Humans and the Universe

There are nine well-recognized planets in our Solar System including Pluto which is recently removed of its status as a planet. The Sun, the center of our Solar System is just one star among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way is also just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. If you will compute how many possible planets are there in the universe, it would be unbelievably enormous. Through this tremendous fact in our universe, scientists and astronomers believe that there may be huge probability of living creatures’ existence aside from earthlings. This probability is as huge as the numbers of existing planets in the universe. Imagine a great number of islands in our planet, the higher the number of islands the greater the possibility of inhabitant discovery. Scientists believe on the existence of aliens, inhabitants of other planets. There would be also a possibility of existence of Earth-like planet in the universe. A simple theory is the existence of twins and identical people living in our planet. There may be a person in this world who is much like looks like you. There are only less than hundred of billions of humans in our planet against the possible hundred of septillions of planets in the universe. Are you now convinced of the existence of aliens and other living creatures in the universe?

Several claims on the sightings of aliens and UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) already become recurring news in radios, televisions and tabloids. But since my birth, I never saw clear pictures of aliens and alien ships. All of these are controversial, disputable and unidentifiable. If there are really aliens then where are they? Why there is no clear and undisputable claim of sightings of these creatures? There are other creatures on earth aside from animal, trees and humans. These creatures are merely spirits and elemental. Some of them existed to deceive the world. They have the power to mimic anyone just to deceive the world. They can imitate aliens and even your dead family members. They are the reasons of incorrect beliefs on Earth. And one of this is the conviction on Aliens.

Personally and principally, I believe that earthlings are the only living creatures in this universe. The discovered bacteria on the moon came from Earth. If there would be people in Mars, it would be humans migrated from Earth in seek of a new planet to live. God created forms of life only on Earth. He made no life forms on other planets. But if there are no lives on other planets, then why God created Universe and those billions of galaxies and billions of planets in those galaxies? A tough question isn’t it? But you know this is just a matter of shelter. Humans need shelters or houses to live. These shelters need lands to be built. Lands need a planet to be placed. Our planet needs a solar system to revolve. Our solar system needs a galaxy to be positioned. And finally a galaxy needs universe to stay on. The principle behind is we are specially created by God. Humans are the center and the essence of His creation. We are His principal creation. The planets, stars, galaxies and even the universe are only created incidentally to support the Human creation. Those extremely huge and enormous objects are only matters and physical and far beyond compare to the significance of human souls.

By: Victorino Q. Abrugar

The First Power

The greatest powers are the purest powers. For humans, what would be their greatest powers? How can they achieve these powers? In deep philosophical meaning I am talking spiritual powers. Spirits are the truth and the most powerful beings in existence. Although, there are a lot of powers that exists in this realm like fame, physical strength, fortune, technology and authority, these are far behind than spiritual powers which are not bounded by space and time. The power of love, faith and hope are spiritual powers and indeed great and eternal powers. These three things are use with the right emotions and wisdom. Without proper emotion love fails, without precise wisdom hope and faith fails.

Purity is density. Purity is the beginning, and purity is the return. God is the most powerful of all. He is the purest spirit and the beginning of all great things. Humans and angels were created by God out of His own spiritual body. We are created with God’s purity and spirituality. Although we are also created with materiality so we can live in this material world. Which is a world of lies and wickedness, yet a world of tests and courage. We inherited a great power from God when He first created us. This power is the power of spirit purity. We are given a test of materiality to learn how to distinguish spirituality from materiality. Our mission is to maintain and preserve the purity of our spirit as what we are in the beginning. The first power that we have is the purity of our spirit. This power is also our greatest power, a power which is forever and much stronger than the diminutive powers of money, fame, physical strength, authority and technology.

Humans seek for this power in the future believing that the greatest and ultimate power would be found after certain period of times. What they don’t realize is that the greatest power is the first power, and this is found on us in the beginning of our creation. We don’t need to look forward, but we need to look back on the time when we are pure. This is the time when we are not yet affected and influenced by the impurities of this foolish world.

How will purity works? Purity is density, purity is clarity and purity is brightness, a light that conquers all darkness. Pure spirit dictates pure faith and love. This is the power that will give us true and eternal life.

 

By: Victorino Q. Abrugar

Empowering Self-trust

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American writer, philosopher and orator, “Self-trust is the first key of success.”

Self trust is indeed an important ingredient of success, as I have used it to achieve all of my life’s success. Self-trust gives person a confidence that eliminates wasting of self energies and efforts because of worries and uncertainties. It maximizes and optimizes one’s strength and focus in achieving efficiently a certain goal. However, self-trust is not just an easy as you can instantly have it and tell the world that you trust yourself. Self-trust denotes a very difficult thing called “trustworthy”. Like other kinds of trust (i.e., trust for friends and other people), you cannot immediately trust anyone including yourself if they or you are not trustworthy. How can you trust a person who always breaks his or her promises to you? How can you possibly trust yourself if you always break your promises to yourself? How can you trust yourself if you are fun of cheating your self? How can you possibly trust yourself if you are indolent and wicked? Self-trust, to be the key of success must be a right trust to one’s self. It must follow self-trustworthy because a self-trust is worthless without trustworthy. To be trustworthy to ourselves, we should make ourselves honest, industrious and strong. And finally, we should follow our Almighty God, as He doesn’t lie and He is constantly truthful and powerful, so as His people can always trust and be faithful on Him.

Now, if you are industrious, personally strong, true to yourself and faithful to God, then we can say it’s noble for you to trust yourself.

The Eternal Light Within You

People need light to overcome darkness. Children and even the adults ones would not dare to go alone in dark places. Needless to prove, fear of the dark is common to people. Of course, if you can’t see anything, it would be very unsafe and not protective for you. Furthermore, the concept that evils and dark creatures live in the dark accelerates the human fear of the darkness. But do evils and other dark creatures live in the dark? The answer depends on the meaning of darkness people have in their minds. They don’t really live in dark places like houses without electricity, streets without street- lights and other places without the energy of light. In other words, these creatures don’t really live on physical darkness. These creatures are spiritual beings, and they are living in a spiritual world. These dark spirits live in spiritual darkness.

You don’t need to be afraid of places without the energy of light or places where you cannot use you sense of sight. The truth is, evil live in spiritual dark places. These places exist without the limitation of physics. They exist during night and day. They exist even in the brightest places of our physical world. These places exist in different forms. Lies, lust, hatred, pride and other dark spiritualities are example of places where dark spirits live. Now that these dark spiritualities are greatly increasing and expanding on Earth, the dark spirits are rejoicing for having a wider world to live and spread their power and evilness. Humans have spirits. These spirits may create lies, lust, pride and other dark spiritualities. This means that evils may and other dark creatures may live in human spirit. They may live on us. We may become dark places where evil lives. This is the big thing or scenario that we must be afraid of, ” when we become dark places where evil lives.”

How terrible it is if evil will live on us. Can we prevent it from happening to us? If it happens to us, can we overcome it? Light overcome darkness. Sunlight overcomes the darkness of our planet. But even the brightest star in the Universe cannot overcome the darkness of evil. As I said earlier, the darkness of evil is a spiritual thing and nothing physical can overcome it. What we need is the power of spiritual light. As physical light overcome physical darkness, spiritual light also overcomes spiritual darkness. But how can we achieve spiritual light. God is the greatest spiritual light. God lives in heaven, a spiritual world that is full of spiritual lights. Lights which evils and other dark creatures are extremely afraid of. We can let God live on us instead of evils. But how can we do this? Let us clean our spirits. Let us destroy the dark places in our selves. Let us destroy lies, lust and other dark attitudes. Let us replace them with love, truth, humility, and kindness. With these, our spirits will create heavenly places. And when God knocks on our spiritual doors, let us open them and let God in.

