Mind - Miracle or Manufacturer of Misery...???
In
most of the cases human beings think, life is a brief amount of time. Only for
people who do not explore life the depth and dimension of who they are, for
those who are miserable and depressed, life is long. This is because time is a
relative experience. If you keep yourself vibrant, exuberant, and joyful, it is
a very brief life. There is no point in dwelling on yesterday, as long as you
did the best you could do. The important thing is that what you thought was the
best you could do yesterday should not be good enough to you anymore today.
What you are doing today should be much better. That means you are growing.
If
you act to the best of your ability and intelligence, every day will be an
explosion of possibilities. If you are driving fast reasonably in a right way,
there is no time to look back. Only those who are living in a parked car keep
looking in the rear view mirror, because they are not going anywhere. There is
no point in doing postmortem on yesterday. What is important is to craft tomorrow.
To create an exciting future, you need to be at your best. Growth means to make
yourself the way you want to be. And how you want to be may change as you
mature. Determine what the highest levels for you are in terms of body, mind,
and emotions. That is what you should go for.
You
do not have to be better than someone else, but you should not be anything less
than what you can be. If you think your life is worthwhile, you must be at your
best – anything less than that is wasted life. If you live exuberantly, life is
fantastic. If you are half alive, everything is miserable. In a way, it is a
preparation for hell. If you make yourself wonderful, wherever the hell you
are, you will be fine. Otherwise, you may be in heaven, but turn it into hell.
If you want to create a future, it is important that you use your past as a
stepping stone, not as a load. The more miserable your past was, the wiser and
more mature you become sooner or later. When things happen to us, either we can
become wise or wounded. This is the choice we have. Do not sit in a corner,
hoping nothing bad will happen to you – life does not work in that way.
Whatever happens in your life, you can turn it into a fortune. What life throws
at you, what kind of situations come in your way is not always in your hands.
But what you make out of those situations is always matters.
Take
charge of this in your life – no matter what someone says, what life does to
you, what the world does to you, turn it into wellbeing. For this, you need
balance, and you need to function at your highest level. Indiscriminately,
whoever it is, whatever you do – always give your best. Learn to look at
everyone and everything with the same intensity and the same involvement.
Selective involvement means being half alive. To mature into a full-fledged
human being, always strive to function at the highest possible level of your
capability, in every little thing you do.
Unfortunately,
most of the people function well below their potential to some extent because
someone else said this or that……..or did something this or that ……, or even
just because they are afraid someone else may think something. That means you
are getting into other people’s mind –
what a filthy place to be. Whatever anyone else thinks, says, or does, whatever
comes in your path, learn to turn it into your wellbeing. If someone throws
poison at you, you must know how to use it for your wellbeing. Poisons have
been turned into medicines, because people paid attention and realized the
source of the problem is also a solution.
There
is a saying in Kannada that if someone did something wrong, and other people
talk about it, the negative effect of it will be greater for the people who
talk about it than for the one who committed the act. Let them carry your
burden. If someone abuses you, only their mouth gets dirty. That is not your
problem. What someone else says, does, or thinks should not affect you. If you
are giving your best, all the time, you will be able to look through whatever
they say. What is significant, you can take it as a suggestion and guidance only.
The rest, you can drop.
If
you are giving less than your best and someone says something about you, you
will get confused as to who you are.
This does not mean you should establish your way of being once and for all.
Growth is a constant process. It is about building yourself up to the highest
possible level. Most people are volatile, in the sense, one moment, they are
wonderful – the next moment, they are nasty. Instead, determine what the
highest level for you is at this time and strive to get there. Just bring this
into your life – in everything, give nothing less than the best.
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