Oprah is my (imaginary) Grandmother
I had been watching Oprah for a couple of months, especially Super Soul Sunday and Steep Your Soul. #amazing! The more I watched the more I wished I could have Oprah to sit next to me in a cool afternoon benchmark teaching me lessons about life.
It's probably because I never had the grandmother, mom, dad, or close mentor I could look up to to talk to me while I sat in their lap. So I researched books specifically written for older souls. I stumbled upon a good find.
A Book for the Old while You're Still Young
This book is amazing, especially for those who aren't in their midlife. It's kinda like having someone teach you what they regret doing and not doing. It tells you what to embrace now so that you can profit exponentially for when you do enter your midlife.
I see it as having the wisdom of a 40 or 50 year old while you're still 20. Imagine how beautiful, to be so mature and still have the vivacity of the young. Capturing the best of both worlds.
The author puts a spotlight on what you're experiencing and tells you what's happening to you. For example, the endless restlessness with identity crisis. The aching for that one person who'll be yours forever and trying to complete yourself with him. She tells you: it ain't gonna happen.
Stop Beating Your Compass
No one will save you but you, so stop waiting for the perfect man to complete you and the perfect job to sustain you. The only thing that's gonna sustain you is your damn effort to be the person you standard yourself to be. Right deep inside that subconscious mind of yours that you keep battering on the head to stop commenting on everything you do.
The truth is that voice is your own standards guiding you to be the person you wanna be. When you shut that person up and do what it tells you not to do, you become a hypocrite, a fake. No one and nothing is worth your authenticity.
That voice is a vibrating, high tech compass permanently glued to your heart guiding you. This was a gift given to you by God to show you the straight path. Keep stifling that compass and you'll stray to nasty woods leading you off a cliff. Deep down inside though, no matter how much you stifle that compass, you will always still hear it vibrating in your heart. Telling you what the right thing to do is, so listen and follow.
❤️Inspired by
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne Williamson
Monday, October 20, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Finding Happiness
I have attached my happiness to intangible things for as long as I can remember. If I don't have that certain thing that I want at the moment, it will haunt me in everything I do and everywhere I go. It will show itself up in every single situation I encounter and it will even follow me to my dreams. I will dream about it very often. Wake up thinking about it and sleep thinking about it. Why? Because I am a human. And what else other than happiness do humans want? If that thing has the tag of happiness attached to it, I will do anything to get it.
Then when I do get it, I am extremely happy. I go on a high for a short time and then it goes away. Then I am out looking for something else to attach my happiness to so that I can experience that high once more. But that high lasts for a transitory period. There I am for months and months, even for years seeking that one thing. Months and years of struggle thinking about this thing and when I do get it, the happiness lasts for such a short time that it is not even worth all the effort I exerted to acquire it.
There is a defect here. A major defect. Is there a way to live happily every single day. Can happiness be a thing on its own? Not attached to anything at all. Can it be independent of anything? Like float on its own, a floating force or bubble of happiness right there in the palms of my hands every single second? It has to be. And it is.
But is there a way to stop the cycle of using happiness as a currency? How can I let go of thinking about that thing I want and living in this floating force of happiness in my hands? I do not have the full answer at the moment but I really think that I am grasping the idea. When I do get the answer, then I will be writing about it. But for now, it is enough to say that happiness is not attached to anything. It stands on its own. If anybody is capable of understanding this idea, of finding the cause of the problem, of pointing to this thing and saying "yes, this is where the problem lies, I see it." If one is able to say that, then you have discovered the disease. I know exactly where the problem is and now I am going to look for a solution. I must say, just by knowing what the problem is, I feel better already. Just by knowing what the problem is. That is powerful.
I pray that we all be guided to the path of The Truth. The path of God Almighty. Because I am absolutely sure that that's where tranquility lies.
May peace be upon you all.
Then when I do get it, I am extremely happy. I go on a high for a short time and then it goes away. Then I am out looking for something else to attach my happiness to so that I can experience that high once more. But that high lasts for a transitory period. There I am for months and months, even for years seeking that one thing. Months and years of struggle thinking about this thing and when I do get it, the happiness lasts for such a short time that it is not even worth all the effort I exerted to acquire it.
There is a defect here. A major defect. Is there a way to live happily every single day. Can happiness be a thing on its own? Not attached to anything at all. Can it be independent of anything? Like float on its own, a floating force or bubble of happiness right there in the palms of my hands every single second? It has to be. And it is.
But is there a way to stop the cycle of using happiness as a currency? How can I let go of thinking about that thing I want and living in this floating force of happiness in my hands? I do not have the full answer at the moment but I really think that I am grasping the idea. When I do get the answer, then I will be writing about it. But for now, it is enough to say that happiness is not attached to anything. It stands on its own. If anybody is capable of understanding this idea, of finding the cause of the problem, of pointing to this thing and saying "yes, this is where the problem lies, I see it." If one is able to say that, then you have discovered the disease. I know exactly where the problem is and now I am going to look for a solution. I must say, just by knowing what the problem is, I feel better already. Just by knowing what the problem is. That is powerful.
I pray that we all be guided to the path of The Truth. The path of God Almighty. Because I am absolutely sure that that's where tranquility lies.
May peace be upon you all.
Better Than A Fairy Godmother دعوة أقسم النبي أن من قالها فرج الله عنه
If you say this duaa, this phrase that the prophet Noah (Nuh pbup) said in the belly of the whale, God promised to take you out of any trouble. ANY TROUBLE.
Say it: La Ilaha illa ant subhanaka in'ee kont min al dhalimeen
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