When The Soul Experience Life

We have a lot of learning in this world, in life that we have so we can experience what it's like to be in the planet Earth. The Earth is a challenging place that a soul may take its form on how it can experience human diversity. While in this planet, we are governed by the rules and norms that guides the soul when it incarnates to take its lessons. That principle applies to all souls so we can follow and sometimes we deviate this principle. Like the moral values which govern human beings, we commit mistakes and while living on earth, human can always correct anything wrong that he or she has committed to redeem himself before one is ready for ascension.

It is true that all souls are here to experience everything about life. But moral principles are created for guidance that human can employ for himself. Like the school, there are rules and regulations to be followed as standard which guides all the students to achieve what has been mandated and later on when he learns a lot is for him to finish the studies and later graduate from school. Life is just like that, when the soul experience on becoming a human being. It follows norms to guide him all the way down until he achieves his own ascension.

That is why, being an incarnated soul, whatever wrongful act that we do is not only to experience life but also to right it, until we become pure as light in heaven.

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Lake Poway in San Diego

Over the weekend, I had a chance to go back in San Diego and this is the second time around to visit the county as my friend took me there for an event. In the last course before going back to Orange County, they brought me on the lake and had a glimpse on and never stayed long due to time constraints. Below are some of the photos we had in Lake Poway.

me and Elven as Malou takes the photo

sitting on the grill

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Extraordinary Desserts in San Diego

We arrived Friday, September 21 in San Diego for another round of getaway. Foods are irresistible, and when you are in a diet, you will never be able to get away from tasting some unique foods. Sometimes our dining experience will not be complete unless you get some desserts.

creme brulee

chocolate cake

The following day, after we attended the event we went to Coronado where you can see the scrappers in San Diego separating from the sea way. After the diner in the Thai restaurant, we went to a place called Extraordinary Desserts in the downtown of San Diego. This place is popular for its unique desserts and the people outside are in line just to get their orders from the cashier.

I had Crème Brulee as my order and some of my friend had the chocolate dessert.

Extraordinary Desserts is much more than a collection cakes, pastries and sweets. It was created by chef and author Karen Krasne made from the finest ingredients found anywhere on earth.

For more information about the Extraordinary Desserts, please visit their website address at www.extraordinarydesserts.com. 

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Noodles And Ice Cream

It's been a while since my last entry about foods. But today (9/18 in California) I had a nice time with a friend and we went to Gomen at Katella Avenue in Stanton California. She treated me a lunch. Starbucks in Cypress has been my usual hang out place since the beginning as I always bring my laptop to surf the internet. She picked me up in Starbucks and proceeded to Gomen. It's a small restaurant that serves Japanese dishes and soup is usually their main dishes, the ramen noodles. And honestly I forgot what soup I ordered but anyway, it doesn't really matter. This is the second time around I had lunch in Gomen.

After eating our lunch, right next to Gomen is a small ice cream parlor at La Flor de Mexico. It's just beside Gomen. I had 2 scoops, one is rocky road and the other one is dulce de crema.

We had a short dine in and then went back to Starbucks.

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5 Things “Loving Yourself” Actually Means

5 Things “Loving Yourself” Actually Means

APR. 3, 2013 

By BRIANNA WIEST

It’s the age-old supposed cure-all for all of life’s woes (especially involving matters of the heart): “loving yourself first.” I don’t know how many times I’ve had to hear this, but I imagine the number is up there because what I do know is how many times I’ve thought to myself: what does that even mean. Because it used to sound to me like some weird form of narcissism or delusional way of not acknowledging anything wrong you’ve done. It used to sound like it meant you shouldn’t take responsibility for yourself, or something like that. But low and behold, I’ve come to the conclusion that it actually means loving yourself because you are a flawed person, and despite the fact that you are imperfect. And while I’m at it, here are some other things that I think loving yourself really means:

1. Having the courage to forgive yourself. It means being able to acknowledge your humanity, your wrongdoing, but to not let it be a source of internal hatred. To understand that not forgiving yourself is the harshest criticism, and that nobody in your life will be able to love you until you forgive yourself for being human. Embrace your perfectly flawed self; it’s what makes the world so beautifully diverse and interesting.

2. Understanding that not your weight, nor your hair color, nor your choice of clothing, nor the funny way your stomach rolls when you slouch down makes you any less attractive than anybody else. There is not only one way to be beautiful, and loving yourself means realizing your own beauty for what it is, not in the context of how you look compared to anyone else (especially the nauseatingly perfect people in magazines).

3. That you have the choice to do what you love or to continue living a life being submissive to the expectations put on you.Loving yourself means understanding what makes your soul happy, and doing that thing as frequently as you’re able. Regardless of how much money you make, regardless of who judges you for it, and regardless of whether or not you’re wildly successful doing it. All you need to be successful is the knowledge that you are doing what you love most.

4. That not everyone will love you, and that not everybody has to.If you are being true to yourself, and somebody has a problem with that, that is their negative energy to deal with, not yours. Loving yourself means knowing that you will never have the love, praise and approval of absolutely everybody you meet, but that doesn’t reflect anything about who you are.

5. Understanding that you have to love yourself before you can love anybody else, or before anyone else can love you. A relationship filled with anxiety, self-doubt, insecurity, etc. is headed for Hell, and I don’t think that’s news to anybody. You have to feel worthy of love, and that comes from loving yourself. How is someone else going to think you’re totally awesome when even you don’t think you are? A: they’re not. The greatest thing loving yourself means is that once you do, you’re better equipped to let the world love you as well.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/5-things-loving-yourself-actually-means/

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The Entrance To Oneness

Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You’re being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your child, or your most intimate lover—anyone. This lover doesn’t need anything from you, isn’t looking for personal gratification, and only wants your complete fulfillment.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success— none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, “I am.”

This is your deeper heart, your intuitive heart. It is the place where the higher mind, pure awareness, the subtler emotions, and your soul identity all come together and you connect to the universe, where presence and love are.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not “I love you” for this or that reason, not “I love you if you love me.” It’s love for no reason, love without an object. It’s just sitting in love, a love that incorporates the chair and the room and permeates everything around. The thinking mind is extinguished in love.

Excerpted from Ram Dass

http://www.ramdass.org/the-entrance-to-oneness/

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Hugging The Big Bear

I was quiet for the past few weeks as this gave me the opportunity to spend more time getting to know Big Bear. This place is California's premiere four-season vacation destination. This scenic beauty is regarded among the best ski resort in California. It's part of San Bernardino County, about 2-3 hour drive from Los Angeles.

I fell in love with this place where nature is more prominent with approximately 5,000 people leaving in this town. Before getting to Big Bear, you will pass a zigzag road with over 7,000 feet above ground level.

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Orange County Fair

Last Saturday we went to the Orange County Fair. This is an annual and a month long festival at Costa Mesa in Orange County, California that is held every summer. The fair first took place in the year 1890 in Sta. Ana and one of the highlight of this event in that year there were some minor exhibits and a horse race. The early fairs consist of live stock shows, horse races and some carnivals.

a giveaway bags from one of the sponsors

Food vendor selling corns

Barbecue

Chicjen Barbecue

A cable ride

Going to the livestock show

The goat in the livestock show

Some visitors inside the live stock show

me

the food that we ate

my feet at the cable ride

you can see the carnivals while on a cable ride

fun game where i won a hand sanitizer

We went early in the morning and paid the entrance fee of $3 for each person. But if you'll come a bit later, the price goes up to $10.

The fair also includes a trade show where we went inside to see some product exhibit of the vendors.

Food vendors piled up outside to sell their delicacies.

We left the fair around 3 p.m. and decided to take our late lunch at Z-Cafe in Costa Mesa mall.

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A Day In El Dorado Park

Yesterday was a surprised visit to El Dorado Park in Long Beach. A surprise because I never had an idea that my friend will bring me to this place. Our original plan was to go to Raw Dust Arts Gallery Fair in Laguna Beach. My friend fetched me in Starbuck, Buena Park along Las Palmas avenue. We went to Cerritos at Goldilocks for a buffet. El Dorado Park was approximately 15-minute drive from Cerritos.

The main entrance of the park

A small lake in the park

a small stream and behind is a bridge

In the park, you'll pass some bridges. Just before getting into the trail, there are directions and in the map you are given which trail you have to go, either in 3 or 5 miles trail. But between a trail, is a path whether you continue for another mile trail or on a two mile trail. There are some animals in the park and on the lake are turtles and fishes. Squirrels, birds and some species can be found here.

Some bench are available if you are tired walking

In the trail are trails to make your experience cozy

direction if you want to continue the trail on 1 or 2 mile

bufferfly caught in the act

We sat on the bench for meditation

you can hug a tree for grounding

setting my camera on

This park is good for meditation and if you want to commune in nature without going far from the city, El Dorado is just good as a small forest in the city.

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Preparing For The Next Getaway

Most of  my time I go to Starbucks as my hang-out and spend 6 to 8 hours daily. Usually I go by different Starbucks places. When I had nothing to do, as everyone does, I open my laptop and spend my time largely on Facebook, Google or watching videos on You Tube. I leave home between 10 or 11 a.m. and come back around 10 at night.  This is my usually routine when I am not going to places.

I'm almost 3 months to Uncle Sam's place yet I haven't been to the core of my intent and this is due to several factors involved. After all, traveling is an expensive hobby, just like photography but they both go hand and hand. Experience will not be complete without taking photos so we know the importance of photography when traveling and blogging.

I am pushing the button the best way I can, so I will be able to get these places at the soonest time. Right now, I am still preparing for my next getaway.

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On Twin Flame Concept

A TWIN FLAME connection can be hardly verbalized, but you KNOW it in your heart that this person is your twin flame even without saying any words...the good thing about this connection is when you see this person, you''ll see the beauty in you, the bad and the flaw that you will need to work on..you don't have to romanticize this connection or over-idealized this person as a perfect fit of put it as a standard to any other relationships as twin flame is purely spiritual, and you have to let go of your expectations. the RECOGNITION may not be instantaneous, but as you GROW and LEARN spiritually, you will recognize this person..you cry because you see yourself in another body..and you cry because of the yearning, and the PAIN that yo feel is the mark of your REMEMBERING after your have been split apart from your twin soul eons ago..the only way that both of you can merge as one is to LOVE YOURSELF and let go of your own fears and ego....

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