08.04.2014

Sea Cliff Bridge,
Wollongong, Australia
Solution
Problems are simply
challenges waiting for solutions to meet them. The two
are partners. Think with resolve that a solution will
present itself and it will.
Humility makes you a
learner
Where there is humility there is
willingness to learn. When humility is lacking, ego
comes which doesn't let you learn from all situations
and people. The power of humility enables you to learn
and move forward. When you face any criticism from
someone, see what you can learn from it, instead of
feeling bad about it. Even things that go wrong have
something to teach, for the ones who are willing to
learn. With your humility continue to learn.
Love And Suffering
(cont.)
We have the inner belief that love,
worry, fear and suffering go together. It is difficult
to transform (change) fear until we eliminate that
belief You are love and you need to share that love.
Life is a sharing of love, it is loving the body, loving
oneself, loving others, loving God, loving nature,
loving work. That energy of love in the end purifies us
and helps us to go forward. But while the belief exists
that love has to be linked to fear and suffering, we
will be blocked and will put a brake to the flow of pure
love. In the name of love, we worry, we suffer and we
are afraid. Instead of helping from a place of freedom
in love, we help out of worry and fear, and in doing so
we stifle, control, depend, and the other person feels
their inner freedom restricted. We do not let them be.
If we review our personal life and see the moments when
we have experienced most pain in our lives, we realize
that it is with the people we have most loved, and that
have most loved us that we have suffered most. We
experience pain in a relationship of love, where there
is possession, control, submission and dependence. Other
times the pain is caused by a loss that generates an
inner emptiness. That person filled me, they gave me
wholeness, they were the reason for my existence and now
they have either left me or they have gone. In the
second case, we wouldn't say that they "have died", but
rather that they have gone to another level of existence
i.e. the soul has taken a new physical costume.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Limiting Ourselves In Comfort Zones
We are basically
unlimited beings. But we limit ourselves in many comfort
zones. We have a lot of conditionings which, in reality,
are mental. Some mosquitoes were put in a box and they
kept jumping a lot. The box was covered from the top and
each time they jumped they hit the top of the box, and
when they jumped too close to the right or the left they
hit the sides of the box. Slowly, to avoid harming
themselves, they learned to jump just under the cover
and without reaching the sides of the box. One day all
the four sides of the box were opened. The mosquitoes
were free, but they kept on jumping as far as the limit
they had learned. The physical limits were no longer
there. But they had become conditioned mentally. The
same thing happens to us. We have to open the sides of
the box and take off the top, or we can continue to live
inside the box created by our own mind.
Given below are some conditionings under which we work,
because of which we do not experience complete freedom.
* Beliefs , acquired since our childhood, which
limit us.
* The negative images of low self esteem that we
have created of ourselves.
* The damaging thoughts of doubt, which does not let the
highway of trust to build up inside ourselves and does
not allow the creative energy of positivity to flow from
inside us to the outside.
* The fear of failure or not being to able to succeed
completely. A lot of times the fear exists due to past
experiences of failure or not having succeeded as much
as you would have liked.
We need to become aware of what our pattern of thoughts
is, which brings us under the negative influence of
mental conditionings. When that happens, we will be able
to become free of these conditionings. While we do not
become aware, we will continue to remain under its
influence.
Message for the day
The one who is
detached is the one who is loving too.
Projection:
The lotus flower is both detached
and loving. It is untouched by the dirt it is surrounded
with and is beautiful and loving at the same time. In
the same way, whatever the situations or the people
around us, we need to be untouched by their negativity.
Then we will become the ones
who are loving too.
Solution:
When we are faced with a negative situation, instead of
blaming the situation, we need to work at our own inner
strength. The problem could be created by someone else,
but we have to make effort in bringing about the
solution. Then we will be able to make things better
without having negative feelings towards anyone.