
Members of a Great Family
Values are related to each other as if they were members of
a great family . From peace and happiness emerges inner joy.
From this state of wholeness love awakens and with is the
desire to share and give . Two of its relatives are
tolerance and respect. All values have a shared origin which
unites them - the peace of spirituality. When you lose peace
you begin to lose everything.
Free from Waste
We usually have expectations for taking from others and
situations. We do want the best from everything, yet we are
not able to take as much as we are capable of. We try harder
but are not able to get the best out of situations and
people. We need to empty ourselves of all that is not
required for us, before we can even think of getting the
best of everything. We will be able to take the best, if we
free ourselves from waste.
The Art Of Tolerance (cont.)
Life teaches you that you can widen the limits of your
tolerance. When certain situations arrive, they are like
exams in order to see your capacity to tolerate. These exams
can first be the unpleasant words and harassment by people
towards you. Secondly, the different obstacles that place
themselves in your path, making it difficult to carry out
your aims. There are also people that you trust who will
oppose you. Your work colleagues or your partners or your
relatives or even children turn into your enemies and create
opposition because they are not happy about small or big
issues. With the feeling of satisfying those who are not
happy, considering that they are influenced by something,
holding on to benevolent (generous) feelings and with the
power of silence and tolerance, you can make others advance,
overcome and collaborate. You can teach the lesson of
tolerance with sweetness, good desires and pure feelings.
That way not only do you advance, but you are also a
searchlight on the road, a medium, seeing whom, others can
also advance. Learn to tolerate with wellbeing. Stabilize
yourself in your inner being and, from that calm, clarity
and stability you can tolerate without losing your
wellbeing. To tolerate is to accept, value, understand
and appreciate. Not making a mountain out of a mustard seed
(rai in Hindi) but rather the contrary, by taking
expansion to the essence, turning a mountain into a mustard
seed (light), a mustard seed into cotton - rui in
Hindi (extremely light), as the saying goes.
Soul Sustenance
What Is True Love? (A Spiritual Perspective)
Emotional love can flower into true love when the fire of
emotions cools down and is substituted by a wiser and more
mature relationship. True love needs a fresh and renewing
atmosphere, without fears. When you feel spiritually full,
you feel flowing over with pleasure, happiness, wellbeing,
and that state helps you to accept the one whom you love as
they are, because from your fullness you give and share and
you don't need or expect anything from the other. While you
need something that you want the other to satisfy, you will
have expectations and the fear that those needs might not be
satisfied, and you will get frustrated more easily. When you
feel like a being of peace, a being of love, a tranquil
being, a being that is spiritually full and satisfied, your
relationship with others is a relationship of sharing on a
level on which fear is not generated. You are not asking for
or taking anything from the other. An elevated sharing of
love, of happiness, of knowledge, of wisdom takes place, in
which you do not generate a dependency on the other.
Attachments and dependencies, fears and insecurity, block
our experience of love, of peace, serenity, freedom,
happiness. When you have a feeling of love that takes you to
a state of joy, to wholeness, but then you attach yourself
to the object of your love, be it a person, or a property,
automatically the feeling changes into fear: you fear to
lose the object of your love and, instead of feeling
wholeness and enjoyment, you feel fear. Over time that
attachment turns into a dependency and you start to become
inwardly empty: that is, your energy level goes down. Love
in its purest form is a like a spring that pours forth for
the benefit of others. Learn the art of loving, being free
and allowing to be. Pure, true, love is an unconditional
love that flows freely. Do not cling (hold on to). Love does
not cling.
Message for the day
To be a leader means to invoke challenges.
Expression:
Each challenge actually brings forth some hidden strength,
some latent power. The one who is able to understand this,
is able to face and in fact invoke challenges. Such a person
with constant and unshaken faith moves on towards victory.
Such a person becomes an inspiration for many and thus is a
true leader.
Experience:
When I know the art of facing and learning from challenges,
I am able to remain fearless in spite of the several
challenges. Much more than that, I am able to actually have
the courage to invoke challenges understanding the fact that
challenges makes me stronger. So I am able to face
challenges with great ease and enthusiasm.