FOOD FOR THOUGHT

THE UNIVERSAL LAW IS THE MORE WE GIVE THE MORE WE WILL RECEIVE, FOR EXAMPLE SMILE, MONEY, RESPECT, LOVE, MORE WE SMILE....!! SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR ALL THE NEGATIVE TRAITS LIKE JEALOUSY, BITTERNESS, HATRED. WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL ON WHAT WE ARE SHARING KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY. BEFORE GIVING, IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO EARN IT, WE NEED TO EAR MONEY BEFORE WE GIVE, WE NEED TO BE RESPECT WORTHY BEFORE WE GET RESPECT, WE NEED TO GENUINELY SMILE BEFORE WE GET REAL SMILE, TO LOVE OTHERS WE NEED TO LOVE OURSELF FIRST.   WE CAN SHARE WHAT WE FEEL IS IN ABUNDANCE TO US. WE MUST SHARE WHAT WE POSSESS AND ADMIRE, AND THIS PROCESS OF SHARING WILL ALSO MAKE US AWARE OF TRUE HAPPINESS AND SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT, MIRACLE, SATISFACTION, FULFILLMENT. GIVING AND RECEIVING WILL LEAD US TO THE STATE OF BLISSFULNESS.

OFTEN ONE GETS ATTACHED TO ONE'S SUCCESS, SO MUCH SO THAT THE SAME SUCCESS LIMITS ONE'S POTENTIAL AND BELIEFS. THERE COULD BE NUMBER OF REASONS BEHIND SUCH BEHAVIOR, WHICH COULD BE, LACK OF CONFIDENCE, OVER CONFIDENCE, FEAR OF FAILURE, LACK OF CREATIVITY, LACK OF CLARITY, OBSESSION OF ACHIEVEMENTS, LACK OF ENTHUSIASM. AFTER REACHING ONE MILESTONE, THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A FALL BEFORE REACHING OUT TO NEXT MILESTONE, ONE HAS TO RECOGNIZE AND UTILIZE THIS FALL CORRECTLY AND ENCASE OUT OF IT FOR THE NEXT MILESTONE. IF ONE IS AFRAID TO RECOGNIZE FALL AND PRESUMES TO REMAIN IN THAT OLD ZONE, WILL MISS OUT THE GREAT AT THE COST OF GOOD. ONE HAS TO LET GO CURRENT STATE EVEN IF ITS GOOD, TO REACH OUT TO NEXT LEVEL OF STATE FOR ACHIEVING GREAT. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE, ONE HAS TO KEEP  ON LEARNING - RELEARNING DURING THE FALL AND PREPARE FOR THE NEXT PEEK. THIS IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS, THERE IS NO HALT, THERE IS NO STAGNATION, LIFE MEANS GROWTH, LIFE MEANS PROGRESS AND PROGRESS MEANS H...

LIVING LIFE FOR OTHERS GIVES HIGHEST FORM OF INNER SATISFACTION, MENTAL PEACE AND SPIRITUAL UPLIFTMENT. THE MORE WE DEDICATE OUR LIFE TO HELP PEOPLE THE MORE WE SIMPLIFY OURSELVES, GIVING LARGER MEANING & PURPOSE TO LIFE. ONE THINKS BEYOND SELF-NEEDS AND TRANSITS FROM SELF-CENTERED TO SELF-LESS WAY OF LIFE, THERE ARE NO SECOND THOUGHTS, THERE ARE NO IFS AND BUTS, THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS. THIS WAY OF LIFE BRINGS TRUE JOY, HAPPINESS, BLISS, BLESSINGS, LOVE, GRACE, BREAKING ALL BARRIERS AND ALL VICIOUS CIRCLES OF LIFE, GIVING DIRECTION TO ONE'S SOUL JOURNEY AND INSPIRING OTHERS TO FOLLOW THE PATH. ONE RECEIVES EVERYTHING IN LIFE, AND THE FACT REMAINS THAT IN THIS STATE,  GIVING IS EVERYTHING.

HUMANS ARE BORN WITH A GIFT OF INFINITE POTENTIAL BUT UNFORTUNATELY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME HUMAN LIMITS THEIR POTENTIAL BY THEIR BELIEFS. LIMITED BELIEFS STAGNATES THE ABILITY TO EXPLORE THE TRUE POTENTIAL, HENCE THE ABILITY TO GROW. LIFE MEANS HAPPINESS, HAPPINESS MEANS GROWTH AND GROWTH MEANS PROGRESS. HAPPINESS IS IN CHALLENGING ONESELF FROM ONE MILESTONE TO ANOTHER, DISCOVERING NEXT LEVEL, TO REMAIN CREATIVE, TO THINK BEYOND, TO EXPLORE THE TRUE POTENTIAL, HAPPINESS IS PROGRESS.

