The Mystic

A mystic is anyone who had realized, if but for a few moments in a human lifetime, the fullness of his true nature, his own highest degree of spiritual consciousness, and who spends the rest of his life seeking to fulfil Truth through love, for no man is a mystic who has not known love in its indivisible essence. 

The mystic has also been defined as ‘One who through proper recognition of, and response to, the God of his heart, has found a rich and satisfying harmony between his inner most being and its ultimate source.’ 

While the mystic is well aware of his limitations and imperfections, he senses a great challenge on the path. One of the most exciting things to a mystic is a thrilling and justifiable anticipation of what he is in process of becoming. 

The mystic does not claim that one way of comprehending reality, of being at home in the universe, is superior to the other. He claims rather that for his fullest human hood, a person must approach them (understanding of some phenomena) from two different viewpoints. Each viewpoint by itself tells only half of the truth. 

Relationship - Quotes

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future. - Unknown

A healthy relationship is one in which two people encourage each other to reach their respective goals while sharing each other's hopes and dreams. - Unknown

A great relationship is about two things. First, appreciating the similarities, and second, respecting the differences. - Unknown

A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity. - Mandy Hale

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere. - Unknown

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

Any serious human relationship takes work. Not so much in the sense of learning the right rules or formulas that govern all relationships (if there were such things), but in two individuals working together to find what is best for both of them. - Leo Buscaglia

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

All failed relationships hurt, but losing someone who doesn't appreciate and respect you is actually a gain, not a loss. - Unknown

Being alone may scare you but staying in a bad relationship will damage you. - Unknown

Don’t cheat in a relationship. If you are not happy then just leave. - Unknown

Don’t find reasons to stay with someone who always finds a reason to leave. - Unknown

Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship. - Unknown

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Unknown

Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who really want to be together. - Unknown

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

Intimate relationships which extend beyond sociability and offer opportunities for prolonged togetherness, can offer us the most growth -producing setting in which we may be ourselves and express that self freely within a reliable, safe, accepting, encouraging and trusting environment. - Unknown

If you are not happy being single. You will never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life and love it first. Then share it. Love when you're ready. Not when you're lonely. - Unknown

It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting. - Todd Ruthman

Many relationships fail because we spend too much time pointing out each other’s mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other’s company. - Unknown 

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. - May Sarton

No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you want you don’t want. - Unknown

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we’re always trying to live up to. - Andrew Cohen

Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place. - Unknown

Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on. - Unknown

Relationships are about two individuals who maintain their own lives and create another one together. - Unknown

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put them back together. - Unknown

Relationships aren’t designed for selfish individuals. - Unknown  

So many go into relationships hoping to get something and feel something to make them feel complete. When in actuality, a relationship is about sharing who you already are in your wholeness and then bathing in the beauty and adventure of that. - Shari Alyse

So often it is only when people suddenly feel they are losing their partner that they realize how much they love them. Then they cling on even tighter. But the more they grasp, the more the other person escapes them, and the more fragile the relationship becomes. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if  you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. - Anthony Robbins

Talk and activities are the glue that holds relationships together; it creates connections between people and a sense of community. - Unknown

The best person to talk about the problems in your relationship is the person you’re in a relationship with. - Unknown

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. - Unknown

The best relationship is when you can act like lovers and best friends at the same time. - Unknown

The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. - Carrie Bradshaw

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. - Sir Hugh Walpole

The only real security in relationship is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. It lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. - Anne Lindbergh

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. - Neale Donald Walsch

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. - Unknown

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony D'Angelo

Trust is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation. - Leo Buscaglia  

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. - Barbara De Angelis

You can’t expect to have a deep relationship with a shallow person. - Doe Zantamata  

What is Mysticism?

This won't be a favourite topic with most people but if you can keep an open mind - whether you believe in it eventually is another matter - you will find that Mysticism is actually very interesting. It will definately answer some of your questions about life and clear some of your doubts on matters pertaining to life.

