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Is there much at stake in life? What can life take from me? I can lose my job, I can lose all the money I have, I can lose my home, I can lose my happiness, I can lose my beauty and youth, I can lose my family and friends, I can lose my self-respect and dignity, I can lose my joy and lust, I can lose my intelligence, I can lose everything and everybody I love, I can lose my health, I can lose my comfort and my security, I can lose my dreams, I can lose my hope, I can lose my fate, I can lose my freedom, I can lose my life.

Is that all what life can take from me?

Challenge to life

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I: I challenge you my fear, behold thy fate for I shall not tolerate you any other minute, I will crush and destroy you!

Fear: Why you fight against me, why do you despise and hate me so much, why do you not except me? For I am a greater part of you, much deeper is the connection among us then your superficial relation with you’re so called courage. Why do thy not accept thy fate? Have I not been good to you? For I have been with you from the very first day you still where in your mother’s womb! What must I do to make you accept me? You will die in this pursuit of yours.

I: You are cunning fear, you have taken too much from me, I have paid a far greater price for you company in my life. I accept you no more I want you no more I will tolerate you no more. I wish to live my later days without you, I wish to experience life before I die. I hereby end this long marriage from which I have outgrown now. I am in love with my courage, which was shadowed by your present for all these years. Leave thy me, leave.

I: I accepted you as my fate. I thought life was just that and no more. But now I have experienced heights beyond heights so I must rebel against all the darkness in my life and you belong to that darkness.

Fear: You know you cannot get rid of me I am in your blood and veins.

I: I may or may not but I as long as there is a single living cell in my body I will try.

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At very young age there is a disbelieve by our parents in our qualities. As we grow there is disbelieve in us by our teachers and the preachers. Later on the very people we love, will not like to see us succeed.

Your whole life you are doubted, and denied the confidence. Remember there is no one in this life who will enjoy your success more then you. Majority would like to see you fail, the others do not care but there are few, very very few who will cherish your success as much as you will.

There are enough people in this world who doubt you. At least allow yourself to believe in yourself! Say to yourself:, “I will persist so I will succeed, no one will shatter my dream. I may be on a slow path and difficult road but I will achieve.”

Having an inner knowledge!

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This is a matter of the hearth not of any certain value. Like words assembled in poetry, they shatter one reader while leaving unaffected the other.

Like the sun rise, like a breeze of warm wind, like a gaze of child, like a call of duty, like a moment before victory, like a virgin before penetration, like a word between the writing and the thought.

Just an ordinary matter without any  effect or cause  !

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Recently I met a young man and a women. The young man had a great devotion in his hearth for his profit and the wholly scriptures. As I was listening to him, he was putting himself on very thin ice. Despite his true devotion to religion he was wondering what if everything which was thought and learned to me by the preachers, teachers, the parents and the scriptures only contained half the truth?

The young women had an opposite upbringing then him, she had grown in a very free spirited environment not a single scarf of religion or suppression had touched her. She wondered what if life described in the wholly scriptures provides a better way of living which leads to a more true and a happy life. What if instead of living in this free spirited mind you could devote your life to your religion your husband and family, could that not be more fulfilling and meaningfull life?

They both possessed a rebellious hearth in which they dared to challenge their own accumulated believes and challenged the circle of comfort in which they felt home.

The quality of rebellion, no main stream!

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Becoming a responsible person is taking responsibility for your situation, for your past, for your present , for your future, for your actions, thoughts and deeds. There is nobody to blame for anything accept you. A very brave hearth is needed to make such a statement, but this is the path for the brave hearted only.

At the same time set everybody responsible for everything they have done to you, they have said to you, they have thought about you. They may be your friends, teachers, strangers, neighbors, enemies, even your parents, confront them also with their responsibility or lack of it.

But In the end you are the final chooser of every choice you have made in your life!

Am I responsible?

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In my youth I went with some friends to an amusement park. I had spent all my money in the park. When taking the bus back, I did not have any money left for the ticket. The bus driver did not allow me to enter the bus, it was getting dark and the place was in middle of nowhere. No other friend had the money to pay, I was very young and very scared. Like an angel a stranger came to the rescue and paid the money for my ticket. I was then and still am at this day very grateful to him.

That moment laid a foundation in me for rest of my life in helping others who are in real need.

Be sensitive for those learning moments!

Op een dag zat ik in mijn kamer luisterend naar de geluiden van de stilte. Heel geconcentreerd en aanwezig was mijn aandacht in dat moment, als een vlijm scherp zwaard, die elke impuls waar nam die aanwezig was in die ruimte.

Gefluister hoorde ik, aandacht luisterde ik, naar het gefluister. Zo hoorde ik de dialoog tussen de kaars en de wierook:
“Waarom brand je zo bescheiden, zonder licht, zonder warmte en toch brand je veel sneller af dan ik”, zei de kaars tegen de wierook. “Ik brand functioneel mijn doel in het bestaan is nog fel branden nog langdurig branden. Mijn schepper heeft me geschapen om de geuren te produceren wat de mens tot rust brengt. Jou heeft jouw schepper geschapen om te stralen en dat te verlichten waar de duisternis heerst. Zo is jouw rol anders, uniek net zoals die van mij”, zei de wierook tegen de kaars.

Zo gingen de wierook en de kaars door met hun dialoog. Plotseling was ik ontwaakt uit mijn diepste concentratie, nog was ik gevoelig genoeg nog alert genoeg meer om hun dialoog verder te volgen. Teleurgesteld was ik van die rijke maar kortstondige ervaring. Toch brandde een vlam van vreugde in mij die mij op een idee bracht van een ….

Step 1: Write 5 successes you had in your life of which you are very proud of. This is to reflect and enjoy the successes you already had. It could be a holiday, your school, your friendship, your work, just anything you are proud of.

Step 2: Write down 50 things you would like to have/accomplished/done in coming 10 years, don’t limit yourself in your imagination. Just write whatever comes to your mind, a holiday to moon or a great relationship, A Ferrari or Fiat, a luxurious life or a relax life of a monk, just write down whatever comes to your mind.

Step 3: Write after each item, if it is a 1, 3, 5 or 10 year goal.

Step 4: Take the 4 most important 1 years goals and write down, why you want them so badly, the stronger the reason the stronger the motivation will be to achieve them. Write this in few lines per goal.

Step5: Write down what you need to become to be able to achieve these goals. Think of habit change, trainings, new adventures, whatever it may be. What do you need to “change” on your self to reach those goals.

Step 6: Write these goals at a place where you can see them every day, and start the adventure of achieving right now and here! Al great journeys start with one step at a time.

Creating the blue print!

Inspired by Jim Rohn.

This year is almost over and the next will be over in a blink of eye. That is how futile life is, as they say it is just a matter of time!

Dutch writer ones described his wishes: I wish I had read more books, I wish I had visited more countries, I wish I had learned more language, I wish I had loved more women’s, I wish I had written more songs, I wish I had spent more time with family, I wish I had earned more money, I wish I had used my time more wisely, I wish I had enjoyed life more, I wish I had cared more for my health, I wish I had achieved more goals, I wish I had helped others more. I wish I had done more new things, I wish I knew my self. I wish ……….

What shall I try to achieve in 2011 and beyond? I asked the following questions in the open sky, the following answers whispered into my ears.

How far should I go? As far as you can!
How many books should I read? As many as you can!
How much money should I earn? As much as you can! How good life must I lead? The very best you can!
What should I try to be? All that you possibly can be!
When should I stop? Till the last ray of sun-light has reached your heart!
Why should I do so much? Why should you not?
How big should I dream? As big as you can!

Our happiness grows in the same proportion as our constructive and productive growth of our life.

The No Limit Life!