01.05.2015

The Art of Patience
What cannot be
achieved with pressure can easily be achieved
with patience. Patience
gives you the time to chip away at your dream
and turn it into a reality. It tells you not to
push, not to rush; there is a reason and a
season for everything.
And when things go wrong, patience tempers the
feeling of failure and buffers the heart. It
teaches you to keep your cool. A cool head knows
when to wait and when to act.
Sweetness
Although there is an
understanding of the need for being sweet in
words and interactions, many times we find
ourselves being rude to people. Although we try
a lot to be nice and sweet (we are successful a
few times too!) yet we are not able to sustain
this all the time. There is some kind of
negativity directly or indirectly expressed
through our words and actions. This further
creates negativity in our minds. When we are
able to keep our mind sweet, i.e., free from any
kind of bitterness or ill-feelings, we are able
to experience the beauty of life. There is no
feeling of sorrow or negativity but the mind is
nurtured to further positivity with everything
that comes our way. So we are further open to
all that is nice and beautiful and we express
our own freshness and beauty in interactions. We
are then able to experience constant growth and
progress.
The Internal
And External Source Of Spiritual Energy
Every day, in the morning, we all need to
recharge our spiritual battery, the energy of
which has been used the previous day. This is
extremely important, otherwise the light of our
consciousness becomes dim, thoughts become
unfocused and decisions are filled with
un-clarity and doubt. This energy is available
inside and outside. Inside us we have a
spiritual centre, at the center of our
consciousness, pure spiritual energy. This is
what we are. However access to this energy is
now blocked by our attachments, many negative
life experiences and many incorrect beliefs and
perceptions (way of looking at situations).
Outside us we have the Supreme Soul, the source,
the Supreme Being or Supreme Spiritual Energy.
Both these sources are invisible to our physical
eyes but only one second away when we are able
to quieten and focus our mind on them. The
method of doing this is called meditation, which
connects us to both sources of power - that's
why meditation is the way to spiritually nourish
the soul, the nourishment that the soul longs
for immensely. Sit quietly and connect your mind
to each source and allow yourself to
recharge.
Soul Sustenance
Defining Success
Given below are some
definitions of success:
Feeling yourself to be full of inner
contentment and happiness, with an optimistic
mental state, without fear, happy and in a good
mood. Being fine, in balance and at peace with
oneself.
Finding meaning in what you do.
Discovering what will bring you closer to your
dream.
Success is about more than just possessing; it
is facing all situations, even the negative
ones, transforming them into the positive and
feeling yourself realized, personally and
emotionally.
Having courage to take forward what you want,
in spite of what you find against it.
Achieving in each moment the desired
objectives at all levels of the inner being.
Fulfilling set objectives and adopting a
positive attitude.
Being able to be beyond noise i.e. experience
silence wherever and whenever you wish to
silence being the key to all spiritual
treasures.
Remaining humble in the wake of all
achievements and glory that may come your way.
Not being afraid of failure.
Satisfaction at work.
In harmony with ones inner conscience (while
performing all actions).
Tomorrow we shall discuss some factors that
bring us closer to success.
Message for the
day
To be a giver is
to be flexible.
Expression:
The one who does not
expect from others, but is able to give others
from whatever resources he has, is the one who
is flexible. Being flexible means to be able to
recognize the other person's value system and
moulding one self according to it without losing
touch with one's own value system.
Experience:
When I am a giver, I do
not expect others to change according to my
value system, but am very easily able to find a
way to adapt to the other person's value system.
I never expect from others to understand me, but
am able to understand others. So there is never
any feeling of negativity for anyone.