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Soul Sustenance 19-07-2013
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Experiencing Spiritual Growth Through Group Interactions (cont.)
As explained in yesterday's message, if you are living in isolation you don't become
aware of the dimensions of your ego and, therefore, you cannot overcome it.
Also, the beauty of group interactions or being a part of a spiritual community
or any other group, is that in groups, various powers like the power to:
* adapt and mould oneself with people of different personality traits and as different
situations in the group demand;
* tolerate;
* face negative situations in interactions;
* forgive and forget;
* become a detached observer of situations and people's actions, not to get over
involved, in order to maintain one's stability and calmness;
* co-operate;
* communicate;
* see and absorb only specialties of each one (inspite of obvious weaknesses being
visible) and spreading the specialties (not weaknesses) to the others in the group,
by way of praising and not criticizing them;
* listen, understand and empathize;
* discriminate and judge different situations and people;
* go into inner silence, whenever required, amidst the actions and interactions
of group activity;
* show respect to each one and remain in self-respect;
* remain content or satisfied and make the others content; etc.
are absolutely necessary to experience success in the groups, either within the
relationships with others or even with the self. There is a difference between experiencing
success with the self while staying alone and within a group. By bringing the above
powers into practice in a group, they increase further inside us. This does not
happen in isolation, or if it does, then the extent is quite limited. So basically,
being a part of a group, brings about greater spiritual growth and empowerment.
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Message for the day 19-07-2013
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To have true faith in oneself is to attain success.
Projection: Sometimes false courage is mistaken as faith. When we take up
some task we might be deceived into a feeling of having a lot of courage which makes
us over-confident. Then instead of putting in effort to give our best we tend to
become careless. Such carelessness will not enable us to achieve easy success.
Solution: We need to check within ourselves and see if we have true faith
in ourselves or not. Faith always comes with the recognition of our own specialities.
We also need to pay special attention to work towards something that we can achieve.
When we do this we will find ourselves succeeding naturally.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris