Introduction
The simple truths below serve as a guide for tuning and refining our mental compass; nourishing and realigning our consciousness, leading towards mental bliss: the wellspring of happiness.
Our soul is purified by adequate and appropriate nourishment; advancing our awareness & understanding.
Abundance: “The ability to do what thou need, whence need be"
Resources uphold abundance. Receiving what we need when need be; equals abundance. Savoring a delectable meal; nourishes abundance. Feeling loved inspires abundance. Experiencing the goodness of warm water during a cold winter morning; an abundant feeling. Enjoying a delicious fig, freshly plucked, symbolizes abundance. Watching the sunset, in tone with the sounds of the ocean, during a warm summer day; is a majestic painting of abundance.
Abundance is here, there and everywhere, found in a myriad of forms and colors; tune into the radiating light of abundance; a torrent of splendor soaking our being in everlasting joy and gratitude.
Gratitude: “ Grace”
Being grateful cultivates bliss. Whence our attention drifts towards that which we have not; we merely attract discordant useless feelings. Coveting the possessions of others, frustrations arising from beholding past memories, and other such mentalities, nourish unnecessary, detrimental, feelings and circumstances. If a desire may be praiseworthy: the only useful course of action consists of taking powerful, effectual, action! Worrying about apparent deficiencies; causes a loss of time, energy and happiness.
Cultivate an “attitude of gratitude”.
Love: “Feeling the universal connectedness”
A most precious experience, meagerly expressed in words, profound beyond definition & understanding.
Regardless of any seeming shortcomings, mistakes or defects; know that you are eternally, irrevocably, uncompromisingly, loved. On the octave of love, flow with grace & harmony, throughout life & beyond.
Profound personal and planetary healing and transformation will manifest when we will feel truly loved.
When we feel and know true love, we will love ourselves, which cultivates inspiration; removing and altering constraining and unserviceable habits and limitations, whilst prompting joyous liberating modalities of being.
Truly loving ourselves fosters the true love of others.
Know thou art loved and, love your-self unconditionally and the other selflessly!
Grounding:“Humility"
We should fly as high as possible, yet always maintain an awareness and connection with our surroundings.
By all virtuous means, be all that you can be; without being what you art not: infallible. Strength and success without grounding may cultivate the harmful qualities of arrogance and sloppiness, assuring an eventual harvest of failure.
Arrogance causes the malfunctioning of sound judgment: typified by the undervaluing and underestimation of others, the overestimation of the self and misjudging and misunderstanding the gravity of potentially troublesome situations, often all of the above.
Fearlessness: “The power of action"
Freedom of action demands courage. Fearlessness summons the power of action.
Fear is absolutely groundless, unless we are faced with tangible dangers; the point of a loaded gun or the sight of an angry bear, for example.
Confronting our fears will cultivate and enhance our ability to take necessary action, regardless of constraining, limiting, emotional fears, often stemming from embarrassment and rejection. Whence we surpass fear; actions may flow freely, effortlessly; bestowing independence, power and freedom.
Successful people act without fear. Take action every day.
Forgiveness
“The release of negativity and the neutralization of acidity"
When hate lingers in our heart and mind, valuable energy will be needlessly wasted. HATING is DRAINING: emotions of hate lead to unhappy (negative) feelings; in-turn, leading away from happy-being.
Forgive and let go; move on.
Forgiveness ought to be our highest aspiration.
A person truly able to forgive will never waste energy hating or plotting revenge. Some people feel physically ill when reviewing the wrongdoings of past lovers or family members: manifesting acidic reactions in the body, due to the stressful re-experience of associated, traumatic, feelings. Forgiving, and even blessing, the wrongdoer, disarms the emotional blockage related to the memory, which releases the acidity; the burden of carrying a pain-full memory may thereby be relinquished, and our soul may dwell in a peaceful abode.
Acceptance
“Transcending the past, embracing the future, being in the now, and distinguishing between alterable and unalterable circumstances"
We ought to accept that which we cannot change. Why inconvenience the present with the immutable past? Why worry about occurrences beyond our power of action? Learn what you can from past experiences, accept that which you cannot change; do so without fear, regret and anger; life is a school.
Letting go of that which we cannot change is a fundamental skill, joy sowing habit, we must practice if we are to live happily forever after!
A practice to master; worthwhile beyond measure.
Part Two: Art and Happiness
Goodness in beauty; emotions in motion, form, color and sound; stimulating feeling: uplift meant, laughter, joy, love and awe
Art should inspire and uplift the spirit; unfortunately, a significant part of successful film productions typify our morbid fascination with excessive sadness and violence. Drama may purify the human mind, however, we create our own reality; if our visions are dominated by spectacles of tragic endings, violent accidents, violent love affairs, violent death, finely orchestrated expressions of evil and horror, and splendid manifestations which supposedly expose the meaninglessness of being; thence such modalities of reality may eventually, consciously or unconsciously, dominate our vision of the present and the possibilities of the future.
Our collective overt fascination with tragedy is often, ironically, particularly remarkable in highly artistically successful cinematic productions; mediocre movies mostly tell of unconvincing and unsatisfying so-called happy endings; implying happy endings are unrealistic, and that tragic endings are to be expected. Fortunately, many artistic exceptions demonstrate the potential to create profoundly inspiring and uplifting motion pictures.
Artistic manifestations, producing bliss and inspiration, are most beneficial in extension of happiness. Observing the feelings generated by the body, in consequence to the art we introduce into our lives, is of quintessential importance in determining the capacity of art to further our happiness and wellbeing.
Beautiful, aesthetic, artistic sorrowful and dramatic productions may have a vacuum to fill during certain stages of life; the formation of happiness and wellbeing will however mostly be facilitated by the introduction of art which induces serene, joyful, hopeful, blissful, feelings, and such productions ought therefore certainly predominate our daily experience, if we are to cultivate happiness and wellbeing, and harvest the fruits of joy.
Which feelings are we nurturing and culturing?
Part Three: Our Fellow Companions
Inspiration, generation, reinforcement, community (sharing: joy, laughter, love, emotion) and growth.
The people in our surroundings should reinforce our happiness, strengthen our resolve, encourage benign personal development and individuation, and inspire the achievement of our aspirations.
Relinquishing fear, daring to dream, feeling ecstatic, experiencing satisfaction and great accomplishment may frighten certain people in our circle of associations; a completely natural consequence of our personal transformation; as we move into a different frequency of being, many of our connections will remain in the constancy of the previous frequency.
Letting go without sadness: everyone is at a certain part of The Great Journey. Follow happiness, love and abundance. Doing the same thing over and over again; will not produce different results. Most people are somewhat “satisfied”; neither happy nor unhappy.
Happiness is inspiration: activating human potential leads to an influx of new associations and circumstances. Initially, however, we may perhaps experience a state of being, feeling, somewhat alone, and on our own; evolving past previous limitations demands determination. Move forward in faith.
We daily strengthen our resolve, relinquish the hold of people and objects no longer serviceable, and establish connections with a vast reinforcing and resourceful community.
Part Four: Nourishing the Mind
A daily visualization of our life purpose (meaning): a positive empowering vision of our future; inspiring action (positive trans-formative action; instigated by a cheerful strengthening vision)
Life Mission
Defining a life purpose (life mission): The meaning of life; giving life meaning
Without faith brightening our path: in darkness we are heading towards no-where
When obstacles obstruct our way, we may lose sight of day; however faith moves mountains, whereafter we may enjoy an expanded, enlightened, whole-some, over-view.
Meaningful work will never be completed without faith; patiently encouraging onwards, towards synthesis and completion, in face of apparent setbacks, limitations and frustrations
Without a grand vision, a distinct, purposeful, mission; one shall find life a struggle, beset by grueling, inescapable, pitfalls, subjected to capricious chance and happenstance. When life feels burdensome and meaningless, events seem to coincide and conspire disadvantageously, a higher purpose, inspiring our being, will ground our experience in face of the elevated, enlightened, perspective, majestically projected by our life mission.
The meaningful integration of our purpose into the grand scheme of life lets supreme excellence be expressed via our being.
Everyone is part of the grand experience of life, wherefore all may find a beautiful, meaningful, purpose for being; that something inspiring, for which it is truly worth living. Unfortunately, we often reluctantly reveal our true, unique, being, due to fears of social alienation, emotional turmoil, ridicule and isolation; a devastating tragedy, since every being is a blessing when unmasked and individuated, yet whilst masked; an imitation; a generic copy. What do we truly desire? To what do we truly aspire? How does our vision feel whence intensely visualized, profoundly envisioned? How may we be part of the grand solution?
Visualizing how we envision our so-called dream life is an effectual daily meditation. Spending time thoroughly feeling how our dream-life may feel and look helps us understand whether our aspirations are inspiring our inner core; only once our future visions is acutely imagined and contemplated may we know whether we are on the right path, since, for example, a person may think he simply desires a lot of money on his bank account, however, the imagined excitement may actually be sparked by the prospect of travelling without constraint; and not mere digits on a computer screen. We must therefore dive deeply into our vision.
Routinely visualizing our long term goals in extension of our mission; reinforces daily proactive action.
Our visions ought inspire warm tingling feelings and sensations, during contemplation, otherwise we have yet to discover our inner longing and calling.
The simple truths below serve as a guide for tuning and refining our mental compass; nourishing and realigning our consciousness, leading towards mental bliss: the wellspring of happiness.
Our soul is purified by adequate and appropriate nourishment; advancing our awareness & understanding.
Abundance: “The ability to do what thou need, whence need be"
Resources uphold abundance. Receiving what we need when need be; equals abundance. Savoring a delectable meal; nourishes abundance. Feeling loved inspires abundance. Experiencing the goodness of warm water during a cold winter morning; an abundant feeling. Enjoying a delicious fig, freshly plucked, symbolizes abundance. Watching the sunset, in tone with the sounds of the ocean, during a warm summer day; is a majestic painting of abundance.
Abundance is here, there and everywhere, found in a myriad of forms and colors; tune into the radiating light of abundance; a torrent of splendor soaking our being in everlasting joy and gratitude.
Gratitude: “ Grace”
Being grateful cultivates bliss. Whence our attention drifts towards that which we have not; we merely attract discordant useless feelings. Coveting the possessions of others, frustrations arising from beholding past memories, and other such mentalities, nourish unnecessary, detrimental, feelings and circumstances. If a desire may be praiseworthy: the only useful course of action consists of taking powerful, effectual, action! Worrying about apparent deficiencies; causes a loss of time, energy and happiness.
Cultivate an “attitude of gratitude”.
Love: “Feeling the universal connectedness”
A most precious experience, meagerly expressed in words, profound beyond definition & understanding.
Regardless of any seeming shortcomings, mistakes or defects; know that you are eternally, irrevocably, uncompromisingly, loved. On the octave of love, flow with grace & harmony, throughout life & beyond.
Profound personal and planetary healing and transformation will manifest when we will feel truly loved.
When we feel and know true love, we will love ourselves, which cultivates inspiration; removing and altering constraining and unserviceable habits and limitations, whilst prompting joyous liberating modalities of being.
Truly loving ourselves fosters the true love of others.
Know thou art loved and, love your-self unconditionally and the other selflessly!
Grounding:“Humility"
We should fly as high as possible, yet always maintain an awareness and connection with our surroundings.
By all virtuous means, be all that you can be; without being what you art not: infallible. Strength and success without grounding may cultivate the harmful qualities of arrogance and sloppiness, assuring an eventual harvest of failure.
Arrogance causes the malfunctioning of sound judgment: typified by the undervaluing and underestimation of others, the overestimation of the self and misjudging and misunderstanding the gravity of potentially troublesome situations, often all of the above.
Fearlessness: “The power of action"
Freedom of action demands courage. Fearlessness summons the power of action.
Fear is absolutely groundless, unless we are faced with tangible dangers; the point of a loaded gun or the sight of an angry bear, for example.
Confronting our fears will cultivate and enhance our ability to take necessary action, regardless of constraining, limiting, emotional fears, often stemming from embarrassment and rejection. Whence we surpass fear; actions may flow freely, effortlessly; bestowing independence, power and freedom.
Successful people act without fear. Take action every day.
Forgiveness
“The release of negativity and the neutralization of acidity"
When hate lingers in our heart and mind, valuable energy will be needlessly wasted. HATING is DRAINING: emotions of hate lead to unhappy (negative) feelings; in-turn, leading away from happy-being.
Forgive and let go; move on.
Forgiveness ought to be our highest aspiration.
A person truly able to forgive will never waste energy hating or plotting revenge. Some people feel physically ill when reviewing the wrongdoings of past lovers or family members: manifesting acidic reactions in the body, due to the stressful re-experience of associated, traumatic, feelings. Forgiving, and even blessing, the wrongdoer, disarms the emotional blockage related to the memory, which releases the acidity; the burden of carrying a pain-full memory may thereby be relinquished, and our soul may dwell in a peaceful abode.
Acceptance
“Transcending the past, embracing the future, being in the now, and distinguishing between alterable and unalterable circumstances"
We ought to accept that which we cannot change. Why inconvenience the present with the immutable past? Why worry about occurrences beyond our power of action? Learn what you can from past experiences, accept that which you cannot change; do so without fear, regret and anger; life is a school.
Letting go of that which we cannot change is a fundamental skill, joy sowing habit, we must practice if we are to live happily forever after!
A practice to master; worthwhile beyond measure.
Part Two: Art and Happiness
Goodness in beauty; emotions in motion, form, color and sound; stimulating feeling: uplift meant, laughter, joy, love and awe
Art should inspire and uplift the spirit; unfortunately, a significant part of successful film productions typify our morbid fascination with excessive sadness and violence. Drama may purify the human mind, however, we create our own reality; if our visions are dominated by spectacles of tragic endings, violent accidents, violent love affairs, violent death, finely orchestrated expressions of evil and horror, and splendid manifestations which supposedly expose the meaninglessness of being; thence such modalities of reality may eventually, consciously or unconsciously, dominate our vision of the present and the possibilities of the future.
Our collective overt fascination with tragedy is often, ironically, particularly remarkable in highly artistically successful cinematic productions; mediocre movies mostly tell of unconvincing and unsatisfying so-called happy endings; implying happy endings are unrealistic, and that tragic endings are to be expected. Fortunately, many artistic exceptions demonstrate the potential to create profoundly inspiring and uplifting motion pictures.
Artistic manifestations, producing bliss and inspiration, are most beneficial in extension of happiness. Observing the feelings generated by the body, in consequence to the art we introduce into our lives, is of quintessential importance in determining the capacity of art to further our happiness and wellbeing.
Beautiful, aesthetic, artistic sorrowful and dramatic productions may have a vacuum to fill during certain stages of life; the formation of happiness and wellbeing will however mostly be facilitated by the introduction of art which induces serene, joyful, hopeful, blissful, feelings, and such productions ought therefore certainly predominate our daily experience, if we are to cultivate happiness and wellbeing, and harvest the fruits of joy.
Which feelings are we nurturing and culturing?
Part Three: Our Fellow Companions
Inspiration, generation, reinforcement, community (sharing: joy, laughter, love, emotion) and growth.
The people in our surroundings should reinforce our happiness, strengthen our resolve, encourage benign personal development and individuation, and inspire the achievement of our aspirations.
Relinquishing fear, daring to dream, feeling ecstatic, experiencing satisfaction and great accomplishment may frighten certain people in our circle of associations; a completely natural consequence of our personal transformation; as we move into a different frequency of being, many of our connections will remain in the constancy of the previous frequency.
Letting go without sadness: everyone is at a certain part of The Great Journey. Follow happiness, love and abundance. Doing the same thing over and over again; will not produce different results. Most people are somewhat “satisfied”; neither happy nor unhappy.
Happiness is inspiration: activating human potential leads to an influx of new associations and circumstances. Initially, however, we may perhaps experience a state of being, feeling, somewhat alone, and on our own; evolving past previous limitations demands determination. Move forward in faith.
We daily strengthen our resolve, relinquish the hold of people and objects no longer serviceable, and establish connections with a vast reinforcing and resourceful community.
Part Four: Nourishing the Mind
A daily visualization of our life purpose (meaning): a positive empowering vision of our future; inspiring action (positive trans-formative action; instigated by a cheerful strengthening vision)
Life Mission
Defining a life purpose (life mission): The meaning of life; giving life meaning
Without faith brightening our path: in darkness we are heading towards no-where
When obstacles obstruct our way, we may lose sight of day; however faith moves mountains, whereafter we may enjoy an expanded, enlightened, whole-some, over-view.
Meaningful work will never be completed without faith; patiently encouraging onwards, towards synthesis and completion, in face of apparent setbacks, limitations and frustrations
Without a grand vision, a distinct, purposeful, mission; one shall find life a struggle, beset by grueling, inescapable, pitfalls, subjected to capricious chance and happenstance. When life feels burdensome and meaningless, events seem to coincide and conspire disadvantageously, a higher purpose, inspiring our being, will ground our experience in face of the elevated, enlightened, perspective, majestically projected by our life mission.
The meaningful integration of our purpose into the grand scheme of life lets supreme excellence be expressed via our being.
Everyone is part of the grand experience of life, wherefore all may find a beautiful, meaningful, purpose for being; that something inspiring, for which it is truly worth living. Unfortunately, we often reluctantly reveal our true, unique, being, due to fears of social alienation, emotional turmoil, ridicule and isolation; a devastating tragedy, since every being is a blessing when unmasked and individuated, yet whilst masked; an imitation; a generic copy. What do we truly desire? To what do we truly aspire? How does our vision feel whence intensely visualized, profoundly envisioned? How may we be part of the grand solution?
Visualizing how we envision our so-called dream life is an effectual daily meditation. Spending time thoroughly feeling how our dream-life may feel and look helps us understand whether our aspirations are inspiring our inner core; only once our future visions is acutely imagined and contemplated may we know whether we are on the right path, since, for example, a person may think he simply desires a lot of money on his bank account, however, the imagined excitement may actually be sparked by the prospect of travelling without constraint; and not mere digits on a computer screen. We must therefore dive deeply into our vision.
Routinely visualizing our long term goals in extension of our mission; reinforces daily proactive action.
Our visions ought inspire warm tingling feelings and sensations, during contemplation, otherwise we have yet to discover our inner longing and calling.
