where hope dies, our real lives begin

If someone would come up to you and ask you to speak only what is true to you, what would you say, 100 % that you are sure of ?

Your job? your relationship? your bank account? your health? do you realize they can all be gone by tomorrow? 

What can we be 100% sure of? And how many people do you know which want to look within themselves and find the truth about themselves, about that 100%? 

Because we choose hope. We choose to create dreams, expectations and anything else which can look better than the present moment. We will be happy when this happens...and this...etc...Everything will be better than what is happening now. And actually now is all we've got.  Now is 100% real.

We have all the chances we can get to screw up our life daily but just as well we have all the chances to make it awesome.

We can have 100 enemies but still one friend by our side who will cheer us up and he/she can make the difference.

We can have 100 problems to bitch about in a day but still when we walk on the street, we stop for an ice cream and the guy/girl smiles at us for just one moment we forget about all that.

We can feel extremly poor one day and the other the opportunity comes along to help other people, and we feel 100 times richer.

We can have a tremendous fear but going through it we realise it did not kill us, more than this it made us reborn ...stronger than before.

We can feel very lonely one day, and the next day we find another 5 friends who feel the same...and you are not alone anymore.

As long as we are in this world we will always experience duality. 

Lucky are those who have no interest in the things that are coming and going and wish to keep their conciousness clear and stable and remain comitted to their truth,  and then truth will remain comitted to them...

Are you that lucky one?

Find yourself

This life can seem sometimes so harsh and in the midst of your despair, when you let all your guards down and accept you have no control over it, it provides you with fresh new forces to help you go through it.

Life is not free of suffering, but it's the suffering which teaches us the greatest lessons and makes us able to understand others pain and heal it. What a paradox...pain is a great healer.

We feel sometimesc we cannot carry on, and yet somehow we find the strenght to face our difficulties.
We have no idea how we are going to manage to move to another country, find another job or another house, and yet , we receive options all the way.

We are having enemies but after having a change of heart we discover our enemies have changed.
Our heart gets opened only after breaking it so many times...in order to realise that nothing was ours before and nor were we less after we did not have it anymore.

We think we are smart until we meet someone smarter which proves we have more to learn. We think we are stupid, and someone more stupid comes along and showes us we were not doing so bad.

We think we are alone, until we encounter people who go through the same things.

We think we are bad, until a child stops in front of us and smiles at us and we suddenly we feel purity in our hearts.

We lie ourselves, but still have annoying people in our life which remind us that we are not want we are trying to show off but we should be happy with our true self.

 Life is a mistery...live it...remain in silence when you don't know what to do, believe in love, count on miracles...

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Parents...

If you really want to love someone, love the ones who would be so happy and gratefull to have you in their lives.  We waste so much of our energy on impressing the wrong people or who really cannot see or appreciate what we do for them instead of giving it to the people who cannot wait to hear our voice, or for us to smile at them, or to tell them how our day went or what we bought new lately, or what we cooked lately, or how we feel like.

Family people. Our family, weather we like it or not is our foundation, we are what we are today because of our parents! Now, I know how arogant our ass can be sometimes or how we can shut our mom's and dad's mouth just because we are so damn smart and because we can do it. Yeah we're so freaking cool. NOT! And our parents take it humbly...and make peace with it and still love us unconditionally.

What fools we are... we won't understand what they did for us until we won't get our own family and than we will miss having our mom next to us, telling us how you can deal with your partner, or your kid or your finances. We will miss our dad, to encouragge us and fight with us over what they feel it is good for us.The sacrifices they made for us, the nights our mother spent feeding us and singing to us to sleep while we were babies, all the days they fed us, walked us, dressed us, and totaly offered themselves to us.

How can we even judge them, or tell them how things are going...how can we even raise our voice to the ones who really would go through fire for us and would give up everything for us?!

Yes! that's how stupid we are! we think we know everything, but we're just a bunch of loosers and realize it only when we loose our parents, or are away from them, or have or own family to take care of...

I'm not saying some of you did not have bad experiences with family...but I know that there are out there people who will understand...

We are so stupid thinking we have the time to take them for granted...

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Kidz...

For some time I have the opportunity to "work" with some kids at a kindergarten and I must admit, I am not "working" on them as much as they "work" on me. It is simply amazing to be in the middle of 4, 5, 6 year old children. The air is full of energy, freshness, purity, honesty and playfulness. 

However, there is one little girl who really made me speechless and thaught me what it means to be true to yourself, complete and not split in two personalities...

While she was acting like a little boss among the other kids (and I have to admit she earns it), she was being mean (in my opinion) to another girl, and when I gave her the "Young lady ...!" speech, she said it into my face how she needs to be like this because the other kids are bulling her around but the way she told it to me, as if she would be ready to die for her truth and for her honour. I could see in her eyes the "fire" and aliveness...and then she respectfully told me that she understand my point as well and apologized and made friends with the other girl.

While they were playing, she was so serious about what she was doing...even if she would only glue two pages together, she was in that MOMENT , releasing anger ...and whatever she felt before and than smile and playing again.

This little girl was my hero that day :)

To live...

We make a high jump being scared of heights…that’s courage

We pray for someone we love to heal and it works…that’s faith

We give a part of us to someone who can hurt us…that’s trust

We go to bed, set the alarm though we are not sure tomorrow is gonna come for us…that’s...

 

Roots before branches

I don’t know about you…but there comes a time when you feel like throwing all the Guru’s and all the conceptions and all the beliefs and etiquettes you gathered from the people around you in the fire of your truth and remain only with what you came to this world the REAL you, your intuition, your faith, your courage…your inner strength and the love you feel inside.

There is a reason why we come to this world holding our fists tight…as if we are protecting, keeping something secret and when we die …our palms are wide open …nothing to learn anymore, or to protect…that’s it. Along the way through life there are people who will serve your truth and people who will take you away from it, willingly or unwillingly and people will call you selfish and maybe you really are, but just imagine if each one of us would be selfish for themselves not by taking something from the others in order to be happy, not by hurting the others, but by making sure we are true to ourselves, that we are only doing what we feel it is right for us. Would we have to lean on others? Would others have to lean on us? If each one of us would experience our inner strength. Would we rush to compromise ourselves? With the risk of the people rejecting us but still being able to love ourselves the way we are.

Just think about this…if we would meet our true selves how many things would change in our lives.

To inspire or to be inspired…that is the question

It’s not a matter of becoming better than the other one, to compete with others and step on every head you find in order to feel the greatest. Our greatness is not about this…Our Grace is not about this…Our power and virtue does not measure in how many hearts and ego’s we’ve defeated…but in how much we have defeated our weaknesses, conquered our fears and pushed our limits. This is what I was so lucky to see lately through the people I have near me…Every single person we meet has his\her own battle and if you can see that and if you can look beyond that and rather than judging or being jealous to be able to allow us to teach one another.

I see it like this…If you can inspire someone through your nature do it, just for the beauty of it …just for the fun and for the love for it...and if you did not find your mojo yet that’s still fine…you can support the people who do great things, be there for them at every step, remind them through the rough times that they are being supported and encourage them to continue!

And now …I’m gonna get back to my actual job, which is not writing J)) but when inspiration comes…you gotta let it flow :D

And remember...

 

Beyond

There must be more about this life, more than we can see, more than we can grasp...

All the material things, all our wishes and desires , coming and going...even ourselves... I ask myself what is the one thing that matters , above and beyond...

What makes us go out of bed in the morning, chase our dreams, embrace whatever comes, share with others...wether we listen to music, watch the stars, paint, run a business, pilot an airplane, save lives, dance , teach others to dance, do sports, train others...get inspired and inspire others...

What is this energy we all share? what is it we see when we look in each other's eyes? what is when we meet new people that inspire us and we get the nice , warm feeling...hey , I kinda now this person for a long time, and though you were total strangers 5 mins ago, now you talk like you've known each other for a lifetime?

What is the greatest and yet simplest "thing" we can experience in this lifetime ...and yet so easy to miss it out...

Namaste!

What is weird?

Have you ever asked yourself what is weird and what is normal? Where is the line between one or another?



What is weird for you can be considered normal by someone else and vice versa.
And did you notice how we live by thinking what the other thinks about us? of course we shouldn't jump like monkeys all over the place but still...how close we can come together and what treasures we could find inside of us if we would stop repressing so much what we are. are you surprised that people are not natural , that they are fake when they interact with you? are you any different from them? you might not show your bad parts but maybe you cast away your good parts from them...
It's not only things we do but only things we could have done and did not do that should raise questions to us...a smile we could have given to a stranger and brighten their day up ...a meal we could have offered to a helpless person in the street, a bowl of water we could have provided for a dog or cat in the street...a school girl/ boy or old men or whatever who is walking in the cold and we have 3 spots free in our warm and confy car and we could have dropped them somewhere. Why would you not do one of these things?
 Have you not ever had the impulse to do a great thing like this but what others would think of you or the fear stopped you.
If none of these things matter to you ask yourself in what world would you like to live or your kidz and think about it again...
Tonight let's go to sleep being thankful for what we have in our lives rather than crying about what we don't have...


Namaste!




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Inside magic

As my love for writing is growing I cannot help myself asking "but ok, what will I write about" ? well what other than experiences that trespass this amazing play of energies and forces and masks and people and fragrances and tastes ...called "my life".

I have to admit, for a couple of weeks now I realized you can have an extremly so called "boring" life on the outside but to experience a whole universe happening right there inside of you. Being pissed at someone I was trying to put myself in this person's shoes to see if I can understand why that person is behaving like that and why is it so difficult for me to accept. And what a surprise I had...how could I put myself in that person's shoes when I did not even look at me so far to see what is going on in me and why I am reacting the way I am reacting to these types of situations. Little did I know, that what I was actually feeling had nothing to do with that person, all that has been stirred up inside of me was because of conflicts I had with myself.

So, how go back to that peace inside? If you can understand and accept yourself enough you will be able to understand the other person as well and feel compassion towards him/her. Easy to say...hard to do! But aren't the challenges the ones that make us grow our awarness. And as one of my favorite spiritual teacher Wayne Dyer would say : "The person that challenges us the most is nothing but a disguised divine master".
Now ...just try to give it a thought...and see how you feel about it afterwards.

I wish you find your inner wisdom and heal all your hidden or visible wounds!

Namaste!

Oana

Focus

I am not a writer, I did not develop any carrer in this direction and I do not expect anything through what I write. The things I write here, come from the heart, from the joy to express and share my experiences with you.You can agree or disagree with the things I write, I'm not here to judge, or to prove I am right about anything.

To get to the point of what I wanted to write about today...

I recently discovered that we as human beings, have a couple of powers (well maybe some have super powers as well :P). And one of them is focus. Have you ever asked yourself why focus is important to us? or to go deeper into this, have you observed how life is without a focus?

Short term , Long term focus is important in order to bring out the 100% our of our actions and therefore to do each thing at a time. I know, great analytical minds will raise their voice and say " screw you, what about multitasking?". From my experience, multitasking is not a good idea. Of course, I can write an email, eat my sandwich, talk to someone over the phone and check the new trends in fashion online, all at the same time. 

Where is the focus in all of this? Don't get me wrong, I really admire people who are really succeeding in doing this. I, however consider it is better to take each activity at one time, and dedicate my full atention, I don't succeed every time, but I try my best. Someone has thaught me recently, that by doing this and not letting myself be involved in the thought process of the mind "how am I going to do this, how am I going to pull this off today??", the consciousness will find it's way and work through us.

And the result of this will be much greater...

I wish you all to find what you are looking for, to be able to establish your priorities in life and focus on the things you want to achieve, therefore giving life a course to flow...

Namaste!

Oana

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The Magic Of Belle Isle

This movie just entered my top 5 , the kind of movie that will make you reflect upon your life and relationships ...and how profound they are...

I won't spoil the surprise for you . Watch it and have your own experience :)

Morgan Freeman , you are my hero :)

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Happy New Year 2013 !

This is the first day of the rest of your life :)

I hope you prepared your wishlists for the new year cause today you started the first page of a 365 pages book, so make sure you "write"  a bestseller !

As an inspiration ..below you can find a wishlist I made for my dear sister :)

Happy New Year !

Love 

Oana