MA’RIFATULLAH - MENGENAL ALLAH LEWAT AKAL

Suatu hari Anda membuka mata Anda dan menemukan diri Anda sendiri di tengah-tengah beragam kenikmatan yang berlimpah… Renungkanlah tentang segala sesuatu yang Allah karuniakan kepada Anda. Di setiap bagian terkecil dari alam semesta ini, di situlah Allah menyadarkan kita akan keberadaan-Nya. Film ini mengajak Anda memikirkan secara mendalam tentang jagat raya dan makhluk hidup, dan memahami bagaimana semua hal tersebut telah diciptakan secara sempurna, tanpa cela. Dengan memperlihatkan beberapa dari tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah yang tak terhitung jumlahnya di alam, film ini bertujuan mengarahkan Anda berpikir tentang kekuasaan dan pengetahuan Allah atas segala sesuatu.

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Submit before the will of Allah

If you are destined for good fortune you will be blessed; if afflictions have been ordained, no matter where you hide they will seek you out. Submit therefore before the will of God; be grateful in well-being and endure adversity with fortitude that His light may radiate within your being.

- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani , Futhul Ghaib

Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not -
Surat Al-Baqarah 216

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Thankfullness

Allah Swt says in the Holy Quran :

If you are thankful, I will surely give you more; but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is terrible indeed. (14:7)

This is reinforced by the traditional report, transmitted on the authority of 'Ata' (may Allah be well pleased with him), who said: "I entered the presence of 'A'isha (may Allah be well pleased with her), and said: 'Tell us about the most amazing experience you ever had in the company of Allah's Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace).'

She wept at first, but then she said: 'Was there anything at all about him that was not a marvelous wonder? He came to me one night, and snuggled up beside me in my bed until his skin was touching my skin. But then he said: 'O daughter of Abu Bakr, let me go, so that I may devote myself to the worship of my Lord.'

"She said: ' So I told him: "I love your nearness, but I prefer to respect your dearest wish." I therefore allowed him to take his leave of me. So he got up, found a skin container full of water, and performed his ritual ablution. Then he stood up, and started to perform the night prayer. He wept as he did so, until his tears were streaming down onto his chest. Then he performed ruku', and shed more tears. Then he performed sujud, and again he wept. Then he raised his head, and wept still more. He went on like this until Bilal (may Allah be well pleased with him) arrived on the scene, and so he told him about the fajr prayer.

"'I then said: "O Messenger of Allah, what causes you to weep, when Allah has forgiven you your earlier and later sins?" To this he replied:

"Should I not be a thankful servant? Why should I not do it, since Allah has sent down to me the words of revelation:

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and the ship that runs upon the sea with that which is of use to human beings, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and the distribution of the winds, and the clouds set in orderly array between heaven and earth-surely there are signs for people who can understand. (2:164) "

Let us be more thankfull to Allah for all  nikmah and blessing He granted us since our coming to the world to these days.

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Tahajjud Rabiatul Adawaiyah

Rabiatul Adawiyah seorang sufi wanita yang sangat terkenal pernah bermimpi menerima suruhan supaya ia tetap mengerjakan solat Tahajjud meskipun ia sedang sakit.

Beliau menjelaskan bahawa ketika ia sakit itu ia tidak dapat sembahyang Tahajjud sebagaimana kebiasannya sebelumnya. Maka, untuk menggantikan amalan tersebut dia membaca al-Quran pada waktu siang kerana ia tahu bahawa membaca al-Quran sama pahalanya dengan berjaga malam dalam ibadat.

"Namun, setelah aku kembali sihat aku terus melakukan kebiasaan membaca al-Quran itu. Lalu pada suatu malam aku bermimpi berada di sebuah padang yang luas yang dipenuhi tumbuhan yang menghijau. Di tengah-tengah padang luas itu ada sebuah istana yang sa-ngat cantik. Maka aku pun pergi bersiar-siar mengelilingi taman yang indah itu. Ketika itulah aku terpandang seekor burung sedang diburu oleh seorang kanak-kanak perempuan. Aku asyik menyaksikan kecantikan anak itu dan burung yang diburunya. Aku tidak tahu mengapa ia melakukan demikian rupa.

Akhirnya aku berkata kepada anak itu: "Mengapa engkau hendak menangkap burung yang cantik itu. Sesungguhnya aku belum pernah melihat burung secantik itu. Bukankah lebih baik ia dibiarkan lepas terbang sesuka hatinya di taman ini?" Lalu anak itu berhenti mengejar burung itu. Sebaliknya ia datang ke arahku dan membawa aku pergi berkeliling di taman yang indah itu hingga kami tiba-tiba sudah berada di pintu istana yang besar itu. Anak itu mengetuk pintu istana sambil meminta dibukakan pintu, maka pintu itu terbuka dengan sendirinya. Dari dalam istana terpancar cahaya yang terang benderang. Kemudian anak itu mempersilakan aku masuk ke dalam istana. Alangkah cantiknya istana itu dari dalam, lebih cantik daripada dipandang dari luar.”

"Aku dibawa berjalan-jalan mengelilingi istana itu. Di bahagian dalamnya kami berjumpa dengan beberapa pelayan yang sangat cantik wajahnya sedang membawa bejana-bejana yang berisi wangi-wangian. Anak itu bertanya: "Hendak ke mana kamu semua, wahai para pelayan?" Mereka menjawab: "Kami hendak pergi berjumpa dengan orang yang mati syahid kerana terbunuh di lautan."

"Setelah diam sebentar anak itu bertanya lagi:

"Apakah kamu tidak mahu memberi wangian itu sedikit kepada orang yang ada bersamaku ini."

Mereka menjawab: "la sudah pernah mempunyai wangian tapi ia telah membuangnya."

Kemudian anak itu menghadap ke arah aku, lalu mengucapkan kata-kata yang indah. Setelah ia selesai mengucapkannya ia pun terus menghilang. Aku pun terbangun dari tidur.

Mimpi itu begitu mengesankan di hati beliau, kerana setiap kali ia menceritakannya ia akan menangis terisak-isak. Sejak peristiwa itu beliau tidak pernah lagi meninggalkan solat Tahajjud walaupun ketika sedang sakit sehinggalah beliau meninggal dunia.

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A story of Rabiatul Adawiyah

Below is a story of Rabiatul Adawiyah who one day sent Hasan al Basri three things—a piece of wax, a needle, and a hair.

“Be like wax,” she said. “Illumine the world, and yourself burn.

Be like a needle, always be working naked. When you have done these two things, a thousand years will be for you as a hair.”

“Do you desire for us to get married?” Hasan asked Rabiatul Adawiyah.

“The tie of marriage applies to those who have being,” she replied. “Here being has disappeared, for I have become naughted to self and exist only through Him. I belong wholly to Him. I live in the shadow of His control. You must ask my hand of Him, not of me.”

“How did you find this secret, Rabiatul Adawiyah ” Hasan asked.

“I lost all ‘found’ things in Him,” She answered.

“How do you know Him?” Hasan enquired.

“You know the ‘how’; I know the ‘howless’,” Rabiatul Adawiyah said

Note to readers - During our journey to find our trueself, once we have reach certain level-meaning of the words uttered by Rabiatul Adawiyah would become clear to us -  until then it will remain a mystery to be discovered, understood and hopefully experience.

Hassan al Basri was trying to ask Rabiatul Adawiyah about the secret. What he got is only an indirect answer from her. It is a secret that she wanted him to discover himself!

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Hakikat mati sebelum mati

Seorang saudagar telah sekian lama memelihara seekor burung di dalam sebuah sangkar di rumahnya.

Satu hari ia mengambil keputusan untuk berangkat ke India, tanah asal burung itu, lalu menanyakan burung itu kalau-kalau ia ingin meminta sebarang buah tangan dari sana. Burung itu meminta kebebasannya, tetapi ditolak oleh saudagar. Karena itu ia minta saudagar itu pergi ke hutan di India dan memberitahu tentang keadaannya yang dalam hal dirinya yang di kurung itu kepada burung-burung lain yang masih bebas.

Saudagar itu pun melaksanakan pesan tersebut, dan sebaik sahaja ia mengucapkan pesan tersebut, seekor burung yang serupa dengan burung yang dipeliharanya jatuh dari sebuah pohon, tak sadarkan diri ke tanah.
Si saudagar berpendapat bahawa tentulah ia saudara kepada burung peliharaannya, dan ia pun merasa sedih kerana telah menyebabkan kematiannya.

Ketika ia pulang, burung peliharaannya bertanya apakah tuannya ada membawa sebarang khabar gembira dari India.

“Tidak,” jawab saudagar itu, “Aku membawa khabar buruk. Salah seekor saudaramu tak sedar diri lalu jatuh dekat kakiku ketika aku khabarkan tentang keadaanmu di sini.”

Sebaik sahaja kata-kata itu diucapkan, burung peliharaan saudagar itu pun tak sedarkan diri dan jatuh di dalam sangkar.

“Khabar kematian saudaramu telah menyebabkan kematianmu juga,” fikir saudagar itu. Dengan sedih diambilnya burung itu dari sangkarnya, lalu diletakkannya di tepi jendela.

Segera saja burung itu hidup kembali lalu terbang ke pohon berdekatan.
“Kini aku ingin memberi tahu kepada engkau,” kata Si Burung, “bahawa apa yang kau kira sebagai khabar buruk itu, ternyata merupakan khabar baik bagiku yang dipesan oleh saudaraku melalui kamu. Untuk mendapat kebebasan di dunia ini maka hendaklah kamu mematikan diri kamu, nescaya dengan itu engkau akan beroleh kebebasan.”

Dan burung itupun terbang, bebas merdeka akhirnya.

Cerita ini sesuai dengan hadis Nabi Muhammad s.a.w "Muutu Qobla An-Tamutu", artinya :"Matilah kamu sebelum Kamu Mati".

Kisah di atas memberi iktibar dan petunjuk penting kepada mereka yang ingin mencari identiti dan jati diri yang sebenar. Maka sebab itu lah barang kali Jalaluddin Rumi menukilkan sebagai tinggalan kepada mereka terkemudian untuk direnung-renungkan. Dr Wayne Dyer seorang pakar motivasi barat sendiri telah menyebut kisah ini di dalam sessi ceramah beliau. Lihat di sini

Adaptasi dari sebuah cerita yang diolah oleh Jalaluddin Rumi. Sumber foto diambil disini

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No attachement - true love

When we do our duty to others, to the human race, we must do it without attachment, without selfishness, in the proper way, expecting no reward.

Act that pours forth like this is an act of true love.

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

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A broken Love

If we pursue God, worship Him, ask Him for favors, for property, money, possessions, a baby, great titles, a kingdom, or even for heaven, if we love God with interested motives, with selfish love, that love will break down. It is a broken love...
(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

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Hakikat ikhtiar..

Diambil daripada hadis dan Firman Allah Taala (Hadis Qudsi), mathumnya:

"Aku berasa hairan terhadap hamba-Ku yang sering teringat kepada hartanya. Mereka lupa bahawa Akulah yang memberikan rezeki, tidak berasa syukur berhadap nikmat-Ku, tangannya kedekut untuk bersedekah kepada fakir miskin. Dia menyangka bahawa harta yang diusahakannya itu adalah melalui ikhtiarnya sendiri. Dialah hamba-Ku yang paling bodoh yang tidak berilmu walaupun sezarah."

Bagaimanakah kita dapat melepaskan diri dari menjadi hamba Allah yang paling bodoh itu? Hanya dengan ilmu yang benar sahaja yang kita mampu memahaminya.

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Hakikat Orang Arif Billah

Di dalam sebuah buku kecil "KasyafulAsrar – Pembukaan Segala Rahsia" ada menyebutkan ta’arif orang yang dinamakan orang Arif (Arif bermaksud mengetahui).

Mengikut penulis buku tersebut As-Syeikh Mohd Salleh bin Abdullah mengkabau (Q.S) orang Arif ialah:

a. Orang yang mengenal dirinya.
b. Orang yang mengenal Tuhannya.
c. Orang yang mengenal segala sifat Tuhannya.
d. Orang yang mengenal afaal ( Perbuatan) Tuhannya.
e. Orang yang mengenal Asma' (Nama-nama) Tuhannya.
f. Orang yang mengenal zahir dan batin.
g. Orang yang mengenal baik dan jahat.
h. Sama sahaja suka dan duka.
i. Tidak berasa gembira apabila dipuji.
j. Tidak berasa sedih apabila dikeji.

Persoalan yang selalu timbul kepada saya ialah mengapakah mereka dapat mencapai darjat akhlak begitu rupa. “Sama sahaja bagi mereka suka dan duka, tidak gembira apabila dipuji dan tidak merasa sedih bila dikeji”.

Tentulah ada sesuatu “rahsia yang sangat besar dan istimewa” dalam ilmu yang mereka miliki hasil dari pengetahuan mendalam tentang diri mereka sendiri dan sifat, Afaal dan Asma' Tuhannya.

Mereka orang Arif sebenarnya telah mencapai darjat "Insan kamil" disisi Tuhan yang telah redha sepenuhnya kepada semua hal dan keadaan mereka di dunia ini. Mereka hidup tanpa rungutan dan keluh kesah. Bagi mereka setiap kejadian sama ada baik atau jahat adalah sebenarnya baik belaka.

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Knowing self

Knowing others is wisdom
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force
Mastering the self requires strength.
- Tao Te Ching

"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself,
you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not
know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and
lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you
will be imperiled in every single battle."
- Sun Tzu

"He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is one who knows
himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use." - A sufi

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Kata Hikmah

Sumber foto diambil di sini:

Kebaikan itu semuanya terhimpun dalam empat (4) perkara:

Percakapan, diam, pandangan dan gerak. Tiap-tiap percakapan yang tidak disertai dengan mengingati Allah adalah sia-sia, tiap-tiap diam yang tidak disertai dengan memikirkan kebersaran Allah adalah leka, tiap-tiap pandangan yang tidak disertai dengan pengambilan iktibar adalah lalai, dan tiap-tiap gerak yang tidak disertai dengan perhambaan adalah kosong. Semoga Allah merahmati hamba yang telah menjadikan percakapannya sebagai zikir, diamnya sebagai tafakkur, pandangannya sebagai iktibar, dan geraknya sebagai perhambaaan, dan daripada lisan serta tangannya manusia mendapat kesejahteraan - Saidina Ali Karramallahu Wajhah

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Woods for his fire

If you don’t have the Beloved why aren’t you looking for Him?
If you have the Beloved why aren’t you rejoicing?
If the Friend is truly your friend. Why not stay with Him?
If the rebec does not wail,Why not teach it how to sing?
If someone bars you from the truth, Why not fight him and his brother as well? You sit quietly and say to yourself, “Something strange is going on.”The only thing strange is that your best friend is a stranger.

You are the Sun of the world -Why is your heart so black?Why do you fall back on your drab and stagnant ways?Don’t stay melted like gold in a furnace -Become a piece of jewelry!

The treasure of Unity is found by those who look within.Why not join your spirit to the onewho sits inside your heart?

Did Majnun ever love two Laylas? Why seek more than one face and one cheek?

There is such a glorious moonhiding in the shadows of your being.Why not make it rise with the power of a midnight prayer? You have danced in the tavern for ages, Love’s wine never slips from your hand,Yet with each new sipyour soul is ravished like never before.

The wine I drink is the fire of love and God Himself pours it into my mouth! What use is your life If your bones are not used as wood for His fire? I’ll leave you with that.I could go on,I could fill pages with these elegant verses But this is a tale for the heart and soul, not the lips.
...

Rumi– Version by Jonathan StarFrom “Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved”Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997

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Life is an illusions?

Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars—namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth-putting of the hands—are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands such as we see.

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The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.

The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.
Whatever we raise or touch – cattle, goats, donkeys, horses, dogs, cats, rats, house, property, possessions, learning, titles, fame, political status, or even wisdom – whatever it is we love, if our love is directed toward something and remains fixed on that thing, it is a love which can be lost, which can die...

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

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Abraham-Hicks: Feel Good Now, It's Important!

'If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different, so that you can feel good...' :)

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The Golden Rule

"Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal."
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Religious groups, as well as non-theistic ethical systems, differ greatly in their beliefs and practices. There is, however, a common thread that runs through them all. Each of these systems of belief has some example of the Ethic of Reciprocity in their teachings. The most common version of this is known as:

The Golden Rule "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you."

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Don't Be Sad

This is a video for those who are going through a tough time or feel some sorrow and sadness. Insha Allah this video will cure your pain and relieve your sorrows; what we all go through are just tests and trials in life, from Allah to see if we are patient and have perseverance.

And remember what Allah said: " Verily after hardship comes ease."

So watch and smile! DON'T BE SAD!

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~Abraham-Hicks~ ♥Expanded Version of You♥

"Just love everybody that interacts with you no matter how personally, or how peripherally, involved with you they are. The efficiency of the people who deal with you... everything is orchestrated by the manager called Law of Attraction. And your vibration is setting all of it into motion. Everything affecting you is a reflection of the vibration that you are emitting. Spend more time focused upon your dream than upon the reality. The reality gives birth to the dream -- but the dream is where you are wanting to put your attention." --- Abraham

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Power of Thought - A Quantum Perspective

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Abraham-Hicks - Deliberate Creation Exercise

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Law of Attraction Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

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Abraham-Hicks: Allowing Your Financial Abundance

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How The Secret Works - My Mind Movie

This is another example of a mind movie that someone created to manifest the life of his dream. You can create your own mind movie by using the right tools available.

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Before Doing It, Align With It!

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Mind Movie - Law Of Attraction - $5,000.00 Winner 2008

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The World Within and the World Without

There are only two worlds. The world within and the world without.
The world within creates the world without.

The world within is mental/spiritual, the world without is material/physical.

Complete understanding of the two worlds is perfect knowledge.
The key is to understand the world within and use it to rule the world without.

The world within is the cause, the world without is the effect.
The inner governs the outer always. The outer is a reflection of the inner.
The outer conditions mirror the inner consciousness.

The world within and the world without are not two separate worlds. They are two different levels of the same world.

The world is mental. All is mind, the universe is mental. As above so below, as within so without. This is secret knowledge.

The two most important kinds of knowledge are secret knowledge and governing knowledge. One gives you awareness, the other gives you power.

Secret Knowledge is knowing how things work and understanding what’s going on. The reason why it is secret is because it is not normally known. It is so powerful that only those with insight and perception can appreciate its value. Only conscious people can see reality for what it really is.

When you have this knowledge, you can use it first to govern yourself, then use it to govern everything else. This is called using secret knowledge as governing knowledge.

Governing knowledge is knowledge that runs your psyche. It is the governing statements of your mind that determine what you do, how you do it and why you do it. It is the operating dynamics that controls
your thoughts, your emotions and your behaviors. What governs your mind, governs your reality.

By governing yourself, you can govern the world. When you can control yourself, you can control others.

You can only control what is without by controlling what is within. All control is self control.

To be in control, you must know. All knowledge is self knowledge.
You can overcome something by overcoming it within. When you overcome it within yourself, you overcome it in the world.

The article is by Enoch Tan from http://www.mindreality.com

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Ego - The False Center

This is a very good but a long article about Ego. My advice for you is to read them slowly until everything what has been written here is properly understood, you may need to repeat them a second or third time - Rbin

By Osho

The first thing to be understood is what ego is.

A child is born.
A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self.
And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards.

That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first.

Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body.

This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he becomes aware of himself.

This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born. Through appreciation, love, care, he feels he is good, he feels he is valuable, he feels he has some significance. A center is born. But this center is a reflected center. It is not his real being. He does not know who he is; he simply knows what others think about him.

And this is the ego: the reflection, what others think. If nobody thinks that he is of any use, nobody appreciates him, nobody smiles, then too an ego is born: an ill ego; sad, rejected, like a wound; feeling inferior, worthless. This too is the ego. This too is a reflection.

First the mother - and mother means the world in the beginning. Then others will join the mother, and the world goes on growing.  And the more the world grows, the more complex the ego becomes, because many others' opinions are reflected.

The ego is an accumulated phenomenon, a by-product of living with others. If a child lives totally alone, he will never come to grow an ego. But that is not going to help. He will remain like an animal. That doesn't mean that he will come to know the real self, no. The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. One has to pass through it. It is a discipline. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you.

Ego is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. The society means all that is around you - not you, but all that is around you. All, minus you, is the society. And everybody reflects. You will go to school and the teacher will reflect who you are. You will be in friendship with other children and they will reflect who you are. By and by, everybody is adding to your ego, and everybody is trying to modify it in such a way that you don't become a problem to the society. They are not concerned with you. They are concerned with the society.

Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it should be.

They are not concerned that you should become a self-knower. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. So they are trying to give you an ego that fits with the society. They teach you morality. Morality means giving you an ego which will fit with the society. If you are immoral, you will always be a misfit somewhere or other. That's why we put criminals in the prisons - not that they have done something wrong, not that by putting them in the prisons we are going to improve them, no. They simply don't fit. They are troublemakers. They have certain types of egos of which the society doesn't approve. If the society approves, everything is good.

One man kills somebody - he is a murderer. And the same man in wartime kills thousands - he becomes a great hero. The society is not bothered by a murder, but the murder should be committed for the society - then it is okay. The society doesn't bother about morality.

Morality means only that you should fit with the society. If the society is at war, then the morality changes. If the society is at peace, then there is a different morality. Morality is a social politics. It is diplomacy. And each child has to be brought up in such a way that he fits into the society, that's all. Because society is interested in efficient members. Society is not interested that you should attain to self-knowledge.

The society creates an ego because the ego can be controlled and manipulated. The self can never be controlled or manipulated. Nobody has ever heard of the society controlling a self - not possible.

And the child needs a center; the child is completely unaware of his own center.

The society gives him a center and the child is by and by convinced that this is his center, the ego that society gives.

A child comes back to his home - if he has come first in his class, the whole family is happy. You hug and kiss him, and you take the child on your shoulders and dance and you say, "What a beautiful child! You are a pride to us." You are giving him an ego, a subtle ego. And if the child comes home dejected, unsuccessful, a failure - he couldn't pass, or he has just been on the back bench - then nobody appreciates him and the child feels rejected. He will try harder next time, because the center feels shaken. Ego is always shaken, always in search of food, that somebody should appreciate it. That's why you continuously ask for attention. You get the idea of who you are from others. It is not a direct experience. It is from others that you get the idea of who you are. They shape your center. This center is false, because you carry your real center. That is nobody's business. Nobody shapes it. You come with it. You are born with it.

So you have two centers. One center you come with, which is given by existence itself. That is the self. And the other center, which is created by the society, is the ego. It is a false thing - and it is a very great trick.

Through the ego the society is controlling you. You have to behave in a certain way, because only then does the society appreciate you. You have to walk in a certain way; you have to laugh in a certain way; you have to follow certain manners, a morality, a code. Only then will the society appreciate you, and if it doesn't, you ego will be shaken. And when the ego is shaken, you don't know where you are, who you are. The others have given you the idea. That idea is the ego.

Try to understand it as deeply as possible, because this has to be thrown. And unless you throw it you will never be able to attain to the self. Because you are addicted to the center, you cannot move, and you cannot look at the self. And remember, there is going to be an interim period, an interval, when the ego will be shattered, when you will not know who you are, when you will not know where you are going, when all boundaries will melt. You will simply be confused, a chaos. Because of this chaos, you are afraid to lose the ego. But it has to be so. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains to the real center.

And if you are daring, the period will be small. If you are afraid, and you again fall back to the ego, and you again start arranging it, then it can be very, very long; many lives can be wasted.

I have heard: One small child was visiting his grandparents. He was just four years old. In the night when the grandmother was putting him to sleep, he suddenly started crying and weeping and said, "I want to go home. I am afraid of darkness." But the grandmother said, "I know well that at home also you sleep in the dark; I have never seen a light on. So why are you afraid here?" The boy said, "Yes, that's right - but that is MY darkness." This darkness is completely unknown. Even with darkness you feel, "This is MINE." Outside - an unknown darkness.

With the ego you feel, "This is MY darkness." It may be troublesome, maybe it creates many miseries, but still mine. Something to hold to, something to cling to, something underneath the feet; you are not in a vacuum, not in an emptiness. You may be miserable, but at least you ARE. Even being miserable gives you a feeling of 'I am'. Moving from it, fear takes over; you start feeling afraid of the unknown darkness and chaos - because society has managed to clear a small part of your being.

It is just like going to a forest. You make a little clearing, you clear a little ground; you make fencing, you make a small hut; you make a small garden, a lawn, and you are okay. Beyond your fence - the forest, the wild. Here everything is okay; you have planned everything. This is how it has happened. Society has made a little clearing in your consciousness. It has cleaned just a little part completely, fenced it. Everything is okay there. That's what all your universities are doing. The whole culture and conditioning is just to clear a part so that you can feel at home there. And then you become afraid. Beyond the fence there is danger. Beyond the fence you are, as within the fence you are - and your conscious mind is just one part, one-tenth of your whole being. Nine-tenths is waiting in the darkness. And in that nine-tenths, somewhere your real center is hidden.

One has to be daring, courageous. One has to take a step into the unknown.
For a while all boundaries will be lost. For a while you will feel dizzy. For a while, you will feel very afraid and shaken, as if an earthquake has happened. But if you are courageous and you don't go backwards, if you don't fall back to the ego and you go on and on, there is a hidden center within you that you have been carrying for many lives. That is your soul, the self.

Once you come near it, everything changes, everything settles again. But now this settling is not done by the society. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises. But this is no longer the order of the society - it is the very order of existence itself.

It is what Buddha calls Dhamma, Lao Tzu calls Tao, Heraclitus calls Logos.
It is not man-made. It is the VERY order of existence itself. Then everything is suddenly beautiful again, and for the first time really beautiful, because man-made things cannot be beautiful. At the most you can hide the ugliness of them, that's all. You can decorate them, but they can never be beautiful.

The difference is just like the difference between a real flower and a plastic or paper flower. The ego is a plastic flower - dead. It just looks like a flower, it is not a flower. You cannot really call it a flower. Even linguistically to call it a flower is wrong, because a flower is something which flowers. And this plastic thing is just a thing, not a flowering. It is dead. There is no life in it. You have a flowering center within. That's why Hindus call it a lotus - it is a flowering. They call it the one-thousand-petaled-lotus. One thousand means infinite petals. And it goes on flowering, it never stops, it never dies.

But you are satisfied with a plastic ego. There are some reasons why you are satisfied. With a dead thing, there are many conveniences. One is that a dead thing never dies. It cannot - it was never alive. So you can have plastic flowers, they are good in a way. They are permanent; they are not eternal, but they are permanent. The real flower outside in the garden is eternal, but not permanent. And the eternal has its own way of being eternal. The way of the eternal is to be born again and again and to die. Through death it refreshes itself, rejuvenates itself.

To us it appears that the flower has died - it never dies. It simply changes bodies, so it is ever fresh. It leaves the old body, it enters a new body. It flowers somewhere else; it goes on flowering. But we cannot see the continuity because the continuity is invisible. We see only one flower, another flower; we never see the continuity.

It is the same flower which flowered yesterday. It is the same sun, but in a different garb.

The ego has a certain quality - it is dead. It is a plastic thing. And it is very easy to get it, because others give it. You need not seek it, there is no search involved. That's why unless you become a seeker after the unknown, you have not yet become an individual. You are just a part of the crowd. You are just a mob.

When you don't have a real center, how can you be an individual?
The ego is not individual. Ego is a social phenomenon - it is society, its not you. But it gives you a function in the society, a hierarchy in the society. And if you remain satisfied with it, you will miss the whole opportunity of finding the self. And that's why you are so miserable. With a plastic life, how can you be happy? With a false life, how can you be ecstatic and blissful?

And then this ego creates many miseries, millions of them. You cannot see, because it is your own darkness. You are attuned to it. Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable.

Ego is hell. Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it. And the ego goes on finding causes to suffer. You are an egoist, as everyone is. Some are very gross, just on the surface, and they are not so difficult. Some are very subtle, deep down, and they are the real problems. This ego comes continuously in conflict with others because every ego is so unconfident about itself. Is has to be - it is a false thing. When you don't have anything in your hand and you just think that something is there, then there will be a problem. If somebody says, "There is nothing," immediately the fight will start, because you also feel that there is nothing. The other makes you aware of the fact. Ego is false, it is nothing. That you also know. How can you miss knowing it?

It is impossible! A conscious being - how can he miss knowing that this ego is just false? And then others say that there is nothing - and whenever the others say that there is nothing they hit a wound, they say a truth - and nothing hits like the truth. You have to defend, because if you don't defend, if you don't become defensive, then where will you be? You will be lost. The identity will be broken. So you have to defend and fight - that is the clash.

A man who attains to the self is never in any clash. Others may come and clash with him, but he is never in clash with anybody.

It happened that one Zen master was passing through a street. A man came running and hit him hard. The master fell down. Then he got up and started to walk in the same direction in which he was going before, not even looking back.

A disciple was with the master. He was simply shocked. He said, "Who is this man? What is this? If one lives in such a way, then anybody can come and kill you. And you have not even looked at that person, who he is, and why he did it." The master said, "That is his problem, not mine."

You can clash with an enlightened man, but that is your problem, not his. And if you are hurt in that clash, that too is your own problem. He cannot hurt you. And it is like knocking against a wall - you will be hurt, but the wall has not hurt you.

The ego is always looking for some trouble. Why? Because if nobody pays attention to you, the ego feels hungry. It lives on attention.

So even if somebody is fighting and angry with you, that too is good because at least the attention is paid. If somebody loves, it is okay. If somebody is not loving you, then even anger will be good. At least the attention will come to you. But if nobody is paying any attention to you, nobody thinks that you are somebody important, significant, then how will you feed your ego? Other's attention is needed.

In millions of ways you attract the attention of others; you dress in a certain way, you try to look beautiful, you behave, you become very polite, you change. When you feel what type of situation is there, you immediately change so that people pay attention to you. This is a deep begging. A real beggar is one who asks for and demands attention. And a real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he doesn't depend on anybody else.

Buddha sitting under his bodhi tree...if the whole world suddenly disappears, will it make any difference to Buddha? -none. It will not make any difference at all. If the whole world disappears, it will not make any difference because he has attained to the center.

But you, if the wife escapes, divorces you, goes to somebody else, you are completely shattered - because she had been paying attention to you, caring, loving, moving around you, helping you to feel that you were somebody. Your whole empire is lost, you are simply shattered. You start thinking about suicide. Why? Why, if a wife leaves you, should you commit suicide? Why, if a husband leaves you, should you commit suicide? Because you don't have any center of your own. The wife was giving you the center; the husband was giving you the center.

This is how people exist. This is how people become dependent on others. It is a deep slavery. Ego HAS to be a slave. It depends on others. And only a person who has no ego is for the first time a master; he is no longer a slave.

Try to understand this. And start looking for the ego - not in others, that is not your business, but in yourself. Whenever you feel miserable, immediately close you eyes and try to find out from where the misery is coming and you will always find it is the false center which has clashed with someone.

You expected something, and it didn't happen. You expected something, and just the contrary happened - your ego is shaken, you are in misery. Just look, whenever you are miserable, try to find out why.

Causes are not outside you. The basic cause is within you - but you always look outside, you always ask:

Who is making me miserable?
Who is the cause of my anger?
Who is the cause of my anguish?
And if you look outside you will miss. Just close the eyes and always look within. The source of all misery, anger, anguish, is hidden in you, your ego.

And if you find the source, it will be easy to move beyond it. If you can see that it is your own ego that gives you trouble, you will prefer to drop it - because nobody can carry the source of misery if he understands it.

And remember, there is no need to drop the ego. You cannot drop it. If you try to drop it, you will attain to a certain subtle ego again which says, "I have become humble." Don't try to be humble. That's again ego in hiding - but it's not dead.

Don't try to be humble. Nobody can try humility, and nobody can create humility through any effort of his own - no. When the ego is no more, a humbleness comes to you. It is not a creation. It is a shadow of the real center.

And a really humble man is neither humble nor egoistic. He is simply simple.

He's not even aware that he is humble. If you are aware that you are humble, the ego is there. Look at humble persons.... There are millions who think that they are very humble. They bow down very low, but watch them - they are the subtlest egoists. Now humility is their source of food. They say, "I am humble," and then they look at you and they wait for you to appreciate them.

"You are really humble," they would like you to say. "In fact, you are the most humble man in the world; nobody is as humble as you are." Then see the smile that comes on their faces. What is ego? Ego is a hierarchy that says, "No one is like me." It can feed on humbleness - "Nobody is like me, I am the most humble man."

It happened once:

A fakir, a beggar, was praying in a mosque, just early in the morning when it was still dark. It was a certain religious day for Mohammedians, and he was praying, and he was saying, "I am nobody. I am the poorest of the poor, the greatest sinner of sinners."

Suddenly there was one more person who was praying. He was the emperor of that country, and he was not aware that there was somebody else there who was praying - it was dark, and the emperor was also saying:

"I am nobody. I am nothing. I am just empty, a beggar at our door." When he heard that somebody else was saying the same thing, he said, "Stop! Who is trying to overtake me? Who are you? How dare you say before the emperor that you are nobody when he is saying that he is nobody?"

This is how the ego goes. It is so subtle. Its ways are so subtle and cunning; you have to be very, very alert, only then will you see it.

Don't try to be humble. Just try to see that all misery, all anguish comes through it. Just watch! No need to drop it. You cannot drop it. Who will drop it? Then the DROPPER will become the ego. It always comes back.

Whatsoever you do, stand out of it, and look and watch.
Whatsoever you do - humbleness, humility, simplicity - nothing will help.
Only one thing is possible, and that is just to watch and see that it is the source of all misery. Don't say it. Don't repeat it - WATCH.

Because if I say it is the source of all misery and you repeat it, then it is useless. YOU have to come to that understanding. Whenever you are miserable, just close the eyes and don't try to find some cause outside. Try to see from where this misery is coming. It is your own ego.

If you continuously feel and understand, and the understanding that the ego is the cause becomes so deep-rooted, one day you will suddenly see that it has disappeared. Nobody drops it - nobody can drop it. You simply see; it has simply disappeared, because the very understanding that ego causes all misery becomes the dropping. THE VERY UNDERSTANDING IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EGO.

And you are so clever in seeing the ego in others. Anybody can see someone else's ego. When it comes to your own, then the problem arises - because you don't know the territory, you have never traveled on it.
The whole path towards the divine, the ultimate, has to pass through this territory of the ego. The false has to be understood as false. The source of misery has to be understood as the source of misery - then it simply drops.

When you know it is poison, it drops. When you know it is fire, it drops. When you know this is the hell, it drops.

And then you never say, "I have dropped the ego." Then you simply laugh at the whole thing, the joke that you were the creator of all misery.

I was just looking at a few cartoons of Charlie Brown. In one cartoon he is playing with blocks, making a house out of children's blocks. He is sitting in the middle of the blocks building the walls. Then a moment comes when he is enclosed; all around he has made a wall. Then he cries, "Help, help!"

He has done the whole thing! Now he is enclosed, imprisoned. This is childish, but this is all that you have done also. You have made a house all around yourself, and now you are crying, "Help, help!" And the misery becomes a millionfold - because there are helpers who are also in the same boat.

It happened that one very beautiful woman went to see her psychiatrist for the first time. The psychiatrist said, "Come closer please." When she came closer, he simply jumped and hugged and kissed the woman. She was shocked. Then he said, "Now sit down. This takes care of my problem, now what is your problem?"

The problem becomes multifold, because there are helpers who are in the same boat. And they would like to help, because when you help somebody the ego feels very good, very, very good - because you are a great helper, a great guru, a master; you are helping so many people. The greater the crowd of your followers, the better you feel. But you are in the same boat - you cannot help. Rather, you will harm.

People who still have their own problems cannot be of much help. Only someone who has no problems of his own can help you. Only then is there the clarity to see, to see through you. A mind that has no problems of its own can see you, you become transparent. A mind that has no problems of its own can see through itself; that's why it becomes capable of seeing through others.

In the West, there are many schools of psychoanalysis, many schools, and no help is reaching people, but rather, harm. Because the people who are helping others, or trying to help, or posing as helpers, are in the same boat.

...It is difficult to see one's own ego. It is very easy to see other's egos. But that is not the point, you cannot help them. Try to see your own ego. Just watch it.

Don't be in a hurry to drop it, just watch it. The more you watch, the more capable you will become. Suddenly one day, you simply see that it has dropped. And when it drops by itself, only then does it drop. There is no other way. Prematurely you cannot drop it. It drops just like a dead leaf. The tree is not doing anything - just a breeze, a situation, and the dead leaf simply drops. The tree is not even aware that the dead leaf has dropped. It makes no noise, it makes no claim - nothing. The dead leaf simply drops and shatters on the ground, just like that.

When you are mature through understanding, awareness, and you have felt totally that ego is the cause of all your misery, simply one day you see the dead leaf dropping. It settles into the ground, dies of its own accord. You have not done anything so you cannot claim that you have dropped it. You see that it has simply disappeared, and then the real center arises. And that real center is the soul, the self, the god, the truth, or whatsoever you want to call it. It is nameless, so all names are good. You can give it any name of your own liking.

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Abraham-Hicks - Seeing through the eyes of Source

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Why You Must Give Thanks - Reconnect With Your Best Self

It is not the only way to reconnect with our best self...... when we start showing appreciation to what we have achieved and experienced in the past.

Many people keep trying harder....and still feel disappointed.....
some people raise their standards but still can not feel good....

it is good to have outstanding goals....
it is great to works long hours....
but it is also important we feel happy and confident about the things we do and the results we get.....

to reconnect with our best self, it is important we start seeing important success and giving real appreciation about our past life and success......

it is also important to feel confident about our future....and we gain plenty of confidence when we recognize our past success....love...relationships....and happiness.....

our brain must learn to express gratitude and appreciation to what our body has done and achieved......and to other people.....before we can feel good again.....

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Abraham & Hicks - Self Appreciation (Part 1 & 2)

You are not just this physical body. SELF includes the larger part of you that is non physical in nature - pure, positive, Source energy (God/Life Force/Universal/Soul/Higher Self) AND the physical you.

SELF means the Broader TOTAL You =.Physical you + Non physical You, which is WHO-YOU-REALLY-ARE.

Most of you have been persuaded by others that you are vulnerable, that you are powerless, that you must prove yourselves worthy. In others lack of appreciation (disconnection) of Self, they have convinced you that you should also not appreciate yourself.
Do you like yourself?
Do you acknowledge your own value?
Do you recognise your personal power?
Or
Do you criticise yourself?
Do you feel not good enough, unworthy, undeserving?
Do you feel unlovable, unloved?

These negative thoughts about yourself are so contradictory to that which your broader SELF holds of you that you FEEL negative emotion. Negative emotion is your emotional guidance telling you that the thoughts you are thinking are holding yourself apart from who-you-really-are.

When you think thoughts that are not in harmony with the total you, you feel a separation. Emotions such as fear, guilt, revenge, insecurity, hatred, anger, blame, frustration are your indicators telling you how close or far away in relationship to the truth that the thoughts you are thinking really are.

The better you feel, the more in tune you are with who-you-really-are.

Are you SELF-ish enough to learn to focus on feeling good, irrelevant of the conditions that surround you?

Can you acknowledge yourself as the pure and perfect, eternally growing, attractive, creative being that you are?

Learn to recognise the connection between your thoughts & words with how you are FEELING and then connect that with what you are attracting/living. And you will see a consistent correlation.

Because the way you feel about YOU is the very basis of attraction.

Your reality, your real life experience, is nothing more than a balance of your thoughts.

If you want to make the world a better place, it starts with loving, appreciating and making peace with YOU. When you feel good, you are in a place to uplift others. When you feel good, you attract to you all the resources of the Universe to support you. When you feel good, you inspire all those around you to do the same.

Good Feels Good!

In Appreciation:

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Abraham & Hicks - Glorious Experience of Allowing

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I am just as My slave thinks I am

The two hadith below are significantly very important to be understood by those who aspire to become a true spiritual being.

1st Hadith - Narrated Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, "Allah says: 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' "

2nd Hadith - Narrated Abu Huraira
Allah's Apostle said, "Allah said, 'I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a pious worshipper of Mine. And the most beloved things with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I have enjoined upon him; and My slave keeps on coming closer to Me through performing Nawafil (praying or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) till I love him, so I become his sense of hearing with which he hears, and his sense of sight with which he sees, and his hand with which he grips, and his leg with which he walks; and if he asks Me, I will give him, and if he asks My protection (Refuge), I will protect him; (i.e. give him My Refuge) and I do not hesitate to do anything as I hesitate to take the soul of the believer, for he hates death, and I hate to disappoint him."

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Adoration (Quotes: Forgiveness)

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Letting Go and Overcoming Anxiety

Letting Go and overcoming anxiety is an inspirational message about taking control of your life at a time when many people are worried. Let go of anger. Let go of your pain. Let go of the past. Stress relief is easy when you let go.

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Lessons on Life - Jim Rohn

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Self Esteem Quotes - Don't Give Up On Yourself

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Forgiveness and the Freedom of Letting go

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Inspiring Quotes - A Peaceful Moment

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Quotes that Change the World

Words of wisdom are powerful long after their speaker has passed on. They make you think.

