 1 Forget Luck, Live by Intent
A few things may happen by chance. But
if you wait for the chance, good things will happen to you only when you
are in your grave because things may take their time. Even quantum theory says
that if you try, you can actually walk through a wall once in a “zillion” times
because there is a pulsation of particles happening and you may walk through.
It is just that before you reach that one zillionth time, you’ll have a cracked
skull. When you live by chance, you also live in fear and anxiety. When you
live by intent and capability, it does not matter what is happening or not
happening, at least you are in control of what is happening to you. It is a
more stable life.
2 Stop Fixating on FailureFor a committed man, there is no such thing as failure. If you fall down 100 times in the day, it is 100 lessons learnt. If you commit yourself like this to creating what you really care for, your mind gets organized. Once your mind gets organized, your emotions will get organized because the way you think is the way you feel. Once your thought and emotion are organized, your energies and your very body will get organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You are the creator in many ways.3 Work with Clarity
What a human being needs is clarity, not confidence. If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have confidence, you will walk over everybody. Because there is no clarity, people think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be. Let’s say you make all the major decisions in your life like this: get yourself a coin, flip it. If it’s heads, it’s one way, tails the other. It works 50% of the time. If you are right only 50% of the time, there are only two professions that you can keep – either a weather man or an astrologer. You cannot keep any other job on this planet.4 Embrace the People and Things You Dislike
To handle different kinds of
situations in our lives, we need different kinds of identities. If you are
fluid about it, if you can change from one to another gracefully, then you can
play your role to the hilt and still have no problem with it. But for most
people, their personality is like a rock. It sits on them all the time and
makes them suffer anything that does not fit into its ambit.
If you have to break that, you have to
do something in reverse. This is a simple thing you can do: team up with
somebody that you do not like. Spend time with that person, very lovingly,
joyfully. Learn to do things that you do not like, be with people that you
do not like, and still live your life sensibly, lovingly and joyfully.
5 Drop Your Calculations
There is no need to aspire to
greatness. If you make the focus and ambit of your life well beyond the
concerns of who you are, you will anyway be a great human being. If you look at
certain people, greatness happened to them not because they were seeking to be
great, but because their way of looking at life was way beyond “what about me?”
If you just drop this one calculation,
“What about me?” from your head, and function to the best of your ability, in
some way you will be great because you will naturally be looking at, “What can
I do about all the life around me?” So, you will naturally enhance your
capabilities because there is so much to do!
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Don’t Buy What The Devil Sells
Frustration, discouragement, and
depression are a continuous process. Once you get frustrated, you will get
discouraged. Once you get discouraged, you will get depressed. Let me tell you
a story. The devil decided to go out of business, so he put all the instruments
of his business on sale. There was anger, lust, greed, jealousy, passion for
wealth, ego – he put up everything for sale, and people bought them all. But
then somebody noticed that he still had something in his bag. So they asked
him, “What is it that you have got?” The devil said, “These are my most
effective tools. I am not putting these for sale, just in case I decide to get
back into business. And above all, even if I put them on sale, they will be too
expensive, as they are the best instruments of my work to somehow destroy
life.” People asked, “Tell us what they are!” The devil said, “Discouragement
and depression.”
Once there is no enthusiasm, once
there is depression in you, there is no possibility of life. When you say “I am
getting frustrated with something,” you are not far away from discouragement
and depression – frustration is the first step.
So how do you drop frustration? Don’t
buy it! You don’t have to drop it because life – every life – is enthusiasm.
Just see, the very way an ant is moving about. If you try to stop him, does he
ever get frustrated or discouraged? Till he falls dead he will make his effort.
Look at the little plants. Even if you put one little plant on top of the roof
and just give it a little mud and nothing else, it will put one root down
twenty-five metres all the way to the ground. Do you think the plant ever gets
frustrated? Life energy knows no frustration. It is a limited mind which knows
frustration, because the limited mind works out of false expectations. When
your expectations are not in line with life as such, when your expectations are
fanciful psychology and not life phenomena, then when the expectation does not
get fulfilled, the mind feels this is the end of the world.
When people fail their examination,
many of them commit suicide, isn’t it? Because they feel without this, it is
the end of the world. All the people whom you worship – Rama, Krishna, Buddha,
Jesus – they never passed any examination. Why do you worship them? To pass
your examination, you are calling upon people who never cared to pass an
examination. It doesn’t make sense.
Anything that you do against your own
life is simple ignorance and stupidity. Only a fool works against his own life.
But right now you have gotten yourself into a mental state where you are
working against your own life. Frustration, discouragement and depression only
mean that you are working against your own life. Only if you are being stupid
will you ever get depressed. If you are intelligent how would you be depressed?
Only because you have frozen your intelligence, there is room for depression.
Otherwise there is no question of depression or frustration.
(source : http://www.ishafoundation.org)
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