
Good Wishes
If someone behaves negatively towards you, can you have good
wishes for them? When you get affected by other people's
negativity, your positivity depletes. Try to work on
creating good wishes for all (especially for the negative
people in your life). Your good wishes can help, support and
empower the other person to bring about a change for the
better. Best wishes to you!
Forgiveness
We sometimes find it very difficult to forgive the mistakes
committed by others. We do try to understand but are not
able to understand the other person's behaviour and so find
it difficult to forgive them. When I have love for myself
and am able to learn from all that happens, I am able to
forgive myself. When I know to do this, I can understand the
other person too from his perspective and can easily forgive
him.
The Art Of Tolerance
It is important to understand that to overcome problems you
need, on the one hand, inner power, and, on the
other, the capacity to tolerate. Tolerating does not
mean to put up with. To tolerate is to accept, understand
and know how to face things. That is, to tolerate is not to
put up with and then explode at a later stage. In
tolerance you dissolve that which, otherwise you would be
putting up with. Tolerance is like the ocean, which is
an example of tolerance, because we throw a lot of dirt into
the ocean, the ocean absorbs it and, over time, transforms
it. Tolerance is being like the ocean, that is, knowing how
to absorb and dissolve, and finally to make it disappear.
Tolerance has to be balanced with the capacity to face
things, which is based on bravery, courage and personal
security. Having the power to tolerate gives you security
and trust that you will be able to, you will achieve it, and
you will advance. Tolerance is necessary for shared living,
to be and allow to be. With the virtue of tolerance, you
will continue to smile, you will never be discouraged. To
smile when someone praises you is not to be tolerant.
However, when someone turns into an angry enemy and insults
you, but you do not have even the slightest sign of
dejection on your face, not even in your thoughts, that is
to be tolerant. To look, to speak and to enter in contact
with feelings of compassion, patience, comprehension, love
and respect, with a person that you do not have a good
relationship with, is to have tolerance.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Uprooting the Emotion of Worry From The Consciousness (Part
1)
What is a good definition of ‘worry’? Worry is a process
of imagining the worst possible outcome or result or future
in a particular situation and creating a living and active
image of it in front of the eye of your mind, and then using
the energy of that negative image to flow inside your
consciousness so as to completely overpower or weaken your
spiritual and as a result your physical self to evoke fear
in the self. When people are asked about this process, a
person who is attached to this process and is involved in
the process very regularly the whole day in different types
of situations, one who is a habitual worrier, responds "But
it’s important t0 worry, it’s good to worry. If we don’t
think of different possible negative outcomes, how will we
prepare for them?" It’s important to realize that the
belief, that by worrying, we prepare for the worst in the
future is a false one. This belief causes us not to
realize the truth that all worry is simply an incorrect and
fruitless creation. It is a wrong use of the positive,
constructive and imaginative capacity of our mind and
intellect which, instead of empowering the mind and
intellect, weakens it. Preparing for the future is important
and necessary, but very often while doing that, we enter the
territory of worry, which leaves us, defeated or weakened.
There is an extremely fine line between proactive
preparation (necessary preparation in advance) on the one
hand and worry on the other. The preparation can be done
without creating an excessive number of possible negative
outcomes in the mind.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
The method to bring about change is forgiveness.
Expression:
Forgiveness means to have good wishes, cooperation, love,
respect and faith. This becomes like a blessing for the one
who needs to bring about change. Words spoken will then be
powerful and easy. This will naturally bring faith in the
other person in order to bring about natural transformation.
Experience:
When I give only correction I forget to forgive. But when I
first forgive I am able to remain cool and easy. I am also
able to forget the intensity of the mistake. So when I
forgive and forget in this way, my forgiveness itself
becomes a correction for the other person.