OLS Reflections Setenta y Ocho
- True love means to see and accept others as they fully are — their flowers as well as their roots. No matter how dark or deep, without mud there would be no blossoming lotus.
- The ultimate mastery of all is one over your own mind.
- The more attention you get, the more you will wish to get. This never-ending ego-loop is the ultimate trap.
- A thousand suns shone out of her smile
Drowning in his very pupils
Though it may take a while
One day she may soothe all his ills.
- It is remarkable when people brag for being part of the majority. I did X — just like 67 million people.
- Suffering
lies in the abyss between the life you wish you had and the one you are
actually creating. A gentle reminder that we create our own reality and
that most of our true sufferings are self-induced. Echoing with the
illuminating words of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca: “We suffer
more in our imagination more often than in reality.”
- The
very idea that we can go to bed one night to never ever wake up should
entice us to enjoy life in its fullest. One way to do so is to connect
with Nature; to build a lasting relationship with it. Because we ARE
Nature. We only seem to temporarily forget it — due to the distractions
of life. But truly, it is the realisation of the inevitability of our
own mortality that tends to wake us up. Health is wealth. Choose Life
while you still can.
- Mother Nature is the solution to most of your problems.
- May you all find Love in your hearts, Peace in your minds, and Passion in your lives.
- If
you ever felt degraded by a certain someone or situation, ask yourself
why have I put myself on a pedestal in the first place. When we are eye
to eye with the rest of humanity, there is no need to attempt
differentiating oneself from others by feeling special or superior — nor
inferior — than your fellow Earthlings. Hence you take no offence, no
matter how vile or depraved the attempt to demean or devalue you is.
Simply because no perceived elevation means no fall. Conversely, the
higher you seemingly place yourself, the bigger the fall.
Once
we realise the futility and foolishness of this illusory ego trap we
have set ourselves for ourselves, absolutely nothing anyone or anything
can do to us is able to affect our own self-worth. See, ego is our sense
of self, but it is merely a mask, an assumed persona we have been
conditioned to identify with since birth. Yet, it is not who we are, or
all we are, at the core. It is only a minute aspect of our true full
psyche.
As
such, the ego often overcompensates by constantly wanting to be someone
or something — to prove to the world before itself that it is somewhat
“special”, “important”, “significant”; also by getting offended and
taking things personally, as well as defensive and obsessive. In
reality, its rather impulsive manifestations are just a reactionary
illusion part of a juvenile show.
Essentially,
each and every human encapsulates the consciousness of mankind in its
entirety. I am you as you are me as we are all together. Whether such
nugget of truth is realised during Earthly life is a different
story.
This perspective neatly
echoes with the Egyptian Book Of The Dead proverb, which roughly
translates into: “You are limited only by who you think you are”. That,
my Friends, is the ego which ought to be transcended if we do want to
grow and evolve.
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