PEARLS OF THOUGHTS: Part I
The fruit tree branches are lowering their heads down, but the fruitless branches are towering their heads aloft, citing the humble and the arrogant.
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A very sturdy steel bar is prone to break, to cut, to bend, to twist, to admix, to erode, and to melt ; truth is not because it stands by itself.
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The right path is clear of danger, risk, fear, trick, trap, obscurity, or confusion.
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The wrong path is laid out with danger, risk, fear, trick, trap, obscurity, and confusion.
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The more we are away from the truth, the more we are lost in the hustle and bustle of assumptions.
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Those powerful people who have thought to be champion of wisdom have left wreckage behind.
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Sometimes Internal chaos turns out to be more dangerous than the external chaos. Internal chaos surfaces when the cognitive, emotional, and volitional powers are in disunity, and the mind becomes a theater of war so much so that even life will be put on the line.
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Clean place in the city inspires cleaning; dirty place stimulates littering.
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Worldly rewards come fast and go fast; eternal rewards come later and last for good.
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What is momentous about art is that it is enkindled with freedom, beauty, peace and serenity, depth and width, creativity, growth, immensity, and perpetuity.
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There is a direct connection between our internal and external disposition. A healthy mind, which is living in harmony with its emotion, spirit, and soul, is opening on to the bright, wide, safe, and prosperous ways. A poor mind, which is suffering from internal disunity, is opening on to sordid, morbid ways.
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Noble metals like gold, platinum, and silver, and precious stones like diamond, emerald, and ruby, are getting entitled to their nobility and preciousness under extremely long, hard conditions. Humans who are born with such nobility and values could lose these titles free.
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Humans are facing two kinds of battles in life: external and internal. In external battles, their confrontation is with their outside enemies. In internal battles, their confrontation is with their inside enemy—their own evil. It has been proven that the warriors have lost the battles more internally rather than externally, because every single war both starts and is controlled internally.
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Sweet tastes and bitter tastes are on a par with various daily experiences of human life.
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Respect between the parties is a means of peace and understanding; grudge enkindles conflict.
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Wishes are like sea waves coming and going; prayers are like pearls exhorting to take shelter.
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Disease attacks the body; sin attacks the soul.
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Hands of a builder turn a cave into a castle; hands of an arsonist turn the castle into a cave.
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Happiness is not a seed to be planted, but a quest to strive for.
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All the projects are initiated by a way of preamble, so is our first incidental social interaction by means of hi, how are you.
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Humanity comes out of sound character or characteristics, not out of customs or costumes.
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Besides natural beauty, diversity, intelligence, vitality, stamina, and other amazements, God has endowed nature with humor, subtlety, ruses, and extremities. In terms of extremity, some amphibians like Alaskan wood frogs can live in extreme cold weather as low as -18*C, North American red flat bark beetles can endure cold temperature as low as -58*C, and their larvae can endure cold as -100*C. More surprisingly, water bear or tardigrade is the king of both cold and hot temperature. It can endure a temperature as cold as -273*C, and hot as high as 150*C (302”F). In terms of humor, there are numerous humorous videos of dogs, cats, goats, monkeys, dolphins, and so forth, are being displayed now and again. There are a good number of birds such as owls, turkeys, parrots, crowbars, mockingbirds, penguins, flamingoes, and so forth, enjoying good sense of humor. There are also plants with astonishing features; for example, they consume animals, which are called carnivorous plants.
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Human experience is an invaluable commodity. It can be transferred from present to past and vice versa, and it can even be stored for the future. A Millennia experience could be used at once, momentarily. Now, by means of advanced tech, distant experiences are at our fingertips. I mean a valuable experience such as a discovery or an invention could be used all around the world if the right means and workmanship are available. Usually, experience comes from both ourselves and from others. We trust and value our own experience much more than others’. There are those who have used neither their own experience nor others’, and therefore they have suffered from plenty of loss and miseries like wars. Today, nations can share their experiences with each other, and those who fail to exploit are at the bottom of a hill, dealing with a hill of beans.
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The way a loaf of bread is produced—preparing the land, sowing the wheat seeds, attending to the seeds for many months, reaping the wheat, threshing it, storing it, milling it into flour, making dough, and then baking it into a loaf of bread—all our positive aims and expectations involve efforts to be realized and fructified.
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Those who are living their lives aimlessly are like hunters who have not yet learned how to aim a hunting rifle. In fact, they are leaving home to return with a bag, but to no avail.
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An umbrella or a sunshade may protect us against rain or sun, but caution or discretion is a cover that may protect us against all troubles from simple to complex, from light to heavy. Daily, there are numerous incidences wherein we may act cautious or carelessly, resulting in trouble or peace of mind. Leaving behind our credit card, wallet, or car key in the stores; answering questions loosely and mindlessly; forgetting to take or do school or college assignments; leaving children in the car and forgetting about them; driving recklessly; acting childishly; leaving things around scattered; wasting time or money heedlessly, and such are some of the things that we are facing with everyday. Caution is important in our daily life, in business, in politics, in the matter of health, safety, etc., saving us a lot of distress, and protecting us from evil.
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Usefulness is a universal asset, covering the animate and inanimate species. Vanity, which is opposite of usefulness, is an unwelcome realm. Usefulness starts from least to greatest. It should be attended to from the very childhood, so that boys and girls should take advantage of it, no matter how small or big the task is. Let boys and girls grow useful, to assist their parents, to assist others. Thus, they apply and discover themselves, they develop, they advance, and they identify both their strengths and weaknesses.
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Truth never gets old or dies. There are certain principles or morals like humanity, integrity, friendship, generosity, modesty, and such that have always been true from the dawn of human race up to present day. Unfortunately, the more we are passing by the brave new world, the more they are losing their quality and essence. We keep our humanity only by keeping up with those truths; otherwise, our basic values will be dissipated, and our civilization will turn into a bunch of empty suits.
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There are those who see, feel, and understand the danger of certain things such as smoking, drinking, and drugging, but still they are committed to them. In the same way, there are a bunch of other invisible things like ignorance, greed, hate, envy, and such that gnaw at the tenet of our life, impairing both the internal and external harmony, vitiating the hearts and minds, Now which party poses a major threat? The evil that we see, feel, and understand? Or the evil that neither do we see nor feel it? Certainly, both.
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Good has one entrance—wide, bright, always open, always welcoming and sublime, unpretentious, ticketless, hustle free, unprejudiced, and peaceful. Evil has several entrances—narrow but eye-catching, obscure but sensational, fancy, pretentious, deluding, attractive, temptational, sonorous.
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The virtue of the great minds is that they pay attention to small things, that they betake themselves from simple to complex, from visible to invisible, from ordinary to extraordinary, from specific to general, disciplining their minds shipshape for further discoveries. The weakness of a little mind is that it fails to consider great things.
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No better rules or lessons will convey parents’ exemplary behavior towards their children than their gentle voice, kindly face expression, and keeping their anger under control.
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A large number of workers suffer not because they are not helped by their coworkers, but because they are criticized, embarrassed, intervened, or intruded.
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When you see a woman with such magnitude of work, you are lost in her projects.
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We are always talking about material damages, which are irreversible, inevitable, sooner or later. Moral damages, which are much more catastrophic, consequential, safe from the wear and tear of time, are hardly ever discussed. Material damage is visible and can be felt momentarily. Moral damage, whose harm does not show immediately, is invisible, but it gnaws at the soul, our permanent, paramount asset, sabotaging it viciously, impairing it irreparably.
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Natural evolution has been systematically conducted at the behest of the Almighty. Social evolution has been disrupted now and again, here and there, by various means and reasons, including ignorance; wars; fanaticism; lords of greed, of interest, of self-indulgence; and all kinds of corruptions and prejudices. Thus, humanity has been deprived from the gifts and services of gifted and creative minds that should have been long ago available to the populace. For example, the Dallas Morning News reported on the Charles Garret’s water-fueled car on September 8, 1935. Tesla’s coil, which was invented in 1981, produced free energy from the empty space, and many more such inventions and novelties that not only could help the communities but could also give us clean environments.
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Look at a natural phenomenon—animate or inanimate, flora or fauna–carrying characteristics and attributes such as organization, classification, beauty, symmetry, durability or tentativeness. Look at a flower: it has all those characteristics except durability. Inanimate phenomena such as atoms have those characteristics but we cannot see them with naked eyes.
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Truth will surface sooner or later, and humanity will be appreciated.
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Investment starts always, everywhere, from a single point, single effort, spreading out extensively if properly worked out, just like a seed that turns into a tree. In fact, hardship or inconvenience is invested to bring ease and comfort in life. Investment transpires both materially and morally. Thus, human is invested with gifts and efforts to achieve positive results; lands are invested into yielding; money is invested to increase wealth; even mines have been invested with time-honored natural efforts to turn into treasure.
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Natural resources should be a token of economic relief, stability, comfort, piece, and freedom from poverty, as it sounds rational to believe. History has witnessed that commodities have been the cause of numerous wars and conflicts around the world. In fact, both environmental abundance and scarcity have failed the countries. For example, African oil and diamonds have triggered conflicts in Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, and they have all been devastated by warfare. Fishing rights fueled three Cod wars between England and Iceland. Conflicts have thus transpired over oil, minerals, noble metals, water, forest, land, and other resources for multiple reasons.
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Truth transcends all barriers, boundaries, and conditions, including cultural, historical, social, psychological, educational, traditional, etc. Nothing can cover it, cloud it, twist it, or change it permanently. It stands by itself.
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The more distant from the metropolis, the more pristinity, simplicity. The closer to the metropolis, the more artificiality, intricacy.
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Creative mind works like a versatile tool, working on anything it is acquainted with, sorting things out, digesting, and reducing problems to manageable proportions.
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Humanity, whose caravan is passing through the mind-blowing technological crossroads, has hard time figuring out how to judiciously deal with today’s many activities and funs. Media— despite their easy, free, comfortable, and entertaining information—devour so much people’s time so that they have little time for more important businesses. It is crucial time to prioritize their goals, embarking upon what is vital before getting lost in the bustle of life.
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An ant has a will and tiny brain to find its food, to go where it wants, to frolic, to rest, to plan defense strategies, etc.; nature has none. God is nature’s pilot.
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For some swearing is worthy of nothing, for others it is as worthy as a world.
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To use the mind for wicked purposes is just like overturning it.
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The way we build our body, we can build our miind
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To know God with all His glory and attributes and still be wicked is purely a conspiracy of the Devil.
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High-rises will not guarantee the happiness of the citizens
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Majestic tower will not be the mark of a good court, but its integrity.
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Parental love is a universal instinct instilled in the heart of each and every begetter. Parents undergo the most arduous experiences to keep their children safe and intact, to feed them, and to teach them skills. What makes human love different from that of animal is that human love comes from freedom of will, having no boundaries and conditions, and it is abiding. Animal love is instinctive; therefore, animals are instinctively committed to performing things they are entitled to subconsciously, naturally; thus, their love has boundaries and conditions. Human love comes from strong rationality, charging parents with responsibilities to attend to them physically, spiritually, emotionally, socially, and economically, as far as they can and their offspring need their services. If human parents back away from these duties, they are breaching the tenet of parental love, which is universal.
