Random Discoveries

Sunlight in Paris

2012-02-10T18:42:00.003+08:00

It was winter in Paris, but this was the only morning that sunlight took on the skies. It was shot at the Louvre.

The year of the Water Dragon

2012-01-24T02:18:00.001+08:00

I think the year of the dragon shall be one of courage. Courage that you must possess to transcend and breakthrough all boundaries that cultivates limitation. Courage that will see you unfold, flower & shine. Courage exhibiting honor, intelligence, creation and love.

Meeting nature

2012-01-16T19:12:00.004+08:00

Here is a moment where we meet nature at our finger tips. This was photographed in the Louvre, in Paris.

Mastery in flow

2012-01-14T04:03:00.000+08:00

If you have seen his art, you know the essence of it boils down to mastery.

In the light of the master.

2012-01-08T02:57:00.000+08:00

This is one of my favorite shots I ever took in my life to date. The lady in this shot is Heather. As many of us sat in the presence of a master speaking that afternoon, I got a glimpse of this moment and thankfully I captured a little of its essence from my lense. The photo was titled by the master himself. #turiya2011

Happy New Year.

2012-01-01T13:28:00.000+08:00

For that which welcomes the coming year, is not the change of a calendar, nor the optimism that things will get better - but knowingness that potential shall flower. new realms will be yours. for you who have participated in my year, and allowed me to participate in yours - I will forever be grateful. It truly has been an awesome year.

I pray you immerse in the coming year and allow the joyous of life to manifest through you. Love to all.

Lessons by the beach

2011-11-27T01:11:00.003+08:00

To live out your heart this lifetime and all the lifetimes to come, is the only way to live. Such is a way of life, that requires you to live beyond the collective. As I sat with my guru by the beach during retreat, I caught a glimpse of another, possibly in reflection of his discovery. #turiya2011

Light & love.

2011-11-13T02:12:00.001+08:00

She sat there and I saw the falling light. It was a shot in Sze Ya Temple, the oldest Taoist Temple in Kuala Lumpur, which was built by one of the founders of Kuala Lumpur, Kapitan Yap Ah Loy in 1864. This temple is located at Jalan HS Lee adjacent to Kuala Lumpur Chinatown or Petaling Street area and Central Market.

2011-10-31T16:58:00.000+08:00

As of today, I'm changing this blog to host my photography and how I randomly capture what I come to see with life. For my random thoughts - it's all hosted on http://timmythinks.comI'll be travelling Europe come Dec 2011 - Jan 2012. So I'll be putting up some photos here. =)

Steve Jobs, thank you...

2011-10-06T11:05:00.001+08:00

for he who extends his work in contribution to humanity, has extended himself. he that extends himself, is love in action. then, blessed is the world that shares his life and all of his creation that transforms reality - for we now celebrate him, only to realize we celebrate love, in the very essence of it. love that extends itself, creates & transforms. it never dies, because its nature transcends time & space. Steve Jobs, was merely love having another name that shall continue to evolve our reality at large. RIP kind sir.*screenshot of Apple's official website, (www.apple.com) on the day of his passing.

Happy Independence Day, Malaysia.

2011-08-31T01:49:00.000+08:00

Independence day must be a reminder that we ought to perfect the path of every individual coming to their independence. For that to happen personal responsibility becomes the base for freedom to flower. When the collective comes together as independent individuals, then a nation of great consciousness is born. The essence of independence is personal power regained. The blame game becomes obsolete a nature.

Happy Independence Day, Malaysia.

making a stand for yourself & looking after your interest

2011-07-17T04:57:00.005+08:00

don't mistake making a stand for yourself & looking after your interest to be the same thing.

the former can still build relationships. the latter destroys. the former acknowledges the other before self. the latter acknowledges only the self. the former extends space, the latter collapses it. the former in acknowledging self, restores personal power of another. the latter, insist on being acknowledged to be in power. the former stands centered, and sees the big picture of abundance. the latter seemingly stands centered, misses the big picture and finds the scarcity of the moment.

the former, usually a creator, the latter an opportunist.
the former lives in love, the latter in survival.
the former, in his evolution evolves the circle around him too. the latter evolves to be better than the circle around him.

both however are patterns.

my observation.

To begin with me

2011-07-09T13:14:00.001+08:00

I'm finding a need to share this at this time where people roam the streets for a cause, here in Malaysia. To begin with the self, is where it all begins. It is where the biggest reform one can ever begin. The most courageous. Not the streets, not with the government, not with systems. Physical reality will shift ONLY when many recognize personal responsibility and reform from within. It is the basic understanding of creation, we have missed. It is alot easier facing what is outside of us for change, than to come within, face the self and change the within. The truth the within unfolds reforms the heart & spirit. The outside reforms minds & perception. Go to work on the self, is the base of what Marianne Williamson writes. My favorite piece.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-- from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.

my priority

2011-06-07T17:34:00.001+08:00

The more I encounter life, the more I am realizing who, why & what matters. For that which matters shall have the best of me. No compromise, for this is a call to live in priority this lifetime.

my love

2011-06-02T13:33:00.000+08:00

my love does not thread on feeling. it is not a trade. it is not an exchange that settles with a tit for tat. it is truth. it is an extension of my core to you. it is far larger than what my name could ever hold, transcending any measure and comparison.

it is my simple gift when you are in my space.

Tonality...

2011-05-30T01:37:00.000+08:00

The definition and depth of a word/phrase communicated is found largely in the tonality articulated.

Celebrating Revenge?

2011-05-03T04:28:00.002+08:00

I think the death of Osama has become the celebration for many who have kept a level of vengeance within. In the celebration of his death, I am guessing we're celebrating revenge. Subtly, the celebration is a propagation of revenge. How can humanity evolve as a whole when we take pleasure in living out our hurt? The man died, because someone put a bullet into his head, as he did with many others. Regardless what he did, his death was murder too. And the masses celebrate that? Do you see the joy that is coming out from some of them who came to know this news?

The subliminal our children may pick up is that it's alright to lash out revenge, and if it comes through, celebrate. Think about it?

At Sukhumvit soi 8

2011-05-02T17:13:00.001+08:00

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First 2 days of retreat

2011-04-20T02:29:00.001+08:00

I'm on a 10 day retreat as a follow up of last year's retreat in Langkawi. I thought I document my deepest discoveries and share a little here. I just realize, the more I pen down my discoveries, the faster it could possibly embody itself into my living. All that I write here, is a personal encounter with myself and does not reflect the content of the retreat itself, unless quoted. Because the nature of the retreat is about coming back to the I, personal encounter is pretty much how it takes its course. It is simple blurbs I put here from the vast discovery I had penned down on my notes. Here are some of them. =)

On day one it was about going beyond influence. My biggest discovery for the day, in my allowing people their way to be, I find my own freedom. In allowing them to be without an idea of them, the best of them flowers. Going beyond influence is about taking back your personal power. In my discovery, that would be love.

Day two my biggest hit - to allow another the space to live out their beauty, only then can I truly live out mine. Therein, the creator in me unfolds. In order for me to see the best of another flowering, the best in me rises to see and become beauty I have missed.

Day three continues.

Good night you.

gratitude moment

2011-04-04T12:31:00.001+08:00

There are people that will step into your presence & allow you to truly live out the essence of you without having invested interest. I call them angels. Your flowering is their celebration. When you find them, celebrate them tenfold. If you haven't found any, time to review the model of the world you hold. *gratitude moment*

I remember the night I shot this. It was a beautiful night.

2011-03-29T22:46:00.002+08:00

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I stand for this

2011-03-24T14:29:00.000+08:00

I live for love. It is the one thing I stand for with my life, and no idea of religion nor imposing beliefs could ever draw a boundary in the space love creates.

my office playground

2011-03-22T00:48:00.001+08:00

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Beauty I see..

2011-03-19T23:45:00.001+08:00

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Of leaves,branches & sunlight

2011-03-19T22:22:00.001+08:00

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A mother's joy

2011-03-19T12:53:00.001+08:00

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Twenty Six. My facination

2011-03-19T12:17:00.001+08:00

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My call to be...

2011-02-18T03:22:00.004+08:00

for the want of love, I became it.
for the vast possibilities life offers, I risked it.
for the transformation of the world, I transformed.

then the awareness of that became the existence of this.
when death comes to meet me,
I must transcend knowing I have truly lived.

here and now, my call to be.

SACRIFICIAL LOVE: A TRADE?

2011-02-10T01:27:00.005+08:00

One of my biggest dilemmas in life that I constantly lived to question – the idea of sacrificial love. I have always tried to comprehend how could one make love a sacrifice when really the essence of love is abundance. And here’s the kicker. If I would like to do something in the name of love, would I not do it in great joy, utter fulfillment and unconditional giving? Then how could that be a sacrifice?

As I was growing up, I noticed how sacrificial love created obligations in relationships. I saw it happening in parent-child relationships, intimate relationships between husbands and wives, partners and friendships. I noticed how it architectures consciously or unconsciously the feeling of guilt and obligation for the receiving end. There is a conditional value placed on love, or the act of love.

For more of this article I wrote, click HERE.
http://liveandinspire.com/mindbodyspirit/sacrificial-love-a-trade

Resuming an old hobby

2011-02-06T14:57:00.001+08:00

Meeting Patch Adams

2011-02-05T16:47:00.000+08:00

I look at this, and at times, I still try to grasp my reality. We managed to bring Patch Adams down to Malaysia for reaaaaaal, for the very first time. Besides checking off one of my dreams of meeting the man himself, I am glad, we made this possible for many many people too. He truly is a legend. 2010 was a rocking year for me. I am simply grateful.

The team with Patch Adams.

Of my many discoveries and experiences of the self in 2010

2010-12-31T11:28:00.002+08:00

1. Make love your business at all times, and you'll love your business.
2. Existence has a way of taking care of you. It will see you through. As you live it right today, trust.
3. To love, really is innate. I have come to experience the choicelessness love brings me to, and the choice to nurture the experience.
4. I attempt the impossible and evolve that to the possible. It is my way of exercising mastery, and experiencing me.
Putting together The Gathering of Great Minds, finding Patch Adams and bringing him down here to my platform - I made a decision to see it through, regardless. It was a life lesson beyond any price tag.
5. I know my spirit nature is to create spaces for people to be. It is a conscious choice I exercise these days.
6. At all cause, find your courage. Live from that space constantly, and you'll find out more about yourself. This one, you would have to experience it. Live it. No amount of words could articulate the value of the discovery you would experience.
7. The space that i build, nurtures relationships and people. It is my life work. It is a safe space for growth. No one is ever judged there. It is a space to take risk and BE. Anyone who works with me on board my team or in synergy will work to expand that space and allow more people to be, WITHOUT BEING JUDGMENTAL. Anyone who collapses the space I create/the relationships I build, by corrupting it in any way or form, I will make the stand to remove them. I am guardian to that which I build.
8. Gratitude, is my meditation. In that moment, I become more aware of how enriching life has come to be...
9. I have learned to walk out gracefully and stayed true to my spirit. I will live from spirit. In my space truth ultimately unfolds. As I centre myself, I allow another to unfold. So I have learned.
10. I have learn more about compassion than I ever did in my life. The more I exercised it, the more I unfolded into love.
11.Goals are not ultimate. You lose the need to achieve goals, as you evolve. You begin to find the depth of life, and you immerse into the living of it. That becomes ultimate now. As you journey, you find the journey to be more enriching than the achieving.
12. Unconditional love is not giving to want, but wanting to give. That which my heart cast its love, it shall find oneness with it.
13. We all come to mastery in our own time.
14. To conclude, would be disastrous. We are always looking to conclude/define events and people in our lives. What baffles me - in that conclusion do we derive our sense of security and power. To have concluded, you violate your right to grow, expand and evolve. You eliminate possibilities and corrupt the creative process. I have discovered - the need to conclude, is the need of the mind. So many unnecessary occurrences in life, stem from this. We become more judgmental from here.
15. Live. Consciously.

Life treats me well

2010-12-20T12:22:00.001+08:00

I think life treats me well, when it allows me the opportunity to recognize love. It becomes a gift me when it allows me to participate in it. In the participation it shows me it was innate to begin with.

The Daily Flow

2010-12-19T16:04:00.000+08:00

When the year closes in, we sometimes hit reality check to see if we have lived out the year to what we had set out to do. I think the measure of a year, is somewhat a matrix that governs your flow of thoughts, feelings & the way you live. Try living this reality check every day in a way that it could be your last, and the following day is all brand new. Maybe we'll live out more of life & transformation becomes a daily flow.

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

2010-12-02T13:50:00.004+08:00

This is a lovely piece, and I thought I share this. Someone dear shared this with me. enjoy you...
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Becoming the guardian and witness

2010-11-09T15:04:00.000+08:00

I will make known the unknown for growth. I will open more doors to truth. I will build a space where you come into it for yourself, by yourself. And therein, discover your freedom to be. I will stand guard by that space that duality does not corrupt it. Therein, love, truth and oneness flowers itself. I need not force nor impose the evolution.

I simply become a witness to such transformation.

In this moment.

2010-10-25T11:31:00.001+08:00

I know no other way to live but from love.

This is where I need to be.

