Where I Live and What I Live For Life, as we know it, something we

cannot take for granted, nor can we be afraid to live it with every breath
we take. Life is something we are given to show the world what we are
capable of achieving and how we adapt to what is put in our way. Life is
an obstacle course waiting to be weathered. How we approach this
mischievous course all depends on two great factors. You first need to
establish a point at which you feel comfortable living, and build upon this
expanding your views on life. After you have found where you live life,
you then need to establish your purpose, what you feel is essential to live
for in life. Looking through things in my prospective, where I live is
different. The world is very tough place to live. I live in a world full of hate,
crime, and misfortune. I live in a world full of poverty and a world full of
pain. With unemployment on a rise, and money running low, many turn to
the streets to try and cope with their losses. Now life is not just full of all
this negativity where I live, but it also has times of joy and success.
Where I live, it has its highs and its lows. To more fully understand where
you live and you need to accept everything and not dwell too long in one
spot. Once I reached this point in my life, I was able to design and create
a purpose for my life, what I feel my purpose is. Life is meant to be lived
to the fullest. I live for success. I do not just live for success in worldly
things such as status and worldly worth, but for the things that make a
difference in where I live. I live for helping others, building up those who
are down, and putting others first. In today’s world, with times be as
tough as they are, I, as an American, see fit to make a difference in the
lives of others and reignite the morals and spirits of others who are of
less fortune, or find themselves in
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In 10-15 years I would like to have developed and invested in good relationships, family (blood-related and
spiritual) and friendships and may be married to someone who is a great partner in life, work, music, and/or
ministry endeavors that inspire hope and faith, bring positive impact, and support worthwhile causes.
I would be doing work I was created to do best -utilizing my strengths, knowledge, experience and aligns with
my passions, interests, and creativity. I would be working with a great manager (or perhaps I may be a co-
leader) and team of people who trust and respect each other and enjoy working together, and with good
teamwork I would have successfully designed and launched at least one good product and implemented
engaging training that solves significant challenges. With these successful projects, I would have put together a
good work portfolio that speaks for itself and attracts good clientele.
I would like to be fully financially independent where I would be able to afford to do work I enjoy without
worrying about how much the pay is, and instead, be able to give more generously of my time, talent and
resources. I would be continually learning new things and developing my skills and expertise, which I could use
in the service of others.
I would also like to have and be part of a music team or ensemble that can do outreach and ministry and also
have good relationships on the team.
In the process, I would have opportunities to travel some around the world, become a good communicator and
proficient in a few languages. I would be filled with the fruits of the Spirit, continually growing in character in a
vibrant relationship with God, and in good physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and able to share
God’s hope, faith, joy, and love with people as I walk with them through life.
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that
for which Christ Jesus took hold of me…one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is
ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 3:13-14)

I will be working in a health related field, ideally improving treatment and/or diagnosis of cancer, immunologic
and/or infectious diseases. The company will be nimble and creative like a startup but the financial stability of a
large company. The people will be friendly, open, smart, creative, big-hearted with a clear vision of the big
picture. The compensation for my work will be generous and I will feel like I can believe they pay me to do this
all day! Oh yes, the job will involve travel to interesting places.
 “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly
and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The past month or so I received so many emails from people who wanted to know what the
purpose of life and the reason for our existence is. It was very strange. It never happened to me
before to get so many emails with the exact same question from so many different people. And
since the same questions kept showing up in my inbox over and over again, I decided to take
some time to contemplate on these questions, because just like Aristotle once said it,
“Contemplation is the highest form of activity.”

You see, there was a time when I used to think about these things. There was a time when I
would contemplate about the purpose of life and the reason for our existence, but after a while, I
stopped. I don’t know why, but I did. Maybe because I became “too busy” with doing things that
I no longer had time to contemplate. I no longer had time to meditate, to think and to discover
the answer to these beautiful and profound questions. But life works in mysterious ways, and
luckily for me, I started receiving all these beautiful emails from all these wonderful people who
made sure to ask me the right questions at the right time so that I would go back to
contemplating 🙂

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE AND

THE REASON OF OUR EXISTENCE
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when
they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong
things.” ~ Morrie Schwartz

With the many things we have to do on a regular basis, all our tasks and a busy
schedule, it can be quite challenging at times to take a few steps back, to contemplate and to
ask ourselves questions like:

“Is there purpose in my life? Is there meaning?

Am I being true to myself, to my life path and to my purpose?

Is the life I am living really the life I want to be living?”

And even though it can be quite challenging and quite difficult to do these things, we have to
make time. We have to find the strength and courage to be bring awareness into our lives and
be true to ourselves, because if we don’t… if we don’t seek to find, to know and to understand
the purpose of life and the reason for our existence, chances are that we will continue to live by
default, betraying ourselves and thinking that it’s okay to walk on a path that is not ours to walk
upon.

