Never fail to appreciate even the smallest of actions. They are small drops of water, or maybe even, small sparks of flame that can either build your life or set all of it ablaze. I have been there. I've actually been there. 5 years ago, way back, my whole life was set on fire in the greatest way and that was all as a result of a karma build of negative actions over a period of a long time. Ignoring the little things, attacking inward and outward, letting agony seethe inside of me and run my life. Oh yes I remember that night well, the night where the flames lit up the sky. I burnt down. I burnt to ashes.
Every day, we are presented with circumstances in which we are able to add to our karma or take away from it.
It is never actually the large life events that identify us. Yes, naturally, they have got a big part to play, however it really comes down to the tiny things, the nuts and blots details that many folk ignore because they believe that they are trivial. The more I dive into life the more I and deeply start to understand that everything is moving, constantly changing, made from energy...and your actions in this moment have the capability to send ripples all though space that you cannot even possibly understand the true power of.
For a long time, there developed this significant gap between me and other people due to an implicit distrust in myself - not them. This opening was manufactured through fear, through private nervousness, and through a total non-understanding of what I was intended to do and be deep down inside. So I'd avoid situations and others, or on the flip side, purposefully spend almost all of my time attending to others so I could ignore focusing on myself.
You know that karma I am talking about? Well, it does not turn out well when you're coming from a place of fear.
There's great beauty in this life, but you can certainly miss it if you're spending too much time thinking in the future. You can miss the smiles people give you and how stupendously superb can be. You can miss how incredibly tranquil it is to sit out on your porch closing your eyes and just listening to all the sounds around you. These are said to be the small details by many, but to me, these are the drivers of my life...these moments are my inspiration.
Everything around us is living and moving, and to think for a moment that simply because the ground you are standing on is solid by nature makes it dead, you my friend are completely wrong. It's all respiring. It's all living...and it all matters.
Every action has a result. Each specific action has a counter-reaction to it. These are the laws of life that we live by and these are big forces at play. I think what we do not quite yet understand is how much our actions actually do effect others, the people surrounding us, and the rest of the globe and beyond. We haven't seemed to quite see how different we make the world each day by encouraging a person or lending help to an individual in need. We do not see the ripple consequences of our smile on someones life, perspective, and perception of the planet.
All of these little actions that you take each and every day are part of karma.
So as time is going on, I tap into my actions more and more and more and can feel the landscape changing as I consciously make my choices. This shift in my mind-set, which came through my training and mentors stretching of my mind, has permitted me to let go of what injures me and to breath life and love into each and every single moment that I have.
Always come back to your breath. Come back. Come back. Come back. If your mind starts to roam, come back. If you become irritated, come back. Over time , you will get better and better at being in this moment instead of getting stuck in reliving old ones or attempting to go to a place that you cannot actually exist in. Continue coming back. "Come back to me" often you will hear your heart whisper.
Our lives can be put on auto pilot or you can drive this puppy manually and actually get an understanding of the result of the subtleties of each and every single action you take. There's beauty in that. Don't be discouraged by the acceptance that everything you do matters. This should be something that frees you rather than being the thing that locks you up.
Let that karma build. Keep adding those drops of water into the vessel and over a period of time you'll have filled it.
P.S. Don't be discouraged if you accidentally lit your haystack up in flames. Being able to rebuild your complete town just how you really want it to be is among the coolest experiences you may ever get to have.
Every day, we are presented with circumstances in which we are able to add to our karma or take away from it.
It is never actually the large life events that identify us. Yes, naturally, they have got a big part to play, however it really comes down to the tiny things, the nuts and blots details that many folk ignore because they believe that they are trivial. The more I dive into life the more I and deeply start to understand that everything is moving, constantly changing, made from energy...and your actions in this moment have the capability to send ripples all though space that you cannot even possibly understand the true power of.
For a long time, there developed this significant gap between me and other people due to an implicit distrust in myself - not them. This opening was manufactured through fear, through private nervousness, and through a total non-understanding of what I was intended to do and be deep down inside. So I'd avoid situations and others, or on the flip side, purposefully spend almost all of my time attending to others so I could ignore focusing on myself.
You know that karma I am talking about? Well, it does not turn out well when you're coming from a place of fear.
There's great beauty in this life, but you can certainly miss it if you're spending too much time thinking in the future. You can miss the smiles people give you and how stupendously superb can be. You can miss how incredibly tranquil it is to sit out on your porch closing your eyes and just listening to all the sounds around you. These are said to be the small details by many, but to me, these are the drivers of my life...these moments are my inspiration.
Everything around us is living and moving, and to think for a moment that simply because the ground you are standing on is solid by nature makes it dead, you my friend are completely wrong. It's all respiring. It's all living...and it all matters.
Every action has a result. Each specific action has a counter-reaction to it. These are the laws of life that we live by and these are big forces at play. I think what we do not quite yet understand is how much our actions actually do effect others, the people surrounding us, and the rest of the globe and beyond. We haven't seemed to quite see how different we make the world each day by encouraging a person or lending help to an individual in need. We do not see the ripple consequences of our smile on someones life, perspective, and perception of the planet.
All of these little actions that you take each and every day are part of karma.
So as time is going on, I tap into my actions more and more and more and can feel the landscape changing as I consciously make my choices. This shift in my mind-set, which came through my training and mentors stretching of my mind, has permitted me to let go of what injures me and to breath life and love into each and every single moment that I have.
Always come back to your breath. Come back. Come back. Come back. If your mind starts to roam, come back. If you become irritated, come back. Over time , you will get better and better at being in this moment instead of getting stuck in reliving old ones or attempting to go to a place that you cannot actually exist in. Continue coming back. "Come back to me" often you will hear your heart whisper.
Our lives can be put on auto pilot or you can drive this puppy manually and actually get an understanding of the result of the subtleties of each and every single action you take. There's beauty in that. Don't be discouraged by the acceptance that everything you do matters. This should be something that frees you rather than being the thing that locks you up.
Let that karma build. Keep adding those drops of water into the vessel and over a period of time you'll have filled it.
P.S. Don't be discouraged if you accidentally lit your haystack up in flames. Being able to rebuild your complete town just how you really want it to be is among the coolest experiences you may ever get to have.
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