Morph Pain to Purpose

Shadows envelop us in  fear,
Shadows pierce our hearts,
Shadows drain our strength,
Shadows fill our soul with doubts,
Shadows imprison us.

Who is the prisoner?
It is I.

Who is the prison guard?
Is it the shadow?
Is that a yes?

Nay.
I.
Yes, it is I.
I allow the shadows to imprison I in the prison cell.

Walking through the shadows,
It is too painful, you don't understand.
Yes, i admit, i don't understand the pain you felt.
By the way, do you understand the pain in my heart.
Pain is too personal.
And my words fail to reach you from the outside.

Yet, look at ourselves today, TODAY.
Are we living out the future in the present NOW?
Are we living in the past shadows everyday, TODAY?
And we wonder what is the life purpose about.
And we wander...
Why do we wander?
Why do we wonder?
We are in the shadows of the darkness.

Why lived out the shadows of the past today, everyday?

Shadows

As we walk towards the light, letting the light within us glow stronger each moment,
the shadows come upon us stronger,
wanting us to believe the darkness can overwhelm the dim light within us.

Circumstances seem to turn against us.
We seem to encounter difficult people around us.
Voices of doubt and timidity assails our hearts.
Our hearts seem to be sank by the arrows
of disaapointment,
misunderstanding,
dashed hope,
broken promises,
and left alone.

Our strength weakens,
our will waver,
our resolve is shaken,
 our arms grow feeble,
our knees give way,
our spirit diminishes...

What I am suppose to do next?
Endure...
Persist...
Keep on moving forward...

"I can't" whisper the little voice that sounds so real.

Yes, you can.
You can.
You have too.

It is your life that matters.
Once your light shines through the darkness,
and the light dawns,
and your heart is filled with light,
your heart is filled with hope
and you impart hope to those around you
and you will light up many lives along the journey of life.

You got to believe in yourself that you can...
You have too
and you want too

Out of the Shadows into the Light

Shadows...
Shadow of the past regrets
Shadow of "If..."
Shadow of gossips and rumours
Shadow of betrayals
Shadow of guilt
Shadow of broken promises
Shadow of shattered dreams
Shadow of doubts and fears
Shadow of loneliness
Shadow of rejection

Two options:

Stay under the shadow of darkness

Soar towards the great shadows, reaching for the Sun beyond the shadows

What's on the mind?
The shadows are too powerful for me to breakthrough

I guess you may need to refocus.

I love walking in the greens.
On an early morning, i was walking on the well troden track in the green.
Darkness surrounds.
So i decided to look straight ahead rather than looking down for the right spot for my feet to land safely... yet uncertainty gripped my heart. "What if..."

Suddenly, i decided to look further ahead.
Morning light was dawning
Then i stayed my eyes on that light ahead
Amazingly, i found myself walking steadier
My feet landed on sure ground in the midst of the uneven ground, roots and branches
And I walked straight ahead
And reached the destination,
Walked up the watch tower,
and soaked in the lightness of the morning sun

When we walking through the shadows,
our eyes focus on the light ahead.
This is the beginning of the breakthrough.

The queston:
What do you see first in the core of your mind when walking through the shadows?

Does Our Life Have a Limited or Unlimited Horizon of Success and Possibility?

"Researchers in the neurophysiology of the brain are beginning to give us some profound insights into our real potentiality. Using conservative estimates, researchers have projected that there are 100 trillion neuron junctions in the human brain. That means that our possible mental sates are more than the total number of atoms in the universe. Think about that... our brain potentially an find more possibilities that there are atoms in the universe. Is it possible for us to comprehend infinity? Maybe. Is our field of possibilities vastly larger than we think? Definitely.

Excerpt from: Kevin Cashman, Leadership From the Inside Out,  167

Yes, our life have a unlimited horizon, i wish to add: within reason.

How come?

Imagine the rabbit and the segull  on a running competition. If the rabbit stays focus and keep on walking with leisure, the rabbit will win the race on the ... earth.

Imagine, when the compettiion is on water, who will win the race?

Do you know who you are?

If the seagull knew who he was, he will gain higher degree of self-awareness, "I am meant for the sea. What reason to compete with a rabbit who is a fast runner on the earth? Each has its own gift and talent, i will focus on what i am meant to do and do it best. I knew my place."

Do you know your playing field?

Mind in the World, World in the Mind...Balancing Art

Mind is the world, expanding horizon.
World in the mind, expanding creativity.
Balancing the two calls for humility, honesty and harnessing these two paradigms to move on ahead.

Humility because there are new horizons yet to be discovered, i.e. there's more ahead.
Honesty because what i have known is like a little drop of water in the vast ocean, yet I admit what I know is a bit of the byte in the days ahead.
Harnessing both will develop within gratefulness within us.
Gratefulness conditions our hearts towards openness to receive and to give.

And humility wins a helping hand.
Gratefulness wins friends.

The World Contains the Mind

Yesterday, we consider the mind contains the world.
Now, let us think about "the world contains the mind".
What does this statement mean?

Look up and we see the sky.
Beyond the sky is the Ozone layer.
Beyond the ozone layer is the universe.
Universe beyond universe and beyond universe ...

What does this mean to me personally?

We may have heard the saying, "The sky is the limit."
When we perceive the sky is the ceiling of the world, then how does this paradigm impact the way we forge ahead through the challenges of life?

When we perceive the ozone layer is all that is to the world, though we have an expanded horizon, yet how does this impact us again when we meet with greater challenges in the pursuit of our dreams? Some may exclaims: If we break through the ozone layer, we vanish.

When we see the world contains universe, universe and universe, then what does this mean to us in facing the brutal facts of reality about us, about others and about the world around us?

I hear you say, "Now i see."

Yes.

Possibilities.

My Mind Contains the World

What does "My mind contains the world"?
There are many possibilities.

My mind is creative.
My mind is colorful.
My mind possesses the solutions.
My mind is a mystery, yet to be unfolded in its fullness.
My mind is a many beautiful things.
And I believe in possibilities.

Or

My mind sets the boundary of the world.
My mind is like the frog looking at the sky in the well.
My mind is closed to thinking about possibilities.

Everyone desires to change for the better, taking a leap into the light.
Yet, the greatest leap is: What is in the wall of self-limiting beliefts to be demolished?
Ready to cross-over?

Leap into the Darkness yet the Light is Breaking Forth

One reason resisting to embrace the brutal fact about ourselves is: we are immobilized by the fear of darkness engulfing us.
Let us pause and ponder: Why is it we are fearful of the darkness engulfing us?
Read slowly: The darkness is most fearful when we are aware of its presence and power over our lives. And it knows its power over us is passing away.
Awareness is powerful before change.
The fact that we recognize the power of darkness means the Light has broken forth within us, broken forth the darkness, and the darkness is overcome by the Light.
Therefore, the darkness does all it can to make us believe that it is powerful to control us, making us fearful to leap into the darkness where light await.
This is a lie of the darkness.
As you allow the Light to shine brigher each moment, which require persistence, persistence, and persistence, you will experience the Light giving you greater light increasingly, a little here, a little there.
Why persistence? We have been in the darkness for far too long. And it takes persistence to like the little light within burn brighter each moment of life.
Remember: keep the light burning... it does not matter where it is a little flame.
The day will dawn where the little spark will set you ablaze in the Light.
When you take the leap into the darkness, you are amaze to discover one thing:
You are taking a leap beyond the darkness into the Light.

Cross Over

Working out one's dream requires a cross over within our inner world. There are derailing beliefs that we don't know about them yet we can choose to know them by the fruits of our lives. Choosing requires courage to face the brutal fact: I am responsible for where i am today. I am responsbible for my character today.
Have I discounted the external stimuli upon us every single day?
Our external environment is beyond.
There is one thing that is within our reach.
Choice.
What is responsibility?
It is the ability to respond.
You and I have the ability to respond to the external challenges when we are willing to reinvent our inner world of thoughts, feelings and choices.
In other ords, we got to have the courage or boldness to face ourselves: the good, the bad and the ughly.
My student Sam said, "If a person gives an excuse, it is a cover up which results in nothing coming forth for him." 
Making dreams a possibility requires cross over in us: Face our self, the good, the bad and the ugly. No excuses. No blaming. No justification.
Say: I am responsible for my choices. Period.
Are you ready to cross over?