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Soul Sustenance 12-10-2012
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Do Love And Suffering Go Hand-In-Hand (Part 3)?
When there is too much pain we cannot lean back into our true power and experience
our energy of love. Only the power of pure love, unconditional love or love of God,
can help us to get rid of the suppressed pain inside the subconscious. When
you live through a situation that causes pain in you, you have to love yourself,
stabilize yourself and enter into silence. Observe that pain without being afraid
of it. Observe it to let go of it and understand what it is that it brings about
in you.
The answer, generally, is connected with others: "He/she doesn't love me anymore
and that's why I feel pain", "Things are not like they were before", "The company
of this loved one doesn't give me the benefits it was giving me before".
If a person loved you and now has stopped loving you, does that make you feel pain?
Or is it your own expectation and your desire for that person to keep on valuing
you or loving you like before that trap you in pain? Is it that you don't accept
change? The truth is, we bring on suffering ourselves. If you don't want to make
yourself suffer, starting from now you do not have to bear any more suffering. Nobody
can wound you or can cause you pain, except if you allow it. So how do you
allow it? By being a vacuum that sucks in everything of the other, the good and
the bad, and you suffer. It is expectations from our loved one that make us vulnerable
to the experience of suffering.
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Message for the day 12-10-2012
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To share virtues along with knowledge is to encourage transformation in others.
Expression: When we have to give a suggestion/advise to someone we tend to
share a lot of points of knowledge in order to make them understand. We try to prove
logically why they have to change. Although the reasoning is right most of the time,
the others don't seem to change either because they don't understand or because
they don't want to understand.
Experience: When we want to bring transformation in others we need to make
sure to share our own virtues along with the points of knowledge. To share virtues
means to give them an experience of our love, peace, good wishes etc. When they
experience our virtues, they'll be willing to bring about change quickly.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris