A quiet stream nearby

How I wish I have this stream at the back of my house where I can hear the flow of the stream and look at the clear water full of little fish when I'm feeling bored.

Our interaction with nature is getting less and less in this hectic life hence it will be good to have something natural with you at touching distance with travelling far to enjoy it.I remember when I was young, my grandmother's house had something like this nearby her old house before it was torn down and replaced by an highway. Sad isn't it. Really miss those worries free days in the childhood. Even during days,with heavy rainfall, the stream wouldn't flood, unlike now, it floods easily. Somewhere is wrong with the man and the nature definitely.

Creating Abundance

Creating abundance in your life, means taking responsibility for what you are attracting into it. When you turn, "responsibility" around, it asks the question, "What is your ability to respond?"

We are instantly attracting to us, whatever we focus on and respond to.

Positive and negative thoughts from us, are sent out into the universe, every which way. The law of attraction is not built to censor the positive, or negative. It simply works on one main principle. "Like, attracts like."

Begin by not engaging your negative feelings with frustration and anger, or rage.

Stop putting your energy into, what you don't like, don't want; and begin responding to your positive thoughts, with intention. In this way, you will begin to create abundance for yourself. It's not what happens to you, in life; it is taking responsibility for how you respond to it. This is the real power, to create abundance in your life.

Most of us, believe money would equate to, abundance. And yet, money, by itself, is nothing more than a tool to acquire a new home, or car.

Begin defining, what abundance equates, to you. Keep the list and focus on it three times a day. It's ok to change the list as you go over it. This is normal.

If you want a new house, then begin defining what kind of house you really want. Get specific, then focus with intention, and believe you will have this. Let the law of attraction begin working for you.

Learn to create abundance, by practicing these three steps everyday.

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.