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Soul Sustenance 11-10-2012
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Do Love And Suffering Go Hand-In-Hand (Part 2)?
We have the inner belief that love, worry, fear and suffering go together.
It is difficult to transform (change) fear until we eliminate that belief. You are
love and you need to share that love. Life is a sharing of love, it is loving the
body, loving oneself, loving others, loving God, loving nature, loving work. That
energy of love in the end purifies us and helps us to go forward. But while the belief
exists that love has to be linked to fear and suffering, we will be blocked and
will put a brake to the flow of pure love. In the name of love, we worry,
we suffer and we are afraid. Instead of helping from a place of freedom in love,
we help out of worry and fear, and in doing so we stifle, control, depend, and the
other person feels their inner freedom restricted. We do not let them be.
If we review our personal life and see the moments when we have experienced most
pain in our lives, we realize that it is with the people we have most loved, and
that have most loved us that we have suffered most. We experience pain in
a relationship of love, where there is possession, control, submission and dependence.
Other times the pain is caused by a loss that generates an inner emptiness. That
person filled me, they gave me wholeness, they were the reason for my existence
and now they have either left me or they have gone. In the second case, we wouldn't
say that they "have died", but rather that they have gone to another level of existence
i.e. the soul has taken a new physical costume.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 11-10-2012
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To make our promise practical is to benefit at each step.
Expression: Sometimes we make a lot of promises to ourselves and to others.
At such times we are very confident of what we are saying but later find that our
promise doesn't come into action. So, that promise gets wasted as we don't take
benefit from the intensity of that moment.
Experience: When we make a promise to bring about a change in ourselves we
need to immediately make a practical plan that will help us make the promise real.
We also need to make sure we understand why fulfilling that promise is important
for us. Along with this we also need to remind ourselves again and again about it
till it becomes practical.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris