06.05.2015

Bruce Irons is an American regularfoot
professional surfer from
Hanalei, Kauai
Overcome
Overwhelm
When you
keep thinking about having too much to do in
too little time, you can end up feeling
overwhelmed.
Overwhelm clouds the mind, drains the energy
and, as a result, not much gets done.
When overwhelm happens, remind yourself: I don't
have to live in a state of overwhelm. Overcome
overwhelm by rethinking: I have exactly the
right amount of time to do what there is to do.
Appreciation
When I appreciate
the Higher Power, the truth, myself as well as
other
human beings then, in effect I have made the
commitment to
transforming my life. Appreciating others,
appreciating nature,
appreciating my fortune, the blessings of
circumstances, the value in
the lessons of life (especially those that
appear to be painful and of
loss) is the result of understanding the secrets
of this eternal drama
of life. Appreciate what you see now and that
becomes an eternal
moment; disapprove of it and you kill it.
Appreciate each second in
this way, and then your life will be filled with
unlimited moments of
beauty and love.
The Relationship
Between My Conscience And Intellect
To act from a state of truth, it is important to
realize the relationship between my intellect
and conscience and what role these two play in
experiencing this state of truth in my thoughts,
words and actions. The quality of my
thoughts, words and actions is based on the
quality of my intellect and conscience.
There are three different stages of the
intellect conscience relationship.
* The first stage is one in which my
conscience and my intellect, both are so pure
and transparent that whatever is right and true
is naturally brought into my thoughts, words and
actions and nothing negative or impure manages
to enter into my thoughts, words and actions.
* The second stage is one in which my
conscience acknowledges that which is the truth,
but the intellect does not have the strength to
be able to bring the truth into practical. The
conscience tells me one thing, but my intellect
pulls me elsewhere, and it overpowers me. I do
what I know I shouldn't.
* The third stage is one in which my
conscience is not clean enough or aware enough
to acknowledge the truth so the question of it
influencing the intellect to bring the truth
into practical does not arise. As a result my
intellect, which is not at all backed by the
conscience in this state, takes complete control
of me. I do what I shouldn't and I am not even
aware of it.
When my intellect overpowers my conscience
repeatedly, my conscience loses its influence on
my intellect. As a result the conscience keeps
weakening until its voice is stifled or
silenced. As a result of that, I can then no
longer discriminate between truth and falsehood.
I will feel that there are no fixed ways of
defining right and wrong, that each has their
own judgment or definition of truth and
falsehood. True spiritual knowledge, which
gets stored in the intellect, and the experience
of meditation, which purifies the intellect as
well as my conscience, both together, make me
aware of the definition as well as give me an
experience of what is the truth and what is
false, what is right and what is wrong. As a
result of that, I am able to maintain the first
stage of the intellect conscience relationship
very easily in my day-to-day actions.
Soul Sustenance
Absorbing
Spiritual Light - Part 3
Continuing from yesterday’s message, we should
not keep the vices bottled up inside us like
prisoners. Prisoners are always plotting to
escape. If we change them into our friends they
can help us. For example, the energy required to
be stubborn is almost the same as that required
to be determined except that one is positive and
the other negative. The soul learns to
transfer such energy. Anger becomes
tolerance. Greed can be transformed into
contentment. Arrogance, or the respect for false
identity, can become self-respect. Attachment
can be changed into pure love.
The more I inculcate the Supreme Soul or God’s
virtues, the closer I feel to Him, but if I
allow inner disturbances due to any vice, my
high stage is grounded. All the power stored up
until that moment will leak away. I must
recognize that I really do not like being
body-conscious. As I wish for higher experiences
I choose to live the life of a meditator with
purity in thought, word and action. Obstructions
come within and without, but through my
connection with God I am drawing so much power
so as to remain unaffected. This needs
soul-consciousness. So in discarding the
rubbish of the vices I have gathered over many
births, I become my original form and maintain
it through my closeness or companionship with
God.
Message for the
day
True detachment
gives a chance for others to grow.
Expression:
Where there is detachment
there is the ability to let go. There is also an
equal amount of love, but along with it is the
ability to give others an opportunity to be
themselves. One's own attitude or expectations
don't colour the perception and others get a
chance to express themselves easily and
naturally.
Experience:
When I am detached, I am also
loving. I am able to watch with inner happiness
all that life brings into each one's lives.
Neither do I take over other peoples' lives and
feel disappointed when things go wrong, nor do I
leave them to their fate. I am able to see their
inner capabilities and get each one to become
self-reliant.