One can never find true peace, love, joy, contentment in this world until one learns to find it first within inside where is has always been.
Only then can we recognise peace, love, joy, contentment and only then will we reflect it - only when your candle is lit can we light other candles.
That brings gratitude and understanding.
Then we can have clarity. Then we can really enjoy life.
by
Alun Buffry
(1982)
Life flows so quick like golden sand
Each grain a day passed through God’s hand
Each moment precious as a jewel
And Yet I waste it like a fool.
You looked at me my heart to sway
But blind I was and looked away
Back to desires and lust and greed
From which You begged me to be freed.
I never ceased to grab and hoard,
Always forgetting my sweet Lord,
That Love lives on within inside
From whom no soul would wish to hide.
I pray to you Lord, to be so kind
And give me strength to ignore my mind,
So from your path I’ll never stray
And at your feet my life will stay.
Those things for which once I craved
You showed inside and I was saved,
Life’s flow became a flow of bliss.
Each grain a chance Your feet to kiss.
And if ever off I stray again,
Please call me back to Holy Name
That Light inside me, make it glow,
Your endless love, please let me know.
Introduction to If Only Suomi - a love story through time:
Most books are considered to be fiction or non-fiction or a combination, written before or after the events therein. Those are either historical, which can include a lot of speculation and guesswork; simply made up, futuristic, speculative, prophecies or wishful thinking. This book is all of that. It’s questionable when exactly it was written. It is clearly written after events in the author’s life, but both before and after the present day. in 2020, on our calendars.
It
includes memories and dreams, prophecies and wishful thinking. In
fact, some sort of time travel. If only in the mind.
So
what is the difference between dreams and memories?
We
can have memories of dreams and dreams of memories.
We can
have dreams within dreams.
What is the difference between
reality and illusions or imagination? Dreams can seem very real and
what we normally call reality can often seem unreal.
Ancient
religions tell us that the world is nothing but an illusion, just at
twinkle in the eye of the Creator, a cutting from the fingernail of
Krishna, ‘Maya’.
“All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” wrote William Shakespeare.
As children we sang
“Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life
is but a dream.”
Modern-day
scientists
may tell us that the whole Universe and everything around us, even
our own bodies, is made of subatomic particles, too small to see with
the naked eye, and waves, that sometimes it may be a particle and
sometimes a wave, wave-particle duality and, according to the
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we can never say exactly when and
where a particle is. They say that it is mostly space and that it is
our senses and brains that put it all together so we can live in it.
In other words; an illusion.
Others even say that
technically it is all holographic! We are not actually here at
all!
And
some religious folk who believe in an all-powerful God
may
say that it was all
made not so long
ago, to look like it is much older, like a film set or a game of
Dungeons and Dragons.
Then there are dreams within dreams.
