1. An interesting person is a person who is interested. God has given us eyes not to insult but to look beyond situations. Lips not to criticize but to speak for truth. Hands not to punish sinners but to give a helping hand. Ears not to be insensitive but to hear voice in pain. The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So I am careful with my words. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decided to be. I'm not your free time or your second choice, prioritize me or leave me alone. When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time.
  
    2. Everyday I wake up with determintion and I go to bed with satisfaction. I added life to my days and not days to my life. I'm human. I have weakness, I make mistakes, and I experience sadness; but I learn from all these things and they make me a better person. No one is perfect... that's why pensils have erasers. When I am pushed to the edge of difficulty two things can happen: either I will catch myself when I fall, or I will learn how to fly.

   3. I will be always mute when asked who I am, because only great joy or great sorrow can reveal my truth. Happiness isn't about getting what I want all the time, it's about loving what I have and being grateful for It... Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more I understand certain thing the more I wish I didn't understand them...  I don't care what people say about me, I know who I am, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone. So you must hear from me and never hear about me. I don't have to defend or explain my decisions to anyone. Good people give me happiness. Bad people give me experience. The worst people give me a lesson and the best people give me memories. I stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution. I'm smart but I don't ignore my responsibility. I'm not afraid of losing people. I'm afraid of losing myself trying to please everyone around me.

   4. Perhaps I'm talkative but I know what to say and not what not to say. I'm a wise man but I regard myself as a simple person. I don't deserve someone who comes back, I deserve someone who never leaves. I run for wealth but I don't corrupt around. I follow my words and I'm a man of my words. I turn my ear deaf to a wrong speaker. I think twice before I leap. I know what I say but the others say what they know. I'm humble enough to know I'm not better than anyone, and wise enough to know that I'm different from others.

   5. What I long for and can't attain is dearer to me than what I have already attained. I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. When my hands were empty I received nothing, and when my hands become full I find none to receive. I would master no one, and I would be mastered by none. I'm neither above anyone nor lower than anyone. I never blame anyone in my life. I'm too old for games, too tired to pretend and too wise for lies.

   6. Hate me once, shame on you. Hate me twice, shame on me. Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots. The  difference between humans and animals is: Animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack. Haters don't really hate me. In fact, they hate themselves because I'm a reflection of what they wish to be. Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. I don't need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. I never loose friends, I simply learn who the real ones are. I have two hearts: one bleeds and the other forbears. Once the heart gets too heavy with pain, people don't cry. They just turn silent, completely silent.

   7. Moreover​, I don't wish to give more than I can, and to take more than I need. I will have my second birth when my soul and my body love one another. My life isn't happening to me; my life is responding to me. I'm the writer of my life story and I'm the director of my life movie. I decide what my life will be - by what I give out. My life is one huge learning process where I never stop learning. My life is a mirror in which I should absorb good things and reflect bad things. My life is not about finding myself, my life is about creating myself. when life put me in hard and embarrassed situation I put it in same.

   8. Sometimes I am unsatisfied with my life, while many people in this world are dreaming of living my life. A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of flying. But, a pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of returning home. That's life! I enjoy mine... If wealth is the secret of happiness, then the rich should be dancing on the streets. But only poor kids do that. If power ensures security, then officials should work unguarded. But those who live simply, sleep soundly. If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then celebrities should have the best marriages. I live simply, I walk humbly and I love genuinely... All good will come back to me.

   9. It’s not the doubt, it’s the certainty that drives me crazy.    I'm rejected and I accepted it... I feel unloved and I let the others go... They choose someone over me, I was been move on ... I remember that in every "no" from someone, there is a "yes" to someone better is waiting for me...

   10. All those who have lived in the past live with me now. I can long more so I can live longer. When I am given to choose between the hard and the easy I will choose the hard. And when I commit a wrong I don't comfort myself that others also commit wrong. And when I forbore for weakness, I don't attribute my patience to strength.
 
   11. Sometimes, I whitewash my inherent faults with my acquired virtues. I attribute to myself crimes I have never committed, so that the other person may feel comfortable in my presence. And when I defend my wrongs with more vigor than I do my rights, I feel half guilty of the misdeeds of the others. Is there a greater fault than being conscious of the other person's faults? If the other person injures me, I may forget the injury; but if I injure him I will always remember. Perhaps I may commit suicide in self-defense. So don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

   12. Otherwise, I don't despise the ugliness of a face, knowing that it was one of my own masks. In fact, there is a space between my imagination and my attainment that may only be traversed by my longing. Thus my significance is not in what I attain, but rather in what I long to attain. So my reality is not in what I reveal to others, but in what I can't reveal to them. Therefore, if they would understand me, they must not listen to what I say but rather to what I don't say.

