#0809 Maps

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Maps

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Even if you didn't have a smartphone, paper maps, GPS, etc., chances

are you could figure out how to get to somewhere you want to go.

If you're in New York and you want to get to Los Angeles, you know

the general direction you need to start moving toward.

Along the way, you'll see signs, you'll meet people, get directions,

find more signs, maybe go off course a bit, but you find your way

back, etc., and finally, one day you will arrive in Los Angeles.

But there are some people who want to see every single street, every

single turn, every single sign, etc., BEFORE they start their trip.

It's impossible.

There are things you will never be able to predict or think of that happens

when you just START.

Experience is the greatest "slap in the face" of trying to think of everything.

You don't have to know it all from the start.

Just the general direction.

Take your steps.  

You'll see the signs that help guide you along the way.   

~Brian Kim

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#0808 Perception and Reaction

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Perception and Reaction

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Your perception of me is a reflection of you;

my reaction to you is an awareness of me.

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#0807 Types of Cages

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# 0807 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Types of cages

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“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.”

― C. JoyBell C.

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#0806 Inner Freedom

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Inner Freedom

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The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is an exemplar of what inward freedom looks like. When he was oppressed and mocked for his teachings during the first 13 years of his prophetic mission, he never replied rudeness with rudeness or harshness with harshness. When the Prophet became the leader of a people for the next 10 years and was forced to fight in battles to protect his community, even then he never allowed hatred to get the best of him and continued to pray for his enemies. When the Prophet was given a chance to engage in perpetual war with his rivals or sign a peace-treaty filled with concessions, he had the insight to choose peace. And, when the Prophet returned victorious to Mecca toward the end of his life, he chose amnesty and forgiveness over revenge. All of this the Prophet did because he was remarkably and truly free.

Nelson Mandela, may God rest his soul, said, upon leaving the prison where he had been held for 27 years, “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”

These are sagacious words for our times. In the midst of riots and revolutions for the sake of freedom, this inner freedom we cannot afford to forget. For once the outward dictator is overthrown we achieve nothing if the inner dictator is well and alive. Without inner freedom the cycles of oppression continue on and on.

Each one of us has a life long struggle to unshackle ourselves from the inner desires, passions, and ego that seek to be masters over us. Fasting during this month of Ramadan has been an intense and serious lesson in what it means to gain master over lower inner qualities and to attain to a higher state – a state that finds its freedom in God and godliness.

~From 30 days of Ramadan by Sohaib N. Sultan (http://time.com/2957106/ramadan-day-8-finding-inner-freedom/)

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#0805 The now

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The now

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Your past is gone. It has happened. It is done.

Learn from it.

But move on.

The future is not here. It is tomorrow or beyond. It has yet to happen.

Let it come.

But don’t worry about it.

Focus on the now. It is here. It is present.

Tell yourself: I only have the now. This is all I know. This is all I can be right now.

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#0804 Walk away from the things we love

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Walk away from the things we love

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Sometimes we have to walk away from the things we love to make room for bigger, bolder love. It may be brief or it might be forever, but either way we must be brave so that we don't have to settle for anything that doesn't set our hearts on fire and our wings free.

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#0803 Piety and good deeds

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Piety and good deeds

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In both your private and public life you should always be mindful of God.

Piety should inform your conduct.

Your good deeds will help in getting your sins forgiven.

Treat people well even when they don't treat you all that well.

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#0802 Advice

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Advice

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Suppose your best friend came to you with a problem.

Suppose their problem was the same problem you have now.

What advice would you give them?

Follow the good advice that you would give them.

Often the wisdom for our own problems is already within.

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#0801 Only love can do that

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Only love can do that

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When it's all said and done, there will always be a place we call our own.

Hidden away from all the world’s chaos.

You will find this place you call your own deep within yourself.

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#0800 Wasting time on jealousy

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Wasting time on jealousy

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Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

~The Vintageista

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