How to live your life by Alan McDougall

[Alan McDougall]

Be a perfect listener, observe what is happening around you by this your response will be the correct one

There is one set of cloths that you will carry for your whole life, your body a gift from god so appreciate it and look after it and love it.

Self esteem is the highest morality if you hate yourself you will hate others and if you love and appreciate yourself you will love and appreciate others.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Pleasure should be the manifestation of inner joy and you experience through your five senses normally, but sometimes the sixth sense gives you glimpses of the eternal places of happiness.


Guard all the doors or inputs to your mind; you are the one that permits these images or sounds into your brain. What we allow into our minds in of such prime importance that it cannot overstated.


The greatest attribute is honesty so be actively honest and truthful. When you are totally honest God is nearest. Truth and Honesty = Love



Be fair with yourself and others but remember life is not always fair and your circumstances are unique so address them with your own wisdom or with the help and love of those you admire as wise.



You are bound by your own ethics, morality and conscious and if you live according to those your life will be more peaceful. It is not really God who judges you; it is you who judges yourself at the end of the day.

The greatest lesson is possibly not taking ourselves seriously and laughing at ourselves



The lessons of life will be repeated to you over and over again until you have learned them and only when you have learned them can you move on to the next lesson in the great school we call life



Never ever, stop learning, even if you live to be one hundred years of age. Fascination with all things around you makes a rich and wonderful personality.



Very important absolute necessity of very carefully choosing a real soul mate and friend who travel’s the road of life with you, namely your spouse “Love and cherish God together.

Establish and maintain a link to the Divine, each one in their own personal way, be it by meditations, prayer, or contemplation of the glory of existence. Do whatever invigorates you the most. Make life fun, pleasurable, happy, joyful but never depraved. “Don’t practice sin”

Really, life should be exquisite, fun, pleasurable, enjoyable and glorious. Avoid unhealthy obsessions like a plague. However, not all obsessions are unhealthy and the magnificent obsession is to love others as you love yourself and to love your creator who gave you the most precious gift, the “Gift of Life”


There are energy vampires, who will drain you of your life energy, leave you exhausted and depressed. You might be discerning sickness or depression in them so try to help them when you can. Avoid them if they refuse to acknowledge their need.

Make your friends are energy invigorators and try to be one yourself. Again, the key here is ones sense of humor. The mendacious (liars) are a pain and do not make good company but sometimes we can overlook and just laugh at their ridiculous stories.

Of course, life is not always a bed of roses and those dark times will come to us all. Nevertheless, when in the long cold night of darkness of hopelessness and despair, one should always realize that the dawn will always come again and the sun shine warm once again upon ones cheek in the morning of joy. Take it from someone who really knows!

Oh! How important it is to be forgiving. Unforgiving has no purpose and will fester like a malignant tumor and result in ill health, doing more harm to yourself than to the one you will not forgive. Love each other. However, how does one do this? Love is an action, so do love, even if you don’t feel it. Carry it out by actions.

Compassion is a wonderful unique human quality, so enhance this within your being to the utmost degree. Read and study everything that enhances your life and increases your knowledge. Have a daily dialogue with God by prayer.

Don’t allow anyone to take away from you that which you know is true to yourself. Honesty is the best policy.


Wisdom comes with the passing years, but ask children difficult questions and you will be amazed at their insight.

Live life like an incandescent light, glowing brightly until you put off this mortal cloak and blink out of this existence into the glorious next phase of life, beyond mortal life. In other words, live until your demise.

Savor and cherish each glorious moment.

Be careful not to say hurtful things to others because once the words have left your lips you can never take them back. The silliest quote is “Sticks and stones can hurt my bones but names (word) can never hurt me”.

Words can kill and do kill; it is words that start wars and words that bring peace and joy. Choose the right words and you will live a life of deep meaning



You legacy will become the heritage of those that come after you, and so what you do with your life is not only important to yourself.

There is one companion that will be with you every moment of your life and you should love this person as much as you love anything in the whole world.

This precious person is none other than you.

You are truly absolutely 100% unique. There has never been one like you, there is now no one like you, and in all the future eternities, will there ever be another like you.

Of you fathers half billion sperm cells, only “one” reached your mother’s “one” of a hundred thousand eggs and this zygote was the beginning of you. No has ever had your unique genetic D.N.A. code or fingerprint and no one ever will.

Are you not, therefore, very special and is it so wrong to love and respect the wonderful creation you are?



Use and develop your intuition to a very high degree and it will help you from stumbling on the rocks along the pathways of Life.

Have you not been aware when you come into a room and meet a stranger that there is an instant liking or dislike between the two of you? On the other hand, you have felt that a course of action was wrong and the closer you got the more uncomfortable you got with this course of action.

These are examples of intuition, listen and adjust to them carefully and you could avoid much pain sorrow and anguish in your life.




Go outside or get away from the noise of the city and in the quiet of early morning listen carefully, you will hear the birds chirping like beautiful electrons in the mind of God. Take in the glory of existence all around and feast your eyes on its beauty.

You know, of all the countless trillions of snowflakes, leaves, flowers, and no two are identical and each one is a unique creation of the Divine mind of God. Feel the breeze upon your skin, smell the fragrance of the universe bath in the glory and joy of you existence.

Be at peace with yourself and all the rest of the universe. You are a child of the universe, so special and wonderful. Develop the dormant senses beyond the five that are not utilized, and you will merge yourself in the wonder of the cosmic mind.


Take your mind into the place of unimaginable beauty and wonder, go on a journey into places you have never been and go further into the cosmic vastness of the beauty of the universe, with the power of imagination.