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Family, as a first foundation of children, is not only a place where the tenet of education should be laid out, but it should also prove as a builder of personality. Parents are the first teachers who can serve their children in the best possible way if they were well acquainted with proper education. To inspire children’s curiosity, parents should stimulate their children’s mind by asking them questions. Here is a simple example: What is bread made of? Either they know the answer, or they do not. If they don’t, parents should explain that bread is made of grain such as wheat, oat, rye, or corn. Then ask this question: What is grain made of? If they do not know, explain that it is planted in the field. Answers should be given in details, simply, clearly, and patiently. *** Knowledge is not confined to books and magazines and encyclopedias, or to libraries and schools and colleges. It is everywhere: you can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it, touch it, taste it, and think of it momentarily, far and wide. It is spread out from your toes to your head, from your toehold to the heavens, to say nothing of the nonphysical realm of knowledge, including emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and metaphysical, which are all tremendous. It is up to you to find it, know it, and out of its treasures, which we are all surrounded with, even one thing to explore and know at a time is a great enterprise, helping us shaping up our mind, our personality, and our ways.
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A full mind is a lottery that can buy success and happiness and goodness. Like a child or a young tree, mind needs much care, effort, and responsibility to fructify. In fact, it is the brainless that create wrongs, failures, and undesirable consequences.
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It is better to know a little about each and every branch of knowledge. It opens up your mind a great deal on the one hand, and you may explore a discipline that suits your taste and ability on the other, so that you may give it perfection as an occupation.
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Our present life is momentarily evolving into versatility. On an unofficial basis, It is useful to learn many things in the course of life rather than being in the business of a single thing. For example, someone who is interested in reading will also be apt to learn how to cook, knit, do craft, plant vegies or flowers, etc., given their age, gender, taste, and choice.
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The way the grain is winnowed out of its chaff, education should purge the people from their prejudice and partiality.
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Good mornings to those who welcome me with a good morning; wishing good days for those who welcome me with good wishes; greetings, peace, solace, and happiness for those who are well-wishers for all.
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Light and relief come from the internal world rather than the external. Sometimes the world appears to be small as a prison and dark as pitch despite its entire light and vastness. This happens when there is no internal light and solace. But if you are happy within, you see the whole world smiling at you.
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To keep things in balance in nature, natural phenomena are managed by various manifestations besides wisdom; for instance, a chameleon changes its color to remain invisible to both its prey or predator, or a beetle pretend dead to save its life,
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What sound is louder than that of nature? What light is brighter than that of nature? What scene is more magical than that of nature? We become more fascinated by small events such as fireworks, fashion show, art exhibition, or other extravaganzas than the great natural phenomena such as a sunset, a sunrise, a starry night, a moonlit night, an azure sky, an azure sea, a beautiful cliff, a flower tree, etc., whose effect is quite miraculous and mesmerizing. We stay nonchalant towards those tremendous phenomena because we see them so often that they look only commonplace things.
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Present is attended to more than eternity, so are emotions more than reasons, visible things more than the invisible, and quantity is attended to more than quality.
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We adore our habits though wrong, accept our tradition even if wrong, renounce some initiation even if acceptable, We accept our traditions because they are established customs and beliefs passed on by the previous generations. We accept them as the sacred legacy of our ancestors.
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There are incidents convincing our eyes, not our reason; that is, whatever our eyes see is different from the reality. Have you come upon a mirage in the desert? Have you seen the jugglers’ tricks cutting a human body into two just before your eyes, or turning a handkerchief into a bird, or making an object disappear in the blink of an eye? In all these cases, what we see differs from the realty. From all this we conclude that truth always stands by itself.
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Human creations—a blend of cerebral, emotional, imaginative, dexterous, textural, vocal, and visual phenomena—are a manifestation of different forms, different genius, different ingenuity, and different faculties. Variety in creation grows as far as those faculties allow, and our imagination burgeons, without boundaries and limits. Consider, for example, vocal phenomenon—given pitch, duration, and frequency—how much gifted, rich, versatile, and variant it is. Our arms, our hands, and our fingers have wonderful ingenuity in making, creating, building, forming, fashioning, motioning, and dancing; our legs, our feet, and our entire bodies are highly dexterous in all kinds of movements and rocking; our tongues are appropriated for speech; our voice box is for producing sound. Thus, our cognitive and emotional faculties work wonders if we use them properly and fully. And such are the miracles of our hearts and souls if we are able to explore their actual power and ability.
