, be greatful for what is right in front of you, not what was yesterday or what you think is tomorrow. Just enjoy this moment, this second. Like someone always told me. IN ROOZ-HA BAR-NEME GARDE! (Persian for "These days will never return")

Any way i know this blog might be making you hurt, angry, sad, happy all at once, making you think and realise certain situations/relationships in a certain way that you have never before thought about.

Just remember Live today, not what was yesterday, what you think will be tomorrow, be thankful for what is right in front of you!

privilged

2008-03-11T08:39:00.005+01:00

Yesterday, I was walking to the train station and then suddenly I came across a young man in a wheel chair. I had observed that he was staring at me but I didn't stare back at him because I guess that wouldn't have been nice. So i just kept walking did my thing and as i passed him i said good morning, with his pleasant reply of good morning back at me.

As I had passed him for i guess a few hundred, something in my head told me to turn around and then at that moment when i had turned around i had realized, how privileged we are to have what we have and are today. I realized that this young man in the wheel chair was watching me walk. Stride for stride, i am sure of it, he was watching me walk. I almost broke into tears, but yeh i have some problems, i don't really cry anymore, so it was hard to get these tears out, but regardless i had felt something, i had been touched by this guy in the wheel chair. He had made me realize how much we have right in front of us and we still want or seek more and take what we have for granted. I suddenly realized how privileged I had been my whole life. I was an able bodied person that was able to taste, listen, see, feel and smell and then on top of this i was again so privileged my whole schooling life, to have the most wonderful teachers, parents that loved me despite all that i had and have and will put them threw, family that doesn't give up on me, friends that love me like their own brother and sisters and a society that is World embracing!

I felt privileged!

Just think to your self today, WOW, I am so privileged, (note i am not using the word luck), we are all so privileged to have what we have right now, right this minute, right in front of us, your power to read, understand and think about this blog, my ability to have thought about it and write this blog.

I am, we all are privileged to have what is ours, the things that we take for granted each day are really a Blessing in disguise to a Higher Understanding.

Peace...........

Release

2008-03-06T20:42:00.005+01:00

Release, what does it mean to you? What does it mean in the dictionary? What does it mean to the person next to you? Release?

Release, Release, Release................Think about it........What does it mean to release?

I looked up the meaning at www.dictionary.com and found the best meanings that fitted the purposes and context of this blog for the word Release. The few that i felt were relevant are:

to free from anything that restrains, fastens, etc.
to allow to be known, issued, done, or exhibited
a freeing or releasing from confinement, obligation, pain, emotional strain, etc.

Release is something that is so important, in the progression of self in this mortal world we live in. We must all come to terms in being able to release our inner self! This is one way in which we will assist ourselves in reaching our true potential, being able to find those Hidden Gems within us.

Today when i was walking home, I was listening to one of my favourite songs right now and it was discussing this exact idea behind the release of self. The name of the song is Big Sky-John O'Callaghan Ft Audrey Gallagher.

It touched me and made me realize that this life is just like the Big Sky, it is boundless, endless, eternal, everlasting etc. Sure physically we will all pass onto the Worlds beyond us, but for now the way in which we can strive for this happiness and a life filled with limitless opportunities is just as the big sky. I am not sure if that makes sense to the reader but this comes back to the part where i was explaining somethings i might be saying are in the Pharan-o-sphere and at times are out of reach for others. We all have our own sphere, that belong to us and can not be entered or altered by anyone but God. People are able to get close but they will never enter your reality. Be aware that you are the big sky, able to shape you, your actions, your day, your year, your life, your journey!

Some of the thought evoking lyrics of interest are listed below:

Breath in this moment, its come and gone, further and faster, through your soul, open your eyes and raise your arms........................

Release yourself, its a big sky, reveal yourself, its a big sky, we love, we leave, we take, we give, release yourself, its a big sky......................

It's a Big Sky

Further and faster, through your soul, open your eyes, open your mind, release yourself, its a big sky, reveal yourself, its a big sky, we love , we leave, we take , we give, release yourself, its a big sky.........

I feel that it is important for you to read and interpret these words for yourself. The power of them and understanding lies in your own mind.

Then i went onto read about what the Baha'i Writings have to say about release of self.

Abdul-Baha said that: When one is released from the prison of self, that is indeed release, for that is the greater prison. When this release takes place, then one cannot be outwardly imprisoned. When they put my feet in stocks, I would say to the guard, 'You cannot imprison me, for here I have light and air and bread and water. There will come a time when my body will be in the ground, and I shall have neither light nor air nor food nor water, but even then I shall not be imprisoned.' The afflictions which come to humanity sometimes tend to centre the consciousness upon the limitations, and this is a veritable prison. Release comes by making of the will a Door through which the confirmations of the Spirit come."

"The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence."

This Beautiful example from Abdul-Baha, makes me really thing about those confirmations of the Spirit in which arrive to us through acceptance of ones life with radiant acquiescence. We must all strive with all our hearts to Praise and show are utmost Gratitude to God or whatever you believe is Out There for having been given you this life you possess and having the capacity to do what you need to do in your life!

Release......is something that is unique to all of us, we all experience it in our own beautiful way. I am also not sure, if anyone will fully reach this Release, but i think the most important thing is that we are aware of it, the power it possesses, the Blessings it will bring on this ride to eternal happiness. Remember everlasting happiness doesn't mean always being on top of the world but rather, going through trials and difficulties in search, in search of this happiness, in search of these confirmations of the Spirit.

Release, maybe this week, or today it could be your focus, or even for those of us that are fasting we can make it apart of the remainder of this fast, to RELEASE ourself! Release from whatever we need to release from, to try and start grasping the idea of releasing, revealing, relieving ourself!

RELEASE.........RELEASe.......RELEAse.............RELEase........RELease........RElease........Release....

release........................................................................................

words

2008-03-06T11:08:00.004+01:00

Just these past few days, I have become amazed at the power of words, emotions, feelings and the interconnectivity of all of them in this reality we call the WORLD!

Sometimes i wonder, why do words always have such a powerful meaning? I was always suspicious and curious of the way people would act or respond when you would say something to them. My mum always told me it was the tone of voice in which you say something that brings forth it's true meaning. Whatever emotions they were going to be evoking in the person you were talking to or writing to it would undoubtedly have a reaction.

I was reading an email from a friend this morning and was almost overwhelmed to tears with all the kind words that she had showered upon me. I just couldn't believe what I was reading not because the things that she was describing were things that people knew i possessed as long as myself and either loved me or hated me for them. I think I just became overwhelmed with the idea that our actions and words have a greater meaning that we do not always full understand in the moment.

However then a greater sense of Gratitude unto God that Higher Power, Energy, Life Form, whatever you want to call it, struck me! I was so thankful, to have been Blessed to be the person I was, am and will become!

I don't really know where this blog is going, other than to say that the power of words have touched me in such a way, that people can not imagine. I am so thankful to all those that have showed love and kindness to me through both their words and actions. Baha'u'llah a Manifestation from God and the Founder of the Baha'i Faith say that:

"A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding."

That is all i have to say for now. Think about your words, the way in which you use them and the context in which you utter them. The power of Words and their meanings are beyond what we know of them, they are the " Bread of the Spirit"! Each and everyone of us must discover our unique way of the use of Words, just the same as we all have to discover our own capacities and Gems in LIFE!

Dreams and Reality

2008-03-04T23:16:00.002+01:00

This afternoon, I had the bounty of seeing one of my dreams come true. I was amazed, I was as if no one else could make me happier! IT SNOWED~!

I was like, yeah the weather isn't looking good, and the suddenly the rain and then the sleety messy looking snow stuff and then suddenly the beautiful and grace of SNOW!!!! falling from the sky like their was no tomorrow.

I am not sure if you all remember, what it felt like to do something or experience something for the first time! However, I am telling you, that seeing that snow illuminate in front of me was one of the most amazing feelings i have had in such a long time! It was as if i was looking through a mirror/portal into a different reality, reflecting something that was out of this world! It felt like the ground was moving or the sky was falling! I was unsure what was really happening, until i snapped out of my trance as the bus arrived realizing it was snowing in this physical reality, i am living, right this minute.

When was the last time, you did or experienced something for the first? I certainly can't remember when it was, until this afternoon happened! Sometimes the most simplest of things fulfill us. It is such a sur-real feeling when dreams suddenly become reality out of no where, when you were least expecting it, it all just comes into view!

aahhhhhhhh......I was so fortunate to have experienced something new once again, a different feeling and joy that can not be fully expressed or explained in words!

Don't be afraid to do things! Do what your heart tells you to do, and realize that every minute you are living is a blessing. Do things like yesterday never happened, tomorrow is never coming but today is HAPPENING! LIVE IT, Enjoy IT, LOVE IT!

Life is Beautiful!

BLOGin

2008-03-04T10:53:00.000+01:00

Well, well, well. I finally fell in love with the idea of BLOGin, thanks to one of my great friend Shidan and his BLOG. Check it out at http://www.shidon.blogspot.com/.

This is going to be an exciting adventure, I will be taking you all on a roller coaster ride through my BLOGs. You will be entering the Pharan-o-sphere and the craziness that goes on in my head and the feelings that my heart is in need of expressing, sharing, telling, teaching and all that goes on in between us and the Worlds beyond! I will be using the power of words to express these feelings as best I can to allow you a small portal into the Pharan-o-sphere and what it is all about and what it potentially can do to bring about a greater love and understanding for LIFE! I love LIFE!

Life is Beautiful, enjoy the moment!