10.11.2014

Thoughts, Words and Deeds
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Being A Good
Transformation Agent
Often, we feel ourselves to be victims of
different factors that seem to direct the
course of our life without us being able to
control them. The world does not seem to dance
to our music and our will, and we feel ourselves
to be victims because things do not work out or
are not as we want. Therefore, we give up and
decide to resign ourselves to this reality; to
be victims of it and observe passively
(non-actively), resisting what comes, getting
frustrated and bad-tempered. However, we could
position ourselves in another way: being
transformation (change) agents (the ones who
are able to change the external factors like
people or situations) by creating a different
reality. To do so we have to change our
perception. Also, it is necessary to strengthen
our capacity to tolerate, accept, let go and
forget. Tolerance here also refers to
understanding, love and compassion
(kindness). Not to put up with people or things,
but to remain above them, to go beyond them; to
co-operate with trust and motivation. It is
difficult for us to tolerate because we have
expectations and pre-conceived ideas of how
others should act and be. Then we create
negative feelings towards them because they are
not like that or don't act in the manner that we
want. This makes our relationship with them
difficult.
When your vision towards others is positive, you
see their qualities, their efforts and their
values instead of their defects and their
errors. You are open to listening to them and to
understanding their intentions. That way it is
easier to have good feelings towards them.
Basing ourselves on a positive and objective
vision and on good feelings, we do not have to
put up with, or even tolerate the other - the
relationship becomes streamlined.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Soul Sustenance
Understanding The True Self And The False Self
(cont.)
The illusory (false) self is made up of desires
that, even when fulfilled, fail to add value, or
a sense of worth to the self. In fact, quite the
opposite process happens.
Let us examine some of these illusions and how
they give us a mistaken sense of value.
Illusion (False emotion): Ego
Thought: I know, I am
Result: Arrogance, inflexibility,
controlling others
Illusion (False emotion): Anger
Thought: I expect
Result: Force, aggression
Illusion (False emotion): Attachment
Thought: I own, It's mine
Result: Insecurity, possessiveness,
jealousy
Illusion (False emotion): Greed
Thought: I want, I need
Result: Emptiness, wanting,
dissatisfaction
Illusion (False emotion): Lust
Thought: I desire
Result: Exploitation, misuse, emotional
dependence
These are the five fires that burn away the
quality of human life: uncontrolled emotions
that once, in their original pure state, gave
happiness and peace to the individual but now
create only emptiness and sorrow.
Message for the day
To have the
awareness of being God's instrument is to bring
about a positive change.
Projection: When
there is the awareness of being an instrument of
God, there would be the desire to do the best
and be the best. So each and every thing I do
would be for the improvement for the self. Due
to this there would be divinity and specialty
seen in everything that is done. This would also
bring the awareness of all the resources and
they would also be used in a worthwhile way.
Solution: When
I am aware of my own role and what I contribute
through my specialties, I recognize the fact
that I am a beautiful instrument of God. This
awareness naturally helps me be in my state of
self-respect under all circumstances. I find
myself giving my best and making myself more and
more beautiful within. So I find that I am able
to bring about a positive change with great
ease.
True Contentment
Many times I find that my words, actions or
behavior tend to upset others in spite of my not
wanting to hurt them. I seem to be very happy
with the situation, but others don't seem to be.
At that time I am not really able to understand
the reason for this and I consider the others to
be unreasonable. I need to check myself when
others are getting upset with me. I need to make
effort to check and change myself constantly so
that I am able to move along with the demands of
time. This is what will bring about true
contentment - such contentment that neither will
I be upset nor will I upset others.