Documenting Eruditions
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 13th, 2010
Some time back, a friend asked me if she was living her life for herself, or for others. And having a cuppa with her yesterday, she asked me that question again and answered her own question: that it was both. She explained that since her parents gave her life, she is obliged to live her […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 12th, 2010
Following an experience as cited in my earlier entry Full Frontier, I begun to see that there is indeed no need of a storyline for any feelings to arise but to stay with it. Any storyline that accompanies the feeling usually just intensifies the feelings resulting in either grasping or running away from it. In […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 11th, 2010
What is specialness but a belief of not being special? As I goggled the word ‘specialness’, something interesting caught my eye in its definition: the state or quality of being special; accompanied by an example: He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common. It is very easy to be […]
Life is just “.”, as in a dot. There is no “,” “/” “?” “=” “+” “-“ “( )” “;” “:” or even “&”. Sometimes, it can come as a “!”, as in a surprise, or an experience of awe or being marveled; but really, it is just “.”. This “.” begins and ends, on […]
Posted in Attitudes on Oct 7th, 2010
giving up, why should I have come too far to forget beautiful, just got lost somewhere along the way so much was missing when you went away let’s start from here, lose the past change our minds, we don′t need a finish line let’s take this chance, don’t think too deep all those promises we couldn′t seem […]
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up. – Anne Lamott
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Aug 25th, 2010
I received a text message from a friend I have not connected with for years who shared that she was abused. Since I do not know her well (although we were from the same class during our younger days), it was as good as sharing with a stranger; and I guess the space between us […]
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed. – Madonna This explains why, being self-sufficient is so important. When we are constantly relying on some outer reality to fulfil us, we are then continuously depending our happiness, or rather our state of being to externality of which […]
I shared with my partner the other day, that we are not afraid of how weak or useless we are; instead, we are very, very afraid of how powerful we actually are – which is the very reason why we keep ourselves locked up in a victim prison, not willing to rise up to our […]
Posted in Attitudes on Aug 10th, 2010
I remember a fengshui master whom I regard as one of my earlier teachers told me in a light hearted manner, “If you did all the judging, then what is God to do?” At that moment, it dawned upon me that the stress I was going through in most of my relationships then was indeed […]