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Spiritual Writing on Letting Go
Ramadan Lesson number Two:
Let go; by giving, by sharing, by opening up. Let everything within you go. Let your attachments go, let your words go, let your thoughts go, just let go. Free yourself from your own self, and learn to let everything go.
Holding on to anything will cause us pain eventually, and in life, we happen to stumble over and over again onto obstacles and illusions that we only cause upon our self. One way to look at this is how to give without expecting back, how to love without expecting back, how to speak without expecting back, how to share without expecting back.
Train our souls, to give for the sake of the Divine, allow yourself to be His instrument, allow yourself to be the flower that moves with the wind, allow yourself to be the balloon that was set free by the little boy, allow yourself to be the bird that sings. Allow yourself to travel in life, to bring joy to yourself and to others. Practice by giving. Give once each day without wanting back, give for the sake of this earth to grow more greens, give for it to glow, and give for it to multiply.
We always want something back, and we always get so much back, but we forget, we become greedy, we train ourselves to become selfish and greedy. If I am not getting a response, I am never calling again, If I am not being loved, I am no longer loving, if I am not getting paid, I am no longer working. We always want something back, and it is good to get things back, but don’t be one of those who always want something back, who when you don’t get what you expect, you become upset and angry, you loose your joyous self, you loose your light, you loose your human element and become a greedy, grumpy human being.
Learn to let go, to let go of your expectations and thoughts, learn to give for no return, learn to give because you know there is a Divine, because there is something more powerful than you and everyone else, that there is something coming back to you always in different forms, in ways that we find are magical, in ways that we find no answers to, in ways that we can not predict or expect, we just receive, so give in that same way, in that way when you surprise people, when you put a smile into their hearts, when you put light into their eyes, give and ask for nothing back, want nothing back and expect nothing back.
My Creative Space
I am taking a Creative Workshop by Elizabeth Gilbert, and the below is a piece of writing in response to the following questions:
What was the last thing you really wondered about? When was the last time you experienced creative flow? What was the last passage of book, piece of music, or work or art that really inspired you? What drew you in? What are you doing when you feel most beautiful? What are your super powers? What would you do for a living if you were not afraid of anything?
I wonder about so many things; how we live, how we perceive things, where life takes us, what makes us believe in one way or another. How can things be reformed, reintroduced. I wonder about the way we perceive things, the way we go on, how we find knots and then we make them bigger by attaching them to more knots, by not realising that we are creating a huge big complicated knot. How some people can see those people who see those knots and wonder how it is that they choose to just use the knots to make them bigger, instead of simply unknot them?
I wonder about the reasons why some of us perceive things negatively when we know others perceive them positively, wouldn’t we all want to live in a one happy bubble?
I receive creative flow while researching and finding beautiful things, work, art, stories of people that make me spark, and all I want to do is dig in more, learn more, ask more, I want to dive in more, I just want to leave everything and run towards deepening, and understanding, then sharing and communicating, I love to find the passion in things that look beautiful. I find flow in connecting, in finding answers to questions, when finding dots and connecting them together, when finding stories, quotes, sayings, definitions of ideas, solutions, realities, that have been created because of those connected dots. I find flow, in finding, in feeling, and in bringing them to light.
I feel most beautiful, when I speak, not thinking about what am saying, but I am certain it makes complete sense, when I know it is motivating, when I know my words are un-knotting the knots that were created and knotted together, complicating every single open passage in front of us. I feel most beautiful, when I can see through the eyes of the listeners a light, a light of clarity, a light of door ways, passage, air, flow, light, life again.
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Spiritual Readings & Giraffes
Muhammad (pbuh) counselled us, saying,
“Don’t try to discern the Essence of God.”
When you form ideas about his Essence, you’re just speculating.
It’s not really God’s Essence you’re beholding – it’s only your opinions soaring.
On the way to God there are a hundred thousand veils.
By nature, we all cling to some veil, while thinking we are truly seeing Him.
That’s why the Prophet outlawed such false ideas, to save us from useless imagination.
One whose conception of God lacks reverence is doomed to fall on his face.
