11.11.2014

Life is a Work in Progress
Life is not something that can be rushed.
Things take time, lots of patience and hard
work.
It is a continual process of learning.
Build upon each lesson to constantly refine who
you are, what you do and how you do it.
Being A Good
Transformation Agent (cont.)
If you go inside yourself and observe, with
sincerity, your feelings towards someone that
you consider unbearable or intolerable, you will
see that your perception (way of looking at
them), your expectations and your bad feelings
make you feel that the other is unbearable or
intolerable. You have allowed the other to
influence you in the creation of your bad
feelings. You have lost compassion (kindness)
and the capacity to accept and understand the
other.
Being a good transformation (change) agent
requires having full control over your inner
world. If you are the victim of your rapidly
moving mind, your bad feelings, your aggressive
emotional states and of your not-very-healthy
habits, you will easily feel yourself to be the
victim of others, of circumstances, of time and
of society. In relationships, the key is in
living with your consciousness awake and not to
do anything that your conscience does not agree
with. In doing so, you don't have to fear the
opinion of others. You don't have to feel
insecure or doubt yourself. If not, we will
continue to act against our own consciousness
and we will feel ourselves to be victims. To
avoid pain or the unhappiness that arises
automatically when we act against our own
consciousness, we look for guilt excuses:
"Because of... I haven't acted as I should." We
blame or we make excuses. That way we suppress
the voice of our consciousness until the
suffering and unhappiness is such that our
conscience scolds us, which increases our
unhappiness even more. A good transformation
agent will always obey the voice of the inner
conscience. By remaining in tune with our
conscience and creating right thoughts, words
and actions, it becomes easier for us to move
from victim consciousness to transformer
consciousness (one who brings about change).
Count your Blessings!
What a great blessing it is to have God as a
friend, with a heart so trusting you may safely
bury all your secrets in it, who can relieve
your cares by His conversations, your doubts by
His counsels, your sadness by His good humor and
whose very looks give you comfort.
Soul Sustenance
The Search
for Peace, Love and Happiness
We are constantly searching for true values. In
consciousness we mistakenly think that the
physical world and physical relations can
provide us peace, love and happiness. However
peace, love and happiness are not the properties
of matter, nor of the physical identity, but the
true properties or characteristics of the soul.
This has to be realized.
Imagine a scene in which you are surrounded by
all your favourite things; food, music,
fragrance, scenery and companions. Just about to
enjoy your meal, the telephone rings and you are
told that a person close to you has just died.
Instantly, that scene of "favourites" melts into
a distasteful and superficial experience.
Something has happened that shakes the soul and
it can no longer enjoy those things. At the same
time it finds itself powerless in the face of
the bad news as understanding and power are
missing. Life is full of experiences such as
this and it becomes clear that physical things
are not the sources of peace, love and
happiness, but that understanding and inner
strength are.
One of the basic facts of human psychology is
that we do not seek or desire something that has
not been experienced previously. For example, if
one has never tasted a mango, there cannot be a
burning desire to have a mango. This suggests
that desires might be arising from previous life
experiences. In fact, it is impossible for a
human being to act or desire outside the field
of his or her own experience. The search for
peace, love and happiness is so fundamental to
the human spirit because these are the original
and true qualities of the soul itself.
Message for the day
Accuracy
brings perfection and specialty in all that is
done.
Projection: To
be accurate means to take up full responsibility
for every task and do it to the best of one's
ability. That means all resources that one has
are used in the best possible way for the best
result of the task. This naturally brings
perfection in everything that is done.
Solution: When
I am accurate in everything I do I am able to be
free from carelessness and negligence. I find
myself bringing specialty and uniqueness in what
I do. For having done things with accuracy, I
also find myself becoming trust-worthy and I am
also able to be satisfied with myself.