What would you do if you have 24 hours to live?

In the book "Tuesday with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, Morrie was asked what if he has one day perfectly healthy?. Morrie is dying from an incurable disease. Morrie thought about a little and answered.

"Let's see... I'd get up in the morning, do my exercises, have lovely breakfast of sweet rolls and tea, go for a swim, then have my friends come over for a nice lunch. I'd have them come one or two at a time so we could talked about their families, their issues, talked about how much we mean to each other.

"Then I'd like to go for a walk, in the garden with some trees, watch their colors, watch the birds, take in the nature that I'd not seen in so long now.

"In the evening, we'd all go for dinner in some restaurant, with some great pasta, maybe with some duck - I loved duck and we dance for the rest of the night. I'll dance with all the wonderful partners out there, until I was exhausted. And then I'll go home and have a deep wonderful sleep.

"That simple, that average?" Mitch thought and he realized that Morrie could find perfection in such an average day.

So what will I do if I have only 24 hours left to live?
24 hours, such a short time?
What else have I long to do before my life end?
Something like I never done before? Get to the moon and back?
Go on spending spree and make my day happy?
Sigh... Probably not.

What will I do to make my life really feel complete?
Probably much the same way as what Morrie did.
He summarizes his life, the things he love to do, the experiences that has a major impact in his life - His family, his sports, his favorite food, his walk... that simple.
And amazingly, that is just everything he'd done before in his whole life.

That's 24 hours. What if I got 48 hours instead?
Will I still get to the moon? Probably still not.
I will have an extended version of the things I do in my 24 hours.
What if I got 1 week instead? Hmmm... a tougher question.
Maybe, I will need to start planning but I believed at the end, I will probably do the same thing that I did in my 24.

What if, what if I got a year instead, maybe longer 5 years, 10 years, 30 years?

Hmmm... get a job? Most people, and me myself will do just that

However, what happened to the things you will want to do if you got 24 hours to live?
Most people would have probably forgotten about it.
If the time to live increases, those important things in that short 24 hours that matters to you get postponed and postponed further and further away.
Still I can hear people, even myself saying I simply couldn't find the time.

Life is short and things can get unexpected.
So keep that 24 hours in mind.
Insert it into your weekly itinerary or aleast your monthly itinerary.
So that when things unexpected happened to you, at least you can leave feeling the 24 hours happens just yesterday.

"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."- Morrie
When you learn what you will do in your last 24 hours, you will learn how to live your life. That is what I think Morrie is telling me.

Happy New Year!!!

The Universe

From "Secrets" by Rhoda Byrne, I was taught of this word "The Universe" which connects everyone and everything together. Whatever you want, whatever you wished for, you can just ask the Universe and somehow along your time, you will received. In Soka, they too believed in this when they chant 'Nam Myoho Range Kyo' which somewhat I perceived that the chanting is the way to connect to the Universe.

So here's my pictorial view of the whole concept. Professor Charles Francis Xavier. He is the Professor in X-men who can connect his mind to the Universe and control every single X-men that the Universe found. The Universe knows everything. Picture the Universe as a huge computer database system. Picture that every night when you go to sleep, the time when you knock yourself out, your soul will travel all the way to this database, upload and update all the experience for the day to the Universe. What you see, what you hear, what you feel etc will be uploaded to this database. And at the same time, what you want to know gets download back to your soul and be brought back to your body via dreams or through a sudden flow of knowledge. Or if you want to search a question from this database without the need to knock yourself out, one has to be calm enough in the mind and let the soul telepath itself to the Universe and retrieved the answer from the database. To reach to that state of mind is not easy but it is possible. Buddha can see who he was in his past lives when he reached to that stage of mind. Neale, in Conversations with God, is able to know where the mom of the dead son is when he wants an answer for the traumatized woman who lost her adopted son. Hence, there are no such thing as impossibility. Knowing everything is possible only if one can access everything in that database.

The Truth is in this database. Hence, the term only God knows came from one's God reaching into this database to retrieve the answer. However, whether the Truth will be revealed by the God receiving it is another question. Simply because everything is connected. The Cause and The Effect.

Ask and You'll Received

In the concluding part of "Conversations with God", a woman came to Neale when he was in the bookstore speaking to his reader. She was traumatized by the changes in her son and she asked for the author's explanation. Her son was adopted and by 14, she told him that. Her son changes immediately from a loving son to someone who does not want to acknowledge her as his mother. So she promised her adopted son that when he turns 18, she will bring him to meet his real mother. When he turns 18, he was killed by a drunk driver. She asked the author what has the author's God got to say about this? The author paused, close his eyes, drop a tear and walk towards the woman and say, "Your son died so that you can keep your promise to. His mother died a few years ago. His passing was the only way to be with her."

My view is that the son wants to be with his real mother. He has ask his God (the son's God) and God granted his wish. Having said that, I was wondering since heaven is a virtual place, how can he be with his mom after his passing. However, if I recollect that his Soul will be moved into another body, the body that give birth to his new body could be the soul that once occupied his mom's body or his new body could be near a body which his mom's soul now occupies i.e. his new sister, brother, father etc.

It is just unfortunate that he got no idea where her mom is else he may have changed his mind, accept that and move on without having that thought drawn so forcefully into himself.

What about the promise that the foster mom made? Is it also that strong that she wants her adopted son to meet his real mom? Most likely that with both foster mom and adopted son strong asking, both Gods gave what she and he wants. She kept her promise and he believed her. Again it is unfortunate that she did not go and find out where the real mom is.

One may argue that what if she did not want her adopted son to meet his real mom? Yes, only God will know i.e. her God will know. However, among the two, there is someone who will have the stronger will and the stronger one will succeed in getting the wish.

What if his mom is alive and not dead? That will definitely defunct my view.

Anyway, when you so wanted something, check out where the something is before you wish really hard on it.

Finally, the closing words from God: -
"I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My... Self. Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there. With Truth. And Light. And Love."

Your Soul will not leave you. Your soul create your existence. If you are not finding peace in yourself, you can always reached out to your soul who will always be with you whenever you want him or her. Your soul will always guide you to what you want if you believed in it.
Every word from God is express from Self - Who Am I. God is One.

Conversations With God

Stumbled upon this DVD at library@esplanade.
The story told about Neale, the author whose world crumbles, leaving him no job, no home and a broken neck. He climbs back with the help of his God who had conversations with him during his distress stage. He took down what God told him and it became a best seller.

There are few quotes that is worth a thought and I found a good lot in this link
http://www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/cwg/cwgquotes.htm

I was asking who is his God. My view is his God is his God.
His God will always be there for him even if he gave up his God.
Likewise, my God is my Soul and will always be there to listen and give me advice when I calmly reached out for HIM.
Hence, His God is his Soul and all the while, he is speaking to his Soul.
At a very distress stage in life, he may have reached a certain kind of calmness where God cames in and talked to him.
So if you give up in your God, you are actually giving up in yourself.
Everyone has a God and this God will always support one, no matter how one treats God.

Because God is One.