There is a story about a little girl who suffered from a serious disease. Her best chance of recovery would be to receive a blood transfusion from her five-year old brother.

The doctor explained situation to little brother. He asked boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister.

The young boy hesitated for a brief moment. Then he took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save my sister's life."

During transfusion, boy lay in bed next to his sister. He smiled when he saw color returning to her cheeks. Then his smile started to fade, and his face grew pale.

With a trembling voice, he looked up at doctor and asked, "Will I start to die now already?"

The little boy had misunderstood doctor's explanation. He thought that he would need to give all of his blood to save his sister, and he would have done so.

Moving from Resolution to Commitment

The realization of our goals, dreams, and deepest desires depends greatly on commitment, stepping from familiar into new. It requires putting our faith on line to honor our purpose, our personal contract with life. We make resolutions and carry them with us until we commit firmly. Once we commit and begin taking necessary actions, resolutions become unnecessary.

Without commitment, we remain chained to resolutions and visions, living perpetually beyond present moment. Though we need to envision with gratitude our goals and their attainment, it is now we must take action. Only in present moment will we realize soul's tremendous courage to follow our own true north -- to manifest reason we are alive.

The Courage to Serve

Who are you?

This may be a simply enough question but before you attempt to answer this question let us go on a voyage of personal self discovery which will allow you to find an acceptable answer.

The difference between “Living” and “Non Living” is existence of spiritual soul that manages physical body from birth to death. The soul expresses itself through five senses of physical body. Without soul, physical body cannot express or maintain itself.

The reflection you see when you look into a mirror will be that of your physical body which gradually ages. Your soul is “seen” through your personality. You may look old when you look in a mirror but you could feel and act like a child.

The soul is your mind that is not constrained by time or distance. Within a second your mind can race back to your youth or visit any place your thoughts may pull you towards.

Souls cannot be seen. The understanding of soul is limited because soul is spiritual and cannot be explained or understood with knowledge of physical laws of sciences.

The soul or mind is similar to tiny microprocessor of a computer system that obtains information from input devices like keyboard and processes information and communicates via its output devices such as monitor and printer. The microprocessors RAM and Rom memory are similar to soul’s conscious and sub-conscious memory respectively.

Like microprocessor, soul obtains information via body’s sense organs (input devices) processes them with memory of past experiences in its conscious and sub-conscious mind and communicates with outside world via one or more of bodies organs (output devices).

For example, when something “nice” is seen, heard, smelt, tasted or felt signals (input) are processed as pleasing and positive. This creates positive response of a smile or laughter. The overall response is one of attraction rather than repulsion and should be repeated rather than avoided.

The soul is a tiny point of energy and functions on three levels that may be broadly categorised as Mind, Intellect and Impressions.

The function of mind is to imagine, think and form thoughts based on emotions, desires and sensations. Happiness and sadness are created and experienced by mind but displayed by physical organs of your body. The function of Intellect is to access thoughts created in your mind. It has capacity to reason, memorise, discriminate and make decisions. It is your conscience that discriminates between right and wrong actions.