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

Creating a Breakthrough Moment- Huffington Post Blog

At the risk of being vulnerable I have finally finished my semi-memoir and ready to share it with the world! Yes- every female teenager and her parents along with every human being that has or will be going through a similar experience. The first stop for my new book "The Burden of My Red Lips in Tehran" is with the Huff Post Blog! The first place to make it so (soo) public. Check out the link below and enjoy it to the max!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shaghayegh-farsijani/a-journey-from-brooklyn-t_b_7070838.html

Sortify

Are you proud of who you are? Are you thinking about giving up? Do you think it has been easy?
Well for starters, IT IS easy and simple only you make it complex.

If you are "lots" awkward or "more than lots" awkward you should be very proud of your awkwardness, because it's who you are. Remember, there is no one else like you. You are that unique item in the department store with nothing else like you in storage or inventory or placing a back-up order. In other words who said there was anything wrong with being weird?! Do you want to live your life sucking up to what other people think living and being is or do you want to be your own creator? Choose the latter and enjoy every molecular moment of being, creating, and absorbing.

Letting Go is always closer to your dreams

Sometimes you feel that it’ll never come true, that your desires are distant objects you will never reach nor touch in this world. Now, when you don’t come close to having them and you desperately await their arrival it does feel as it you are floating around in time lacking something. That’s when it always hits me- that even without that I am complete and exactly on the right path with precisely the right people and everything I need in life. Yup- you guessed it- I am whole even without the desires that I wish to manifest. They will eventually come out when the time is exactly right and while you are just enjoying life.

If you focus you will see that it comes into your life so easily and freely without you digging and searching. If you do dig and put too much energy then you are definitely, 100% on the wrong path. That path, is the path of experience, where the training kicks in. Gym time!
 

Live everyday like it’s your last but take into perspective your limitations- and bend and play with it to your liking- while you are training on your path in life. This was the most important lesson I got from “The Burden of my Red Lips in Tehran”. Take the road less traveled- you will survive with ease.

Tender-lutely Gotham

A word that means so much but shocks me when some permit it to fall in between the gaps is: authenticity.

That said I don't know why many like to be viewed in a particular accepted way as opposed to solely being themselves. Some are even scared to confess such a horrific realization.

Mornings, once stepping on to the bus I see people getting on and hopping off slowly. Some are in their won world, some happy, some sad, and some don't care how they are perceived most likely because they don't know one another. So they don't have to put forth the effort and connect. The one flaw I have perceived is trying too hard to connect or some being fearful of connecting. However way classified, the formula is you being you without fear of judgement.

As I get off the bus in Manhattan's Chelsea District I feel and UN-feel this ingredient as pedestrians walk by gazing at one another trying to gain approval. At times, I can totally feel like one when I realize I too have lost awareness. Sadly, it maybe the city effect but interestingly many can and choose to be aware of the golden ingredient underneath. Many should throw away the carried mask for fear of being emotionally stabbed aka judged. Judgements cannot pin anyone down unless you allow yourself to stay down. Be the rock star that you are or stay awkward. Nothing wrong with being you even if it results in being alone.