Courage
Courage is to take a step forward into an area of
difficulty without a solution in mind, but yet feeling
that victory is ahead. It is going empty handed, but
knowing that God's hand is stretched out to pull you.
A Great Gift
The ability to enjoy one's own company is one of the
greatest gifts life has to offer. Learning to turn our
thoughts away from all our responsibilities at the day's
end and take our mind into a state of peace and
benevolence enables us to carry greater and greater
loads without feeling burdened. When our inner landscape
is full of beautiful thoughts, everything we do is a
pleasure. Gently, we calm down chaotic situations and
offer solace to troubled minds.
Understanding What Is Clean Communication
With the self-covered by the clouds of so many external
influences and many of its own negative beliefs and past
experiences, the self is normally unclear about its own
self. The light of spiritual knowledge brings clarity
to the self, about the self. This helps me to
communicate with others much more clearly than when I am
not sure or clear about what is going on inside me.
There is a direct connection between the quality of
subtle activities in the form of thoughts and
feelings going on inside me and the quality of my
interaction and communication with others.
Very importantly, relationships are also connected with
attitude and vision. Sometimes, I may feel
I have said and done the right things to someone, yet
still someone is not behaving towards me as I would
wish. At such times I need to check my attitude towards
that person and the vision with which I am seeing them.
I may find inside a slight feeling of disapproval
towards that person, a feeling of discomfort, a
resistance to something in their personality. Neither of
us may be conscious of it, but my negative feeling casts
a shadow on the other person. They are not receiving the
acceptance or respect from me, that they should (on a
subtle level), although externally I may be showing them
a lot of respect. This subtle lack of acceptance and
respect from my end influences their ability to hear me
clearly (on a subtle level), and the way they behave
towards me. The practice of meditation enables me to
clean out my thoughts, feelings, attitudes and vision,
ensuring that what I share with others on a physical and
on a subtle level is positive. Then it is much
easier for me to connect with others and for others to
connect with me in a positive way. This is called
Clean Communication.
Soul Sustenance
The Triangle of Spiritual Energy (Part 1)
Harmony within the self and with others is based on the
accuracy of three aspects of remembrance: the ability to
disconnect, connect and reconnect.
When I disconnect my thoughts from outside
influences, stepping back from actions and words, then I
can go into silence and connect with the self. To plug
into the self, l use the thought: Om Shanti or “I
am a peaceful soul”. This thought is the current that
activates my eternal resource of peace and the qualities
that emanate from this peace. The first step in
meditation is always to connect with the self: what we
call the inward step. The next step in meditation is
vertical, where, within one second, my concentrated
thought connects my mind with the Supreme Source
of Peace.
Silence and love give the mind wings to break the pull
of gravity and to fly and unite with the One, who is the
purest point of energy in the universe. This vertical
connection from the point of the self, the soul, to the
point of the universe, the Supreme Soul, gives the mind
fresh new energy. This fresh energy is divine spiritual
power and cannot be found in, or taken from, a human
being. Therefore, if I wish to recharge myself, to
rediscover and restore the original balance and harmony
within myself, the second movement made by my mind must
be vertical.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
The one who is free from wasteful words is the one who
can be light.
Expression:
Sometimes when something only needs a few words to
explain, we continue to speak and expand on it for a
long time. We actually use more words than necessary
thinking we are clarifying things. We give the
justification to ourselves that it is necessary or the
other person does not understand. These words sometimes
disturb the other person and spoil our relationships
too.
Experience:
We constantly need to pay attention to the words that we
speak. We need to check if we are using any more words
than we actually need to. When we remind ourselves of a
simple slogan, "speak less, speak softly and speak
sweetly", our words will never be those that disturb
others. We will then be able to maintain our own
lightness and that of others too.