Month: March 2016

Every human individual potentially explores, discovers, learns, and teaches as they evolve with personal knowledge. Thus, human beings are an evolving organism, so the knowledge of human beings cannot be forced into a cage, can, or a single book. As our knowledge changes with our evolution, our religions become even more tainted with the emotional yet political human interventions because of the sense of belonging.

Religious words have been preached as God’s words; thus, for the general population, they can’t be changed. If you can’t change God’s words, you will have a heck of a time keeping people in line by force, especially when God is not clearly present or even understood.

In the spiritual reality, you can’t just work against equal human rights and claim these words are from God. Why would God be prejudiced against self? If the whole world is connected with the internet, any strong political stand against equal human rights would be published within seconds and mocked, even if the religions have been calling about the words of God. There has never been a time like today; the information can be shredded down and questioned not only by the same religion but all human beings, including competing belief systems or even the people who have no belief system.

Questioning every word of God is most common in this era, so it would take conviction from the religious individual to take a stand; otherwise, it would be like the pope who took a political stand to comply with the demands of the time. Personally, I believe if you follow spirituality wholeheartedly, you would not have to make political adjustments. Spiritually, if you respect all individuals equally regardless of their background, you would not have to go through discrimination; thus, there would not be unequal rights for any one particular race, gender, nation, religion, or its sect.

Our history shows all religions discriminate against each other, which makes them work against spirituality because they all are working as political entities. If you think you are somehow better than others because of your belief systems, it is not because of spirituality; it is clearly because of politics. Boasting that you are going to heaven because you follow a certain religion is against spirituality because if you are spiritual, your first order is to be humble. Putting each other down is insulting and blaming God because we all are the cells of God. If you really believe that following your religions is taking you to spirituality, then you should know that disrespecting each other takes you further from the spiritual world.

Believing that your religion, or your belief system, or even education level makes you better is an egotistic state of mind. If you understand it, that automatically makes you a CEO because you are able to assess, judge, and self-regulate. Free will made every human with the capacity to think, decide, and choose. Anything said with certain intentions centuries ago may have changed or been twisted by the politicians.

The beauty of the belief systems is the same, but the poets use words differently to say the same thing, and the reader can always enjoy it more if it relates to his/her personal life. The message can change with time. Today’s new problems need a CEO’s vision and abilities to solve personal problems and tread through difficult territory instead of falling back on archaic centuries-old solutions.

When it comes to spirituality, believing in one God as one entity or as a whole humanity, considering yourself as cells of it just like all the others and the others as yourself, so you can learn to deal with others with a soft heart. Sure, you can have your belonging groups, traditions, and customs, but don’t mix up religion with law and order because God has kept and is still keeping Himself elusive so we can evolve. Regardless of your belief system, without spirituality, you have nothing; there is no hell or heaven because in the spiritual world, you can’t be in pain and suffering, and without pain and suffering, you can’t recognize the hell or even the heaven.

We have free will; we think and choose in our living years, and we have hundreds of different societies with billions of differently thinking human beings. If you are in spirituality, you are free of group politics, which should make you gentle towards others, but group politics has been and still is making us kill each other with our half knowledge of God and even ourselves.

Before the organized religions became organized, knowledge came through sages, wise men and women, and shamans. The right path to God does not necessarily come through organized religions. People have always had direct connections to God. All prophets were individuals, and their religions have come to life with the existence of human beings; even the knowledge of God exists with human beings.

There has always been a quest to understand to achieve human potential and become spiritually evolved. Each and every one of us carries a little particle of God inside as a soul, so the concept of God exists with and within humanity, and human individual exists and is alive with the particle of God inside. Just like our body depends on oxygen to function, the human individual needs the God particle to function with decency and humanity.

Humanity is God, and we express our Godly side with good deeds to humanity by reciprocating. We don’t have the mental capacity yet to completely understand God, but one thing that is understandable is that God’s physical work is done by the human, so God cannot be some separate entity out there or in here. We all carry a particle of God in us which enables us to understand spirituality and do God’s work with or without religious knowledge. That particle of God within us triggers the individual spirituality because potentially we are ripened to be Godly people. This beautiful concept of God, whether it’s understood or not, is for the human individual. If you utilize it to create your personal life’s rhythmic music, the benefits are for you; if you choose not to, it is your choice, but life without the rhythm has its harms to the individual. Regardless, it is our personal choice to live as we wish.

We as individuals have always been contributing to the causes of God or humanity, so the claims from religious leaders that anybody who does not follow any religion cannot be on the right path is false. The right path is the personal spirituality with or without the religion. If you do good deeds for God or humanity, you are a good being and are reciprocating, thus doing God’s work spiritually, so you should have no fear of hell. For instance, personally, I believe if the inventor of insulin was an atheist, it should not matter;

Navigating Life’s Complexities:

As a CEO of your life, you must navigate various complexities and challenges with wisdom and balance. This means recognizing the multifaceted nature of existence and being prepared to handle the interplay between different aspects of life.

1. Managing Relationships:

Family and Friends: Cultivate meaningful relationships based on mutual respect and understanding. Balance your responsibilities and ensure you give time and attention to loved ones without losing yourself.

Professional Connections: Build professional relationships that are respectful and supportive. Strive for collaboration rather than competition, and be open to learning from others.

2. Pursuing Knowledge and Growth:

Continuous Learning: Keep an open mind and be willing to learn from various sources. Whether it’s through formal education, personal experiences, or spiritual teachings, always seek to expand your understanding.

Adaptability: Be flexible and open to change. Life is unpredictable, and the ability to adapt to new circumstances is crucial for personal and professional growth.

3. Balancing Material and Spiritual Needs:

Material Success: While achieving material success is important, it should not come at the cost of your spiritual well-being. Use your resources to enhance your life and the lives of others, but do not let material possessions define you.

