13.05.2015

Character
Self-control is not
about suppressing emotions or tolerating the
pressure of circumstances. Self-control is to be
the creator of your thoughts and feelings to be
creative and find new answers. This helps you to
remain calm and cool.
Unselfish Love
When you are
constantly having love for everyone, you'll have
no
negativity. Your unselfish love will make you
have only positive
thoughts and you'll find yourself in constant
happiness. Start your
day with thinking of all the people you come
into contact with. Then
take a thought in your mind that you have love
for all of them. This
thought will help you throughout the day. You'll
find yourself
accepting others as they are and having good
wishes for them.
Realizing Our
Natural Nature Of Peace
If we look at nature, we will notice that
everything in nature - plants, flowers, etc. do
everything they do peacefully - they grow,
flourish, decompose and die in peace. We get an
obvious impression from them that peace is their
natural nature. Even the five elements - earth,
wind, water, fire and sky are mostly peaceful by
nature. It's only when we try and exercise
control over them and interfere with their
balance that they lose their peace. Most of
us, irrespective of our age, even in these
stressful and hurry filled times, act peacefully
and express our peaceful nature in relationships
by means of peaceful thoughts, words and
actions, unless something is wrong in the
relationship. We instinctively like peaceful
relationships. If something is wrong in a
relationship and it lacks peace even to a small
extent, we do not feel good or comfortable about
it. All this proves to us that we, like
nature, are essentially peaceful by nature.
That is our basic personality.
Most of us have, at some time in our lives and
even more frequently in the case of many of us,
experienced and expressed our peaceful nature.
It's so natural, we are not even consciously
aware of it. What we are more aware of is when
we are distanced from the natural i.e. we are
unnatural - worried, scared, irritated etc. But
these unnatural phases always pass and we
finally return to our peaceful self. There are
some people who are permanently grumpy and tight
with someone or the other, because of something
or the other. On some days we also feel as if we
are continuously living on the edge and
continuously succumbing to frustration and
anger. But even then, away from everyone's
eyes; everyone, the compulsive angerholic (one
who cannot live without anger) and you also,
will, at some stage, look inwards, relax and
have an inner personal spiritual retreat in
which they will find relief by experiencing
their true nature of peace.
Soul Sustenance
Going
Beyond …
If the quality of my thoughts can
influence my physical health, the atmosphere
around me and my relationships, it will
definitely affect my relationship with God.
Unlike physics in which dissimilar forces
(positive and negative) attract each other, the
basic principle of spirituality is that similar
forces attract each other.If my mind is
caught up in cycles of negativity, the
dissimilarity between me and God will create
distance between me and Him. With the
awareness of being a soul, a being of spiritual
energy, spiritual light, I begin to have a
certain amount of mastery over my own thoughts
and their quality. Also, the process of
finishing negativity is accelerated. Just
stepping away from the limited consciousness of
the body and bodily connections (not leaving
them) stops negative thinking in the same way as
by just putting a switch on, a light is turned
on and darkness finishes.
If explorers had never ventured beyond their
home countries, they would have remained firm in
the belief that the rest of the world simply
didn't exist. In the same way, if I allow
myself to stay only within the physical and
limited sphere of thinking, then I would declare
that there is nothing beyond. It is when I
make the effort to go outside the boundaries of
my previous thinking, that I have the chance of
discovering more. The quest for a source of
love, truth and beauty – the Supreme eventually
brings me to the necessity of looking beyond not
only my own body, but also other human beings
and matter itself. Through the practice of
seeing the self as an eternal soul and
disciplining my mind I create the possibility of
discovering the existence and nature of God and
having a deep relationship with that One.
Message for the
day
With the balance
of love and discipline, energy can be saved
while speaking.
Expression:
Throughout the day I find
myself having to give explanations or
corrections to so many people. When I do this I
find that I have to spend a lot of words. In the
process I tend to lose a lot of my energy and
find myself tired.
Experience:
In order to save my energy
and to use fewer words I need to have the
balance of love and discipline. Discipline will
enable me to give the right directions while
love will make my directions effective. So I
find that just a few words would be enough to
get my message across.