To fall on your face is to fall head first while still thinking you’re higher, like a drunk who can’t distinguish earth from heaven.
Witness His wonders – lose yourself in awe.
When one beholds the wonders of God, abandoning pride and the claims of the ego, contemplating His work, you find your trust station and fall into silence concerning the Maker.
Then you will only say from the depths of your soul, “I cannot praise You enough.”
Jalaluddin Rumi – Mathnawi IV: 3700-3709
Spiritual Writings & Leopards
Ramadan’s Lesson Number One:
We never know what we are looking at, until we look deeper.
And we can only look deeper when we will and are welcomed to look deeper.
The door is opened, might be slightly opened, or even when it is locked and closed, it still is a view to look into and understand what it really is we are looking at.
First impressions never last, and they can mean something but are never accurate. We miss, most of the time.
But then, we get closer and closer to the true meaning of the picture we are looking into.
It can appear so dark, but once inside, it is so light and peaceful, and it can appear so light and once inside it is the darkest place on earth.
Nonetheless, we can never know just by looking at the cover.
The cover is a form. And our eyes can only have better first impression judgments when one’s vision is pure, and clean.
Other than that, our vision is blurred, mischievous, and malicious.
It is not a vision to count on, until it has been washed out from all vanity and desires. It must be like water, crystal clear.
Stereotypes are conducts of blurred vision. It is a cover that has been poorly interpreted over and over again. Most people tend to be followers, and so they follow the false meaning of the appearance.
Versus in the Quran are all forms, they can be easily misunderstood and misinterpreted over and over again, they can give you a clue to what they might mean, but they are rarely understood within full meaning. The meaning of each verse has a deep story within, and only those who attain high spiritual connection can find it is easy to find true meaning behind each verse.
Life is also a form. It is a misinterpretation. Most things are poorly visible. Most things are apparent more than true wisdom, like flares, they can be easily put off or put aside. Most things in life are easily misunderstood. Because to meaning, it is more than what we just look at, meanings are mostly always hiding inside and behind, only those who are well experienced, and well explored, those who truly understand that behind each one of us, there is something a little something more than what we just put on and walk around with.
So listen more than look, for appearances are only appearances, what truly matters is what lies within.
Art Found in Kuwait
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Birds Represent Freedom
We think being in a cage keeps us protected, keeps them protected, we think we are doing our selves and one another a favor when we put a cage around us. But birds were born free, we were born free, we learn things as we grow, we are who we are when we are set free. Yes, we can trip, and fall, we can do mistakes, and the chances of making mistakes are high, but without them, how do we know what life is? Who we truly are? Stop putting a cage around us, around each other, accept your children as they come, as they grow, as they rebel, just be there, watch them, protect them, listen to them, speak to them, but don’t put a cage around them. Don’t prevent your children from exploring life and the colors it is painted with, let them fly as far as they want and where ever their instincts take them. Don’t try to change the way they speak or dress or sing, don’t force them to make you proud just to make you feel better about yourself. The best feelings ever is seeing your loved ones spread their wings on their own and fly, the best feeling is to see that their wings are different from any other, and that they are still as beautiful or even more beautiful. Allow them to settle, allow them to be, independent or dependent, allow them to be silent, or speak their brains out, allow them to perform, or to be isolated, allow them to try. But be there to listen, to watch, to care, to love, to praise, to reflect, to smile, to hug, be there to make them feel they are not alone. Set them free.
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A Safari Experience… Living inside a Car
How does it feel to live inside a car for 4 days?
Awesome, most of the time. Freezing cold during sunrise, and very hot during the day. Looking out the jeep into the wild is the best scenery ever, it keeps getting better. Shaking the inside and outside of your body all throughout keeps you in shape, and the food box they give you makes you want to never eat again, so it kinda is a good diet and workout. We have literally, watched sunsets, and sunrises, it rained, it was cloudy, we saw hot air balloons and wild animals just the car’s distance. We experienced two flat tires, we got stuck in the mud during the storm in the middle of the wild, we survived a near death experience, we almost crashed into a buffalo, but we survived it all. Life inside a jeep car during your safari is one experience not to be missed.
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