15.05.2015

Muralla de Ävila, Spain
Barriers to Love
Whatever is in your
heart that is not clean, not true, will
ultimately begin to act like a wall, obstructing
the natural flow of love. People who say that
there is no love in their life, are being
blocked by this wall. Actually there is love,
but they just cant accept it. Ego is the
clearest example of this. Ego limits the flow of
love by placing conditions on the love you give
and receive. Ego uses love to satisfy its own
needs and desires. It produces a love which is
deceptive, one which brings only temporary
satisfaction. Ego does not allow you to
experience true love or share it. If fact, ego
is capable of destroying your ability to feel
love altogether.
Power of Truth
When you are
truthful your words and actions become equal.
You will
do what you say and say what you do. Because of
this you will
continue to receive love and regard from
everyone. Just take up one
thing that you have not been able to fulfill and
today take up this
thought that you will do it. Tell yourself that
you have the power of
truth within which makes your words and actions
equal.
Changing Your
Belief System To Overcome Feelings Of Revenge
It's worth wondering, what I need to change
inside my belief system so that no feelings of
revenge exist inside me for anyone irrespective
of what someone has done to me. When someone
harms me or insults me in any way, what is the
belief that exists inside my inherent belief
system that causes feelings of revenge to emerge
inside me in the first place? It is the belief
that - whenever someone does something negative
to me, he hurts me, he is the victimizer and I
am a victim. I need to change that to - no
one can never hurt me, but it's what I do with
someone's negative actions, what shape I give
the negative actions inside my mind, that causes
me hurt, the choice lies with me.
Two people will do two different things inside
their minds with the offensive or negative
actions of a particular person - one will create
feelings of anger, hatred, sorrow, etc which
will give rise to the desire for revenge; the
other will create feelings of peace, love and
good wishes which will give rise to only
forgiveness, with no room for revenge. In other
words, two different people will respond in
two different ways to the negativity of the so
called victimizer, depending on their belief
system, their inherent personality or nature,
their experience of similar negative actions in
the past, either committed by the same person or
by other people. All these factors will shape
their perception of the other's actions and the
self. One will see the other or perceive
the other as the victimizer and himself as a
victim and another will not identify the other
person with his negative actions, but will
instead focus on his inherent positive nature or
positive aspects of his current personality and
will also remain unaffected himself.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Soul Maintenance
In order to take care of the physical body,
we give importance to diet, exercise and to
proper rest or sleep.
In order to take care of the non-physical
self or soul, we need to make sure that we
feed our intellect with positive thoughts.
Attention needs to be kept on the diet of the
intellect. If we keep feeding it with positive
thoughts, then automatically it will make us
free from any heaviness and we will feel the
lightness of our own mind.
The regular practice of meditation for
5-10 minutes every morning is the exercise
for the soul. Meditation will help us master our
sense organs, think more peacefully and
powerfully, maintain our focus of inner
attention and therefore remain undisturbed by
external events (at the workplace or at home).
The third important thing is to give enough
rest to the soul. We sleep to energize the
body. We need to give rest to the soul in the
form of silence in the mind. Refuse to do
anything in this one minute. Just one minute
of silence and calmness every hour gives
rest to our mind and will empower (strengthen)
us for the rest of the hour. So we are able to
do our work more efficiently and effectively.
Message for the
day
To serve with the
heart, with love is to guarantee success.
Expression:
When I have to be of help to others, I sometimes
find myself doing it with force. I don't seem to
be really interested in doing it but situations
or people seem to be forcing me to do it. I then
don't enjoy what I do and also don't find the
benefit of it either to others or to myself.
Experience:
I need to consciously make an effort to see what
people are benefitting when I am helping them.
With this conscious effort I am able to help
others with love without feeling the heaviness
of what I have to do. Thus I find my actions to
be much more fruitful.