OLS Reflections Setenta y Ocho

• True love means to see and accept others as they fully are — their flowers as well as 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, it often overcompensates by constantly wanting to be someone or something — to feel somewhat “special”; also by getting offended and taking things personally. In reality, its manifestations are just a reactionary illusion, a show.
  
  This neatly echoes with the Egyptian Book Of The Dead proverb: “You are limited only by who you think you are”. That, my friend is, your ego. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  OLS Reflections Onze
  
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  OLS Reflections Quince
  
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  OLS Reflections Dix-Huit
  
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  OLS Reflections Vingt-Six
  
  OLS Reflections Ventisette
  
  OLS Reflections Veintinueve
   
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  OLS Reflections Einunddreißig
  
  OLS Reflections  إثنان وثلاثون
  
  OLS Reflections Thirty-Three
  
  OLS Reflections Trentaquattro
  
  OLS Reflections 37
  
  OLS Reflections Trente-Neuf
  
  OLS Reflections Forty  
  
  OLS Reflections Einundvierzig
  
  OLS Reflections — The Spiritual Edition 
  
  OLS Reflections Cuarenta y Cuatro
  
  OLS Reflections 45
  
  OLS Reflections Quarantasette
  
  OLS Reflections — The Unpublished Edition
  
  OLS Reflections Forty-Nine
  
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  OLS Reflections Cincuenta y Dos
  
  OLS Reflections Cinquantaquattro
  
  OLS Reflections पचपन 
  
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  OLS Reflections Cinquante-Neuf
   
  OLS Reflections Sesenta y Uno
   
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  OLS Reflections Soixante-Cinq
  
  OLS Reflections 67
  
  OLS Reflections Sixty-Eight 
  
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  OLS Reflections Soixante-Douze
   
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