Life is Gorgeous

A couple of nights ago I watched Life is Beautiful, the movie capturing the difficulties a Jewish father goes through while structuring the concentration camp as a fun and game-like place for his little boy. I can't imagine a harsher treatment and form of life than the ones existing in such camps and the intolerable cruelty and disrespect these individuals went through.
It was one father's kindness and view of the world that changed the life of his little boy and eventually his mother's.
I went to sleep that night thinking about THIS particular view of life and in the morning while coming to work I saw a bus pass by me with a big inspirational billboard reading: "Life is Beautiful".
Head's up...Sometimes the messages received can only be glued to your thoughts and emotions if you are aware how lucky you are and put on the see-thru all difficult illusions glasses. Everything is achieved with ease and simplicity- if not then it's not for you.

Gratitude is the easiest way to think of such simplicity. Right now, you have more than you need.

Guido: [pretending to translate] The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says "Jackass" on his back. There are three ways to lose points. One, turning into a big crybaby. Two, telling us you want to see your mommy. Three, saying you're hungry and want something to eat.

Guido: If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I? Silence.

ShF!

Anthony de Mello quotes

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”
― Anthony de Mello 

The Happening Impossible

It sometimes strikes me that many people are working for the purpose of survival and not really breaking free and moving forward with what they want to accomplish- their real potential. After watching the movie Limitless and Lucy last week I realized the human mind really uses 20% of their brain capacity while the remainder is unused. So this question comes to mind: Why are we not using the remainder 80%? or Why are we not being courageous enough to step out of the comfort of the 20%? Is it really that difficult? Are we cowards or is using the 80% not in our power?
If it is part of us so why not use it. This is similar to not going to the gym and cultivating our muscles.
Maybe this could be the answer to everything we perceive as problems simply by using the 80%.

First step (other than watching those two movies!) is to simply becoming aware. The brain is similar to a magnetic energy field and attracts to it whatever we desire. There may be a time lapse but that doesn't mean it is not attracting or in the process of attracting. An interesting thought came in my head, if energy is to be plugged into, then this magnetic brain field is also to be plugged into. How? By focusing, being, and disregarding fear! Let me ask you this. How do you know someone is looking at you on the bus? Not because you have a mole on your face or you are wearing their favorite color sweater (well, it maybe that but that doesn't usually last long) but because of the energy fields colliding. Energy attracts energy and their energy is trying to attract your energy. Simple as that. The only time you may not feel it and suddenly realize it when you look up is if you were focused on your book or in your own thoughts. Bingo. Vallah!
It's as simple as that. Be aware, use your brain cells....they are there for a reason! You have no limits nor boundaries.

ShF