WE RECEIVE WHAT WE GIVE. WHATEVER WE WANT TO ACHIEVE MUST BE FIRST GIVEN IN ONE OR ANOTHER FORM. GIVING IS RECEIVING. IF WE GIVE LOVE WE WILL RECEIVE LOVE, SAME HOLDS  GOOD FOR RESPECT, COURAGE, JOY, BLESSINGS, HAPPINESS, HUMBLENESS …. THIS IS A LAW OF UNIVERSE AND HOLDS GOOD FOR ALL ASPECT OF OUR LIFE. IF WE SEE ALL AROUND US THE UNIVERSE, THE NATURE, BIRDS, ANIMALS, INSECTS .... EVERYONE IS GIVING US SELFLESSLY ALL THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFE CYCLE WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN. IF WE WANT TO CLIMB UP LADDER OF SUCCESS, WE CAN'T MOVE ALONE. WE NEED TO EMPOWER PEOPLE AROUND US, ENCOURAGE THEM, PUSH THEM, LEAD THEM TO ACHIEVE NEXT LEVEL, WE MUST GROW TOGETHER. WE MUST LIFT OTHERS TO LIFT OUR SELF HIGHER.

BOTTOM LINE IS TO REMAIN HAPPY IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION AND NOT TO BE BOTHERED BY THE SURROUNDING SITUATIONS, WITH UPS & DOWNS, WITH SUMMER & WINTER OF LIFE. WHEN WE ARE HAPPY TIME FLIES, WE REMAIN WITHIN OURSELVES, WITHIN OUR WORLD, EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES HAS NO ABILITY TO AFFECT US. HAPPINESS CREATES A CIRCLE OF BLISS MAKING POSITIVITY TO THRIVE BY CONTINUOUSLY KILLING ALL EXTERNAL NEGATIVITY.   WE LIVE IN AN ECSTASY, AN EUPHORIA, AN EXULTATION,  AN ENVIRONMENT OF HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS IS  PROGRESS, HAPPINESS IS WAY OF LIFE.

WE CAN ONLY RECEIVE WHAT WE GIVE, BE A GIVER AND SHARE  WHAT WE ALWAYS WANT TO RECEIVE. WHAT WE SHARE WITH OTHERS ALWAYS MULTIPLIES IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. THIS HOLDS GOOD FOR WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, MONEY AND EMOTIONS, POSITIVE AS WELL AS NEGATIVE EMOTIONS. EMOTIONS LIKE LOVE, RESPECT, HAPPINESS, HATE, ANGER ........ WHAT WE GIVE OR SHARE SPREADS ACROSS IN FORM OF ENERGY, SLOWLY WE LIVE BY VIBRATIONS OF THAT ENERGY, THESE VIBRATIONS GROWS AND ATTRACTS VIBRATIONS OF SIMILAR NATURE. HAPPINESS WILL ATTRACT HAPPINESS AND HATE WILL ATTRACT HATE, SHARING LOVE WILL ATTRACT VIBRATIONS WHICH NEEDS OR GIVES LOVE. LIVE BY THE VIBRATIONS WHICH OUR SOUL URGES US TO GROW.

ONE HAS TO JUST KEEP SIMPLY SMILING AT ANY GIVEN SITUATION AND ALLOW IT TO PASS HAPPILY. THIS IS VERY SIMPLIFIED WAY OF LIFE BUT OUR MIND COMPLICATES IT BY SEARCHING HAPPINESS EXTERNALLY, FROM MATERIAL POSSESSIONS, SLOWLY CREATING SERIES OF DISSATISFACTION AND CONFUSION, HIDING THE UNDERLYING FACT THAT HAPPINESS CAN NOT BE BROUGHT FROM OUTSIDE OR CAN NOT BE STEALED FROM SOMEWHERE. ONE MUST SURRENDER TO ONESELF AND DIVE DEEP WITHIN, ONE MUST ACCEPT UNDERLYING FACTS OF LIFE AND MUST CHOOSE BLISS OF HAPPINESS.

