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Soul Sustenance 18-06-2012
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The Law of Self-Control
The more control we have over ourselves and our lives, the happier and freer we
will feel.
We sometimes get angry with other people. Why does this happen? It is probably because
they have not met our expectations or we were trying to control them and they have
not let us. Sometimes, the simple expectation that a person should behave as we
want them to is in itself an attempt to control them. When we try to control another
person, which is impossible, we are bound to fail, feel frustrated and stressed.
We are capable of having power over ourselves; we can be more responsible
for our thoughts and feelings. We have the capacity to choose how we respond to
different situations and people that we come across in our lives. If we do not exercise
much control over our thoughts and emotions, we easily fall into the tendency of
seeing ourselves as victimized, and we blame others, making them responsible in
our own minds for how we feel. When we do this, we are forgetting that we create
our own thoughts. When this happens, we are handing over the control of our thoughts
to those who influence, criticize, attack or slander us.
If we want to recover the control over our life, we must learn to control our thoughts
and feelings and not blame anyone else for them. The more self-control we have over
ourselves, the less will we want to control others and our capacity to influence
other people positively will be greater.
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Message for the day 18-06-2012
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The one who is aware of one's fortune enables others to experience their fortune
too.
Expression: To be aware of one's own fortune means to appreciate and use
all that one has. Also when there is the awareness of one's own fortune, there is
a natural tendency to help people become aware of what they have and how they can
benefit from it. So the one who is fortunate becomes a giver.
Experience: When I am able to recognize my own fortune, I am able to have
the joy of being a giver constantly. Whatever the circumstances, I am able to give
knowing that I am fortunate. But never is there dependency created on me, because
my help is to make them aware of their fortune too and make them independent.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris