MY LIFE JOURNEY BEYOND LOGIC

MBS Open Day – June 8, 2008

On August 19, 2008, Reflections - Bookshop and Resource Center will be 10 years old.  A bookstore established with the main objective of helping people in Hong Kong to be aware of themselves, learn to love themselves, transform and live their life fully.

Reflections was created and set up by myself and my partner Jonnie Oden with Jonnie passing over JUST four  months after we opened.  It was a big blow to me as she had high hopes  of recovering from cancer in order to join me in pursuing our life mission.  With her departure, I was left to run two businesses by myself - one the new bookstore Reflections and the other, my own public relations  consultancy M V Reach Communications which I had established in 1991.

In the beginning of this journey it was very tough to juggle my work.  As much as I was aware that Reflections was, for me a way to fulfill my life’s mission, there were countless nights where I wept myself to sleep.  I would then wake up the next morning with tears streaming down my cheeks, A time when it seemed there was to be no end to my agony. This is when Psalms 23 and 129  became my favourite 'companions' IN giving me strength  The pain was so much and the feeling of alone-ness was so strong that at one point, I thought of closing down the book shop.

It was at this point my greatest gift appeared.   I 'saw'  God (Source, Divine, whatever you  like to call it) working to show me what I needed to do and that God was present. One day when I was strolling down the street, I  halfheartedly walked into a Christian bookstore, and the first thing  that caught my eyes was a small wallet card with the words DON'T QUIT, and in that moment, I knew the Divine was giving a message to me, as it had always been.   Since then I have experienced a lot of synchronicities and miracles for myself as well as being a witness to those who have come to share in and at Reflections.

Reflections became my blessings, it was here that I was given so many opportunities to learn about myself as well as empower myself.  I have met so many wonderful souls and in crossing paths they taught me lesson(s) in life and how the Laws of Universe work.  I learned to accept and not to judge, to give and to receive, to let go and to allow new things to unfold.  However the most important of them all, was I learned that we cannot find truth outside ourselves, for truth lies within the God in us.

Last month (May 2008), I took 5 days off from work - it was the first time I have done that in 10 years!!!  I went for a silent retreat on my own, I took a leap of faith and courage by asking three customers to help me take care of Reflections while I was away.  They happily agreed and they all did a fabulous job.  In the retreat,  I bathed in the void of  silence, an  experience that my mind, my body and my spirit had been crying out for.

In numerology (again this is something that I DID not have a clue ABOUT before Reflections), August 19, 2008 adds up to 10, this augurs an end and new beginning for Reflections.  SO, if you ask me what is next for me, on behalf of Reflections, I will continue to ask the Divine, as I have been doing every morning for the last ten years:  How can I serve Thee?  How can I serve more? 

In closing, allow me to use this space in the Quest to thank all of you - my brothers and sisters,  for your generous support, love and trust.  Without you, I would not be where I am at this moment. 

*Quest is an event newsletter that I created years ago to coincide with the  holistic events that we have organized every year since 1999 for all to share their truth, discoveries and dreams with others, as well as Jonnie's and my dream for Reflections Bookshop.

In love and light

RUBY T  ONG

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邏輯以外的人生歷程 

王華璟

二零零八年八月十九日，Reflections 書店及資源中心就十歲了。Reflections書店的目標是幫助香港人的自省、自愛，轉化生命，完全活出生命。

Reflections 有兩位始創人，我和鍾妮奧丹，但她卻於開業後僅四個月就逝世了，那是對我很大的打擊，她那時患了癌症卻對康復滿懷盼望，計劃一起追尋生命的理想。她的離去，遺留下我獨自經營著兩盤生意：新的Reflections書店，我原有創辦於1991年的恆達公關顧問公司。

這個旅程的開始，工作非常艱難。我知道Reflections是我實踐自己生命意義的工作，但多少個晚上我帶著哭泣入眠，然後第二天早上面頰流著淚水醒來。那些日子，那些折磨，似是無窮無盡。然後，聖經中詩篇第23及 129節成為了我的良伴，幫我重新得力。那種痛楚之磨人，孤單之深淵，我曾想更把書店關掉。

 這時，我的最大的恩典禮物出現。我「看見」了神 (也許你喜歡稱祂、道、創造者、萬物之源...)在工作，祂指引我，讓我知道祂存在。某天，我走在街上，不經意走進一家基督教書室，雙眼看到了一張小咭，上面寫著：「不要放棄」，我知道，是神送來的信息。由此開始，我親身經歷了很多的巧合和奇蹟，也聆聽和目睹了Reflections裡無數客人和朋友的奇妙歷程。

Reflections成為了我的祝福，給我很多的機會去認識自己、發掘出自己的力量，遇上了很多美麗的心靈，大家的相遇，讓我學習生命的功課，瞭解穹蒼的定律。我學會接納而不去判斷，付出與接受，放下與讓新東西展現。然而，最重要的，是我明白到，真理不能外求，真理是在我們內心－神聖的內心。

上月（2008年5月) 我休息了五天，是我十年來的第一次！我獨自去了寧靜的退修。憑著信心和勇氣，我請求了三位客人，於我休假時，去幫忙打理店務，他們樂於幫忙，且結果做得很好。退修期間，我沐浴在寧靜的虛空中，那是我的身體、頭腦、心靈都在亟度渴求的寧靜。

在靈數的研究裡 (又是我開辦Reflections之前一無所知的東西)，2008年8月19日的靈數是10，預兆了Reflections的一個結束和新開始。如果你問我 (代表著Reflections) 的下一步會是怎樣？ 我會繼續請問上蒼，就如我過去十年每天早上所問：我可以怎樣去侍奉人？怎樣侍奉更多？

作個總結，請容我在這份刊物Quest中說句感謝，各位兄弟姊妹，感謝你的慷慨的支持、關愛、信任，讓我這刻活在這裡。

Quest 是一份節目通訊，於我自1999年以來舉辦的身心靈活動中出版，讓大家分享真理、發現、心得、夢想，包括鍾妮和我的 Reflections Bookshop 的夢想。 

 懷著愛的祝福 

王華璟

 (多謝好友黃偉德的中譯)