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Soul Sustenance 10-08-2012
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What Is True Love? (A Spiritual Perspective)
Emotional love can flower into true love when the fire of emotions cools down and
is substituted by a wiser and more mature relationship. True love needs a fresh
and renewing atmosphere, without fears. When you feel spiritually full, you feel
flowing over with pleasure, happiness, wellbeing, and that state helps you to accept
the one whom you love as they are, because from your fullness you give and share
and you don't need or expect anything from the other. While you need something that
you want the other to satisfy, you will have expectations and the fear that those
needs might not be satisfied, and you will get frustrated more easily. When you
feel like a being of peace, a being of love, a tranquil being, a being that is spiritually
full and satisfied, your relationship with others is a relationship of sharing on
a level on which fear is not generated. You are not asking for or taking anything
from the other. An elevated sharing of love, of happiness, of knowledge, of wisdom
takes place, in which you do not generate a dependency on the other.
Attachments and dependencies, fears and insecurity, block our experience of love,
of peace, serenity, freedom, happiness. When you have a feeling of love that takes
you to a state of joy, to wholeness, but then you attach yourself to the object
of your love, be it a person, or a property, automatically the feeling changes into
fear: you fear to lose the object of your love and, instead of feeling wholeness
and enjoyment, you feel fear. Over time that attachment turns into a dependency
and you start to become inwardly empty: that is, your energy level goes down. Love
in its purest form is a like a spring that pours forth for the benefit of others.
Learn the art of loving, being free and allowing to be. Pure, true, love is an unconditional
love that flows freely. Do not cling (hold on to). Love does not cling.
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Message for the day 10-08-2012
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Cooperation creates space for learning and growth.
Expression: The one who cooperates and inspires cooperation is able to create
a conducive environment for the progress of all. To inspire cooperation means to
be able to relate to the positivity in those around. Relating to the positive aspect
naturally inspires others to use their specialities for the success of the task.
Their good wishes for the task too emerge very naturally.
Experience: Since I am able to relate to others' positivity, I find myself
enriched with it. I subconsciously imbibe what I perceive. I get a chance and a
space to learn and progress. The journey towards success in itself is a joyful experience
and there is harmony in working with others. Thus I find success too easy to achieve
as there is the contribution of each one's speciality for the task.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris