16.07.2015

Beautiful Eggshell Art
Opportunities
Opportunities are never lost - someone will take
the ones that you miss !
To know what I want
is to work for it.
When something
happens that I don't like or don't want, I tend
to wish for it to go away. I may even pray to
God that it should be over. At such times,
instead of thinking of what I don't want, it is
more important to think of what I want. This
will give me clarity of where I want to go and
use my resources constructively. Today I will
think of one thing that I really want to bring
in my life. I will do something constructively
for making it happen. When I work on what should
be there, it would automatically help me get rid
of the heaviness of what I don't want.
Eventually, the situation will change anyways.
The Art Of Stepping
In And Stepping Out In Relationships (cont.)
In the same way as the gardener (explained
yesterday), we have the duty, or rather the
honor, of planting positive seeds of good
intentions, love, respect and tolerance, at the
same time allowing others and the forces of the
universe to be given the space to work and
respond according to their time and inclination.
Very often we plant those seeds but want an
immediate result: * I have shown so much
patience, but she doesn't change or * How much
longer do I have to tolerate? I feel suppressed.
We become attached to what we do, so there is no
space for things to happen at their own
appropriate time. Sometimes we have the wrong
type of mercy, or we want to take control,
thinking we know better, so we step into
people's lives too much. This interference and
lack of free space provokes hatred, resentment
and conflict with others.
At other times, we get fed up with others; our
tolerance and empathy is completely reduced and
we say, * I've had enough, or * I have got to do
my own thing and so we step out, but in a
selfish way, that is, we isolate ourselves from
others, or situations. We justify, or disguise,
this isolation and rejection and dislike towards
others with such phrases as, * I need my own
space or * Let them stand on their own feet. In
actual fact, we aren't bothered anymore; we have
stepped too far out of the picture because we
have not cultivated the patience which allows
the good and positive to germinate and grow in
its own time. It is an art to know when to
step back and when to step forward, but a very
necessary one if well-being is to be achieved.
Soul Sustenance
The Original
Ingredients Of The Soul
Our original resources are very simply - peace,
love, purity, knowledge and happiness. In
Raja Yoga meditation these are called the
five original qualities of the soul. When we
return our consciousness to these five qualities
and remember them, then the following feelings
arise in us, which finally get reflected in our
actions:
Love: I care and I share.
Peace: I harmonize and reconcile (adjust).
Purity: I respect and I honour.
Knowledge: I am and I exist.
Happiness: I express and I enjoy.
To understand and remember these qualities, we
need to recognize the heavy deep shadows or
personality traits (sanskars) which have
blotted them out, or polluted them. Sometimes we
don't recognize the pollutants because they have
ingrained themselves so deeply into the
personality that we say I am this. True,
complete spiritual knowledge, makes us aware of
these pollutants and the practice of meditation
empowers us to dilute them and get them out of
our consciousness.
Message for the
day
Contentment makes
me a giver.
Projection:
My mind is busy usually with
expectations. I continue to expect something or
the other from people. Yet I find that people
are too busy fulfilling their own expectations
to notice or to give what I need. Since my
expectations are not fulfilled I am not able to
be available for others and give them what they
need.
Solution:
I need to be so aware of what I
have and be content with it, that people should
never think about what I need but should be able
to take from me what they need. Then I'll be
free from expectations and give others what is
required.