Showing posts with label Mirror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mirror. Show all posts
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Thursday, 13 December 2018
Decision-Making
For many, blaming comes easy, easier than
to take responsibility or ownership for your thoughts and actions. It begins
with blaming parents, could be for the decisions made for you because you
either told them to or could not make any yourself. Finally, when these
decisions don't result in what you want, what else but blame the decision
makers?
I didn't think right for a long time. But
then, I realized that even parents were little ones at one time and became
products of their own conditioning and upbringing. What is important to
understand is that their growing years shaped much of their thinking. And they,
with all the love they had, could only do what they knew to be the best at the
time. It was your karma that you had to experience that you did not recognize
as your lesson.
After 18 years and with education behind
you and always in front of you in the school of life, if you don't learn compassion
and understanding of people you live with or are close to, all the riches and
popularity in the world are of no use. The whole world can applaud you for your
worldly success. But what about that spirit that resides within you whom has a
different yardstick for approving of you?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Levels of understanding
I often find people asking that if the
world is our mirror and we mirror each other, why is there so much conflict? Because
each one would like to feel they are good people. So, why is goodness not
mirrored in the opposite person? Good question.
I have seen that when we don't accept the
fact that we attract who we are, we are in trouble with our levels of
understanding.
It is simple. If you want to see a clean
face in the mirror, you will first have to clean the make up on it. You cannot
possibly go into the mirror to cleanse your face, can you? So, for example, if
you want to see love shining at you, you must mirror that quality of love
within yourself first. How can it be mirrored otherwise?
We always want love, respect from others
but when do we succeed in getting it? Only when we are full of love and respect
ourselves.
But we do the contrary. We give only what
we get. So, if we get hatred, we give it back. Whereas if love ruled us it
would be mirrored in others as well.
The problem is, we lack the faith that this
can and will happen.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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