Living With Practical Inspiration In Our Daily Lives
There is beauty everywhere, however only those that are aware of the beauty can see it. It’s easy to see that nature is full of beauty. Only that somehow it is a combination of our eyes accustomed to something ordinary. It is probably due to living in such a mundane life, something less than vivid, forgetting the importance that life has, or losing a spark which unites us to something within.
Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.
Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.
“Come on, girl” said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.
Ekido did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. “We monks don’t do near females,” he told Tanzan, “especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?”
“I left the girl there,” said Tanzan. “Are you still carrying her?”
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Growth is a conquest in everyday life. One grows through strengths and weaknesses. While it works either way, there is no exact method in how to grow. Life holds no contradiction to the various methods. There is no right or wrong way. However the point is to give your growth a perspective so when you are growing, you can be happier and have a much better value to yourself as well as with others.
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Sometimes it’s hard to connect with yourself while there are lots of things going on. But life has its moments and during these times, it can get you tossed up and down trying to make sense of it all. This fluxuation stirs unsteadily. And as the day goes on, you become spread pretty thin.
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Life is always changing. This is just a fundamental part of life. Everything changes. And when you are part of the change, it can sometimes mean a world of difference. Sometimes change is easy, but while sometimes it can be hard to overcome. When you are confronted by change, then what can you do?
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Life has its ups and downs, which is completely normal to face in everyday life. Though while hitting a stumbling block that may seem too difficult to overcome, don’t think that it is impossible. Sometimes there are things that hold you in place away from proceeding further.
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There is a story of time through a day. Depending on where a person works, the amount of time to whom has, there is only a certain period of it to pursue curricular activities before or after.
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If you can have this mantra that “everyday is a life worth living”, and “to live every moment as it’s your last”, it can give you the strength to conquer anything holding you back. Life is always moving forward. Each moment has its value and if not used well, it could be wasted.
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What is life and how does it operate? If you think about it, it’s like gathering qualities and quantities of experiences, values, skills, traits, love, and ect. As you gather all these, you come to a point where you need to refine it to a durable solution to living life. After you have gathered all these experiences, you go through a process to simplify and simply put to be able to make a solidarity to life itself.
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Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. This is when there is an array of different choices in front of you but somehow struck by what to do next. You can suggest to yourself what could be possible whether looking at the parameters or for whether it is the right direction. It’s hard to know how far something can go or if it’s only a fleeting waste of time.
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Thought Lighthouse 