A Man’s Greatest Ambition

In a classroom of sophomore high school students, a teacher ask his students what ambitions do they have in their lives. These young and idealistic students then answered one by one. All of them tried to make their ambitions become the highest one. One student answered he wants to become a lawyer. Another student wanted to become a doctor. One bright student said he wants to become the president of his country. All of us had our own ambitions in life. One person I know, her great ambition in life is to travel around the world. Some people even aim to be number one in the world. These persons want to become the richest, most famous, most intelligent, most powerful and even the most beautiful persons in the world. Some benevolent persons of our world devote their lives in helping other people. Their ambitions in life are to be able to help the poor people of this world. Different people have different ambitions. All of them thought their own ambitions are the greatest ambitions in the world.

In my philosophical point of view, I classified human’s ambitions into two. They are ambitions which are impossible to achieve and ambitions which are possible to achieve. In my entire life, I already had different ambitions. As I grow, my ambitions changes and grows. Like other people, I also make sure that my ambition would be the greatest ambition in the world and beyond. I even aim to become a God. However, after my mind becomes matured, I realized that this ambition belongs to an ambition which is impossible to achieve. I will be so foolish if I continue such ambition. For this reason, I started to think and deeply analyze how can I reduced such impossible ambition to become a possible ambition but still become the greatest human ambition. I can be the most famous, most beautiful, richest and most powerful person in the world. But what if I die? Those things would suddenly become useless. So I need an ambition which doesn’t ends and perishes. One thing that doesn’t perish is our spirits. Indeed I cannot become a God, but still I can be with God. I can be in his kingdom and had an everlasting life. This is the greatest thing that can possibly happen to a man. This is the greatest ambition a man could ever have.

Men’s greatest ambitions need the greatest steps to achieve such ambition. These are the hardest and the most difficult steps among other steps for achieving ambitions. These steps need great things to guide us. Love, truth, humility and kindness are some of the great things we can use to achieve this ambition. We must do hardest things to succeed the men’s greatest ambition. Two of the most common and irresistible sins of humanity are the two L’s, the “Lust” and the “Lies”. We must resist on these sins together with the other sins of humanity. We must clean our spirits and fill them with love and kindness. Let us obey God’s commandments. Let us make our selves appropriate for God. With these steps we will achieve the greatest ambition of humanity. That is to be with God, be in His kingdom and have an everlasting life.

We are all free to dream and have our own ambitions. But let us aim the highest possible thing. Let us dream knowing our limitations. “Limitation keeps us in position”. And if you go beyond the limitations, you will be out of your position. The truth will guide us and God will always be just on us.

By: Victorino Q. Abrugar

I Will Therefore I Am

For some great philosophers of our planet, the world that we can see is just an illusion. It’s a world that is untrue and perishable. The Bible even says that the things which you can see are temporary and the things which are unseen are eternal. These great philosophers and of course the Bible is right. Spirits are the truth and physical matters are illusion. The money you are counting, the car you are dreaming to have, the jewelries you are safely keeping and the face and body you always beautifies are all illusions. These things are bounded by time and space and therefore will perish. But some people define existence with the maxim “to see is to believe.” For them, what they see is what exists. This concept is so vulnerable and breakable. Love cannot be seen, but it exists. Minds are also unseen, and if they argue that only things which are seen only exits, they are defining the humans as mindless creatures. We have minds, we have emotions and we have thoughts, these things are unseen but they indeed exist and we have them.

If only unseen things are real things, then how about humans? Are we real? We truly see humans. But we can’t see all of human structures. We only see the human physical structures but not their spiritual structures. When God created Heaven and Earth, He created two kinds of things. These things are things which He made out of physical matter and things He created out of Him. God is a pure spirit. He purely exists and He is purely true. Aside from angels, only humans were created by God through Him. But God also created humans partly out of physical matter. So that humans can fully take good care the physical and natural world and ultimately learn to leave materiality and ascend to spirituality. Spirits are the truth as I said earlier. The spiritual world is the true world. This is the world which is not bounded by the law of chemistry and physics. Humans are composed of matter and spirits and therefore we are composed of real and unreal things. We are both living in a material world and a spiritual world. But we must prioritized and focused on spiritual living because this s the real things and this is the eternity.

