Love all whom He loves

“Love Him who loves all. Love all whom He loves.”

Love is complete only when we love God as well as all of God’s creations.

Only when we cross the lower vibrations such as desires, anger, greed or expectations and ego can we experience love. But it looks to me like our life’s journey is not just about dealing with our own desires, anger or ego but also about dealing with the vibrations of people around us.

We may do our best but someone around can expect more from us just because of their desires or greed. Whatever best we do they might not be satisfied or grateful and this could be demotivating for us. At times we could become victim of another person’s anger and ego. How do we handle all this, keep our cool and continue to love them?

It looks like there are some basic qualities to be imbibed and mastered which would make it easy to love anything and anyone who comes our way.

First and foremost is Tolerance. If we lack tolerance we couldn’t even think about the next step, it’s the bare minimal to go forward.

Second is Forgiveness. No one is perfect. Many a times we have been forgiven and given another chance. Learn to forgive people of their mistakes and give them an opportunity to change or improve.

Third is Empathy. Try to understand why the other person is behaving the way they are doing. Though their behavior may not be to our liking, that could be a very natural behavior from their perspective and circumstances.

The next important quality is Compassion. This quality helps us to do our part overcoming Judgement, which weighs us down.

The another most important attribute is prayer. When we can pray for the welfare of the other person and wish them well we have already taken a great leap in our consciousness.

The combination of tolerance, forgiveness, empathy, compassion and prayer is nothing but love.

Let us imbibe and practice these qualities and learn to love whoever or whatever comes our way. This is how we can transform a tough situation or person for our own evolution and expansion.

“Love Him who loves all. Love all whom He loves.”

Overcoming the heaviness of words

 “Words can make a person or break a person” . Words have so much power so we should make sure we should always use it for uplifting each other and not hurting each other.

At times someone can tell us something knowingly or unknowingly and it can deeply hurt us. We may counter react instantly which has its own consequences or carry it within us without expressing. If we are going on a picnic how many things would we carry with us physically? We would like to have only the minimum essentials.

We journey through life and carry things in our mind . So why make our own journey heavy carrying others words which cause heaviness in us. Shouldn’t we drop that down and make our own journey easier. Someone said something and it has affected us negatively may be we are carrying it since few days or weeks or months or years. This heaviness is something which we can choose to discard at this moment. May be the person who said could not have intended that at all, or may be they told something bad but has changed to a better person now. Why should we unnecessarily carry another person’s ignorance or arrogance in our mind?

Be very choosy about what you carry in your mind because you cannot give it to another porter by paying money. Keep the mind light. Keep only the words which will be of use to you in the journey of life. Keep only those words which will value add to you and give you positivity. Discard the rest and keep the mind light for a smooth journey.

In the same way we need to be very careful in what we say as we never know how it will impact the other person. We never know how many years they may carry it through with them. Always say only good things and motivate each other’s spirit. Let’s make our journey and others journey light.

Ego, subtle ego and moderation

What are the two great things a human has to overcome? - Illusion and Ego

 We generally think that a person who shouts at others, who keeps boasting of himself and disregards others views and feelings is a very egoistic person. But ego is such a vast thing that there are many things hidden within it. 

There is something called the “ subtle ego”. A person could be soft spoken and composed but yet could have a great degree of subtle ego. This subtle ego is like a dangerous weapon in beautiful package.

It manifests itself in so many ways such as shyness, intolerance, unable to mingle with conflicting personalities, doing something which we can’t afford or which is not necessary but we still do it just to maintain a social status.

We can stay away from threats to ego and choose peace in loneliness but one day or the other we need to confront situations which could come as a shock to our subtle ego which lies deep inside us even without our knowledge.

It’s tough to live happily with conflicting personalities, it’s easier to stay away from such people and stay at peace. But it’s important to stay at peace with whoever we are.Variety is the spice of life. Life is too short to hold onto grudges, anger and complaints.To live in peace with others we need to accept and understand that each human has their own view point, ideas and way of life and they could be right from their view point.

Drawing boundaries and maintaining self respect is a skill and an art. Accepting, adapting and adjusting is yet another skill.Trying to find a balance between self respect, peace on one side and compassion , acceptance of others on another side is such a high level state of moderation which is possible only after tackling both the ego and the subtle ego to a certain extent.

This moderation is possible only when we start becoming the observer or witness of our thoughts and feelings instead of associating our identity with them.

Moderation is the highest form of character .On this blessed day of Easter May God bless us with such a moderation and compassion towards ourselves and others.