Dear all,

A year of ending and beginning, a year of hopelessness and hopefulness, a year of divisiveness and coming together, a year of pain and recovering, a year of loss and finding …and in all we stands together through rain and sunshine, through storm and clear weather, through bad time and good time and through what may come. We have our commonalities and differences. We fought tooth and nail with ourselves and others to reclaim our identity as Malaysian and our beloved Malaysia from political hegemony and hypocrisy. With all the odds stacked against us and what seem insurmountable obstacles and roadblocks, we ploughed on wholeheartedly and we prevailed and come out victory in GE14.  

We woke up to the reality how those in power and his cronies had plundered our national wealth to near bankruptcy and how divisive politicians had abused race and religion to divide Malaysian as you either with me or against me; US against THEM. The slow painful road of rebuilding and reforming began and our economic can only get worse before it get better, so be prepared. A new year will arrive in 18 hours time. Will year 2019 a better year for all? Time will tell. To all the people in this world I wish all a new beginning, a new approaches, a new hope, a clear vision backed by action plans and be blessed with peace, love and happiness for the next 365 days.

Before we make the great plan for next year lets us ponder for a moment the meaning of spirituality and Gautama Buddha Quotes on Life, Peace and Mindfulness:

http://www.aumaparna.com/religion-vs-spirituality-know-the-clear-cut-difference-between-the-two/

Religion vs. Spirituality – Know the clear cut difference between the two

By Dr. Froylan Alvarado Guemez Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Of the Jesuit order.

Born in Orcines, on May 1, 1881 and died in New York on April 10, 1995. It was the French theologian, philosopher and paleontologist who built an integrated vision of science and mysticism with his thought; of the evolution of spirit and thought.

▪ Religion is not just one, there are hundreds.
▪ Spirituality is one.

▪ Religion is for those who sleep.
▪ Spirituality is for those who are awake.

▪ Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want to be guided.
▪ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.

▪ Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
▪ Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.

▪ Religion threatens and frightens.
▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.

▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt.
▪ Spirituality says, “learn from error”.

▪ Religion represses everything and in some cases it is false.
▪ Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!

▪ Religion speaks of a god; It is not God.
▪ Spirituality is everything and, therefore, it is in God.

▪ Religion invents.
▪Spirituality finds.

▪ Religion does not tolerate any question.
▪Spirituality questions everything.

▪ Religion is human, it is an organization with men’s rules.
▪ Spirituality is Divine, without human rules.

▪ Religion is the cause of divisions.
▪The spirituality unites.

▪ Religion is looking for you to believe.
▪ Spirituality you have to look for it to believe.

▪ Religion follows the precepts of a sacred book.
▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.

▪ Religion feeds on fear.
▪ Spirituality feeds on trust and faith.

▪ Religion lives in thought.
▪ Spirituality lives in Consciousness.

▪ Religion deals with doing.
▪ Spirituality has to do with the Self.

▪ Religion feeds the ego.
▪ Spirituality drives to transcend.

▪ Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a god.
▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing us.

▪ Religion is a cult.
▪ Spirituality is meditation.

▪ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.
▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise here and now.

▪ Religion lives in the past and in the future.
▪ Spirituality lives in the present.

▪ Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
▪ Spirituality liberates our Consciousness.

▪ Religion makes us believe in eternal life.
▪ Spirituality makes us aware of Eternal Life.

▪ Religion promises life after death.
▪ Spirituality is to find God in our interior during life and death.

-We are not human beings who go through a spiritual experience.-
-We are spiritual beings that we go through a human experience.-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps5WZj3ViO8

Top 50 Gautama Buddha Quotes on Life, Peace and Mindfulness.

Thank you