Marching on..

From strength to strength...

￠Keep your victories subtle, lest they find out the depth of your despair. Shout not from the peak: or it will be known you rose from a low altitude.
No. Not me..
Like a volcano.. I rise Only higher and higher, and I don't care who sees what..

Often, a tale of victory is accompanied with a harrowing tale of the rise from the ashes. Rarely does victory come on its own; it has a predecessor.. Tribulation.
If you wish to hide your tribulation, then you have not known victory... The constant battle rages; shame of the ashes or pride of the conquest..

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I believe that a majority of us have known anguish, and the subsequent victory. I have. I don't have a medal yet, but I have a smile to show.

The weird part is that, the entire war was against myself, beliefs and fears. And deep pain that felt numb.

Ego versus ego!
The hardest battles are for the self, against the self; Ego versus ego!

We can fight another person without much effort because we are wired to love ourselves first.

But, there are times we are our own worst enemies... Especially when the Esteem is so low, it just smoulders like spent charcoal. This is when we let others define who we are and thus the battle starts.. You versus You.

Everyone is here for a unique and divine purpose.

Whatever we think of others can never over-ride their purpose here.

But then, there are those who have gone through so much pain in their lives, they learn to switch off all feelings and thus exist as robots, and strive to dominate, as a server would dominate a network.

The problem is that they write down a program for those they seem fit for it, then fight and knock them into a pulp then mould them as they want..just like a child playing with clay..

And it is only natural to resist this.
Even in submission, we still resist. We fight the part of us that has submitted., and because it fears, it fights back. Therein starts the constant storm inside, it dampens even the liveliest of spirits and paralyzes with sheer force.

So, how do you win?
By dealing with the most powerful but most overlooked enemy; fear!

We are manipulated because we fear.
We are dejected because we wish for different circimstances while fearing things can get worse.

Fear is how we fall; confusing what is real.

You only get over something by going through it; instead of wiping away the memory, face it, accept it and you will find what you fear most about that episode.. Is it rejection, poverty,loneliness, malice.?

If we do not deal with these fears, they will cripple us and we will start this cycle in the lives of others just to gratify ourselves; when you make others suffer just to forget your own pain..

Or we will have a withered existence; frail and vulnerable to even the most basic forces of life..

Or, we can rise from strength to strength. 

Life is a cryptic puzzle. Nothing is ever direct. 

Learn to focus on the top-most peak you wish to rise, but also, appreciate the rise by realizing you were in a valley, and you can only go higher.. From strength to strength..

This is Serenity.
Life is Beautiful 

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※   Learn to let go..
※  The power of Purpose!!
※  YOU ARE IMPORTANT
※  Self appreciation; The journey towards self reconstruction
※  Recovery of the body: Mind and Spirit
※ Firework (song by Katy Perry)
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