We truly exist because we have spirits. All things on Earth which are not spirits don’t really exist. Human spirits can choose to love or choose to hate. This I because of “free will” which is the unique attribute of a spirit. If a thing has s free will or the ability to choose what is right or wrong, then it is a spirit. Even the ability to think does not distinguish a physical matter against a spirit. Today, a computer had already the ability to think. It already had logic and can perform an analysis. But still, it doesn’t have the ability to choose what it wants to choose. It doesn’t have a “free will” and does not have the ability to choose between right and wrong. It only does what it was programmed to do. It only decides what it was programmed to decide after some results of analysis. A computer cannot choose to answer a “four” or a “number aside from two” on a question of ‘one plus one equals what?”. But a human can even answer “I don’t care about your question” on the same question above.

God created laws on earth for humans. He did not created laws for seas, mountains, rocks, trees and even on animals. The snake stated in Bible is not an animal but an angel called Satan whom disobeyed God’s commandments. Aside from Gods and angels, only humans have the free will on Earth. This is what makes us true and existing. Although our physical bodies are illusions like other physical things on Earth, our spirits are real. We are real. We are spirits. We have the free will, and therefore we exist. “I will therefore I am”.

By: Victorino Q. Abrugar

The Narrow Gate (Choosing the Right Way of Life)

For thousands of years of our world’s tradition, majority always rules. The common people decide and the few are left behind. From the crucifixion of Christ in the cross to the election of most of today’s world’s leaders in their presidency, it’s always the majority of votes that becomes the cause. The good choice is the choice of the common people. But can we indeed rely on the choice of the common people? Well, to answer that question, I have enumerated some facts that describe the common people.

Fact 1: Lying is common to people.

Fact 2: Majority of the people crave for money and fame.

Fact 3: Majority of the people are proud.

Fact 4: The common people lack patience.

Fact 5: True love is rare to common people.

Fact 6: Wisdom is uncommon to people.

Those facts are facts and we can’t deny them. However, I am not concluding that the common choice is always a bad choice. Sometimes, the common choice makes a right choice especially when it is directed or influenced by few extraordinary people. Nevertheless, greatness and good virtue are only found on few people and reliability is not absolute on the majority of the people.

We all need decisions to change or continue our lives. A good decision will bring us success while a bad decision might bring us tragedy. In making a decision, it’s very important for us to know what is a right or a wrong decision. Most people follow the common decision while some people go into unusual decision. If we will base on the hidden truth behind the people mouths, majority of them would chose money and fame rather than love. Most humans will choose easiness rather than difficulties. They would choose pride rather than humility.

Life is a decision to make. It is a gate to enter and a way to walk. There are two kinds of decision a person can choose. These are the hard decision and the easy decision. In most cases, the hard decisions are the right decisions, but these are not chosen by most people because of their hardships. Most people like ease and hate sacrifices. That’s why they don’t succeed in their lives. One example of a hard decision is to love truly. True love is full of sufferings and sacrifices. Because of these, most people avoid true love. They avoid love to avoid pains. But what they don’t realize is that they are avoiding the greatness and righteousness of life. Difficulty makes life a real life and true love makes life a great life.

In life, there are also two kinds of gates we must choose to get in. There is a wide gate that most people enter because of its effortlessness and convenience. There is also a narrow gate which only few enter because of its difficulties and sacrifices. The wide gate offers convenience, fortune and fame. In the wide gate there are almost no rules and laws to be followed. You can just lie, boast and you can just wear anything (sexy dress is allowed) in the wide gate. It’s such a majestic and decorative gate. It’s colorful like casinos and night clubs. That is why many people are attractive and enters in the wide gate.

On the other hand, the narrow gate is full of pains. That is why only few people enter on it. These people are the ones who are god fearing, enduring and humble. They are the persons who are well disciplined and possess the virtue of honesty and kindness. We must choose the right gate for our souls. We must pass on the right way for the survival of our soul. We must belong to the few people who enter into the narrow gate. Remember that majority of the people lie and becomes proud. What we need to do is to make our selves extraordinary, extraordinary people who are straight and beyond the usual people who are proud and liars. We must become persons who are great and inherits true life and eventually inherits the kingdom of our Almighty God. Nonetheless, the choice is still yours. Where would you want to enter? The wide gate which offers effortlessness? Or the narrow gate which offers difficulties?

By: Victorino Q. Abrugar

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