At the top of the tallest building in the world….
…Sat the saddest man in the world.
and inside the man was the lonliest heart in the world
and inside the heart was the deepest pit in the world
and at the bottom of the pit was the blackest mud in the world
and in the mud lay the lightest, lovliest, tenderest, most beautiful,
happy angel in the universe.
So things weren’t so bad after all.
—Michael Leunig
You sometimes have to prove yourself all over again,to your own self!One effective way to mount over your limitations and broom away persistent self-defeating behaviour is to change your inner speech.Let us admit that during most of our walking hours we are thinking,and this thinking involves a good deal of language or self-talk.
The idea is to change this self-talk to a positive one.When you chat with yourself,say sweet words.Uncover the damaging sentences you often repeat under your breath,without ever quite realising it.
Expose your irrationality by stating them clearly,and replace them with more realistic by stating them clearly,less punishing statements.Switch from ‘I do it all wrong’ to ‘I can finally do it right’,from ‘nobody loves me’ to ‘they do care’,from ‘I am a loser’ to ‘I am completely competent’.
Plant inspirations in place of self-accusations.Reserve notes of praise,encouragement and courage for your inner ears.We know that words have tremendous power.One letter here and there is the difference between an argument and an agreement.The moment you reverse your inner dialoue,your emotions reverse.
The content of negativity in your bloodstream dilutes and your dying conviction in your capability revives.It’s not a surprise that a mere mental repetition of positive syllabels even without true conviction brings about sea change.Now,if a nagging voice is telling you it can’t be that simple,challenge it!
“Sincerity is prerequisite for anything serious to happen.”
–The Answer Lies Within by Rachna Singh
When you don’t accept yourself,you become oversensitive to rejection.
When you don’t accept yourself you lose faith every time you trip over an old weakness.
When you don’t accept yourself,you try to beat others rather than seeking your best.
When you don’t accept yourself,you overvalue material things.
When you don’t accept yourself, you always feel lonely,and being with other people doesn’t seem to help.
When you don’t accept yourself, you live in past.
Acceptance is not a hopeless position from which you can grow.
If you accept all of your life,none of it will have been wasted.
When you don’t accept yourself,you dread what each day may reveal about you.
When you don’t accept yourself,the truth becomes your enemy.
When you don’t accept yourself,you have no place to hide.
Accepting yourself is everything.
If you accept yourself,you can accept world.
I accept all of the parts of who I am .
What I cannot accept I forgive.
–David Viscott
( Finding your Strength in Difficult Times)
Just a minute.Wait a minute. Now just don’t mess with me.I have messed up my life.Its chaotic . Scattered . Dispersed.Shattered, and when all hope shatters Llife reveals for the first time.For the first time in your life you will be looking at your face in the mirror and you will be knowing yourself as a ‘Stranger’.
With this strangeness when in the midst of everything in the market place or in the bus sitting just behind the window you attend your own center of heart.Known that there is a small wild growing flower trying to bloom through you arranging circumstances of your life all required for its proper inner growth.Just let it grow by itself .You shifted your awareness from periphery to your own center.And you ‘ve known You.Your strangeness goes deeper and deeper leaving all your verbalizable identitites to a non-verbalizable unknown self.
You reached your Self.You reached yourself. Self .This is what i call Darshan which is a Darshan in itself.No more dogmas,beliefs semi god or demi god are required.One gulp and straight flat to the earth.
–joykumardas
An elephant took bath in a river and was walking on the road.When it neared a bridge,it saw a pig fully soaked in mud coming from the opposite direction.The elephant quietly moved to one side,allowed the dirty pig to pass and then continued its onward journey
The unclean pig later spoke to its friends in arrogance,”See how big I am;even the elephant was afraid of me and moved to one side,to let me pass”.
On hearing this,some elephants questioned their friend,the reason for its action.Was it out of fear?The elephant smiled and replied,”I could have easily crushed the pig under my leg,but i was clean and the pig was very unclean.By crushing it,my leg will become dirty and I wanted to avoid it.Hence,I moved aside.”
This story reveals that realised souls will avoid contact with vulgarity,not out of fear,but out of desire to keep away from impurity though they are strong enough to destroy the impurity.
–Acharya Ratnanada(Tales for young and the old)
WHERE DOES OUR FAITH COME from?Someone once asked Baba Muktananda,”How do you know when you have done the right thing?” He replied,“By the result”.Faith comes from our experience on the path we have chosen.
—swami anatananda(What’s on My Mind)
Once there were three trees on a hill.They often discussed their hopes and dreams.The first said: “Someday I hope to be a treasure chest.I could be filled with gold,silver and precious gems.I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see my beauty.”
The second tree said: “Someday I will be a mighty ship and i will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world.Everyone will feel safe during the journey because of the strength of my null.”
The third tree said: “I want to grow to be the tallest and a straightest tree in the forest.People will see me on the top of the hill and will think how close I am to God and heavens.I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me.”
A few years later, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees,one woodsman said :”This looks like a strong tree,I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter.,”he began cutting it down.The tree was happy,because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.
At the second tree the woodsman said: “This looks like a strong tree,I should be able to sell it to the shipyard”.The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.
When the woodsmen came upon the third tree,the tree was dismayed because if they cut him down,he would never realize his dream.The woodsmen said:”I don’t need anything special,so I’ll take this one,”and he cut it down.
From the first tree,the carpenters made a feedbox for animals which placed in a barn and filled with hay.The second tree was used to make a small fishing boat.His dreams of being a mighty ship carrying royalty were dashed to the ground.The third tree was cut into large pieces and stored in a dark place.
Years went by and the trees forgot about their dreams.Then one day, a man and a woman came to the barn.The woman gave birth and they placed the baby on the hay in the feedbox made from the first tree which they found in the manager.The tree realized he was cradling the greatest treasure of all time.
Years later, a group of men set off in the fishing boat made from the second tree.One of them was tired and fell asleep.Soon a great storm arose and the tree didn’t think it was strong enough to keep the men safe.The men roused the sleeping man awake and he stood up and said “Peace” and the storm stopped.The second tree(now a boat )knew now that he had carried the King of Kings across the water.Finally, someone came and got the third tree.It was carried through the streets and people mocked at the man who was carrying it.When they stopped,the man was nailed to the tree(now shaped like a cross)and was raised in the air to die at the top of a hill.The third tree came to realize hat it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill ans was as close to God as was possible,because Jesus had been crucified on it.
So when things don’t seem to be going your way,always k now that God ha s a plan for you.If you place your trust in Him.He will give you great gifts.
Each of the trees got what they wanted,though not in the way they had imagined.We don’t always know what God’s plan are for us.Even if His ways are not our ways,they are always the best.
–Anonymous
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