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  photo credit: Hubble and Chandra Find Evidence for Densest Galaxy in Nearby Universe via photopin (license)   When we talk about spirituality, there are many views.  Each person has different views ( also same as many other topics as well ), based on how they grew up, personality, and experience.  Here is my point of view.    " Who Am I ? "  I didn't understand the meaning of " knowing who am I " the first time I read a spiritual book which talked about it, about 20 years ago.  I had never even thought about it until I had an opportunity to read a new age book.  My first new age book I read was "The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure " by James Redfield .  I was around 32 years old at that time, working for a telephone company.  The book was strongly recommended by one of my co-workers.  I was not familiar with new age information at that time, so I didn't really u...

                                    photo credit: Crystal Castles via photopin (license) Things seem to always start to go well when we almost give up the things which we were attaching to.  I noticed about that through my experiences a long time ago, when I was still not so into New age information. and it happened not only once but many times in my life.  The most impressive experience was from when I was traveling to Germany.  I was traveling to Europe by myself for about 17 days at that time.  and the first place I stayed was in Berlin in Germany .  I have bad eye sight so I was wearing contact lenses and while staying at a hotel in Berlin, GE, the problem happened in the morning.  When I was trying to put on my contact lenses in front of a sink, l...

photo credit: stock pinks via photopin (license)   Having social face is considered as very important to have good friendships/ relationships in our social life. Depending on the country, there may be different habits though, in Japan, it's believed that saving face is required to have good social life depending on the situation.   Especially in the places which are related to business or work which belong with the customer service industries, social face is everywhere.   In the private life, I sometimes heard from people saying they are having problems from showing social face.  Example 1.  According to the person "A" , she (A) was just being nice to her friend and her friend's husband and complimented her husband's looks a lot and etc.., as social face, but her friend took it as serious and thought she is interested in and crazy about her husband.  Now the person is very frustrated because her fr...

Have you ever bitten your cheek or tongue while having a meal accidentally ? I sometimes did it and it's usually when I was thinking something else while eating foods. It's painful and it usually continues about a week to be fully recovered.   Last Friday, my husband accidentally bit his cheek quite hard while eating his lunch at work. He said usually after 2 to 3 days, from his experience, the pain gets worse , then it heals. and he didn't say anything about it to me until Sunday afternoon, when the symptoms got worse and I didn't know about it . He looked fine until Sunday afternoon. I was giving him a massage in the afternoon and soon he fell a sleep. He said after he woke up from the nap,  he was getting pain from the cheek. and I noticed that his cheek was getting swollen, as if there was a ball in the side of the lower cheek.  and his face and his body had high fever.  I've never seen and heard that one's face could get so swollen from biting one...

Last night I was reading recent news which was about a well-known Japanese  cartoon writer and his roller-coaster life . The cartoon writer, who we will call 　 "Y" , 　got huge success with his cartoon in the 1970s when he was 20 years old and his cartoon series was shown on TV every week. Y got married when he was 23 years old, after he became successful , and had two children and bought a house and also a condo for his office in Tokyo, Japan. He was earning about 40 to 50 million yen /year from the series of the cartoon for about 6 years. He also started to make other cartoon series, but for some reason, Y started feeling pressure to draw and write and get ideas for cartoons and he was unable to get another hit from his other cartoons, after his only cartoon which got big hit series had completed. From the stress, he started escaping from his work of cartoon drawing /writing,　and he got addiction for gambling and went to night clubs every night. and he s...