Bringing authenticity into your life and it's consequences.

As we look at the world around us, we see that no two things are identical. No two snowflakes are ever the same – nor are they intended to be. Rather, each form is a distinct expression, and this applies to us as well. The universe does not intend our life to be a copy of someone else’s life. We are each magnificently unique, and the inner impulse to express this is what drives us to be authentic. - 

A move into greater authenticity is always a move into greater levels of empowerment, creative self-expression, and overall wellbeing

This is because we are moving towards our truer and greater self. Our interactions with the world and with others become more fulfilling and more alive. Our joy and fulfillment rise to higher levels -

 See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/authenticity-a-closer-look?utm_source=October%20Newsletter%20&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=October_2013_Newsletter#sthash.x5oIWswU.dpuf 

Moving towards higher consciousness..

The possibility of achieving the highest level of actualization exists only if we are surrounded on a regular basis with others moving towards higher consciousness.

In the face of overwhelming challenges all around us, the only thing we can do is make our little corner of the world more safe, welcoming, friendly, kind, caring and loving.

Read full article at:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationship-skills/2013/09/breaking-the-cycle-of-loneliness/

Dr. Moiz Hussain's lecture 20th June 2013..

Dr. Moiz's lecture.. Discussion on Third Eye, intuition, Cosmos Energy, Reiki, and Compromise and Sacrifice.

drmoizhussain on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

When you Spoke the truth, they hated you!

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth,

they hated you. The more you talked about love, the

more they hated you.

(Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak)

a single word can brighten the face..

A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silence, a single word
acquires a great energy for work.
War is cut short by a word,
and a word heals the wounds,
and there's a word that changes
poison into butter and honey.

{Yunus Emre}

Ya Nabi (S.A.W).. a beautiful naat

kamli walay mein qurban teri shan per,

sub ki bigri banana tera kaam hai,

thokrain kha ke girna mera kaam hai,

her qadam pe uthana tera kaam hai

Faiz jari tera ta qayamat rahay

teri nabiyon pe qaayam imamat rahay,

teri naatain sunana mera kaam hai,

mere gham ko mitana tera kaam hai ..

Saaqiya jaan qurban tere jaam per,

ho nigaah-e-karam apne khudaam per,

chor di hum ne kashti tere naam per,

ab kinaray lagana tera kaam hai.

tu ne qatray ko dekha gohar ker diya,

tu ne zarray ko dekha to zar ker diya,

tu ne habshi to rashk-e-Qamar ker diya

ulta sooraj phirana tera kaam hai. 

Education is meant to be an active open-ended process of exploration and discovery.

"Education isn't something that happens to children. It's not a pre-packaged sequence of out-of-context skills and information and it's certainly not something that schools should be forcing large groups of age-segregated children to passively absorb at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way. All the while resorting to a whole bunch of external rewards and punishments to get them to do it. What education is meant to be is an active open-ended process of exploration and discovery. It's one that children are entirely capable of directing themselves.."

~Chris Mercogliano~

TED Talk: The Self-Organizing Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0fg73WnLWQ

Never lose hope

My dear friend never lose hope
when the Beloved sends you away.

If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless
tomorrow for sure you'll be called again.

If the door is shut right in your face
keep waiting with patience don't leave right away.

Seeing your patience your love will soon
summon you with grace raise you like a champion.

And if all the roads end up in dead ends
you'll be shown the secret paths no one will comprehend. { Jelaluddin Rumi}

How to succeed

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person [or persons] other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it... Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”

~ Viktor E. Frankl,
Man's Search for Meaning

Making a difference as an educator..

This is a must listen for every teacher and educator out there!! beautiful talk

What does it mean to be smart!?

"Our system of education is, to a large degree, a closed system. Students are tested and classified in terms of two kinds of abilities—their ability to memorize information and, to a lesser extent, their ability to analyze it...

Students may, however, excel in other abilities that are at least as important as those we now reward. Creativity and the practical application of information—ordinary common sense or "street smarts"—are two such abilities that go unappreciated and unrecognized. They are simply not considered relevant to conventional education...

The consequences of this system are potentially devastating. Through grades and test scores, we may be rewarding only a fraction of the students who should be rewarded. Worse, we may be inadvertently disenfranchising multitudes of students from learning.

In fact, when researchers have examined the lives of enormously influential people, whether in creative domains (Gardner 1993), practical domains (Gardner 1995), or both, they have found that many of these people had been ordinary—or even mediocre—students..."

~Robert J. Sternberg

Source: "What Does It Mean to Be Smart?", Robert J. Sternberg, Educational Leadership March 1997 | Volume 54 | Number 6 How Children Learn Pages 20-24

Build a Life! Dont live one! Great message!

"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart, And being thoughtful, and being generous. Everything else is crap, I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it! Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous...

Everything around us that we call life was made up of people that are no smarter than you, and you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life — don’t live one, build one."

~ Ashton Kutcher, Acceptance Speech, 2013 Teen Choice Awards

Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/13/famous-actor-reveals-real-name-gives-incredibly-insightful-speech-about-hard-work-and-generosity-at-teen-choice-awards/

Beautiful words describing the character of a Sufi..

Man fears to confront...

Then again, that was how she was. She

never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a

phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in

front of her, plain and inevitable.

(Forty Rules of love (Elif Shafak)

That's what we are like manyatimes in our life. We don't confront things that we are sure going to come. Some call it hope but more than hope it is non-acceptance. Hope is when we know that we'll survive the storm, not expecting it not to come!

All they think about is food and water (Paulo Coelho-The Alchemist)

God Consciousness

Always have God consciousness before embarking on any journey in life, maybe you have it already but refreshing it in ur mind is very important.

The Creator of possibilities (Musabbab-ul-Asbab)

"Asbab se sarf-e-Nazar kar ke, musabbab-ul-Asbab pe nazar rakhna Sabr hai."
(Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri- Tafseer-e-Minhaj-ul-Quran)
So even when possibilities aren't there, or you can't see them, have faith in the Creator of possibilities because He is always there! And Sabr is a direct outcome of belief in the Benevolence of Allah_the Creator of possibilities.

Face Your Fear!

Once you face your fear, it becomes powerless.

Freedom to make mistakes..

Saif-ul-Malook by Mian Muhammad Baksh sung by Abida Parveen

Rehmat da mee paa khudaya, baagh suka ker harya
boota aas umeed meri da ker de meivay bharya

Mitha meva baksh ajeya, qudrat di ghat sheer
jo khavay rog us da jaavay, dur hovay dilgeeri

... sada bahar dein is baaghay kadeen khizaan na aaway,
hovan Faiz hazaaran taaein,her bhukha phal khaavay.

Baal chiragh ishq da mera,Roshan ker day seena
Dil de deevay di roshnai, jaavay wich zameenan.

Awwal hamd sanaa ilaahi, jo maalik her her daa
Us da naam chitaaran waala kisay medan na harda.

Qudrat theen jis baagh bnaye, jag sansaar tamami
Rang barangi bootay laye kuj khaasay kuj aami