so the phrase “ignorance is bliss” is to be rephrased as “ignorance is living in denial” or “intelligence is bliss” i read this article so i just wanna share with you guys

“Ignorance is bliss” is a common expression, but is it really accurate?  I don’t think so.  I think it’s more accurate to say that intelligence is bliss.

When I’m ignorant about something, I might be in a state of temporary contentment, but I certainly wouldn’t call it bliss.  What is ignorance anyway?  Isn’t ignorance just denial in disguise?  Whenever I appear to be ignorant and something supposedly takes me by surprise, I’m not really that surprised because on some level I expected it to happen.  The apparent surprise is a wake-up call to stop living in denial.

Throughout most of my adult life, I set goals that were too small for me, even as some deeper part of me always knew I was selling myself short.  If I remained ignorant, I never would have known the incredible bliss that can only be found on the other side of fear.

Ignorance is denial in disguise.

I think most people are actually quite intelligent, but fear and social conditioning turns their intelligence against itself.  You have two basic options for your life.  Option 1 is to use your intelligence to understand yourself, to understand reality, and to live the most intelligent way you can fathom.  Option 2 is to settle for a false sense of self that’s below your potential, create a false reality, and invest all your energy in defending what you’ve created.  My goal is to help people choose Option 1, just as I do the same myself.  As I awaken to parts of my life that still follow Option 2, I do my best to convert them to Option 1.

We succumb to Option 2 when we surrender to our fears.  When we imagine our fears as bigger than we are, we shrink from them, and we make ourselves ignorant to avoid facing that painful decision.  But when we imagine ourselves as bigger than our fears, we empower ourselves to act in spite of fear, and we summon our intelligence to work with us rather than against us.

You’re an extremely powerful being.  You cannot NOT be powerful.  But your power must go somewhere, so it either feeds your desires, or it feeds your fears.  When your power feeds your desires, you manifest bliss.  When your power feeds your fears, you manifest suffering.

Ignorance is the result of feeding your power to your fears and then denying you’ve done so in order to avoid suffering.  But that isn’t a true solution because the suffering will keep busting through denial’s illusions.  This path leads to a downward spiral where you become more and more invested in defending your false position (one you don’t really love anyway), in order to avoid facing the truth you already know.

What is this truth?  This truth is that you already know what you want, but you’re afraid you can’t have it.  You also know that what you’re getting right now isn’t what you desire.  So you pretend what you’ve got is acceptable in order to avoid the challenge of going after what you really want.  You say to yourself and others, “I meant to do that,” but you don’t really mean it.

The truth is that you can have what you want, but in order to get it, you have to stop giving your power to your fears and start giving it to your desires.  And what you really want most of all is to be in a state of bliss… not the “ignorance is bliss” version, but the real version where you’re blissful because you’ve made your life the way you want it to be.  Your everyday existence causes you to bliss out because it’s so ridiculously good.

Intelligence leads to bliss.

I agree with those who say that bliss is our natural state of being.  However, ignorance is not bliss; it is an obstacle to bliss.  Uncovering denial and facing our fears is an intellectual process.  Emotions are certainly involved, but I think the greatest breakthroughs happen when we mentally “get it” and understand something in a new light.  Those a-ha moments move us in the direction of bliss.

Some people say that if you’re really smart, you can’t be happy.  That’s silly.  If you’re smart then you should be more capable of creating more happiness, not less.  But just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you’ll be happy.  You could just as easily apply your intelligence to the task of creating and defending a false reality.  Many seemingly intelligent people do this, and they suffer for it.  But their intelligence isn’t the cause of that suffering.  Their suffering is caused by the decision to feed their power to their fears instead of their desires.

Intelligence can be a powerful positive asset when used wisely.  You can actually use your intelligence to reason your way out of fear.

We don’t fear what we understand.  We only fear what we don’t understand.  If you understand something enough to perceive it as a real danger, you don’t fear it — you avoid it.  Are you afraid of a hot stove?  Hopefully not.  But you’re smart enough to avoid touching it.  When you understand something clearly, fear is unnecessary.

Intelligence can be used as an antidote to fear.  If your life is full of fear, denial, and suffering, you don’t understand your life well enough not to be afraid.  If you use your intelligence to increase your understanding, and if you fully accept the truths you discover along the way, you’ll gradually withdraw your power from your fears and begin feeding it to your desires.

The process of using your intelligence to better understand life, the universe, and everything is a process of fear reduction.  The more you understand, the less you fear.  When you free yourself of fear, you eliminate the need for ignorance and denial, and bliss is the natural result.  Quite literally, the truth shall set you free.

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Sondre Lerche – Dear Laughing Doubters

What a morning
Made to order
What a rainbow
We’ll go there someday

See that blue sky
Knows no limits
That’s why the clouds stay away

It’s so easy predicting the way
People shrug in surprise
When they hear what I say

Hear laughing doubters
I’m laughing louder
I don’t really care

There’s a song in my ear
I’ve been hearing for years
Somehow it always appears

(whistling)

What a way to
Spend the day you
Can’t turn a corner
Without making friends

Every second
Life gets better
I don’t know where it will end

It’s so easy to know what they’ll say
When i walk through the streets almost every day

Dear laughing doubters
I’m laughing louder
I don’t really care

There’s a song in my ear
I’ve been hearing for years
Somehow it always appears

Dear laughing doubters
I’m laughing louder
Why should I care

There’s a song in my ear
I’ve been hearing for years
Somehow it always appears

Sondre Lerche – Let My Love Open The Door

Well People Keep Repeating,
that you will never fall in love.
When everyone keeps retreating,
but you can’t seem to get enough.

Let my love open the door,
let my love open the door,
let my love open the door
to your heart.

When everything seems all over,
everybody seems unkind.
I’ll give you a four leaf clover,
take all the worries out of your mind.

I have the only key to your heart,
I can stop you from falling apart.
Release yourself from misery,
only one there is gonna set you free and that’s my love, that’s my love.

Let my love open the door,
let my love open the door,
let my love open the door,
to your heart.

Tragedy befalls you,
don’t let ‘em bring you down
Love can cure your problems,
you’re so lucky that I’m around.

Let my love open the door,
let my love open the door,
let my love open the door,
to your heart
to your heart
to your heart
to your heart.

ya i should agree people are more eager to celebrate raya rather than merdeka. but who cares, it’s a holiday anyway haha…

a long month perhaps, the first story is always gonna be my car ok it’s almost done, not really since there were still few stuffs left undone and not completed yet. time has always been against my side. whatever it is, i’m happy to see my car to a complete restoration and refurbishment of the exterior as well as the interior. i’ve published few photos through my facebook, only left the interior side of the photos yet to be taken.

* right after the car just had a polish.

* it’s a car wash today! damn the following day it was raining again, wasted my 7 bucks!

there were no interior pictures at the moment yet.. ok thanks to this not-so-friendly smart tag tinted film, i almost hit the barrier when i was passing by the smart tag lane for the 1st and 2nd time i got my car back. glad there were no cars behind me on that both unfortunate event.

and for the whole ramadan, i noticed about the people around cyberjaya here… sad but true, most of them are not even fasting. broad day light buying drinks and food at 10 in the morning, by the hot blazing afternoon as well as early evening way before break-fasting time. i couldn’t even care much since i myself is quite busy with my work, short-handed for the final week of ramadan. and definitely the infamous quote will be heard if asked, “kubur masing-masing”. well let’s just ignore that. and i notice these peoples were so eagerly anticipating hari raya than to those people who were fasting. hmm…

there’s too much work till i tapped my maxis reload card to the touch-n-go device on toll booth, again! glad it was only the touch-n-go instead of smart tag, else i would have hit the barrier… damn, tiring month, lack of sleep, plenty of work, couldn’t get any better than that. glad i’m gonna have a break, thanks to the holiday coming next week. short break would have been sufficient to clear minds up.

this song clears my mind up, what a soothing sound…

Beatsqueezers feat. Oless T. – I Want To Hold You Tight       (U-Ness & JedSet N-Fluence Mix)

guess i wanna have a quiet holiday for the coming week, too tired to think about anything else… gonna fully utilised my holiday woohoo! perhaps by the end of this year i wanna go down to singapore for some shopping again! hehehe… i don’t really shop but i’m not so sure why i feel so excited to go down to orchard road for some shopping haha… hoping that i could have another break by the end of this year. *fingers crossed*

well, enough crapping for now, time to get some sleep… tomorrow’s gonna be another long day. adios, cheers everyone

Life has been quite difficult lately, since work has been a never ending story.. So once I’ve started to get busy with work, I’ve got no time to pause or give it a break..

Maybe last year wasn’t a good year for me, so it’s time for me to climb the ladder and start kicking again, it wasn’t so bad trying to get up and stand strong again, few hiccups won’t go away from me that’s for sure.. But then I’m glad with what I’ve been doing and good things coming my way lately.

To my readers, I’ve been leaving out my blog for so long, I’m trying to start blogging again since there’s this cool wordpress app for wordpress haha.. Not to brag but my life is getting easier for me to blog wherever and whenever I want

Well, that’s all for now.. Till then, adios.. Cheers and have a good day guys..

what i mean is, life nowadays, people just wanna sit crossing legs, sitting in an air-conditioning room while facing the computer 24/7 a day facebooking, or perhaps chatting… can’t they just work harder, improving themselves, getting some experiences rather than being cocky and do nothing. such a waste of their lives. sorry to say, some people just wanna earn easy money without doing work that they deserves that money. may GOD bless them with a “better future”. AMEN!

well nothing much i wanna talk about, it’s just something to ponder upon.

p/s : my neighbour next door in cyberjaya approached me today, asking me whether i was from VI or st. john… (agak-agak la st. john) i was, and i am proud to be a VICTORIAN. well, i didn’t ask him what was it all about… he asked me, i answered him, and he walked away. perhaps i shall say sorry because i didn’t attend him properly, i was busy doing my work.