We should not be afraid of the dark, may it be physical or spiritual darkness. This fear also becomes a dark place where evil can live. As your fear grows, the power of darkness also grows. But now that we already know how to achieve the light that will overcome all darkness, let us be brave, strong and make these evil and other dark creatures afraid on us.

By:

Victorino Q. Abrugar

Doing Business with Ethics

For most people, money makes the world go round and business bears that money. Businessmen will perhaps do anything just to achieve the ultimate goal of having a business, and that is to earn income. Net profit or income financially means a surplus of sales or revenues after deducting costs and expenses. Whether you are engage in profession, occupation, work or trade, you are in business and you speak income. When you earn an income you suffer taxes, the worst nightmare for every income earners. Income tax is your punishment of doing well in business. This sounds ridiculous but this is the reality, you pay when you earn. Because tax is legislative, noncompliance to this would results to crimes. This thing called income tax had already made billions of liars around the world. Some governments imposed taxes which are already too much to burden the flow of business. Others make tax laws that are already beyond the ability of taxpayers. However these facts must not result in the existence of enormous number of dishonest people in the world.

Ethics in business rarely exists nowadays. Perhaps it is because for most people, profit will come without the need of business ethics. This, I don’t agree. The word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos, which means “character,” and from the Latin word mores, which means “customs.” According to the encyclopedia ethics is the branch of philosophy that defines what is good for the individual and for society and establishes the nature of obligations, or duties, that people owe themselves and one another. Maybe ethics is not needed to earn profit if you define profit or income as money. But deeply speaking, business is not just for money. Yes it is definitely for profit, but profit is not just financial profit. We need profit that will not just sustain our pocket or our stomach. Significantly, we also need profits that will feed our hearts and soul. Considering that we are great businessmen, we should extend our minds to this principle. We need business ethics to earn these high valued profits. We must be concerned to the virtue of our character and to the common good.

Your business is not just for the survival of your life on Earth but it can also be your road to the survival of your soul. If you’re in business and had a company, you can help your employees by providing them enough salaries and other benefits that will make their lives better. You can be honest and pay your exact tax for the government who will eventually use it for your country’s development. (Assuming your government is straight and not corrupt) But don’t mind them, be honest even others are not. We are talking here your soul survival and not theirs. You can also serve your customers by providing them their needs and giving them convenience. Customer care is so important for your customers as also important for your business to earn public trust and loyalty. If you build infrastructures for your company you contribute to the development of your place in terms of buildings and infrastructures. When you got ethics in business you practice fair business competition. Fair business competition is a challenge for every business to improve the qualities of their products and services, and the end benefits are to the consumers.

Doing business with clean conscience is doing business with good night sleeps. It is also doing business with gladness of your heart and soul. Gratitude will come to you and you will become a stress free businessman if you do business with ethics. These and other spiritual profits will straightly come to you and the good thing on this is you are not taxed on this kind of profits. As an extraordinary businessman, you do not only set your long-term goals for 10 years or for a life time. You must also consider eternity and set goals to achieve profits that will benefit your soul. You need profits that last forever, profits that will give us everlasting life and happiness, and profits that will earn us the key to heaven. These profits will benefits us in the short run, midterm run, long run and eternal run, as God is great from the beginning and unto the never-ending.

Do business and believe in God. Building our business in God’s place is like building it in rocks which are in great foundations. Let us be kind and grateful to our employees as they are our best assets. Let’s give them bread and they will give us a ham sandwich. Let us have huge care to our customers as they are our best revenue generators. Let’s give them good price, high quality products and best services and they will give us their respect and loyalty. Let us be fair to our competitors as they are our great motivators. Let us give them fair game and they will give us the true meaning of winning. Let us be thankful to our Father Almighty God as He is our greatest business partner. Let’s serve Him and He will give us joy and peace of mind.

By:

Victorino Q. Abrugar