Contemplate....On........Responsibility.....&......Experience Responsibility.....
Responsibility.......
Be aware that......The world is a stage and we are all actors. Each actor plays a unique part and is responsible for his/her own actions. Responsibility means doing the right thing no matter how big or small the task may be. Each one of us has a special role to play in the making the world a better place.
Being Yourself.......
How fast can life become? How much can we do in the corporeal amount of time we have? There are only 24 hours in the day, but we are trying to fit 26 hours into it. If we could watch a movie of our average day ,we would probably be amazed at all the things we try to do. And then there is the exact opposite. Some of us spend our lives watching...what, others doing and achieving, and from these images we build such high expectations of our own life, and then sit around feeling utterly powerless in our attempts to meet these expectations. That powerlessness becomes hopelessness and hopelessness becomes depression. If we can just see this process and release these expectations, if we can at least be detached from any expectations, we will get back some of our inner power and self motivation. It helps to stop watching others and their lifestyles, and then comparing yourself to them.
It helps to eliminate all but one ..............'I wish' from your mind. There is only one valid and useful 'I wish' and it is simply "I wish to be me". For, that is all you can ever be. It is all you can ever have. It is all that you are. And when you know it, you will be free of all expectation and desire, and able to enter the most relaxed state of being, at will.
Going Beyond........
If the quality of your thoughts can influence your physical health, the atmosphere around you and your relationships.........., it will definitely affect your relationship with God. Unlike physics in which dissimilar forces (positive and negative) attract each other, the basic principle of spirituality is that similar forces attract each other. If your mind is caught up in cycles of negativity, the dissimilarity between you and God .will create distance between you and Him. With the awareness of being a soul, a being of spiritual energy, spiritual light, you begin to have a certain amount of mastery over your own thoughts and their quality. Also, the process of finishing negativity is accelerated. Just stepping away from the limited consciousness of the body and bodily connections (not leaving them) stops negative thinking in the same way as by just putting a switch on, a light is turned on and darkness finishes.
If explorers had never ventured beyond their home countries, they would have remained firm in the belief that the rest of the world simply did not exist. In the same way, if you allow yourself to stay only within the physical and limited sphere of thinking, then you would declare that there is nothing beyond. It is when you make the effort to go outside the boundaries of your previous thinking, that you have the chance of discovering more. The quest for a source of love, truth and beauty - the Supreme eventually brings you to the necessity of looking beyond not only your own body, but also other human beings and matter itself. Through the practice of seeing the self as an eternal soul and disciplining your mind, you create the possibility of discovering the existence and nature of God and having a deep relationship with that One.
When we try to describe compassion, it is worth looking at the words sympathy, empathy and interpathy.
Showing sympathy towards another person's suffering is acknowledging their suffering, for example, 'I am sorry that you have hurt yourself'. We recognize that they are injured or ill without really engaging at a feeling level.
Empathy is when we literally share a feeling with someone, we walk in their shoes, for example, 'I feel really upset that you are so depressed about losing your job'. This can bring great comfort to the person we are empathizing with, but the comfort to them can be at our expense and leave us feeling emotionally drained or sad. If we identify too closely with them, it can also make it difficult for us to help them.
An expansion of empathy is a word called interpathy where we relate to another's suffering although we may not understand why they are suffering. This may be because they are from a different culture or because their feelings may seem inappropriate given the situation, but we are curious, we try to understand.
Compassion is all these words — sympathy, empathy, interpathy - yet it is more and it is less. We acknowledge someone’s sorrow, we sense how they feel, we try to understand how it affects them, yet with compassion we do not become emotionally involved. We are engaged yet detached. We are standing back and looking on with kindness. By showing compassion in this way, it allows us to be compassionate without suffering from compassion fatigue or emotional burnout.
To change means to experience progress.
Expression........
Whenever there is a desire to bring about a change, there is also a simultaneous intense feeling to find a change instantly - and fully. Yet this does not always happen. However, true change is that in which there is at least a little change. When there is constant effort put in to be better and to do better, then naturally the best results are visible, even if there is not perfection seen overnight.
Experience......
When you bring about a change constantly, in whatever little way you can, You are able to experience constant progress. You do not have great expectations, but will be satisfied with the little changes that you make and will have the confidence to go on putting in effort. Even with the little results that you attain you will be able to take encouragement constantly. You are thus able to move on towards perfection.
J.KANNAN, M.Com, FIATA
"WE DON'T THINK TO BREATHE
WE BREATHE TO THINK"
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