Live Fully
They say 'only fools live to the full'. Because only
fools go where most of us fear to go, only fools do what
many of us spend our lives avoiding. You don't have to
climb Mount Everest, or cross the world in a hot air
balloon to live to the full. Simply enter each day with
a commitment not to avoid anything or anybody who comes
your way. Then your Everests will come to you, in the
form of difficult people and challenging situations, and
the only thing you will need to conquer is our own fear
and evasions. And when you do conquer, you will know
that you have lived fully, for there is nothing more
exhilarating than overcoming our own obstacles which, if
the truth were known, are always only in our own minds.
When you turn to face these inner obstacles and
challenges some people call this real courage and you
certainly are no fool.
Check &
Change
Most of the times we do manage to win over our
weaknesses and achieve progress but sometimes we find
that we are defeated at the wrong moment by our own
weaknesses and thus experience failure. So instead of
experiencing progress it is sometimes the case that we
find ourselves moving back. In order to bring benefit to
others and to ourselves, we should recognize and remove
even the last trace of weakness that is working within
ourselves. For that we need to have a constant checking
about the real cause of the weakness and remove it. Such
checking and changing helps me to overcome my
weaknesses.
The Practice Of Meditation
As with anything else, the more we practice meditation,
the more we feel the benefit of what we are doing. We do
need to practice meditation regularly because the habits
of:
i. identifying with our physical form,
ii. succumbing to mental and emotional negativity (in
the form of waste and negative thoughts) along with
negativity in words and actions,
iii. becoming attached to the physical as well as the
non-physical, and
iv. being dependent upon the experience of physical
stimulation of any sort (from e.g. food, movies, people,
sports etc.) for happiness are extremely deep.
These habits have deepened over a period of many many
births, because of repeating them regularly, due to a
lack of spiritual awareness. As a result, in the present
moment also we regularly and quite easily slip into
these four habits.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Soul Sustenance
Spiritual
Education
Spiritual education leads us back to the
understanding and the experience of our holistic
existence as human beings, to the knowledge that we are
spiritual, as well as physical, mental and emotional
beings. A true spiritual education could be described
as:
• learning from others
• growing through others
• integrating with others
• contributing to others
When we are genuinely learning, only then can
we experience spiritual growth. When we grow, we
integrate with others and it is in that
integration that there is a natural and mutual
contribution to nature and other souls. These four
processes of education are constantly at work, but only
happen in a way that is enjoyable and meaningful when
the spiritual resources of the self like peace, joy and
love are activated and creatively used.
These resources, along with the mind and intellect,
enrich the way we see the world, the way we interact
with it and the way we individually create our place in
it. These resources are the original qualities of the
self, which we have not properly used for a long time.
By become spiritually aware, we start to harness and use
these positive energies.
Message for the day
True fortune comes to the one who recognizes and uses
his treasures with an honest heart.
Expression:
Sometimes we might be faced with certain situations
where we find that we are not very fortunate. We find
ourselves thinking about all those things that we need
to have in order for us to be able to bring a positive
outcome. Because of this kind of thinking, we tend to
miss out on perceiving those treasures that we can make
use of.
Experience:
There are a lot of treasures within us that we can use
in our practical life. These treasures could be our
talents, skills, or some specialities of ours. Under all
circumstances we need to have an awareness of these
treasures. When we are aware of them we will begin to
use them in our daily life instead of just expecting
things to happen right. This is what will create a good
fortune for us.