“It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint
another to be true to yourself; If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your
own soul.” ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Life is very simple, it really is, but because most of us live from the mind and not from the heart,
we developed this false belief that life is complicated and that the purpose of our lives is
something very complex and hard to find, but that’s just nonsense. If you want to know what the
purpose of life and the reason of your existence is, just close your eyes, place your hands over
your heart, take a few deep breaths and just ask the answer of yourself. Ask yourself:

“What is the purpose of life? What is the reason for our existence?”

And if you can silence your mind completely, connecting with the deep part of you that holds the
answers to all your life questions, I guarantee you that the answer you will get will
look something like this: “The purpose of life is to love. To become one with love and then to
radiate that love outwards. To serve, to shine and to share your light with the rest of the world. “

That’s it. That’s all there is to it. Nothing complex, and nothing too hard to find. The purpose of
life to love, to truly love. To love with all your heart, and with all your soul, with all your mind and
with all your strength. To love everything and everyone, without excluding anyone or
anything. To become one with love and then to radiate that love outwards… To love those who
love you, and also those who don’t. Not necessary because they deserve it, but because love is
the only things we have to offer… To get to a place where, no matter where you look and no
matter what you do, you can’t help but feel an overwhelming love towards that which you see
and for the things you do.

The purpose of life is to become one with love… To have love flow through every cell of your
body and then to project that love outwards. To infuse love into all that you do, to infuse love
into your surroundings, your relationships, your work, your life, and the whole world. To shine
your light on to the world and to make this world a better place with your presence, with your
gifts, with your light, and with your grace. And if you can do this, if you can live your life from a
place of total love and acceptance, then your whole life will be a complete success and
everything you will do will succeed.

That’s the purpose of life…

The way I see it, life is love and love is life, and the more love flows through our veins, the more
joyful we become, the clearer our vision gets, and the easier it becomes to connect not only with
our own heart and Soul but also with the heart and Soul of every living being that inhabits the
planet.On the surface, we might all look very different from one another but at the core level, we
are all the same.

At the core level, we are all ONE, connected with each other in a very deep and powerful way.
At the core level, we are essentially the same, all members of one human race. There is no
separation except the separation we created in our minds because of our attachment to
fear, and if we allow love back into our hearts, becoming one with it and allowing ourselves to
live our lives from that place, then we will recognize ourselves in the world around us and we
will finally understand that we are in the world and the world is in us… We are ONE.

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein

What do you think is the purpose of life and the reason of our existence? Is it love, or is it
something else? You can share your comment in the comment section below 🙂

~love, Luminita🙂

I want to have a life where I have location freedom and financial security but other than that, I want to
be Happy in life.

Life is never really about money/power/fame/success. I’ve been very poor and currently I’m grateful to be living
a better life than an average person. I have found out that it’s always the small happy moments in life whether it
be a happy family gathering, friends re-union or a simple act of greeting someone with a smile that
makes you truly happy.

Giving happiness to other people is the only way to truly feel happy.

10 Life Secrets to Live The Life You Want

By Akshay

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Are you finding it hard to live the life you want? If so, then why? It’s your life, and you are the
one in control, but why can’t you still drive it the way you want? Maybe you are under certain
circumstances that are preventing you from doing so.

You might be thinking to live the life you want, but only once all these problems come to an end?
But you know what? You are making a big mistake if you think so; life won’t let you settle
without problems till you die.

Every day comes with a new set of challenges, no matter what your age is, or what your business
is! You will face problems at every point.
However, If you sincerely want to live your life, you need to make an effort today itself (Right
Now) even if you are burdened with worries and problems.

What you do today will reflect your future and will help you to live a happy and positive life. If
you are ready to take the necessary steps now, you may read this article. Else, it’s better to
bounce back right now.

Assuming that you are interested in changing your life, here are ELEVEN Life Truths that will
help you to live the life you always wanted to.
1. Clear your mind
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No, it’s not a life truth. It’s just an essential and the first step required to live the life you want to.

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You need first to make your mind before proceeding with the next steps.

Just do a Clean Format of your brain, and allow yourself to be more open and see the world from
different perspective. Learn new things, set-up new life goals, do the things that make you happy
and lastly change the way you think.

Nothing Good or Bad happens to us; it is just our perspective that makes us believe the former
or later one. Make your mind to flow like WATER, free to flow anywhere and takes up the shape
of the vessel it is placed on!

2. Happiness doesn’t come with Money

Of course, money is important in life. But, it doesn’t buy happiness. A millionaire can be sitting
at home, Alone and Depressed if he doesn’t have enough friends and relatives to make him
happy.

Your wealth has little to do with your Happiness. Happiness always comes from the inner heart
and sometimes a $10 ice-cream with your loved ones feels better than buying an iPhone for
yourself.

Even if you aren’t rich, appreciate all the little things in life as they won’t happen to you again.
(If you are missing out on this) A day might come when you will have enough money in your
pocket, but no one to share the joy!

Further Reading: 7 Ways Negative Thinking Will Ruin Your Life

3. Your life won’t let you have it all
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The saddest truth of life is that you can’t have everything you desire, until and unless you are the
luckiest guy/girl in the world. At one point of life, I thought that if I had enough desire for
something I can get it, at any point in time! But I was completely wrong about it. A f*ck called,
“Luck” always prevents you from getting the thing that’s not made for you! But that’s an entirely
different topic.

However, to live the life you want, you need to Prioritize top 3-4 areas of your life and work hard
towards that goal. Even when you know that you can’t achieve everything in life. Trust me, when
you have just 3-4 goals to achieve in life, it seems much easy and clear to work towards that goal!

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Remember: Achieving those 3-4 goals should make your life complete, as if, there’s nothing
left to accomplish. Most importantly, you should not be left with any regrets!!!

4. Life is not about the NEGATIVE

It is the most important step required on your end. No one was ever able to have a positive life
while staying with negative people. Throw away all the negative people in your life and just
concentrate on what’s required to make your life as good as it can be.

Do not forget – Thinking about the things you don’t have or can’t afford comes under ‘Negative
Thinking’ only.

If you would like to live the life you always wanted, just focus on what you have now and try to
be happy as much as you can be.

There is nothing wrong with expressing interest in something you wish to buy in the future, but
don’t be too obsessed with it.

With obsession, the only thing you can expect in return is – Sadness and Depression.

Further Reading: Looking For Peace Of Mind? Try These 5 Hacks

5. Perfection is rare. So, Don’t try to be Mr./Miss. Perfect

No one is perfect in this world, and expecting perfection will just backfire.

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You need to learn the way things work and don’t expect perfection in everything you or someone
else does for you.

Find the right balance between good and the perfect. By being a Perfectionist, you will invite
more Stress and Unhappiness.
6. Life is all about being “You” first
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No, we aren’t talking about being unique. By using the phrase being “You,” we mean to say that
you need to do the things that make you happy first. Others shouldn’t be benefited much by your
actions.

Since you want to live the life you want you to need to do whatever you feel like doing. After all,
at the end of the day, it’s you who needs to be happy, not someone else.

Live the life for yourself. If you are living *MOST* of your life for someone else, you are sure to
go through depression, anger, anxiety or destructive behaviors at some point.

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7. Life should be utilized to do what you like

What you want in life should be your ultimate goal. Your decisions might hurt the one sitting
next, but it doesn’t matter much till it makes you happy.

It is necessary to live authentically, and you need to say ‘No’ sometimes, to grow yourself up.
Never live on someone else’s word, you never know when they will change, and you will be the
one who will be hurt.

Also, never shy away from saying ‘NO.’ Saying NO is also art and an essential part of life.

However, make sure that you analyze everything before coming up with the decision. Your ‘No’
shouldn’t turn into a lifetime regret.

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8. Life is all about having “FUN.”

Don’t be so engaged with your work that you forget to have fun. A person who doesn’t enjoy his
life is a big Failure. No matter, how much money he earns.

To create the life, you want to need to have fun with friends and family too. Having fun will help
you to uplift your mood.

Have enough money to party hard every weekend and see how your life changes (Do not spend
more than you can afford, a party to a limit).
You know what? Sometimes hanging out with friends is the best medicine that one can get.

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9. Life can turn ‘Impossible’ into ‘Possible.’
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When you feel like you can’t do something, try your best to prove yourself wrong. Life has an
amusing way of working out, and you never know when it proves you wrong. Believe that you
can and believe that it will happen. You might not know, but the probability of ‘happening’ is
much higher than your expectation. Once you achieve it, try your hands on something else. Just
think, if he/she can do it, why can’t you? You are no less than them. Right?

10. Your life has limited number of days

Don’t get me wrong, but no one knows the exact number of days left with us. This feeling will
surely help you live the life you want. Just live as if it is the last day of your life.

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Do everything that’s possible in a day’s time. You will be amazed at the results. Don’t waste your
time in worries, frustrations, anger, and the grudge.

Live life to its fullest and love everyone. Make sure that you enjoy every moment of your life. The
one you are living right now, the next and all the ones that are coming ahead.

Hope that this article gave enough insights on how to enjoy life to the fullest and live the life you
want.

What kind of life do you want to live? 2019

Motivation.

Ahmed Mehmedovic
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Dec 28, 2018 · 3 min read
W hat kind of life do you want to live? What are you chasing? What do you expect
to happen? A lot of us might feel lost, stagnant, and without direction. We are alive,
but we don’t live. We have trouble living in the present, because we only look forward
to the promise we make ourselves of a brighter future. We don’t act today because, we
know there is always tomorrow. We have so many goals we would love to accomplish,
but we put it off for our future selves. We leave our aspirations in the back of our
mind with the belief that somehow our vague and ambiguous goals will be achieved
somehow one day.