What is the purpose of life? It is to live it to the full, without hurting others or doing the depraved. Charity is wonderful gift to the soul. Question everything with a sense of anticipation and wonder.

Love and respect your mortal body, as it is the vehicle that takes on this journey through mortal life on earth. However, know this your consciousness or life energy is eternal and continues on forever, beyond the last curtain of life on this blessed earth.

Planet earth is our beloved mother and we must preserve her, love her and cherish her in all her blue glory. She is a blue blazing diamond glowing brightly in the vastness of the universe. Love all Gods’ creatures.

Get all your priorities in order. Spouse, companion, family and children first. A balance in life between ones occupation and home life is essential or the psyche becomes unbalanced and depression and anxiety will take hold of you. Take much time to be with the one you know best, namely, yourself.

Life is a school and if you do not pass a test, you will repeat it repeatedly until you have passed it and only then be able to move on. Life made up of countless choices and each choice could ultimately determine and define ones destiny. Refer back to chapter one!

How we maintain good health, I think by developing a powerful sense of humor, much laughter and exposing one to things we find extremely funny. Then having sufficient exercise combined with a balanced diet of fish and a combination of as many brightly colored fruit and vegetables as one can afford. Genetic proposition unfortunately plays a factor not always under our control. Red meat should be restricted to the rare occasion. Remember, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and if you pollute it with toxic substances, you will suffer the consequences thereof.

Love animals they also are creations of God, cruelty is abhorrent in all its forms and love the highest ethic known to humanity. God is love outside love we separate ourselves from God



I, however, acknowledge that the complexities and realities of life are much more complex than what I have written in my brief essay and thousands of voluminous unreadable books have been written of this subject. Therefore, the above is my humble attempt, be it what it may.

I had to prune this until it became almost meaningless

By Alan McDougall
Composed 12/7/2007
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[Bradshaw]

I will say this:

You would make a great writer!

[lifetimelearner]

I have some of those quotes

[Alan McDougall]

Hi, and thank you people,

Your positive comments will spure me on to greater heights.

God Bless you

Alan

[avaj]

I first wanted to say smth along the lines of "the texts are great, but regarding the title: in principle, nobody can tell someone else 'how to live his life', because each of us is ultimately alone. and one thus bears the sole responsibility for how one lives. advice cannot be given and cannot be taken, on an ultimate level."

then I started to think about what my current way of living means, as I find myself in a dichotomy between daily action [I can never be the apathetic passer-by when injustice happens within my sight] and the philosophy I resonate most with - "the observer". it is a thing I'll have to consider in more depth.

and then I found myself re-reading a poem that better illustrates what I meant above. the English translation does not do full justice to the original, but is pretty good. does anyone else resonate with what it tries to say? does anyone else feel drawn to "the observer" position in life?

Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is right and what is wrong,
You must think and ask of you;
Have no hope and have no fear,
Waves that rise can never hold;
If they urge or if they cheer,
You remain aloof and cold.

To our sight a lot will glisten,
Many sounds will reach our ear;
Who could take the time to listen
And remember all we hear?
Keep aside from all that patter,
Seek yourself, far from the throng
When with loud and idle clatter
Time goes by, time comes along.

Nor forget the voice of reason
Or its even scales depress
When the moment, changing season,
Wears the mask of happiness -
It is born of reason's slumber
And may last a wink as true:
For the one who knows its number
All is old and all is new.

Be as to a play, spectator,
As the world unfolds before:
You will know the heart of matter
Should they act two parts or four;
When they cry or tear asunder
From your seat enjoy along
And you'll learn from art to wonder
What is right and what is wrong.

Past and future, ever blending,
Are the twin sides of same page:
New start will begin with ending
When you know to learn from age;
All that was or be tomorrow
We have in the present, too;
But what's vain and futile sorrow
You must think and ask of you;

For the living cannot sever
From the means we've always had:
Now, as years ago, and ever,
Men are happy or are sad:
Other masks, same play repeated;
Diff'rent tongues, same words to hear;
Of your dreams so often cheated,
Have no hope and have no fear.

Hope not when the villains cluster
By success and glory drawn:
Fools with perfect lack of luster
Will outshine Hyperion!
Fear it not, they'll push each other
To reach higher in the fold,
Do not side with them as brother,
Waves that rise can never hold.

Sounds of siren songs call steady
Toward golden nets, astray;
Life attracts you into eddies
To change actors in the play;
Steal aside from crowd and bustle,
Do not look, seem not to hear
From your path, away from hustle,
If they urge or if they cheer;

If they reach for you, go faster,
Hold your tongue when slanders yell;
Your advice they cannot master,
Don't you know their measure well?
Let them talk and let them chatter,
Let all go past, young and old;
Unattached to man or matter,
You remain aloof and cold.

You remain aloof and cold
If they urge or if they cheer;
Waves that rise can never hold,
Have no hope and have no fear;
You must think and ask of you
What is right and what is wrong;
All is old and all is new,
Time goes by, time comes along.

(Glossa, author M. Eminescu 1883, translation A.G. Sahlean cca 2000, both public domain AFAIK)

[Alan McDougall]

AVAJ


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I first wanted to say smth along the lines of "the texts are great, but regarding the title: in principle, nobody can tell someone else 'how to live his life', because each of us is ultimately alone. and one thus bears the sole responsibility for how one lives. advice cannot be given and cannot be taken, on an ultimate level."

Of course the essay is just a suggestion based on my life long experience.

It is an ideal , not an absolute and the measure of my words would be, If on took these words to heart and acted and reacted on them would the result be positive or negative.

Alan