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Soul Sustenance 20-02-2013
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Nurturing My Relationship With Myself
One of the most significant areas of importance in any human’s life is that of relationships.
Someone with very good, close, harmonious and loveful relationships with loved ones,
friends, colleagues, etc. is normally considered very fortunate or lucky. But of
all relationships, the first and most basic one is the one I have with myself.
So, how good, close or deep is my relationship with myself? How well do I know myself?
Am I my own friend? If I think over the last week or fortnight, how many of my reactions
were unexpected or uncontrolled or basically not the right ones? How many reactions
left me confused, sad, unenthusiastic, peaceless, depressed, negative in any other
way or in short uncomfortable? If there have been several such situations, it is
an indication that there are still things deep within me that I do not know.
Normally a friend is someone whose company I enjoy, for whom there is love and from
whom there is some benefit. As in any worldly relationship, without knowing a particular
person to the core I can never have a deep relationship with that person.
As the phrase ‘spiritual knowledge’ implies, it is the knowledge of the spirit or
the self. Only by knowing myself completely and having a good relationship with
the self, can I channelize my inner potential that I have within myself - just as
water from a river, when properly channelized, provides water for various purposes.
In any worldly relationship, if enough time and attention is not given to it and
it is not nourished, it gets affected negatively. In the same way, though it's obvious
that I have to spend a large chunk of each day involved in situations arising from
my duties, routine activities, responsibilities and worldly relationships; my relationship
with myself should also be given enough time and attention, so that it does not
suffer. If I am not careful about that, my worldly life may use up my energy completely
and discharge my inner battery. I need to find times in the day when I give time
to my relationship with the self and recharge myself. The peace and happiness I
long for internally will be obtained by having a good, positive relationship with
the self.
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Message for the day 20-02-2013
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To be able to bend means to be a giver.
Projection: There is usually a demand from situations for us to bow and bend.
Even when it is not our mistake we are expected to understand or adjust. It seems
very difficult at that time and we usually stand straight continuing to do what
we believe in.
Solution: When such storms come in our life, we need to learn the art of
bending, just as a flexible tree would bend to save itself in the storm and straighten
once the storm passes over. To bend means to try to understand the other person
also and to adopt the value of flexibility.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris