Moazzam Shaikh's Blog, page 72
May 13, 2013
Do not remove the dead
They used to say: “Do not remove the dead from their graves.”
A person who lives in the past is like someone who tries to see the sawdust. What a tragedy!
Are we incapable of dealing with the present? It is quite simple to understand that everything on earth walks forward, moves ahead for a new beginning, for a new season. We should also do the same.
May 12, 2013
Look after your mind
Whatever work you are doing, keep an eye on your mind. If you see that it is going off the path, stop whatever you are doing and focus all your attention on it. The work of looking after your mind should always come first.
May 11, 2013
Life offers happiness every day
People who have a firm purpose in their life file away their worries and try to forget occurrences of the past. By agonizing over the past and its tragedies, one exhibits a form of insanity.
Why don’t we just understand that “the past has gone and we cannot do anything about it?”
We like to live in the nightmares of the past or under the shade of what we have missed in life and this way we lead a miserable life.
We should ask ourselves, “Can we return the sun to its place of rising?” We should u...
May 10, 2013
Executing plans
Do you think that you alone can quit a bad habit and change yourself in doing good acts? I don’t think so!
You can only change a bad habit if you make a plan. You plan for something to prove yourself. You prove yourself in people’s eye, not for your own self.
You are valuable in the society or in the tribe that you belong to. If you don’t have any specific identity and you think that you can change your perception in the eye of other people; you are making a mistake.
You can shape your perceptio...
May 9, 2013
Never be habitual
Once in a while the situation may require us to make haste but this should never be habitual.
Easy and meaningful
Live simply, walk humbly, love genuinely and life will become easy & meaningful.
May 8, 2013
Beauty and fame
If beauty and fame brought ideal relationships, then celebrities would have the best marriages.
Who have the soundest sleep?
If power ensured security, then officials and politicians would walk unguarded, but those who live simply are the ones who have the soundest sleep.
May 7, 2013
Are you goal-oriented?
If we follow a path of practice that is goal-oriented, we can expect to have a clear concept of what we should be doing and where we should be going.
If our path of practice is source-oriented, it won’t be like that at all. There will be inappropriate actions that we might be taking under way.
The difference between the path of being goal-oriented and the path of being source-oriented is trusting in reality and truth, and being compulsive.
May 6, 2013
My book under binding process
It’s being printed for a few very good friends of mine who prefer a printed book instead to read on computer screen, tablet or on smartphone.
Observing Freedom is available free and you can download your copy right from here.
Happy reading!
Moazzam Shaikh
