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The past is made beautiful because of the emotion we attached to it. The souls of those who are no longer with us are being held captive in our memory. They are lost to us until the day we recognized them again when they called us by our name.

It is then that we are free from their spell and the emotion we once attached to them returns to share our life. To many, that day may come after a long time, or more likely, it may not come at all.

The time we spent with people in this life may have been fleeting, but the relationship we share with them lasts for eternity. We can never recapture our own past. And thus, we must cherish the present.

When looking out the window of a train, we can see the view in front and also those behind us at the same time. Our emotions are only complete when we looked back to the memories of our past and realized those we loved have been with us all along.

*(Thanks to my blogger friend, MWS for her proofreading and very kind comment)

What does waking up means

What if everything we have been told about this world has been a lie? Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

'Waking up' is the first, and also the most important, step in the process of finding God within oneself through the the vessel of our mind without subscribing to the dogma of organized religion or institutionalized science.

In order to wake up, we have to embark on a quest for truth. The true objective reality is often concealed in a world of appearances so that we have to use our mind to think and work on the self, to obtain knowledge to dispel ignorance but to also be driven by this ignorance itself.

Thinking is just a means to an end; the end is to bring us closer to knowing why we are here and perhaps also knowing of the self along the way.

It is said the quest for truth and the quest for meaning are not the same. This philosophical or metaphysical point may be reconciled if we take the meaning of life as answerable only to the person who asked the question.

Truth are just those questions which are maybe unanswerable in our current state of being but nevertheless we should not stop to seek for them.

The human condition has not changed since known history, and it will not change as long as the focus is on the external things. It will change when the focus is turned within as the essence is only found there.

If we were to know what Truth is, we have to first know its opposite - what Illusion is. That could be a reason why we are here and for which we have to wake up to be able to ask these questions.

Like everything else in life, waking up is not a certain destination in life's journey but rather a new way of seeing, with a more objective, empathetic view of the world.