The four blessed looks ...

Look back and thank God ...
Look forward and trust God ...
Look around and serve God ...
Look within and find God ...



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[Beautiful sharings of words of wisdom by Mrs. Behzadnia and very dear friend of mine, Dr. Banaei-Kashani]

Happy Birthday ...

It is one year passed since I first started to write in this blog ... to write about my thoughts, feelings and sharings ... "Hagh Goo" is one year old now ...

Writing in a blog is kind of very strange feeling ... you share your viewpoints with the ones you know and with the ones you do not ... with the ones you love and with the ones you may have no feelings about ... You share about your concerns directly with whom you might not feel comfortable sharing your ideas verbally ... It is indeed a very strange and constructive experience ...

Now that, after one year, I take a look back to the previous posts ... I notice that this past year was a dear experience of self-improvement for me in order to be able to write openly about my concerns, thoughts, ideas and feelings ...

What are the motives behind our behavior? ...
It could be logic meaning we have found somethings to be logical and thus we have believed in them and they got manifested in our behavior and/or words and actions ...

Yet, there are many behaviors of ours that unfortunately we do not have any logic behind but just we follow certain specific rules in our lives ... calling them "Traditions" ...

Traditions which may be labled as the "Brain and beliefs of the masses" can be referred to as the result of the brains of the generations passed along the newer generations ...
However, although being very firm in roots, it does not guaranteed them to be always "Right" ... thus we always need to be aware of the logical reasons behind the traditions we are following and always be present to this fact that it is always "us and our logic" which makes the traditions as wonderful things to be followed and be passed along to our future generations ...


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[Photo: Peaceful snowy day in Bufallo, Beautiful State of New York. Thanks to a dear friend, Mr. Mehdi Ahmadizadeh]

Sometimes it is hard to stand for the things we believe in ...
Sometimes it gets expensive to stand for the things we believe in ...
But, regardless of it all ...
If we can not detach from the "selves" that we have been chained to ... And can not stand for the beliefs ... we are just thinking that we believe ...
Or even worse, we are just simply liars ...



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[Thanks to a very dear friend, Mr. Arman Vahedi, for the beautiful picture he has taken from magnificent Alam Kooh, Beautiful Iran]

The other side ...