Is the world beautiful? Sometimes we appreciate the beauty of the world with a sense of awe. To find it, we don’t have to travel further. We only wake up a little earlier in the dawn and meditate on how the surroundings gradually get brighter. The sun always rises. She never fails her job. Every … Continue reading The World is Beautiful
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Who Am I?
Amid busyness, you can find a moment of stillness. The ideal moment for prayer, meditation, and contemplation should be in the morning when your mind and soul are fresh. Even in the afternoon, you can find a moment to be alone in any cafeteria, bookshop, library, museum, or park nearby, enjoying silence despite hearing people's … Continue reading Who Am I?
Take Up Your Cross
We all seek our happiness in life. So-called happy life should be an overall generic goal of our lives as long as we live in this world on earth. At the end of life, probably all of us would ask ourselves: Was my life happy? And if your answer is yes, are you willing to … Continue reading Take Up Your Cross
Walk as Children of Light
God said, "The world is a play, a children's game, and you are the children." God speaks the truth. If you haven't left the child's play, how can you be an adult?A Children's Game by Rumi The world we live in is full of problems. There is no single day that we never hear any … Continue reading Walk as Children of Light
Life without Us
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry These lines are well-known from the book, The Little Prince. But often, we try to see everything with our eyes. … Continue reading Life without Us
Breathing in the Spirit
How can we know we are alive? How can we understand our lives in the universe? We know that our world exists only in the domain of spacetime. This way, our lives have a beginning and end. Someday, we will have to leave here as we have come here on our birthdays. Life is temporary. … Continue reading Breathing in the Spirit
History On Earth
George Santayana's well-known aphorism is as follows: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It is intuitive. From our everyday lives to nation-states to civilizations, from every perspective, we all agree that it should be one of the best lessons we must remember and practice to improve our lives and seek … Continue reading History On Earth
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