2010-10-19T14:47:00.002+08:00

No matter where you are now in life, at your peak or lowest, in joy or frustration, in a direction or the lack of it, know that this is where you need to be this moment. Seeing this as it is, now you gather courage and you rise. It is nature's way of showing you what you are made of.

Building The Creation Team at Live & Inspire.

2010-10-11T01:56:00.003+08:00

One of my biggest discoveries I have come to is the importance of recognizing my own strengths, and playing that out to make alot of areas in my life to work. If you had to understand the self, one of the best place to start is recognizing your strengths. I've also discovered there are no fixed ways to discovering one's strength, unless you do, explore and you allow the refining process to take its course. While many people fear the consequences it might bring in the exploration phase, I always thought it was an essential part of the journey to participate. Of course you would most definitely known intuitively what your strengths are on the surface of it all. But the key to it, is that you must play it out. You would want to exercise that gift. And therein we begin to draw strength, where many of life's creation can then be built on and flower. I thought I amplify this whole thing, and make available a space for this whole process to take place and nurture an inner circle. We're opening our domain for people to be. The possibilities, endless....

COMING TOGETHER
One of the many things we do best at Live & Inspire is to create space for people to come together for growth. Every time we created space, new creation flowered from within the space. Seeing that we do it in all fun and craziness, we decided to share our domain and build an inner circle that will extend our work into a larger circumference of space. The inner circle is called THE CREATION TEAM.

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? DISCOVERING.
The CREATION team will work to expand a space of celebration for humanity. The CREATION team will allow individuals the space to first recognize their strengths, then exercise their strengths for mastery. In the process of helping the world grow in consciousness, we evolve ourselves. It is a place where the process of discovery take on an exponential insight to yourself and all else possible.

THE OBJECTIVES. LIVING.
1.Expanding space for humanity with our initiatives
2.Creating space for yourself to grow in contribution of humanity. This is a space where you experience the power of creation.
3.Enabling and exercising your innate gifts and strengths consciously.
4.Building and enabling teams with support systems. Understanding the science of creating a synergy, working and reading people.
5.Having a balance of fun & growth. In all fun we have at Live & Inspire, growth is inevitable.

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE? INSPIRING.
1. Contact melor@liveandinspire.com
2. A confirmation email will be sent to you confirming your participation
3. Attend CREATION TEAM powwow (meeting).

Giving rightly.

2010-10-06T20:25:00.001+08:00

If you are giving to receive, you somehow redefined love into an equation. You make love logical. truth be told, to love - transcends logic. Giving then happens rightly.

Breaking away from familiarity

2010-10-03T17:22:00.001+08:00

The brain works with familiarity. This is the reason why we think, act & live in patterns. It also helps us understand why fear pops up when we enter a space of the unknown. Operating from the unknown, breaks the pattern of familiarity, shifts paradigm only to find new grounds of beliefs, creates new realities- often of potential and expand your realm of experiences.

And that I say, is commitment to personal growth.

The Leap of Celebration.

2010-10-03T12:17:00.000+08:00

Nature sheds.

2010-09-19T19:59:00.001+08:00

the toughest of times, usually do you 3 things.
1. it shows you what is real to you.
2. then it shows you who is real to you.
3. then it shows you what you are made of.

more often than not, it prepares you to rise from there on from your centre with the right people who stuck by you.
nature works in resonance. it sheds off that which does not resonate with you.

now you grow rightly.

Only when you are ready.

2010-09-12T22:01:00.003+08:00

what you create today, keep a look out for it in the years to come.
from now till then, keep refining the process of how you come to it.
the biggest myth is that if we can't see it, it isn't happening.
the truth to it, is that if you keep at it, you manifest the unseen.
you become the only reason the unseen manifest into the seen.
period.

pity the man who dreams and doubt his dreams,
for the damage does not destroy the dream.
it destroys the dreamer.

nature has a sense of unfolding a deserving reality to you only when you are ready.

True Courage from Love

2010-09-07T00:54:00.000+08:00

The only way I have learned to exercise true courage is when I live from love. From that realm of creation, nothing else matters.

The "I" and "we"

2010-09-03T01:19:00.001+08:00

the success with any team, is when the "I" in everyone finds the "we" in every "I".
it begins when the bigger picture, is also my picture.

Absolute responsibility

2010-08-27T07:56:00.003+08:00

Absolute responsibility liberates us from the blame game. It makes us creators, no longer we live in slavery of being a victim to life or events. True freedom is initiated when we step into a space where everything falls back into us.
Everything.
Sometimes, I find it peculiar that we like the idea of owning but dread the idea of ownership.

Articulated lately...

2010-08-26T14:26:00.002+08:00

I am consciously selective with bonds and deep connections I build.
In any of these that I build, there are no favors to be fulfilled, only a state to be.
No goal to achieve, no intent held and nothing to reciprocate.
The gift is not what is taken away from the bond, the gift is the bond itself.

Thank you for getting me to think this out. It was for me to discover...

*I'm not sure if the words found me, or I found the words. But I think this would still not articulate what is...

My thoughts on Appearance, on MalaysiaSME

2010-08-24T13:54:00.002+08:00

"The struggle to make sure you always have the "right" appearance usually stems from the internal conflict about the external acceptance."

Sonnet 17 by Pablo Neruda

2010-08-18T03:50:00.002+08:00

I was recently watching the movie of Patch Adams again, after like a million times.....and I always to get the poem or prose he recited in the movie...Here it is. Beautifully written. Enjoy....

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way
because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I nor you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep
it is your eyes that close.

The Gathering of Great MInds. A Beginning....

2010-08-15T02:46:00.000+08:00

It's 5 days to The Gathering of Great Minds. It's been quite an experience. We're expecting a full house, having tallied the numbers today. To our surprise, we even had people calling in on a Saturday for tickets. The team have been working like there's no tomorrow, pretty much beyond time. Yes, there is much to do, and the excitement is overwhelming. Hence I write this at 3am, and don't think I would be doing an 8 hour sleep till 20th August takes off. There's so many people helping us make this happen to a point that new realities are being created everyday!

There's so much to share about the journey and I do not know where to even begin. This write is probably overdue, but contradictory to it being an overdue, I think it is just about the right time to pen this. It has taught me some of the most amazing things about me, people and life at large. I have seen evolution taking place right before me, and at times, I am left speechless. I have seen love blossom, expand and manifest itself into the creation.

I held this creation for the longest of time. As I write from here, it has crystalized itself to a point that I can see the people coming in and celebrating this for themselves. The clarity to it amazes me all the time, scares me occasionally. Only because, things are falling into place so quickly that I know this is being manifested consciously. It's like the time is catching up with my creation. If that even makes sense....

So why did I even bother starting this?

