~the MOST BEAUTIFUL HEART of all~

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A young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it.

But an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said,
“Your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.” ___________________.....

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The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly but full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in … but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and laughed.

“You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine … mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”

” “Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking … but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love….. I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them … and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges.

“ Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away … and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges … giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too … and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?”

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It fit …. but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his.

***TRUE PERFECTION ISN'T FLAWLESS. IT'S AS FLAWED AS IT'S BALANCED; ALL-ENCOMPASSING, ALL-FORGIVING. PERHAPS THAT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. DO YOU HEART?***

GOING AGAINST THE ROCK.

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin.... when suddenly his room filled with light. An angel appeared, showed a large rock in front of his cabin and asked him to push against the rock with all his might.

This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock.

Nothing happened. And he decided to make it a matter of prayer.

“Lord I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even been able to budge that rock. What is wrong? Why am I failing?”

Story courtesy of http://innerspace-idrismanuelle.blogspot.com ........

The angel appeared again :
“My friend, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. And now you come to me with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so?”

“Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewy and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. You learned the importance of discipline and training,”

"This you have done. Now it is my turn, my task.”

And the angel moved the rock, showing to the man a beautiful path ahead.

***LET'S GO AGAINST THE ROCK. to get not what you want but.... WHAT YOU ALWAYS NEED.***

BE HATED>GET HURT>GO HOLIDAY!!!

Today, I kinda got caught up at a Game of Truth.
When the saucer turned to you.....*Dummies Guide to Rules of Truth!*
1. You'll be tasked to ask someone around the table anything.
2. And that someone must say nothing but the Truth.

Believe sometimes hearing back our own Truths got us into perspective.
Perspective of what matters. what is honest. what is human. I'm not flawless.

Someone asked me if I'm serious in getting back to all these blogs/webs stuffs.
Probably b'coz I never was?:-)

and seriously yeah I'm looking into getting my personal one stop online portal!
you know an integrated platform where your friends, family, clients, even fans etc.
can get daily updates from you, stay in touch with you, discuss your the latest craze yada yada....

BUT even more profound why 'Defy, Stand Up & Be Counted'?

Defy has been my motto in life and work.
Stand Up & Be Counted was what hit me when one of S.E.C. Advisor's Ms Tan voiced it!
So time to innovate!.....put it together and there you go....Defy, Stand Up & Be Counted.

But that's too simplistic huh? Ok...here's the Truth:
If I were ever to give you three advice; it would be these:

BE HATED.
You should be striving to be loved right? Why the other way round you asked?
Poor is the man whose actions are only meant to seek the approval of another.
These souls will never truly gain the true respect of another and worst themselves.
All the time you could be trying to be quiet in class for the teacher to like you.
Trying to splurge mindlessly on your sweetheart to win to his/her heart.
Trying to be the ultimate Yes Man to your boss.....

Yet you know how it all turned out be it in love or in work.
WE have the WRONG IDEA of how to be loved.
Love is not selling our souls and be dogs to those we hope for love in return.
and Love is not the same with Attention!
Be Yourself matters so much, you cannot bother what your neighbours will gossip.
The fact they engage in that instead of more productive work means they're not very successful.
So you probably shouldn't concern yourself with them. You're another class.
Those who mind do not matter, those who matter do not mind.
It's about your personal USP. Your Brand. Your Legacy.
If you aren't being hated greatly, you aren't being loved deeply either.
No publicity is bad publicity. Better to be hated than be ignored.
The former has influence as strong as love itself- there's a thin line of difference between both!; the latter not.
Be yourself. Wrong. Be your BEST SELF. You'll be loved & you'll fall in love with yourself.
Be Hated my dear. DEFY.

GET HURT.
The truth is I'm not as perfect as some people think I am.
Perfect all-rounder? Polished? Good at everything? Except joining them at parties perhaps?
All these always amused me.
There I was a kid who trembled on stage, having inferiority complex, OCD and whatever not.
All these shall pass. I told myself.
Today, I'm grateful to all my mentors, my grandparents, my family, my hangout friends, my past girlfriends and all those who ever made me a better man.
It's actually not lonely though sometimes you may feel so.

Should I not be ridiculed, still fail at something everyday, still trying to improve my character...
I wouldn't have been good. Everytime that I had experienced hurt, I grew.
Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
If you ever wondered why I pushed myself so hard, it's b'coz of this philosophy.
Reflecting muscle building, unless the tissues are tore none will bulk up.
Everything is DO or DIE. No turning back. Cannot spend time sighing.
Perhaps that's why you felt I can be really SERIOUS.
Only when you decide it's a MUST will you ever succeed.
Only when you risk going too far, will you discover how much further you can go.
The pain of regret far outweighs the pain of discipline. One Life. Love Ya.
At least, I tried to express the totality of me; and honor the Source.
You may laugh. I could got knocked down. BUT at least I have a story to tell, do you?
Fall down Seven times. Get up Eight. A Japanese proverb.
Get Hurt my friends. and STAND UP.

GO HOLIDAY.
Ever wonder why you have stress? Why you hated work? hated school? hated your life?
B'coz we so often have the wrong programming. wrong perspective.
Who says you were meant to have all the money to throw at birth?
Who says your first love must be your last and how he/she is supposed to look like?
Who says you shouldn't die of cancer and you should have the parking space?
These are our fantasies pre-set WE SET and if they weren't met we got frustrated.
Life isn't about positive thinking and all things positive.
Law of Duality. yin and yang. to have both is balanced. is best. is true perfection.
Perfection means enjoying the goodness in life while being grateful for the bad that makes the good possible and deserving.

You should work like mad! If not, your life isn't a life worth living.
You spend a majority of time working and sleeping.
YET all you bother is how to sneak away from both.
If you love basketball, you should be a player.
You say you're not qualified? Fine. How about sports blogger, basketball retail owner, basketball competitions/ kids camp organizer, basketball online merchandise seller, basketball Playstation game guide author, be a basketball club/ complex owner, academy founder, be a fanclub president......?
There got to be a way to do it. To make your play your work. And fall in love with work.
You no longer take 14 days annual leave. You don't need that. Your holiday is work.
Make your vocation your vacation.
If you do what you love and love what you do you'll have success your whole life through!
How about my salary? You probabaly aren't making enough for your retirement now either....
Be entrepreneurial. Period.
More important than that. Your Dharma. Perhaps yours is basketball.
You can serve humanity best through basketball.
It could be food, travel, watching TV, or even shopping....
but make your hobby a cash machine simultaneously.
You don't have time to do both?: work and play. Integrate then!
Don't waste time elsewhere except for your destiny's preparation:-)
Still kept Hardrock Cafe's card: Love All, Serve All.
Go Holiday ya. BE COUNTED.

Here's our parting video in this post:
May You Find Your Happy Ending Too.........:-)




***DEFY, STAND UP & BE COUNTED!!!***