simple pleasures of life

most of the pleasures of life are simple and very inexpensive. having a good sleep in the night, hugging some one you love, feeling the breeze in your face, drinking a glass of cool water, laughing at a good joke, watching a baby take her first steps, looking at the sun and the moon and the stars, enjoying a cup of hot tea in the morning, seeing some one smile. i could go on and on with this list. it is marvellous that God created and gave us so many gifts for free that are so much better than the man made things that cost more but the pleasure you get from them does not last . God is great as they say

power of thought

every thing originates from a thought. if the thought can be sustained long enough, it translates into reality. the reason many thoughts remain thoughts and nothing more is that the intensity behind the thought could not be sustained . the factors that impact the intensity of a thought are either it gets replaced by another thought or the environment is not supportive of that thought. it is very similar to how a seed needs to be in the right soil at the right temperature and right amount of watering and sunlight for the fruit to see the light of day.

lets live with our highest and best thoughts always , and we will see magic happen. it has happened before, and example being when Ramakishna Paramhansa could sustain the thought of Kali strong enough and long enough to be able to see HER as we see each other .

its all in the mind

things are always what they are . what looks like an opportunity for some, looks like a problem to another. what attracts one repels another. if the same object or situation creates opposite reactions in the minds of people, then it is obvious that its all in the mind. there is no real beauty, there is no real ugliness. there is no real happiness , there is no real sorrow.

So if all that is what we choose to believe, then why not believe in the best . why not choose to believe that it is a beautiful world where every moment there is a child wondering, a new flower blossoming, a new possibility arising .

it is hard to think this way if one is unhappy or unwell , but then the choice always remains with us as the situation we are in remains the way it is and changes only when it does.

finally, it is all in the mind, and you can wither control the mind or let the mind control you. DECIDE what you will be , and you will become that.

choice

you may not be able to always choose what happens to you , but you can always choose your response to it. some one tries to provoke you, but to get angry or remain calm in the face of provocation is a choice you can and need to make. the best example of choice that i came across was in the book Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Victor was in the Nazi concentration camp where they took away every thing that he had including his name, but yet he chose an attitude that kept him alive .