No, it wasn't an intent to teach people. Nothing close to that. Nothing close to imposing new beliefs or telling you how to live it successfully.
I created this for one simple reason - the love for life. My love for life.
And because I dedicated myself to the learning of self, I thought - why don't I open a classroom that we'd all come together and be classmates and take life on collectively..As much as people would come for this and learn, I too will take the seat and participate in my learning.

I dedicated my life to discovery and mastery.. I understood at bare minimum, we evolve by getting involve. Involve with what? With life in itself.
And the more I participated with it, the more I have come to awareness of its depth and beauty. In this process, I found me.
Somewhat a revelation to date, but yes, a revelation for me at least.

Yes, that was what I wanted to share - The shift of coming back to the centre.
Your centre. My centre.

So, I make a stand for discovery so both you and I expand into consciousness and evolve.
Do not judge nor measure me for a simple reason - my work is not about preaching nor teaching.
It is about creating a space for evolution. In the process of evolution, we experience involution.
I am here to live, and experience the cycle in completion.
I share that journey with you too. Thus, I am nothing of superiority to be teaching you anything.

Come 20th August, some of the greatest of minds around us take the platform. They will share great insights.
They will share unconditionally. They will give it all. But at day's end, it is ours to discover.
It comes back to you and me taking responsibility of that learning.
There is no right nor wrong in the space I have visioned to be. We have gone beyond duality.
We're stepping into a space of mastery. In mastery, discovery learning, happens.
In mastery, we take account of our learning.
FULL accountability of our growth.

So come and participate for your own evolution. Not for me nor anyone else.
Do this for you.
Participate for you.

With joy and love to you.
Tim

Ecosystem. Economy system. Us.

2010-08-08T02:02:00.001+08:00

It's funny how we have significantly taken ourselves out of the ecosystem, made ourselves almost irrelevant to it, and then go on to plug ourselves into an economy system and build our lives around it, in all relevance.....when what really matters in making life work is the former.

Coming home...

2010-08-04T22:32:00.002+08:00

I wanted more than a job, more than work, building riches and the fluff of socializing and growing old. I wanted to understand what most people refused to address, the self, the contradiction we live by, the conditioning, beliefs and the impossible. The more I took my understanding to depth, the larger I expanded in awareness. The less judgement took place, the more I unfolded into the presence of love. In that process, I came back to me.

There You'll Find Me..

2010-07-31T14:28:00.000+08:00

Come to me in no expectation, you'll leave me in no frustration. to have concluded me is to have measured me. in the sum of all this, you try to fit me into an equation for you to understand. the time will come, when u realize i am nothing in the equation, then all else falls into the infinite unknown. multiply anything by nothing...there you'll find me.

Reducing Love

2010-07-27T03:57:00.001+08:00

When you have reduced love to an element of survival, then love becomes an illusion of scarcity and the chase of it seems all necessary. This is when we bastardize it into an emotional game and question it's existence against time.

Evolving from Infinite Possibilities

2010-07-22T08:28:00.004+08:00

For every doubt you conceive, you destroy a possibility instantaneously.
It is not about the possibility of the event happening. It is the possibility of you evolving to greater knowingness.
It is not about being positive, it is a science of creation - destruction.
For every doubt carries a subtle energy the body retains.
The collective energy the body retains manifest a pattern in your being - that you become a living doubt, a walking doubt.

The conditioning to instantaneously doubt stems from the past.
We are present. The only thing the present moment holds - is infinite possibilities.
Infinite.

Being in the present - you see it real.
Being a creator in the present - you see it real, and for all else, potential.

Be creators of new realities, and destroyers of past conditioning.
Only then, you evolve.
Only then, you unfold yourself to a new truth.

This I say, is a mark of a leader.

Work and Me

2010-07-12T01:22:00.004+08:00

If you have not understood my work, you have not understood me. Short of a better word, the failure, lies in not recognizing that both are one. For the longest of times, I struggled between the two. The day I found me, was the awakening that I am the work itself. From thereon, I ceased to exist. I begin living. I worked not for survival. I lived to create. Survival took care of its own. Passion and energy seemed ever-flowing.

I did not live for a purpose. That would mean that I projected life to be. Concluded.
Instead, I lived purposefully. In this instance, life unfolds. I am new, everyday. Evolving.

I am that work.

p.s....Hence it says in my work - Discover. LIVE.....it never said Discover. WORK.....
don't worry about the inspiration part. Come to discovery and just live, inspiration takes care of itself, happens effortlessly - WITHOUT THE NEED TO TRY TO PROVE. Just BE.

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To love, is innate.

2010-07-11T12:02:00.004+08:00

We don't need to teach a child to love. It is in teaching them to love, that we bring the morality of the mind to it. The morality of the mind is simply the conditioning of our times. It is flawed in its duality and intent.

A child loves naturally, because it is love embodied. They are a bundle of joy and pure at its core. We feel that when we are with them. Yet we try to teach them. And in teaching them, we bring in the mind and corrupt that which is pure and natural. They exhibit love to be inclusive and never exclusive. We teach them to make it exclusive.

One of my biggest discoveries...
To love, is innate.

In my silence, for me to let go.

2010-07-10T16:47:00.001+08:00

People underestimate my silence for not knowing things. it is in my silence, unfolding happens, awareness expands and I find compassion to leave you to your own growth and evolution.

Discovery in participation

2010-07-09T13:31:00.003+08:00

Participate in your own becoming. Consciously participate. The participation is the creator at work. The becoming, is the work unfolding the creator.

Discovery happens.

Fear of altering the present truth

2010-07-07T22:29:00.000+08:00

some people are afraid to take their learnings to depth, for fear that present truth may not be truth after all. their fear of the unknown is not whether it is of truth or not, their fear stems from the very fact of indifference from the present knowing.
the alteration of present truth, have been equated to fear. hence the step out of the comfort zone, is anchored to an emotional state that serves as a hinderance to growth rather than growth itself.

how do we find liberation when it is so important to recognize that truth must be encountered in courage?

Season 2 comes to end..

2010-06-29T19:26:00.008+08:00

Twelve weeks swift by so fast, I'm still wondering if I got the weeks counted and followed through rightly...This Thursday is the last session of Season II of the Live & Inspire Series, officially completing 33 weeks of inspirational sessions. We've seen some of the best come out this season. To think we started this some time last year, with bare minimum and to see it grow to what it is today - is somewhat phenomenal, for me at least. Phenomenal not because we have better backdrop (although Adam had it designed so cool) or we have better sound systems, but phenomenal because we are making known, stories that often go unnoticed.. Phenomenal because there are a few who have made the shift in their point of reference and their journey took off. Regardless how big their shift, it was a shift. Phenomenal because this has become communal. Discovery has taken a life of it's own. People have not waited to be initiated. They initiated their very own path. The forming of new friendship has become an understatement at the series.