We can’t help but tying ourselves to a timeline of when things are suppose to happen.
We SHOULD get married around this age, we SHOULD have our dream job by this
age, we SHOULD have a house by this age. We SHOULD have our lives figured out by
this age. All of these shoulds tie us down to a pre-defined timeline of what our lives
should be. See because from a very young age we are taught that there exists a natural
progression of life. Instead of going at our own pace, we feel as if we are working just
to keep up. We get into the habit of comparing ourselves to where our peers are,
when we should really be comparing ourselves to how far we’ve come along.

Realistically, the changing of the calendar has little to do with our lives, however, we
can take this changing of the calendar symbolically to change our own lives. The year
changing gives of this feeling of a fresh start. This is the year that we set a standard
for what we want to live our lives by. This is the year where we start becoming the
person we truly want to be deep down. This is the year we finally start doing that
things we’ve kept in the back of our minds. This is the year we build the body we want
to, save and invest our money into something, read those books we’ve been putting
off, travel to the places we’ve only heard of.

This is the year where we truly buckle down on the direction we want to take our
lives. It’s time to live a life on our own terms, it’s time to separate ourselves from
where we should be. Its time to stop looking at what our peers have and it’s time to
look at what you have and what you want to have.

See because it’s just that, it doesn’t matter where you are now, what your reputation
is, what kind of assets your life consists of and who you are. None of it matters if it is
not where you want to be. The only thing that matters is where you will be and who
you will be one day. Taking that first step shouldn’t frighten you because that time
will pass. One day it’ll be 2019, one day it’ll be 2020, and then 2021 and then 2051.
You see time is going to pass regardless, so we cannot wait. The sooner you leave for a
destination, the sooner you will arrive.
“The trouble is, you think you have time.” - Buddha

I urge you to set outrageous goals for the New Year, things that are so completely out
of what you expect to happen. The trick is believing that they will happen. Pouring
your heart and faith and striving for these goals every single day. It’s easy to set
realistic goals, its easy to achieve realistic goals, but we’ll never be where we want to
be unless we set goals that seem impossible.

I urge you to get our of your comfort zone. Completely rethink the types of actions
that are acceptable for you. I urge you do and try things you never thought you would.
Live a life that you are proud of, this New Year is only the beginning.

What kind of life do you really want?

OCT OBE R 8, 2018I NNE R LI FE , LI BE RT Y LANE , LI FE , LI FE S T YLE , OUTE R LI FE , S ACRE D WAY
Our surroundings are in shades of grey right now, as if through a viewing frame there is a disparity between what we want, where
we want to be and to where we are. The time of darkness and the underworld of recognising where our healing needs to occur,
where our duality can no longer exist, where the compromises we set ourselves is crying out for attention and recognition.
The light is being shed, within the darkness. Illuminating areas up of old conditioning and layers upon layers. You might say
‘what more?’ It may feel like a repeat, rest assured we are evolving.

Like sheep we have been moulded to be, conditioned by the old paradigm of the patriarch to be submissive, – I speak mainly of
women here, to be the carers of men’s dysfunction, the carriers of biased, wounded behaviour which bit by bit is beginning to
crack, expose its double-faced agendas. The hidden is being revealed, unmasking what we must see, and where healing must
happen. We have started to see this in the #metoo movement. But closer to home the veils are lifting, what has been shaded is
being revealed, and we ALL must go through this passage right now.

Suddenly like a giant spotlight, we can see our patterns clearly, or recognise that we have been here before. The same old loop,
what we do to love, be loved and how we control our loving, all codependent behaviours by the way, and I can fiercely say
nobody is indeed opted out of this or exempt before you go pointing fingers or separating yourself from thinking ‘oh, that’s only
for those that go out with addicts, junkies, alcoholics. These are typical symptoms of one, whether you are or support one rest
assured there many covert types. There is a vast line of forms of co-dependence. It is the fact that we have all been raised male or
female within the patriarchal paradigm. It is also not a time of judgement, self or otherwise, but acceptance and self-acceptance.
There is nothing to fix. But to recognise how we are is not serving us anymore.

Just imagine watching a movie of yourself and life. Just observe what you are seeing, feeling and thinking. What you no longer
can tolerate. There is the clue. The nugget of gold. If you are too being stressed, overthinking things, it will mess with your mind
with pressure, guilt and make the passage into a brighter time more difficult. The solution can’t all be worked out on one go.
Take the first step and make your boundaries and values clear. You know what is important to you.

How you manage that is up to you, WE all have a choice. When you are caught with being busy busy and worrying about what
you must look like or what others say, think or do, its an awkward stance to be in. You won’t have any grounding. Very
important to connect to your soul and source energy.

Start with the root chakra, imagine colour red, sacral, orange, where all our relating issues stem from and into the solar plexus
your core, fire and power the colour yellow around the abdomen. These are three key players right now people, women and men
are being called to heal, their inner child or engage in psycho-spiritual healing modalities and it is the only way to cut through the
old conditioning. Therapy by itself, I hate to say, will not. That’s from the traditional cerebral healing, and a synergetic approach
is called for this time for the shifting that needs to occur. Not to mention the conventional western therapies will take much
longer. Everyday Alchemist & Chakra Work
E.g. Notice how your lover or anyone is unconsciously controlling you to love him or her, to be loved, gain prestige, whatever to
sustain its outer veneer their ego and wounding.

You are being called to question which path will you follow? Your soul will not fail you, nor lie. Only your mind
will hijack you with fear, what ifs, and what will happen if I do…..?
So which do you choose? The Evolutionary or the Superficial?
Can you muster your courage and do what’s right by what you know to be true deep down in your core? For you to grown and
expand. Or are you going to be held hostage by deep-seated fears, values that are not yours?

We are to be Sacred Rebels. To disengage in behaviours that are not supportive, nor nourishing and to remove ourselves from the
bindings of our past patterns. Odious beliefs and habits seeped generation after generation, breaking the links that bind us, old
stories from our childhood conditioning, where our innocence has been tainted by the need to survive, to protect ourselves and
maybe our siblings, to nourish who weren’t capable of wholly sustaining us, from birth and into our formative years.

The child in all its innocence moulded by the unhealed woundings of the mother and father line, society, culture – our clean light
broken and darkened, feelings of unworthiness, ‘not allowed to be me’, projected in all forms from family to culture. Not good to
enough to be cared for, abandoned over another sibling, whatever your story or background we all have one, some harsher than
others, nevertheless, healing our mind/bodies, our life, our surroundings is what is needed now.

I love watching movies, and find it interesting how there is much voice around the biases of men and women as topics or the
things that women must endure to have her place in her world, to what it cost her historically -There are heroines and those that
paved the way for us. This is how we must see it. And of course in modern lives. We are all on our heroes and heroines journey.

I watched The Wife last in the movie theatre and it is an excellent example of hidden talent and brilliance of a woman, The Wife,
played by Glenn Close in a duty and fear bound relationship where her genius clashes with that of her husbands, where she was
too afraid to lose her young love to outshining him. My heart was pounding as we see her wanting to explode and expose this
facade of her husband winning the Noble Prize of Outstanding writing over the years and all along, she had been the author of
those books. It’s uncomfortable to watch for both sexes. In parts, it mirrors the writer’s written story so its painfully and
deliberately drawn out. Its rife with her also playing the dutiful wife by his side, taking care of his needs, medication, clothing,
packing, his fears, his neurosis, yikes!!! I mean its like men have not been raised to take care of themselves. Women fall for these
such deeply ingrained roles as carers and nurturer. Often to the detriment of her self and creative expression. Her authentic self.

Another film that highlights this ‘breaking out’ theme is a Netflix film called Nappily. I found it to a brilliant current example, of
the awakening that is happening collectively. The main character raised to believe that she is only beautiful in having straight hair
– a projection imbued by her mother. The thing is she black therefore and her hair naturally super fizzy. Here we see where the
mother with all good intentions purposes affects young child’s perception of herself and life. You can imagine what happens to
her as she grows into her mid-20’s- 30’s. How many mothers and fathers have projected their idea of perfectionism, expectations
and fucked up standards? I won’t be a spoiler. It is an enjoyable film to see in terms the journey she takes to find herself. The
topic of the film is universal and across many cultures.

Whatever the theme pertains to you, issues in our lives are personal, and this inner evolutionary stance must be made for us to
affect the outer.

Self-reliance, self-acceptance and confidence are all qualities we need to call on. Call on the divine courage to help you through
as you grow, through the cracks of yourself. The journey is not going to be comfortable. It can be taken as a great opportunity to
be catapulted to where you need to go. We are being called to give birth to ourselves, soon. The dark time of the moon is a time
for healing and seeing our subconscious clearer.

We are still in labour, that said some are already feeling the squeeze, but it is not time yet. Be patient with any exterior changes
you are creating, in the differences in what you don’t recognise because we are trying out something new for size, for change,
and for that to happen we have to let go of the old forms as we know it.

In personal relationships, this can be really hard as we are so used to what we have been, accepted, despite its discomfort over a
period and re-occurrence. Here is where Nappily is brilliant in conceptualising the metamorphosis of the main character through
her hair!

Relationships are being highlighted as we are relational beings and the skies are dancing to reconfigure our Divine masculine and
our Divine Feminine. An imminent time for the empowerment of the Divine Feminine.
This dark passage must be undergone to come to light. If you resist this, it will linger and make it all the more painful. You do
not need to be a victim, where you are operating out of the wounding, therefore blame, but recognising that you are feeling,
seeing and experiencing is a call from the deepest part of yourself that knows. Unconditional or self-love as it is referred to is
Love not about finding love but owning that Love to ourselves. Do not mistake that by engaging woo woo love ( Cosmic wow
man we are all one), as a form of the mystic lover, that means you put up with crappy behaviour and abuse as a way to spread
higher love, as so many healers and empaths think and do. Oh no. Most could tell you that they are divine magnets to them. You
are love itself, and while some live from the wounded healer archetype the men in our lives have served our development and
growth on a soul level, and that’s it!

During the Venus retrograde in Scorpio/Libra and squared by Pluto the transformer, it is forcing us to transmute the shit as
fertiliser for new growth in areas of relating in our partnerships, creativity, business, family, work, money and balancing out what
is out of balance – Libra New Moon GMT 4.46 am London. Venus themes also to do with esteem, values, relationships,
justice, Co-dependence, balance, conscious choices, reciprocal relating, intimacy are all up for scrutiny.
Enter the silence of your mind, go out in nature, do all things that can bring nourishment to yourself. Bathe in candlelight, draw
the curtains, retreat if you need to, take time out, create a boundary so you can give yourself that, YOU MUST. Especially if you
share spaces with others in your home or living environment. Go for a nature bath, go for a walk, by the river, or an open space if
you can access one. Shed tears you need to, and at the 48-hour energy window of the New Moon in Libra, a genuinely potent
time of transformation, create a fire burning ceremony.

Many are afraid, confused and feel stuck. Write out what you want to let go. List it all out. Your pain, what you no longer will
allow. Anything, which has meaning to you. Burn it all. Scrutinise and fine comb your life. Put it all in your cauldron, – an empty
fireproof container will do. And intention away all that has no use for you. Let go in the totality of trust.

Then set intentions for what you need. It could be to have the clarity to your problem; it could be to vocalise what you are
feeling, to have the courage to do so, to stand your ground and hold onto your power, not to waver from what you need to do.
This could be about drawing the line with your partner, place of work, colleague, sibling anything that has you out of integrity. It
may be a boss who frequently is uncivil to you, or being around people you do not want to be and or in an environment that
longer has its appeal.
Stay calm, spend time with what you enjoy, disengage from anything which does not fit your vibration and stop putting up with
it. You will know what I am talking about. Whatever makes sense to you. We will get through this cycle, and as the saying goes,
whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Talk through it if you need to a trusted therapist, coach or friend, or even with
your partner as long as they are not the ones with significant issues or can not handle the truth. Remember you are both on a
growth journey. Be on your own when you need to, close the door on unnecessaries, unplug from FB or too much stimulation.

Whether embracing your Divine Feminine is being topless and half-naked on the hills, pole dancing, rising above problems,
becoming self-reliant, or just saying no more! Taking care of yourself. Standing up to your boss and say fuck it! It is all good.

We are maturing. We are self-creating a new life through the mystical alchemical fire of integration of opposites, of our old
stories and regenerating to our own Divine perfection, centredness and expansion.
Just remember though to do not hurry the process it will be all apparent in its own good time as nature displays and it will
organically birth itself. Hard for some, as we are doing machines wanting results and pushing is the order of the patriarch system.
Not this time. Be the wise woman, empress, wait the gestation out, naturally and listen to your internal core.

Merely go moment by moment leaving the perfectionist and control to Grace.

“I now surrender all that is no longer mine and has no place in my life.
Make way make for the sacred in my life, help me to love myself unconditionally, shield me from any storms or the
unexpected that may be ahead. Let my voice and soul carry its truth without fear as I move into my grand awakening. So
it is”.
Let’s life magic unfold before your senses. Witness the changes be it physical or psychological resulting in releasing the
energetic patterns which have you hostage to undesirable conditions. In working with the chakras LIFESCRIPT
ENERGY SERIES loosening the hold of your inner child wounding – you will live life freer, filled with truth, heart and
healed.
© Rafah Sabbagh 2018
Footnote.

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It’s time to decide if you want to be living or settling.

It’s time to figure out what kind of life you want and find a way to live it. It’s time to
decide if you want to take actions to live a happy life or stay stuck in a life that doesn’t
excite you — a life that doesn’t give you purpose or a reason to wake up in the
morning. It’s time to change your life.

It’s time to decide if you want to be loved or you want to stay broken.

It’s time to let go of the relationships that hurt you, the friendships that bring you down
and really surround yourself with those who lift you up, those who make you feel
loved and those who appreciate you. It’s time to decide if you want to truly be in love
or if you just want to be with someone. It’s time to wait for the love that doesn’t keep
you waiting, questioning, afraid, sad or broken.

It’s time to decide what kind of message you want to convey to the world.

Do you want to leave a message of hope, a message of determination, a message of

courage and a message of love or do you want to tell the world that you were too lazy
to change your life? That you traded your happiness for comfort that you were too
scared to dream and too scared to try. Do you want the world to see you as a hero or as
a victim?

It’s time to decide if this is all you’ve got or if there’s more to give.

It’s time to decide to keep digging in for the best in you and find a way to let it all out,
it’s time to work on yourself and find ways to be better, ways to be kinder, ways to be
stronger and ways to be someone worth remembering. It’s time to decide what kind of
impact you want to leave on people and on the world. It’s time to understand that you
can always be better and there is always another chance.

What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live?

Reflections On Graduation Day
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“What kind of life do you want to live?” This was the subject line that I sent to
a group of 25 graduating seniors at Princeton University, where I serve as the
associate dean of religious life and the chapel. As expected, Princeton
students range from the smart to the very, very smart, and during their time at
Princeton they become even more capable in whatever academic focus they
may have. In many wonderful ways, Princeton is doing its job in training young
men and women to be leaders in their fields and fulfilling the university’s
unofficial motto: In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of all Nations.

But in addition to imparting knowledge and training, my hope is that those of

us in education might also help young people to cultivate the wisdom required
to determine what kind of life will be meaningful and good, for themselves and
for others, and leave university equipped to make decisions that will lead to
that life.

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Why is this so important? Because wisdom about living life will ultimately be
as least as important to the students as the information they have gathered in
the classroom. And the ability to make well-considered decisions about how to
live life will serve them longer. I know this because at the same time that I was
asking these young people to reflect on this question, I was also talking to two
middle-aged people close to me who are struggling as they consider what
they are doing with their lives. These two individuals are by most accounts
“successful,” and yet they admit that they feel inadequate and ill-equipped to
answer the question of what kind of life they want to live.

The group of students who assembled was wide-ranging in background and

interests. They represented majors from Classics to Chemistry, Religion to
Philosophy, and Public Policy to Comparative Literature. The individuals had
been leaders in a range of religious communities as well as in the newspaper,
student government and eating clubs, and they represented some of the most
successful academic careers at Princeton. Although they had been in the
same year, some of them were meeting one another for the first time. We
started by going around the room with each student reading a passage from a
book that they had read, either inside or outside the classroom, that had
helped them with the question of what kind of life they want to live. (You can
see some of the quotes from the books below.)
Not surprisingly for young people about to graduate, the conversation first
veered towards choices around careers. At this stage of life, and perhaps for
the first time, young people become aware that making a decision to do one
thing also involves making a decision not to do another. For instance, if a
student chooses to go to graduate school in public policy, it means that she
may have to forfeit her desire to be a psychologist. The stakes can seem
dauntingly high. And yet, as one of my aunts once taught me, you can have it
all, just not all at once.

I often have had students say to me, “Well, this is the last time I will be able to
take a month to travel,” or “I may never be able to study painting again,” and
my response is always, “Says who?” While making a decision of where to go
to graduate school or what job to take is important, it is also just part of long
chain of choices we make in life. The practice of discernment will hopefully
continue as we grow and learn more about who we are. Change is constant,
as a Buddhist reading from one of the students informed us. Living life well
requires a heart that remains open to the call of the Spirit to our unique
Vocation. It requires occasional reassessment of our interests and skills, and
taking risks as we embark on new directions that our life may take.

Because it is constantly being drilled into students at places like Princeton that
they are being groomed for leadership, our students often look first at success
in their work as being the most important element of designing the life they
want to lead. And it is important. As one student remarked, being paid to do
that which we are truly interested in is a great luxury. Yet even interesting and
“successful” careers may not provide the kind of life they want to live.

An example of this was found in the biography of Henry Kissinger, which one
student brought to the discussion. While controversial, Kissinger is
undoubtedly counted as successful. However, the student brought in the
biography as a negative example because of how the book revealed
Kissinger’s deeply petty and vindictive nature. While it might be attractive to
be Secretary of State and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kissinger failed
at living a life that these students would choose to emulate.

For one extremely capable Muslim woman in the group the entire
conversation about careers was still only tangentially related to the kind of life
she wanted to live. Coming out of her religious tradition of fasting, she
expressed the view that living life well is as much about restraint as it is about
action. In other words, just because we can doesn’t mean we should. She
warned against the constant focus on striving; and how tempting concepts
such as “success’ and “happiness” only offer ever-receding horizons. She and
others emphasized that family, friends, everyday small actions, and self-
awareness are much more important than career. She wants to live a life
where the question is not what we do but rather who we are.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, was Princeton’s

Baccalaureate speaker this year. Bezos relayed the story of being a clever
little boy, sitting in the back seat of a car driven by his grandparents, and
figuring out how many years his grandmother was going to take off her life
through smoking. When the young Bezos proudly announced the figure to his
grandmother, she burst into tears. On that day, his grandfather explained to
him that there was a difference between cleverness and kindness. Cleverness
is something that people like Bezos, who was an undergrad at Princeton, are
simply born with; it is a gift. Kindness, on the other hand, is a choice. We have
the choice to be compassionate, kind, and thoughtful. While we hope that
students will use their gifts to the fullest, even more we hope that they will
exercise choices that will guide their lives in the direction of kindness,
compassion and service.

But what of tragedy? While much of the conversation with these students
focused on the decisions that were theirs to make, others wanted to talk about
that which we can not control. Death, suffering, and human frailty must be
reckoned with when reflecting on the life we wish to live. One student brought
to the discussion a passage from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time:
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will
sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos,
crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in
order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”

Several of the students in our discussion had experienced the trauma of the
death of a loved one during their time at college, and others had suffered
through a variety of difficult times of personal and academic hardship. Part of
life is learning that you do not have control over tragedy such as the death
and other kinds of losses, and that in relinquishing control and acknowledging
our frailties, we are paradoxically made more aware of the power we do
possess. I know several Princeton students who, like so many college
students and 10 percent of our nation, are without jobs or prospects of further
study. Living the life we want to live means that in those moments of apparent
failure, loss, and setback, we see in even more detail the beauty and
possibility of those things that are within our means to influence and enhance.
It means that we never feel totally unable to better our situation or our world.
As Baldwin goes on to write, “It seems to me that we ought to rejoice in the
fact of death — ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting
with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small
beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall
return.”

The conversation on what kind of life these graduating Princeton students

want to live was wide-ranging and it ended without anyone developing a
resolution or a plan. But my prayer is that our time together may have
encouraged these marvelous young people to remain aware of the task.
When the hour-and-a-half were finished, I admitted to the students that I did
not think we had arrived at any firm closure, to which one student replied that
the day when we close the book on these questions is the day that we die —
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” as Socrates said. Long may this
great Princeton class of 2010 live.

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Courage

COURAGE in the Life of Venerable Ignacia del Espiritu Santo Emboldens Her to act with determination.

Courage implies bravery, which is willingness to face danger or trouble or anything that is painful. A courageous person
has a constant readiness to deal with what is fearful or painful.

Hesitancy or reluctance has no place in the heart of a courageous person. Instead courage propels a person to act with an
intrepid spirit as one faces a situation that is new or unknown. When an action shown has the heroic quality of courage or
fortitude, the person is known to be valiant.

Venerable Ignacia del Espiritu Santo is that valiant woman, who at 21 years of age, depicts resoluteness in achieving her
goal – a goal she persistently has in mind and heart that of serving His Divine Majesty. She dares to plunge into the
unknown in order to fulfill what she perceives as God’s will for her to do. Quoting S. Maria Anicia, Co, RVM in “A Lamp
to Our Path” she writes: “Mother Ignacia ventured into the unknown. There was no clear path for her. She had to find her
own way. She dared to take steps to follow her vision and realize her dream. She could take risks because she has that
courage rooted in strong faith in God. Through the years she grew in self-knowledge, became aware of her personal gifts
and talents, accepted them and used them at the service of others. Her courage was coupled with creativity. She turned a
negative situation or a limitation into a context of experiencing God and reaching out to others in service. The lack of
government recognition and subsidy did not prevent Mother Ignacia and her beatas to continue living the religious life.
Their own resourcefulness led them to define the apostolic character of their community” (p. 94).

Without courage, nothing can be accomplished. It needs courage to be able to go into different ministries. With courage
Venerable Ignacia and her beatas plunge themselves into works of mercy without trepidation. Her assiduous creativity
comes to the fore when an apparent difficulty presents itself. Impelled by a prayerful stance in her trust and faith in God
who is the provider of their needs, she leads the beatas to attain success in their endeavors. Courage and creativity go hand
in hand as Venerable Ignacia and her beatas tread the path of difficulty. With their indomitable spirit, they persist in any
situation that appears to be beyond survival.

Their strong faith in God moves them to be steadfast even in the midst of problems that beset them. As a result they
emerge victorious. Venerable Ignacia proves to be a leader with a sterling quality of courage that inspires her beatas to
carry on with their commitment to the Lord in whom they trust and firmly believe.

“The beatas must have questions too about themselves, their own identity, their abilities and aspirations to live
authentically the religious life” (p. 95).

But the leadership of Venerable Igtnacia emboldens them to continue their course as they move forward in serving His
Divine Majesty. All this because they have a strong faith that gives them real courage to act and never to vacillate when
there is risk.

Courage, indeed, becomes stronger when faith in God grows in a persons’ heart. Would that the courage and creativity of
Venerable Ignacia may be imbibed by her faithful followers in the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary,
which she founded. (From Ang Uliran Newsletter, July-September issue)