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You are God's finest creation.

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We've got enough wood to last a lifetime.

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"I do not care to be right. I said it because I only want to see you grow. I am always on your side."

Words that everyone should hear in between a task conflict.

#whatbookamIreading

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You can better handle your adversities if you do not lean on your own understanding.

I could have better handled my adversities had I not leaned on my own understanding.

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withdrawal

For a few weeks, I fought hard to avoid "knowing". I am someone who is really sensitive to "major shifts," and in the past days, I have felt that I have become a lot more emotional and drowsy, crying at the littlest things, and feeling like I'm being pulled to dream dreams.

I am having a withdrawal- going back to old habits, wanting an explanation "why".

"I have to know".

I realized nothing is simple. It will always be a continuous effort to change. Don't fall into old traps.

One of my greatest life challenges is overcoming the belief that we are being pulled by the moon's strings, like how its gravity pulls tides. It is even harder to push back this thought when this big question still lingers in my mind- if the moon is pulling our tides, is it also pulling us when our body is made up of 70% water?

How did I instantly know I was being pulled by the moon? I watched myself doing all these things, like a puppet pulled by the moon's strings.

Then, *snap*.

It was like I came out of a hypnosis.

"You are finally awake again."

The first thing you need to change is how you think.

What you feed your mind.

When you met God the second time, you are no longer bound.

God's greatest gift to us is our free will and the power of our choice.

I need to use them wisely.

One thing I regret is that I wish I never knew.

The real spiritual awakening is with God.

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#powerofchoice

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You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

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Diving in an unchartered territory

Using my weakness as a front strength

What worse could happen

If not gold eaten in a warp

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The me a year ago

Would look at me confusingly

She'd say, "This isn't you."

But I'd respond, "This is me now."

This is me now

And I shall embrace it

I'll look back at this moment

And realize, "That was meant to happen

So I could be where I am now."

I do not like the in between

But it was when I learned the most.

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[remanence-of-love]

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Love's Secret

"To receive love it must be given with no thought of its return. To love for fulfillment, satisfaction, or pride is no love. Love is a gift on which no return is demanded. Now you know that to love unselfishly is its own reward. And even should love not returned it is not lost, for love not reciprocated will flow back to you and soften and purify your heart."

-TGMITW

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NOW.

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She was 17.

I was frightened of every little thing That I thought was out to get me down To trip me up and laugh at me

But I learnt not to want The quiet of the room with no one around to find me out I want the applause, the approval, the things that make me go oh

-Bravado by Lorde

Every girl should listen to Lorde's Pure Heroin.

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Everything starts with a thought.

You wake up today and you thought about going back again to bed. A thought.

Maybe you thought of checking your phone first to see what's the latest on TikTok. A thought.

Maybe your cat jumps on your bed asking for food and so you thought of feeding it. A thought.

OR maybe you've read a book the other night that says the first thing you need to do tomorrow is to visualize the dream you have, feel the emotions as if you already achieved that dream, sit with it for a few good minutes, and now you are ready to start your day by creating what is actually needed. So you thought of doing just that. A thought (maybe, thoughts).

I am currently in the in between and I have been learning and relearning A LOT of things not taught in school. I have always enjoyed sitting in the classroom, listening to my teacher discuss new things I never knew. I am always left in awe when I get up from my chair, especially during my days in the university. Taking tests excites me the most. The rushed feeling when I have to memorize our two-month long topics overnight and somehow passing the them, and sometimes, when I get lucky, joining the high scorers in class. If you would ask me before if I have a choice to be just a student sitting in class for the rest of my life, I might actually go for that.

Now that I am in the real life, I have to face a lot of adversities to realize life is never about doing things only when you get a high burst of energy, or just sitting in a chair, studying. True life skills are learned through consistent daily application of habits that would bring us closer to our dreams. Life is about getting up from bed and choosing to create what is actually needed. Yep, ironically, I just learned about all of this just a few days back. It is doing wonders with my life AND everything all started with just a thought.

Now, we just have to reframe our minds into believing in ourselves, in our capabilities, and in the dreams we have.

If you want to live a life with purpose, you must first become a dreamer. The dreamers are always the ones who achieved, achieves, and will achieve the greatest things in this world. A way to get stuck in life is to believe that you are bounded by something that is impossible to get through, and so you avoid it, you hide from it, thinking you're choosing to be practical, until ultimately, you give up your dreams.

This is one of the great disservices one can do to themselves. A great disservice I did to myself. However, since I have already experienced them, I want the life challenges I had to become a survival guide to others who is currently experiencing the same things.

First advice, do not hide yourself. Open the doors to people who are willing to help you. You might feel scared at first, worrying they would not understand BUT there are a lot of people who would feel grateful that you asked for their help. Imagine someone asked you for directions, you helped them get there, and they gave you the warmest thanks. You would feel this light joy in your heart, right? That's what most people would feel when their help was useful to others.

Second, take time to know yourself. This is quite tricky because the idea of "you" is constantly changing and evolving but a tip is to envision yourself as your most successful version, and I am not just talking about riches- successful in relationships, career, in being a service to the society, and others. Maybe it is more specific for you. Define the kind of success you want to achieve and while doing it, DO NOT limit yourself. You are already what you want to be. After waking up in the morning, everyday, consistently envision the life you want to have and feel all the emotions as if you already have it. Next, and this is important, think of what you need to create today that would bring you closer to the life you have envisioned for yourself.

Now, the third and the last is, believe in yourself. Believe in what God created. You are God's finest creation, His miracle. Do you believe that God created a mediocre person? No, it is only one of your self-limiting beliefs that you tied yourself to. God created your mind so powerful, it could create and destroy things, but as always, we must choose to create and not destroy. Believe in your rarity. There are eight billion people in this planet but no one, not even the people who came before you, was ever like you. You are the only one. You are rare. God's creations are always perfectly made in His image. Always remember this.

Read all of these, how many times as you like, until all the words seep in your mind and in your soul. A longer version would be reading Og Mandino's The Greatest Miracle in the World. It has changed my life and I hope it would change millions more. I am praying for you.

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The in between

The in between feels the most uncomfortable. You know where to go, in your hand is a compass, but you have to walk in the endless tunnel of darkness to get somewhere. Now are stuck trying to create holes in the tunnel walls- maybe there is another way out. Instead of walking blindly towards the end, maybe you can pass through the holes by crawling your way out. But what is hole if not a gap where ideas flow directly back to blackness, nowhere to be found. Maybe eaten by aliens or dinosaurs living in other planets, or maybe sitting in another person's mind.

Does everything end with an idea?

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Storytelling

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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

Most of my self-limiting beliefs are rooted from the automated reports I have read from astrological websites I discovered during the restless pandemic nights.

The book, The Greatest Miracles in the World, has touched upon the subject of the planetary positions and their forces that affect our thoughts and actions as suggested by Professor Edward Dewey during his 40-year study about Cycles at the University of Pittsburg. He studied about a plethora of cycle events, "from earthquakes to abundance of grain crops to stock market prices to sun spot eruptions, and several hundred other disciplines", as quoted from the book. Strange enough, he believes that there is a high chance that the planetary positions' forces push us to feel and do things a certain way. We might be puppets in a string and we have to find out who controls it and cut our connection to it so we can achieve our full potential.

From a spiritual perspective, I have always felt collective shifts in energies around me. It happens a lot more frequently these days. I believe that these energies really do exist and it is somehow connected to the planetary alignments which we are born into. Their forces somehow affect our thoughts and actions from the day we were conceived until our soul reaches the state where we are no longer conscious of who we were born into. I have read somewhere that people like monks who pray everyday and have a predictable routine is not affected by these forces as they are always being raised high when they are in deep spiritual meditation which is almost every hour except their resting time.

Now, I have come to this conclusion that we must turn to God as He is the only one who has the power to cut these strings and elevate us to reach our full potential.

It is always a challenge for a sinner like me to accept the calling of being God's servant. It has always been an option but I have never accepted it because I have always felt undeserving of His grace. However, time and time again, Him and His angels would work to guide me to find His Home and rest in His arms. He would send His Word through His messengers and prophets in the persona of authors, poets, artists, missionaries, and healers in this modern world.

Most do not know it yet, but God is working through them. Their works are the "Hand of God". They reveal the secrets of this world that are waiting to be uncovered by hundreds, thousands, and even millions of people.

The day I have found God is the day I turned my back on astrology.

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Today is the oldest you have been.

And you will grow older tomorrow.

But do not fret, things get better in time.

The glaring lesson that life has taught me recently is that growth and success will always find us when we do things that we love and brings profound happiness in our lives.

Og Mandino's life turned 180 when he read W. Clement Stone's Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. Mine was transformed when I read his book, The Greatest Miracle in the World. Now, I have found my calling, to become a ragpicker, and turn others into one too.

In this, I find profound happiness, and therefore, success.