Life 03 (Jun 09 - Jul 09)

[winston]

Can I be a light to myself?

We depend on experiences—pleasant or painful—to keep us awake; every form of challenge we want to keep us awake. When one realizes that this dependence on challenges and experiences only makes the mind more dull and that they do not really keep us awake—when one realizes that we have had thousands of wars and haven’t learnt a thing, that we are willing to kill our neighbour tomorrow on the least provocation—then one asks, why do we want them and is it all possible to keep awake without any challenge?

That is the real question—you follow? I depend on a challenge, experience, hoping it will give me more excitement, more intensity, make my mind more sharp, but it does not. So I ask myself if it is possible to keep awake totally, not peripherally at a few points of my being, but totally awake, without any challenge, without any experience?

That means, can I be a light to myself, not depending on any other light? That doesn’t mean I am vain in not depending on any stimulation. Can I be a light that never goes out? To find that out I must go deeply within myself, I must know myself totally, completely, every corner of myself, there must be no secret corners, everything must be exposed.

I must be aware of the total field of my own self, which is the consciousness of the individual and of society. It is only when the mind goes beyond this individual and social consciousness that there is a possibility of being a light to oneself which never goes out.

Talks & Dialogues Saanen 1967, pp 111-112

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

This world is not set up for failure and demise and decline.

It is set up for improvement and expansion and better and better, and better.

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

Rather than wanting to hold to the past longer, and slow things down, and stop the aging process -- just revel in the power of now! You can't stop time, and you won't stop the recycling process that is taking place upon this planet, nor would you want to -- but you do not have to suffer the moving through time. Every moment can be more wonderful than the moment before

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Houston, TX on Saturday, January 5th, 2002

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

The most effective discipline that one can adopt to attain the highest goal in life is the control and conquest of five senses.

The eye ever seeks the vile, just as a motorist views an ugly advertisement, not withstanding the danger to his own life. The ear craves for scandal and salacious stuff; it does not persuade you to attend discourses that will help you in spiritual development. When someone pours abuse on another, the two ears attain maximum concentration.

To avoid the errors and evils that the eyes, ears, the tongue, the mind and the hands can commit, they must be held in check so that they may not ruin the mind as well as the body of the person.

-Divine Discourse, 20 Mar 1977 .

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

When I don’t compare I…understand what I am

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

In a school, in an ordinary school where there are a lot of boys, when one boy is compared with another who is very clever, who is the head of the class, what is actually taking place? You are destroying the boy. That’s what we are doing throughout life.

Now, can I live without comparison—without comparison with anybody? This means there is no high, no low—there is not the one who is superior and the other who is inferior. You are actually what you are and to understand what you are, this process of comparison must come to an end.

If I am always comparing myself with some saint or some teacher, some businessman, writer, poet, and all the rest, what has happened to me—what have I done? I only compare in order to gain, in order to achieve, in order to become—but when I don’t compare I am beginning to understand what I am.

Beginning to understand what I am is far more fascinating, far more interesting; it goes beyond all this stupid comparison.

Talks & Dialogues Saanen 1967, p 86

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

Any malady in your physical body was a lot longer in coming than it takes to release it.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Napa, CA on Thursday, February 27th, 1997

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[sidney]

Any malady in your physical body was a lot longer in coming than it takes to release it.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Napa, CA on Thursday, February 27th, 1997

Source: abraham-hicks.com

I do not understand the meaning..

[kennynah]

...I do not understand the meaning..

and that, my friend, is Life, which this thread is all about...

[winston]

Supposedly, you can release your sickness faster than it took to manifest it ..

How ? Through being happy ..

[winston]

Give joy to all. Practicing Selfless Love is the way to achieve this ideal.

When Love can bring even the Divine near you, how can it fail where human beings are involved? The Divine dwells in a pure heart, shining in His innate splendor of Wisdom, Power and Love.

Start the day with Love. Spend the day with Love. Fill the day with Love. End the day with Love. That is the way to the Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 20, 1977.

Source: radiosai.org