As I Began to Love Myself attributed to Charlie Chaplin with video

As I Began To Love Myself..

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody. As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me.  

Today I call it “RESPECT“.

 As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me grow. 

Today I call it “MATURITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. 

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.  

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since, I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY“.

 

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future.       Now, I only live for the moment, where  everything is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT“.

 

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART“.

 

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know “THAT IS LIFE“!

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Navid Helmi Guest Author Another offering (Unedited)

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Cloak of consciousnessWatch me!Among the borders of happiness,
Could it ever be possible being immortal?
Could it ever be holier than this moment?

You are soul,you are soul and all,
However it has been ignored and humiliated,
During centuries and milleniums of darkness,
Rise up and show the brilliancy of love!

It is an unexpected greeting of soul,
When we come up and find out,
The only love and compassionate,
Waiting in the cloak of consciousness,
In the name of living love master.

I prolonged this way so many times, 
By my faults and ignorance,
I was demolishing my destiny,
But when you shined at last-
As the only savior of times,
My ears did not accept anything,
But your delightful words of holiness.

I am just a name and shadow,
You are the source of being,
And the honor of whole life,
Keep this connection in silence,
And let our words light up the world,
In the manner of ancient silents.

Navid Helmi
11/24/2011 

 

 

Monarch of love 

Who dwell in ruins of love

Beside me,my rouge heart

And a handful of gipsy drunks?

Our name is our nameless fame

Hanging at the tops of taverns

Hued by the blood of wayfarers:

Those perpetual travelers of time

Those eternal seekers-standing

By the shoulders of sun.

That stranger who said:

I am God,I am God

So strangely were killed

By fool people and blind hearts

When he shut the name of love

There were nobody alive

But the person of love.

 

Who dare to live like this?

Beyond joys and sorrows

Exempt of past and future

Detached and freed from

Circles of birth and death

Who dare to live like us?

We are sailors of now

Love is our captain

Silence is our sail

We are monarch of love

We depart when storms begin to roar,

We arrive when surges begin to rage.

We are commandos of fire

We are soldiers of wind

We are hearts of earth

And fighters of skies

We are minstrels of love

Singing for God all the time

We are the voice of depth

From the bottom of hearts.

Navid Helmi

11/26/2011

Vowels of holinessHow can I penetrate the stillness of love
I set in serenity and let the silence
Immerse me into the depth of eternity.

The tree of soul yields in tranquility
Fruits are flashing lights granting me
The everlasting inner compassion
Which makes me united
With the circle of unseen friends
The unknown community of lovers.

I am submerged and rescued
My hands are full of secrets
And my heart has accomplished
Its mission of dedication
Now my words are saints
And my rhythm of breaths
Are vowels of holiness
heard by the ears of universe.

I am the flower of solitude
Blossomed in your gardens of lives
Enjoy my accompaniment
And cherish this moment
Which there is nothing more.

Navid Helmi
11/27/2011

Fate of formation Too long before my birth
I was present
In the body of poem
In the shape of song.

I was not born
As I remember
I was there
Everlasting-ever alive
Beaten from the heart of life.

The world was a land of void
Brilliant
Total elegant of a reign
Placidly I was going on
Toward the fate of formation.

I was on the edge of darkness
Beholding souls
Coming through cores of being
The creation was telling
Its own story of unknown.

Finally a voice called me:
Come on!Come on!
The creation is done.

Then I was driven
In the chains of lives
So many shapes I took
So many years I passed
The ancient song was in my ears
The old love was in my heart.

After milleniums of wandering
On the surface of cold earth behind
I found something dancing inside
An old song was started to play
A silent sound was begun to run:
Remember!Remember dear son.

I closed my eyes and set inside
Then I traveled back
To the lands of voice.

I remembered my own song
I stepped in my own path
I awakened in soul
In the body of poem
In the shape of song.

Navid Helmi
11/28/2011

Contemplation from Eckankar

Gazing at a Bright Object

With this technique, you get out of the physical state into a different consciousness by concentrating on a bright object like a coin. Gaze at a bright coin which reflects the light or perhaps a small mirror which catches the light. Then begin to concentrate on going out of the body. While concentrating, quietly repeat to yourself the affirmation: ” am leaving the body. I am going to (whatever place desired).” Do this over and over until it becomes reality. Suddenly you will find yourself standing outside the body, viewing it. —Sri Harold Klemp

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