Dear Daughter,

It’s raining tonight in Melbourne. Fairly large drops of rain making a hypnotic noise in harmony with this room's silence while you are miles away in Sydney, kicking in the safety of your mother's womb.

I don't claim to have all the answers - or any for that matter - I just want to share with you my believes about humanity and the universe. What you'll read here is my book of life, my subjective opinion - soon you'll have your own.

I hope that one day you will stumble upon this, and that it opens your heart to the wonders of life as I, your dad, see/saw it.

Much love, your dad, Sohail Dahdal.

9:45pm, 1st of July, 2007

Life

There was once a homeless man, Hermano, who lived on the streets of Sacramento. I met him on the street outside a party house, I'd just got out for fresh air. Hermano asked me to get him a beer from inside, he said “it’s a lovely night and a beer would make it lovelier”. I fetched two beers and we sat down on the steps – houses in America have steps that go all the way to the street. “Thank you, I'll give you something back”. He paused, waiting for my reaction, I smiled, he took another gulp, seemed to enjoy it, then said “you ain't missing anything if you ain’t being there”. He was giving me a "beer" advice about life. Live for the now. Live for the here.

Life is amazing; life is the body, with the mind working together to make an imprint on the soul of the universe. When we are alive we are always interacting with the soul of the universe.

“Make a ritual of life not a habit”

The Body

When I was fourteen I could hardly walk, your grandfather took me to many doctors to no vail, some said it’s my liver, others said it’s hormones, but no magic cure was presented and so it was apparent to me that I had to find help within. I promised myself to walk to the al madena - we lived in Amman then, al madena was about 30k from where we lived! I started walking bit by bit, everyday I walked longer, my first walk lasted all of 5 minutes before I got tired. It took me 4 months but I did it. I willed my body to go on, and so I did!

Most people see themselves as one dimensional, they are what they see in the mirror, but our body is much more than that, it’s a simple smile that will capture someone's heart, it's the blood that goes to our brain and makes us think a poem, it's the vocal cords of an angelic voice that charms millions.

“The body is a sacred temple - it's our way to communicate with the world, treated like so”

The Mind

My father, your grandfather was a very smart man - too smart even - but he always took the world too seriously, worrying, pacing back and forth on the balcony; When the Berlin wall went down, I think it was 1989, I remember him saying that while he agrees that walls are bad, he was worried that the Soviet Union would collapse shortly after and that the world would be in the hands of USA. Your grandfather never lived to see that day, but it did happened and every time the USA does a crazy thing I can still imagine him pacing back and forth worried, carrying the whole world in his mind.

Our mind gives us a chance to communicate with others, the world, and more important with our soul through the subconscious, the super natural, and dreams. The mind could be a bless or a curse. It is up to us how we exercise our mind.

"Free your mind from complexities true greatness comes through simplicities"

The Soul

I was once in Bolivia on a lake called Lake Titicaca, one of the highest lakes in the world and a must see, I hope you will make it there one day. We were on a boat with an old man with a face that tells a thousand stories, I estimated he was over seventy years old, and yet in his eyes you could see a youthful smile. I didn’t need to speak to him to know that he was young at heart.

When you look into the eyes of a new born, you see something that will stay with this new born till the die they die. That something, intangible as is it, is so defined and so unchangeable that we can see it clearly and feel it deeply... that something is the soul, and the eyes are a window to that soul. We all are part of a oneness, a mesh that has many little imprints, each is a living soul, all together are connected and are the soul of the universe.

"The soul of the universe, is what some call God - others call the ether. Never forget you and the stars share the one soul"

The Spirit

It was 4 am, I had worked 21 hours and was on my way home, I was too tired to sleep any time soon so I made a detour and went to Bondi beach. No one was there, just me, the waves and a half moon reflecting on the vastness of the pacific ocean. In that moment everything seemed so clear, I was experiencing oneness with the ocean, it was just my thoughts and it's vastness. I went home in high spirit, the next day I quit my job, few weeks later I was backpacking around the world.

The spirit is a combination of our location on that mesh that is the soul of the universe and the imprint we leave on it using our mind. Being spirited is using the power of your mind to follow your heart - or soul. When a baby is born, we can see their soul but then as they grow up, their mind develops and only then we see their spirit.

"Restless hearts are spirited people that always seek more from the soul of the universe"

Nature

There is a very large tree in Glebe, in Sydney that I love and always go to when feeling sad. We have a connection. Now I’m not a tree hugger, nor do I take drugs and see trees talking but when I sit on the root of that tree - the tree has many big roots sticking in and out of ground like an octupus - and look up and see no sky but only the branches of my humongous friend, I truly feel the language of nature. I feel safe and in touch with something bigger – not just the tree but even something bigger that is alive, living, and breathing.

The universe is part material part ether, and our body is part of the material of nature, while our soul is part of ether. Nature is what we are and where we belong - our mind is merely a subset, a communication tool, with it we try to understand the wonders of nature.

"If you listen hard enough you can hear the silence - that is the soul of the universe talking"

The Self

There was a movie in the seventies about aliens watching earth from the sky, they finally draw the conclusions that earth is run by cars, and that each car has a slave or two that drive it around, clean it, fix it, and feed it when hungry. We are always too preoccupied with "the Self" to really understand who we are. Our mind does not allow us to see beyond it's comprehension. That is why it's always easier to give advice to others than to help ourselves.

We are always forgetting that our soul is our clear link to a higher concept of the "us" instead of the "self"... and so the "self" needs to understand that it is part of a more important entity that is the "us" - or the soul of the universe - only then will people start evolving to a new level of harmony. And only then will we evelove to a new quantum leap.

“possessions posses us, cleanse your mind - get read of unnecessary junk"