TODAY's THOUGHT
30.10.2014
Staying Power
When you have staying power, you have the
stick-at-it-iveness. Like a postage stamp,
you're able to stick at one thing until you get
there. So, even when there are lots of
mini-failures, don't stop! Use your strength,
energy and focus to steer your way through the
obstacles, and stay with it. Use perseverance
and somewhere along the road 'success' will show
up.
The Three Root Causes Of Anger (cont.)
We are at war with our self when we fail to make
the world do exactly what we want, or we believe
we have let our self down. An e.g. of a war with
one self is - Suppose you are standing in a
queue waiting for your chance to arrive, only to
discover an hour later, just when your chance is
about to arrive, that the time for the counter
to close has come and the counter has closed.
You get upset, but with whom? Perhaps the person
at the counter at first and may be with the
other people in the queue and then with
yourself, for not having found out the time of
closing of the counter. There are two failures
that make you uneasy here. First you failed to
ask someone early enough, which would have saved
you the hour time loss. Second, you failed to
control your emotions of anger. Although you
might not externally admit that you failed,
inside you know. Because of these two failures,
you then start to get angry with yourself. The
thought pattern that goes inside your mind: to
fail is to lose, to lose is to be sorrowful, to
be sorrowful causes me to become angry, as you
look for an external cause of your sadness
which, in this case, is initially the person at
the counter and the other people in the queue
(who would have known the time of closing and
could have told you). So you demonstrate to
others your justified anger towards them. But
deep inside you know it is you yourself that has
made you sorrowful. As the anger builds up
inside you, again, after a while, you find
someone else outside on whom you vent out your
anger. You seem to feel better as a result, but
it's only temporary. The next time you become
angry; interrupt the pattern of your anger by
asking yourself two simple questions: Who are
you fighting a war with? Answer: Yourself. Who
is suffering the most due to the war? Answer:
Yourself. And if your anger is directed at
yourself for your own supposed failure then just
tell yourself, "There is no such thing as
failure, only a different result from the one
that I expected and results are not going to be
exactly as I want, expect or desire. That is a
rule of the game of life."
Enchantment
It's a wonder how God manages to be so
enchanting since none of His uniqueness can be
attributed to the parameters human beings
normally associate with an attractive
personality such as etiquette, education,
fashion sense, social contacts etc. Though God's
purity, wisdom, power, love... are intangible,
when I am soul-consciousness I get exposed to
God's unparalleled magnetism. The more I stay in
this spiritual magnetic field, my mind and heart
experience a slow but permanent change by
appreciating myself and others for more than
physical qualifications.
Soul Sustenance
Topics For Meditation Thought Commentaries
(cont.)
Here are a few thoughts or themes for meditation
to help you:
• Like stars shine to bring light during the
night, I am a spiritual being of radiant light,
like a star in the night sky, reflecting and
radiating spiritual light in the present
spiritual darkness of the world night. The,
light, which emanates from the heart of me is
peaceful and loving. It touches each and every
being in the world. It is my gift to the world.
• I am just a tiny point of pure energy, of
light, situated at the center of the forehead.
And within that tiny point lie all my thoughts,
feelings, emotions, attitudes, beliefs and my
personality traits. Within the point of light
that I am, lie all the qualities of spirit that
I have - I am a source of love, peace, power and
wisdom for others.
• I am a conscient, miniscule point of energy,
at the center of the forehead and I am
instrumental in making this body work. This body
may be heavy and big as compared to me, but I
the soul am so light, and free that I can almost
fly. I experience bliss as the soul releases
itself from the bondage of matter.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Message for the day
To be a teacher means to touch the heart rather
than the head.
Projection:
Teaching others means being subtle and
explaining in such a way that the mind opens
because the heart has understood. The one who
truly teaches inspires rather than just becoming
the one who teaches others. There is a
recognition of the positivity that is in each
one and so no comparisions are made with
others.
Solution:
Once I am able to look at the positivity in
another individual and have the pure desire of
enabling progress within that person, I am able
to feel the love for him. This is like a
parent's love whose love for the child is that
which makes him grow. So I become a teacher who
inspires rather than the one who teaches.