Let Life flow through you
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Do you feel life is unfair? Are you slow to trust people? Are you afraid of being exploited?
Fear is the worst kind of cancer which stops us from expanding and enriching ourselves and others.
Please understand, fear is nothing but carrying an inadequate cognition about yourself and life. If you feel that life is manipulating you, it is not just a wrong cognition you have about life; it is a wrong cognition you have about YOU!
Feeling disconnected from life and powerless before others is nothing but selfishness – because it arises from a high level of self-centeredness, from a limited cognition you have about yourself and life. The truth is that you are NOT separate from others as you imagine. So any idea which stops you from expanding out of your limited identity is selfishness and self-centeredness.
That one wrong cognition or inadequate cognition is like one cancerous cell in your body, but you infuse all your energy into the growth of that cell! What will happen? If you go on feeding that inadequate cognition, you become self-destructive. The way you walk, talk, live, think -
Your life is as great as those around you
A small story:
A young man comes up to his father and shares, 'Dad, I'm in love with the pretty young girl next door, and I'm going to propose to her!'
The father immediately says, 'Oh, no! You can't do that!
'But why?', asks the son.
'Because she's your half-sister!', says the father.
The son is shocked to hear this, but he obeys his father's words.
A month later, he comes to his father and says, 'Dad, you remember the girl who stays opposite us? I plan to start dating her.'
Again, the father cries out, 'Don't do that! She's your half-sister! And please don't tell your mother about it!'
The son is really mad at his father, but he shuts up and listens to him.
The third time, the son finds another girl, and his father repeats the same thing.