I was asked the other day if I believed in coincidences. I said that, "No I don't believe that there are any coincidences in this life. I do believe that there are miracles in this life, however. I still wait to see some proof of them every day."
Do you know? Did you ever think like this? "Del" is the unit of measurement of pain. A human body can bear only upto 45 Del (unit) of pain. But at the time of giving birth, a woman feels upto 57 Del of Pain. This is similar to 20 bones getting fractured at a time!!!! Do you think this is just a coincidence or an example of miracle?
Just look at the world around us. Is it a coincidence that the sun rose so beautifully today that it filled countless hearts and souls with wonder, love, peace, and joy? It seemed more like a miracle to me. Is it a coincidence that life developed so intelligently and perfectly on this world? Is it coincidences that birds know to fly south each winter that the seasons change and flowers bloom each spring, and that thousands upon thousands of different plants and animals live, grow, and thrive here? It seems to me more like a hundred million miracles created by a glorious, joyous mind and a loving hand.
Look at your own lives as well. Is it a coincidence that you accidentally walked into the wrong room and met the person who changed your life and blessed you with love? Is it a coincidence that you followed a silent urge to turn off the road before you had to and later learned you avoided a deadly accident because of it? Is it a coincidence that you were on the verge of despair and then heard a song, or read a line, or got a call that lifted your spirits and strengthened your soul once again? Are they all coincidences or are they all little miracles created by God and His angels to guide you, protect you and help you to ever greater love, joy, and goodness in your life?
Embrace the miracles in your life then. Embrace the miracle of life. Rejoice in these miracles and use them to choose and share ever more love and joy with others. Celebrate in the knowledge that you are loved, cared for, and watched over by God and always remember that Life is full of Miracles not coincidences.
Oprah Winfrey once said, “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
“A plum once said, 'just because a banana lover came by, I converted myself into a banana.
Unfortunately, his taste changed after a few months and so I became an orange.
When he said I was bitter I became an apple, but he went in search of grapes.
Yielding to the opinions of so many people, I have changed so many times that I no more know who I am. How I wish I had remained a plum and waited for a plum lover.”
Just because a group of people do not accept you as you are, there is no necessity for you to strip yourself off your originality.
I guess we need to think Good of ourselves, for the world takes us at our own estimate.
I guess we should never stoop down in order to gain recognition.
I guess we should never let go of our true self to win a relationship.
In the long run, we will regret that we traded our greatest Glory - our uniqueness, for momentary validation.
The group that does not accept me as ME is not MY world.
There is a world for each one of us, where we shall reign as king /queen by just being ourselves.
So should we find that world... or that world will find US. Is it some part of coincidence or miracle?
What water can do, gasoline cannot and what copper can, gold cannot.
The fragility of the ant enables it to move and the rigidity of the tree enables it to stay rooted.
Everything and everybody has been designed with a Proportion of uniqueness to serve a purpose that we can fulfill only by being our unique self.
You as you alone can serve your purpose and I as I Alone can serve my purpose... You are here to be you... Just YOU. So let us be the best we can be. Its neither miracle nor coincidence.
I sometimes ponder that in the history of the universe, there has been nobody like me and to the infinity of time to come, there will be no one like me…I mean distinctiveness and not greatness.
Perhaps everyone has a unique mould and it is broken after one is made, so that another of one’s kind will never get repeated.
We all are original. Everyone is rare. Everyone is unique. Everyone is a wonder. Everyone is a masterpiece. .. Everyone is Master's piece. So I think we should celebrate our Uniqueness."
When the apostle James wrote to the members of the early Christian church that they should "count it all joy," he had a good reason for doing so. He understood, as did Benjamin Franklin nearly 2000 years later, that life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it. And when you take life as a blessing, it tends to become one.
Between the quote marks of our lives are phrases like these: "When things slow down...when I finish my degree...when I get certified...as I acquire a deeper knowledge base...when I have kids...when the kids are grown...when I get well...when I marry...when I divorce...when I retire...when I get that promotion, that raise, that job, that house, that whatever the fill-in-the blank is for your specific postponing of life..."
You may think you are postponing the longing of your soul until life aligns itself with your vision, until elements conspire to be more favorable...but as it happens, life just lolls along at the same remarkable consistent and disinterested cadence. Life is impartial. YOUR personal, subjective life (dreams, satisfactions, contentment, achievements, vision, fullness, passion, aspirations) begins when you begin.
From my teens into adulthood, I said, "I want to be an artist." One day I changed the sentence to, "I am an artist." My view changed. Life began. I looked behind me and saw that I had been accidentally living as an artist. I had been laying down a path that was only now visible to eyes that had begun to see. Beginning my life as an artist made my heart's longing and the small, tentative labors of my hands - visible and tangible. I began by opening the door and simply believing that I could live my dream. I began living that dream by seeing that I could.
Even those experiences we deem calamitous can carry the seeds of a great blessing. It is often only in retrospect, however, that the benefit reveals itself. And whether or not it reveals itself and how quickly it does so, is dependent upon only one thing,” our own individual perspective”. We determine whether something will be a blessing or a curse by the way we choose to see it. Life is an ongoing process, and most of us meet something at almost every turn we wish were different. But just because something is not turning out the way we want, doesn't mean it won't ever. It’s just a matter of time.
And when we insist on calling it good, when we make up our minds that no matter what, we're going to see it as a blessing, then our minds start working overtime to prove us right (ironically at times it works otherwise). Magical things tend to happen and that which we labeled a blessing, more often than not, turns out to be one... You have a mind that always tries to be right about everything so you might as well use it to your advantage. Become a hunter of blessings, actively seeking them out in every experience and person you encounter. No matter how bad a situation or person might seem, tell yourself and mean it, "There's a blessing in this, and I will find it!" (I am trying hard to do that nowadays…convincing that it’s a blessing in disguise, no matter what.)
I heard that your subconscious will accept this statement that "There's a blessing in this, and I will find it!" as a direct order and, if necessary, move heaven and earth to make certain the blessing is found. Follow this regimen for a while and you may very well discover that you've poked a hole in every problem and send every misery packing. Problems and miseries don't tend to stay in an atmosphere of blessings for very long.
Your purpose, that thing that among the many to-dos of your days, is what you must do. I am trying hard to embrace the truth of my purpose each minute of my precious life...for how very true it is that life begins when I wish to.
If you would dream it - BEGIN it.
If you have an idea - OPEN it.
If there is longing - ACKNOWLEDGE it.
If there is mission - COMMIT it.
If there is daring - DO it.
If there is love - EXPRESS it.
If there is resource - USE it.
If there is abundance - SHARE it.
So the next time a difficulty arises, I won't let myself get tied up in knots. I’ll take a deep breath and relax. I have nothing to worry about. Perhaps that difficulty is nothing more than a signal that a blessing is on its way. And as I start looking for the blessing, everything else will fade away. Coz my Life begins when I will decide to give it a chance.
Nearly everyone postpones one grand thing or a collection of mighty hopes and dreams. I am ME, my own self. I won’t change for others, for this is NOT even their world. Perhaps sometimes its miracle and sometimes it’s just a coincidence....and sometimes its just...
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