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Soul Sustenance 18-12-2012
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Bringing Your Dreams Alive
Each one of us has dreams that we nourish right through our lives. Some are short-term
dreams and some long term ones. Dreams keep changing as we progress through different
phases of our life. Some are achieved, some are not. Some of us possess the ability
to realize our dreams more than the rest. The most important and influential factor
in this process is how much we believe in our dream and believe that it will be
realized. Some of the factors that hamper this belief are:
* The influence of the past - the memories of our past failures, which sow
seeds of doubt in our mind; as well as successes, which keep us in an illusionary
consciousness and distance us from the present moment and our present actions. Also,
sometimes we associate present temporary failures or ups and downs which may come
in our way, with failures of the past.
* Lack of inner strength or power, when faced with obstacles in your path.
Tendency to get dejected very easily and creating weak thoughts like we do
not deserve it or we are not capable of it or are we not lucky enough or it is not
in our destiny or maybe it is our negative past actions which are influencing our
dream realization process adversely, etc.
* The opinions or comments of people surrounding you who sometimes, are not
in tune with your consciousness and are not able to empathize with your purpose.
Their comments easily de-focus you from your purpose.
* Lack of ability to mould or adjust during the dream realization journey.
Any journey is always full of twists, turns and sudden changes. A rigid state of
mind, which is not able to change its tactics as required, may make the path seem
more difficult than it actually is.
* It is very good to dream but excessive attachment to the dream also may
make the journey towards the dream stressful and bring down your self-belief at
times.
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Message for the day 18-12-2012
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Wisdom is to learn from one's experiences.
Expression: Things do not always go smoothly. In spite of the difficulties
that we are faced with, the wisdom within us enables us to learn from all that happens.
Naturally with this learning we would experience progress. If not, we will only
be caught up with the past and lose the present too.
Experience: When we find ourselves thinking about the past, or caught up
with it, we need to redirect our thoughts towards a more constructive goal. We have
to see if we have benefited in some way with the particular experience of the past.
Our wisdom enables us to learn from everything that happens.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris