12.05.2015

Love All
Love can never be
exclusive. The sun does not choose to shine on
some flowers in the garden and not others. Love
is inclusive and has many faces - caring,
listening, sharing from the heart, just
accepting someone for what they are right now,
are all acts of love, as long as you seek
nothing in return. It all starts with acceptance
of yourself - you're just fine as you are right
now, warts and all. It's not that you will stay
that way for ever - but you might, if you don't
accept. The secret key to the greatest door
called love is acceptance. First your self, then
others (especially the ones you currently
resist) and eventually ...all.
God, the
Companion
Your love for God
will make you experience His companionship in
everything you do. Where there is love there is
never a moment of loneliness. Thus you will be
able to move forward with courage in all the
challenges that life brings. Think of one
situation where you have found yourself failing.
Now think that God is with you to help you in
this situation. When you believe this, you will
find that you'll get the courage to accept and
face the situation. Then you can also work and
bring about a change in the situation.
The Power To
Discriminate
Meditation gives me a discriminating eye - an
ability to discriminate between truth and
falsehood. It does this by helping me maintain a
consciousness that helps me rise above competing
claims to truth - the different ideologies and
opinions, reasons and analyses, justifications
and stories related to a situation - which can
be so confusing.
The image of discrimination is the jeweler, who,
with the help of his eyeglass, sorts out real
diamonds from false. Meditation opens my third
eye, the eye of pure consciousness. When I look
at the world through this eye, truth is not just
an intellectual idea, but an experience of the
heart. When I think and act in ways that
maintain and deepen this experience of truth, I
know I am moving in the right direction.
Conversely, I discover that thoughts and
behaviours that cloud or hide the experience of
truth are coming from falsehood, no matter how
much I or others may try to justify them. So,
meditation gives me a reliable basis for
discriminating the value in different courses of
action: will this help me recover my truth, or
take me further into falsehood? Will it maintain
the flow of love, peace and happiness in my
heart, or will it cause a blockage? Previously,
I may have been easily swayed by other people's
demands and opinions, or by illusory ways of
thinking arising from my own negativity. Like a
good lawyer, the intellect is very clever at
arguing its case, regardless of where the truth
may lie. But, when truth is experienced in and
from the heart, there is no arguing with it.
Deeply experienced truth clears my mind of
irrelevancies created due to possessiveness,
greed, desires and ego. As I learn to create
pure, positive thoughts, and connect with the
divine, it is as though a flow of clear,
fragrant water gradually displaces the mud and
rubbish in my intellect, enabling me to see
reality or truth again.
Soul Sustenance
Maintaining Your
Self-Esteem In Relationships
When a person is in love with another human, the
marvelous thing about being in love is that it
is a totally positive projection. There is a
person who projects on to you all that is
positive: you are marvelous, you are unique, you
are indispensable, you are a treasure. That
positive projection generates a euphoric state,
of bliss, of wellbeing, whereby you are flying.
You feel loved, cared for, needed and valued.
That positive projection lasts for a time until,
with the dependencies and expectations, the
negative projection begins. "You should have
called me, you should have told me, you should
have come at this time, you should be more like
this, you should be less like that, you should
have done this or that."
With these expectations, demands and
dependencies, that positive projection and
flying state disappear. The other has
started interfering in your personal space and
the harmony that was there previously is lost.
One needs to learn to have a positive vision
of oneself. You are marvelous, you are
unique; don't depend on them telling you so.
This does not mean you need to feed your ego,
but that you need to make the most positive
emerge from within you. Resort to all your
creative, positive, spiritual capacity, so that
you do not depend on others having to project
positive things onto you in order to feel good.
On feeling good in an independent and autonomous
way, you will be able to share with others
peace, love and positivism. You won't be in the
state of a victim but will be true rulers and
controllers of your own life with solid
self-esteem.
Message for the
day
The one who is a
giver, has attention constantly on giving fully.
Expression:
When the system that I am working in doesn't let
me give maximum benefit to the people around me
or deprives them of their natural right, I tend
to react negatively. I tend to become upset
which doesn't help either of us in anyway.
Experience:
When I remember and maintain the awareness that
I am a giver, instead of complaining about the
restrictions that society or people around me
impose I continue to give those around me
something that will make them happy. This could
be in the form of kind and supportive words or
at least an understanding smile. When I give in
this way, it will make others too free from
negative thoughts.