Daily Positive Thoughts: August 22, 2017: Think First
Amola Shah
Daily Positive Thoughts: August 22, 2017: Think First
Apricots, Hunza Valley
Think First
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Whatever I do, when all is said and done, I do for or to myself. Perhaps I should think before I perform actions because after the seed of action is sown I have to reap the fruit. Moreover, I do not receive only one fruit for every seed sown, I often get a whole crop, good or bad according to the action or seed.
Experiencing Spiritual Growth Through Group Interactions (Part 2)
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.
Healing inner wounds
The deepest wounds we all carry are locked in
our subconscious (out of
our awareness). Deep memories and subtle
impressions, from unfinished
experience, rooted in the past. The pain from
those wounds comes to
revisit, to block and paralyze us in the moment
called now. We all
know it comes without warning - "Why am I
feeling this way, I didn't
mean to do that, I don't know what made me say
that." Healing does not
mean finding and treating every single inner
scar which send it
message to haunt us. It means going even deeper,
past those wounds,
beyond those distant memories and recording of
unfinished business, to
the core of our self, to the heart of our
spirit, where we find the
light and warmth of our own core qualities of
love and peace. They are
eternally present within us they are what we need
to heal all our
inner wounds. That's why this kind of deep
healing is called
spirituality and not therapy.
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Message for the day
To do what is right for all is to remain happy.
Expression: The one who is always concerned for
others is the one who can do right for others. There is constant benefit for
others merged in every action of such a person. Because of having given without
expectation, there is happiness in everything that is done. There is also
uniqueness and speciality revealed in every action.
Experience: I experience double benefit, because there is
happiness in the effort as well as in the result of that effort. There is
constant success experienced by me. I am also able to receive the good wishes
and blessings from others and I further get encouraged to use my speciality. So
I constantly experience progress in my life.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris