"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." - Mother Teresa
....yep, Mother Teresa alright....
I probably appear like an overheated marshmallow the way I have softened over the last few years. I was never like this. I honestly am trying to toughen up. I need to. This crying when I talk to the public is just not on. I mean I can't do it in front of big crowds and I will be doing it soon, as well as the media. I have done soooo much public speaking before but more in the way of investment seminars and so on. I never cried when I gave those presentations but then I suppose not many would cry about risk versus return. Then again I suppose you could shed a few tears finding out your entire Super fund had been wiped out by the stock market? Hmmm.... maybe?
But since I have been living in the homeless world the subject matter has changed a lot. All of a sudden my emotions have been thrown into utter chaos. First I suppose with the way I live. From nice Queen size bed with fluffy pillows to a bit of foam in a tent (a moldy one at that!). Lamb roast to a bit of bread. BMW to walking everywhere. Hmmmm.... well I suppose at the beginning that was a culture shock. But like anything in life do it long enough and you get used to it. In fact I don't think I shed any tears over it. Good came out of it. It made me look for MSOT (ME!). Really it toughened me up. So.....
But since I have been living in the homeless world the subject matter has changed a lot. All of a sudden my emotions have been thrown into utter chaos. First I suppose with the way I live. From nice Queen size bed with fluffy pillows to a bit of foam in a tent (a moldy one at that!). Lamb roast to a bit of bread. BMW to walking everywhere. Hmmmm.... well I suppose at the beginning that was a culture shock. But like anything in life do it long enough and you get used to it. In fact I don't think I shed any tears over it. Good came out of it. It made me look for MSOT (ME!). Really it toughened me up. So.....
LOVE and LIFE.... a Spiritual Journey
What has softened me up? What has turned me into a mumbling bumbling cream puff? Why can't I make it through an entire presentation without the dreaded heeby jeeby emotional turmoil of sobbing? Weeeell, see it's like this. I am lacking in something which I am only coming to terms with now. I still don't understand it but my incessant reading and study shows me that just about every single icon that I read about devotes a lot of time to this one single NEED in life. It's something that is missing among the poor and underprivileged. It is something which I had no idea about until I began my Journey. All it was in fact was a word which we overused to explain a fuzzy feeling inside. I think by now you have worked out that one thing that I am lacking. I spoke of it the other day in BLOG thingie. Yep........
......LOVE LIFE and LIVE LOVE.....
See I'm beginning to learn the REAL meaning of
L-O-V-E. It's why I bumble and stumble when I talk about the people in my life over the last few years, the homeless, the addicted, the mentally challenged, the depressed, the bashed, the street kids, the unemployed. Everyone of those people have a life, the same as a lot of other privileged dots. But things have gone wrong somewhere. Every single story involves a LACK or LOSS OF LOVE. But what the key is in all of this trauma of life is to FIND the REAL MEANING OF LOVE. It's much much more than holding hands and smooching. It's what causes me to cry. Because I relate all of the sadness, all of the heartache, all of the tragedy to the LACK OF LOVE IN OUR LIVES. If you read Victor Frankl's books like "A Will To Meaning", you will see that he found the same thing that I have. There is no separation of LIFE and LOVE. When you take on a Spiritual path after the pain, the suffering, the devastation your MIND begins to show you what LIFE is really about. You need to find out yourself but the meaning will show you that LOVE IS LIFE and that LIFE IS LOVE. I hope then that you will find what I am beginning to find. And, like me, you will cry................. WITHOUT SHAME.
My BFF gave me this most beautiful card for my birthday. On the front of the card were the words from Mother Teresa I have shared with you above. As Mother Teresa is up there with my most inspirational people I can't understand how I have not seen these most beautiful words before. So I Googled it and there they were, larger than life itself ('scuse the pun!). BFF wrote me a lovely poem to match the words on the front. See BFF isn't just BFF. There is something mystical about her coming back into my life after soooo many years. BFF is very very Spiritual and different to me, she has
L-O-V-E everywhere in her L-I-F-E, her family, her friends, her ...... weeeelll...... every part of her. And she is teaching me a whole lotta stuff that I didn't understand but I am just beginning to.......
The words above from Mother Teresa? Read them again but do one thing for me. Replace the word LIFE with the word LOVE. I know enough about Mother Teresa from my reading that she, of all the saints in heaven, knew that
LIFE is LOVE...........
and LOVE is LIFE...........
and when I get to truly understand this meaning in our lives then my tears of sorrow for my friends will stop, or at least CHANGE, into........
TEARS OF JOY........
and hopefully I will get through an entire presentation without Niagara Falls!
L-O-V-E. It's why I bumble and stumble when I talk about the people in my life over the last few years, the homeless, the addicted, the mentally challenged, the depressed, the bashed, the street kids, the unemployed. Everyone of those people have a life, the same as a lot of other privileged dots. But things have gone wrong somewhere. Every single story involves a LACK or LOSS OF LOVE. But what the key is in all of this trauma of life is to FIND the REAL MEANING OF LOVE. It's much much more than holding hands and smooching. It's what causes me to cry. Because I relate all of the sadness, all of the heartache, all of the tragedy to the LACK OF LOVE IN OUR LIVES. If you read Victor Frankl's books like "A Will To Meaning", you will see that he found the same thing that I have. There is no separation of LIFE and LOVE. When you take on a Spiritual path after the pain, the suffering, the devastation your MIND begins to show you what LIFE is really about. You need to find out yourself but the meaning will show you that LOVE IS LIFE and that LIFE IS LOVE. I hope then that you will find what I am beginning to find. And, like me, you will cry................. WITHOUT SHAME.
My BFF gave me this most beautiful card for my birthday. On the front of the card were the words from Mother Teresa I have shared with you above. As Mother Teresa is up there with my most inspirational people I can't understand how I have not seen these most beautiful words before. So I Googled it and there they were, larger than life itself ('scuse the pun!). BFF wrote me a lovely poem to match the words on the front. See BFF isn't just BFF. There is something mystical about her coming back into my life after soooo many years. BFF is very very Spiritual and different to me, she has
L-O-V-E everywhere in her L-I-F-E, her family, her friends, her ...... weeeelll...... every part of her. And she is teaching me a whole lotta stuff that I didn't understand but I am just beginning to.......
The words above from Mother Teresa? Read them again but do one thing for me. Replace the word LIFE with the word LOVE. I know enough about Mother Teresa from my reading that she, of all the saints in heaven, knew that
LIFE is LOVE...........
and LOVE is LIFE...........
and when I get to truly understand this meaning in our lives then my tears of sorrow for my friends will stop, or at least CHANGE, into........
TEARS OF JOY........
and hopefully I will get through an entire presentation without Niagara Falls!
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