The purpose of Life

I came to know the truth
and it moves me deeply.
Life was never
so beautiful
as now.

The truth covers
everything and gives meaning
to life.

I know I am here
for a purpose
it is that simple
and simultaneously enticing.

Formerly life
was so dull.
Not a trace,
not a sign.
I cast my net
and caught hold of “hope”.

I touched my dreams
and embraced
“faith”.

Copyright Katerina Kostaki

Translation in english language by Debora Kazazis

Poem in greek language in the published book of poetry

original title in Greek language "Συμπαντικό Φως" /"Cosmic Light"

Greek interpretation of this poem: http://endlesslifejourney.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html

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Buzzards, Bats & Bees:Nature's teachings

If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top

THE BAT:

The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

THE BUMBLEBEE:

A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

PEOPLE:

In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up! That's the answer, the escape route and the solution to any problem!
Just look up!

Sorrow looks back; Worry looks around; But faith looks up!

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and trust in our Creator who loves us.

HOW TRUE, HOW TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THOUGHTS...

How easy can it be for a human to examine all these little truths that constitute his predicated presence in this reality?

Is there a small assessment for what every human has experienced, said or acted, consciously or unconsciously, a small or big course in time, like travel in an immense non - geographical space and in an unspecified time, in an ideal space-time, by manifesting a return to his past, with starting point the beginning of his life.
Naturally time arrow does not return back, however human thought accomplishes it, particularly with high speed!
This thought, imprisoned in our mind and restricted instead of left to blossom, constitutes our underlying, powerful weapon, although we have not realised it well enough.
One unidentified moment, not really wished for, reflects its uneasy glance on the past. It stares at some point of your life’s course in the passing of time that left its marks on your life’s book, and then simply........ it makes you wonder!
You don’t wonder, about what you did, but what you did not do! The choices that should have been made, the actions that you should have taken and have not finished by you, deeds that have never be done, when they should have.
Now, as you rest unconcerned in the loneliness of thought, having as a judge yourself alone, there’s no place where you can hide yourself, watch out or overlook.
Perhaps, then you contemplate the greatest importance of making conscientious and wise choices that fructify slowly (but surely), and bloom in proper time, heightening in a constant enlightened course, contrary to unconscious and irrational choices that as a comet heighten and afterwards throw you back to Earth.
However as a wise man uttered - each one is judged, not because he did something gloomy with malice prepense, but while having the occasion to make something brilliant and beneficial, he did not!
Values are sculptured, actions are recorded and works elevate.

Life Course always confirms that…….


Copyright Katerina Kostaki
Author-freelance article writer

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The Road the less Travelled

In those moments, when you feel drifted by the wave of nostalgia, feel as if travelling in the thoughts along the paths of mind, in those moments you feel that a new song is being born.

The song that affects you, that skyrockets you, that leads you to the centre of heart.You contemplate how much long and solitary the street of your life existence was, although a lot of people surrounded you.

Along that street you started walking, you did not even know neither the beginning, nor its end.In this course of life, full of lit white candles, thus fiery ideals, luminous virtues, holy principles of an alive system of values that exists , but in the corner of the path unknown lurks.

Deep darkness prevails in the crossroad, but the light scatters the darkness and brings the drops of happiness.

A secret voice whispers in your ear, a vibration strikes in your heart, a message is recorded in your brain with golden letters:

"Go ahead!!! ......"

........and you go ahead in that street that engraves your soul, paints your glance with the paintbrushes of love and truth.

You go ahead even though people are sneering at you, because you chose this gnarled path and not the easy one, because you did not succumb to facilities depreciation and the trivialisation of moral values.

You go ahead beyond scorn and decay imposed in your familiar environment.

You go ahead beyond temptation and regrouping, created by conditions of life, because you believe in its entirety, in the unit but not in the "making mincemeat of people" and in the "compression" of personality, in the transcendence and not in corruption.

You go ahead in that street that most of people hesitate or deny; even if they deeply wish they could follow, envying those who in deep faith follow it.

You go ahead because you know the only one and unique thing: that you are ultimately lucky for being in this path, after bloody labours and insurmountable efforts, looking at "the marks of your destiny".

You are grateful, though you have ached innumerable times from the blows of your fellowmen,from the unforgiving injustices committed to you because, you were not polluted, you did not succumb and made the wisest choice:

You walk in this path, selected by you and not imposed on you, because you kept your personal agreement with your clear conscience.

You walk along the road, "the road the less travelled" and eventually you walk free and alone.

*** Dedicated to those who keep striving......

Copyright Katerina Kostaki

Spiritual author-freelance article writer

My article was published in " Postal World “ and "Kataigis" newspapers

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The Melody of Soul

We go ahead to a factitious reality, full guilty, secrets and evident temptations.
The magic calls of charming Sirens are full of challenge and rich (but fake emoluments......).
People, who keenly keep their volition, are those who close their ears and march in life tested in the great path of knowledge and self development.
Those who venture to succumb to temptation, face the lustful attacks of mythological beasts in a "modern storm" form.

Time changes occurred, but data never changed.

Dangers and temptations are always skulking in the people's lives
and altering each time their mask.
The modern "Sirens" were differentiated concerning form, figure and means of attraction.
They became flexible and intelligent, hidden artfully behind secret passages.
They use each effect in order to make a convert of their candidate victims.
The greatest antithesis between those we perceive and experience
through our five senses exists in our volitional escape from the innumerable hitches of everyday routine.
An escape in the magic depth of ethereal Nature, a secret passage
in the enchanting fields of legendary Spring, we inwardly seek.
Ethereal notes travel in space and time, penetrate the fields of compatible reality and like smooth waves touch the edge of our existence.
Hymns strike the chord of our sensitive heart and compose brilliant, sublime songs,transcendental songs, songs out of time that twinkle in the dark landscape of our materialised life.
We accept ethereal music and celestial melodies like the small drops of rain on thirsty - for spirituality -lips.
Since Spiritual Development gains ground in this anhydrous environment, morbidity and vanity disappear.
Just go ahead and leave behind that is oppressive.

Each step, a progress.

We create our own "Truth" .

We make our own reality,that stems from the "Melody of our Soul" .




My article was published in " Postal World " newspaper -June 2006



Η Μελωδία της Ψυχής


Πορευόμαστε σε μια πραγματικότητα πλασματική, γεμάτη ένοχα μυστικά και έκδηλους πειρασμούς.
Τα μαγικά καλέσματα των θελκτικών σειρήνων είναι γεμάτα πρόκληση και πλούσιες (αλλά ψεύτικες απολαβές).
Όσοι διατηρούν με πείσμα την θέληση τους κλείνουν τα αυτιά τους και προχωρούν δοκιμαζόμενοι στο μεγάλο μονοπάτι της γνώσης και της αυτοβελτίωσης.
Όσοι τολμούν να υποκύψουν αντιμετωπίζουν τις λάγνες επιθέσεις των μυθολογικών τεράτων με την μορφή της σύγχρονης καταιγίδας.
Οι εποχές αλλάζουν , αλλά τα δεδομένα παραμένουν τα ίδια.
Πάντα στην ζωή του ανθρώπου παραμόνευαν οι ίδιοι κίνδυνοι και οι πειρασμοί αλλάζοντας κάθε φορά το προσωπείο τους.
Οι σύγχρονες " Σειρήνες " διαφοροποιήθηκαν ως προς την μορφή, το σχήμα ακόμη και τα μέσα πρόσκλησης.
Έγιναν ευέλικτες και έξυπνες, κρυμμένες έντεχνα πίσω από μυστικά περάσματα.
Χρησιμοποιούν κάθε τέχνασμα για να προσηλυτίσουν τα υποψήφια θύματα τους.
Η μεγάλη αντίθεση ανάμεσα σε όσα ζούμε , αφουγκραζόμαστε, βλέπουμε αντιλαμβανόμαστε με τις πέντε αισθήσεις μας έρχεται μέσα από την θεληματική απόδραση μας από τους αμέτρητους σκοπέλους της καθημερινότητας.
Μια απόδραση στα μαγικά βάθη της αιθέριας Φύσης, ένα μυστικό πέρασμα στα μαγευτικά πεδία της μυθικής Άνοιξης, που όλοι ενδόμυχα αναζητάμε.
Αιθέριες νότες ταξιδεύουν στον χώρο και στον χρόνο.
Διαπερνούν τα πεδία της συμβατής πραγματικότητας και φτάνουν σαν απαλά κύματα στις παρυφές της ύπαρξης μας.
Ύμνοι αγγίζουν τις ευαίσθητες χορδές της καρδιάς μας και συνθέτουν υπέροχα τραγούδια ανώτερης κλίμακας.
Τραγούδια υπερβατικά, χρονοτράγουδα που λαμπυρίζουν στο σκοτεινό τοπίο της πλαστικοποιημένης ζωής μας.
Δεχόμαστε την αιθερική μουσική, τις ουράνιες μελωδίες σαν τις μικρές σταγόνες βροχής πάνω στα διψασμένα από πνευματικότητα- χείλη μας.
Μέσα στο άνυδρο από ερεθίσματα περιβάλλον, η νοσηρότητα και η ματαιοδοξία εξαφανίζονται, όσο η πνευματική ανάπτυξη κερδίζει έδαφος.

Ένα βήμα μπροστά και αφήνουμε πίσω μας ότι μας βαραίνει.

Κάθε βήμα, μια πρόοδος.

Δημιουργούμε την δική μας « Αλήθεια ».

Φτιάχνουμε την δική μας πραγματικότητα, που πηγάζει αποκλειστικά και μόνο μέσα από την « Μελωδία της Ψυχής μας ».


Άρθρο μου που δημοσιεύτηκε στην εφημερίδα "Ταχυδρομικός Κόσμος " -Ιούνιος 2006