If you are doing something to avoid pain, the pain is
running your life. Your effort to avoid pain has created layer upon layer of
sensitivities that are linked to the hidden pain. The other choice is to stop
avoiding pain and to face it through inner work. There is tremendous joy within
you on the other side of pain.
The personal growth is about transcending the part of you
that is not OK with life and needs protection. To obtain inner freedom you must
be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them. You
have to be willing to just watch the fear without protecting yourself from it.
You can actually feel the fears and insecurity of a
five-year old when you are sixty because that unfinished mental and emotional
energy patterns are getting stored and reactivated.
Pushing away and/or clinging to your life experiences create
energy blockages which are the cause of all your fears. The alternative is to
enjoy life instead of pushing away or clinging to anything.
Real spiritual growth happens when all parts of you are
unified. There is not a part that is scared and another part that is protecting
the part that is scared. There is simply you (the consciousness) watching the
dance of the psyche.
Decide that you don’t want the weakest part of you running
your life. You want to talk to people because they are interesting not because
you are lonely. All you need to do is to watch who is feeling lonely. The one
that notices is already free.
Your mind is always telling you what to change outside in
order to solve your inner problem. If you are wise you don’t play this game.
If you are not in touch with your emotions you will start
acting out. That means you will do something but you won’t know why you are
doing it. Examples are eating compulsively, yelling at a child when you had a
bad day, getting drunk, etc. If you experience your emotions you will have less
destructive behavior.
When you feel weak remind yourself that you are spirits who
have taken on the physical experience and have far greater power than you are
showing in the moment of weakness.
Try to create authentic power by transcending fear and
choosing love in every moment of your life. Expand the loving part of your
personality.
If you feel that you are giving all the time and are not
receiving, your love is filled with sorrow for yourself. To others the love
feels thick with need.
Power is energy that is formed by the intentions of the soul
and love is the energy of the soul. When you hold someone responsible for what
you experience you lose power. Accept responsibility for your choices and
choose intention of love instead of fear.
The parents are the souls to whom you are closest in your
life time, and whose influence upon you is the greatest. This is so even if it
does not appear that way, even if, for example, you were separated from your
parents, or a parent, at birth. Your soul and the souls of your parents agreed
to your relationship in order to balance the energy that each needed to
balance, or activate dynamics within each other that are essential to lessons
that each must learn.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life
changes and I am left the same as I began.
We are not troubled by things but by the opinions which we
have of things. Let me see this exactly as it is, let me not distort it by
judging it.
The way for gauging one’s spiritual strength is to find out
how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.
Don’t limit your child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time.
A newly married couple said, “What shall we do to make our
love endure?”
Said the Master, “Love other things together."
But I am where man chooses to look and see me. Even if he
chooses to look within himself, there I am.
Each time you cling to something to stop yourself from
falling, understand that it is falling too.
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*Quotations from the books I have read and documented.
To be continued……..