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Rules For Being Human

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You Ask Me

You Ask Me
who are you?
and with such a shaky existence
how can you fall in love?
how do I know?
who am I or where I am?
how could a simple wave
locate itself in an ocean?
you ask me
what am I seeking?
above and beyond
the pure light
that I once was
and why am I
imprisoned in this cage?
named body
and yet I claim to be a free bird how
do I know
how I lost my way?
I know for sure
I was all straight
before I was, seduced by love

"RUMI, Fountain of Fire", ghazal number 1517, translated April 1991 by Nader Khalili, Burning Gate Press, Los Angeles, 1994.



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I swear my dear son

I swear my dear son
no one in the entire world
is as precious as you are

look at that mirror
take a good look at yourself
who else is there above and beyond you

now give yourself a kiss
and with sweet whispers
fill your ears to the brim

watch for all that beauty
reflecting from you
and sing a love song to your existence

you can never overdo
praising your own soul
you can never over-pamper your heart

you are both
the father and the son
the sugar and the sugar cane

who else but you
please tell me who else
can ever take your place

now give yourself a smile
what is the worth of a diamond
if it doesn't shine

how can i ever put a price
on the diamond that you are
you are the entire treasure of the house

you and your shadow
are forever present in this world
you're that glorious bird of paradise

-- Ghazal 2148, from the Diwan-e Shams
Poetic translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"

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Boost your confidence and self esteem

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Letting Go of Negative Emotions

learn how to release negative energy and emotions


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Raise Self Esteem (quick, easy and effective) part2

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Raise self esteem (quick, easy and effective)

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In Every Breath

in every breath
if you're the center
of your own desires
you'll lose the grace
of your beloved

but if in every breath
you blow away
your self claim
the ecstasy of love
will soon arrive

in every breath
if you're the center
of your own thoughts
the sadness of autumn
will fall on you

but if in every breath
you strip naked
just like a winter
the joy of spring
will grow from within

all your impatience
comes from the push
for gain of patience
let go of the effort
and peace will arrive

all your unfulfilled desires
are from your greed
for gain of fulfillments
let go of them all
and they will be sent as gifts

fall in love with
the agony of love
not the ecstasy
then the beloved
will fall in love with you

Rumi -- Ghazal (Ode) 323


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What is Real Love - A Sufi Perspective

Vancouver Canada April 2005 - Shaykh Hisham Kabbani speaks at an interfaith event about the reality of human beings, the meaning of real love, tolerance, acceptance and the human potential.

Some notes on Sufism.

Sufism, which is sometimes known as the Way of the Heart, is the spiritual path that exists in Islam. Sufism teaches humankind how to rise above our lower selves, by purifying our hearts from bad manners and characteristics.

Sufism recognizes and nurtures the spiritual nature of human beings.

Sufism as a path is an art, a science, a practice. It's mystical and practical. It's the path to knowing God by knowing ourselves.

Sufism is the path ot seeking the pleasure of God, learning to love and be at peace with one's self, to be in harmony with all Allah's creations and to be dressed with the beautiful attributes of Prophets and Saints.

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani once said:

"Liberate yourself from the fetters of the Ego and surrender yourself before God.
Let the Lord be your shepherd, allow Him to attend to all your cares
And do not allow temptations to entice you.
Aspirations of this world are the cause of all concern.
Aspire to God and obtain freedom."

-Here is from Rumi, "The Life and Thought of Rumi"

Do not regard yourself as infamous or weak.

Reflect upon your aspirations, O noble one.
No matter what your station be,
keep searching.
For this pursuit is a blessed course.
This quest removes all impediments to God.

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Choices - Inspiration and motivation

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Last Breath

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The Law of Acceptance

The Law of Acceptance is best illustrated by an old Sufi story about a farmer and his son.

One day the farmer went out to feed his animals, only to find his only beloved horse lying on the ground, dead. Soon the whole village learned of the news, and came by his house to express their dismay. They said, "We've heard of the awful news! It is terrible that you lost your only horse!" The farmer replied, "Maybe."

The next week, while the farmer was working the land, his son runs to tell him that he just captured a herd of wild horses. Again the villagers hear of the farmers news, and stop by saying, "You are so lucky! You have been blessed with an entire herd of horses!" Again, the farmer's only reply was "Maybe." A few days later, while trying to tame the horses, the farmer's son was thrown to the ground and his leg was broken. When one of the villagers heard of the accident, he stopped by to say, "What poor luck you are having, I am terribly sorry." The farmer's reply once again was, "Maybe."

Weeks go by, and the farmer's son is still lame. The emperor sends out his messengers to round up all the able-bodied boys in the nearby villages to fight a local battle. When the messengers arrive at the farmer's house, they see that the farmer's son is injured so they pass him by. A few weeks later, the neighbors, who lost their sons in the battle, again come by the farmer's home and say, "You are so lucky to have your son home with you." Again the farmer replies, "Maybe."

The Law of Acceptance teaches us that our lives are always evolving. And what may appear to be a tragedy, may be the perfect conduit for our dreams to be fulfilled. The Chinese symbol of crisis, is also the same symbol used for opportunity. In the midst of difficult times, wonderful outcomes often (and usually) surface. The Law of Acceptance ultimately means trust. We must trust that our lives are evolving. Trusting can be difficult when we are in the throes of pain, but it is exactly the solution for our evolution - surrender.

Acceptance is the opposite of resistance. Anger, sadness, disappointment, shame, guilt, envy, and resentment are all human emotions that we all feel from time to time. However, at the root of each of these is resistance to what is.

It would be good four us to practise daily affirmation by saying : I surrender, trust and accept that all things are working together for my highest good.

From the surah Al-Hadid, Allah s.w.t said:
No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree before We bring it into existence: That is truly easy for Allah. In order that ye may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favours bestowed upon you. For Allah loveth not any vainglorious boaster,- 57:22-23 - Yusuf Ali Translation:

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