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The Key of Optimism
Optimism opens a
door in difficult or hopeless situations.
Optimism knows that there is always a way, no
matter how many doors have been shut. Optimism
believes that there is always a useful
alternative. No matter what the crisis, an
optimist maintains the outlook that it is a
sign, time for a different way of thinking, or a
new way of doing things.
Tolerance
The one who is
tolerant is the one who is successful. Tolerance
frees
the mind of waste thoughts, as there is no
negativity towards anyone.
Also tolerance frees us from questions about
things that are going
wrong. When we are free from waste thoughts, we
can do our best and
thereby ensure success. When things go wrong or
when someone is
creating obstacles in our way, instead of
worrying or having questions
about it, we need to accept it with the power of
tolerance. We need
to see within ourselves what strength or
speciality we have that can
make us face this situation.
The Law of Self
Control
The more control we have over ourselves and our
lives, the happier and freer we will feel.
We sometimes get angry with other people. Why
does this happen? It is probably because they
have not met our expectations or we were trying
to control them and they have not let us.
Sometimes, the simple expectation that a person
should behave as we want them to is in itself an
attempt to control them. When we try to control
another person, which is impossible, we are
bound to fail, feel frustrated and stressed.
We are capable of having power over ourselves;
we can be more responsible for our thoughts and
feelings. We have the capacity to choose how we
respond to different situations and people that
we come across in our lives. If we do not
exercise much control over our thoughts and
emotions, we easily fall into the tendency of
seeing ourselves as victimized, and we blame
others, making them responsible in our own minds
for how we feel. When we do this, we are
forgetting that we create our own thoughts. When
this happens, we are handing over the control of
our thoughts to those who influence, criticize,
attack or slander us.
If we want to recover the control over our life,
we must learn to control our thoughts and
feelings and not blame anyone else for them. The
more self-control we have over ourselves, the
less will we want to control others and our
capacity to influence other people positively
will be greater.
Soul Sustenance
The
Relationship Between My Conscience And Intellect
To act from a state of truth, it is important to
realize the relationship between my intellect
and conscience and what role these two play in
experiencing this state of truth in my thoughts,
words and actions. The quality of my
thoughts, words and actions is based on the
quality of my intellect and conscience.
There are three different stages of the
intellect conscience relationship.
* The first stage is one in which my
conscience and my intellect, both are so pure
and transparent that whatever is right and true
is naturally brought into my thoughts, words and
actions and nothing negative or impure manages
to enter into my thoughts, words and actions.
* The second stage is one in which my
conscience acknowledges that which is the truth,
but the intellect does not have the strength to
be able to bring the truth into practical. The
conscience tells me one thing, but my intellect
pulls me elsewhere, and it overpowers me. I do
what I know I shouldn’t.
* The third stage is one in which my
conscience is not clean enough or aware enough
to acknowledge the truth so the question of it
influencing the intellect to bring the truth
into practical does not arise. As a result my
intellect, which is not at all backed by the
conscience in this state, takes complete control
of me. I do what I shouldn’t and I am not even
aware of it.
When my intellect overpowers my conscience
repeatedly, my conscience loses its influence on
my intellect. As a result the conscience keeps
weakening until its voice is stifled or
silenced. As a result of that, I can then no
longer discriminate between truth and falsehood.
I will feel that there are no fixed ways of
defining right and wrong, that each has their
own judgment or definition of truth and
falsehood. True spiritual knowledge, which
gets stored in the intellect, and the experience
of meditation, which purifies the intellect as
well as my conscience, both together, make me
aware of the definition as well as give me an
experience of what is the truth and what is
false, what is right and what is wrong. As a
result of that, I am able to maintain the first
stage of the intellect conscience relationship
very easily in my day-to-day actions.
Message for the
day
To be a well
wisher means to think of changing first.
Projection:
Being a well wisher
just doesn't mean wishing others well. It also
means having good wishes for the self and having
the pure desire to bring about a change for the
better in the self. So whatever the kind of
situations, instead of just judging others and
what they need to change, the one who is a
well-wisher constantly brings about
transformation in the self.
Solution:
For having worked on myself
under all circumstances and having used every
situation as a chance for self-progress, I
constantly enjoy every thing that comes my way.
I have no expectations, but just think of
benefit for others and myself. I then never find
any situation to be an obstacle, but use it as a
step for progress.