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Soul Sustenance 08-06-2013
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Meditation – Why Is It Required?
To become silent, to be still in the ocean of hectic, noisy action, is a choice many people are now making. When this is achieved, this stillness acts on the mind like oxygen, giving the breath to both understand and enrich life. Of course, action is a necessity, an expression of ourselves through time, relationships and the roles we play. However, if we do not sometimes stop and take a breath of silence, then the mind begins to suffocate, thoughts speed like bullet trains and the brain feels as if it is in a pressure cooker. Emotions erupt and react like volcanoes, the eyes become dizzy with mountains of information and the head feels like a rollercoaster. This is stress. The mind needs to come up for air, to leave the jungle of pressure, deadlines and speed and slow down and find the point of silence within.
Meditation is the method to find that point within which recharges the mind with peace, clarity and balance. It is like a compass needle that guides us in the right direction at the right time.
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Message for the day 08-06-2013
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Success doesn't mean not to face any problems but to rectify the
problems at hand.
Projection: When we are faced with problems we tend to get upset and begin to
feel that we are failing. We expect everything to happen smoothly
when we take up something new. But it doesn't always happen so and
we sometimes get so disheartened that we give up the task
altogether.
Solution: We need to recognize the fact that each problem that comes our way
is a chance for me to use and sharpen our own skills. Real success
is to use these skills to win over the problems. When we look at
the problems in this way we will be able to experience progress.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris