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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Spiritual Awakening

The World is experiencing a massive, collective spiritual awakening. Evidenced by changes in laws & governments to be more open and friendly towards global integration. Encouraging personal empowerment.

Governments that continue to be restrictive tends to become stagnant and risk falling behind in all areas of human progress: In economics (the more obvious), education, information technology, wellness, entrepreneurship, group dynamics and social networking and social media, spirituality and spiritual awareness or consciousness.

Never in the history of man was information readily available in one's finger tips at a push of several buttons and keys in a computer keyboard, than today and is freely and readily available.

Man's hunger and thirst for truth has set the momentum at a growing and increasing pace. To find the truth and set man free. As it has been said: "The truth shall set you free."

The collective consciousness of humankind is awakening to the absolute truth.

Will man embrace the truth?

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Luck

Are there people who are lucky? Do you believe in luck? I ask a handful of friends these questions including myself.

It seems luck is happening to certain people. If so, wouldn't it be nice if we know what kind of people? Is it a certain race? Creed or religion? And why would I be interested?

I do not know what is luck. I mean, I do not have an immediate answer when I ask myself this question. So I look into myself and ask what have I learned from my past experiences about luck.

From my experience, I gathered luck is a favor to the undeserved. Then, I came across few more words: mercy, grace and favor. I continue this line of inquiry about myself--couldn't be mercy, grace and favor for these can come from someone. Can luck come from someone? Grace can come from someone, but there is also someone bigger than life who can give us grace. Can luck be a result of that grace from someone bigger than life?

Does luck happen to certain people? Are certain people favored? And I'm back to the question: Why would I be interested in what it is? And What is luck?

My friends' answers were:

You won the lottery.

You found 500 bucks on the way.

You won the game.

You got the most beautiful girl on the block.

You got the favorable situation.

Do you believe in luck?

And these are the answers I got:

Yes. Of course, I do.

It depends on the situation.

I closed my eyes and ponder upon the questions: How do I came to understand luck as I understood it now? Am I right in my understanding? What beliefs have I formed from my understanding of the word? How is it shaping my world?

By this simple inquiry I came to conclude that the belief or unbelief of luck plays an important part in our consciousness, and so are the words grace, mercy and favor. And for the most part we carry it from the past experiences and bring it forward automatically--unconsciously. And formed our new beliefs on top of existing beliefs we have already formed by it.

Now, I'm back to square one. And I realize I didn't have clear understanding of what luck really is. Everything I have learned about it are based from the past experience with the assumptions that it is true. I have never really questioned the integrity of my sources until now and I have arrived at square one again. So I decided to consult google.

This is what I got:

fortune: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Luck or fortuity is a belief in good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition, which happens beyond a person's control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck

Now, if you ask me again. Do I believe in luck? My answer is a definite Yes. I believe in luck. I believe I am lucky. I created luck.

An Arab student's email

An Arab student sends an e-mail to his dad, saying:

Dear Dad

Berlin is wonderful, people are nice and I really
like it here, but Dad, I am a bit ashamed to arrive
at my college with my pure-gold Ferrari 599GTB
when all my teachers and many fellow students
travel by train.

Your son, Nasser

The next day, Nasser gets a reply to his e-mail
from his dad:

My dear loving son

Twenty million US Dollar has just been transferred
to your account. Please stop embarrassing us.

Go and get yourself a train too.

Love, your Dad

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Request for your comments and thoughts about "Team Work"

No matter what your endeavor in life is,
I am sure you have heard about these
two words "team work", and you have
formulated and perhaps in some level
of degree already based your judgements,
considerations, conclusions, and
decisions around what you have
perceived and learned about it.

Please, allow me to solicit and share
your thoughts about "Team Work".

Thank you very much!