Find out for yourself what is True, otherwise it is a mere belief.

The original collection of these sayings, often credited to Mother Theresa, were actually created by a college student named Kent M. Keith and published in 1968 in a pamphlet titled “The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council”. Here are the original expressions given in the pamphlet. Read it with an open mind and find out if what you read is true for you. Don't blindly believe. Lives are being destroyed by blind belief. 

01: People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

02: If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

03: If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

04: The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

05: Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

06: The biggest men with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

07: People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

08: What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

09: People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

10: Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

♥ Kindness Meditation ♥

 

POEM TO MYSELF

When in doubt, be kind

I can be firm and still be kind

I can be honest and still be kind

I can tend the little seeds of kindness within me

I can shine when the world seems dark

so the tiny seeds

are not afraid

to grow

I can close my eyes

and breathe in kindness

I can let kindness fill me

There is no benevolent reason

for meeting hostility with hostility

no kind reason for perpetuating little wars

God knows there's more than enough war

out there 

already.

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♥ Kindness Meditation ♥

Place the palm of one hand on your heart with your fingers wide open. Hold it there and just feel. Feel what is. Be soft. Open. Receptive. Feel the energy between your hand and your heart. 

Remove that hand and place your other hand over your heart. Be there with the energy. Notice if there is any difference between the two hands.

Which hand to you prefer to hold over your heart? Notice this and place that hand over your heart. Then place your opposite hand over that hand. When you can, close your eyes for a moment and give your full attention to your hands on your heart. 

Feel the exchange of energy, from hand to heart, heart to hand. Feel the energy circulating. Notice how your breathing becomes deeper and more relaxed as you continue this meditation. Your heart is the real container for your spirit. It’s where your spirit resides, like a pure bright crystal, emanating light and love and life. In your heart is Life. Is Love. Is Light. 

Life. Light. Love.

Thank God for the writers and artists, the musicians, and sages.

 

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. ―Madeleine L'Engle

And when we do this ― we blind ourselves to who, in Truth, we are. What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle was a wonderful writer of children's books, books for adults, and poetry. Her book, A Wrinkle in Time, was one of the first books I read as a child which began to wake me up to Reality ― to what I knew in my heart was true. Thank God for the writers and artists, the musicians and sages. 

The very first book from my young childhood, which showed me what I knew deep inside, was one I have also written a lesson about ― Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. It revealed to me that we all have hard hickory nut heads. We must begin the spiritual journey to melt into the softness of our heart ― which is the only true strength.

The 3rd book from childhood that I also I fell in love with was, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnettt, published in 1911. This book was also about the spiritual journey, of growing from darkness to light.

We must all grow from darknessc― our negative thoughts, feelings, and actions ― to the Light of Truth. 

MIND AND BODY

Please illustrate the connection between mind and body...

Have you ever noticed how the body obeys the thought? Think of food and
the body heads for the refrigerator. Think of entertainment and the legs
move toward the television set. With enough watchfulness you can see
how thoughts do indeed place the physical body wherever it finds itself,
for either benefit or harm. This insight arouses powerful motivation
for thinking only constructive thoughts.'"
                                   

— There is a Way Out, Vernon Howard

DO IT AND YOU WILL SEE.

By being aware, one discovers how one is conditioned. By being aware, I know I am conditioned as a Hindu, as a Buddhist, as a Christian; I am conditioned as a nationalist: British, German, Russian, Indian, American, Chinese; I am conditioned. We never tackle that. That's the garbage we are, and we hope something marvelous will grow out of it, but I am afraid it is not possible. Being aware doesn't mean a chance happening, something irresponsible and vague. If one understands the implications of awareness, one's body not only becomes highly sensitive, but the whole entity is activated; there is a new energy given to it.

Do it, and you will see. Don't sit on the bank and speculate about the river; jump in and follow the current of this awareness, and you will find out for yourself how extraordinarily limited our thoughts, our feelings, and our ideas are. Our projections of gods, saviors, and Masters—all that becomes so obvious, so infantile. —Krishnamurti, The Collected Works, Vol. XV,138, Choiceless Awareness

AWARENESS

AWARENESS  If only we knew how much others are secretly suffering, we would be very consciously tender to them.  If you could only feel this secret feeling, you would treat them differently than you now do. Human beings cannot feel others because they are asleep.

