As mentioned in my previous post, I organized my cabinet and came across this printed email of 14 August 2004. I set it aside coz it could be useful sometime. When I read Queensy’s blog, I realized that this email message was for her… So, here I am being an instrument of PEACE to Queensy and to myself (hopefully).
Habits of Enlightened Souls
1. BE QUIET. At least once a day, sit down. There is a source within each one of us called the spirit or soul. It is a crime to disturb inner peace. This peace is our power to create positive things in our life. Try speaking softly and slowly that your usual way.
Speaking this way is more powerful because it attacts the peace in others. Just be aware of your words. Savor their energy and rhythm.
2. LET GO. Don’t hold on to anything with your hand or with your mind. Many think that doing this means losing. If you don’t release the old, you can’t get anything new. This requires detachment.
Letting go means moderating excessive attachment to material possessions, to emotions, ot to the status quo or comfort zones in our lives.
3. LET IT BE. We are great ficers of other people’s lives. We’re trying to write somebody else’s script. We are absent from our own lives because we’re busy living the lives of others. Acceptance and contentment are the first steps to health relationships.
An example is our appreciation of the moon, which is beyond change. We never dream of wanting to change or influence it, nor have we the slightest remorse that the same face of the moon is always turned toward us. We have no need to see the dark side. Extend this deep feeling of acceptance to the people we meet.
4. LISTEN IN. Use your intuition, the inner tutor and the voice of wisdom. Because we have held on to our false beliefs for so long, we ignore and distrust our inner voice and tell it to shut up. The process of enlightenment is the procress of learning to trust that inner voice once again.
Example is the conscience as intuition at work. When we misbehave, the voice of conscience alerts us to our mistake. We may shun that voice, engaging in reason as the ally of ego to justify our deeds.
Yet the troubling intuitive disapproval of conscience will go on to make its rebukes. We can either suppress the advice or repair the wrong.
5. WAKE UP. Habits are programmed by our external conditioning. Write down your habits then decide which ones to strike out and replace them with virtues. Visualize the virtue you want to create and empower that image.
For example, if you want to develop patience, visualizemyourself as a patient person. watch, feel and manifest patience in every action you do until it becomes a behaviour. Waking up is to consciously choose your behaviour and thereby create the personality you want. Never believe anyone who says, “you can never change.”
6. KNOW YOURSELF. Look behind the Ï want”attitude, those desires that make us need things that are not necessary. The truth is, happines is a choice, not a chore, a decision to bring out from the self. Affirm that you are happiness, a source of happiness.
7. PASS IT ON. Take one idea from this article then pass it on to another. You empower yourself and the other as yuo share this truth. this is also giving value to the time you spend readint thist.
Life is like a river, constantly flowing. The highest purpose of rivers is to nourish plants and people who are fellow travelers in the journey of life. Our highest purpose is to nourish others.
Like the river, the greatest gift one can give is wisdom. Through this, you empower yourself as well as others.
Try these habits one by one.
- author unknown
