
Choices
Life is all about choices. When you cut away all
the junk, every situation is a choice. You
choose how you react to situations. You choose
how people affect your mood. You choose to be in
a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
your choice how you live life.
Practice
Most of the times,
theory and practice become two different things
in our lives. We now a lot of things, but we do
not bring that into our practical lives. We only
tend to talk about it to those around. So our
valuable thoughts are wasted, creating a habit
of wastage. We have to make effort for
ourselves. We need to start applying into
practice
what is good and worthy. The first step is to
understand. Having understood we need to sustain
these thoughts by bringing them to action. Not
only will our lives be enriched, but also there
will be power in every thought of ours.
Going Beyond
False Identifications
The more I identify
with the physical factors of my life, the more I
become a prisoner to my destiny or the various
up and downs of my life.
E.g. if my self-respect is attached to my
beautiful new car, how will I feel about myself
when the car becomes old and its beauty and
shine reduce? Or if I my car is stolen or gets
immensely damaged in a road accident? Then, I
shall find myself in an identity crisis. The
same will be true if my business or job is
everything to me. If one day, I am in a good
financial state and I enjoy a very respectable
and dominant position, and the next day I find
myself in a dispute in my profession and I
suddenly lose all of that, and nobody wants to
know me, I will feel as if I have lost my soul
and have almost died. The problem is sometimes
so great that people do, literally, lose their
desire to live. It happens, too, in
relationships, when your partner leaves you
either due to a separation, a divorce or even
death - a partner in whom you have invested all
your love and emotions. Or if my identity is
tied to my back balance or property, and
suddenly I am broke.
All of these are actually false identifications,
and the crazy part of living this way is that I
can never be satisfied, even if I succeed in
maintaining my false identity. These kind of
false identifications do not keep me placed
stably on my seat of self-respect and either
bring about an inferiority complex or a
superiority complex - both of which are false,
so both bring insecurity. Even while I am
externally successful, having my identity based
on that success means I am a slave to them. I've
handed over my self-esteem to them. I become
addicted to it.
Soul Sustenance
The Energy of
Faith
What we believe becomes reality. It has been
said that faith can move mountains. The highest
mountains are our negative thoughts, feelings
and ideas, which block our capacity to rise
beyond our limits.
Faith is the energy of understanding that
enables us to realize anything is possible even
if it is not visible in front of our eyes.
The success that comes from faith is closely
linked with 'letting go'. It is only when we
let go of what we are used to, or what we have
learnt to depend on, that new perceptions and
new possibilities will present themselves to us.
All that is needed are a few basic facts and
then we can take action. When we drive a car, do
we insist on knowing how the engine works in
detail before driving it? Do we know the
mechanical details of a lift before we use it?
Most people are only aware of the basic
functions and this is all they need to carry out
the action. However, they do have the faith that
the car has been correctly constructed to do its
job safely and that by pressing a few buttons
the lift will raise them to wherever it is they
want to go. In the modern life-style, there is a
tendency to over-think, to want to control and
direct every outcome, but such a life lacks
spontaneity and simplicity.
Although we do need a framework, it must be
flexible enough to allow space for the
unexpected, the unpredictable and the great
surprise. Such a space is the window through
which the light of innovation can enter. When
life is over-planned, we become cemented in,
unable to grow, or flow, into new horizons.
Faith allows us to realize that optimum results
can happen without always having to structure or
plan. Such faith is the basis for new vision and
allows us to reach beyond our limits; because we
believe we are more than what meets the eye.
Such faith is the inspirational energy of every
pioneer in whatever field.
Message
for the day
To donate virtues
is the greatest donation.
Expression:
To donate virtues means to express virtues
through one's own words and actions. There is
some or the other value revealed through all
words and actions. The ones who constantly have
the aim of donating virtues naturally bring
benefit to all they come into contact with. No
one would go away empty handed from such people.
Experience:
When I constantly have
the aim of using my virtues I have the
satisfaction of giving continuously under all
circumstances. I also find my own treasures of
virtues increasing and I find myself richer and
better than what I was. Thus I experience
constant progress in my life.