The Path to Love

Deepak Chopra wrote a book titled "The Path To Love -- Spiritual lessons for creating the love you need." There are many great quotes and powerful words in that book, of which I will share a few of them with you now.

* You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love -- that is the spiritual goal of life.

* All of us must discover for ourselves that love is a force as real as gravity, and that being upheld in love every day, every hour, every minute is not a fantasy -- it is intended as our natural state.

* Love is meant to heal

* Love is meant to bring peace

* Love is meant to inspire us with its power

" I want my love to be powerful. I want to use all my own power with love. I want to express love when I feel it and not give in lower emotions like fear and anger."

* Love is intelligent and aware; it knows you better than you know yourself.

* Life is love and love is life

* When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then, love, power and spirit are one.

Friendship

I love quotes the one below is one of my all time favourites. And it's because of you.... Thank You!

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." By Eustace Budgell.

You are Phenomenal

Hi..... Hope you're having a wonderful Earth Day celebration! I'm busy with Earth Day celebrations and awareness campaign at a local school at the moment. But I wanted to share with you these two wonderful "movies" made by two beautiful souls with a vision for a peaceful world. According to them ....... your love, energy and commitment to a better world is very powerful and phenomenal. And I believe them! Enjoy the movie...... just click on the link below.


The Gentle Art of Blessing:
http://www.joy-tothe-world.com/Gentle_Art_of_Blessing_Movi.html

The second movie is:At the Heart of Peacehttp:// www.rekindering.com/peace/attheheartofpeace.html

I thank you for your support and belief in this movement for a peaceful and loving world.

My Thoughts Create My World

I have realized that I can choose to be creative, and that it can be expressed in many ways and in any form. It is so liberating to know that you have complete freedom to creatively express yourself and allowing that freedom to create your vision into reality. Do it with Love, in the name of Love, and for Love. That is where I got my liberation from. I love the world that I am imagining, and it is so much fun creating it into reality!

I Am

I am creative,
Therefore my world is a creative one.

I am happy,
Therefore my world is a happy one.

I am respectful,
Therefore my world is a respectful one.

I am thankful,
Therefore my world is a thankful one.

I am joyful,
Therefore my world is a joyous one.

I am peaceful,
Therefore my world is a peaceful one.

I am loving,
Therefore my world is a loving one.

Happily created by Shareen Iqbal on 11 April 2008.

I Choose, I Create, I am.

I have been contemplating on all of my new learnings and I realized yesterday, if I had to summarize it all into one sentence, it would be: I Choose, I Create, I Am. After reading all the books, talking to people, philosophizing, thinking, pondering...... that was it.

I Choose, I Create, I Am.

I choose love,
I create a loving life,
I am living in a loving world.

I choose peace,
I create a peaceful way of life,
I am living in a peaceful world.

By Shareen Iqbal (11 April 2008).



LOVE PEACE.

Divine Love

I know that one of the purpose of my life is to spread the message, "The Answer is Love". The love that I know and understand is very different from the definition of what we commonly know as love or human love. The best description I have found is to describe it as Pure Love, Unconditional Love and now.... Divine Love.

I have been on a journey of self-discovery, personal development and spiritual growth which has been quite exciting. I continue to enjoy my journey of revelations, enlightenment and the continuous learning that occurs. It is through this blog, that I share some of my experiences with you and what I am learning. Thank you so much for your support and encouraging words. I am grateful and thankful for the beautiful soul that you are.

LOVE - Divine Bliss and Joy

Our world is oneness and unity consciousness where there is only energy and it is Pure Love. This energy always and only expresses LOVE.

You may ask then, why do some of us feel afraid and depressed? It is because it has become a habit. Understand, we are the ones who choose our perceptions of life. If we have negative experiences, it is because we lock ourselves into patterns of interpretation and perception that lead us to conceive it as a negative experience. Imagine now, that you are in a world filled with love and joy. Make it your new reality and begin to choose that all your experiences and interepretations from now onwards will be through this new loving energy. It's just a matter of changing your expectations and perceptions.

Be Yourself

A dear friend sent me this wonderful e-mail and I have a wish for you today. As you read this, just remember that I'm sending you sunshine kisses and rainbow wishes!

The "Be" Attitudes

Be understanding to your enemies.
Be loyal to your friends.

Be strong enough to face the world each day.
Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.

Be generous to those who need your help.
Be frugal with what you need yourself.

Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.

Be willing to share your joys.
Be willing to share the sorrows of others.

Be a leader when you see a path others have missed.
Be a follower when you are shrouded by the mists of uncertainty.

Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not tumble.
Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.

Be loving to those who love you.
Be loving to those who do not love you; they may change.

Above all, be yourself.

-- Author Unknown

Give Love and Do Good

According to Wayne Dyer, the eight points long attributed by many to Mother Teresa of Calcutta are actually a version of "The Paradoxical Commandments" written by Kent M. Keith while he was a sophomore at Harvard University in the 1960s. Dyer talks about this commandments in his amazing book, "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem" and adds on his personal comments to it, of which I will share with you my brief interpretation of it. You must read the whole book to truly appreciate the beauty of it. If you have not read this book, please get it! I highly recommend this book and it is an absolute must have.

The Eight-Point Plan

1. People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Forgive them anyway.

Dyer: When you forgive them, you choose to not be impacted in a negative manner.


2. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Dyer: Be kind because it is you, not because of the reactions you want from others.


3. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Dyer: Focus on what you know to be your divine purpose, and by doing so, the universe will
support and sustain you with what is labeled success. Others will be offended, but if
you persist in ignoring their reactions, you will not allow the presence of false friends
or true enemies to be a factor in your life.


4. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.

Dyer: Those who attempt to cheat you, will respect and honour your position when you
stay true to your spiritual values. Behave toward others from your highest self and
you will eventually be free of the fear of being cheated. Ironnically, when that fear
disappears, the problem of being cheated also dispappears.


5.What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight. Build anyway.

Dyer: Do not build anything only for the purpose of having it completed. Build because it is
your way of expressing your purpose. Building something is a means of expressing
yourself.


6. If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Dyer: Happiness is the way. If you seek the reactions of others as the basis of your way of
being, then you have turned the source of your happiness over to those whose
reactions you covet. Happiness is an inside job. You don't get it from anyone or
anything; you bring it to everyone and every event of your life.


7. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Dyer: Stop looking for the approval and gratitude of others as your reasons to do good.
Even if no one ever says thank you, do for others as your heart dictates from spirit,
which is rooted in the faster energy of love, kindness and connectedness to all.
Remind yourself to give love and do good because that is who you are, and for no
other reason at all.

8. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best
you've got anyway.

Dyer: The best implies your highest, most sacred self. People may attempt to be more
demanding of you, or by critizing you repeatedly, or even by ignoring your efforts.
When you return to your highest self, you are independent of those opinions almost
instantly, and problems of feeling unappreciated are nonexistent. Give the world your
spirit, and detach from the outcome of your efforts.

As written in Dyer's book, these eight suggestions that Mother Teresa adopted as a plan for life concludes with the truly profound essence of this offering: "You see, the in the final analysis, it is all between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."

Quotes on Spirituality

As some of you may already know, I am a huge fan of Oprah and obviously I subscribe to her website. I do hope to meet her one day. But in the meantime, I'll just share some of the quotes posted by her team on one my favourite topics.... Spirituality!

Our friends make us feel understood. And strengthened. And loved. Most of all, they make us feel connected.


"It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our [spiritual body] clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the dust and heat and hurts."
-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us..."
-- Morihei Ueshiba

"No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it."
-- Thaddeus Golas

"Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer."
-- Bo Lozoff

"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time."
-- Dalai Lama

"I'm fulfilled in what I do...I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes--the finer things in life--would make you happy. My happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."
-- Coretta Scott King

"I cannot hold up any book and say, 'Here. This is what I believe.' I do not know of any church where I would feel at home. But I do believe that what people call God refers to something real... I would even go so far as to say that this God of mine makes demands. To learn, to teach, to engage. To be aware of and respect the world around me. To acknowledge that there are things greater then myself and to be humble in theirpresence."
-- Dan Jackson

"The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action." -- Andre Gide

Creative Ethical Living

"The goal to be sought is a world where well-being extends to all in the fullest, richest way possible... brought about by a mode of creative ethical living that includes all of us as moral equals, inspiring and uplifting us all, nourished by the creative energy we experience as spirituality..." -- Martin Prozesky

Think Love

I received this e-mail from a dear friend who firmly believes in Pure Love as I do. I am so happy to be able to share this with you ......


We can feel love from everything around us. Love is energy. We can feel love from our family, from our friends, from pets and plants, from our cars, our house, wind passing through us, bright sun and everything around us. When we love things around us, the energy bounces back to us in multifold. We again pass this energy around.

Love you life, enjoy it and celebrate it. Thank and be grateful for everything that comes to your life for they come to you for a reason, for you to learn from them and make your life better. Understand people who trouble you or does you harm for these troubles will make you understand yourself better.

Appreciate everything that comes to your life for what you will be is because of them. Have fun with life. Learn to calm your mind. Our mind, due to various influences in our lives, tends to move and jump around.

Focus your mind on love to calm it. Meditate. This will help you to strengthen and focus your thought on what you want. When our thoughts are focused, we create our dreams and wants faster. What you will be is what you are and think now.Think Love. Pass the energy around. Love is God.

Who I Am Makes a Difference

I subscribe to a website about Making A Difference. They have a great story below that you should read about, just click on the link below. I think it's also a great project idea that all of us could do.

TOGETHER we can make a world of difference ...

Today I wanted to let you know that our connection with you "does" make a huge difference to us. So often we think appreciative thoughts about our family, friends and business associates, but then we let these wonderful, life-affirming sentiments float away without sharing them.

There is nothing more wonderful, or as healing for the human spirit, than acknowledgment. It is our intention that this movie positively re-energize your life today - and possibly the life of someone you know - please take a few minutes to watch our newest movie:

www.BlueRibbonMovie.com

This is a true story brought to you by Helice "Sparky" Bridges, author of "Who I Am Makes A Difference."

Thank you for being you!...from our hearts to your heart,Mary & Craig & Helice.

I also thank you for being you.... With Loving Wishes, Shareen.

Quotes to Ponder Upon

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push -- a smile, a word of optimism and hope, and a "you can do it!' when things are tough.
-- Richard De Vos

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy

I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making" a life.
-- Maya Angelou

But love .... is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other everyday.
-- Nicholas Sparks