awe and wonder

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Openness

May the angels keep you till morning.

May they guide you through the night.

May they comfort all your sorrows.

May they help you win the fight.
May they keep watch on your soul.

May they show you better ways.

May they guard you while you're sleeping.

May they see you through your days.
May they show you new hopes.

May they still your every doubt.

May they calm your every fear.

May they hear you when you shout.
May the angels keep you till morning.

More than this I cannot pray.

And if the angels ever fail you.

Then may God be there that day.
-Author Unknown

gems from the Master

Experiencing is knowing.

- Sri Bhagavan

spiritual anchors

We are spiritual beings going through a human experience, nay the other way around.

It necessitates us to be explorers in life, experiencing events as they arise in life. We normally run away from the blessings accompanying experiences , the real grace of our lives. One of the greatest benedictions I have received in my life from my master is the ability to discern perception from fact and pain from suffering.

Suffering is hallucination emerging in psychological fear . There is no fact to it. And we let this control our lives more often than not. Only to be rudely awakened when reality confronts us. No man has a choice on this process. Mankind as a whole has to wake up to their reality as it is.

-inspirations from Sri Bhagavan

spiritual anchoring

We are spiritual beings going towards a human experience, not the other way around.

Life is designed to be exploratory , to get into experiences . The mind has a need for certainty but it also has a need for variety. They are conflicting intrinsically.

The mind more often than not takes us towards security but then security can be suffocating , inhibiting. We become dead, inert.

Each of usd seeks to come alive in what we do, in the way we relate to everyone and everything in life.

To operate as a spiritual being is achoice we make to live rather than exist.And it comes with it's challenges.We invest in it because we chose life over dead habit and monotony - meaningless and boring.....

work quotes

You work so that you keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

Work is love made visible.

- Kahlil Gibran

shadows

when you turn your face towards the sun, the shadows fall behind. - old maori saying.
we manage suffering, escape it all the time. We focus on the content and do not face the pain squarely. Again, pain is real while suffering is hallucinatory.
Watching and being in touch with suffering is the key to inner joy and freedom.

Learning and tuning....

Learning is all about tuning in to the most fundamental and critical of our needs. If we have a cancer, we have to address it, no point in addressing the headache arising from it in isolation.

Our understanding of Grace emerges from here. Grace is forever focussed on the cancer in our lives, nay the passing headache.

Surfacing of inner world mind chatter is a blessing, managing the events arising out of it , an escape.Transcending the inner chatter through watching it and through a rise in our awareness levels enables an implementaion of the spiritual blessing as well as either a solution or a resolution of the problem as a "happening" when we come in touch with factual pain.

Awareness is the learning facilitator here....

oneness of suffering

We tend to think that events cause suffering. In a landmark statement, Sri Bhagavan declares that it is suffering which causes events.
At any given moment in our lives, physical + psychological + spiritual suffering is a constant. In colloquial life, what we call healing is a mere management. We may encounter suffering through the platform of business and manage it desperately.All our lives, we only mange sorrow. We never face sorrow and transcend it.
Managing suffering arising in our business space would lead for the pain to manifest itself in some other area of our life - maybe relationships, maybe our health or the health of our dear ones.
This is a principle of the universe.The pain within has to come out. There is no choice.
And man focusses on changing events.How erroneous can he get?
So man continues fire-fighting , only the events change....and he seeks liberation, little knowing that he has to die the way he is and be reborn in a new light.
He takes solace in the fact that the whole world is like him, but that is an illusion which will soon collapse for one and all.
It is a time of the world for a movement of one and all from perception to fact.Coulkd be a rude awakening for some but then it is compassion at work.
The universe knows best and we have to bow down to it.

Success Mindset - repeat post

When we think of failure,

Failure would be ours.

If we remain undecided,

Nothing will ever change.

All we need to do

Is want to achieve something great,

And then simply do it.

Never think of failure.

For, what we think will come about.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Taking this further, thought is really not ours.We do not create it. So if a thought of failure emerges from the recesses of the unconscious, all we have to do is watch it. Watching enables a response as different from an automated reaction.