When you are always busy you are radiating the following 3 things:
1. I am more important then you; very arrogant attitude!
2. I do not know how to manage my time; we all have 24 hours in a day!
3. I cannot switch from unimportant to very important matters!
There are people who are busy while cutting tomato’s and watching “Bold & Beautiful”.
Always have a calmness around you, say to yourself, “I have a full agenda but I am not busy”, people will take you more seriously.
Time management!
End of the old and start of the new, there in-between is right space to reflect, adjust, reorganize and prioritize.
2011 will bring great opportunities for those with prepared mind!
It is true that life is present, that’s why start the preparation for the future out of the present moment.
The Past, The Present, The Future!
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When I have 1000 philosophies I will publish them in a book. The book will be called “The Tiger Philosophy”!
I hope that my philosophies will grow as I will grow, they will become more richer as I will become more knowledgeable, they will become more sharpened and authentic as I will mature.
They will reflect the world as I see from an objectively subjective point of view. Contemplating between good and evil, right and wrong. Taking the great variety and colorfulness of life into consideration. They will have more depth and passion into them, a great determination to express. Continuously trying to get to the debt of understanding as far as understanding allows it to go. They will try to touch the boundaries where words cannot express the level of experience they have undergone.
There is a deep relationship and a destiny to grow attached to me and the tiger philosophies, that is our curse and virtue at same time!
The first century!
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It is said that after every war humanity has become more civilized, more developed, more social and less barbarian then before. We need continuously heroes and villains to raise the level of human consciousness.
Parallel to every Hitler there will come a Gandhi into existence. Improving the human consciousness towards the level of the “ubermensch”.
The iterating process!
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The most beautiful and important word ever created by men is the word “I”. Use it wisely and with great love, because this word represent your most basic and authentic nature.
There is an Arabic saying , when god created men, he whispered in each and everybody’s ear, “you are my best creation ever”.
The beginning of downfall.
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A very gentle man was telling me about the concepts of a tolerating society , respecting other person’s values. Nobody has any right to preach to others about right or wrong. He said, “I think it is crazy that people still have a very negative approach towards homosexuality and still are making racist remarks”.
I said I totally agree with you about being tolerant and everybody has right to feel and think as he/she pleases to choose. I myself find conflict with other people, when I say I disapprove homosexuality totally, that I feel very racist toward everybody who is of different nationality and color then I am, I approve fascism and I feel very strongly that the strong and intelligent must rule over the weak and the lesser.
The man stood up and called me a ”bastard”. I was puzzled by his behavior, what about my feelings, what about tolerating me as individual in my own right with all my thoughts and emotions.
The complexity of Tolerance!
My life, My thoughts, My opinion!
Finding ones true nature: I have heard a story about a very brave lion (Mufasa). He was a true king of the jungle. Life was good, there were no threats and food was in affluence. His young son (Simba) played the whole day with, herds, lams, sheep’s and other animals. There was no need to learn to hunt, there was no need to learn to fight. Sometime when the young lion got angry during play he would roar, but other animals would laugh at him instead of getting scared.
Mufasa saw this and was little concerned about Simba. Simba came to Mufasa and said, “why do they laugh at me when I roar, that happens never to you!”
Mufasa said my dear son, “when I was your age, my father send me to the top of the highest mountain to find my roar there, your is also there, you have to go and find it for yourself”. Simba got very excited and went to his journey to find his roar. Mufasa new this was a very risky journey but he also knew that Simba had to walk upon this path alone. The young lion went on his journey, running through hot dessert and cold nights, with not much food. Simba had to hunt to survive, walking upon thorns and difficult jungles, fighting against his enemies, wounded, hungry and hurt but he kept his focus towards his destiny. When he reached the top with great difficulty, he roared, and it is said that no lions roar had ever been heard like that before. It could be heard for thousand kilometers around the jungle and he had claimed his kingdom by the power of his roar and had found his true self in this harsh journey.
One must find it’s true self, the lion is not a herd or sheep he is a lion, to live a life of a lion is the purpose of his life.
In the end nothing matters but in meanwhile one must find his true self!
This story is inspired my friend (Majid Khan)
Learn to look at the intrinsic value of things. Paying a big amount could be paying very little relative to its true value and vice versa paying very little for something could mean paying too much.
These rules are universal; they can be applied to things as to people.
The search for growth!
When running in the morning, I was thinking of sleeping again. When I went to sleep I was thinking of getting up again. When I finally woke up I was thinking of getting late at work. When I was waiting for the bus I was thinking of reading my book. When I was reading my book I was thinking about a problem at work. When I was at work I was doing everything else but work………….
What so ever we do we do not do it with our full attention. When we are not with our fullest attention in our experience we miss the moment. Most of our soring for the past time is due to lack of a full experience. we miss the past because we never ever truly experienced the past. When we experience the moment in its fullest altitude, it becomes timeless, then there is no missing or thinking back. Because it is a part of our full experience.
What we miss from the past is what we have not experienced in its fullest.
In the morning I was very happy, in the evening I felt a great sadness. The loud music of my neighbors made me angry, after their apology I felt a great understanding for them. Looking at the beautiful sky outside I felt very alive but after 10 minutes I was terribly board of the same sky. I met a girl of whom I got very excited in the beginning, but after just 3 days I lost all my interest in her. Successfully accomplishing a big project gave me tremendous self-confidence in my abilities , but after one drawback I had the greatest self-doubt ever. A stranger smiled at me and I felt great love for him, then my friend post boned our appointment and I felt terribly rejected by him. Again I was very happy for no reason and later I was very sad for no reason.
What is this turmoil of emotions.? Is this what we call normal? Where everything in us is determined by everything outside us! Do we accept this way of “normal” life where one lives a life of a dead leave carried by the wind in what so ever directions the wind pleases to move.
Are we so weak/strong that we cannot decide for our self what we truly want? Are we the masters of our life or are we the slave of our emotions? And what does it mean to go beyond our emotions, is that equal to a lifeless life, or is there much more to it then it meets the eye?
I do not know the answers; all I know is what I feel!
The never ending story!