Its a cold winter day today. Its been snowing all day yesterday and a little bit today. I however hardly feel the cold perhaps because my heart is warming up to life again...yay ! I have finally figured out what I was doing wrong with my life ! Always complaining! Always dragging myself down ! The critical mind would not let me rest in peace ! You did this
wrong, you did that wrong ...on and on like a nagging parent ! I have created a monster ! Now
however the mind will be silenced and tamed so that it supports and nurtures every part of my being. Taming the mind is the hardest thing to do ! It takes so much time and patience like teaching a new born..you have to be very patient and understanding with it. The change does not happen overnight but takes months even years to root out deep rooted conditionings. We have so many of them ! We are conditioned every day by the society we live in that gives us a set of rules and norms to live by, by the media that feeds us what they want us to see and believe, by religions that put their God above others and the list goes on. How much of the time do we really think for ourselves!? How many choices of ours are really our own? Do you buy your clothes because they have a designer label on them even though you can find ones just as good elsewhere? Do you choose your shampoo because the advertisement for it was 'cool' and you really liked the girl in the hot jeans? Do you choose to vote for that leader that the media has made you believe is more popular then the rest and who claims to make your life easier by cutting down on taxes and other lies but never gets round to them after he is elected?Life should be defined by the choices we make based on our own views formulated through our own experiences. Life is meant to be experiential. You can not define your life though other peoples experiences or choices that were pressed upon you. No one ever reached greatness writing about others views on life. Greatness comes through learning from lifes myriad experiences and gaining the wisdom that they bring. For this wisdom you must labor hard and meets lifes greatest challenges with faith and perseverance till you have ingrained the wisdom it was meant to teach you. In the end the greatest wisdom that life brings is that of unconditional love. Of discovering the love within your self and knowing that the same love lives in the hearts of all.Our greatest need is to love and be loved. If we could only understand that we would see the world with a different lens. We would see that the person who hurt us was just crying out for our love which we denied him, the egoistic person who wants to be at the center of attention is just a little child yearning to be loved inside and told that he is worthy of that love, the angry person is just trying to hide the pain he feels inside because of what you said to him that triggered the pain he was trying so desperately to hide. Through the lens of love the world takes on a different color and life becomes beautiful because you can't help but see beauty everywhere and in every heart. There are no more angry, hurtful and egoistic persons. There are only people wanting human affection and love.
Love is the basis of life. We were made to love and to be loved. Life was meant to be a labor of love...and so it is.
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