13.12.2014

Good Wishes
If someone behaves negatively towards you, can
you have good wishes for them? When you get
affected by other people's negativity, your
positivity depletes. Try to work on creating
good wishes for all (especially for the negative
people in your life). Your good wishes can help,
support and empower the other person to bring
about a change for the better. Best wishes to
you!
Forgiveness
We sometimes find it very difficult to forgive
the mistakes committed by others. We do try to
understand but are not able to understand the
other person's behaviour and so find it
difficult to forgive them. When I have love for
myself and am able to learn from all that
happens, I am able to forgive myself. When I
know to do this, I can understand the other
person too from his perspective and can easily
forgive him.
The Art Of Tolerance
It is important to understand that to overcome
problems you need, on the one hand, inner
power, and, on the other, the capacity to
tolerate. Tolerating does not mean to put up
with. To tolerate is to accept, understand and
know how to face things. That is, to tolerate is
not to put up with and then explode at a later
stage. In tolerance you dissolve that which,
otherwise you would be putting up with.
Tolerance is like the ocean, which is an example
of tolerance, because we throw a lot of dirt
into the ocean, the ocean absorbs it and, over
time, transforms it. Tolerance is being like the
ocean, that is, knowing how to absorb and
dissolve, and finally to make it disappear.
Tolerance has to be balanced with the capacity
to face things, which is based on bravery,
courage and personal security. Having the power
to tolerate gives you security and trust that
you will be able to, you will achieve it, and
you will advance. Tolerance is necessary for
shared living, to be and allow to be. With the
virtue of tolerance, you will continue to smile,
you will never be discouraged. To smile when
someone praises you is not to be tolerant.
However, when someone turns into an angry enemy
and insults you, but you do not have even the
slightest sign of dejection on your face, not
even in your thoughts, that is to be tolerant.
To look, to speak and to enter in contact
with feelings of compassion, patience,
comprehension, love and respect, with a person
that you do not have a good relationship with,
is to have tolerance.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Uprooting the Emotion of Worry From The
Consciousness (Part 1)
What is a good definition of ‘worry’? Worry
is a process of imagining the worst possible
outcome or result or future in a particular
situation and creating a living and active image
of it in front of the eye of your mind, and then
using the energy of that negative image to flow
inside your consciousness so as to completely
overpower or weaken your spiritual and as a
result your physical self to evoke fear in the
self. When people are asked about this
process, a person who is attached to this
process and is involved in the process very
regularly the whole day in different types of
situations, one who is a habitual worrier,
responds "But it’s important t0 worry, it’s good
to worry. If we don’t think of different
possible negative outcomes, how will we prepare
for them?" It’s important to realize that the
belief, that by worrying, we prepare for the
worst in the future is a false one. This
belief causes us not to realize the truth that
all worry is simply an incorrect and fruitless
creation. It is a wrong use of the positive,
constructive and imaginative capacity of our
mind and intellect which, instead of empowering
the mind and intellect, weakens it. Preparing
for the future is important and necessary, but
very often while doing that, we enter the
territory of worry, which leaves us, defeated or
weakened. There is an extremely fine line
between proactive preparation (necessary
preparation in advance) on the one hand and
worry on the other. The preparation can be done
without creating an excessive number of possible
negative outcomes in the mind.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
The method to bring about change is forgiveness.
Expression:
Forgiveness means to have good wishes,
cooperation, love, respect and faith. This
becomes like a blessing for the one who needs to
bring about change. Words spoken will then be
powerful and easy. This will naturally bring
faith in the other person in order to bring
about natural transformation.
Experience:
When I give only correction I forget to forgive.
But when I first forgive I am able to remain
cool and easy. I am also able to forget the
intensity of the mistake. So when I forgive and
forget in this way, my forgiveness itself
becomes a correction for the other person.