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Soul Sustenance 06-01-2013
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Understanding What Is ‘Time’
We created the concept of time to measure our experience of the space between events.
Time passes only because we experience change. What is change? Change is only a
series of events. So time is our experience of the speed of events. This
explains why time seems to be moving faster today, because both the speed and the
number of events are increasing. And it seems even faster if we participate in those
events. If the speed and number of events was less, we would experience time to
be moving slowly, as it used to be a little earlier in the history of mankind.
Today, sitting in our living rooms and offices, electronic, print and other media
allows us to observe hundreds of events from all over the world, every day. To observe
them actively is to participate in them. If you want to slow time down, learn to
be a detached observer of the thousands of events around you – participate or observe
actively only when necessary. If you want to stop time, meditate and be in your
original, timeless, eternal consciousness. Meditation is after all an art
of shutting down your senses and slowing down. Today, we fear time, as a result
we hear ourselves saying many a times, "Hurry up, time is running out!" or "I hope
to have more time tomorrow!' or "I need to save time!” Ultimately time, is our life:
it cannot be saved or lost, but must be lived now. This is where your will-power
is important - we can choose exactly how we spend our time at any moment.
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Message for the day 06-01-2013
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To work with the inner happiness is to move forward with lightness.
Expression: Usually we do take care not to give sorrow to others, but we
sometimes do take sorrow from the words and behaviour of others. This disturbs our
own inner state and we are not able to work with lightness. Then we find that we
are not able to be effective in our work and this further effects our inner state.
Experience: We need to pay special attention not to take sorrow from anyone.
As much as we are careful not to give sorrow to others, we need to make sure we
don't take any sorrow too. That means we need to remain light by keeping ourselves
open to criticism. We need to take any criticism that comes our way in the right
spirit and see that we learn from it without having any negative thoughts.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris