if you have other opinions of symbolic meanings that I the artist wasn’t able to even pick up, please share, more than interested in all of your opinions! 

Therefor, only one who is careless of his or her life… or a fool… approaches, let alone openly seeks out, welcomes, and embraces the unknown wholeheartedly and without caution.

This is not the same as those rare, extreme, but nonetheless real moments in our living and exploration of life when we may be faced with having to choose between the certainty of destruction or death on the one side, and the unknown, which may hold out at least the possibility of success and life on the other…

… those (hopefully few) times in one’s life when hope must, and rationally does, rule against caution in choosing the unknown, our doing so then coming from our thrust FOR life, being at those moments the only – and coldly logical – choice to be made to HAVE a chance to live by experiencing the glory of a miracle in random chance… or the Universe’s (or God’s, if you prefer) blessing… instead of the sureness of non-existence.

But in our everyday lives, what is much more often the case is that we hold on to many things that make us unhappy because, for bad or worse, they are familiar and have become “home” to us… the place inside and outside us to which we have become accustomed or inured (which is often a palpable dullness), but are at least certain that they exist… fearing that to venture outside of and beyond what we know simply for the sake of what only MAY be is to risk that the unhappiness, and the awareness that we feel that we somehow don’t “fit” well in our life as we’ve come to know it, may get even worse, that we might not even be able to return to living even with the degree of unhappiness we’ve become used to and know that we can at least live with (despite our discontent)…

… and prove to us NOT that our hopes for the existence of “better” may be real, but that our fears that we cannot… and will NEVER… experience the happiness and joy that our souls innately know and so BELIEVE life is capable of containing for us are (real)…

… causing the loss of all hope… which we fear would be the death of our soul.

In that way, accepting unhappiness in our lives and becoming content with it is to live by a compromise with our desire for happiness, a kind of wager with our souls, clinging to the hope that we may yet find or achieve happiness, but doing so ONLY by never risking loss of it by ever actually seeking it out and possibly not finding it, or, having found it, finding that it doesn’t last as long as our unhappiness does.

And therein lie the half-lived and continually unhappy lives of countless many…

.. existing in the purgatory of the misery of life, while believing that they may be avoiding something worse, Hell… which is to live with the soul’s having died…

… by never taking the chance – in any way other than in our dreams – to be more fully alive, to look for and possibly find and live our dreams, and to soar.

It is no wonder, then, that depression makes us want to sleep…

… depression being so often the sadness and frustration of feeling only partly alive and hopelessly “lost” without enough of a functioning sense of ourselves and who, and what we are (which is the inner flame of our souls) to even know where to LOOK for happiness and fulfillment… let alone find it.

are unaware of this topic. I also felt a little awkward when, for the first time, I read an article in which it had been demanded that voluntary death should be accepted as a constitutional right.  Though, in western countries this demand has been in calling for much earlier. Many books have been written and published there on this subject. It was said that in modern age of science a pill or technique should be researched which can make a person’s death comfortable and painless who wants to die at his will. The reasons in their support they give are that if a person suffering from incurable diseases like cancer or in disability he depends wholly on others, it is better to die rather than suffer a lot of pains and uncomforts. For this he needs a legal right to die at his will. Though a legal right could not be achieved, it established in different countries such institutions, hospitals and organizations that provide medicines and advices for those who want to accept voluntary death.

Let’s see antiquity of involuntary death. There are ample proofs of the prevalence of involuntary death in Indian mythology and ancient scriptures. For instance, body abandoned by sage Sutikshan Muni in the period of Ramayana. It is said in Ramcharitmanas- Ehi bidhi sar rachi muni Sarbhanga|Baithe hriday chhadi sab sanga|| And in the era of Mahabharat, the story of Bhisma’s death is not hidden to anyone. On considering deeply, we come toknow that both of of them had attained sddhi and and their fame spread out far and wide as great men in their life time. Such a person, who has gave up everything for his country and society, his voluntary death has never been termed as suicide; and to call it so is improper and condemnable. In this way we find that Hindu Scriptures accept right to voluntary death. Here it is to be noted that it was never announced from any

Motivation is a very important topic; we can bring a positive and meaningful change in our life by understanding it fully. Let’s examine what is Motivation? What is its importance in our lives? What is the relation of motivation with success? Which factors are essential for elevating motivation and what are the factors that reduce or kill motivation?

In simple words, motivation is a name of “energy” or “power” that enables a person following his targets with full heart and soul. In the presence of Motivation the journey of a person keeps on moving ahead automatically and a person completes the most difficult tasks happily and easily. Will power and motivation are the essential ingredients for success.

It is the same power that pushes a worshipper leaving his warm bed in the severe cold for worshipping, convinces any soldier performing his duty in unfavorable conditions in a desert. It is a strange power that uplifts a person for converting impossible tasks into possible ones and it its absence the easiest task seems impossible.

In respect of motivation different experts have put their ideas in front of the world, all are important in their places, but the idea that received the most popularity was presented by American Professor Abraham Mosley in 1943. In this Article we will examine his idea thoroughly/in detail, understanding which we will be able getting the answer of the question, “What are those factors that affect motivation?”

The Abraham Mosley’s idea about Motivation cleared on the world that there are five types of human necessities in life, which on step by step completion elevates motivation in human and in case of non completion of these requirements, motivation starts declining. It must be cared much that the order of these requirements are very important because their order is set as per their importance. The human needs according to Professor Abraham Mosley are:

1- Physiological Needs

Physical needs are the foremost needs of human life, without which it is not possible keeping alive. These needs include food, shelter and cloth. With the civilization progress there are many other needs in the modern age that can be included in the category of physical needs as per our standards of living.

2- Security Needs

After fulfilling the physical needs, security needs are important. Who is not aware of the importance of security needs? A person cannot focus in the presence of insecure feelings and remained overwhelmed in variety of doubts. Possible fears about future keep him worried all the time.

Every person feels the necessity that his life and wealth would have no fears at all. He should have security in wealth and social affairs. The better condition of law and order, justice in the country, reliable punishment and reward system, conduct of merit in the society, arrangement of safety from accidents and health fulfills the human security needs.

3. Love and Belonging Needs

After fulfilling the health and security needs love and belonging needs are important. We all know that human is a social animal. He possesses the natural desire of giving and receiving love. Due to this need he makes friends, grows family and searches his life partner, all these things help him creating emotional bonding with others. These relations can both be sexual or non-sexual. It is also in his instinct that he wants to be a part of group whether religious, political or social.

Doing all this fulfills his requirement of love and relation. If his requirement of love is not fulfilled fully he feels himself lonely and the extreme feeling of loneliness can create depression in him. The most important aspect of this need is that in case of non-fulfillment, a person may also lose interest in the fulfillment of physical and security needs. You might have seen many people who leave eating food, leave there houses and sometimes leave their lives as well, in case they fail in getting love or face separation from their loving personality,

4. Esteem Needs

Every person has a natural need that he must be respected. He desires that other people admire his qualities and abilities present in his personality, he receives acceptance everywhere and he must be seen as respectable. In order to fulfilling this need people associate themselves with different activities and hobbies which creates a sense of contribution in him and the need of self-esteem fulfills.

If this need is not fulfilled to a considerable extent, his self-esteem gets affected and in some cases he can become a victim of inferiority complex. The more the people have low self esteem, the more they need admiration and respect from others. Such people are more inclined getting popularity and dignity, because in this way they get more respect and honor from people.

The interesting thing in this respect is that the people with low self-esteem do not get satisfaction even by the getting respect and honor externally rather the improvement process starts only when they recover their self-esteem internally. The depression cases are more critical. Such people cannot show any extraordinary performances due to their mental condition, and hence, neither considered deserving of any respect or admiration nor succeed internally recovering their low self-esteem.

5. Self Actualizing Needs

Among Abraham Mosley’s idea of needs this is the last one. The relation of this need is with the desire that if someone is using his full potential or not. It is the name of the desire by which a person wants to achieve every possible thing in life. This is an exemplary situation.

It can also be described as the growth process has not stopped in a person but is still going on with the time. The needs of self actualizing can be different in different people. Some people satisfy their desire of self actualizing by putting their energies in painting, photography, poetry and inventions.

Understanding the above mentioned details you would have guessed that these cover almost every aspect of our needs in life. There is no easy or short way keeping you motivated all the time but it is worth taking care of all these necessities in an orderly way as stated above.

Only financial stability and progress is not a guarantee of happy life but a human personality is a combination of variety of needs and every need has its own importance. All these requirements are entire reality and demand their fulfillment. Ignoring any one of these can only create a long term complexities in any one.

We often indulge in a mistake of using all of our energies, abilities and time for fulfilling any one of the above mentioned needs, while ignoring other needs of our personality. As a result, in due course of time, our motivation starts declining and ultimately we come across a mental condition where we feel lack of motivation.

The only way of dealing this situation is that we shall examine our life style and priorities carefully and evaluate the following:

To what extent can we fulfill these needs?

Where are we making mistake?

What important aspects of our life demand our attention and time?

After fulfilling all these requirements considerably, a person becomes capable of passing a complete, fulfilled, happy and satisfied life and develops an unlimited providence of energy that enables him achieving any target in life without much difficulty.

Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Content Writer

But what about more abstract ideas? I think especially in this time, due to our technological advancements, of age everything is possible. For example YOU only know that YOU are alive and are just inferring that everyone else is also. STOP i know what your thinking “this guys crazy”. But think about it what if this whole world is made specifically for you? Or perhaps this is a simulation. A simulation that lets you experience life so when you come out of it you know the knowledge of a lifetime, meanwhile still in a child’s body. Great movie idea huh. Think about how insane people believe what is happening remember the brain is capable of anything. Or perhaps we are all the same all the EXACT same entity only changed by genetic differences and different events that take place to you. Picture this, If you take twins and they where identical in their genes no variation what so ever a clone so to speak. Then you take these two people and run them through life with the same exact events taking place. Shouldn’t they respond in the same manner? If they do what does it same about life that we are just like animals we respond to our environment in order to survive. You can say that then why do people kill themselves? The simple explanation can be that in their minds they believe that life on earth is worse then death and they think that the only way for their soul to survive happily is to rid of the pain.

However you take this whether you think that this is bogus and impossible then you go to church or go play on your Ipads. Think about how abstract an Ipad it how you can read, write, and watch movies all in a small portable device. Also that you are going to worship something that no one truly knows exists. So once again are these inquiries truly outrageous.

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The Way of Love

Love is not a choice; it is a state of being. Love is not a prerrogative of the human condition; love is inherent in our being, as it is justice or mercy and faith, which are all manifestations of love. Because love is the completion of being, and it is said it is the fulfillement of all law. You cannot choose love as much as you cannot choose to have brown or blue eyes; it all comes with the package. Love is particularly the highest manifestation of virtue and wisdom.

If love were considered a choice, life would be a problem, and so it is, because we think we must pick and choose love, or reject it. The difficult questions of life, those that arise with every human flaw, have their root in our choices as human beings. No matter how long a time we get to make our choice, we would always miss the mark, because between love and hate, there is a miryad of lesser, incipient feelings. And what is less than love is double mindedness. And so we are, unless we become aware of the problematic, and go to the roots.

Going to the roots of the problem is going to the depths of humility, where we have our being.

There is in the human being three known states of being: conscious, subconscious and unconscious. Solving a problem doesn’t finish it, because we have simply arrived to the conclusion, after so and so experiences, that we have a problem where it is difficult for us to love in deed and truth. This, precisely, allows us to remain looking at the problem from different angles; and this looking, just this turning the problem around, will not allow the problem to be relegated to the subconscious.

 As soon as we –who have an unsolved problem– allow it to fall into the subconscious, we are relegating it to our history of unsolvable problems. On the other hand, there was never a problem that went for long without a solution if we just kept an abstract looking at it without thought, without valuing its pros and cons, or seeking to bring any solutions. We need to have the intention to relax in it as much as possible. And we shall see, eventually, what happens. We should want to do it daily.

