It's what you choose

As we go through life we get so many circumstances thrown at us and sometimes we feel so overwhelmed that we are ready to give up and let the situation control us and get the better of us.  This always seems the easier way out, just giving up because it becomes difficult.

You are complete

What are you searching for?

We are always searching for something: the perfect partner, love, a better job, a better life without difficulties and pressures, the list is endless.  We all go through life trying to fill the void that we feel within us, looking outside ourselves to fill what we feel is missing.

The seasons in my life

We are all connected to the universal flow of life - from birth to death and beyond.

Like the seasons in a year, my life goes through the seasons and is never ending.

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Spring
The season of birth, beginnings - with a loving family, sheltered from the troubles of the world.  My life lived in happiness and joy.  Looking back at my childhood, I am so grateful for all that I had, my parents gave me security and unconditional love.  Sibling rivalries and such things seem so trivial now, though at the time they seemed so big.  There was always lots of love.

Until we find our true self

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You feel weary, tired, lost, ready to give up,
The path has been strewn with problems with no end in sight.
All you want to do is sit down, admit defeat, let the world and it's troubles get the better of you,
Because it is too difficult to deal with it all.

At the time when you give up, when you've put down all your defences,
The miracle happens.
It does not announce itself in loud noise and come with bright and shining lights.
It happens in a flash, in a nano second:
Something happens which we can't explain, but suddenly the energy shifts;
The blockages that were there before have suddenly vanished;
You find the strength to walk again, face the difficulties.
The troubles and difficulties have not gone away, but you have the strength to carry on,
Deal with everything and resolve all the issues.

What do you think actually happened?
I believe that this is the moment when we allow our soul to take over.
We change our focus from trying to control the situations with our closed mind,
To connecting with our soul and the Divine.
This is when we are reconnected to the Divine within and one with all creation.
And in this union, we find our true self.

I believe this is the journey that we have to walk to find out who we really are.

Have a blessed day
In Love and Light

Materialism in our lives

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I’ve just had to go through the experience of moving house and putting everything in storage while we wait to finalise our next home.  The entire experience of packing and shifting things was something to learn from.

Love can never hurt

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Why do we say ‘Love Hurts’?  To me this statement is completely false. 

What makes us think or feel that love hurts?  The things that hurt us are normally our reactions to what we perceive another has done to us, i.e., it could be that a relationship has ended, a loved one has behaved or said something that hurt you or you may feel that you are being treated unjustly or any of so many things that bring out a negative reaction.

These are all reactions to situations that arise; it has nothing to do with love.  Love is the purest and highest energy in creation.  And anything done with love as the foundation can never hurt.  Other aspects of love are truth, joy, happiness, hope, etc.

Fear, the opposite of love, has all the negative and opposite reactions of love – anger, hurt, hatred, jealousy, insecurity, desolation, anything that has a negative energy.  When we feel one of these aspects, we are experiencing an aspect of fear and we tend to react to these situations from a foundation of fear.

Somehow and I don’t know why, we as humans seem to be wired to live unconsciously, it is only the great teachers like Jesus Christ, Buddha, Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and other enlightened beings who have come to earth completely conscious and living in Love.  And even these great teachers who graced our planet had to undergo trials and hardships to wake up to that enlightenment.  But once our great teachers moved into enlightenment, they then started living in love and all their actions were based on the foundation of love bringing to us the great wisdom of their teachings.  None of us whichever religion we follow can deny that we get comfort and solace in our religion when it is based on love.

So why is it that we tend to live our life based on fear (this includes all our experiences of want, need, insecurities, anger, unjust, etc.) when we can so easily live our life on love’s foundation?  All we have to do is to start living consciously.  We need to start being conscious of how we react to a situation; ask the question ‘is my reaction based on love or on fear?’  When we start doing this and start being aware of whether we are reacting from love or fear, we can start the shift to basing our reactions on only love’s foundation. It may not be easy at the start, as we tend to react on auto pilot most of the time.  But if we start by being aware that we react from fear and then consciously changing that to reacting from love, we can I believe over a period of time change to living only with Love as a foundation. 

This has been my experience; while I am a long way away from living only in Love, I can see how much I have changed from the time I started being aware of how I react to situations.  Now whenever I feel that I am reacting from fear, I immediately take a step back from the situation, allow myself to calm down, consciously bring love into the situation and work to change my reaction to act from love.

Love can never hurt; we just have to open ourselves to see and know this.

In Love and Light 

With-in and With-out

With-in me is love, truth, joy, happiness, oneness with All That is.  If we look within ourselves, we all feel the peace, love and calm when we take away all the external happenings.  I am sure that no one can deny this.  Having a cup of coffee or tea in the morning by yourself before the start of the day, or last thing when you get into bed and you have your thoughts all to yourself when you somehow know that all will be fine.

Positive side to life

The fact that there is always a positive side to life is one thing that gives us a lot of happiness.  This world is not perfect.  There are problems but things like happiness and unhappiness are relative.  Realizing this gives you hope.  The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.