Our conquest for happiness is torn apart between our two selves. A part of us remembers things from the past and a part of us is involved in experiencing the current moment. Whether we are happy in our life or we are happy about our life as what happened are two different questions. The former… Continue reading
Author Archives → Syed Hassan Abbas
A Common Trait
I have learnt that people chosen to be saints had one common trait among them: all of them had an intrinsic ability to love after losing love, to love after having seen everything around them shattered,to love after being cheated, to love after they thought they could not love any more and to love after… Continue reading
Why fear love?
We are afraid to lose. We are afraid of our hopes not being fulfilled. We are afraid of people who might let us down. We are afraid of taking a risk. Some times we are afraid to lose our repute against the benefits reaped. In Eastern cultures this is so common. Some times despite all… Continue reading
Suffering
Any thing that happens to us by the universe and that is legitimate, i.e. we have not caused it stupidly, it is meant for our growth !
The Three Phrases Often Wrongly Taken
People often take entirely wrong meanings of “be yourself” , “go with the flow” and “accept me the way I am or take it or leave it.” Being yourself does not mean being with your same habits. We are not our habits. Our ability to think about our habits makes us separate from them. So… Continue reading
Are you qualified enough?
Once, through my office was sent a training proposal to a school not very old enough but claiming to establish British standards of education in Pakistan. We had long forgotten about the proposal, when one day I received a call indicating that the principal wanted to meet me for the programme. So there I went… Continue reading
Win a point or win a heart
We were having a hard debate. The debate had turned into an argument. The argument had turned into labelling each other from “you did wrong” to” you are always wrong.” Suddenly I remembered some thing. I thought: “This point can make her shut. It can make her answerless.” So I just shut off myself. And… Continue reading
Three things and a test of love.
When you get up in the morning do three things…. After you are wide awake just sit for a while on a cushion or a comfortable warm carpet. Do nothing, just sit, no meditation, no breathing exercise, no visualization. Just sit. Do that for full ten minutes. Then take a paper or a pen and… Continue reading
Who we are?
You cannot be truly loving unless you search the answer to the question: Who we are ? The only possible way to search an answer for this most important question ever asked from us is through contemplation. Contemplation cannot exist without love and whenever true love exists it shows its presence through contemplation. Ironically our… Continue reading
Activating your subconscious
While speaking to a group of audience a phrase slipped my tongue. It was “activate your subconscious” and it was received warmly, yet with a flux of questions. It was rather one question asked by many:”How can we activate our subconscious?” Before answering to this, another important question needs to be addressed:”Why it is important… Continue reading