Why show gratitude?

Over the weekend, I had a great time with my friends and family. Great time and great food. What more could I ask for. I express my deepest gratitude for that abundance in life.

While I am writing this, I ask, how many people are aware of the abundance that fills their lives right now? I guess not many. I'm not in the best position to say anything I guess. And I do know, many people are taking lives for granted that they have forgotten they are actually surrounding by abundance. Having abundance really doesn't mean collecting that unending list of material possessions.

In our materialistic society we are told by others (many through our television sets and media) that we need more stuff to be happy and fulfilled, and when we acquire and possess the stuff they tell us we should have, they bring out more stuff, newer, improved, better stuff and tell us that we need that. But I guess that's how the world develops too! It's a parody in spirituality I bet.

But let me boldly state one thing which is, the vicious circle of material possessions doesn't end until we develop an attitude of gratitude.

How can being thankful for something stop us from wanting more and more possessions?

When you become grateful the aspects of life neglected. Instead of worrying about how you can get your next better car, you explore how you can create your next sign of love. Then your value will change and life appreciation grows. So that greedy appetite to acquire more material stuff lowers.

That's my simple explanation on gratitude. Thanks Marie Callas for your precious spiritual guide.

The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude. This is a virtue which Marie Callas speaks so often but so many people have forgotten. There are actually immense powers if you express gratitude.

Gratitude is one thing which requires no money or effort and you can do that for free but it does have the effect your making you rich in your life.

Sometimes we feel life is so unfair. Someone has all the good stuff in the world yet you have to slog it out to earn pittances. You develop an attitude of angst. Don't! Instead develop an attitude of gratitude.

Practise showing your gratitude as much as you can. You don't have to go around smiling at every hour every minutes to do that. You can tell yourself in your mind how much you appreciate this life or better still, you can meditate on that.

Whenever something goes against you, do not be hateful. Express gratitude that it has taught you something instead. Be sincere and genuine too, for you will truly feel thankful for the abundance in your life.

Think and Grow Rich

There is this famous motivational book called "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

Maybe you have heard and even read it a few times before. Call me being shadow, for this is the first time I have heard of this book.

The book is famous because I read that many top entrepreneurs, business owners and sales marketers have read the book. There are a lot of principles which can be easily practised and reflected upon. After all, as I have write many times, its your mental conditioning to success that matters. Too often, normal people severely lack the mental conditioning for success.

Let me give you a link to download this book in pdf format. Think and Grow Rich.

"Think and Grow Rich" is the Millionaires Bible. Don't read it at your own risk.

A Rush to Blog

Away from the topic of Marie Callas and spirituality for a while...

I received an invite from my sister about this latest thingy in blogging world called BlogRush. It was just launched apparently by an Internet expert John Reese and BlogRush is said to have exploded exponentially all of the sudden.

I have learned a lot over the last few months about blog traffic and you just need to look at its Alexa to see the amount of traffic hitting BlogRush suddenly.

It works like a MLM scheme and if you refer more people to BlogRush, your blog will gain more traffic. The concept sounds cool and novel and traffic is the lifeline of every serious blogger hence you can see the sudden interest in this site.

It is very simple to do. Just sign up and optionally refer some bloggers. Next paste the widget script to your blog and then save it. When you refresh your blog, you'll see that it will pull out posts of other bloggers who blog about the same genre and topic as you. For example, my blog will mainly show up posts about spirituality.

So try BlogRush out and you may find your blog has increased traffic!

Malaysia Day

Hope you had a great weekend just like I did.

Yesterday was 16th September and do Malaysians out there understand the importance of this date?

Yes, it was Malaysia Day. A day in which Sabah and Sawarak formally joined the Federation of Malaysia. It should be on equal status with Merdeka Day.

Wiki of Malaysia Day.

Self, Soul, Spirit and Source

Just for a divine thought..maybe this is too serious for a relaxing weekend? :P

Self - the thought of 'I'/ ego/ personality

Soul - the essence of the individuation of spiritual energy that makes you uniquely you, ... the consciousness, ...but more than the concept of self. The true representation of the individuation that has no masks. I think we can hold on to this as long as we want to.

Spirit - the facet of creative energy that is the essence of your being, ... that which is cloaked in the soul and self.

Source - (Divine Spirit/ God) - the creative energy that is all/everyone/everything ... the primal essence/ source of life/ existence, collectively.

Predictions anyone?

Sometimes when numbers appear in your dreams, people think those numbers are the lucky numerical given to you from your God. Those are prediction numbers that could prove decisive in your weekend's lottery game. Not just numbers, can be anything, any signs or any images in your dreams. You may find one day those images will appear in real before your eyes and that will give you a sense of familiarity.

Recently, I dream about waiting near a durian tree feverishly for the fruits to drop. A few days later, you know what, I was eating durians at a road side stall, courtesy of a treat from a mate!

So I like to ask , do you have any predictions that you would like to share? I thought it would be fun to do this and see how many turn out to be accurate.

Telepathic

Some people believe in supernatural stuff but some people are not convinced by those related phenomenon due to the lack of scientific proof. There are reports that when supernatural occurs, the magnetic interference nearby is more acute than normal. But are these changes in magnetic field able to tell us anything?

But I do believe in telepathy - an invisible linking between two people. A blink of an eye or a smile will tell the other person what he is thinking or intend to do. These understandings are often extremely accurate, haven't you heard the football commentator saying "telepathic understanding" during a match?

In my life I have met a couple of interesting people from Indian temple here and they are said to be mildly telepathic - they were very interesting, they could send and receive, very impressive, very cool. That was a really cool experience. Can you send thoughts out? Do you think people receive them?

Have you ever called someone and they said, I picked up the phone and I knew it was you. Or have you ever picked up the phone and instinctively or intuitively known who it was on the other line before you pick it up? I think we have all had this experience at one time or another.

Believe and action

More motivational stuff from me inspired by Marie Callas :)

If you think that you will never get what you want in life or you think that you will never reach to the height of someone, you are essentially telling yourself that you will not achieve that.

Too many times I have heard this, either during friendly conversations or if you notice more, media interviews.

"I would like to try but I don't think I have the talents for that as I'm not someone-someone-someone."

Let's analyse.

This person wishes to do something special fervently. He/she has been dreaming of it all the time for a long time. He/she has a role model who is one of the best in the business. First of all, "try" is a very unassuming half-hearted word to use for something as solemn as your goal. It means no confidence in yourself. Use the word "do" instead. There is a lot of difference, mind you. He/she is not sure whether to go for it or not and the worse is he/she degrades her/his own ability in doing that when compared to their role model. The whole sentence is very negatively worded that gives a depressing tone. If you have this type of friend, advice your friend, or, get away from such friend if you can't convince.

Positively, it should be:

"I would like to do it successfully and I know I have as much talent to do as well as someone-someone-someone."

Now it gets your mind spinning how to get it done. You have started to think and plan for your goal. Your subconscious mind will also work in favour of you. In turn your actions will change, and you start manifesting more and more of what you want.

Remember, change your mind to believe, then follow up with actions.

Marie Callas letter

Life has ups and downs, exactly like the elevators you see at tall buildings. One more up, the next time down, then up again.. what a weird comparison don't you think? I think its better to compare life to riding a surf board, which makes you fall into the water or you can use it to conquer the waves.

On another note, I have received a Marie Callas letter again. I can't believe I forget to open this one up and I think I miss it among a huge pile of papers. Only then I discovered it when I was doing some sorting of my study desk, mind you. Marie Callas wrote to me in late June (nearly 2 months ago) about the "visionary flashes". I did not take up this offer, maybe it's late?

On the whole, I have not written to her for some months, and I'd like to write to her very soon as it's always good to express one's gratitude to someone who helps you. Gratitude should be shown to everyone and everything in life in fact, not just when you received good things. Earlier I wrote 3 letters to her at the beginning of the Marie Callas consultation and I really felt at peace after doing so.

Lunar Eclipse

This is definitely late.

The event happened on 28 August 2007 and some of us here were quite excited to see this astronomical phenomenon. But...... the weather didn't cooperate and instead sent a thick layer of thunder clouds to greet us.

Luckily due to internet, we have pictures and videos of this event appearing everywhere.

I'm referring to the lunar eclipse that happened last week.

Here is a excellent picture of the eclipse taken by someone in Melbourne, Australia.

Need for awareness

It was really a great weekend filled with nationalistic mood, and it was also one of those weekends in which countrymen traversed across the states back to their hometowns to gather with their families again.

Some parts of the roads were jammed to the brim as I travelled to my parent's place at Malacca, a reasonable 200km away. It was nice to be back as I had not met them for more than three months. We promise each other we would gather at this time of the year.

On today's newspaper, it reported that many Malaysians were tricked by the SMS scams, up to the number of RM35 millions. It's a shame so many people are gullible. It was obviously a front that was set up to cheat your money.

I learned from Marie Callas that wealth is energy and you need to work out something on your part to attract them. You also must have the spiritual and psychic aura ready before wealth will come to you. Also, you need to affirm your desires positively and continuously.

Personally I have received such sms and I can understand why. It was just too easy to fall into the trick if you just look things on the surface.