NEITHER ONE CAN BUY HAPPINESS NOR CAN BORROW, HAPPINESS IS WITHIN AND NEEDS TO BE REALISED. DEEP WITHIN HAPPINESS IS INTEGRAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE BUT OVER PERIOD RIGHT FROM THE CHILDHOOD AND IT'S CAMOUFLAGED BY THE LAYERS OF MATERIALISM. WE CAN REALISE HAPPINESS BY ACTING UPON THESE LAYERS, BY BREAKING ONE AFTER ANOTHER. BY LEAVING PATH OF DISCONTENTMENT, EXPECTATIONS, DESIRES AND MOVING TOWARDS PATH OF CONTENTMENT, INTENTIONS, DETACHMENTS. ANY ACTION IN THIS DIRECTION WILL LEAD TO HAPPINESS.

IN REAL LIFE, ONE JUST RUNS FROM ONE MILESTONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT ANY CONTENTMENT.  SUCCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD IS MORE OR LESS CONFINED TO THE MATERIALISTIC GOALS AND THAT MOMENTS LASTS FOR SHORT TIME BEFORE ONE MOVES BACK TO ANOTHER RACE FOR THE NEXT MILESTONE. DEEP DOWN WITHIN ONE IS ALWAYS SEEKING FOR HAPPINESS. BUT ONE DOES NOT FIND TRUE HAPPINESS IN ANY OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS AS HAPPINESS IS CONFUSED WITH & MEASURED AGAINST SUCCESS & FAILURE. SUCCESS IS BASICALLY ACHIEVEMENT OF DESIRES, SET GOALS, EXPECTATIONS, ITS ALL ABOUT REACHING OUR TO WHAT ONE WANT. WHILE HAPPINESS IS  A BLISS BEYOND DESIRES & EXPECTATIONS. HAPPINESS IS CONTENTMENT OF WHAT ONE  HAS OR GETS WITHOUT ANY ATTACHMENT TO THE RESULTS . TRUE & PURE HAPPINESS IS IN DETACHMENT AND STILL EFFECTIVELY DEPLOYING OUR KARMA

IN RAT RACE WE RUN AFTER POSSESSIONS ONE AFTER THE ANOTHER.  OUR EGO ALWAYS PUSHES US TO AMASS MATERIALS TO SEEK PEACE OUT OF THE SAME. HONESTLY THIS PEACE IS TEMPORARY AND CREATES RESTLESSNESS TO POSSESS SOMETHING SUPERIOR IN SEARCH OF PEACE. WE BECOME PART OF VICIOUS CIRCLE. ON THE CONTRARY, SPIRITUAL PATH MAKES US TO DIVE DEEP WITHIN TO SEEK  PEACE & HAPPINESS , OUR SPIRIT IS DRIVING US TOWARDS INNER SELF WHILE OUR EGO IS DRIVING US TOWARDS EXTERNAL WORLD. THE TRUTH IS EXTERNAL WORLD CAN NEVER BRING PEACE WITHIN, ON SPIRITUAL PATH WHEN WE DISCOVER PEACE WITHIN, UNIVERSE TAKES CARE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD & EVERYTHING FALLS INTO RIGHT PLACE.  

WE ALWAYS SEEK HAPPINESS FROM MATERIALISTIC LOVE & MATERIALISM BECOMES WAY OF LIFE. SURPRISINGLY THERE IS NO END TO POSSESSION SICKNESS AS IT INJECTS DOSE OF SHORT-LASTING EUPHORIA, PARALYSING SIXTH SENSE AND SUCCESSFULLY BARRING THE TASTE OF ETERNAL BLISS. IT'S BETTER TO STRIVE DEEP WITHIN FOR TRUE LOVE, LOVE FOR OUR BODY, LOVE FOR OURSELVES, LOVE FOR THE SOUL & LOVE FOR THE SOUL'S SOUL, INDUCING TRUE HAPPINESS & PLANTING SEEDS OF ETERNAL BLISS.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.  VICTOR HUGO A study done by Harvard concluded that true happiness lies in fulfilled relationships . That's it. It's not about money, not about status, not about achievement !! Deven shared this study and his insight that relationships with mortals are subject to give and take, JUDGMENTS, biases, temporary happiness, mutual benefit... and more... as mortals... emotions are not constantly in a state of bliss, these relationships have ups and downs... like a roller coaster...   IT prompted me to think about  Relationship . Relationships are not confined to the process of “Give & Take”, I believe it is all about giving, sharing, that to without any expectations of returns - WIIFM . Just like in a True and Pure Friendship , Expectations does not exists and  Intentions is to give -- love, respect, joy, happiness, support -- and in re...