Because any problem that becomes subconcious is half way to become obliterated by the deluge of our past, unsolved problems, due to our incapacity to pay attention without our history of complains about the issue at hand. We so much choose to do something more convincing, something more akin to our ego necessities that feelings of love and justice and mercy do not fit in the picture. We usually want to judge others without a clear mind and heart, and that is counterproductive to our mental sanity.

But love is so persistent and enormously powerful that from time to time, as we find a moment of respite, of anonimity, of peace and quiet, it will find a way to appear, sporadically so, quietly, so quietly that it will go unnoticed at first. 

But with all our greed, anger and fear in which we live nowadays, usually it is quite natural that our unobservant ways of love, will become a simple dramatism we will flash at the soap opera, or the movie, where we can shed a tear or two. And those feelings will be short of love; they will be tainted instead with all the gamut of selfish desires and lower passions the soap opera personages will flare up in our subconscious.

As the lack of love in our lives aggravate this way, the problem is relegated to the universal unconscious. It is in this unconscious where all the good, and the bad and the ugly reside. Without enough help, without a guide, any human being that might dare to go into the deep and dark waters of the unconscious, would easily get lost, forever.

Nevertheless, there is help. Meditation provides the necessary help to go into the unconscious and bring up the power of love in our lives. For there is a Spirit in man –and woman–, resilient, immensely powerful enough to rescue us from the unsconcious every time we go in meditation. The purpose of this Spirit of Christ is to help us learn to remain conscious in the depths of the unconscious. Every time we would get paralyzed by the fear, or by the anger or by the greed we might encounter during our meditation, when we go deep into the “waters” of the unconscious, we would come up instead with new insight, new and renovated equanimity, and of course new frontiers, for we have been expanding our dominions during meditation. Remember: we are learning to remain conscious even in the depths of the universal unconscious.

Moreover, our guide on the path of meditation, who has been the Spirit of Christ, or the Spirit of God, has been marking the terrain, as ours. For everytime we would go into meditation, we will find that we can remain conscious and in equilibrium whenever we get to face the problem that used to bother us in the beginning.

Nevertheless, we won’t solve any problems by striving to find a solution; but by accepting the riddle or problem as part of life. It is when we stop just “seeking” for solutions, and instead we become accepting the Spirit of Christ in our lives, accepting the will of God. It is only then, that we have become a human being in all the essential, pure meaning of what that signifies, truly.

It is only then that we might have enough “presence” to act without attachments, and even though the outcome would not be what we may have expected, still we would be able to see the problematic without any suffering on our part. That doesn’t mean we would become indifferent to people and things, but we would be able to relax in the face of adversity, and without any self pity or personal suffering.

Of course, we will keep our feelings intact –love is a feeling too–, and we would still be able to care and feel love and compassion for others, even though without any undue dramatism.

Continues…

I had this new contract to write for some websites. And just everything else, it has its thrills and challenges. You get up with the idea of working your ass out -as they say- and having some more dollars into your coffers. Yes, that is what everyone wants. Work would be useless if it isn’t rewarding. And i have had lots of people coming in and asking you to do something.

Sometimes we do not care how it is done inasmuch as we are paid for it. Look around, go around the byways of this overpopulated city and see what people go through… yes, people will do anything just anything to have a loaf for the night. And dare you point an accusing finger at anyone? Society is cruel and life is unfair. That is what you’ll hear many people say, and they are right when they say it and you ain’t just going to fit them into that kind of your moral paradigm. People need to live. They need to feel life run through their veins. But what has become of people is that they struggle to survive.

…. and the house is broken, and the family is broken and the man in the house is broken. It is society that ha broken them down.

And I think of it as I rush through the wistful hours of dusk, trying to close up a few more things before the day is over and stress exacting and the pain of fatigue, the sweats of sitting compressed to a chair for hours writing what, I wonder if anyone would read. Somewhere deep inside me, somewhere down that space where I and God and conscience inhabit, I feel the surge of life. No work born of the will to cultivate and offer life is vain. It is its own reward. Somewhere deep inside that solitary space, I know that work has its value.

I’ve got little time to work on this book. One never start a story that he won’t finish. The beginning of a tale is always a promise. It opens the wounds of readers, and at the end, it offers an antidote. I need to do justice to my readers. I need to get back to the track where I trailed off. I need to get back into the world of Haven Valley where my dream hero dwells.

It is not how much our service is paid that matters. What gives human work dignity is what it does within us, how it enhances the landscapes of our soul, how it enlivens the humanity in us, and how it draws us towards us. And that is the reason I am coming back to the road, to this path I have walked on for sundry years. The path that few will take.

Scientists have found archaeological evidence that Neanderthals buried their loved ones with handfuls of flowers – neatly organized, doesn’t this show that there was some belief in an after- life. The film exorcism was actually based on the true story of a girl called Annelise Michal that was possessed by a demon. Unfortunately, she died of starvation and dehydration after tried and failed attempts to heal her soul. 

This piece of writing is from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel

Anneliese went on a pilgrimage to San Damiano with a good friend of the family, Thea Hein, who regularly organized such pilgrimages to “holy places” not officially recognized by the church.[3] Because Anneliese was unable to walk past a crucifix and refused to drink the water of a holy spring, her escort concluded that she was suffering from demonic possession.[2] Both Anneliese and her family became convinced she was possessed and consulted several priests, asking for an exorcism. The priests declined, recommended the continuation of medical treatment and informed the family that exorcisms required the bishop’s permission.[1] Eventually, in a nearby town, they came across vicar Ernst Alt, who, after seeing Anneliese, declared that she didn’t “look like an epileptic” and that he didn’t see her having seizures.[3] He believed she was suffering from demonic possession.[2] Alt urged the bishop to allow an exorcism. In September 1975, Bishop Josef Stangl granted Father Renz permission to exorcise according to the Rituale Romanum of 1614,[2] but ordered total secrecy.[4] Renz performed the first session on 24 September.

Once convinced of her possession, Anneliese, her parents, and the exorcists stopped seeking medical treatment, and put her fate solely into the hands of the exorcism rites.[2] Sixty-seven exorcism sessions, one or two each week, lasting up to four hours, were performed over about ten months in 1975 and 1976.[2] At some point, Michel began talking increasingly about dying to atone for the wayward youth of the day and the apostate priests of the modern church, and refused to eat. At her own request, doctors were no longer being consulted.[2]

On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated her cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed.[5] She weighed 68 pounds (30.91 kilograms).

However there are accusations from scientists that Anne in fact was suffering from a mental disorder that made her believe she was possessed by a demon. 

 Ermmmmm……Anyway, let’s get back to ghosts:

I don’t think I’ve ever been scared in my life, but last night was one of the scariest nights ever. I was looking after a friends pet whilst she went to check on her mom (she lives on a floor of a large Victorian type house). I decided to watch a bit of telly when the door swung shut behind me – I got so scared since there were no windows open in the house because its winter here in England. I finally built the courage to look around – armed with a blanket, to find that there was nothing there…… I swear, this has spooked me so much – I’m going to have to sleep with the light on today!

Why? Maybe some ghosts are just spirits that have not realised they are dead yet. Or they are confused and want to stay in familiar surroundings – maybe they have a message to a person that’s living. I mean who said ghosts have to be mean. Some people even say that ghosts are spirits waiting for judgement day. Ghosts are just lost people that don’t “actually” have physical bodies. There is a scientist in Russia called Dr Konstantin Korotkov (search him up) that photographed the soul leaving the body using a hi-tech science equipment that traces energy.

Or Ghosts just don’t exist………….

The best scientific answer to this is it’s just a pigment of our imagination – we, as human beings, fall for anything believable and we trick our mind into believing Ghosts? Simple….

Any way you look at it, Ghosts might or might not exist, the arguments on both sides cancel each other out, but if you want my opinion………I think I’ll stick with believing in them – after that experience last night I don’t know who wouldn’t believe in them.