Ponder on these.

Although I have studied through reading, listening, contemplating and meditating as much a all the religions of the world, I have yet to fully realize the whole truth behind what i perceive. I am blessed to have had the opportunity to travel to many parts of the world in my lifetime and living among people whose lifestyle, thoughts and practices differ from mine, I see many similarities in most cases underlying their circumstances. We all wish for the same basic life that is peaceful and rewarding but we each and everyone of us are working our ways in our own quest to discover the same truth of who we truly are beyond what is. Most of us question the validity of what we experience daily and some of us doubt this validity with the feeling that there is a whole lot more than meets the eye. Are we living in a menagerie that is self created through eons of evolution of body mind and spirit or are we merely part and parcel of some big master plan that keeps us trapped in a dimensional time capsule by some higher intelligence?

Great Prophets and Saints, Enlightened Beings and Rishis had in the past left us with knowledge and wisdom about the nature of our existence and most has claimed that we are as a human specie living in a world of Maya or delusion and illusion and that it is our birthright to discover this for ourselves and attain towards liberation from this phenomenal realm. What does it mean to be liberated and from what? I know I have been asking this same question forever ever since i started asking and I am still not anywhere close to the truth. Given one life to live it has become my eternal quest to get to the bottom of this paramount issue about being alive. As a Muslim I can surrender it all to the Wisdom of the All Mighty, Wallahualam or God only knows. Perhaps as Christians one would say, The Lord works in mysterious ways, but as a thinking man I cannot merely accept what is fed to me by religions or belief and philosophies, I have to experience, feel and be awakened to the truth through every sense faculty I am endowed with, that is what my God given brain is for.

Science is inching closer towards unravelling the workings of the physical nature of things and manifesting the principles of how the human mind works and its connections to spirituality, but science is still groping in the dark of the nature of death and the afterlife. Science is as a matter of fact declaring the non existent of the physical world itself, you and me do not exist, at least not in the way we think we do and many sitting on the fence of spirituality and atheism are falling into this newly dug pit of uncertainty. Blessed are those who never question nor doubt? The answer cannot be found out there, it lies within each and every one of us and as such it is up tu us to seek deep within for the truth and not be swayed by all the influences that had been leading us towards our so called freedom from ignorance.

"Dont Run Away...Run Inward," - Rumi.

Learn to trust the matrix within you that has been embedded in you since the day you were conceived and not the external matrix that has been propagated to enshrine you in a gilded cage of ignorance. Nothing you see or that is that is created is permanent, only you are that which is ture and continues to evolve towards enlightenment. It is your inherent Birthright; it is that which you were created for.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, 

the truth...Gautama Buddha.