See and Hear

Know yourself at each moment and become conscious of yourself.  This is the first step to self-knowledge.  Ask yourself, "What am I doing?", "What am I saying?", "How am I behaving?", "Who am I and what am I at this very moment?", "Where am I going?"...

Pay a close attention to your thoughts, behavior and words and find out their meaning.  The deeper you pay attention, the more amazed you become and you shall involuntarily utter, "Woe to me!"

And this disapproval is a delivering phrase for it comes from your awareness about your failings, disadvantages and errors.  This awareness shall guide you and shall unfold many things for you...

Watch continuously your acts and be your own observer.  This is the way to a continuous progress, improvement and elevation. 

Mind should be dynamic and active.  It has to have a question at each moment; otherwise it falls asleep, becomes raw and rotten.  It has to question and continue its inquiries until it reaches the answer to all its interrogations - the secret of secrets, the truth...

Be aware of the nature of your behavior and the meaning and the tone of your words; for death and life, failure and success lie within your words and your thoughts.  Be aware of their implications and consequences, of their contradictions and dualities, of their direction and the degree to which they are driven by evil or divine impulses...  

Look at yourself in others' mirror.  Ponder over your relations and approaches and you shall find out that every being and everybody is like a mirror reflecting your face to you.  Look in the mirror and correct your self-image and become beautiful...

You wish to build up yourself; this means that you have been enough sensitive to realize you are not attractive and now you are decided to become beautiful.  You have understood you are weak and incapable but you want to become great and capable.  You have lived the darkness in your life now you long for light and radiance.  These motivations indicate why self-development and self-knowledge are relatively worthy to you and you are willing to spend your time and energy to these ends. 

How can your unattractiveness change into beauty and your weakness into capability?  The first thing to do is to find out about your ugliness and weakness which is not possible but with reflection and observation.

You have to step out of yourself to examine your being from different angles.  Continue to carry on with your daily life yet from now on add a new component to it � awareness and wakefulness.  Live your life with a dynamic-curious and observing mind.  A sick-rotten and asleep soul brings you death not salvation and immortality...

Awareness and observation elevate your acts, guide them and drive them to the point of perfection.  The resulted understanding is, in itself, the cause to many positive changes and modifications...

Try to understand the meaning of everything.  Look at all dimensions of existence - yourself, your God, your relation with Him, people around you and your mutual influence on each other, your past and lessons you can draw, your future and whether your plans are right, realistic and worthy...  Most important is comprehension and observation of relation you have with your lord and creator and what you do for improve it.  Don't ever forget to watch and observe your submission to God and to worship Him...

This observation captures divine light toward your eyes, enlightens your mind, makes your ears hear and your eyes see.  So far, you have only pretended to be alive; today, try to be really alive.  From now on, learn how to live.  There is a difference between one who is alive and one who lives, between one who thinks he is alive and one who is really alive...

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