31.05.2015

7 Mile Bridge, Key
West, Florida
Scattered Thoughts
Uncontrolled,
scattered thoughts are like a speeding car.
Unless you brake you'll crash. We need to put on
the brakes if our minds are to work naturally. A
natural mind is peaceful and a peaceful mind
brings clarity.
Everyone is Unique
Respect
is to recognize and appreciate the unique role
of each and
everyone. Each one is unique with his own
specialities. When we
recognize the role of each one, we can
understand that he is playing
his part accurately. Then we can acknowledge
even the smallest
contribution and we will then be free from
expectations. When we find
ourselves having negative thoughts towards any
one, we need to make the practice of looking at one speciality in
that person and learn to
relate to it. Also we need to tell myself that
without the role of
this particular person the drama of life would
not be complete.
False Attachments
Are you aware that whenever you lose your true
self-awareness (soul-consciousness), you will
identify with and get attached to something that
is not you? It could be another person, your
work, or some material possession. Let's say
you are attached to your job and one day, due to
rising costs, your company decides to downsize
and starts laying off thousands of its employees
- all of a sudden you are asked to leave. The
attachment to and identification with your
position in the company, which has become a
habit (sanskara), causes the creation of
fearful and angry thoughts (e.g., * I'm
going to lose my job (fear related to the
future) or * How dare they downsize the company
and damage my position (anger towards the
company and its leadership)). The
destructive energy of these thoughts becomes
emotion (energy in motion) which then invades
your entire mind so you cannot have clear and
calm thoughts (the prime requirement of that
moment). It hijacks your intellect so you
cannot make correct, wise decisions and choices
(also the prime requirement of that moment) for
the future. Any connection you had with your
inner peace is broken. All this happens
because you forgot who you really are and had
begun to think you are what you do. When seen
from the point of view of this example it sounds
ridiculous that we should identify with what we
do or what we have, but this is currently how
the world and its people work. So, never forget
who you truly are!
Soul Sustenance
Positive
Thinking
What Stops You from Being Positive?
There are many reasons that make it difficult to
produce and hold on to positivity in your mind
and attitude. The external information we
receive is mainly negative, and our thoughts and
conversations are based on this information.
Other causes include:
* Other people's negativity rubbing off on you;
Other people's criticisms influencing you;
* Self-doubt;
* Lacking clear objectives in life;
* Not having recognized your true qualities,
virtues and values;
* Lacking self-confidence;
* Not believing you are a positive person;
* Keeping the past in your mind;
* Being egoistic;
* Comparing yourself with others;
* Having low self-esteem;
* Being frustrated or irritated;
* Lacking flexibility or tolerance with people
or situations, etc.
Message for the day
With the balance
of love and discipline, energy can be saved
while speaking.
Expression:
Throughout the day we
find ourselves having to give explanations or
corrections to so many people. When we do this
we find that we have to spend a lot of words. In
the process we tend to lose a lot of our energy
and find ourselves tired.
Experience:
In order to save our energy
and to use fewer words we need to have the
balance of love and discipline. Discipline will
enable us to give the right directions while
love will make our directions effective. So we
find that just a few words would be enough to
get our message across.