It's easy to get caught up in the daily grind of our everyday lives and feel overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of problems we must solve. Life consists of a series of issues and our efforts to solve them. Whether we find these challenges motivating or overwhelming depends on how manageable we feel. But for … Continue reading Beneath the Surface
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Let Go and Let God
Everyday busyness constantly overwhelms us in one way or another. There are many action items on our table, juggling them from one to another. We try our best to address them with a long to-do list. Every day, however, we see more and more adding items than reducing and completing them. The list of our … Continue reading Let Go and Let God
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?
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
The Infinite Holarchy
Everything is the whole in itself, at the same time, the part of the whole in the next level. Arthur Koestler called this concept holon. Holon signifies a hierarchical component that can be simultaneously both part and whole depending on the context of each layer. And he defines this hierarchical relationship among all holons as … Continue reading The Infinite Holarchy
The Moment of Stillness
The moment of stillness is precious. And yet, we tend to take it for granted. Amid every busyness, we are always in a hurry and obsessive to do everything faster and gain more; chanting these two words as our mantra. Be efficientBe effective To be efficient, we should do everything faster. In instant messenger, we … Continue reading The Moment of Stillness
We are Nobody but Gardeners
What bothers us most of the time? We often complain about problems, thinking these are external, and saying we are supposed to be peaceful, but these external threats attack us. So, we believe: Life is a war. We live on the battlefield. Is that so? Perhaps, it is to some extent. Human history consists of … Continue reading We are Nobody but Gardeners
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