Because I live, ye shall live also. John 14:19
We think our lives depend on so many things... but in the end, our lives depend on each other. "Because I live, ye shall live also"
Have you ever noticed, that when you are around someone who is really alive, a part of you comes alive too? Have you ever noticed that the way you present yourself and the words and ideas you bring to the table have an effect on others?
Perhaps it's obvious, but for many people, it is not. The way we are affects those around us.
Sometimes, we get so caught up in certain patterns with people, that we aren't even really alive. We live life in a dead pattern.
Sometimes we need to scrub our eyes clean, and look afresh, because the world is bustling with life and when it is not, either we can relax and enjoy the peace, or we can bustle ourselves. Being in these two states.... we can Live.
If we find that we are misfitting, or that we are not able to keep up a positive energy, perhaps it is time to reflect on what life is, what a gift life is, and what it means to be living.
Living is sharing ourselves with others, and when others do not need our sharing, life is sharing ourselves with ourselves.
We like to give appointments to other people, but we rarely give appointments to ourselves. If we knew how to be with ourselves in such a way that it benefited us it would be such a good thing.
So many times we feel that we have to be around other people, but the honest truth is that we want to be around other people because we don't want to be around ourselves. Why don't we want to be around ourselves? Usually because the substance of our thoughts or our body gives us discomfort.
They say that idle hands are the devil's workshop. Why?
Because life is about being alive and doing things, keeping our "hands" busy. There is an equal fight in our mind to stop doing and just relax, but life is not about relaxing. Luckily there is relaxation given to us every night when we go to bed, but other than that we are created to do things. We are created to Live, and in our living-ness, others can live as well.
Sometimes we become so anti-doing things that we create a subtle idea that nothing should be done, that we should relax. We create a goal of not doing anything once our work is finished. This goal of not doing anything when our work is done, is a dangerous goal because now we are saying the reward of work is to not work, so we are continually focused on the relaxation part of not doing. If we are continually focused on relaxing after we are done doing then we will not have our minds and our beings fully on what we are doing. We will be thinking about doing stuff that we are not doing - relaxing.
We should realize that just working is a reward because when we train our brain to solve problems and work and act, we find that the reward continually is forthcoming and the idea of relaxing does not occur to us. Time flies when we are having fun, and certainly when we add our intensity to our work we find that time does fly because we are actually having fun whether we believe it or not.
When we harbor the subtle desire to do nothing or to go and sit and doze off when we are working, then we create a split mind and we create a mental pattern that is NOT life.
When we create this pattern, we are not spreading life that can be given to others. We are truly spreading ignorance and death. We are spreading tamas. We are spreading the idea of unawareness because our mind stops being sharp when we keep calculating when we are going to relax. Then the work suffers because every other thought of ours is towards not doing.
Our mind starts to calculate how NOT to do.... and this infects everyone around us because as we are, so others become. As others are, so we become.
There is a great deal of people who have this subtle desire to not do. Well, in order to turn it around, we have to find that we need to LIVE and in order to truly live we must work with joy. We must do with joy. We must play with joy. We must be intense.
This intensity will drive you and you will find that you are with other people who also share this mentality because you are on the same wavelength.
This is what the statement means - "Because I live, ye shall live also"
We think our lives depend on so many things... but in the end, our lives depend on each other. "Because I live, ye shall live also"
Have you ever noticed, that when you are around someone who is really alive, a part of you comes alive too? Have you ever noticed that the way you present yourself and the words and ideas you bring to the table have an effect on others?
Perhaps it's obvious, but for many people, it is not. The way we are affects those around us.
Sometimes, we get so caught up in certain patterns with people, that we aren't even really alive. We live life in a dead pattern.
Sometimes we need to scrub our eyes clean, and look afresh, because the world is bustling with life and when it is not, either we can relax and enjoy the peace, or we can bustle ourselves. Being in these two states.... we can Live.
If we find that we are misfitting, or that we are not able to keep up a positive energy, perhaps it is time to reflect on what life is, what a gift life is, and what it means to be living.
Living is sharing ourselves with others, and when others do not need our sharing, life is sharing ourselves with ourselves.
We like to give appointments to other people, but we rarely give appointments to ourselves. If we knew how to be with ourselves in such a way that it benefited us it would be such a good thing.
So many times we feel that we have to be around other people, but the honest truth is that we want to be around other people because we don't want to be around ourselves. Why don't we want to be around ourselves? Usually because the substance of our thoughts or our body gives us discomfort.
They say that idle hands are the devil's workshop. Why?
Because life is about being alive and doing things, keeping our "hands" busy. There is an equal fight in our mind to stop doing and just relax, but life is not about relaxing. Luckily there is relaxation given to us every night when we go to bed, but other than that we are created to do things. We are created to Live, and in our living-ness, others can live as well.
Sometimes we become so anti-doing things that we create a subtle idea that nothing should be done, that we should relax. We create a goal of not doing anything once our work is finished. This goal of not doing anything when our work is done, is a dangerous goal because now we are saying the reward of work is to not work, so we are continually focused on the relaxation part of not doing. If we are continually focused on relaxing after we are done doing then we will not have our minds and our beings fully on what we are doing. We will be thinking about doing stuff that we are not doing - relaxing.
We should realize that just working is a reward because when we train our brain to solve problems and work and act, we find that the reward continually is forthcoming and the idea of relaxing does not occur to us. Time flies when we are having fun, and certainly when we add our intensity to our work we find that time does fly because we are actually having fun whether we believe it or not.
When we harbor the subtle desire to do nothing or to go and sit and doze off when we are working, then we create a split mind and we create a mental pattern that is NOT life.
When we create this pattern, we are not spreading life that can be given to others. We are truly spreading ignorance and death. We are spreading tamas. We are spreading the idea of unawareness because our mind stops being sharp when we keep calculating when we are going to relax. Then the work suffers because every other thought of ours is towards not doing.
Our mind starts to calculate how NOT to do.... and this infects everyone around us because as we are, so others become. As others are, so we become.
There is a great deal of people who have this subtle desire to not do. Well, in order to turn it around, we have to find that we need to LIVE and in order to truly live we must work with joy. We must do with joy. We must play with joy. We must be intense.
This intensity will drive you and you will find that you are with other people who also share this mentality because you are on the same wavelength.
This is what the statement means - "Because I live, ye shall live also"
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