Spiritual Fulfillment: Engage in practices that nourish your soul. Whether it’s through meditation, prayer, nature walks, or creative expression, find what brings you inner peace and joy.

4. Making Ethical Decisions:

Integrity: Make decisions based on ethical considerations and personal integrity. Avoid compromising your values for short-term gains.

Responsibility: Understand the impact of your actions on others and the world. Strive to make choices that contribute positively to society and the environment.

5. Embracing Challenges:

Resilience: Life will inevitably present challenges and setbacks. Develop resilience by maintaining a positive mindset and learning from your experiences.

Growth through Adversity: View challenges as opportunities for growth. Each obstacle you overcome strengthens your character and deepens your understanding of life.

Creating a Vision for Your Life:

As a CEO, it’s essential to have a clear vision for your life. This vision should be rooted in your core values and aspirations, guiding you toward a fulfilling and meaningful existence.

1. Defining Your Purpose:

Reflect on what truly matters to you. What are your passions, and how can you contribute to the world in a way that aligns with your values?

Consider your long-term goals and the legacy you wish to leave behind. What impact do you want to have on your community and the world at large?

2. Setting Goals:

Short-term Goals: Identify immediate actions you can take to move closer to your vision. These should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).

Long-term Goals: Outline broader objectives that will take more time to achieve. These should reflect your aspirations and the larger purpose you’ve defined for yourself.

3. Taking Action:

Implementation: Develop a plan to achieve your goals, breaking them down into manageable steps. Stay focused and committed, but remain flexible enough to adjust as needed.

Evaluation: Regularly assess your progress and make necessary adjustments. Celebrate your achievements and learn from any setbacks.

4. Living Authentically:

Authenticity: Be true to yourself in all aspects of your life. Authenticity builds trust and respect, both internally and externally.

Courage: Have the courage to stand by your values and decisions, even when it’s challenging. Authentic living requires bravery and conviction.

Being the CEO of your life is a continuous journey of self-discovery, growth, and fulfillment. It requires a balance of introspection, action, and adaptation. By embracing your spiritual potential, making ethical decisions, and creating a vision aligned with your core values, you can lead a life that is not only successful but also deeply satisfying and meaningful.

In this journey, remember that every individual has the inherent potential to be a CEO. It’s a matter of recognizing and harnessing that potential, living with purpose, and navigating life’s complexities with wisdom and grace. Embrace your role as the CEO of your life, and create a legacy of happiness, contentment, and positive impact.

Please ignore the English and stay focused on the content.

 

Just recently I got a comment, I have been thinking about the direct answer to the sender but then I thought I should create a blog article. For the privacy purposes I will not mention the name. Anyway the whole comment is below I just highlighted some of the points for the discussion purposes.

And I” quote”

“Your response, while almost clever, dodged the question. Granted, there’s no solid answer to what caused the Big Bang, but you respond by misunderstanding the word supernatural, and implying that proof is a religious creation when, in fact, philosophy created the whole idea of observation, evidence, and proof. I figured you would know that. Atheism is not the lack of belief, it is belief that no gods exist. Non-theism would be a total lack of belief. We are all born non-theists; it is when we reject the idea of a god that we become atheists. It’s just a matter of definitions. I’m sure you have good reasons to think it is best to educate people beyond explaining everything. I have reached a point where I accept a lot of things I cannot explain, mostly because it would be a fool’s game to try. This mentality can bring us a great deal of peace. But I worry that this mentality, if widespread (and misunderstood), could create ignorance where we could instead have discovery and enlightenment. Just a thought. You say: Many things may exist, and certainly can and do exist beyond the purview of human and scientific observation, AND this does not make those things unnatural or outside of space and time.’ It would be an extreme fault in reasoning to assume that if something is not observable it is therefore supernatural. Okay, then what about this? The definition of supernatural (adjective): (of a manifestation or event) Attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. If we develop equipment that can observe something we previously considered supernatural, it would no longer be supernatural after all. However, I am referring to something that is forever inexplicable. The term still describes something that is not observable through science, so I don’t see the extreme fault in reasoning you talk about. I don’t mean to imply belief relies on blind faith. You can have evidence for atheism and believe in that evidence. It’s not faith, it’s confidence. That’s why I call atheism a belief, because you have decided that it is the best explanation for life as we know it. As with all science, we can have endless mountains of supporting evidence (evolution, Big Bang, etc.), and I totally subscribe to that evidence, but one piece of solid contrary information can dismantle the whole thing. Knowing that, I believe in atheism (or at least agnosticism leaning toward atheism), because it is currently the best we have. I say that you are arguing from just your view because of a few reasons: 1, you laugh at me, indicating a stubborn arrogance characteristic of a superiority complex (which is vulnerable to various fallacies). 2, your understanding of basic concepts is fuzzy. I’m thinking you read so deeply into philosophy that you’re letting the fundamentals slip away from you. Do some review. I want to get into a deeper discussion with you (hopefully get back on the original subject of this article), but when we can’t agree even on the definition of terms, and when I’m fending off LOLs and LMAOs, it’s just not going to happen. I’m done. I don’t have enough time these days to keep picking apart inconsistent philosophical ramblings. End Quote.

If you ask me there is nothing more supernatural than the human individual. The space is a reality because of the human thinking, you can see with the visions whether it is vision of imagination or the real ability to see. All the discoveries are done by the human individual and we are not done yet.

Sure our knowledge has always been, is and will always be on the verge of discovery, but the bitter reality is that as an individual we all are on the verge of collapse as well so the life of the individual is a personal project of a CEO. Since we all have the free will, we have to take responsibility to run our life as a personal project.

If you have personal thoughts with the potential to rob you of your own happiness and contentment, it is your responsibility to correct it, whether it be living a mortal life with the exact mathematics or accepting the value of the placebo effects.  Logically any and all human knowledge should be based on the benefits for the human individual at lower level and all the way up to the healthy evolution of the humanity.

God is one of the human knowledge which should be used for its benefits by the individual but look at us how passionately we kill each other over it. Its egotistic to use God for political purposes and down right wrong to hurt others over it, just because they don’t think and conform to our way of thinking. As an individual you just can’t be passionate about your evolving knowledge. After all we are in the process or a journey towards our potential, that means there are no boundaries on the human beings created by God its always the human him/herself is the cause of the boundaries. Birds have boundaries but human beings fly in the space and we don’t even have wings. Our boundaries are most of the time related with our group politics of control and power so it is deeply related with us as a group. The problem is for the individual whom has the awareness of being mortal, yet is armed with the free will to run his/her life affairs.

As we age two plus two is not four anymore yet you have lived all your life with that fact. We have to accept, modify and mold with the changing times with our personal wisdom. If you don’t, personally you are the one who suffers the loss of happiness and contentment of your mortal life. Collectively life goes on, thus individual has to focus on becoming a CEO, so he/she  can make the amendments as they are needed. Humanity does need people with different views of life so the competitive progress can be achieved but if one is stuck and hell bent to discover the truths and die in the process it is not a full filling life so it is the individual’s duty to keep eye on all departments of life so the extremes can’t do the harms to personal life.

If you would have read all my posts you would not say that I laugh at any ones knowledge, all I have been trying to prove, that if we are always learning something new our knowledge is not complete thus we can’t put each other down because of it, if we do, it would be related to the ego and I believe ego is one of the kid of sense of belonging. Personally it is perfectly alright if we agree to disagree.

You have mention you are accepting that there are things can’t be explained trying that would be fools game. Accepting the incompleteness of our knowledge keeps us humble and learning more, otherwise we would be stuck in the past and would never evolve, in some part of the world that is the case.

In one of the post I have mentioned that our knowledge grows if we seek, if we believe that our knowledge is complete we would never reach for our potential. We use to throw virgins over the cliffs  because of the storm or earth quake, the religious people thought God was mad at them so they sacrifice some poor virgin. Today we know the path of the storms, the day may come we would be able to control the storms. Our desire to reach our potential has to stay alive.

My words for quest of balance are not related with some sage or prophet, even the Buddha learnt about the balance from an ordinary musician.

Buddha was meditating on the bank of the river for a long time which was hard on his health, two guise were going by in the boat, one was rowing and the other was playing a string instrument, he stops the music and says to the rower just as they passed Buddha, that if you tighten it to much, it may snap on you but if you don’t tighten it, it would not play the music. Buddha heard that and stopped his meditation to eat food.

If you feel the need to control and fear about the future too much you may end up finding some flaws but you mess up your personal life, and as a CEO you have a responsibility for the personal and yet a mortal life. You can easily spend all your living years in the pursuit of discovery that can satisfy you, remember it is like running around a tree in a forest yet the whole forest is at your disposal. If you built a habit of one tree you make your life smaller by choice.

I am being optimistic to have a belief, you don’t have to. That statement that there is no God exists is making a strong judgement with the  ten to twenty percent of brain power usage, if you believe that you are using your one hundred percent of brain power I would disagree with you, it is just like the religious people. Whether God exists or not, is not the question it is the ego with incomplete knowledge is the problem.

I did bodybuilding for most of my living years and I know how much influence you have in your personal well being, but I would be an arrogant pompous if I don’t acknowledge and appreciate the  value of the free oxygenated breath provided to me, so I could do whatever I wanted to. Everything is not done by the individual, if you believe that you are the one who is doing it, think again try without the oxygen see how long you would last. Belief system is a beautiful thing it can help one cross the lines where a belief less individual gets lost.

Since we have been, are and will always be evolving, our knowledge is not going to be completed until we reach our potential. There are a lot of people among us who passionately believe their knowledge is complete. This egotistic phenomenon has been around as long as we have been aware of our existences.  Interestingly we have been learning something new almost everyday, yet we still believe that we are right about whatever we believe in.

Is there any one who can claim that his/her knowledge has been completed? I personally feel that, I am far from that perfect and  complete knowledge because, I am learning something new all the time. I believe in carrying a basket of the unknown so I don’t have to be egotistic about my knowledge. Whenever I encounter some thing I don’t understand I put that in my, ” I don’t know basket”, I would advice to everyone to have room for an, I don’t know basket so we don’t have to resort with the ego related passionate wars.  If I don’t understand anything I don’t sweat over it because I would rather admit to have lack of knowledge than make an egotistic assumption.

It is not about some discovery of the God particle or even hell or heaven it is all about the personal spirituality. Always ask your self where do you stand in that department of your life. I believe we are more useful alive to God because all the God’s work is done by the healthy and living human beings. After we die I don’t know have, even you would not have any proof of yes or no, but it makes sense to me that a living human being is the one who is getting the job done. All the prayers and wishes are fulfilled by someone for some one.

I do have some passionate convictions though, I want all  human beings to understand that we are one and an evolving entity. Until we reach our potential our knowledge would not be completed and with incomplete knowledge one should not become an extremists. As an individual we are not the sheep, we are the CEOs of our lives thus we have to take the responsibility to evolve, religion or no religion.

If we passionately believe and are proven wrong, we have the potential to get lost. Just like these days people are divided over the sexual liberation yet it is a matter of the equal human rights. Which I believe should be good enough to quash the whole argument.  Interestingly, even the supreme court was divided over this. These divisions are related and are the proof of the changes, the world is going through. If you feel that you are always on the edge to be proven wrong, it is related with the individual ego. History shows that we always have been on the edge of discoveries so worrying about proven wrong while you are in a transit is base less. As humans we have to evolve and forge into the future fearlessly.   

Our rights can become wrong and wrongs can become right, so what was right few decades ago can turn out to be wrong. For instance human sacrifice, sati, killings over religious differences, racism, sexual inequality and human rights are a few things we can talk about.

If I ask anyone what is fundamentalism the answer would be that the extremists of the religions, but when you look at it deeply an atheist can be a fundamentalist as well, if you are passionate of being an atheist you could be proven a fundamentalist. It is about the passion you put in your belief system, that passion is what makes a fundamentalist regardless of the issue. If the religious fundamentalist believes in his/her religion to be true path to God, they have the human rights to believe whatever they want to believe, but when it comes to extreme related killings that is where I draw the line. Robing some one of love is a spiritual crime thus that belief system is not spiritual anymore.

If they believe that their knowledge is complete and the other groups or individuals whom don’t understand God like they do. They should be forced to understand their way of understanding God. This alone creates a political situation and in the presence of politics their is no spirituality, in spiritual world “nothing but the truth” is the theme. I don’t understand the purpose of the extreme in human evolution but when it comes to it, an atheism is a reactionary belief system. 

If humanity is learning about the new discoveries everyday and evolving constantly, I don’t think it is possible for someone to claim about the completeness of their knowledge. When you deny someone of their human rights, you fall into the vicinity where racism, religious extreme and prejudice resides whether it be religious extreme or the reaction of it, like atheism .

The fundamentalist is who believes in his/her knowledge is completely right, in favor or against any subject.

If you are one of them who believes that, you just have to look around and see where the humanity has been, is and is going. If you don’t see the changes you have been in  denial because of the learnt ancestral knowledge.

The reality is that every human knowledge has been changing, thus no human knowledge is immune to the change. No constitution, no religion, not even the atheism thus no customs or traditional knowledge is written in the stone.

Now if you feel it has been established, then I believe an atheist has the same ideology as the orthodox religious individual, because they both use their passionate views, regardless of the incomplete and imperfect human knowledge.

If I ask you what came first chicken or the egg?

If you pick chicken or the egg, either answer would be an assumption , so I ask the question God came first or the human being? Before you answer make sure you are not assuming, or saying what has been said for thousands of years because today we can’t just assume about anything. Someone will dispute it regardless, I am not going to assume but I will point towards what is more important, if a chicken laid an egg everyday it is kind of understood that chicken is producing a whole lot of eggs and egg can only produce one or maximum two chickens. Thus chicken is automatically more important, same goes for the human beings.

If the man is reproducing we get more population just like the chicken we are more important because we all are working hard to do God’s work. You may not agree with me because in your opinion God does not exist.  So the logical answer is the same as the chicken. Not so fast, an atheist may not think twice about it but I feel if one can’t live without the oxygen, all the work is done by a complex system which we don’t even understand yet. With the limited use of our brain power it is not possible to know everything. The job is not done just by the one, who is dependent first on the breathing oxygen then he/she is doing whatever is done by him/her. So where to go from here? who is doing what is happening? If you are egotistic, you would want to take all the credit and say its me, me and me. It is not that simple and no one should hide behind the ego because you have to give a credit where it belongs.

My Blog is all about working against the extreme human behavior I tend to lean towards believing in God because that feels right for me. The free will compels me to understand and create balance and write a beautifully rhythmic melody about my life. Personally I feel God is a matter of understanding you can choose to believe or not to, it is still your choice as an individual.

There was a song in Punjabi which got stuck in my head for a long time. And I quote

“You can say its priceless, or you can compare it with the dirt cheap, Story of your love flows out of the eyes like tears. If you understand it, its a Pearl, if you don’t its  just water. “End quote”

I believe we all are the cells of the body of God, hypothetically worth five bucks each one person at a time. Physical expression of God is the man kind and the God is our  spiritual expression. That means God lives through us. My way of proving this is that, if the man kind disappears no one can be there to understand God let alone believe in God.

My logical reality says if you ask an Alzheimer patient about the God, you may not get anywhere fast because the installed knowledge is wiped-out by the disease but the way I see it, in this situation, God is there in the people whom are taking care of the patients. God is our understanding which is usually installed into us as we grow up, thus this knowledge is highly tainted and influenced by the politics of the sense of belonging. This sense of belonging and the politics of it has always been, is, and for a long time to come will be there to cause us problems unless we grow out of the boundaries of sense of belonging and join the humanity as a whole.

When you are born into humanity as a human being you are, by nature a human being first. You start to get the labels of whatever you belong to, is secondary. For instance a boy or a girl or something in between, black, white, brown, yellow, or red or mix of some or all,  a Muslim, Christian, an Atheist, Pakistani, Canadian,  any other nationality a community or even a member of a sports team but first of all, A HUMAN BEING.

Let’s start from the beginning, a baby is born in a Muslim house hold but adopted by the Christian family, or a black baby is raised by a white family what is that kid’s identity? Would we change the status of being a human being? I don’t think so, but when it comes to the sense of belonging it is not an easy question.

Big bang, God or not, if you can’t understand it, it is because the object is in the dark room. You can’t see it clearly because of the inability to use the full brain power. You can drive yourself crazy, fear or worry about the cause of the beginning or enjoy the real thing which I call it journey with love. We don’t really understand ourselves yet because we are faced with bigger problems than discovering the origin, remember we are killing each other just because of the differences of our belief systems.

When one loves the child, the whole human community should respect it, especially in advanced or educated human societies the love should overpower our differences but we are not there yet.

The reality is, even now a days still there is prejudice because of the powerful politics of sense of belonging. The absolute truth is that if you are born as a human being you are a human being regardless of your color, gender, nation or religion or belief system.

All the knowledge about the differences are installed by the sense of belonging after you are born. If you are asked to make a fist, you would have no problem unless you are a victim of a Stroke, Alzheimer  or any disorder which robs you of your mantel capabilities but still leaves you as a living human being. No one should and can tell you, just because you are sick you are not a human being anymore. Anyway you can make a fist with no problem but that is a learnt action. You had a heck of time learning walking or speaking as you grew up but after practice everything becomes a second nature. My point is, that you have learnt all the skills, behaviors and belief systems from your belonging groups. With practice they have become a second nature to you and you start to sing the song of sense of belonging, but it has the potential to make you something you are not.

A baby is like a brand new computer, the data is added after the birth, but baby comes with all systems running before learning the installed knowledge. What makes the whole package with the potential? What makes an individual to pick and choose, mix and match the information and respond to the actions of the others?

Ever wonder beyond your installed knowledge, ever wonder looking through your eyes in the mirror who are you looking at? Are you just the computer with the data or you look at the person who lives in your body, who has a name and actually runs the computer.

Did you ever cross the lines to say hello to that person and I mean really, or you are stuck into the data and can’t look beyond. If you feel stuck you have taken the color of your belonging group and you need to acquire your own color which you were born with.

Well you are the one who runs the computer, the brain with everything in it, the body and the whole shebang. You are the one who is beyond the data who calls the shots and is a CEO.

You are the one who is connected to the real source spiritually and physically, but the data turns you into vulnerable, impressionable and insecure entity so you can be controlled.

If you feel that your wings have been clipped and you can’t fly solo, start to communicate with your inner bravest cat.

Do you want to be a CEO who is a human being first?  Then reach out to the one who lives inside of you, not the one who is created by your sense of belonging.

 

We are on the highway of our potential, hypothetically one hundred miles or kilometers long. Whether long or short is not important; it’s all about the pursuit and the journey, because the destination is not clearly understood, at least not for me. I believe we are an evolving organism. We may not grow halos or horns, but in every sense, we are evolving—from small muscles to big bodybuilders, to our brains with all the modern technologies like our computers and self-driven cars, to space stations. We have been evolving one millimeter or an inch at a time. Whether millimeter or inch, as long as we evolve, we are going in the right direction.

Since we have to do God’s work while we are alive, this journey is the real destination for living humans individually and collectively as humanity. The stuff after life is not as relevant as it has been preached to us. Just like in living years, the future is not a reality; thus, it is a horizon. If you spend all your life chasing the horizon, you would never be able to live a fulfilling present. Without a fulfilling present, your past, even a whole life, can be spent in discontentment. That means, as an individual, you have the potential to waste a lifetime. This lifetime is a gift and is the one when you are useful to God and to yourself. With free will, the individual is given the responsibility of the self as well so he/she can not only do God’s work but enjoy it for himself/herself as well.

You are not meant to spend all your life on a wheel in the hamster cage. If you choose not to enjoy your living years, it is your loss. Always remember, you have been blessed with free will for a reason.

With free will, you have been given a choice to live the way you want to. While you are alive, you have one duty, and that is to reciprocate. It is not one or the other; you can choose the extreme by choice, but it would not be fulfilling nor would it be wise.

No matter how far you dig into the past, you will find human individuals struggling with the inner demons of imbalance. For the human being, the struggle has been, is, and will be an ongoing process because of the powerful sense of belonging to the belonging groups. The groups know the individual’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses because they raise a child with that education; thus, they promote and glorify the sacrificing individual and penalize the questioning, freedom-seeking, and straying CEO.

Every human, when in a balanced state, is potentially giving and sacrificing, but the inner insecurities can take the individual to the other extreme and make him/her selfish. Increasing awareness of direct connection and responsibilities of reciprocation can make all the difference for humanity and the individual at the same time.

If one is put down, labeled, and shunned, their spirituality gets suppressed and backfires, individually and collectively as humanity, everyone loses. Collectively, the groups don’t see the side of the individual being mortal with free will and individual human rights; thus, they push the individual to sacrifice. But in the process, they lose the individual to other groups who understand and accommodate the free-thinking CEOs; thus, both gain. Looking at the refugees marching into Europe is a clear example of the shift I am talking about. The vast majority of the individuals want to live life and raise their children in peace.

Just look around and research the views of the populations all over the world; there is a change right before your eyes. Thus far, the only religious leader who came out to accept those changes or at least talk about the changes was the Pope. I have not seen other religions accept the issues of equal human rights openly. You just can’t deny the spirituality of equal human rights.

The extremist groups like religions are the ones that deny the changes and literally force the individual to comply with the old and outdated philosophies of control. The vast majority of the refugees who are fleeing their belonging countries are Muslims. Why do these Muslims leave for Western countries? Why not Muslim countries? Because the unrest is related to conservatism and liberalism. If you look at the financial reasons, it is not true that most Arab nations have a lot of resources and are quite advanced economically. When I was in Kuwait, I saw people of all nationalities, including Europeans and Americans, working to make money. There is a lot more going on in the world’s populations; finances aside, we all are looking to raise our children in peace.

Most religions first talk about compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love, yet the politics of sense of belonging drown these precious jewels. When, where, and how did the major religions lose their spirituality to politics? A politically charged mullah, priest, or rabbi incites religious stories to inspire people to be militants, thus the red-neck behavior and suicide bombers come into existence.

Why such disregard for innocent life loss? The real answers are drowned in religious rhetoric, and each one defends his/her actions as revenge for the love loss of the belonging group; thus, it is purely political. Political disputes of religions have been consistent with our history; thus, there is no one to blame but our animal side for the unaccountable victims who had nothing to do with any war to begin with but are guilty of being born into the belonging religion.

Why can’t we deal with our religious extremes? Why are we so gung-ho about killing each other’s innocent individuals? This is not new; it has been happening right from the beginning of our civilization. There was a political war more than a thousand years ago when Prophet Mohammad’s grandsons were killed, and that dispute is still going on between the Shia and Sunni sects of Islam. No one is willing to come out to patch things up. It is like a wound no one wants it to heal just because it relates to religion, yet it was a political war. I believe all wars are political wars because they all have hidden agendas of power and control of the religious authorities. Since no one hesitates to deny the religious sense of belonging, religions are just the front to gain continuing support from the populations, thus the disputes never end. Ireland is another example; religious disputes don’t go away because the young blood is always willing to bleed.

I saw a movie that stuck with me because it was about the religious war, the title was “Kingdom of Heaven.” The story about Jerusalem was more than a thousand years old, but if you look deeply, nothing has changed; the disputes and wars continue. A little more recent history was when India and Pakistan split. I read a short story book written by Krishan Chunder when I was in Pakistan; since it was a long time ago, I don’t remember the details. He states an incident during the partition, and I quote:

“A Hindu gets caught by the extremist Hindu mob; he repeatedly says that I am Hindu, but they thought he was a Muslim. So, one of them stabs him in the abdomen and cuts through his waistband to make him naked just to discover if he was circumcised. Upon discovering that he was actually a Hindu, the individual who cut him open said, ‘Oh, he made a mistake,’ and carried on his actions killing others. End quote.”

What drives these otherwise simple and peaceful religious people to commit spiritual crimes and not feel any remorse or guilt? Why do religions affect people to rise up for violence against others, regardless of the religions? If this violence and goodness come from the same individual, there has to be an explanation. Are these people confused by the powerful politics of sense of belonging, or have they not been exposed to the knowledge of the sense of belonging to humanity as a whole? What is in religions that adds or removes the com from the passion, yet in spirituality, the individual keeps and wears compassion as jewelry? Politics of the sense of belonging to the belonging group robs and strips the com from the passion.

A CEO can understand spirituality beyond the politics of sense of belonging to a group and act as a human who belongs to humanity as a whole.

The silent majority of the individuals are more spiritual than all the extremists from all religions put together. Committing a spiritual crime in the name of God is not exclusive to any one particular religion.

Liberals in Canada are reversing the wrong done to the natives, gays, and blacks. These are the new winds blowing all over the world. People who stand with their extreme religious beliefs may end up fighting an uphill battle in the court of justice system because they can’t win against equal human rights. Politically, they would lose in public opinion because it is impossible to stand against spirituality.

A religion is an impotent entity without spirituality, and a human is a naked ape without compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love. If your education is to rob innocent individuals of love, you already are in the politics of your belonging group. You would be part of the problem, not the solution, so it is time for you to own your actions and not hide your politics of sense of belonging behind the religion. Your belonging group has a place, but it does not and should not have a say because you are born with free will directly from God, way before the inception of any religion. No race, nation, or religion is the way to God; only spirituality is the way because it is for humanity, thus God.

As I said, wear your jewels of compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love proudly, and don’t let anyone strip you of the jewels because you are a human being only because of that jewelry. It is not the opinion of your belonging group that matters; it is your personal opinion of yourself that matters the most.

Remember, you are the one who is mortal. Being a temporary soul, you need to learn more about spirituality sooner rather than later because it teaches you about reciprocation, which is the purpose of your life. In the process of a mortal life, you don’t want to hurt someone with something that you feel the pain from. The old saying goes: “Don’t do to someone what you don’t like done to you.”

Firefighters sometimes use controlled fire to fight wildfires. Generally, fire is not the answer to fire, but as humans, we use emotional fire to fight emotional fire all the time. From personal relationships to the national level to religions all over the world and deep in our history, our conflicts are often dealt with using the wrong philosophy. No wonder we can’t put our fires out, regardless of our evolution.

We need to learn from our mistakes. Our religions were supposed to have helped us, but they fell victim to our group politics of sense of belonging. If each of us becomes a CEO and thinks about our personal opinion about the spiritual self, overcomes personal fires, and refuses to commit spiritual crimes for belonging groups, whether they are nations or religions, then and only then do we have a chance to survive as humanity, contrary to the predictions of holy books.

If you believe in prophecies as truth, the Mayans predicted the end of the world in the year two thousand, and I am still writing about it sixteen years later. Obviously, they have been proven wrong. If you believe in a future that is not a reality yet, but you ruin your present because of it, it is logically wrong. Simply put, you can’t destroy your present, not even for one day, for the sake of the past or the future, because each bad day adds up to your mortal life.

The question is, do you really want to ruin a temporary visit just because of the way you were taught to think? Should you destroy it for any reason, whether it be for nationalism or religious extremes? It is your choice, and by making that choice, at the end of the day, you have to answer to yourself. The importance of self does not mean you become a selfish being; it just makes you a CEO who deals with all the departments of life and is an important figure in his/her life. Becoming a CEO of your life to assume your responsibilities is the new paradigm.

You have the choice to believe blindly or question everything presented by your parents or their affiliated group. Either way, as an individual, you decide with your free will, and thus the responsibility for your actions rests squarely on your shoulders, right? Not so fast—it’s not that simple. The reality is, a child is born with a clean slate. If parents and society engrave extremes onto that clean slate, the strong sense of belonging can brainwash the child because the knowledge comes from authority figures. How much blame should be placed on the follower? That is the question.

The generally accepted age of adulthood ranges from eighteen to twenty-one, so laying one hundred percent blame on young adults can be legally challenged. Young adults often follow the same paths as their parents and their affiliated groups unless they are provided early on with the wisdom of balance.

Recent news highlighted the case of a seventeen-year-old boy involved in honor killings, which may influence the case’s outcome for him. I believe what I am writing about is essential for people who come to Canada from different societies. If parents choose to leave their country, whether for peace, economic reasons, or any other, they make that choice. If they encounter problems with their children assimilating into the new society, the responsibility lies with them because the children did not make that choice.

The wisdom of being a CEO is necessary to grasp honor killings—the balance of the love triangle is decided by the individual, so he/she must understand where each corner of love stands. You cannot simply harm your loved ones based on others’ opinions. Others may have a place, but they do not have a say. Since the sense of belonging is the mother of ego, pride, and honor, one must balance this with the sense of freedom. Achieving this balance is challenging, especially when one has been indoctrinated by belonging groups. If the individual is strong and becomes a CEO, there exists a life beyond the boundaries of these groups.

This wisdom of balance has the potential to alter outcomes; otherwise, the fires of our conflicts will continue to be fueled by youthful vigor. Upon closer inspection, blaming young individuals for their actions becomes murky. The sense of belonging is so potent that even our wise ones have succumbed to prejudiced ideas or the belief in superiority over other groups. In fact, had they advocated for equal human rights for all humanity in the past, we might not be facing the problems we do today.

Two individuals received four years of jail time for transporting refugees from Turkey to Greece. Little Alan Kurdi drowned in the attempt to flee, leaving behind a legacy that altered world opinion about Syrian refugees. Personally, I believe the accused were merely trying to earn a few dollars, but the blame for Alan Kurdi’s death extends back to the Bush presidency, centuries-old Muslim conflicts, and societal indifference to animal life, depending on how deeply you wish to delve. It’s not just the causes that need addressing but finding solutions with compassion in politically tainted religions and the politics dominated by animalistic behaviors.

If humans individually flip the original triangle right-side-up, only then can we take responsibility not only for our personal lives but also for those connected to our belonging groups. When humans can manage both God and the Devil within, they can balance conflicting senses of belonging and freedom alike.

As a CEO of your life, you would treat all your belief systems—whether religious, national, familial, or instinctual and passionate love—as departments of life and speak out against wrongdoing regardless of who is responsible. For instance, in your personal life, if your mother and wife dislike each other, a common scenario, your love triangle pulls from all sides. Without being a CEO, you would not only be under extreme stress but also take sides based on cultural affiliation.

As a CEO, you would not prioritize passionate love over instinctual or universal love, or vice versa. Since ego, pride, and honor arise from the sense of belonging, you might prioritize your mother over your wife because your society promotes maternal love. However, your problem is not maternal love but rather the rules of belonging, so you must balance all three corners of the love triangle. If you explain this to your loved ones, you may not have to choose because they all have a place in your life, even if they should not influence your decisions about justice in all areas of life.

God, the Devil, family, nation, and religions—all require attention. Balancing these majestic polarities requires internal CEO skills. If you believe that humans are the third equation and have the capacity to shoulder all responsibilities, think again, as we are each at different points on the highway of individual evolution. Unfortunately, we all try to wrap our children in traditions, customs, nationalism, and religions, embedding our identities within our belonging groups, making unity among humanity seem like an unattainable dream in the face of past differences and animosities. If we cannot address the causes, we cannot acknowledge them, let alone overcome and unite humanity as a whole.

In this day and age, as individuals, we must transcend traditional education and cross the boundaries of egotistical politics that divide us. The more wars we engage in, the more individual insecurity we sow, making more individuals feel vulnerable, particularly when they have been deprived of love, driving them to belonging groups for solace, regardless of right or wrong. Their only justice is revenge, fueling more wars by increasing the number of those strongly identifying with belonging groups and jeopardizing those wanting to belong to humanity as a whole.

Social glorification of group politics and its accompanying ego, pride, and honor will never allow us to live in peace. It’s not about winning or losing but rather about hindering our evolution and our pursuit of potential. Just imagine if most of us were killed in a nuclear war, leaving a few survivors in the depths of the Amazon. They would evolve to our level centuries later, just as we study traces of ancient civilizations and history. We cannot become CEO of the godly human if we are constantly embroiled in internal and external wars. There is no time for soul-searching; the demands of belonging-related egos are so great that we lose the inner battle and reduce ourselves to mere cogs in a machine instead of individuals.

God blessed humanity with free will and the potential to decide how to use it. By granting us free will, God engages in a game of life, even putting Himself in a vulnerable position because loving unconditionally exposes one to vulnerability. Therefore, humans bear the responsibility and determine how this lifetime is spent.

To lead a successful life, one must first understand their place in the grand scheme of life. As a CEO, you have the ability to filter out negative influences, whether personal weaknesses or disguised and uncontrollable senses of belonging.

What we perceive as God has always been and remains elusive, as we cannot fully utilize our brain power. Every religion demands blind faith in God from individuals, followed by unquestioning adherence to its rules. For the average person, comprehending God isn’t easy. People often accept these rules because they offer a sense of belonging to something majestic and powerful, satisfying the innate need to belong. Personal insecurities dictate how strongly individuals gravitate toward group membership. Sometimes this sense of belonging overrides individual judgment, making belief in God’s existence secondary. Indeed, God’s existence has never been conclusively proven. Personally, I believe each of us carries a speck of both God and the Devil within. The proof lies in one person’s prayers being answered by another, suggesting divine intervention, while most actions of God and the Devil involve human beings. Most political systems diminish our worth, yet we remain God’s most crucial ally, containing both extremes within ourselves and capable of either extreme or balanced wisdom to do justice to all aspects of life.

Nothing is devoid of meaning or purpose, but sometimes subjective intellect conflicts with natural intellect, which aligns with external circumstances. We cannot detach ourselves from the world around us. Even a worm in the ground aids plants and birds in their existence. Viewing life in this way allows us to grasp the true purpose of our individual lives. If we deviate, we disrupt the natural order for all organisms, including ourselves.

Free will empowers us to choose between good and evil. Humans have the power to choose, yet we often behave like puppets, believing we act independently. Each time we uncover a layer of truth, our understanding of good and evil evolves. What should we do? Should we kill based on our evolving knowledge? Clearly, the answer is no; no one should kill, especially when the ultimate truth remains elusive and our understanding incomplete.

Truth can be as simple as using free will to choose good over evil. We must strive to make the best decisions with our current knowledge. As we evolve, our choices may evolve too. Asserting that we possess the entire truth is extremism. Individual free will is challenging when influenced and coerced by strong group affiliations. Despite what we believe about the soul, its nature remains uncertain. Its origins and fate are speculative until we reach our full potential.

In my view, when we die, our soul departs the body to reunite with the ocean from which it emerged—what I call God. The soul represents intelligent life that remains part of the source, regardless of its label. Yes, this means all negative aspects, including the Devil, serve as God’s wisdom to teach humans to choose. Without evil, we cannot appreciate good, just as without good, we cannot understand evil. Human importance transcends our comprehension.

When faced with incomprehension, we should critically analyze knowledge, rather than view it as a failure. Our endeavors will eventually uncover current misunderstandings. As we ascend the ladder of our potential, we gain deeper insights into previously inscrutable matters.

Religions teach us that death signals the end of earthly existence. This belief comforts people and enables them to carry on with life. Knowledge-based wisdom that proves practical becomes reality, though it should not be solely responsible for shaping ideas. Half-truths have always existed. Compassionate rules and courtesies, while seemingly unrelated to reality, are vital components of our belief systems. If we believe our breaths are numbered, it imbues life with quality. Knowing that life is temporary encourages us to make efforts to enjoy it. In our pursuit of enjoyment, we may devalue actions like maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The wisdom required to balance quality and comfort in our temporary lives is as crucial as the effort to extend and stretch towards our potential. If everyone started skiing down the highest mountains or jumping out of planes, the number of accidental deaths would rise correspondingly. We cannot live our lives in constant fear of death or act recklessly. As the third equation, we bear the responsibility to make choices, regardless of being caught between good and evil.

We constantly make decisions with our limited knowledge, some of which are extreme. For example, a vegetarian might argue that no one should eat other living creatures because it goes against the order of life. Throughout time, predator and prey have existed. Prohibiting all killing, even for survival, is an extreme stance. Imagine the chaos on Earth if no creature killed anything. Think of the diseases spread by cockroaches, mosquitoes, and rats, threatening human survival. Without predators like lions and wolves to control herbivore populations, vegetation would not hold back mudslides. It’s hard to imagine the disorder. I once saw a documentary about traffic jams caused by cows in India. While not disparaging religion, it is impractical and dangerous to enforce such rules for human survival. Remember the Zika virus, linked to birth defects? I believe even God values healthy human beings, regardless of religion.

Our wisdom dictates that survival overrides all other instincts, no matter how intellectual. Practicing your beliefs is fine, but imposing them on others by force is problematic. In nature, a life lived is a life sustained. There is a purpose, difficult to grasp, but essentially a continuous life cycle. This cycle exists both within and outside organisms. Every organism thrives on life-giving nutrition, suggesting that every living thing has intrinsic value. The complex wisdom of God manifests through one creature offering sustenance to another, so if God resides in all creatures, God’s offerings are made to God.

The drive to reproduce is so powerful that every creature, including humans, follows it blindly, as if hypnotized. Who is the hypnotist making creatures dance to their command? The responsibility to guard and nurture offspring is powerful, initiating the hunt—life for life. There are no winners or losers because it’s not a competition; it’s a game of survival.

As we evolve, our knowledge leads us to more orderly and civilized living, governed by rules against individual disorder. Despite all rules, self-defense has never been a crime. However, killing an innocent person remains punishable in all human societies unless it’s in war. We are continuously evolving towards our potential, which includes understanding spirituality. In spirituality, innocent blood is unacceptable under any circumstances. God may permit the life-for-life philosophy in oceans or forests, but after granting free will, the responsibility falls on individual humans. Human societies have their rules and manifestos. Our rules clearly state that innocent blood is not an option.

Due to our evolution, we have rapidly developed technologies, including weapons of mass destruction, yet we are not socially advanced enough to ensure they won’t be used. This imbalance in our development is evident. We have already used these weapons to destroy and kill indiscriminately more than ever before.

Regardless of our past, nature, and technological advances, we are in a critical transitional period, extremely dangerous because the stakes are so high. We need to evolve socially at the same pace as our technological growth. This balance will enable us to possess weapons of mass destruction without using them, to have the capability to destroy yet choose not to. You can harbor the Devil within and still live a Godly life. This is the potential God has intended for humans.

If God is the intelligent life present in every living being and life form, then each of our cells is connected to God. When we die, only our body perishes; the part of us that is God continues. If every living creature died simultaneously, would God survive? Possibly, but it would be beyond our understanding. Each human being is like a cell of God. From God’s perspective, an individual death is like a cell’s death. Life is never wasted but regenerated, continuing the cycle of life.

Free will has given us the power of being the third equation, enabling us to make choices that should always benefit humanity, despite our destructive tendencies. This can only happen when we elevate ourselves to the level of a CEO. As individuals, we have the responsibility to seek our highest potential, making decisions against our violent instincts and evolving with spirituality and humanity, rather than being bound by politically tainted religions. The root of our violence lies in the love triangle we are all entangled in. One corner is passionate love, another instinctive love, and the third is universal love. When any corner of this triangle is disrupted, we feel pain. Emotional pain is the least respected and most underestimated by people worldwide. We indiscriminately rob others of love and expect no reaction. From everyday relationships and court cases to wars, hurt individuals seek revenge on those who caused them pain. This fundamental cause of our conflicts, whether personal or global, is the pain of love loss. In my opinion, if we understand and respect others as we do ourselves, we wouldn’t rob others of love because the cause of extremism is the pain of love loss. (Read the love triangle.)