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What you need it will arrive when you need it by “Divine post” at the right time, not before, so no need to project lack just confidence and patience.
If A Child
If a Child If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
But
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live, to love and be loved.
From Anthony De Mello’s The song of the bird
A girl in the fishing village became an unwed
mother and after several beatings finally revealed
who the father of the child was: the Zen master
living on the outskirts of the village.
The villagers trooped into the master’s house,
rudely disturbed his meditation, denounced him
as a hypocrite, and told him to keep the baby.
All the master said was, “Very well. Very Well.”
He picked the baby up
and made arrangements
for a woman from the village to feed and clothe
and look after it at his expense.
The master’s name was ruined and his disciples
all abandoned him.
When this had gone on for a year, the girl
who had borne the child could stand it no longer
and finally confessed that she had lied. The father
of the child was the boy next door.
The villagers were most contrite. They prostrated
themselves at the feet of the master to beg his pardon
and to ask for the child back. The master returned
the child. And all he said was, “Very well. Very Well”
. A great story that comes from the Eastern traditions beautifully illustrates this
A fisherman was sleeping on the beach in the shade of his boat and a development expert came along to speak to him.
“Why are you resting?” he asked.
“I have already been out fishing and have caught enough fish to feed my family,” the fisherman replied.
“But if you went out fishing again you could catch more fish.”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“You could now sell them and with the cash you may buy a bigger net.”
“What would I do with this net?”
“Catch more fish”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“Sell them and buy a motor for your boat.”
“And why should I buy a motor?”
“To catch even more fish.”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“Sell even more fish and then you can buy another boat.”
“And why would I want another boat?”
“So you can employ other people to catch fish for you, which would enable you to have leisure and rest. “
“But I am already resting!” the fisherman replied.
Only when we fully understand when enough is enough through our own practice and understanding, will we ever have enough and importantly understand the economics of enough.
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The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119
True spirituality takes place at the human level one to one.
Create an idealized image of yourself and practice it as if for a movie role. Acting ‘as if’‘ brings to awareness the potentiality to actually become that which is admired. As a learning device, it is often surprisingly effective to ‘pretend’ to be the quality that is desired and then much to one’s surprise, discover that it has been a non activated and latent aspect of one’s potentiality. Many people make self – improvement the number one priority in their lives and identify with admired figures instead of envying them.
From: Transcending levels of consciousness by David Hawkins
From, visions of the greatest mystic unveiled- a scientific perspective of the wisdom of Ramana Maharshi by Dr G K Pillai
Consciousness is a graded capacity that all life forms acquire during the evolutionary ascent. We inherited a primitive nervous system about 65 million years ago. The blueprint of our brain is only about 200,000 years old. The expanded frontal cortex of the brain and improved wirings in the neural net are more recent acquisitions. The rapid enhancement of our conscious capacities has been achieved probably within the past 50,000 years.
The structure of the human mind is like a computer in that the mind’s basic structure is akin to the hardware and its content to the software. The mind has a very limited control over the content of the programming: thus the human is simultaneously accountable and responsible yet can be said to be quite innocent.
In the information age that we live in the minds programming is incessant and constant, yet the mind is lacking in any protective mechanisms, therefore it can be made to believe in anything by mere repetition no matter how outrageous or absurd it is. Such programming is likened to indoctrination that is outside of awareness. So we better be mindful of what goes in.
The Sufi musician Hazrat Inayat Khan said his whole aim of life was to direct the attention of those who seek the truth towards the laws of music that work throughout the Universe. He said in other words it may be called the laws of life, the sense of proportion, the law of harmony, the laws of balance, and the law which is hidden behind all aspects of life which holds the whole Universe in tact and works out its destiny, fulfilling its purpose. It was because of this knowledge that the wise of the ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole Universe and the wise can interpret the secret and the nature of the workings of the Universe.
Hafiz, the great Sufi poet of Persia refers to a legend which exists in the East and which tells how God made a statue of clay in His own image, and asked the soul to enter it, but the soul refused to be imprisoned, for its nature is to fly about freely and not to be limited. The soul did not wish in the least to enter this prison. Then God asked the angels to play their music and as the angels played the soul was moved to ecstasy, in order to make the music more clear to itself, it entered this body.
It is a beautiful legend and much more so is its mystery. The interpretation of this legend explains to us two great laws. One is that freedom is the nature of the soul, and for the soul the whole tragedy of life is the absence of that freedom which belongs to its original nature; and the next mystery that this legend reveals to us is that the only reason why the soul has entered the body of clay or matter is to experience the music of life, and to make this music clear to itself. And when we sum up these two great mysteries, the third mystery, which is the mystery of all mysteries, comes to our mind. This is that the unlimited part of ourselves becomes limited and earthbound for the purpose of making this life, which is the outward life, more intelligible.
Therefore there is a loss and a gain. The loss is the loss of freedom, and the gain is the experience of life, which is fully gained by coming into this limited life which we call the life of the individual.
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music; our mind and our body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music: and we are close to al this music, and live and move and have our being in music.
Article edited from “Sufi message Vol 11, Mysticism of sound, word, cosmic language, Chapter 2 “the music of the spheres”
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