My experience with Mysticism is mostly theoretical. The Organization which I was a member of (for a couple of years only - unfortunately) was based overseas. Thus, I was not able to participate in their activities. My understanding of Mysticism is from reading their publications. 

But first, let's see what Mysticism is all about.

Mysticism is the belief in the attainment, through contemplation, of truths inaccessible to the understanding. From a historical and psychological viewpoint, it is the search for and experience of the relationship of the individual himself and the totality that makes up the universe.

Mysticism brings all the various elements of man’s nature together into one beautiful synthesis. It develops every facet of a person, and evolves him toward wholesome maturity, as rays of the sun bring the budding rose into full bloom. 

The first and the essential element in mysticism is belief in mystical union. It does not matter what terms or symbols are used to express this concept. The point is that man is one with the whole. Union or oneness means direct knowledge of the Cosmic. This union is the basis of intuition, or knowledge derived from the Cosmic. 

This is explained by the second element: the Whole, the Cosmic, or God is essentially Mind – mental force and its manifestations of energy. There is no separation of even its objective manifestations. Human beings make this apparent separation. We realize separateness because of our own mental functions, thus bringing up a third factor: the basic union of fields of knowledge. 

We separate the Cosmic, its manifestations, and our own knowledge into categories in order to comprehend both the Cosmic and its manifestations. Objectively, we are unable to do otherwise, because our physical brain and nervous systems function that way. But the deeper levels of consciousness are capable of realizing the Whole as one and of transmitting this realization to the objective consciousness. 

In more specific terms, cosmology, ontology, psychology, physics, literature, and art are not truly separated divisions of knowledge. Each field of study is affected by others and is really inseparable from all knowledge as a whole. 

Logically, the fourth element is the belief in pantheism, or in monism, or both. Pantheism is the concept of the Cosmic Mind as the many manifestations of its principles and laws operating universally. Monism is the belief that actuality is one united, organic whole. 

This leads us directly to the next principle, the “As Above, So Below” axiom, which is simply a way of saying One is All and All is One. The microcosm, or man as the little world, corresponds to the Cosmic as the macrocosm or the great world. 

The Search For Answers

There was a period in the early years of my life, when I was besieged with doubts, dissatisfaction, and unhappiness - with myself, with my life, as well as with life in general. I felt so lost, and miserable. 

There were all these questions in my head, but no answers. Somehow, I got it into my head that the answers might lie in Mysticism, and that’s where I began my search for answers. Buddhism was another place I turned to for answers. 

Did I find all the answers I seek? I am not sure if all my questions are answerable, or can be answered satisfactorily. However, I have learned to take things easy, to go with the flow of Life, and to enjoy the moment.

I realised that Life is a learning process. So I guess I will be learning, and looking for answers till the day I die.

The Estate Agent

While looking at a house, a man asked the estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. 

She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' 

When the man explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, 'Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff.’

Can You Inherit An Allergy?

The claim: Allergy problems run in families.

The facts: It is well known that traits like hair and eye colour, height and even certain aspects of personality can be inherited. What about allergies?

              The environment may get most of the blame but scientists have found that allergies like asthma and hay fever have a powerful genetic component.

              Once study of 344 families, for example, found that when neither parent had a history of asthma, only 6 percent of children went on to develop it.

              However, in families where one parent had the condition, 20 percent of children had the diagnosis; in families where both parents had it, 60 percent of children had it too.

              More compelling evidence comes from dozens of studies on twins. Generally, when one identical twin suffers from hay fever, asthma or eczema, the other twin has it in 50 to 80 percent of the cases. In fraternal twins, the percentage drops to about 25 to 40 percent.

The bottom Line: Environment and genetics both contribute to allergies, but studies suggest that genes play a critical role.

- The New York Times 

What Is A Right ?

A Right to be able to express one's opinions is a fundamental principle to the thinking human. But that right of expression becomes a Burden to the human race when the opinion expressed suppresses and violates the rights of other human lives. 

The Right of Speech is important, but the right to live peacefully and maintain harmony with other members of the human race without the fear of threats, violence, suppression and prejudice is the predominant right above the right of speech. So when the right of speech is misused and becomes aggressive and abusive towards any particular person or group; the right of speech should be curtailed, stopped and condemned.

Why should a licence be granted for a Right of Speech to a particular person who speaks out and influence unstable and irrational members of the human race to act on an emotional rage against the Right of others to live peacefully in this already troubled and pressured world. 

Can a right to speak includes the right to abuse and cause harm to others? I think not. If a basic human right allows an abuse and aggression to human lives, then what is the value of human life? Who is there to protect and be protected?

Get off the liberal platform and be more sensible in deciding the boundaries of the human rights of speech. Just because someone wants to speak and say something, then anything goes? The freedom of speech to express violence aggression hatred and prejudice is not a freedom, but a menace.

- Source Unknown 

Anal Optic Nerve

              Are you aware of the discovery in the human body of a nerve that connects from the eyeball to the asshole? 

              It is called the anal optic nerve. It is responsible for giving people a shitty outlook on life. 

              If you don’t believe me, pull a hair from your ass and see if it doesn’t bring a tear to your eye.

Relationship - Article

A relationship is how two separate humans subtly become one. If people have no idea what a relationship entailed, they will fail miserably.

All of us need love, care, attention and recognition to be emotionally, mentally and physically healthy. Therefore, we have to spend time, effort and energy to build up trust, love, and care that are the fabrics of a relationship. 

It is mainly through intimate, continuing companionship that we can be presented with another’s unique world and can receive an honest reflection of our own. 

Living happily together is essentially a business of being prepared to compromise. In our relations with one another there has to give and as well as take. Of course, there are bound to be occasions when we cannot see eye to eye and get on each other’s nerves. 

Since it is the nature of relationships to occasionally breed misunderstandings, it is essential to learn to look for the trouble spots. 

The following are some problematic areas:

When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

Jealousy has ruined many intimate relationships. Each of us do not have exclusive rights to anyone and trying to cling on to one relationship is unhealthy because the tendency is to overload and overwork the relationship.

Creating space in your relationships means expanding your interests and having other relationships. It is not healthy to build your world around one person.

In any relationship we must be prepared to make changes and shifts in the relationship. This is necessary if you desire to build healthy relationships where both parties are allowed to grow and adjust to the changes.

People who apologize are not weak. It takes strength to admit that you are wrong. Apologize when you are wrong. All of us are wrong – plenty of time. It is foolish to let pride and insecurity keep us from saying so and patching up the friendship. Host of problems could be avoided by the use of one word – sorry!

A true apology is more than just acknowledgement of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship – and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.

Two people who can keep love alive are the most special human beings on earth. That is why I find it so sweet and so touching when I see elderly couples hand-in-hand.

Their silence shows their togetherness and ease with each other. That’s the most formidable task - one of the things a couple has to constantly work on.

Any endeavour involving love should be experienced fully and with abandon. If it fails, at least we’ll know what doesn’t work and can try again.

The Best Solution For A Bad Situation

A bear was walking across a bridge when two cars also crossing the bridge scared it into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and pulled itself to safety.


Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help since it was Saturday night. They decided to wait till Sunday morning. When they returned, they find the bear sound asleep on the ledge.


After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquillised.


The bear fell into the net, and was lowered.



On the ground, the bear woke up, walked out of the net, and walked away.


There is a moral to this story you know.

The bear made a wrong move and found he was hanging by his nails. Somehow he was able to pull himself up onto the ledge where he saw he was in a very bad, impossible situation. And what did he do?

Yep, he took a nap and sure enough the situation took care of itself while he was asleep.

The moral of the story is that; when confronted with a bad situation sometimes the best solution is . . . take a nap!