Giving happiness to others and holding good wishes in your heart for others acts like sunlight, filtering into the dark corners of their mind and lightening their burden. Receiving happiness is blessing yourself by refusing to take any sorrow from others or from situations around you!
The intention and the action of gratitude is the inner symphony of the heart. It opens to sing with thanks for the smallest of things. To hear a bird sing, to see a child laugh, to receive a friend’s affection – are all invitations to express the feelings of gratitude. Gratitude is a loving thanks which touches another’s heart in a place where they will allow you to reside for a long time.
Every situation is an excuse to bring out qualities from us, good or bad. It is up to us what we want to use. Acceptance is the secret of contentment. Creating a thought, based on a learning from the situation, makes our mind positive. It will allow me to add power to the situation, instead of losing my own power.The secret key to the greatest door called love is acceptance. First your self, then others and eventually all!
Emotions can feel uncontrollable – we have no choice but to experience them. But to live by our emotions is to live wastefully. Acknowledge emotions for what they are, without shame or guilt, and then allow them to pass through you like wind moving through the leaves of a tree. Many of us spend most of our life trying to be great fixers and sorting things for others. We hear it in our conversations, “They shouldn’t…weren’t they awful… did you hear about so and so…. in my opinion they should…”, In these moments we waste time trying to write the script of others and forget to write our own. So LET BE! and LET GO! Taste the freedom that comes when you let go of your emotions and you no longer are in tension whilst writing another’s script.
Patience teaches you not to push and not to rush but rather to wait and appreciate. Patience is a virtue and a power too. Knowing that there is a reason and season for everything, it enables us to smile, realizing that there is an answer to every problem.
Our thoughts and feelings can so easily be influenced by how we perceive others. The more you look at defects in others, the more you will become affected. Weaknesses are contagious. If we make a firm choice to always keep a positive vision of those around us, then we will enjoy better relationships. The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights, and a new perspective.
Don’t be a stranger to yourself! Directing intelligence to know everything about the world, but directing intelligence to know your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your strength, your mastery, your slavery, where are you in your spiritual progress? Listening to yourself and seeing yourself is caring for yourself!
7 Billion Acts of Goodness booth was setup at Peace in the Park – an annual Brahma Kumaris event in New York, USA on Friday, July 19, 2013. The booth attracted people from all age groups and walks of life and instilled in them the spirit to perform acts of goodness.