   13. As I am a seeker, I contemplated and meditated in order to possess a knowledge stranger than life and more terrible than death, but deeper than truth. When I reach the end of what I should know, I will be at the beginning of what I should sense. I would fulfill myself. Only when I seek all men shall I know myself. I found myself born at all times and anywhere.

   14. Life is formed from the inside out. What I am inside determines the issues in the battle of life. So my life emerges from my within, and derives not from environs. All things in this vast universe exist in me, with me, and for me. My life is one huge learning process where I never stop learning.

   15. Effectively, my healthy mind is in my healthy body. So when I am hungry, I eat indiscriminately, but this will damage my health. Likewise, I need wholesome spiritual food to maintain my spiritual health. Verily not by bread alone does people live. We could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light. I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipulated; to be useful, not used; to excel, not compete. I choose self esteem, not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinions of others. I choose to be ME. No matter what other people think. God made me the way I am for a reason. Besides, an original is always worth more than a copy.

   16. My soul is trembling from desires. I'm manifold. My variety is a spice of my life. But I don't like traditions, customs, and man-made laws... So my mind is universal which has the intention and will to maintain the highest values for human life.

   17. To me, it's to be strong, but not to the undoing of the weak; to play with young children, not as father and mother, but rather as playmates who would learn their games, and unless we change and become spontaneous and innocent, like them, we can't attain our happiness; to be simple and guileless with old men and women, and to sit with them; to be partner to the purpose of every one; to be bold and not meek, spacious and not confined. To go upon the way with singing brief songs which shall live in human hearts. To tell a lovely truth in little words, but never an ugly truth in any words. Not to be yielding, but understanding with the smile upon the lips. To have a larger self which contains all mankind.

   18. If you stay, stay forever. If you go, do it today. If you change, change for the better. And if you talk, make sure you mean what you say. Smile, it will make you feel better. Pray, it will keep you strong. Love, it will make you enjoy life.

   19. Moreover, if it's a care I'd cast off, that care has been chosen by me rather than imposed upon me. And if it's a fear I'd dispel, the seat of that fear is in my heart and not in the hand of the feared, for fear reveals what the heart forbids. Verily all things move within my being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which I'd escape.

   20. Otherwise, I deserted the people because their natures were in conflict with mine, and their dreams did not agree with my dreams... I sought solitude solely to avoid the people and their laws, their teachings and their traditions, their ideas and their clamour, and finally their wailing. I sought solitude for in it there is a full life for the spirit, heart and body. I found the endless prairies where the light of the sun rests, and where the flowers breathe their fragrance into space... I found the fresh awakening of the spring, the colourful longing of summer, the rich songs of autumn, and the beautiful mystery of winter. I came to the nature for I hungered to learn the secrets of the universe: strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

   21. In fact, the people are made of the same element and do not vary except in their exterior appearance, which is of no consequence. Nowadays, people know the price of everything, but they don't appreciate anything. The misery of nations and civilization is: hypocrisy, deceit, falsehood, greed, crim, vanity, and slavery. I found that their inventions and discoveries are but amusement and comfort for the body when it is tired and weary. The conquest of distance and the victory over the seas are but false fruit which do not satisfy the soul, nor nourish the heart, neither lift the spirit. And which people calls knowledge and art are not except shackles and golden chains (slavery). Yes, vain are the deeds of people, and vain are their purposes, and all is vanity upon the earth. We need an awakening in the spirit, an awakening in the inner depths of the heart, an overwhelming and magnificent power that descends suddenly upon man's conscience and opens his eyes, a flame that suddenly rages within the spirit and purifies the heart, ascending above the earth and hovering in the spacious sky. It is a kindness that envelops the individual's heart.

   22. Many times I wondered, and spoke to myself, saying: what is this universe, and why am I different from those people who are looking at me, and how do I know them, and where did I meet them, and why am I living among them? Am I a stranger among them, or is it they who are strange to this earth? I left the world to live in the awakeness of life and to enjoy kind thoughts and beautiful silence. It is an awakening within the spirit; he who knows it, is unable to reveal it by words; and he who knows it not, will never think upon the compelling and beautiful mystery of existence.

