Free Your Soul

في كل رؤية، في كل صوت..

I remember that day when I accidentally saw you sitting there alone and for a moment and it is as if tim stopped for a moment..

إلى أحدهم؛ أنت الوحيد الذي لفت إنتباه قلبي فقط.

Perhaps what counts about Life are our moments of mindfulness about little things; those simple joyful moments that touch the deepest bottom of the heart....

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Life is our friends, friends who make us laugh hard, music, good movies, our pets, an enlightening conversation with a friend, heading to the sea on a hot summer day... curling up under the blanket on a winter day, morning coffee, a moment of mid-day dreaming, a long night drive, a trip to meet your friends, a gathering over a good meal, a book that enhances the imagination and enriches our exposure to truths about life, family gatherings and their chit-chats in every corner in the family house, the jokes we crack, our little inside jokes and stories that only our closest people laugh at, an awesome pair of shoes, a nice perfume with a lasting fragrant.. a hot bath with essential oils and candles, a home-cooked meal, risk-taking and secret adventures, the trips we make to other countries, a new experience in a different city/country, the trees when they blossom, sunrises and full moon, a movie night with our like-minded friends, the good photos that ‘eternalize’ our moments of happiness with our parents, a plane taking off to a destination we long for, the hugs.. a friend we help, a person that help us, a stranger we exchange a conversation with on a plane or a train, an act of kindness from a stranger, the ballet show we watch love, the cinema with your lover.. holding their hand like your teens again.. the hurtful moments that define our characters and refine our reality, forgiveness, our passionate pursuits, moments of rebellion against what does not serve us, moments of breaking free from restrictive ideologies and toxic situations... long summer nights of laughter with our friends..

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All the achievements we might have accomplished in life, fall short before such priceless moments .. it was never just about the job, the money, the status or the awards. We do not live just for that. We do not live for our status-quo.

When I look at the clouds.. I enter an unmatched euphoric state, same way I do when I see the full moon, sunsets and sun rises..

With some music in the background, this becomes an instant unexcused entrance to heaven.. And this deep contemplative stares into the isness, aren't any less of prayers than any of the religious practices combined..

In the deepest well of your very self, heal and you will find a treasure full of love, and it was always inside you, you never had to search or wait for it.

Love is the only emotion that is capable of defying time, space, distances, obstacles, and all the differences. It transcends anger, grudge, pain, sadness, vagueness and agony. It is found in all things beautiful; the tiniest piece of nature, a couple of seconds in a musical note, the smile of a baby, the hugs of your loved one, the eyes of your lover, words about peace, poetry, and the soul of everything alive. It’s the only language the universe speaks.. God’s codes of his omnipresence ..

“I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.”

“Be Here Now”! We can’t. We have too much trauma in the way. “The Power of Now”! Sounds good, but first we have to deal with the “Power of Then.” Worst things, first. It’s easy enough to talk about being in the “now.” But what we are we even talking about? Now through the mind? Through the heart? Through the body? What does it even mean to be fully present? Many of the people teaching nowness are head-tripping, meditation addicted spiritual bypassers. What do they really know about presence? The truth is that we are all trauma survivors, and that includes every spiritual teacher I have ever known. Almost every one of them has confused self-avoidance with enlightenment, blaming the mind for all that ails them while conveniently sidestepping their wounded hearts. Bottom line- we can’t be in the present, because our emotional and physical body are tied up in trauma knots. Some, many, perhaps all threads of our consciousness are still back there, locked into the originating wounds. If we want to truly BE HERE NOW, we have to be there, then. We have to untie the knots and heal the core wounds. Then, and only “then”, will we know the true power of NOW.

—Jeff Brown