There are times, when we feel acute need to change others.
To get them to think like us, maybe this is the time that we need to look into a mirror. We may not find a wonderland like Alice did, but there would be a message for us.
When I think of snow white I think the beautiful stepmother and her evil mirror is something like our perception of humanity as a whole, i.e. dualistic. With a broad brush we paint pictures of people some like us, who share our opinions and attitudes and others who don’t. We are so caught up with the rightness of our thoughts and values that we are teased and sometimes even frustrated by the different.
Why is that we are unable to realize that we are all individuals.
Maybe because over the time we have learnt to flourish in the richness of lives we have built may come to believe that we are qualified to speak on behalf of the greater source.
Maybe if we pause a while we’ll figure that the sum of what we do not know exceeds the sum of what we know. Individual goals and potentials are different; we do a disservice when we try to make it all uniform.
Maybe we should realize our strength by giving up controlling, and embracing people for what they are. Appreciating their uniqueness,
Perhaps that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day; we respect the right of people to be them.
Maybe we can gaze inwards on to that one person who we can change i.e. ourselves.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thursday, October 1, 2009
the wisdom of fear,
Dar kea age jeet hai,
Fearless Nadia,
We have heard so much. Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached to it. For example getting married, having a baby, changing careers – all these life changes can bring up deep fears. It helps to remember that this type of fear is good. It is your way of questioning whether you really want the new life these changes will bring. It is also a potent reminder that releasing and grieving the past is a necessary part of moving into the new.
Fear has a way of throwing us off balance making feel uncertain and insecure. But it is not meant to discourage. It is supposed to notify us that we are at the edge of our comfort zone poised in between old life and a new one. Whenever we face our fear, we overcome an inner obstacle and move into a new life-enhancing territory. Both inside and out. The more we are able to learn to respect and even welcome fear, the more we will be able to hear its wisdom. Wisdom is a contradiction in terms, we can to honor our fear, recognizing its arrival, listening to its intelligence and respecting it as a harbinger of transformation. Indeed it informs us that the change we are contemplating is signification enabling us to approach it with proper reverence.
You might wish to converse with your fear, plumbing its depts. For a greater understanding of the change you are making. Yu could do this by sitting quietly in meditation and listening or by journaling. Write down whatever comes up – you worried, you sadness, your excitement, your hope – this is a great way to learn about yourself through the vehicle of fear and to remember that fear almost always comes alongside anything worth doing in your life.
Fearless Nadia,
We have heard so much. Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached to it. For example getting married, having a baby, changing careers – all these life changes can bring up deep fears. It helps to remember that this type of fear is good. It is your way of questioning whether you really want the new life these changes will bring. It is also a potent reminder that releasing and grieving the past is a necessary part of moving into the new.
Fear has a way of throwing us off balance making feel uncertain and insecure. But it is not meant to discourage. It is supposed to notify us that we are at the edge of our comfort zone poised in between old life and a new one. Whenever we face our fear, we overcome an inner obstacle and move into a new life-enhancing territory. Both inside and out. The more we are able to learn to respect and even welcome fear, the more we will be able to hear its wisdom. Wisdom is a contradiction in terms, we can to honor our fear, recognizing its arrival, listening to its intelligence and respecting it as a harbinger of transformation. Indeed it informs us that the change we are contemplating is signification enabling us to approach it with proper reverence.
You might wish to converse with your fear, plumbing its depts. For a greater understanding of the change you are making. Yu could do this by sitting quietly in meditation and listening or by journaling. Write down whatever comes up – you worried, you sadness, your excitement, your hope – this is a great way to learn about yourself through the vehicle of fear and to remember that fear almost always comes alongside anything worth doing in your life.
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