Time for Giant Faith

Hello, friends….

Separation comes in different forms. We may experience parents leaving us for a long vacation; or friends being gone for some time to go somewhere far away for things of consequence. There are also circumstances when we lost people we love so much; either because one abandons the other or simply the relationship has to end and one has to let go. But whether it’s temporary or permanent, separation always brings us emotional tragedy. And this one calls for our giant faith.

My prayer is that this piece might help a good friend and those who shares the same fate. Please have my faith and have it till you get healed.

Keep dreaming…
Chille:)

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I’ve learned from a book “Return to Love” by Marianne Williamson that there are three levels of ‘teaching’ in a relationship. The first level is what we think of as a casual encounter, such as two strangers meeting in an elevator or students who “happen” to walk home from school together. The second level is a “more sustained relationship, in which, for a time, two people enter into a fairly intense teaching-learning situation and then appear to separate.” The third level of teaching is a relationship, which, once formed, lasts our lives. At this level, “each person is given a chosen learning partner who presents him with unlimited opportunities for learning.”

Most of us find a hard time surviving the second level. Reason why, very few achieved that third level, life long-relationship. At the second level of teaching, people are brought together for more intense work. And sad to say, our souls usually slow down with the intensity of work we have to do. Most of us consider separation as the saddest chapter in a relationship. It diffuses our world when someone we love so much says goodbye to us. The emotional pain we feel from the inside is immensely excruciating. The intensity of pain doesn’t stop but keeps on haunting us over and over again. We feel it’s not only the relationship that is ending, but it seems like our entire world is temporarily ending too. Our depression, our disappointment, our tears, and our grief when a relationship is ending and someone has to let go are just but natural. It’s not neurotic to grieve a relationship; what’s neurotic is when we don’t. There’s no need to pretend we don’t feel the hurt in our hearts. We have to let it out and cry the tears that gush forth like a blood from a wound. We have to detoxify ourselves… release the negative energies and allow our souls to be healed. Because only in the process of healing, that we can learn what is illusion and what is real. And we can learn about a love that never, ever leaves. Thus, we should not always look with sadness at the “failure” of our relationship. If we both learned what we were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.

Sometimes, the lesson to be learned in a relationship is how to hang in there and try to work things out. Other times, the lesson to be learned is how to exit a situation that doesn’t serve or a person who is not worth. No one can say for another person what principle applies in what circumstance. It is ultimately our constant connection to heaven and our own intuitional guidance that alone can lead us to the higher understanding of events that unfold our lives.

Times like these call for a giant faith. Let our hearts be softened by our tears. Cry all the pain out, and let tears wash away our misery. Remember, Jesus’ symbolic three days? Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow. This is just one of our three days. Hold on. Hold on. Sometimes in our defenseless, our safety lies. Just step back and let Him lead the way. Hang on to our giant faith.

Scattering Butterfly’s Hope

Hello, friends….

I woke up today seeing paper butterflies hanging on the ceiling of my room. I wonder how these butterflies become the beautiful creatures they are. They seem to be blessed with many beautiful things… brave wings to let them fly somewhere and amazing colors to bring hope to the flowers.

If men have the courage to take risks and hope to change the way things are like that of a butterfly…then great possibilities are endless for each one of us.

So, here’s a challenge for you, friends.

Be like a brave butterfly and scatter butterfly’s hope!

Keep dreaming…

Chille:)

I love to do things that are not usual and obvious to the ordinary mind …things that require elusive imagination and radical passion. Some people call it strange…weird…hard-to-dig-personality. I call it spontaneous creativity.

Who ever dreamed of being surrounded with butterflies, feel the passion of their touch and hold the beauty of that joyful experience? I did…and I still do everyday. But I can’t afford to buy those expensive butterflies and imprison them in one place just to satisfy my radical passion. I wouldn’t endure the sight of those beautiful creatures being locked and caged for my own benefit. So I thought of creating my own butterfly sanctuary out of hard cutout colored pictures and let them hang in the ceiling of my room as if they are really flying. Then to add dramatic background in my room I put butterfly stickers and flowers of different colors and glow in the dark butterflies in the wall. Would you believe, it’s like waking up each day in a butterfly garden? If I stayed on dreaming or just waited for the chance to be surrounded by butterflies, perhaps, it would take some time to realize that dream or be there at the place I wanted to.

I also remember the time when very few people have recognized yoga as a good healing exercise. Some perceived it as something weird and senseless...a boring activity. Some even associated it as an agnostic or atheist’s work out. I wanted to see whether those perceptions were valid. So I tried it… even learned to love it …and skewed the old theories. Now I’m enjoying the healing energy –both body and soul- that yoga exercise brings me. If I were not curious enough to try it and disprove the old notion, I wouldn’t know and I will never ever know the healing power of yoga.

The lesson for me here is this: if I want to do something to change my world, the possibility of achieving the change I dream of lies in my hands. I don’t have to wait for the right chance or depend on other people to make it happen for me. Right chance takes place if I allow it to take place and change will come to me if I work for it (…which tells me I have to conclude my long-ignored unfinished businesses in life!). Sometimes, it really pays to go out of our shell, search out, and take a risk (even if the risk breaks our soul sometimes!).

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This reminds me of the story of the two caterpillars, “Stripe and Yellow” in the Hope for the Flowers. In the tale, Stripe and Yellow, want something more from life than eating and growing bigger. But they mistake the urge to get high so they get caught up in a “caterpillar pillar” filled with a squirming mass of caterpillar bodies, each determined to reach a top so far away it can’t be seen. Finally disillusioned, they discover that the way for caterpillars to find their particular “more”, or who they really are, is to enter the cocoon and “risk for a butterfly.”

Most of us experienced being disillusioned sometimes in our lives. Disillusion with the way life is made for us…disillusion with the way our world is turning…disillusion with our own expectations. We want to fly and reach the sky, yet don’t know how. We crave for many things, many wishes, yet don’t know exactly what we want. It’s as if we’re just waiting for a magical moment to tear down the whole order of things and in a strike of a wand, we’re expecting that everything will be renewed, and we’ll live in a whole new world.

There’s nothing wrong with being a dreamer. I am a dreamer and I will remain a dreamer forever. But I dream in a real world. And one thing I’ve learned in dreaming in a real world is how to struggle with faith and hope.

Some of us struggle to “climb the top” and would only feel contentment if they reach the top of the heap. Others are already there at the top of the heap yet feeling so empty… thus still searching for something more meaningful. But searching for one’s self, one’s destiny, one’s purpose for existence, is not always easy. Searching is a struggle…a difficult struggle. But the hard knocks of searching are there to give us a sense of achievement, a sense of hope that somehow we are going to a place meant for us. Some of us are not just meant to climb the top… some of us are meant to fly. For Stripe and Yellow, surrendering to the cocoon is the only way to fly and become a beautiful butterfly. For some of us, changing perspectives, changing priorities, finishing unfinished business and surrendering to serve others and touch lives is the only way to reach a complete, meaningful life.

The amazing transformation of a caterpillar, a lowly worm, into a glorious flying creature is hard to believe. But it’s true because we have actually seen a real butterfly. And as long as there are butterflies in the garden, the flowers will not cease from hoping and people can hope for other transformations invisible to the eye.

Fill your life with butterfly’s hope. And if you believe in that hope, try scattering it to other gardens. You just don’t know what your hope can do to other souls.

Dream of Heaven

A passage from a book called “Transforming #1” caught my attention  that I can’t help but share it with you.  It tells you what heaven is like and what I believe it is so. It says:

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“Heaven is having an entire planet on which to live. Heaven is having billions of companions in the game called life. Heaven is having challenges, which stretch you out so that you can see how big you are. Heaven is being born and having a body to serve you and support you. Heaven is having people around you available to love you whenever you are ready to give up being right. Heaven is living in an age of transformation and having the opportunity to participate in that transformation. Heaven is having a condition of enlightenment in the world through which you can use your life to cut like a knife. Heaven is having people in the world whom you can admire and respect. Heaven is having nothing given to you. Heaven is starting from the starting line in life and building your very own personality and your very own life out of the raw material of your own abilities. Heaven is being alive and having a dream.”

Like a fiddler in the roof, I have a dream. I have a dream that I could create a difference in the lives of other people. I have a dream that transformation will take place in each one of us, and that we will wake up one morning and love not only those we know and near us but love those people we don’t know, not because of a certain reason, but just because that the way life is. I have a dream that starvation will end, and scarcity will be filled. I have a dream that every child can enjoy his childhood instead of running on the streets begging for food or struggling for a living. I have a dream that women are well protected and respected. I have a dream that all love will be pure and sacred, and not just casually given today and will lose its meaning tomorrow. I have a dream that there is no such thing as war and hatred and selfishness and cowardice. I have a dream that people will dare to step out of line, to be brave enough to put into action their transformed ideas, and to make the contribution to life that each person deeply wants to make. I dream all these dreams and I keep on dreaming them more and more everyday.

No doubt, I am no different from you. I know you have dreams too. I know that you ache to make your contribution in life. I know you want to create a difference in the lives of others. I know that when it becomes real for you that you can make a difference… that you can make the contribution of which you always dreamed, you will step out of line, you will operate in a space of no agreement, you will confront and be responsible for the condition of the world. And I know that you know that it starts with you, that once you know yourself and treat yourself out of your own magnificence you can begin to treat others in like manner.

I am certain that every one of us has, at the base of our hearts, the desire to contribute, to make a difference.

I guess things are never too late for us to start a transformed life. Sometimes though, its difficult to travel on our own towards an unexplored road, but if we have other souls walking along beside us, doubtlessly we’ll reach the path destined for each one of us. After all, we live in this world for a reason. And that reason, we have to find out.

I am looking forward to the future of our partnership in this journey called life!

Spreading Good Energy

Hello, friends….

“A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.”

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I’ve read the book, “The Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield, many many years ago but the amazement I got from that book kept on puzzling me until now. I can say that reading that book was one of the best experiences in my life. I've always been a person interested in the mystical and many times I experienced that feeling of unexplained connection between events, places, things, or people I’ve met in my life’s journey.

I am sharing the energy to you now, simply because I feel I have to. Maybe, you can also share the energy, if you feel have to.

Keep dreaming…

Chille:)

Coincidence…Serendipity…Karma…Destiny…words that speak about pure chances…accidental occurrences…chance encounters…a twist of fate…a happenstance…a pure work of luck. The happenings of such events in our lives pose a mystery. But are these purely coincidences or part of our real existence that we just happen to ignore?

If there is such thing as Advocates of Coincidences, perhaps I’m one of them. Movies or novels that illustrate a twist of fate or speak about destiny or mysterious coincidences really touch my heart and leave a mark in my memory. I always have this feeling of de’javu or something familiar in certain person or events or places. The mystery makes me want to explore more and search for a link. I believe there has to be a connection somewhere. I believe every person; all the events of our lives are there because we have drawn them there. What we choose to do with them is up to us. And I have proven not only once, but many times in my life that the connection really exists.

Though it’s not as grand encounter as the characters in Serendipity, or as extraordinary as the Message in the Bottle, my encounter with mysterious coincidences taught me a lesson that everything is just a matter of energy. As mentioned in the book and I quote, “We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction...where attention goes, energy flows...influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives. “

You see, the happenings of coincidences in our lives can be increased if we desire to. If we learn how to uplift each person that comes into our lives and really see the beauty in every face that we meet, then we’ve found our connection to that person…and that is not chance encounter. It was meant for us to meet that soul because there is something we need to do for that person. And if we make that our personal mission in life, then we will further enhance the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided towards our destiny…the destiny to lift others to their wisest self.

You don’t have to be rich and famous to be able to make a difference. I am not rich, I am not famous, but through writing, I share good energies to my friends and to other souls I don’t even know. Sometimes, thoughts just pop up in my mind…not knowing exactly where it will go or how would it end. I let spontaneity flows in and allow the energy to travel. I know somehow, the words will form a beautiful thought and connect a soul somewhere. And it does. Many times, I receive little notes from friends and people I don’t know saying how they have been inspired by my thoughts. (And all the while, I thought, I was not making sense!) I love these people because they give me good energy and create purpose to my writings. Reason why, I always say my gratitude to those people whose thought has inspired me or moved me. I know it gives them life to write some more. And that’s what I call…bridging good energy!

Each one has its own creative way of contributing to the world. Rather than wishing and dreaming that you will be rich one day so you can act and help the world, you can actually do your share now. For instance, instead of stealing energies from other souls, why not learn to uplift them? Instead of intimidating people, learn to build an unprejudiced connection…be open-minded. Instead of wallowing regrets of the past, appreciate the present and discover your own growth path. That way, you will feel a sense of lightness or buoyancy within... a sense of inner connection to your personal mission and to the real purpose of human life in this planet.

Spread the good energy!