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Soul Sustenance 08-11-2012
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Understanding The Different Types Of Thoughts That The Mind Creates (Part 4)
We have explained Negative Thoughts yesterday. Today we continue with the same:
Negative Thoughts (cont.)
If your thoughts are based on the five vices or related emotions (as explained yesterday),
it is as if you had poisoned your own mind and the atmosphere around you. However
much you may be right, it does not matter. By thinking negatively you will always
be the loser, since negative thoughts take away the respect you have for yourself
and others respecting you. Generally speaking, people who think very negatively
about others will often find themselves alone, even though they have many relationships.
Other people will try to avoid someone who has angry thoughts since anger is like
a fire that destroys and causes damage, and nobody wants to approach this fire.
A negative person who only sees the negative side of things causes disharmony in
their immediate environment. These types of thoughts are more prevalent in people
today, and are one of the causes of stress, fragmentation, aggressiveness and suffering
in our current society.
At a practical level, negative thoughts make you lose energy and weaken you. They
are a form of inner pollution that must be cleansed so that your mind becomes a
more efficient tool.
(To be continued tomorrow …..)
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Message for the day 08-11-2012
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When there is real transformation we never repeat our mistakes.
Expression: When any mistake of ours keeps repeating again and again, it
becomes part of our nature, a habit and then we make it an excuse and defend ourselves
saying, 'this is just the way I am, this is my nature, etc.' When we justify our
mistake we will not be able to work on it to remove it and we find that it is only
further strengthened.
Experience: Once we have recognised the fact that our nature has become such
that the mistake keeps repeating again and again, we need to make an attempt to
change it without giving any excuse to ourselves or to others. Unless our attitude
towards the mistake changes, i.e. we stop justifying it, we will not be able to
do away with it.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris