Month: October 2018

Sometimes all it takes is 22 seconds to destroy a relationship of 22 years.  With the choice of our words we can destroy in a few seconds what took several years to build.  It’s all about how we used that moment; to make it or break it.  Basically, we need to ask ourselves:  How much we are thinking and acting from love?  Sometimes we make poor choices in life.

To change places is easy but it is not as rewarding as changing the self.  When I change myself, then I can be self-assured that I can be anywhere and I will survive and thrive. I will not live with the fear of having to avoid those difficult people, places or problems. I really do not want to keep manifesting the same problem over and over again at a different time, a different place or with different people, because it will still be the same old me!!

One thing we must learn is that we cannot maintain peace without silence or meditation.  We may get fleeting moments of peace in our life, but they all pass momentarily.  Perhaps, we may find that drinking a cup of coffee or smoking a cigarette gives us the experience of peace.  But, that is only temporary for as long as our cup of coffee or cigarette lasts!  But lasting peace comes from a place deep inside.  Going right to the core of our being.  For us to find that quality of peace, then we will need stillness of both the mind and body.

In this world of first impressions, the desire to ‘make our mark’ is often irresistible.  We are conditioned and encouraged by society’s current day values to judge by appearances, and sometimes we look no further.  However if we only ‘judge the book by its cover’ then imagine what we are missing!  If we fail to see beyond the outer, embellished layer, then we cannot avail ourselves of the treasures that are contained within.

Almost everyone is stunned by roses and their brilliance in terms of colours, fragrance, beautifully curated petals and fragrance.  Our focus is so much on their beauty that we miss to notice the number of thorns on their stems until we are pricked!  (Ouch!).  Lost in the magnificence we don’t even stop to think that such art was created out of soil and manure.  Nature has it perfectly planned that no matter what seed is planted; the elements will unite to help bring out the best potential of the seed.