19.05.2015

Great Donor
To enable others to
have an experience of peace from your vision,
attitude and power of your awareness is to be a
great donor.
Power of Truth
Truth brings
simplicity. When you have the power of truth,
you are
simple. When there is a connection with
falsehood, there is
artificiality and complications. If you have the
power of truth
within you and you are living with it, you will
never want to show
off, nor would you be dependent on the
compliments of others. So life
becomes simple and easy. If you ever find
yourself having waste
thoughts because of your expectations from
others, ask yourself what
you expect from them that you don't have within
yourself. The more
you learn the art of connecting to your own
innate truth, the easier
it becomes to keep your life free from
complications.
The Energy Of
Give And Take In Relationships
Love, more than any other virtue, is an
extremely positive energy; it is an invisible
prime mover and foundation of each one of our
lives, a source of motivation and inspiration.
People lacking love in their lives are normally
lesser motivated and happier than those who have
positive and healthy relationships full of love
and an immense amount of love in their lives.
But when the same energy of love, possessing
immense positive potential, is negatively
focused and is not used correctly, it leads to
many dependencies which are negative in nature.
How?
When you love someone, that could be your
parents, your spouse, your children, your
siblings, your friends, any relationship for
that matter; there is a invisible and positive
emotional and mental attraction between you and
that person which keeps you connected to
him/her, but the moment the love turns into
attachment and becomes a dependency, that person
starts dominating and controlling your inner
world of thoughts, feelings and emotions and
your mental and emotional freedom is lost.
It is as if your inner world succumbs to the
influence of the other person and you are no
longer yourself. Everything that goes on inside
you and that comes out of you has an impression
of the other. This kind of love is not
empowering, energizing and healing, because in
this kind of love, over a period of time,
desires, wants and expectations from the other
start emerging. All these emotions place you in
a mental mode of taking instead of giving.
Also in such a kind of love, where love is mixed
with a desire to possess, over a period of time
you start wanting to control the other. From
this control, you start exercising a power to
influence the other. At first you are under
their influence. As more attachment builds up,
this is followed shortly by your desire to bring
them under your submission and influence them.
That way, you feel that you have them and that
they belong to you. This is love that wants to
take and not give. In this kind of relationship
of love, there is suffering and sorrow. Even if
joy exists, it is extremely short lived.
Unconditional love or love that only wants to
give and not take or expect, strengthens and is
healing, it never hurts or inflicts pain on the
other.
Soul Sustenance
Going
Beyond Others’ Perception Of Us
Watch how many things you do during the day are
dependent on how you imagine the other sees you:
your husband, your friend, your child, your
cousin, your aunt, your boss, the secretary or
whoever. You imagine how they are going to look
at you and, as a result, you mould yourself
accordingly. If you depend on the look of the
other, inwardly you will always feel fear. You
want to please the other so that they continue
to see you as you want.
Because of the dependence that we have on the
other to appreciate us, value us and not to
reject us, we want to please them. If, in spite
of doing everything possible, they do not
appreciate us or are not happy, how do we feel?
Cheated. After having done everything out of
wanting to please them! Inside, you want to
please them because you want them to keep on
loving you, or you don't want them to sack you
from your job, or you are afraid of being
different or not being accepted. That kind of
dependency takes us away from our true
authenticity. If you look at yourself well, in
the end, others will look at you well and the
one who does not look at you well will perhaps
teach you something, but your value and
self-esteem do not depend on the look of the
other. In this state, you are open because you
trust yourself and you have personal security.
The other entity can also be the Supreme Soul
(God). We are afraid that God might judge us for
being sinners or not. If I think God looks at me
with that vision of whether I am a sinner,
whether I am this or something else, I distance
myself from Him. A judge like that does not help
me to live with wholeness. In general, in
society, there has been a distancing from the
relationship and experience with God, because we
have learned that He is a strict being and a
judge. Actually, God is love; God looks at me
well and sees my potential and my beauty (which
reflects His), God embraces me and, in this
embrace, He frees me: He does not allow me to
depend on Him ?
Message for the
day
Where there is peace there is patience.
Expression:
My usual reactions to the
stimuli around me are programmed, so I tend to
be impulsive or react quickly to situations, I
don't give myself time to think or understand.
Because of this lack of patience I lose out on
many things and I don't realise that I am losing
out too.
Experience:
At all times I need to make a
conscious effort to keep my mind peaceful and
calm, more so when there is a difficult
situation. With this state of mind I am able to
deal with situations patiently because peace
brings power which in turn brings patience.