No matter what is happening in your life right now, TRUST that all is GOOD and unfolding in your BEST interests.
As hard as it may seem, pain, suffering, stress, and other difficulties are the admission tickets to the game of LIFE. But, at times, we cannot help but think that life would be so much more pleasant without the hassles - Right? But isn't it also TRUE that in a world without hurdles, there are no champions? And without rain, no rainbows? Isn't heat necessary to produce gold, pressure and polishing necessary to produce diamonds, and adversity necessary to produce CHARACTER?
Here's how Henry Ford expressed the same sentiment: "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
Misfortune is an OPPORTUNITY to LIFT yourself to a HIGHER level - When an eagle believes her eaglets are large enough to learn how to fly, she begins to take apart the nest and push the eaglets out. After this rude awakening, the eaglets discover they have WINGS! They can FLY! The universe is constantly nudging us, pushing us off one cliff after another, in the HOPE that one day we, too, will DISCOVER our wings and SOAR to new heights.
Even under the worst circumstances, we can CHOOSE to focus on the POSITIVE rather than the negative. We need winter to APPRECIATE spring, rain to appreciate the sunshine, and adversity to be THANKFUL for the calm after the storm.
Excellent perspective, and true, I think for people who live their lives as dharma, correct action. I believe that the fundamental force of existence is karma, the law of cause and effect. When we live in dharma, we improve the odds that karma will deliver results "in our best interests." The problem, of course, is that we don't always know what our best interests actually are.
ReplyDeleteAnd, one final note, we can't look at karma as some kind of deity, rewarding "good deeds" with "good results." Karma doesn't care. Karma is completely neutral and indifferent, like gravity, centrifugal force, and other natural laws, of which it is one. People err when they say "good karma" or "bad karma" as if it were some kind of "luck." Nothing lucky about it. What goes around comes around.
Again, all I can say is that living correctly improves the odds that results will happen in your best interests. Not always, but . . .
Thank you so much for your response to my post Bob!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your thought as the universe is literally a SEA OF ENERGY that can be either calm or stormy, depending on how it's used. Living correctly – by implementing correct action “improves” the odds that results and/or outcomes will happen in a persons best interests. So the understanding is that "For every action there is equal and opposite reaction." Our Every thought, word and deed is a Cause that sets off a wave of energy throughout the universe, creating calm and desirable, or stormy and undesirable Effects.
Deepak Chopra, identified this teaching in his 1993 book, “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,”
"...no debt in the universe ever goes
unpaid. There is a perfect accounting
system in this universe, and everything
is a constant `to and fro' exchange of
energy."