Mirza Yawar Baig Libri

It has been said that true bankruptcy is a full belly and an empty soul. Religion must be a matter of conscious choice. Not a matter of accidental birth. Because on it depends our peace of mind, how we view the world, our relationships with others, what choices we make and the results of those choices in this life and the Hereafter. What we choose to believe or reject must be done thoughtfully after due reflection and investigation because our present and our everlasting future both depend on it. It can't be left to incidental following of traditions and customs we don't even know the origin or meanings of just because our parents or elders used to do them. One's spiritual journey is as important if not more, as one's journey in this life in terms of one's career or other criteria and so deserves an equal mindshare and effort.I wish you all the best in your quest for knowledge and pray that you are guided to the truth because in the end it is essential that we know what the truth is and that we believe it and prepare for it. It is the nature of reality that it does not depend on belief for its existence and that one day it has to be faced whether we chose to believe in it or not.

We all look. But we all don't see. To look, you merely need eyes. To see you need a heart. You need understanding. And above all you need thankfulness. I've lived in different parts of the world and in different cultures but what remained with me throughout my life, is my connection with nature. There are sea people, mountain people, desert people. I'm a jungle person. When I'm in a forest, I am part of a universal culture and one with an environment which truly embodies what we humans like to call unity in diversity. We pay lip service to this concept while focusing more on our differences and using them to hate each other and build walls to keep us separate from each other. In nature, in the forest, those walls don't exist, hatred has no place. A predator kills for food. Not out of hatred. Animals don't rape, torture or destroy out of hatred. They don't loot, burn and take delight in mayhem. That's why I like to retreat to their world from time to time, to remind myself that an alternate to our world is not only possible but already exists. If only we can see.