Wednesday 26 June 2024
Tuesday 25 June 2024
Innocent
Silence has a lot of power. When the mind is silenced, the spiritual dimension opens up. A joyful experience indeed!
On the other hand, like
everything else in this world, it depends on its usage. Silence is not always innocent!
It can be used as a tool to indicate disapproval. It can also be used to
control people in vulnerable positions and situations.
Silence can be anti - justice if
we keep quiet at times when we watch people going through abuse and
injustice.
And silence can result in peace,
more when a certain amount of detachment sets in. And that sets in when you
stop expecting largesse from humans and start connecting with your divine
energy and source.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday 24 June 2024
Friday 21 June 2024
Peace
Serenity lives in the lap of
nature. Peace flourishes when we are surrounded by nature. Once the soul
experiences this, it does not want to enter into spaces where the energy has
the slightest bit of impurity of even the tiniest thought or feeling that can
depress.
Human nature cannot resist
conflict. It gravitates towards it. Each seeker therefore has to seek isolation,
at least partial, in order to listen to the inner voices. And what better a
space than in the midst of nature where the soul feels integrated with its
natural environment!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Wisdom
We want to end things when we cannot
tolerate them! But wisdom dictates that nothing ever ends/ finishes. Like the
sun is always a reality. It only gets hidden by clouds sometimes. We only “see “things
as going or disappearing. They don’t.
As long as the seeds remain,
there is a possibility for them to grow back, be it belief systems,
relationships or anything else.
And destroying the seeds is
certainly a superhuman effort. There are too many desires still lurking in our
sub conscious mind and to destroy their seed itself takes a saintly life. And
even then, I am told that even they may also not succeed completely.
The light and dark play will
always be there. The attempt to bask under the light is our choice. It is
difficult to live life without a question paper. Guess work may not work.
Knowing will. How many of us are willing to strive towards this knowing during
our lifetime?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Sunday 16 June 2024
Monday 10 June 2024
Perceptions
In pursuit of unhappiness! A
simple fact is that the more you pursue the need to find answers to your panic/anxiety
etc., the less you can actually accomplish feeling better.
Giving energy to personal pain
and suffering and concentrating on wounds just debilitates you. Because you go
deeper and deeper into that negative energy.
When you actually learn how to
deal with unhappiness only will you learn to be happy. Not by pushing anything
away but by accepting everything and dealing with it, difficult as it may seem.
Hard times become toxic and
spread to our physical bodies. How do you work when you are in the eye of the storm?
Work with body sensations and meditate on this. Don’t focus on the story.
Create an alchemy within yourself to transform the minus into a plus. Be ok
with the suffering. Become strong and that strength gives you the way forward.
Reframe suffering as an
opportunity. Change your perceptions. Only you can help yourself.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Aspects of Kindness
When it concerns wrongdoing, we are aware that it is wrong. We still go ahead. The aspects of kindness/compassion get subdued by the ego and the ego defies the goodness of the heart which we all have.
But goodness gets suppressed or
camouflaged when the ego comes to the forefront.
We need the awareness that the
ego is also a tool that is not all bad. It is sometimes a survival tool related
to our self-esteem. If we are not comfortable in our own skin, we may try to
seek self-respect through our egos. But maybe, there is another way. This one
could become a self-destructive exercise if we do not have the wisdom of
discernment of human beings.
The reason being that the ego does
not really recognize love in anyone else. It is self-consuming. Hence, the need
for wisdom. Otherwise, we may arrive at crossroads in relationships.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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