Spotting the Qualities
A compassionate person develops an eye for
spotting the qualities that make each person
special. Even when others are at their lowest
ebb, it is possible to help them restore their
self-belief by keeping a firm, clear vision of
their goodness and specialties. Taking a gently
encouraging approach, I must never give up on
anyone.
One Step of Courage
Many times when involved in something difficult,
we begin to look for help from people even
before we have started. Prayer is also one
method which we rely on and wish for things to
work our way. But not always do we find the help
coming that is required. So we tend to get
disheartened and maybe even give up trying
altogether. The simple way to receive help is to
first have courage. When I first take a step of
courage using the force of all my resources, I
automatically find others taking help from that
too. For having moved one step ahead, I get the
help from the resources available, from the
people around, God himself & me. I thus
recognize and make use of all the help that is
coming my way. So I never need to beg for help,
but find help coming my way automatically.
Understanding And Overcoming Fears (cont.)
Listed below are some of our common fears:
* Dying
* Getting ill
* The unknown
* Loneliness
* Other people
* Authority
* Being rejected
* Being hurt
* Failure
* Change
* The future
* Being
* Being free
* Thinking and being in a different way
* Losing control
* Dreaming and making our dreams real From these
fears many other fears and blockages emerge.
Soul Sustenance
The Hurting Of The Ego
Almost every day or every second day we come
across a situation when someone says something
to us which is not very pleasurable or we chose
to perceive it to be so. In either case, we feel
insulted and get upset as a result. In some
cases we react and display our feelings. In
some, we don't. In either case, the result is a
depreciation (decrease) in our happiness index.
Why does this happen? It's because you have
created, attached to and identified with an
image of yourself in your mind that does not
match with how the other sees or perceives you,
as a result of which you believe you have been
insulted and you get upset. As long as
people's perception of you matches the image
that you have created inside your mind of
yourself, you are content with them, but as soon
as the opposite happens, even if it is to a very
small extent, you become disturbed, because you
are attached to that image. The more the
attachment, the greater the hurt, the
disturbance or reaction. You could examine this
phenomenon very closely, taking place inside
yourself every day. This kind of attachment
mentioned above is called ego. That's why the
phenomenon explained above is called in common
language 'the hurting of the ego'. In tomorrow’s
message, we shall explain this phenomenon
further with an example.
Message for the day
Good wishes and pure feelings bring easy success
while working at a task.
Projection:
If there are good feelings for both the task and
the one who is carrying out the task, then the
result attained by those feelings is
automatically special. The feeling of giving
love and cooperation, no matter what anyone is
like gives good wishes and pure feelings. There
is a deep impact of such good feelings which
transforms others too.
Solution:
When I am able to maintain my own good feelings
for others, I am able to enjoy the fruit of my
own pure thoughts. I am not disturbed by
temporary clashes that I have because of the
different nature of the person I am working
with, but enjoy working together. So there are
also good feelings from the other person too and
so there is easy success experienced.