I was tagged by Joy. Apparently, this is how my life rates right now. It looks good. I wonder if it is true. :)

Wanna try it out? Feel free to do so.

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.9
Mind:	7.5
Body:	8.6
Spirit:	6.8
Friends/Family:	6
Love:	9.1
Finance:	6.7
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

There you are, faced with an opportunity to actually give someone a taste of his own medicine.

“Maybe he will realize what it’s like to be on the receiving end of his actions.”, you wickedly thought.

“Maybe if I do this, he will come to his senses.”, you continue.

This could be a most awaited moment for you. A chance to inflict the same pain towards this person who have hurt you or offended you. Maybe even ignore that someone who have done the same.

I found myself at the Start of this wicked marathon today. Being human, I contemplated how I could inflict the exact same feeling on him. Also considered taking time as my accomplice and allow this moment to linger… to prolong the process.

“Maybe the lessons taught will be harder, therefore more effective.”, I whispered to myself.

Unknowingly, a more vengeful thought takes over… “maybe revenge will be sweeter…”, I secretly meant.

“Will this change him somehow?”, I asked myself. “Will it make him a better person?”, I analyzed some more.

I have thought about pouring out some of this here before… in the form of a diverting poem. I jotted down the thoughts. I phrased the lines… but I never completed it. Then this opportunity came.

I gave it so much thought… and even more. (this I learned from hubby… think before you speak or do anything - buys us time… to deal with it better)

It was when I glanced at my Lenten Sacrifices that I realized, “Why not treat him with kindness instead?”.

“Revenge is never sweeter. It brings so much bitter after taste.”

It was then, I felt peace in deciding to take the “kindness” stand. I saw how I didn’t like how his attitude made me feel and didn’t want that dark cloud to shadow me any further. “So, why should I act in the same way, when I know it will only hurt someone else?!”, I pondered.

I decided to give him a sweeter taste of the person in me. Hopefully, he pays it forward. By doing it, I already received the reward I wanted. Inner peace.

Habits of Enlightened Souls

1. BE QUIET. At least once a day, sit down. There is a source within each one of us called the spirit or soul. It is a crime to disturb inner peace. This peace is our power to create positive things in our life. Try speaking softly and slowly that your usual way.

Speaking this way is more powerful because it attacts the peace in others. Just be aware of your words. Savor their energy and rhythm.

2. LET GO. Don’t hold on to anything with your hand or with your mind. Many think that doing this means losing. If you don’t release the old, you can’t get anything new. This requires detachment.

Letting go means moderating excessive attachment to material possessions, to emotions, ot to the status quo or comfort zones in our lives.

3. LET IT BE. We are great ficers of other people’s lives. We’re trying to write somebody else’s script. We are absent from our own lives because we’re busy living the lives of others. Acceptance and contentment are the first steps to health relationships.

An example is our appreciation of the moon, which is beyond change. We never dream of wanting to change or influence it, nor have we the slightest remorse that the same face of the moon is always turned toward us. We have no need to see the dark side. Extend this deep feeling of acceptance to the people we meet.

4. LISTEN IN. Use your intuition, the inner tutor and the voice of wisdom. Because we have held on to our false beliefs for so long, we ignore and distrust our inner voice and tell it to shut up. The process of enlightenment is the procress of learning to trust that inner voice once again.

Example is the conscience as intuition at work. When we misbehave, the voice of conscience alerts us to our mistake. We may shun that voice, engaging in reason as the ally of ego to justify our deeds.

Yet the troubling intuitive disapproval of conscience will go on to make its rebukes. We can either suppress the advice or repair the wrong.

5. WAKE UP. Habits are programmed by our external conditioning. Write down your habits then decide which ones to strike out and replace them with virtues. Visualize the virtue you want to create and empower that image.

For example, if you want to develop patience, visualizemyourself as a patient person. watch, feel and manifest patience in every action you do until it becomes a behaviour. Waking up is to consciously choose your behaviour and thereby create the personality you want. Never believe anyone who says, “you can never change.”

6. KNOW YOURSELF. Look behind the Ï want”attitude, those desires that make us need things that are not necessary. The truth is, happines is a choice, not a chore, a decision to bring out from the self. Affirm that you are happiness, a source of happiness.

7. PASS IT ON. Take one idea from this article then pass it on to another. You empower yourself and the other as yuo share this truth. this is also giving value to the time you spend readint thist.

Life is like a river, constantly flowing. The highest purpose of rivers is to nourish plants and people who are fellow travelers in the journey of life. Our highest purpose is to nourish others.

Like the river, the greatest gift one can give is wisdom. Through this, you empower yourself as well as others.

Try these habits one by one.

- author unknown