Friday, January 27, 2012

Are Your Friends Here for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime?


Many of us are fortunate enough to have friends who are a consistent part of our lives throughout all our ups and downs. However, sometimes others we consider friends appear to enter, then depart from our lives for reasons we try to, but don't always, understand. This piece nicely explains the flow of people in and out of our lives.

                                    It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

 Then people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

THE POWER OF HEART



Everyone needs and wants ...


Why do we want to
fall in love ,
When we know
it will only hurt in the END?


Love transforms everything

Though several people say love is prone to pain, still we want to take the risk and continue on loving.

Why is this so?
Why do we keep on loving after all the heartaches we have experienced?

It is because…

Love heals our wounds and makes us whole once more

There is deep peace and accord deep in our hearts. We can experience it, and see the world through the eyes of our heart.  This is the reason why a person has to love once more despite of getting hurt. 

Our hearts have power to change darkness to light, sadness to happiness

That is the power of heart, the miracle of love.




We read several quotes, mostly from facebook status, saying: 

“The heart
is not always right
because
 it is being placed
at the left side of our chest”.

Do you agree?

Let us try to see and experience the world through our heart. (The center of our heart is in the middle of our chest)

When I was in my teen years, I often wonder why the heart symbolizes love.  Why it is always associated with HEART and not liver, feet, head, hands, or any part of our human body. Are you not wondering the same? Me, has wondered a lot.. until one day I recognized that:



HEART
-          is the CORE of our human body. If we don’t have a HEART, we are nothing but dead person
LOVE
-          is the CORE of our existence. Without LOVE, our existence has no meaning at all, for the purpose of our life is “to love and to be loved”.
 



It was then when I start looking things through my heart that I was able to understand the meaning of it. In the presence of love, there is no misunderstanding. There will be peace instead of greediness and war.  THAT IS THE POWER OF OUR HEART!

If all of us look at things
through our heart
we can feel …
Love and Peace
                                                              
 

Group at FACEBOOK

         What has happened to our  world? Is there any chance for Peace?
2.      “YES, THERE IS! IF WE HAVE A HEART TO SPREAD LOVE AND PEACE “. 
                               “ This is where Love and Peace group has come about "




This group was created by:

Sometime in Aug. 24, 2010, Love and Peace   on the Earth group was created by
Yvette Filion and Sachin Ghalot in hopes to spread Love and Peace on the Earth.




“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”





The objective of this group is to create a better understanding for the real meaning of Love & Peace. So, my hopes are for all members to please participate and contribute your thoughts and comments on the group's wall and have fun while you're at it :)



Much Love and Peace be to ALL. From my heart to yours, my deep gratitude for being here in this group and sharing with ALL your heart and giving out your precious time to spread Love and Peace.



FACEBOOKLOVE & PEACE on the EARTH



Just Peace

Peace has always been among humanity's highest values--for some, supreme.


Consider:

"Peace at any price."
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"Peace is more important than all justice."
"I prefer the most unjust peace to the justest war that was ever waged."
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."




Yet, we agree little on what is peace. Perhaps the most popular (Western) view is as an absence of dissension, violence, or war, a meaning found in the New Testament and possibly an original meaning of the Greek word for peace, Irene.

Peace, however, is also seen as concord, or harmony and tranquility. It is viewed as peace of mind or serenity, especially in the East. It is defined as a state of law or civil government, a state of justice or goodness, a balance or equilibrium of Powers.

Such meanings of peace function at different levels. Peace may be opposed to or an opposite of antagonistic conflict, violence, or war. It may refer to an internal state (of mind or of nations) or to external relations. Or it may be narrow in conception, referring to specific relations in a particular situation (like a peace treaty), or overarching, covering a whole society (as in a world peace). Peace may be a dichotomy (it exists or it does not) or continuous, passive or active, empirical or abstract, descriptive or normative, or positive or negative.

The problem is, of course, that peace derives its meaning and qualities within a theory or framework. Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist will see peace differently, as will pacifist or internationalist. Socialist, fascist, and libertarian have different perspectives, as do power or idealistic theorists of international relations. In this diversity of meanings, peace is no different from such concepts as justice, freedom, equality, power, conflict, class, and, indeed, any other concept.

All concepts are defined within a theory or cognitive framework--what I have called elsewhere a perspective.Through a perspective peace is endowed with meaning by being linked to other concepts within a particular perception of reality; and by its relationship to ideas or assumptions about violence, history, divine grace, justice. Peace is thereby locked into a descriptive or explanatory view of our reality and each other.