What will you regret at your deathbed?

I just wrote a post on the Life Focus Center Blog about first things first. In it I reflected about your priorities from the point of view of when you are about to die. I wrote about the regrets you may have.

I mentioned no one has ever regretted that they did not spend more time at the office or ended up with more wealth and money. People regret no having spent more time with loved ones. People regret not loving more and not being generous enough. People regret not taking enough risks, in love in adventure....

People regret not laughing enough and not crying enough....

So while you still have time why don't you look at life from its zenith (the moment of death) and get your priorities right.

• Love more....
• Laugh more....
• Give more - not just money but of yourself - listen attentively - tell people that you love, that you love them....
• Risk more.....
• Learn more - educate yourself until that wonderful day....
• Wonder at more sunsets and sunrises....
• Stay up every now and again - alone until the din of the city disappears....
• Be yourself more....
  

An eye for an eye

What's the difference between progressives and conservatives?

A few years with the conservatives being dragged by tooth and nail into the last century. About three thousand years ago the rule in tribe warfare in the Middle East where the avenging sky God was born was you kill my brother, I have to kill your brother and your cousin and next you have to kill four of my tribe and eventually both tribes would be decimated.

So the great king Hammurabi wrote in his code, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." This was a progressive rule saying that we do not need to escalate conflicts but should seek peace. The code of Hammurabi was copied by the Hebrews and ended up in the Bible. However, that was progressive for three thousand years ago and is damned stupid for now.

So the followers of the single Abrahamic religion with its three branches (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) take revenge on each other and in fact they have reverted to the old fashion warfare of more and more revenge killing and ethnic cleansing (just read the old testament).

An eye for an eye is not working. It only helps the extremists. Perhaps its time for someone to turn the other cheek. Tomorrow (January 15) happens to be my birthday which means nothing. It is also the birthday of Martin Luther King. It's time that Israel or Palestine found a hero like MLK.

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• Life Focus Center Blog - psychology and self improvement
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• Transpersonal Illumination Blog - about divination, I Ching and the Tarot
• Javadis Blog - more edgy, psychology, spirituality, philosophy etc but out there.

Why now

Recently I had a minor disaster in my professional life. I have some commercial sites which were making me a little money and I was hopeful would in time grow into a reasonable stream of income. I saw a MySQL on my server (hosting more than twenty blogs) which I could not understand why it was there. I deleted it without getting a backup first and once I messed it up (by writing over the database with a new one with same name) I realized that my twenty commercial blogs were running on that database and were destroyed.
I phoned my hosting company, searched all over my backups and so on. Four hours later I realized I had lost three months of blog work (about three hundred hours). OK I had two choices. I could freeze and be paralyzed or I could look at this as an opportunity to redo everything and do it better since I had learned a few things in the meanwhile. I chose the second positive choice and life has been wonderful since then.

OK I think the world is pretty messed up just now with wars everywhere (there's Congo, Sudan, and many more in Africa we have forgotten about), environmental disasters loom (did you know there's huge amounts of arsenic in the Baltic sea encased in concrete for more than fifty years and if the ever deteriorating concrete ever breaks much marine life in Atlantic would die), and the economic effects of wrong headed globalization and state supported financialism (as opposed to capitalism where capital would make goods financialism is financial entities making super rich richer without adding a single product to the world - hence the current collapse)....

OK so the planet is undergoing a minor (or perhaps major) disaster and the choice is between giving up (after all I'm a single individual) or taking action. So what can you do?

• Be kind to your loved ones. Bring peace to the world one person at a time.
• As one of my spirituality teachers said, "Kill your enemies by making them your friends."
• Be forgiving to all. Somehow if we send love out the world becomes a better place.
• Be kind to yourself and smile a lot. Smiling is magical and makes you feel better no matter how you feel at the moment
• Have hope that ultimately things will get better. Albert Einstein once said that one of the most important spiritual questions is, "Is the universe a friendly place?" His answer was that he believed it is a freindly universe and I think he was right.