LionSlinger

This is a guest post from my fellow blogger Tomas Stonkus of Uncertainchange.com. I find his thoughts interesting and I want to share it with you.

When I sat down to write this article, I wanted to call it: “What Love Really Is”

There’s a question in my mind I long to resolve. It involves the validity of my commonly held aspirations in life. In my wanting to attain what I think is the ultimate state of being, I end up faced with contradictions. What I once perceived to be lofty has reduced itself into a mirage.

In our everyday lives we often encounter questions that need answers. However, we make the wrong approach in brewing our understanding. As a consequence we get confused: the seeming answer we have acquired proves more of an enigma.

There are many factors that inhibit our capability to fully understand. We are always overridden by our beliefs

Success is a concept perceived by most in terms of the end result rather than the understanding of its process.  When we view a successful person, we tend to observe the external manifestation rather than the efforts behind, which came about the result. We always make the assumption that such person was lucky, or blessed, or talented, or has

Sadness reigns as I see the diminishing ears of people in our present time. Humans are getting more aggressive in voicing their own ramblings. Rather than listening to one another, we throw volley of snippy retorts complete with accompanying profanities. Major differences are oftentimes settled in damaging verbal dispute which leaves both parties pierced through the heart.

I don’t know if you will be able to accept this important wisdom I’m about to share with you. It concerns our thoughts and how are we controlled by it. More than anything else we pride our false sense of awareness while we wade through life fraught with questions, complaints, confusion and misery.

What are you thinking

Have you observed your judgments lately? Did you stop for a moment and contemplate how you qualify your approach with people, things and events? Have you been fair or selfish with its execution?

The funny yet pitiful thing about us humans is we are extremely delimited by our own arbitrariness; our horizons

Let me share some thoughts that will make you reconsider your view of death. I guess you may find this awkward yet I believe we must confront this fact of life early on—NOT when we are old and “ready.”

Death is the most feared reality of our existence; BUT it is also our greatest mentor. Whether you like

So, you think you’re grown up and circumspect enough to fall for childish illusions? Think again. If children have fairly tales to which they conjure a make-believe world, we grownups have ours; but there’s a big difference, we generate a reality from it. The more we advance in age the more complex, creative and destructive our make-believe

While many perceive this aspect about oneself unimportant, a lot have suffered due to their lack of understanding about the inner workings of their true self. We are the definitions of our past and everything that we perceived are but its repetition. Stubbornly, we refuse to give up our old ways, even if it warrants our own misfortunes. How