We have this lady who came across what we do by chance, her name - Su. Our friendship grew, and she makes it a point to come and learn, connect and have fun with us. Regardless her age (she is an elderly lady) she makes time and says it is necessary to come there for herself. And when i heard her say that, I know I have done my part. The shift happened. She found her passion with cooking and now she's going back to doing it....(to a point she wants to cook for the whole Live & Inspire team.lol) We're arranging a time now to dine with her.

During Dr.Hartini's session, a gentlemen named Jimmy came up to her and sponsored her, educational board games for her children at Chowkit Kids. Like awesomely alot of expensive boardgames! Random kindness took place in that moment of spontaneity. The pay it forward with lucky draws took the giving to the next level for many. Even Starbucks gave unconditionally. Our sponsors like SME magazine gave unconditionally. Ramli Ibrahim gave 10 VIP premier tickets. So many to name...

We had so many emails come in and I thought I share this one...
To live life in itself is often times daunting enough. But to be inspired to do so is what encourages us to live life to its fullest potential by means of creating the present as we live it.
Whether it is through some unrelenting yet noble quest for leadership (Dato’ Seri Abdul Wahid), sheer determination and fortitude of will through physical weight loss (Aaron Mokthtar), discovery of “inner/true selves” through the aesthetics of dance (Ramli Ibrahim) or the expression of comedy (Dato Zahim Albakri and gang), ultimately it is our own determination to embark and pursue a hejrah (journey) of a personal nature which allows for a deeper responsiveness to the call of humanity (Dhyan Vimal).
In the course of only 12 weeks, to me Live and Inspire exemplified by way of shared experiences that via the sparks of hope arises the reality of “knowing” through inspirational insights.
Yes I do now know that while the former (hope) calls for expectations and the latter (“to know”) expands in awareness, it is due to series such as the one you and your team have initiated that those such as myself is given this uniquely astounding opportunity of seeing life unfold through inspired calmness as we strive to live life in the present moment.
In your own words Tim, I write this to you in love and joy.
- Dato’ Paduka Noor Aini binti Datuk Abdullah
Author of bestseller Malaysian Customs & Etiquette

I share these, not to tell the world of how great the platform is...i share these from simple gratitude and awe because the spectrum of people who came and supported us, came for their own growth too. They were young and old, regardless race, color, status or creed, they came and in one way or another created unity without the realization of it. Some of the friendships that came out of this, I have seen them blossom. So the space at the series have only become a space where possibilities happen. People have come and made that stand for themselves. Their reference point of without, have shifted to within. Some have become aware of that shift, and for some the shift remains unconscious. Still, the growth happens.

I am in awesome gratitude for the support these organizations and the people behind them, have given me and the team. Maybank to begin with..who stood for the grassroots and the young. They believed in us....Starbucks who resonated to the power of inspiration and never doubted it one bit. IACT who rocked our videography team and they bring in the vibrant energy of PLAY-to-PLAY. Voize & Kommunitkini who made conscious effort with our editorial team to have every speaker interviewed and the depth of each speaker is further expanded. Bangsar Village who shares a space ever so powerful. JobStreet who believes in Discovery that we are now their Discovery Partner. (and they randomly give out cute teddy bears) SME mag who help us make the learning & discovery sustainable by giving mags and yearly subscription for lucky draws plus, featuring our work. The Awakening & Voize for making our work sustainable. The Sun & BFM for helping us with reach. Joomcool for constantly sharing it in forums. GEW, for allowing us to be one of your partner activity. To the speakers who took our platform. My gratitude to them not only because they came and share a piece of their lives with us, but because they gave unconditionally, simply by living the live they lead. That is a gift in itself.

The last but never the least that I am grateful to - is my team.
Adam - the pillar of all that you see visually. He takes my conceptualization and expands it to the next level, working beyond time. Resourceful as ever, I cannot function without him in on my team.
Jerome - who makes sure the layout of the site is always in place, and registrations are mended properly and always ready with the microphone to give people the voice to share.
Melor - who have made sure all our speakers get their interviews done, and working diligently on site to make things happen.. and facilitating more learning online with live updates
Gina - who is a source of joy in our team, grounded and centered that she is constantly resonating warmth REGARDLESS who comes into her path. She takes the initiative to make things happen. Her feedback - ever so valuable. She's a darling!
Vishal - for helping set up the site and reaching out to people
JIa Peng - for being the master of her domain on stage, studying about the speaker to build the session from thereon, always keeping our speakers comfortable, and I love her spontaneity!
Dom, Azrin & Ashtin - who have helped make videography possibile for us. I appreciate the dedication you bring to the team and love the energy and support you bring to the participants.
Jules - for the aweeeesomeeeeeee photos you capture. Beneath that subtle silence, we feel your centredness of who you are, and see them coming up in the pictures you take, and we love them!

I could write another post about my team. But i think they know I love them to bits. so i'll pass...

This Thursday, this guy rocks it with us (picture below). You want to listen to his story. While many normal human beings never thought of packing up and heading to Acheh to help (when they needed most), this guy did just exactly that. Inspite not having arms, he found a need to be there. And the things he do with his feet, leaves me in awe.
Listen to him speak - "Giving a hand with a foot."

Joy & love to each one of you.
Live life, Inspire love.
I rest for now...

*all photos by Jules.

The Right Meeting

2010-06-18T15:20:00.002+08:00

Our paths always cross for a grander purpose of evolution and spirit, in a way that have served both our lives. There is no accident to that meeting. Regardless the polarity the experience may bring, it simply was - the right meeting.

Gratitude makes it whole. Love makes it necessary.

So be it.

Not for you to judge.

2010-06-17T02:03:00.004+08:00

the path a person decides to take, is not for anyone to judge. we all live our lives the way we want, in whatever way we know. as life unfolds itself to us, so it unfolds for another. evolution has a way with itself, that we all unfold in different dimensions of time and space. it does not measure itself. only men measure it with time.

thus one cannot force evolution to happen. evolution unfolds like a bud of a rose. to force it, only gives birth to the duality of right and wrong. one would find fault with it.

the irony is, sometimes in the wrong of things - you find your yourself. so the path serves in this instance. hence coming from judgement, only leaves one an idiot of his beliefs, the past and of polarity.

do yourself an revolutionary favor now. judge not. live your moment. allow others to do the same. every time you come from present in that frame of being - you rise beyond polarity and you own the moment. yes, YOU OWN THAT MOMENT. your moment does not fill itself with what’s right nor wrong. your moment fills itself with something greater.

you discover that…

With Francisca Peter

2010-06-15T15:11:00.002+08:00

The Live & Inspire team with Francisca Peter in Season 2. :)

RESOURCEFULNESS

2010-06-15T10:36:00.003+08:00

The people who live in doubt, build their outcome based on resources.
The people who make things happen, build their outcome based on RESOURCEFULNESS.
Entrepreneurship stems frm the latter.

The difference between the two, is that RESOURCEFULNESS is embodied into the being and then expands.
Hence, you become and creative intelligence flows.
RESOURCES, will always diminish.
Hence you do, and work in search to replenish.

One works in circumstances of what perceived reality is, the other works regardless the circumstances and CREATE reality.
Period.

I love this one.

2010-06-11T17:36:00.000+08:00

"It's easy to die. It takes MASTERY TO LIVE." ~ Ramtha #fb

Rantings about morality

2010-06-09T22:35:00.005+08:00

I was observing some updates where aunties, uncles and parents go intruding into their young one's page and start making comments on it, trying to correct them. So authoritative, to begin with.

Then I was reflecting on this whole learning-to-behave-yourself-thing correlating it to morality.

Hmm...

Now, what good did Pendidikan Moral do any of us? Really, besides memorizing over 30 freaking values and being tested for it in our public examinations, what is the point of it?

What the world needs is to raise itself in consciousness not morality! Morality is a set of behavioral rules of how I have to carry myself ideally. I personally think it is so much a suppression as to how I should behave correctly, rather than getting me to live from consciousness. I mean seriously, someone crafted what's right and what's wrong - and then puts it into the education system for us to learn about what is "kasih sayang"? errrr....hellooooo? A child, by nature resonates love EFFORTLESSLY. It is not anything to be taught. We were taught what love is - and it messed the hell-out-of society.

Question: can we even teach love? The system teaches you love, and in doing so defines it for you too? Now, I'm beginning to understand better, why we failed to acknowledge that love is us itself.

Drop morality. Raise consciousness. In doing so, we come back to ourselves, immerse in love and flower from thereon. Morality kills all of it in the mere duality of what's right and wrong.

The Future UNFOLDS into the Present

2010-06-08T22:27:00.001+08:00

Nature resonates to what is, and unfolds the future INTO the present. Not the other way around. Understand that, and your present moment nurtures in power.

Love Without Reason

2010-06-06T23:18:00.001+08:00

Love without reason. It is what you are capable of being. It is you living out the highest of you. In there you find God. In that space, you transcend guilt, repentance, duality, hate, fear, scarcity and all else that needs you to be worthy of love.

Of Polarity

2010-06-02T16:32:00.002+08:00

The idea of thinking in polarity does one no justice for growth. It messes the mind to understand only two states of existence, both of which is defined by what one is not. It keeps us on the shallow plane, and deters us from taking it into the depths of understanding, let alone possibilities.

The World in Its Own Time

2010-05-28T10:50:00.002+08:00

The world moves in its own time, not your time. Period. The faster you come to peace with it, the less the dependency in your life, the less the circumstances matter, the less the expectations to measure and the less of blames to cast. The shift of living in circumstances to beyond it, moves you into the centre of a creator. You become that creator. your point of reference, not where to be found outside.

Remember, the world has no business with you. My guess, is that it was here first for a simple reason to unfold you to you.

My favorite Mama Sox song

2010-05-27T14:48:00.002+08:00

I absolutely love her authenticity. It comes out all the time!

Hurt has its purpose.

2010-05-26T20:28:00.001+08:00

Sometimes we dwell in hurt for fear to take on the present. We make the hurt (past) our home, because it is recognizable - comfortable to some point. The present is never recognizable or comfortable at first; never in light…because the irony of it, is that you are that light. So don’t mistake the darkness you think the present may hold. Sometimes, hurt must happen - so you find your light. Hurt must happen for your evolution. It is nature’s divinity helping you recognize you, and falling back into you. Now come to present. Be the light, yo!

Dead Beauty

2010-05-26T15:49:00.000+08:00

My Path

2010-05-26T13:07:00.002+08:00

I found my path...to say the least, it wasn't about me at all to begin with. The life to live, somewhat communal, yet centered in nature. Beyond imagination, into the unknown. Therein I rested for a bit, only to find wholeness. Awareness unfolds a path.. love its purpose, my path - a revelation unfolding me to me. Involution it is said to be.

The Illusion.

2010-05-21T09:00:00.004+08:00

A life lived in hope, is a life lived in future tense. It is a projection and not an embodiment. The idea of living in hope, gets us trying & we never become. To become, is present tense. It means, we find the now & the moment..We become the moment. It's like we hope for world peace & deep down, we know it's an illusion. You have to become peace itself, then by default, you embody that. You become that. It happens it the moment, and peace expands into greater possibilities. Hope gives you an illusion that you have to go and attain it when some part of you still holds a tinge of doubt for a simple reason - that not everything is within your control. Embodiment, is manifestation taking place in the present moment - it does not hold doubt because the focus of transformation is within.

With hope, expectations are built. With embodiment, expansion happens. One is about creating a revolution with evolution, the other creates revolution with involution.

Educating Self

2010-05-16T22:10:00.001+08:00

There is no education more important than the education of understanding self. This one reverses the discovery to an inward awareness. It's the involution of self. The involution process takes you back to your centre, hence evolution. Thus, reality is nothing but an extension of your centre. This, is mastery.

Time to stop trying

2010-05-12T01:44:00.005+08:00

It is time to stop trying. The idea of trying gives you the illusion of pursuit, where you chase to attain. Every time you chased, you acknowledge a lack. It was an idea that kept you busy, while you lost sight of your grandness. Time to take it back.
Time to give up trying and just be. You cannot try to be happy. You just live it happy. You cannot try to be sad either. it just happens without any effort. It is like breath. You cannot try to breathe. You cannot event think to breathe. You just be one with breath effortlessly.

Success is never something you try to attain. It is something you embody and become. One takes forever. The other happens in a heart beat.

When you stop trying, you become.

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

2010-05-03T01:31:00.003+08:00

I came across this blog as I was surfing. I thought I share this with you. The questions will get you thinking. Thank you for this.
http://www.marcandangel.com

These questions have no right or wrong answers.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Which is worse, failing or never trying?
If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Would you break the law to save a loved one?
Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
Why are you, you?
Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
What are you most grateful for?
Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
If not now, then when?
If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

credits:
this post was extracted from http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/

Dhyan Vimal on Live & Inspire

2010-04-21T09:38:00.001+08:00

In the last season of the Live & Inspire Series, we had the privilege to host Master Dhyan Vimal as he spoke about Participating In the Transformation of the World. This season, we have the privilege to work with him, synergizing with the movement - Friends To Mankind. Watch this video, and you'll know why. A great place to begin with...

Click on the link below to watch it. :)

Participating in the Transformation of the World | dhyanvimal.tv

Resourcefulness is about going beyond lack

2010-04-20T17:30:00.001+08:00

RESOURCEFULNESS is when you begin understanding and living from a space where you make things happen REGARDLESS the RESOURCES of time, money, materials, talent etc. Being resourceful means, you take control of your creation process. It is NOT optimism nor positive thinking. It is understanding a simple science that you're creator of your reality and rising beyond the illusion of LACK.

Love CANNOT hurt you.

2010-04-20T15:22:00.001+08:00

Love CANNOT hurt you. It's your EXPECTATIONS OF love that hurts you. Love is ever present, and by discovery, you step into its presence. It is an awareness of the being, and not an emotion to begin with. Humanity have always been measured against and caught in expectations. Therein all dualities of life are lived, that we become it.

You don't need tolerance.

2010-04-11T19:18:00.000+08:00

Understanding wholeness and living from it, eliminates the need of tolerance. Tolerance is when you see a good and a bad, the light and the dark, the ugly and pretty - and between any of those duality, you chose one.

Authentic Self.

2010-03-30T14:04:00.002+08:00

You can never go wrong being yourself. Authenticity connects you to a realm beyond duality. Ask of yourself nothing but originality, and live it.

The last 5 days...

2010-03-25T12:32:00.006+08:00

Last night I completed my last session at the School of Mastery. I did a testimonial video as we ended the session, and as I was speaking of my experience, I thought I ought to blog about the last 5 days. I thought it was something i needed, that I took on the first discipline at the School of Mastery, founded by Master Dhyan Vimal. I was lucky to have him close the last session of the Season 1 at the Live & Inspire Series. And I know some of you were there as he shared. I decided to take it a step further, signed up for Discipline One and sat with myself alone for the last 5 days and worked on what's within. Some of the most interesting insights I discovered. I don't think I could share all of my discoveries here, it may not be enough a space to share plus it'd probably put you to sleep. But I thought I highlight some of the larger discoveries I found as I accessed my space within, and some shared by Dhyan Vimal (DV).

1. "Happiness is nothing about successfully expressing your love." ~ DV
2. The time has come to regain my centre. It is of utmost priority that I establish my centre. Therein I find freedom, love, and power ever so beautiful.
3. The intensity of love is firstly accessed in the awareness of its presence. Then secondly, it moves from awareness into immersion of its presence.
4. Walking your Choice. It is about exercising the power of choice. In that exercise I find presence. The more I dive into that presence, I expand my sense of freedom and creation. The more I create my day.
5. It is of utmost importance that I acknowledge my presence and claim self sovereignty. It is a truth buried for far too long. Time to regain that centre.
6. This life is a journey we undertake alone. The faster we acknowledge that, the greater things we create with synergy. We were made to fear being alone, that at times we go 'kuku' over it. We have despise that space. But that is the only space we have. Everything else speaks of impermanence. The question is how to we expand that space, that my space is now your space too (bearing in mind that you still have your space). This is so valuable in understanding and building any relationships.
7. "The idea of yourself is NOT you. It is something that you are experiencing or have created. I am something more." ~DV
8. You have got to work on life yourself. Own it. Create it. Make it work. It is your responsibility. Mastery it is....
9. Because you are master of your own space, you have this power to giving permission. That which you give permission to, evolves you. Everytime you exercise that power, acknowledge your own presence.
10. "When that which I am and that which I want to be is one and the same, I am in order." ~ DV

It has been a long time since I sat with Tim Fernandez, and enjoyed his presence. :) I loved every moment of it, very much called for....Here's one of my favorites videos...

Entrepreneurship, for you?

2010-03-21T12:20:00.006+08:00

The trick is to innovate FAST enough. It is about participating in the evolution process. It is about going beyond competition and not even thinking of participating in a race to outdo another. But to even know where to begin with, understand self. Understand flow. This is entrepreneurship. Going back to who you are, at your core...and building from there on. Then the idea of a risk is no longer a gamble for profits, and scarcity loses ground. It is now a build up of a purpose for value, where the law of abundance becomes foundational. The latter - draws in profits anyway, sustainable ones I tell you....

Randoms

2010-03-01T02:27:00.002+08:00

Posted via web from simply nothing

12 weeks past so fast...

2010-02-23T20:10:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow, 25th February, Season 1 of the Starbucks Live & Inspire series closes the season with it's last session.

I write again in gratitude. Time again seemed to have passed so fast.
It has been an inspiring season, only made possible with many great people, teams and organizations.

What started 21 weeks ago has grown to a platform where possibilities are created. Inspiration has become a culture. Discovery has become a priority. New faces came, friendship formed. With every session that we hosted, we held the vision of inspiring love.

Why love?
Because it is universal in its essence. In becoming more aware of it, one begins to look within and find the greatest of potential. From that space, one extends that core to create an extraordinary reality.. Any foundation built from thereon would only serve to inspire.

I'd like to thank our partners, in particular - MAYBANK, Starbucks, Bangsar Village, Voize, TheSun, IACT College, TuneTalk, LTT Global and Joomcool. I have said before, the people behind these brands ROCK! They worked with us to make this possible.
Thank you editors, reporters & bloggers who written about us on articles and spread the word. To the speakers who stood on our stage, your reach to thousands of lives connected to us would have set many on a path of creating the extraordinary. Thank you.

I'd like to thank YOU for following us, regardless in physical presence or online, or helping us share the word, or offering us that helping hand. THANK YOU. Your presence made EVERYTHING count.

Last, but NEVER the least, my team.
- Adam(the resourceful one - who makes things happen)
- Jerome(the PR boy - who hooks us up to everything, and makes a stand for us)
- Lalitha (the limelight - the one who created fun on our stage - we missed you)
- Melor (the centre of fun- the lady with brains, fun, creativity and looks)
- Tharma (the baby with pimped up camera - caught us all on photos, in our most authentic state)
- Dominic (the tall afro - for being another fun element in the family, and making things happen all the time for us)
- Gina (the creative writer - for listening and writing diligently for us)
- SiowHuey & Aida (the general workers who did everything for us and never complained)

Season 2 will see a TOTALLY different shift! :) More surprises! More learning! More speakers! More fun! Stay tuned!
We return in April. Follow us on facebook or our website for the details. http://facebook.com/liveandinspire or http://liveandinspire.com

This Thursday, 8pm. Starbucks Bangsar Village 2. Dhyan Vimal takes stage. What better way than to close the season with the topic - Participating in the Transformation of the World. Come and join us this Thursday, as we feature a RARE appearance of an international speaker. Speaking from our space, for the first time.

See you Thursday.

Joy & love to you.

From the space of Oneness..

2010-02-22T21:10:00.004+08:00

Understand oneness, and you WON'T have a problem with race, color, religion, freedom and possibilities. Try understanding the world the other way around, and you understand (let alone live by) boundaries, identity, judgment and control. I choose freedom. Therein I find love and peace. Therein I become love.

A sign you have grown...

2010-02-11T18:00:00.001+08:00

A sign that you have grown: Be happpppy for people's successes. Be genuinely happy for them. When you learn to appreciate such victories, you celebrate humanity at large. You acknowledge potential energy that will serve you beyond your imagination.

Growth is expansion into awareness

2010-02-04T07:59:00.001+08:00

An indication of growth, is the expansion into the awareness of love being ever present.

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Aye, tomorrow's the 26th.

2010-01-25T16:59:00.001+08:00

Gosh, time flew past by me so fast and I sit here wondering what awaits me this coming year. It has been somewhat an extraordinary year for me. I could go down memory lane, and it’d take days before I finish this post, but I’m not going to do that. I’ll leave the year as it was, and remember it with gratitude for all that made up the year. I am guessing it is going to be nothing but great adventures. This year coming round, I thought I make a choice to go vegetarian for a year, not because I’m getting all religious or that I’m going on a sacrificial year. It’s simply a choice I make to help myself experience the very state of letting go. I want to understand detachment on a whole new level and going vegetarian has its share of experiences that come with the journey. Thought I write about my experiences as I take on the year this way. Don’t get it wrong, I do this NOT to be angelic of any sort nor a monk that longs to preach. I do this for a very selfish reason to understand self and experience internal transformation (if there is) that may take place physically, emotionally or spiritually. I chose to go public with it not to show the world that which I do (although it does get known), I do it to share the exprience and intimate thoughts I may have (or discover) with the intent that my experience may help, in the least way possible, pave greater understanding and insights to what’s possible.
My other intent this year is focused on reach. And by this, I mean to go beyond every boundary to expand social consciousness. There is much to do in the larger picture. I’m set to reach out by reaching within.

To all who have taken this ride with me, regardless if you stayed on or not, I thank you and will always be grateful to you. I have always believed that our paths crossed for a grander purpose of evolution and spirit that served both our lives.

With joy and love to you.

My Favorite TEAM.

2010-01-23T01:04:00.001+08:00

We're in our 8th session now.

2010-01-21T03:02:00.003+08:00

I'm still trying to comprehend this.. Time has past so fast. We're already in our 8th session running in season 1 of the Starbucks Live & Inspire Series. We've got 4 more sessions to go for this season before we take a break and prepare for Season 2.

In total, we've done 17 weeks now running, reaching out to over a few thousand people across the globe (yeap, got ppl following us from Singapore, Australia, US and Canada woi), highlighting 17 extraordinary people & topics (back to back), best of all connecting lives and creating greater possibilities. I'm in awe of the support and am in gratitude for this. Yes, we've worked hard to put this together, and create a platform for personal discovery and growth. We started off unknown, with only Voize and The Sun giving us a chance. Now we have quite a number of press, covering us. We're appreciative of our sponsors, from Maybank & Starbucks right up to IACT and Bangsar Village who helped us take this platform to the next level.l. And now, more have come forth to support.

I share with you this, only to let you know that the platform was never ours to begin with. It belongs to a community that grows. The energy of the people that come and support in person or in any form possible have contributed to growing social consciousness on a mass scale. Not only does the platform now nurtures the minds of those supporting it, it nurtures the spirit and heart. And it is beginning to reach out by FIRST reaching within. We're now serving this platform on a whole new level.

I say, the weekly platform has evolved and gone beyond what we've set out to achieve (which was initially providing, bite sized info for inspiration, consistently). It has evolved to a platform where awareness expands into unconditional love. You should meet the people that come.
It has gone beyond a company, into a purpose larger than any entity.

Tomorrow, STARBUCKS LIVE & INSPIRE featuring Ninie Ahmad...It just gets better. ;)

Joy and love to every one of you.

Tim Fernandez.

The extension of who you are.

2010-01-20T14:36:00.001+08:00

You'd find fulfillment and at times, purpose, when you've found that the work you do is an extension of who you are. It is not abt being noble with a purpose. It is about being in flow with who you are, and magnifying it in depth and reach. The doing, alwayssssssssss goes back to the being. Then doing becomes purposeful.

Of religion and significance

2010-01-10T17:55:00.001+08:00

When men choose to identify with religion, the need for significance becomes their reach. Choose love and the need to reach (out) becomes significant. While attaining significance is about being outstanding, the latter choice to love - is simply about attaining understanding.

from my lens: The Coffee Connoisseur

2010-01-03T23:48:00.003+08:00

Loved the vanilla Oreo milkshake here, Bugis Junction in Singapore. =)

Workaholic me?

2009-12-28T02:08:00.003+08:00

There is no work for me. What seemed like work many years ago have come to evolve itself. The more I indulge in the "work" I do, the more the line between work and life gets blurred. What many would probably think of me as a workaholic, I have found it to be a way of life. What I found intriguing to this is that I do not have to split my sense of purpose and being in any present moment. Hence, I think this is one of the craziest calls I've made in life thus far. I call it crazy because the world doesn't resonate to that idea just yet. One of discoveries from making this call in life, is simple freedom. Freedom to just BE and resonate from within. The more I indulge in the work I do, the more I discover reasons to live from unconditional love. The better I get with it, I discovered that I go beyond space and time.
Just some late night thoughts....
Good night. Joy & love to you.

My thoughts on resolutions

2009-12-23T14:47:00.004+08:00

From the many goals I've set out to achieve, I've come to discover the ones that are bigger than self are the ones that manifested itself first. In that process, everything else took care of itself. Also discovered that when it grows bigger than self, you don't change, you evolveeeeeeee! Life takes on a different twist, beyond economic value. While I acknowledge the importance of economic value and its relevance to daily living, I guaranteeeeeeeeee you'll find something that exceeds that. And it's not even self fulfillment. It goes beyond and you'd find life to be one with your presence. So perhaps, here is a consideration, if you're taking the time and effort to set your new year's resolution this time around - let's explore what happens if you go BEYOND SELF. Surprise yourself, it'd be somewhat fun to work on it, and the flow of passion that comes around is wayyyyyyyyy DIFFERENT than aiming for that BMW or Mercedes :)

lol....though I would say the new Mercedes E class rocks... :)

So yeah, I am discovering life too. Everyday I make a choice to live from nothing.

Here's to a your resolution. May you spread joy and love from that space.