5th May 2015 - Early morning thoughts/message

I woke up early this morning and didn't feel like going back to bed. I guess that's due to the thoughts in me that are beginning to surface.


 So, I got up and sat out in the balcony to look out at a calm and beautiful scenery - to ponder (and also to wait for breakfast of course, which will only begin at 6:30 AM).

Great time to be awake - to enjoy the peace and serenity.  It is peaceful.  Life is Peaceful before our minds and our egos start to get busy and clutter our every moment. For now, I thank God for yet another day - to live, to learn, and to enjoy what may unfold for this day. I am GRATEFUL.

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You haven’t accepted yourself. This has to precede other’s accepting you. After all the external is a merely a reflection of you. “They” demonstrate your internal state.  If you are hostile, your environment will be hostile; if you are at peace, your external too will be at peace.

You have struggled long to paint your external world – shaping it into what you believe is right or what you want.

Forget about whether it is right to shape others or “manipulating” them etc. for all these are “judgments.” Your issue is not about judgment. This is about the fact that you cannot change the world, your world, without first changing you.  You cannot teach others to take the risk,, a leap of faith, if you are yourself unwilling to do the same. You cannot shape the world outside (the external) to the way  you want – It is pointless and a futile endeavour as it will only bring with it pain, resentment, then fear and doubt.

All things begin with the SELF. From here it is that you need to  begin.  Look within you for the answer. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

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Finally - time for breakfast.


To begin, a plate with a variety of break freshly baked.  A cup of coffee (that's always important), and a glass of pineapple juice (fresh and chilled).

 

 

 

This is followed up with a plate of egg benedict (with the yolk still flowing like the nectar of life - golden red and delicious).

And then a plate of sliced fresh mango.  Sweet. :)

This is how life should be, right?  Take time to give thanks for all that the mighty has blessed us with.  Enjoy the fruits of the Universe - and be without guilt or remorse.  Just be thankful, and I am thankful for this and more.