July 2025

Let’s get back to journaling then. I have been skipping it lately to focus on dealing with some tasks.

Now, where to begin?

July 3

Sometimes I have a feeling that I’m overthinking too much. I cannot help but remember reading a post, which claims that overthinking is a result of ignorance.

Am I still trapped in ignorance – unable to see reality as it is?

When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Byron Katie

Our society often hail achievements as something to be proud of. And yet, if I look at things from a spiritual perspective, it seems that it’s just greed in action. Greed blatantly promoted.

To learn to control greed – and ultimately, let it pass, let all emotions come and go… I suppose that’s what I should be heading for. And that, I believe, is part of the core of spirituality.

To forget oneself and gradually become part of a greater whole.

When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are.

Just have faith and move slowly, I guess. Don’t panick. Don’t think too much. Don’t be too obsessed with anything.

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Well then, I have finished the pending part-time tasks for the upcoming six months (most of them – with the exception of a few that cannot be done right now yet). I hope that I can now focus fully on the thing that I have been forsaking for quite long.

Before going to attend my “ritual” this afternoon, let’s try to kickstart it a bit. And then to go to the gym this evening. As tiring as it is, I know I should keep doing it.

To take care of the body, the mind, and the soul – all three simultaneously.

Let’s focus completely without letting myself be distracted. I have no time for games!

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

(04:23 PM GMT+7 – July 3, 2025)

July 4

What do I do? What do I do now?

Sometimes I worry too much. As if there was anything to worry about.

We all do it from time to time, right? We freak out because of many things. But they are all “illusions”, after all.

We become so frustrated – because we are trapped in “ideas”. “It has to be this”, “It has to be that”.

How far from reality is that?

When you practice looking deeply, you see your true nature of no birth, no death; no being, no non-being; no coming, no going; no same, no different. When you see this, you are free from fear. You are free from craving and free from jealousy. No fear is the ultimate joy. When you have the insight of no fear, you are free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

(09:58 AM GMT+7 – July 4, 2025)