16.12.2014

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.