   23. Moreover, humans are divided into different clans and tribes, and belong to countries and towns. But I find myself a stranger to all communities and belong to no settlement. The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. The whole earth is my birthplace and all humans are my brothers. Men are weak, and they divide amongst themselves. The world is narrow and it's unwise to cleave it into kingdoms, empires, and provences. The Holy Bible states: “From one man God made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth”. (Acts 17/ 26). Human kinds unite themselves only to destroy the temple of soul, to build edifices for earthly bodies. As love enlivens the people's heart with pain, so ignorance teaches them the way to knowledge. Pain and ignorance lead to great joy and knowledge because the Supreme Being has created nothing vain under the sun.

   24. In fact, Humanity is the spirit of the Supreme Being on earth, and that Supreme Being preaches love and good-will. The earth is the heaven of humanity, the manifest spirit of God. Selfishness is the cause of blind superiority, and superiority creates clanship, and clanship creates authority which leads to discord and subjugation. He who doesn't befriend his soul is an enemy of humanity, and he who doesn't find human guidance within himself will perish desperately. Life emerges from within, and derives not from environs.

    25. Verily, calamities have opened my heart, tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. My conscience is my judge: he will justify me and protect me if I am innocent, but he will deny me of life if I am a criminal. Speak not of peoples, laws and kingdoms, for the whole earth is my birthplace and all humans are my brothers.

   26. Otherwise, I believe that people are alive, while in truth they have been dead since they were born. The empty words were placed on human lips by past ages and not by knowledge. They have faith only in the eternity of their desires. They worshipped their own self since the beginning, calling that self by appropriate titles... But how strange are those who worship their own selves which are earthly caracasses.

   27. Moreover, I must be strong by mocking at people's customs and traditions... I accompanied the great person and mingled with the humble, modest ones... I am now in possession of the secrets of existence, but so far from the living deads who are the slaves of life, the slaves to society's rules, city's customs, and purchased friends... pleasing the people by conforming to the strange and narrow laws of people...  But In fact, they are born to be free and enjoy the bounty of life. And it's the slavery which fills their days with misery, distress, tears and anguish.

   28. Now I can see the processions of civilization moving from light into darkness. I have followed man from Middle East to Europe, and from America to Australia, and from... to... I also visited the temples and altars and entered the palaces, and sat before the thrones. And I saw the apprentice slaving for the employer, and the employer slaving for the soldier, and the soldier slaving for the governor, and the governor slaving for the king, and the king slaving for the religious man, and the religious man slaving for the idol... And the idol is naught but earth fashioned by mankind... I entered the mansions of the rich and visited the huts of the poor. I found the infant nursing the milk of slavery from his mother's bosom, and the children learning submission at school. The ladies wear garments of restriction and passivity, and the wives retire with tears upon beds of obedience and legal compliance. Yet I found slavery moving over all, in a glorious and majestic possession of ignorance. People scarify and call the slavery: "God", "prophet"; and sometimes fight and die for her, calling her: "Law", "Patriotism"; destroy homes and institutions, killing for her and calling her: "Fraternity" and "Equality".

   29. In fact, there is no Fraternity nor Equality because of egotism. Thus the slavery possesses various names, but one reality. She is blind, mute, deaf, lame, ugly, subtle, twisted, bent, perpetual and black. From yielding to the traditions and customs, complying with the laws and rules of other people and nations... misery, need, ignorance, humiliation and despair, growing as miserable, and living as criminals... to calling slyness an intelligence, and cowardice a strong refusal, to crowning also the sons of monarchs as kings and branding with shame and disgrace forever the innocent sons of the criminals. That is the reality and the various names of the slavery.

   30. Otherwise, I wish to go out from this world. I don't be loving neither it or the things in it. This world is passing away, and so is its desire. In this world, fear and enjoyment, desires and hopes still exist in human heart. If falsehood, slander, treachery, deceit and mockery... were to be removed from this world, human society would become like a desert field. In fact, the temptation is a measurement by which God adjudges the value of human souls. Would we accept the result after destroying the cause?