Karma

Every bad thought and feeling reacts on us again, or on one another, and on me. If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in a hundred years, but you will be helped. --Gurdjieff

 

This also means that when you hurt others, you will be hurt. The problem with hurting others is that we are so unconscious that we don't even know we are hurting someone else. Think about this. Let the meaning of this permeate your consciousness.  

Ask yourself, how do I unconsciously hurt other people? How do I unconsciously hurt myself? Ask the angels to show you. Ask God to help you see more. 

We justify our wrongness in so many ways. We tell ourselves "good" reasons we have to be 'bad." We tell ourselves that our bad is good -- and we don't even know we do this!

 

Ask the angels to give you more humility. Ask the angels to show you how to be of true service in the world, to your friends, your family, your husband, your wife, your lover, your parents, your children, your colleagues. You can only serve where you are. You can only serve what you are.

Ask for more awareness. Every bad thought and feeling reacts on us again, or on one another, and on me. If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in a hundred years, but you will be helped.

Princess Snow (my Siamese Cat)

Be a light unto the world

Profound. Clear. Simple. The Way.

Kierkegaard was a wise man

Realize you are asleep

Every sleeping person is convinced he is awake. -Vernon Howard

Yes, as your lessons teach you -- the most important step on your spiritual path is to know that you are unconscious (asleep). If you do not know you are asleep, how can you wake up? Sleeping people believe they are awake!!! This accounts for most everyone in the world. Sleeping people walk around believing they are awake.

So be one of the few. REALIZE YOU ARE ASLEEP! This is your only hope for waking up. Every problem in your life happens because you are asleep. 

Awake or Asleep?

Well, it is 4 am in Germany, and I have been awake since 3 am, while the rest of the world (at least on this side of the ocean) sleeps. On the other side of the ocean, people are awake in the sunlight. Wherever we are, we should strive to wake up. To do this, we must first realize that we are asleep -- that we live our lives unaware and unconscious. You can't wake up until you realize you are asleep.

Meditation

Dear Students, Here is a short email I sent to a client who was asking about meditation and creative visualization. I am sharing it here with you. It contains a meditation and a short reading for this person, although I left out the more personal parts. Perhaps you can also benefit. Love to you as always.

Email to client...

Dear Students, Today I am posting an email I sent to one of my female clients, who has just separated from her husband. I have changed identifying information, to respect confidentiality. I think by reading it, you can learn a great deal. I have kept the words to her soft, so they can be heard. She is not a student, so she does not have the same level of understanding that students achieve over time, but she is a very long term client. Here is the email:

Dearest -----

You have made the physical separation from your husband, now you must make the psychological separation, which can only happen inside you. For so long you have defined yourself in relation to your husband. Over time, that became a definition that was painful to you, and you sought to remove yourself from that pain.

Stay clear that the ego will seek to continue to keep you in pain. That is what ego does. Ego is a pain machine.

Watch the issues of boundaries. Instead of constantly saying that he is overstepping your boundaries, simply, clearly state what you want. To yourself. To him. I’d just leave out the word boundaries, if you can.

Boundaries can be an offensive and defensive word. You needed to use it when you were making your move and getting stronger. Now you can just be an adult and clearly state - "This is what I want. This is what I choose. This is what I am doing. I do not want that. I do not choose that. Not right now, please. Maybe later. NO. Yes."

These are all good statements for you to consider.  You can just say, no. You can say, not now. You can say, no, thank you. You can say, I don’t want to. You can say, Can you please tell me what you mean, because I don’t understand. You can say, yes. You can say, I need time to think about that. You can say, I can’t answer that right now. You can say, I am feeling uncomfortable and need to be with my own energy right now, so I can deal with my feelings.

These are good “I” statements. You will find your own, the more you turn within.

“I” statements will help you go within to find out what you are feeling and thinking. “I” statements tend to be less combative, less offensive, less defensive, less confusing.

Keep in mind, you both love your children. So far your husband has been supportive of your move, providing  for you financially. Do your best to stay with what is, not go into fear. Fear is the greatest weapon of control. Don’t forget that.

People say all kinds of things when they feel attacked and afraid. Do your best not to give power to what people say when they are feeling defensive, afraid, attacked. Try to just see. Really see. Do your best not to react.

Right now, today, everything is okay. Now you have a chance to look at the pain that is within you. When your husband was always there, it was easy to see that your pain was caused by your interaction with him. When he is not there, you have the beautiful opportunity to advance spiritually by taking full responsibility for your own pain — seeing it.

As the angels say, “what you are not aware of controls you. When you become aware of something, it begins to lose control over you.”

The problem is where the pain is. This is a universal truth.

This is a beautiful time for you, an opportunity for expansion and freedom.

I trust that you and your husband will be able to work everything out in a way that serves both of you and your family. Old patterns are being broken. Ego will resist that. Be patient, loving, and kind with yourselves and each other as you work to overcome the feelings of fear, pain, and limitation. You can do it! There is no enemy.

What is beautiful to remember is that even as human beings fight against each other, each of you has an angel who holds you in the light. Angels always work together. When you can attune to your angel, you are attuning to the angel of everyone. This is because angels serve only God’s will, and so angels exist in harmony, even while we exist in conflict.

Love,
Indira

WAKE UP CALL!

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The angels gave me a bright and early wake up call this morning. I am house-sitting for my 82 year old friend who is off on a cruise down the Amazon River. How's that for keeping active in your elder years?

Well, I stepped out of her shower onto her marble floor, slipped, and fell, hitting my right hip on the way down, landing on my right elbow, and the back of my lower head hit the edge of the marble shower. Ouch. I felt every blow! My elbow hurt the worst, so right away my attention went there. Have you ever noticed that your attention always goes to the place that hurts the most? This is true of both emotional and physical pain.

I was shocked and stunned. I waited to see if I was still alive and if I could get up. Obviously I am okay, since I am here writing this. My elbow still throbs. I have a big bruise on my hip. The back of my head is sore. But no broken bones. My arm still moves. What a blessing that is.

I felt it like a shock, like a great message from the angels...stay awake! Be aware! Be alert! Because there was no real reason I had to fall. We are always warned about people falling in showers...and as I lay there, I thought, oh yes, this is what they mean!

The universe is always giving us messages to stay awake...maybe not messages this big, but messages just the same. Why? Because the universe loves us. Angels want us to be safe and happy. But they cannot lay out the rug so that we step on it. Life can be over in a minute...my life could have ended that moment...the body is not meant to make such hard contact with hard marble. Bones are meant for feather beds, not marble floors!

And so I am passing this lesson and this message onto you, dear students, because I love you so much. Because the angels love you so much. Take care in each moment of your life. Be careful...that is, full of care for your precious being. As I lay on the floor in pain, but obviously not seriously injured...what I felt was this great love. I felt protected. Any maybe I was. I felt this great shock, which was like love going through me, saying, be careful, listen, stay awake, stay aware, wake up! Wake up entirely! Wake up from the sleep of the world! Wake up now! NOW! Wake up NOW! And stay awake!

It may seem strange to say that such a moment could bring so much love, but it did. It brought love and it brought me an important message. And now I pass this message onto you, dear students! Be careful, listen, stay awake, stay aware, wake up! Wake up entirely! Wake up from the sleep of the world! Wake up now! NOW! Wake up NOW! And stay awake!

Messages are always coming to us from many sources. We must only listen. We must be receptive. We must know that those messages are meant for us and not someone else.

Good Morning

At least if you are in the USA it is morning. Just as time is different all over the world, depending on where you are, so is our experience of life, depending on where we are within our own self. Where are you right now? Pause and take a look. Pay attention. What is your body feeling right now? Are you remembering to breathe? Too often, we "hold our breath" throughout the day, or breathe in shallow ways. Too often we hold our bodies in uncomfortable positions. Today at least be aware of these things. Be aware of where you are.