A month before my school principal (an English missionary nun) was to return to England, she asked my class if there were any questions the students would like to ask since it was our last time together. I asked her what she thought was the most valuable and precious thing in this whole wide world.
“Your life, my dear, is the most valuable, the most precious. Don’t waste it. Live it well.” To a ten-year-old whose mind was filled with fairy tales, happily ever after, and getting good grades, that reply meant very little to me.
It’s been forty years since then. I have sometimes wondered what constituted a life lived well, especially when circumstances forced me to stop in my tracks to contemplate this. Her reply would plaque me whenever I experienced an adverse turn of events in life’s daily flow.
*****
Whenever I work with my crystals, there’s a subtle sense of urgency to self-reflect. It’s neither a push nor pressure, but a need to break away from the daily monotony to take stock of my life’s trajectory.
A life lived in a constant rush without spending any effort or time on self-reflecting is like a boat drifting at sea, totally at the mercy of the winds. The more powerful ones would push at its sails, determining the direction the boat would go, taking the sailor to a place he might live to regret.
Self-reflection requires energy. It requires us to be awake and conscious to contemplate on the things that are important and truly matter.
Prior to 2020, we lived as if we had all the time in the world to pursue our dreams of having it all. No one would have imagined that today the winds would make us choose between our body or our jobs / business / education. If we choose the former, we’d stand to lose the latter. If we choose the latter, we’d have no idea and no control over what would become of our body.
Is there a right or wrong answer to this dilemma? Everyone I know are making different choices, and all believe they are making the right ones. What we choose would depend on how connected we are to our body, our present priorities or attachments, the kind of conditioning and indoctrination we have experienced which still have a hold on our psyche. As for me, I choose to appreciate what I’ve learned and understood of the inner workings of this vehicle. I choose to honour the One who has gifted me with such an intelligent design for a human body.
*****
When surgeons lay our bodies open to carve out damaged tissue, they find no spirit hiding there, no seat of the soul. To them, the heart is only a muscle, a hollow muscular organ that expands and contracts to pump blood through blood vessels to all parts of our body.
Yet who can accept we are merely flesh and bones? Whatever the scientists and doctors claim, we still use the word ‘heart’ to refer to our emotional centre, our core of conscience and integrity. The beliefs we live by, the ones that truly matter to us, are those we hold closely in our hearts.
I want a name for the force that keeps our hearts beating sixty to a hundred times a minute, hour after hour, day after day, regardless of whether we are conscious of it. I want a name for the force that keeps someone alive even when the organs are failing one by one. I want a name for the force that connects me to my family, my neighbours, friends, to the land and all its creatures.
This force is larger than life, beyond human understanding, and sustaining us whether we’re grateful for it or denying its existence. It’s akin to the power I sense when a father’s aura brightens up upon seeing his new-born baby; a former WW2 POW finally being able to forgive his tormentors; the growth of life from a single cell to a full foetus within my womb; animals sensing danger and running inlands long before the tsunami rises and towers over the unsuspecting coastal residents.
I recognise this force at work in children curious about the Creator of the universe and His creation; in grown-ups extending a hand to help strangers without conditions attached; in humanity’s capacity, no matter our age, culture, race, or spiritual inclinations, to express kindness, mercy, compassion, creativity and resilience.
Whether we call this force as spirit, essence, qi, prana, or simply bio-electricity, no name is adequate enough to describe this power. Whatever name we may call it, I recognise this force as energy that flows in every person, animal, plant, and the whole of nature, giving life, connecting us as one. This force that’s been sustaining my life, preventing my consciousness from serious fragmenting, deserves respect. Like a magnet, it makes me want to connect to the
Source and Origin of this force.
“Everything works in a cycle; you originate from the Source; you go back to Him.”
*****
The seas are getting rougher, the winds deadlier. This boat of mine is still staying afloat, and I’m not alone. There are others whose boats are bobbing alongside me; people who are bent on a singular mission. The Source teachings and the CLT energetic system are like my compass and engine.
I need to do my part, to rest, conserve and reflect on the teachings. If not, I would be lost to the winds and swallowed by the storm. I would forget my true origins, and the spiritual quest that has been driving my life’s trajectory.
I look out the window, remembering some notes I had read the day before. Once again I’m reminded that we’re like plasma flame, burning steadily in this dimension. How well and bright the flame burns depend on how much we embrace the Source Principles and Laws. As these are the teachings of Light, it would guide us in regulating the heat within this living flame. The expression of the teachings deserves our greatest care, for this fire may devour the world with us in it, or it could light the way for the future of this planet.
“Light up your torch in this flame and go into the deep recesses of your being and find out what you have kept or cultivated in your private larder all these years. It is now clear what cultivation means and what we are cultivating for.”
“We must keep the flame going……We have been placed in a position to help our people and our country and our planet. Not to fight but to build more love.”“Increase light quotient to bring more light into the world. Stop generating their type of frequencies……. The world needs help. It is engulfed in darkness now. Don’t add more darkness to it by doing things in the same way that you have been doing for so long. Be awakened.”
A month before my school principal (an English missionary nun) was to return to England, she asked my class if there were any questions the students would like to ask since it was our last time together. I asked her what she thought was the most valuable and precious thing in this whole wide world.
“Your life, my dear, is the most valuable, the most precious. Don’t waste it. Live it well.” To a ten-year-old whose mind was filled with fairy tales, happily ever after, and getting good grades, that reply meant very little to me.
It’s been forty years since then. I have sometimes wondered what constituted a life lived well, especially when circumstances forced me to stop in my tracks to contemplate this. Her reply would plaque me whenever I experienced an adverse turn of events in life’s daily flow.
*****
Whenever I work with my crystals, there’s a subtle sense of urgency to self-reflect. It’s neither a push nor pressure, but a need to break away from the daily monotony to take stock of my life’s trajectory.
A life lived in a constant rush without spending any effort or time on self-reflecting is like a boat drifting at sea, totally at the mercy of the winds. The more powerful ones would push at its sails, determining the direction the boat would go, taking the sailor to a place he might live to regret.
Self-reflection requires energy. It requires us to be awake and conscious to contemplate on the things that are important and truly matter.
Prior to 2020, we lived as if we had all the time in the world to pursue our dreams of having it all. No one would have imagined that today the winds would make us choose between our body or our jobs / business / education. If we choose the former, we’d stand to lose the latter. If we choose the latter, we’d have no idea and no control over what would become of our body.
Is there a right or wrong answer to this dilemma? Everyone I know are making different choices, and all believe they are making the right ones. What we choose would depend on how connected we are to our body, our present priorities or attachments, the kind of conditioning and indoctrination we have experienced which still have a hold on our psyche. As for me, I choose to appreciate what I’ve learned and understood of the inner workings of this vehicle. I choose to honour the One who has gifted me with such an intelligent design for a human body.
*****
When surgeons lay our bodies open to carve out damaged tissue, they find no spirit hiding there, no seat of the soul. To them, the heart is only a muscle, a hollow muscular organ that expands and contracts to pump blood through blood vessels to all parts of our body.
Yet who can accept we are merely flesh and bones? Whatever the scientists and doctors claim, we still use the word ‘heart’ to refer to our emotional centre, our core of conscience and integrity. The beliefs we live by, the ones that truly matter to us, are those we hold closely in our hearts.
I want a name for the force that keeps our hearts beating sixty to a hundred times a minute, hour after hour, day after day, regardless of whether we are conscious of it. I want a name for the force that keeps someone alive even when the organs are failing one by one. I want a name for the force that connects me to my family, my neighbours, friends, to the land and all its creatures.
This force is larger than life, beyond human understanding, and sustaining us whether we’re grateful for it or denying its existence. It’s akin to the power I sense when a father’s aura brightens up upon seeing his new-born baby; a former WW2 POW finally being able to forgive his tormentors; the growth of life from a single cell to a full foetus within my womb; animals sensing danger and running inlands long before the tsunami rises and towers over the unsuspecting coastal residents.
I recognise this force at work in children curious about the Creator of the universe and His creation; in grown-ups extending a hand to help strangers without conditions attached; in humanity’s capacity, no matter our age, culture, race, or spiritual inclinations, to express kindness, mercy, compassion, creativity and resilience.
Whether we call this force as spirit, essence, qi, prana, or simply bio-electricity, no name is adequate enough to describe this power. Whatever name we may call it, I recognise this force as energy that flows in every person, animal, plant, and the whole of nature, giving life, connecting us as one. This force that’s been sustaining my life, preventing my consciousness from serious fragmenting, deserves respect. Like a magnet, it makes me want to connect to the
Source and Origin of this force.
“Everything works in a cycle; you originate from the Source; you go back to Him.”
*****
The seas are getting rougher, the winds deadlier. This boat of mine is still staying afloat, and I’m not alone. There are others whose boats are bobbing alongside me; people who are bent on a singular mission. The Source teachings and the CLT energetic system are like my compass and engine.
I need to do my part, to rest, conserve and reflect on the teachings. If not, I would be lost to the winds and swallowed by the storm. I would forget my true origins, and the spiritual quest that has been driving my life’s trajectory.
I look out the window, remembering some notes I had read the day before. Once again I’m reminded that we’re like plasma flame, burning steadily in this dimension. How well and bright the flame burns depend on how much we embrace the Source Principles and Laws. As these are the teachings of Light, it would guide us in regulating the heat within this living flame. The expression of the teachings deserves our greatest care, for this fire may devour the world with us in it, or it could light the way for the future of this planet.
“Light up your torch in this flame and go into the deep recesses of your being and find out what you have kept or cultivated in your private larder all these years. It is now clear what cultivation means and what we are cultivating for.”
“We must keep the flame going……We have been placed in a position to help our people and our country and our planet. Not to fight but to build more love.”“Increase light quotient to bring more light into the world. Stop generating their type of frequencies……. The world needs help. It is engulfed in darkness now. Don’t add more darkness to it by doing things in the same way that you have been doing for so long. Be awakened.”