   31. Effectively, he who does not love his beloved, whom he has seen, can't be loving God, whom he has not seen. The one who loves God should be loving his beloved also. We must speak not so freely of God, but speak rather and understand one another. It's wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand. In fact, life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love which is the sighs from the deep sea of affection; the laughters from the colourful field of the spirit; and the tears from the endless heaven of memories.

   32. Virtually from birth, religious or ethical ideas are implanted in our mind by our parents and relatives. Thus we become all bigots. An individual's adherence to a certain faith is often determined by the geographical accident of the locality of his birth-place. To study different religions need not imply infidelity to one's own faith, but it may be enlarged by seeing how other people have sought for reality and have been enriched by their search. Knowledge leads to understanding, and understanding to tolerance of people with a different viewpoint.

   33. Jesus Christ stated: "love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you... for God makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust". (Matthew 5/ 44-45). Also the Noble Qur'an stated: (It may be that God will bring about friendship between you and those of them whom you hold as enemies. And God is Powerful; and God is Forgiving, Merciful) [Al-Mumtahanah 7]. So, what effect does my religion have on me? Does it produce a kinder person? More generous, honest, humble, tolerant, and compassionate? Certainly every good tree produces fine fruits. By our fruits we will be totally recognized.

   34. Certainly world history must give us pause and make us wonder what role religion has played in the many wars that devastated mankind and caused untold suffering. Why have so many people killed and been killed in the name of religion? The Crusades, the Inquisition, the conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, the slaughter between Iraq and Iran (1980 - 1988), the Hindu - Sikh clashes in India... and finally in Syria... People wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it... Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religion have afforded a pretext for a thousand. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. People never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. And even as the righteous person can't rise beyond the highest being which is in each one of us, so the weak and the wicked can't fall lower than the lowest being which is in us also. So the wrong-doer can't do wrong without the hidden will of us all.

   35. Effectively, the positive peaceable fruitage of the soul and spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, mildness, self-control... In contrast, the negative is: uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, revelries... Thus, we must be transformed by making our mind over.  We must also long for value in our life which is not accidental and meaningless.

   36. Otherwise, the science of genetics tells us that the basis of our personality traits is formed, not at birth, but at conception, when one of the millions of sperm cells from the father unites with a single egg cell from the mother. At the moment of conception, a person inherits 50% of his genes from each parent. It is said: "show me your mother face: I will tell you who are you". Certainly, children are the mirror of the mother who is the prototype of all existence. Today the science prove that the germ of the race is in the mother's being. This conclude that the mother's wishes, desires, pleasures, and fantasies can influence the yet unborn child. Effectively, When​ l see her face, l behold all her children not yet born. But when she look upon my face she knows all my forefathers, dead before she was born. And the mother overcomes the father with the strength she takes from him.

   37. Verily, human nature is basically good. Thus, the solution to all social ills lies in self-cultivation, and that starts with education and knowledge. According to that, this will enable people to behave properly in every situation, and will make them treat everyone else kindly. The result is peace and harmony in society:  loyalty in ministers and subjects. Thus, when true knowledge is achieved, the will becomes sincere, then the heart is set right, the personal life is cultivated, the family life is regulated, the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world... All must regard the cultivation of the personal life as the root or foundation.

   38. In fact, we must be happy not because everything is good, but because we can see the good in everything. People say: find good people and leave bad ones. But, personally I say: find the good in people and ignore the bad in them. No one is perfect. I don't bother correcting mockers; they will only hate me. But I correct the wise, and they will love me. A smart person learns from his mistakes. A wise one learns from the mistakes of others. Trust is what you put in someone's hands. Faith is what you hold on.

   39. For what profit is it to us if we gain the whole world, and we loose our own soul? Or what will we give in exchange for our soul? Will we gain anything if we win the whole world but we lose our life? Of course not. There is nothing we can give to regain our life. Jesus told us: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?". (Mark 8/ 36). In another place He said: "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of pigs, they will only trample them under their feet and then turn and attack you". (Mathew 7/ 6). Effectively we have received without paying, so we will give without being paid.

   40. Finally, we can't "upload" luck, we can't "download" time, "Google" can't give all the answers in life, so just "login" to reality, and "like" the status of our life. As long as there is Someone in the Sky to protect us, there is no one on earth who could break us. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
  
            Dr. Antoin Jaajaa
         (Clinical psychology)
     antoinjaajaa@gmail.com