Flavours Of Life - Daniel Justine

As we mentioned in the Previous Blog here we are going to discuss a very common but important topic which is very essential in our lives. Here is a question for you... What is the last thing you seriously argued with someone? Who is the last person you rejected for some reason? Do you think you acted in a way that hurt anyone? A small description of today's topic  A word used by many, but understood by few. The first Flavour of Life is "Love"  Love is related to our likeness, our emotions, our feelings, our actions. The simple act of Love is smiling. If we fail to smile when we look at someone,  there comes something to stop showing your love to them. Every good thing comes out of love. When we talk about love, we know that there are eight different kinds of love, which has its own limitations of action. Ultimate of all kinds of love is Unconditional Love,  UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Unconditional love begins wi...

Let's taste the 2nd Flavour, Flavour 2 is an expression of flavour 1 as it was mentioned in the previous blog, it  comes out of unconditional love ,  these flavours are interlinked.  What is flavour 2? Description About today's topic "It will be with you when you do things from your soul" The second flavour of life is "JOY" If we want to feel the taste of a flavour we can't do it by just looking over it likewise, Joy should not be understood as happiness, but joy comes from our inner man. When we talk about Joy there is a chance to miss understand it with happiness, Joy is very much different from happiness. Joy doesn't mean temporary happiness but it is a permanent feeling of great pleasure. Many scholars when they explained about the joy they state that Joy comes from God When you do some moral attribute and self-realizing the supreme satisfaction is known as Joy.  To make it more clearly, you will be very happy when you a...

4th blog in this series, let's recall what we discussed in previous topics... Introduction- What is flavours of life and why we need to read about it? Flavour 1 - Different kinds of Love and the best love among all loves  Flavour 2 - How happiness is different from Joy. Importance of being joyful    Flavour 3 - What is Flavour 3?  The Third Flavour Of Life Is "PEACE" PEACE Often when we talk about peace it is universally spoken of, like Peace among countries, No war Only Peace. So how peace can be a flavour of our life,  Basically we can divide peace into two types    External peace Internal peace  External peace talks about the peace in the society and Internal peace is the peace that the individual has, as we discuss the flavours of life lets focus on internal peace. If there is to be peace in the world,   there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there m...

We almost reached the centre point of our blog series, this is the 5th blog and 4th flavour in this Flavours of life.  The Forth Flavour Of Life Is  "PATIENCE" The motto of these flavours of life series is to create awareness about essential life characters and makes us realize the importance of practising it. As I mentioned before all these life characters are interlinked. It is difficult to practice one single flavour to implement in our life. Today's flavour of 'Patience' is mostly connected with  yesterday's flavour . If we started understanding the peace in us then it is easy to practice this patience, it is also another flavour of life which we need to discuss separately.  “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Aristotle     DEFINITION: Patience is t he capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. Patience is one of the best qualities which we need to develop in our life. ...

Now we are in the 6th blog if this series Flavour 5 The Fifth Flavour Of Life Is "KINDNESS" Dear friends, we are living in a world where different kinds of people around us, we are not living a monastic life to exclude us from this world. Our culture and circumstances allow us to live in harmony with others. This flavour 5 plays a major role in bringing harmony among us. What is kindness? Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Why is Kindness important?  We have some bonding with each and every one of us. We are sharing our thoughts, we are sharing our belongings. Kindness plays a role in the way we are communicating with others. Communication without kindness may not be proper communication. It will be just information. Hence if we want to communicate properly we have to communicate with kindness.  “ Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end .” ...

This is the fourth last article of this series.  Blog 7 / Flavour 6   The Sixth Flavour of Life Is "GOODNESS" Good is not an unfamiliar word, we often used this word in our life. Nowadays we are starting to answer "I'm good" if someone asks how are you. If we think deeply into it, it will lead us to a question: what is Good and what is Bad?  Something good for someone may not be good for  others.  For example, We cannot say drinking alcohol is bad in some foreign countries because for them it is like drinking tea. So good and bad practices may differ according to the place and situation.  So how to find what is good? And what is bad?  Understanding Goodwill helps to practice goodness in our life.  Here is some common understanding  "Good-  which is morally right".or we can say " Actions that emanate (Comes out of) from good thoughts can be defined as good and  Actions that emanate from bad ...

Blog 8/ Flavour 7 The Seventh Flavour of Life is "Faithfulness" We all are living in a dependent world, for example. Organisms cannot survive in the world without the Sun. We all live a life of dependence on one another. When we depend on one another, it creates an agreement between both. The agreement is based on faithfulness; if we are not faithful to the agreement then it creates a problem. Therefore Faithfulness is very important when we are dependent on one another.  Faithfulness  is the quality of being faithful. Faithful is  remaining loyal and steadfast. Being faithful is personal discipline.  Faithful in our relationships : We all have a relationship; it may be any kind of relationship like a friend, colleague, spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend, family. All relationships have their own bonding with it. Every relation has its own limitations, we should be faithful in our relationship with others.  “Faithful...

We are almost at the end of this series, this is the second last blog of this series/Flavour 8  The Eighth Flavour of Life is "GENTLENESS" Gentleness is more similar to kindness, but there is some difference between kindness and gentleness.  To make it clearer, if someone gives you a babby to hold how you will hold kindly or gently? of course, gently know, it is quite difficult to differentiate it both but it different.  Gentleness is related to the behaviour of a particular situation, how we react.  A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Gentleness is acting in a manner that is gentle and mild even-tempered.   we often hear this word "gentleman". It is an honourable way of referring to a man. It means the man who behaves gently or mildly in any situation not forcefully or roughly.  The flavour 8 of flavours of life gentleness gives an understanding of handling situations. The ac...

Blog 10/Flavour 9  The Ninth Flavour of Life is "SELF-CONTROL" The last flavour of life is self-control. Self-control is defined as,  T he ability to control oneself, in particular one's emotions and desires, especially in difficult situations.  Here is a common and easy example to understand self-control, If an athlete wants to win in a running race, he or she wants to be controlled in particular things like food items, personal discipline, time management etc., unless he/she has that personal discipline, it is impossible to win the race. It is not only applicable for an athlete but each and every one of us has a certain goal to achieve in our life. In order to achieve it, we need to be self-control.  Self-control is a physical and mental discipline which we need to practice in our life.  Scheduled Life: Nowadays we all are living in a scheduled life, if we are facing difficult to live in this scheduled life, there is something we hav...