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Have you heard of the fable of the goodness tree? The tree of goodness is the strongest, the most fruitful, and the everlasting tree. Whatever good you do in your life, it grows up like a tree simultaneously with your good deeds. The more good you do, the deeper its roots stretch into the ground to strengthen, and the higher its branches go to the heavens. Strong and lofty as the tree is, so is great the reward of good efforts.
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When our reason makes strides and our wisdom guides us, most of the cultural, ethical, religious, social, and class barriers, which, in reality, are fueled by our stupidity, pride, and vanity, and which keep humanity apart, will be lifted; sense of understanding among the people will step up; freedom is appreciated and slavery hated; prejudices and narrow-mindedness will lose ground; tolerance will be encouraged, and spiritual values will be uplifted. And when ignorance emerges, evil tries to get rampant.
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Taste the commotion of the city life, and then retreat to the serenity of the bucolic life. One occupies all your senses, making you so abuzz with the flamboyant ostentations that detach you from your inner life. The other captures your soul, giving you the right opportunity to interact with your concealed or unacknowledged part of your personality. In fact, both bucolic and urban ways of life lead to different explorations, one dealing with the depth of life, and the other with the two-dimensional world.
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Parents who make sacrifices to their children will be repaid in multiple ways. They will be rewarded, for example, by being safe from child misbehavior problems; by enjoying their children’s good conduct; by encouraging their children with good education, excellent goals, promising future; and, last but not least, by building their society, say nothing of their children’s success in the form of earnings.
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The truth, whether we see it or not, stands by itself.
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When a wish is far beyond your reach, it is better not to desire it.
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Doubt is a feeling between uncertainty and certainty. Magnitude of knowledge adds to the certainty, but lack of information takes away from it. Therefore, to change uncertainty to certainty, one must look for knowledge.
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On some dry lands of the earth such as Sahara Desert, where water is much sought and desired, a mirage is created that looks like an oasis. The finders no sooner arrive there than they face the reality. The morality of this fable is that desiring much too much of this world is an illusion that leaves nothing but a delusion behind.
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Power is something being achieved with much risk and struggle and conditions. Goodness is something attained scot-free, with no risk and conditions. In truth, power, whose enjoyment is short-lived, is accompanied with havocs and harms; goodness, in return, is lasting, accompanied with rewards and returns.
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While animals benefit only from intelligence more or less, humans enjoy both wisdom and intelligence, to say nothing of their linguistic, imaginative, creative, and spiritual phenomena.
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Instinctive behavior in animals is entrenched on a much larger scale than in human beings.
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Beauty charms one into submissiveness.
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A true believer will not allow being unfair, unprincipled, greedy, arrogant, uncharitable, and hypocrite.
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If truth go after people’s wishes and desires, confusions will be rampant everywhere.
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As a whole, from the smallest to the biggest bodies of the universe, there is a relationship between their nuclei and circumferences as is between the worshiper and the worshiped, the pursuer and the pursued, the lover and the loved, the supplicant and the supplicated, the seeker and the sought. In fact, an atom represents a miniature universe that its entire property attends to the nucleus. To translate this in a broad way, the whole universe glorifies its creator the Almighty.
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Life is in motion as the current of a river. The river waters and rejuvenates whatever comes on its way, and finally ending up with its entire boon left unrewarded and uncounted. Unlike the river, each and every effort of the human is bundled up, stored, calculated, and paid off. While the river is not charged for its boon or bane, but human remains accountable for his or her actions, and whose compensation is inevitable.
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Throw a thousand stones in the pond, giving rise to a multitude of circles, all getting lost in vain. Throw a piece of bread in the pond with the intention of feeding a hungry animal, all circles made become meaningful. Those footprints left on the ground by someone helping a poverty-stricken orphan or a hungry one will be carved in the memory of the universe. That hero risking his or her life battling the wild waves to save a life becomes unforgettable. Attempts to help humanity become immortal.