
Ostrich Run
Get Set, Go!
Set goals and go for them.
Make a list of your goals, career as well as
personal goals, both
short-term and long-term.
Prepare yourself with the right tools to help
you accomplish your
goals. Choose the action you will take
immediately.
Stillness of the Mind
One of the best ways to remain light, even in
the middle of chaos and
heaviness, is to keep a conversation with God.
Chatting to God, whose
responsibilities are unlimited, about trivial
matters that are wearing
us down gives us a more entertaining view of
life. It requires a
certain stillness of mind to hear His advice,
but with practice we
learn to sense His perspective on our minor
irritations. Since His mind
radiates lightness and love, the very act of
opening ourselves up to
Him enables us to lighten our burdens.
When To Say Yes And When No
When you are faced with different situations or
opportunities,
which do you say yes to and which do you say no
to?
In order to decide, it is important to keep the
vision of your dream and
what you the soul really wants, in front of you.
Be aware of what is essential
for you. From this space of inner focus, we
should see which of
these situations/opportunities are going in the
direction of your
dream, what is essential and what takes you away
from your
dream; also be aware that sometimes situations
are like 'mirages'
(illusions) that seem to offer something easy
and attractive, but which
distance you from the essential or the truth.
They are opportunities that
seem easier and, out of laziness, it would be
easier to say yes. But within
you, if you listen, you know that, in the long
term, you will not be happy,
content and peaceful given that you have avoided
or are running away from
the challenge, you haven't listened to your
heart. We need to refuse to allow
ourselves to be carried by the current.
When you say yes to the proposal, situation or
action that is close
to your essence of your spirit, it is a yes in
which there is not
submission, where you do not lose your freedom
or your self-esteem.
It is a yes with the certainty that, learning
from what life offers
you; you and others will move forward in a
positive sense.
Soul Sustenance
Fulfilling Desires By Changing Your Belief
System (Part 1)
One most important characteristic that
differentiates the Supreme Soul
from human souls is that the Supreme Soul is the
only entity that exists in
this World Drama that is completely desire-less
and remains that way
eternally. If we were to make a list of desires
that human beings have, we
would name a lot many and various different
types of desires. Whatever
karma or action any soul performs at different
points in the
World Drama, whether positive or even negative,
pure or even
impure, they are all performed to fulfill these
different types of
desires. But when seen from a spiritual
perspective, whatever
the external form of the desire may be, the
internal desire is
always very simple – to go back to its eternal
(or inert) state of
peace or original state of peace, love, joy and
power. The eternal or
inert state of each soul is the state in which
it exists before it begins its
journey of birth and rebirth, when it resides in
the soul world and the
original state of each soul is the state in
which it exists when it has just
begun its journey of birth and rebirth i.e. at
the beginning of the birthrebirth
cycle. Even negative karmas based on the
personality traits of
anger, greed, ego, lust, etc. may externally
seem to be filled with violence or
impurity, but internally, each time any soul
performs such karmas, all it
desires is a return to its eternal and original
state (we shall explain this in
tomorrow’s message). But it does not realize how
these karmas take the
soul away and not close to these states.
This is where the role of the Supreme Soul comes
in. The Supreme Soul is
completely desire-less and possesses the
capability, knowledge and power
to fulfill these desires of the soul.
Being the Supreme Teacher, He guides and teaches
us what are
the right karmas or actions that can help us
fulfill our desires
and take us closer to our eternal and original
state and which
actions, take us away from it. Also He is the
only one who can
teach us how to connect with Him so that these
desires are
fulfilled, because he is the Ocean of all the
qualities that exist inside us in
our eternal and original state and connecting
with Him fills us with these
qualities. The connection and the right actions,
both, are vital for our
progress.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Message for the day
The difficulty of the situation lies in one's
own state of mind.
Expression:
To make something big as small or to make
something small
as big depends on one's state of mind. When
one's state of mind is good, to
deal with situations becomes easy. So even
difficult situations are crossed
over with great ease. Then there will be no
dependency on the external
situations to change the internal state of mind.
That is, there will never be a
reaction to external situations but there will
be always stability.
Experience:
When my state of mind is good and powerful, I am
confident
of myself and am able to easily win over all
obstacles. Otherwise, the
situation takes hold of the internal state of my
mind and I find myself
bound by the situation. At such a time, I find
the smallest situation to a very
big obstacle. But with faith in myself I am very
easily able to use my inner
power to overcome situations.