The Quest

It is definitely difficult but we should accept whatever is in us, whatever we feel and whatever comes out of us. Just like we have to accept my own shadow. we cannot say - we want only the light. As soon as there is light, we, as a body, project a shadow. So either we have to accept both or we have to refuse both. Only then we will not be dividing, and this is the state of minimum conflict. To refuse both is to refuse life. When we accept both, we accept life and we become one. Actually, we are one. There is no 'good us' and the 'bad us'. It is our conditioning that divides us into two. Then this 'good us' starts to fight the 'bad us'. And all the judging - praising and condemning follows. Much energy is wasted in all this. If we instead start accepting ourselves, accept us as one single piece, a lot of energy is preserved.

love the whole

Only accepting our opposite sides is not enough. We may accept because we find no other way - we feel helpless. This is not true acceptance. We have to accept ourselves with deep gratitude and trust. Unless we accept ourselves with love and understanding, we will never be whole. To be whole is to be conscious of our divisions - our small parts, to love them all and then to put them back together and accept the whole. When something is whole, when we have a holistic approach, there is a great flow of energy. This flow gives way to creativity. When there is creation, there is joy.

and find joy in this.

There is joy in creation; be it the creation of a painting, a poem or that of a child. Creation comes about when the flow of energy is guided with love. A thousand ways of creativity can be found. We just have to realize that it is possible, that it is already something dormant in us. We just have to take the first step to break the pitcher of joy and splash some juice into this parched life of ours. We just have to have the lovingness to do that.

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The big rocks

Anonymous

One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students. As this man stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz."

Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed mason jar and set it on a table in front of him. He produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?"

Everyone in the class said, "Yes." Then he said, "Really?"

He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. Then he asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?"

By this time the class was onto him. "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!" He replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel.

Once more he asked, "Is this jar full?" "No!" The class shouted. Once again he said, "Good!" Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked up at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?"

One eager beaver raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it!"

"No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point."

"The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all."

What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Time with your loved ones? Your faith, your education, your dreams? A worthy cause? Teaching or mentoring others?

Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you'll never get them in at all.

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