13 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Every day is not a day in a life but a life in a day. This is a simple but subtle truth. While our mind has us believe that we transition seamlessly from one day to the next, we are not the same person today as the person we presumably were lifetimes ago, days now passed. Perhaps this is easiest to see when we consider the physical appearance and the interests and perspectives of the person we are today with those of the person we presumably were ten years ago. This truth implies two apparently conflicting but complementary corollaries: each day is our first and last day of life. Thus, the qualifiers of first and last are meaningless as are most things to which our mind attributes meanings. However, as our first day of life, everything is new; intensely beautiful forms and colors engaging our attention and arousing our curiosity. We are present, grateful we are alive. As our last day of life, we are at peace; knowing we came from being one with everything in sleep death to which we will soon return. The realization that each day is our first and last makes for a wonderful life....

12 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

"I loved money and I loved children but couldn't afford to have both. I chose to have children because they could love me back." Hopefully, children pay us more interest than does money. Likewise, hopefully, the time and resources we invest in children realizes a higher return than otherwise....

09 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

As the universe is infinite, ever-changing and eternal, we can never know everything. But once we know nothing, we know all there is to know. Every thing, before it is what it is whatever it is, is nothing. Thus, every thing is essentially a unique manifestation of one thing, nothing....

29 Jun

Posted at 23:11h in Observations

“Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.” Our ego is our identity. It keeps us apart and separate from everything it perceives is not us. Our ego identity is very powerful. We are afraid of our vulnerability without it. However, when we bury our ego, encapsulate it, we realize we are truly one with everything as there is only one thing, everything. That is heaven on Earth. When we realize we can be in heaven with only the death of our ego, fear of dying is not an obstacle on the way to heaven....

28 Jun

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Great talent is very rare. Good timing is even rarer. Pablo Picasso would have been committed to a mental institution had he made his artworks a hundred years earlier or he would have been a pauper had he made them a hundred years later. It takes true genius to know how to use which talents which times; though most of that genius is just luck....

26 Jun

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

We experience the world through our face and react to our experience with our mind which expresses itself through our face. Moreover, our facial expression affects how we experience the world before our mind reacts to it, a self-reinforcing process. For example, an experience to which our mind reacts as happy makes our face happy which in turn predisposes our face to experiencing the world in a happy way to which our mind tends to react to with happiness that expresses itself again as a happy face. Essentially, a happy facial expression predisposes us to experiencing happiness....