JOURNAL: WHAT I LEARNED IN MY LIFE

I am making an attempt to recapitulate what I have so far learnt in my life. The process of learning and off course unlearning too is continuous and subjected to changes as we grow psychologically and spiritually in our life time. In this blog I have explained many of these lessons in greater detail.



1. Life can never be smooth. Very often we feel jerks as if we are on rollercoaster ride.



2. While traveling along the undulating road, we learn lessons about life as we come across success and failure, pain and joy, happiness and suffering.



3. Fear of suffering is far more painful than the suffering itself. That's why we fear old age and not the death.



4. We do have a vast ability to change and shape not only our self but also others depending upon how we choose to think, behave and act with others.


5. True and dependable friends are always very few. Most of the time, their numbers do not exceed the magic figure of 10.


6. We get more and more mystified and bewildered if we start exploring/searching answers for the mysteries surrounding our life.


7. We all need God not only for emotional and psychological support but for finding answers to solve life's major puzzles.


8. We all have a very limited capacity to know the true reality around us and the world. The reality we perceive is largely illusionary and very far from the ultimate reality.


9. Pain and suffering very often act like a catalyst in speeding up our spiritual journey.



10. Though we come into this world with a genetically pre-determined psychosomatic body but we have a huge potential to change our behavior, lifestyle, thinking pattern and actions (through neuroplaticity).



11. On quite a few occasions, we come across meaningful coincidences (called synchronicity) but we fail to comprehend those events. However, we do realize the importance of such events later on.



12. Uncertainty and change are the fundamental features of our life and the surrounding world. Accepting that all things – you, me, my body, the world, the universe change all the time can solve half of our problems.



13. Hard conditioning of our behavior and role of subconscious mind in our decision making and actions play a vital role in shaping our destiny.



14. Human nature is fundamentally very fragile because of undercurrent feeling of fear and anxiety (though mostly unreal and unfounded) we encounter most of the time in our life.



15. Race for acquiring things like money, status and power that govern the materialistic world has destroyed the very spiritual nature of man.



16. The most destructive habit in us is allowing our mind to wander and indulge in negative thoughts and emotions like anger and hatred,



17. The world around us is merely a reflection of what happens in our inner world.



18. The worst thing in life would be without hope, faith and love.



19. Small and minor incidents and actions can sometimes have vast and devastating effects on our life and they can change the direction of life's journey.