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Soul Sustenance 03-12-2012
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Saying Goodbye To Anger
'I expect' is the great illusion, which converts itself into demanding rights without
due respect for others.
Anger in all its forms is a direct result of an expectation not being fulfilled
and brings cries (although sometimes silent ones) of “They should have done this,
Why did this happen? or Don't you know better?” Disappointment, accusations and
demands are violent energies, which we throw around very naturally and easily in
our daily life when our expectations are not fulfilled. They are like a burning
fire that eats away at our original spiritual qualities, turning them to a dust
that pollutes the self and others.
Instead, let us continue to practise returning our thoughts to the self and remembering
our original source of peace. In that experience of deep, natural peace, we will
find balance and clarity and the ability to tolerate and adjust to the unexpected.
One of the keys of meditation practice is to quickly gather our thought energy and
take it inside to connect to our original qualities, no matter what may be happening
outside, or even inside!
Let me disconnect from the external and plug in to the internal energies that support
me and then I will be able to say goodbye to anger very easily.
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Message for the day 03-12-2012
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Where there is honesty there is flexibility.
Expression: When someone challenges the truth of what we are saying we generally
tend to argue and prove our point in order to prove ourselves right. When we argue
in this way, it only shows our own stubbornness and doesn't help in anyway to reveal
the truth. Where silence doesn't help in revealing the truth, argument never will
because the other person is not in a position to listen to us at that moment.
Experience: We need to realise the fact that when the other person is not
able to recognise the truth, our arguing will not help in any way. When the truth
is with us we need not argue but we only need to wait for the right opportunity
to talk what we have to say. When we try to talk when the other person is not in
a position to listen to us, it only reveals our lack of flexibility.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris