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Soul Sustenance 09-01-2013
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Living With A Purpose
How can we define heaven? Heaven could simply be described as the place to experience
peace, joy and happiness. So, what is our heaven in our practical life? How can we
experience it? Fulfilling our dream or true purpose or experiencing it being fulfilled
is our heaven. Living out our dream and purpose is to live in our personal space
of heaven here and right now.
If everything that we do during the day and in life is directed at fulfilling our
purpose - our reason for being, for existing and for living - we will be
much happier in everything we do, because everything will be channeled or focused
towards what we really want. On the other hand, if we do a little bit of everything,
but without knowing where we are going or what our true destination is, we will
be like a ship that has lost its way in the ocean. The ship’s crew steers the ship
– it now goes towards the left, now to the right, goes backwards, then forwards
towards the north, towards the south and in the end stays in the same place and
gets nowhere, although it’s crew is busy or is working all the time. The crew lets
itself be carried by the currents, the tides, the waves in the ocean and the winds
above the ocean. It has lost its bearings and doesn't know how to be guided by the
stars, which would show the crew the right way. In our case, the stars being our
intuition. Without our life’s course dictated by a true purpose, we let our consciousness
asleep and don't listen to our intuition, which will reveal to us our purpose.
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Message for the day 09-01-2013
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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