Daily Positive Thoughts: August 28, 2017: Real Love
Amola Shah
Daily Positive Thoughts: August 28, 2017: Real Love
Real Love
The problem nowadays is that love is interpreted on a gross level. Just as many people are attracted to the size and glitter of a fake diamond, so are they swayed by false, superficial love. There is no value in either. A real diamond is often quite small, but it is flawless. That is where its value lies. Real love is like a tiny diamond: it is not flashy and it is without a single flaw. Real love is one hundred percent pure. There is nothing artificial mixed into it. It is clean. There are no ulterior motives in real love.
Limiting Influences On Your Decision Making Ability (Part 2)
With whom does the choice to make your
decisions lie? Are you going to be dominated by your fears and others’
negatively powerful influences, which paralyze your judgment power and confuse
you sometimes or are you going to exercise your choice? When someone
dominates you, they control you and make you feel irritated, frustrated and
weak; they satisfy their own ego like that by controlling you and bringing you
under their influence. You need to decide if you are comfortable being
a victim of the other by being the one who satisfies the egos of others. It is
not a very healthy attitude, on their part, but it happens in many
relationships and we fall prey to that, because of a lack of spiritual power.
Get back your personal ruling and controlling power and do not be afraid to be
free and responsible for your choices. From today on, promise yourself that you
will not allow your husband or wife, or children, or your friend, or
mother-in-law, or your office colleague, anybody for that matter, influence the
power of choice, the power to decide, that you possess. In the end, that way
they will be happier; perhaps not at first, because a power game is created.
Your personal freedom will lead to a healthier relationship, in the long
run. Its fine to take an opinion or a viewpoint or support from
someone, but there is a fine line between that and being controlled by someone,
which we, many a times cross, and become a victim.
You are free when you take responsibility for what you are and how you feel. In meditation you can realize everything that has influenced you and know how to clear it, so that only the highest, the most positive influence you. This depends on each one of us. In our present society, there are many influencing factors, from the most negative, violent, corrupt and mediocre, to the purest, highest and most spiritual. It depends on each one what you want to consume and allow to be influenced by.
Beauty within
We should have courage to work on the self is
to find the beauty
within. Situations come that challenge one's own
strength. At such
times the mind tends to become weak displaying
weaknesses. Then there
is no courage to look within. The one who is
able to be introspective
at that time is able to find a new learning. He
is thus able to
express the beauty that is lying within. When we
understand that at
each step of our life, situations come to bring
out some quality from
within, we'll never be afraid of situations.
we'll have the courage
to challenge our own assumptions and move
forward based on the
learning that we get and the beauty that we have
been able to
discover.
Message for the day
Love creates the right environment for others' positive growth.
Expression: Where there is
love, a natural environment for others' growth is created. Love gives the
ability to perceive the positivity in others and gives the encouragement to
others to bring about that positivity and use it for the benefit of the self
and others.
Experience: When I have love for others, along with perceiving their specialities, I am also able to recognise and use my specialities and inner powers more and more. Knowing and using these specialities is naturally for the benefit of those around me. This gives me an inner experience of power which makes me a constant giver and a support for those around me.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris