VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING THINGS INVISIBLE

Why?

2011-01-29T22:59:00.000-08:00

A few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?”

Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.
Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply.
Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.
Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life........ This is all what I found as an answer for why.

Inadequate yet true.

People, Psychology and Problems

2011-01-27T02:22:00.000-08:00

The people have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. I'm starting a blog post on this note because this post may not be worth reading for many of you but you would read it. Why? Answer is curiosity to the question that what can someone write about such a trivial matter and why would someone write about it? Albert Einstein said “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." This very quote inspired me to write post on such an unimportant thing. So hoping to find some people who would read it I would continue with my "STUPID PHILOSOPHIES." Some of the facts that I would want my friends and my readers to know ( I know its easy to say than to do but believe me, I'm seriously trying, Even if I m not able to; I guess the inspiration is enough :p) :

1. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

2. Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

3. Sensation tells us a thing, Thinking tells us what this thing is, Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. So never close your heart to feeling something.

4. The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.

5. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

6. “People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, to be in the way.

7. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.

8. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

9. People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does then people you do have a problem. Never try to superficially analyse yourself, it excites doubt rather thoroughly explore yourself, it dispels doubt.

What have I made in huge numbers..................

2010-12-12T09:06:00.000-08:00

Finally an article about "What have I made in huge numbers????" I know my friends must have guessed it......"Enemies" Over the years I may have not grown as a writer but I've certainly grown as a person and here's the cliché - credit goes to ................ sorry this time its not 1, the credit goes not only to my friends but also my enemies. My misfortunes (not many in number) have tested my friends but even better, detected my enemies. Now the question is - How have I grown as a person? I always used to believe that a friend has the same enemies as you have but.........."but"; these days I have to use this word quite a lot, thanx to my friends. The enemies that I've made by taking a decided stand perhaps have more respect for me than the friends I've made by being on the fence. I've realized that it takes your friend and your enemy working together to hurt you, one will slander you and the other one will get the news to you. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are, Instead, we trust people

to be whom we want them to be and when they're not, we cry.

Dedicated to my friends......

2010-04-27T22:23:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to 5 of my

best friends surya , shrey, nimish,

avinash and nikku; who have always

been there..............

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often even if there are miles between us.”

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”

Thanks for always being there.

Be Resolute....

2010-02-08T07:09:00.000-08:00

Each person comes into the world with specific destiny - he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally, you are here meaningfully.There is a purpose behind you, the whole world intends to do something through you. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Theres only one thing that makes the dream impossible to achieve - the fear of failure.

Mirror Symbolism

2010-01-11T22:18:00.000-08:00

The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful , it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the whole world reflects you.

The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously, we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So, relationship is one of the most powerful tools of growth; we can see so much about how we have created them.

BeLoNgInGs

2009-12-31T21:03:00.000-08:00

Everything that belongs to us comes to us only if we create the capacity to receive it.
We cannot avoid the results of our actions as it is the land on which we stand.

Happy New Year

2009-12-31T20:56:00.000-08:00

Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

May we discover.....

2009-10-23T01:13:00.000-07:00

May we discover through pain and torment,
the strength to live with grace and humor.

May we discover through doubt and anguish,
the strength to live with dignity and holiness.

May we discover through suffering and fear,
the strength to move towards healing.

May we find moments of meaning, opportunities of love
and the deep and gracious calm that comes when we allow ourselves to move on.

More than others think......

2009-10-02T23:17:00.000-07:00

Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible.

Whatever you do......

2009-10-02T23:05:00.000-07:00

Whatever you do, you need courage,
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are going wrong.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories but it takes brave men and women to win them.

The day will come........

2009-07-10T23:30:00.000-07:00

The day will come when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and the gravitation, we shall harness for God, the energies of love.
And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire......
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Its irresistible...

2009-07-10T23:26:00.000-07:00

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

If only you could love enough....

2009-07-10T23:20:00.001-07:00

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.
No disease that enough love will not heal.
No door that enough love will not open.
No wall that enough love will not throw down.
No sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference, how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake;
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and the most powerful being in the world.

Eternally be..........

2009-07-10T23:09:00.000-07:00

What is man? The light of Eternal reflection. What is the world? The wave of an everlasting sea. How could the reflection be cut off from the light or wave could be separate from sea. This man and wave are that very light and sea.

Robert Frost said.......

2009-07-08T00:12:00.000-07:00

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Precious Life

2009-07-08T00:02:00.000-07:00

Listen to the exhortation of the dawn! Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence, The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision; but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day. Such is the salutation of the dawn .

God's Signs

2009-07-07T23:51:00.000-07:00

How do we know that God exists?
Neither the things written up in the sky nor the desert down below, could have been made or written by the hand of man.

Game of Life

2009-07-07T23:39:00.000-07:00

That's what learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Life like all other games becomes fun when one realizes that its just a game. It is in the games that men discover their paradise.

2008-10-10T04:34:00.000-07:00

By Bertrand Russel:

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

What is love?

2008-08-24T23:58:00.000-07:00

Do we know what love is?
You know sensation, desire, feeling and the mechanism of thought but none of these is love.
Your love knows hate, envy, ambition, fear, the smoke of these is not love.

Do we know what love is?
Never knowing it, is the wonder of it, the beauty of it........

Its the death of yesterday and complete uncertainty of tomorrow...........

Love has no continuity nor death.
What has continuity is ever decaying and what decays isn't death...........
Love and death are inseparable and where they are, there's always destruction.........

Miracles do happen...............

2008-07-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

The man yelled "God speak to me!"
The thunder rolled across the sky but the man did not listen

The man looked around and said "God, let me see you!"
A star shined brightly but the man did not notice...............

The man shouted "God, show me a miracle"
A life was born but the man did not know............

The man cried out in despair, "Touch me God and let me know you are here"
Whereupon God reached out and touched the man......but the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.................

You are your best friend.............

2008-07-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

After a while you learn a subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul............
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security........
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises........
And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and eyes open.......
With the grace of a man and not the grief of a child and learn to build all your roads on today......
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans; and future's have a way of falling down in mid flight...............
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you have too much........
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul........................
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers........
And you learn that you really can endure, that you are really strong and you really do have worth.........
And you learn and learn..........
With every person you meet, you learn.......
With every friend or lover you learn.......
With every goodbye you learn.............

I believe

2008-06-23T11:20:00.000-07:00

	I believe that the sun shines after the rain I believe if you don't get hurt you'll never gain I believe in not doing things the easy way I believe that being selfish doesn’t pay I believe in a second chance I believe in a life long romance I believe there is life after death And standing up to a life of mess I believe in love at first sight I believe that revenge isn’t right I believe that first impressions last I believe that dreams do come true I believe there's destiny for me and you I believe that good things come to those who wait I believe love never arrives too late I believe everyone has a guardian angel And the good you do will be rewarded well I believe sometimes there is no explanation I believe you don't know what you've got until it's gone I believe a new day arrives with every dawn I believe a smile can be contagious I believe in being very outrageous I believe in living with no regrets I believe that life is as good as it gets I believe that God watches over us I believe the little things are worth the fuss I believe you have each friend for a reason I believe absence makes the heart grow fonder I believe you will lose if you sit and wonder I believe every experience teaches you a lesson I believe that to learn you have to live I believe that to love someone you have to give I believe one moment can change your life And there's still help when you’re in strife I believe everyone has one true friend I believe love helps a broken heart mend I believe in the power of a song And things will change before too long I believe to always look on the bright side I believe that life is just one big ride I believe when I die people will grieve But it’s ok because I believe

A girl like me.......

2008-06-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

I'm a daughter hiding my depression. I'm a sister making a good impression. I'm the girl sitting next to you. I'm the one asking you to care. I'm your best friend hoping you'll be there......

Where there is thus "Joy of Life"

2008-06-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

Soaring, where perception, from wherever, is correct in itself..........

Where the horizon spreads to all the directions; where merger defies the theories of opposite forces.............

Where separation is reduced to just an illusion..........

Where the abstract force breaks all the barriers of disputed views; When the issue is not even the issuelessness.........

Where the beauty of a lush green meadow and a desert is the same; Where color is not bound by a significance.............

Where merger even merges the difference between duality and oneness; Where wholeness is love; Where love in its description, goes abstract. where abstract manifests wherever to enjoy wherever. Where wherever amazes himself with himself.

Where this phenomena may be expressed as life; Where there is thus joy of life.............

The Joy of life...........

2008-06-18T08:35:00.000-07:00

The joy of life consists in divesting oneself of life's cares. Man's joy knows no bounds when he obtains something beyond his hopes.

He who binds himself to a joy, doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Success is....................

2008-06-15T00:50:00.000-07:00

Creative Perspective........

2008-06-14T23:49:00.000-07:00

Thought is life. What you think that you are. Your thought creates your proper environment. Your thought constitutes your world. We always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest levels and/or imagine most vividly. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations and events which conform to our positive expectations. So the more positive energy we put into imagining what we want, the more it begins to manifest in our lives.

There is a power within you to form a thought or picture. This is the energy of attraction that is in all creative processes. In using this power you are not in anyway attempting to interfere with the laws of nature, you are fulfilling the laws. This undifferentiated power is the basis for the mysterious attraction and draws your desires to you.

Don't expect God to........

2008-06-02T07:28:00.000-07:00

Nobody owes you a living. What you achieve or fail to achieve in your lifetime is directly related to what you do or fail to do. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome. Nothing is carved in stone.you can change anything in your life if you want to. Excuses are for losers. Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. take control of your life, dare to dream and take risks. if you aren't willing to work for your goals, don't expect God to.

My friends.........the memories.........

2008-06-02T07:22:00.000-07:00

The nights that lasted forever and the days that went by slowly. The days that will replay in our heads as our best days ever. The people who broke our hearts with the promises they never kept, the people who hated us for being perfect and envied the life we led; So here's to all my friends that have stayed by my side when I didn't know who I was, The friends that i would never trade for anything because you people are my life..............

Just don't give up........

2008-05-28T07:50:00.000-07:00

When you really want something, you have to swim a little deeper, You can't just give up because things don't come easy..............

You have to overcome the obstacles and face your fears........But in the end, its all worthwhile ......... Life is full of ups and downs, but if you believe in yourself, you will always come through with flying colors........

Like the mighty Phoenix........

2008-05-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

Like the mighty Phoenix, once again I rise from the flames, set to destroy me and take flight. I'm stronger, glorious, powerful, victorious......

Act now.......

2008-05-20T23:26:00.000-07:00

Who matters........

2008-05-19T20:59:00.000-07:00

There comes a point in your life when you realize that who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about the people in your past, there's a reason they didn't make it your future.

Life comes without guarantees

2008-05-19T20:50:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, you just feel everything and nothing at once. Sometimes, you find yourself smiling while missing someone at the same time. You can absolutely love someone, and all the while be trying to hate them. Life comes without guarantees, accept that smiling will brighten your face, laughing will enhance your eyes and falling in love will change your life.

Its a new day......

2008-05-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

A new start...........

2008-05-19T20:40:00.000-07:00

This is life.................

2008-05-19T09:32:00.000-07:00

Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself use your head, to handle others use your heart.

If someone betrays you once it is their fault, if they betray you twice it is your fault.

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Everything happens for a reason.......

2008-05-19T09:27:00.000-07:00

Everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so that eventually you learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so that better things fall together.

Changing the world......

2008-05-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

(UNKNOWN MONK 1100 AD)

Everything i needed........

2008-05-16T01:35:00.000-07:00

I asked for strength and
gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom and
gave me problems to solve.

I asked for prosperity and
gave me brawn and brains to work.

I asked for courage and
gave me dangers to overcome.

I asked for patience and
placed me in situations where I was forced to wait.

I asked for love and
gave me troubled people to help.

I asked for favors and
gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed.

My prayers have all been answered.

Broken dreams........

2008-05-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

As children bring their broken toys
With tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God
Because He was my friend.



But then instead of leaving Him
In peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help
With ways that were my own.

At last I snatched them back and cried,
"How could you be so slow"
"My child," He said, "What could I do?
You never did let go."

Dreams........

2008-05-10T09:17:00.000-07:00

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own.....for you are unique and more wondrous than you know.........

Minutes of happiness.........

2008-05-06T08:32:00.000-07:00

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to let us down probably will.

You'll have your heart broken, probably more than once, and its harder every time. You'll break hearts too; so remember how it felt when someone broke yours.

You'll fight with your best friend and may be even fall in love with them. You'll blame a new love for the things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast and you will eventually lose someone close to you.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much and love like you've never been hurt because every 60 seconds you spend angry or upset is a minute of happiness you will never get back.

Angel in clouds............

2008-05-06T08:07:00.000-07:00

A girl on the street was pointing up at the sky. "Look an angel" she yells. Passerby laughs, saying "You fool that is only a cloud." How wonderful it would be to see angels where there are only clouds, how sad it would be to see only clouds where there are angels..........

Life's not easy but worth it..........

2008-05-03T09:16:00.000-07:00

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right and forget the ones that don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If u get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just said it would be worth it.

2008-05-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."

The reason.......an incomplete story

2008-05-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

She was at the top of the world after falling into love.

Since her words mattered for herself, her commitment never changed. She wanted to settle with a boy who wasn't worth her, who made a lot of mistakes, who hurt many people, who never wished to change and who just used people for his self motives but a real masquerader who made her think that he loves her unconditionally. Like every girl she loved this feeling, that someone loves her so much and can even die for her.

All day she used to think about him, she thought that she had the best person in this world [rightly said, love is blind]. Overlooking all his mistakes and ignoring the lies he used to say to her; she loved him passionately. She used to think that her love would one day change him because he was the one who thought that she is the only girl made for him.

One year passed, they were still together, the boy got everything he wanted from the girl and he still lived his life to the fullest being the same person he was but the girl changed. She ruined her life and now she was paying for loving a wrong person.

Still she compromised with everything because she had no option left now other than staying with that boy but even this was her misconception. One day he left her without no reason and blamed her for everything. She tried to convince him because she wanted him back. She pleaded before him, cried whole day, shivered with fear of losing him, prayed to God but there was something else written in her destiny. He left her broken.

Its been almost one year after he left her, now she has realized that he was in her life for a reason.She is still discovering that reason now but she has become more mature, practical, optimistic and her faith has grown more than ever before..........Now she has left everything to God because she believes that God never threw a dice and a father can never hurt her daughter.

Life's bout changin.........

2008-05-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that the things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

What he wants to do.........

2008-04-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do............

lose everything else........

2008-04-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

To gain which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.........

2008-04-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

There's little time to say the things and before you even find the words the time just slips away. Little time to do the things, to dream your dreams, to reach the height to which you are bound to climb, to pass regrets, to share god's love.

2008-04-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

I think of you in the peace, solitude and stillness of the early morning, for you are tranquility.

I think of you on an ocean's front, for you are the roar of the waves, the power of the sea and the salt in the air. I think of you amidst a crowd and the chorus of city sounds, for that is my song and you are the music.

You are my first thought of each new day and the last image I glimpse as my eyes are closed upon a feathered pillow.

In that secret place called sleep, in my dreams, it is you that I search for, through shades of darkness. When do I think of you, every moment and when the final sleep does come and if there is thought; it will be of you.

My LoVe FoR u.......

2008-04-22T22:47:00.000-07:00

When i think of my love for you, The wonder of its beauty takes my breath away. I cannot recall the moment in time it began.

But only the overwhelming feeling of ecstasy it brought to me. For at that moment I knew happiness, a happiness I have never known before. For just the thought of you gave me joy beyond belief.

I knew love as I had never thought possible in this lifetime.

We HaVe DeAtH...........

2008-04-22T04:03:00.000-07:00

If man was immortal, he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery.
He would breakdown at last as every good fortune, as every dynasty does, as every civilization does.In place of this we have

TeLl Me WhY?

2008-04-22T03:48:00.000-07:00

Why am I fighting to live if I'm just living to fight

Why am I trying to see when there ain't nothing in site

Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try

Why am I dying to live if I am just living to die?