17 Nov 2009 Vrindavan, India
Category: Work
My normal day is often very full and not only, when I am travelling and busy meeting people and giving lectures, healings or workshops. No, even here, where I am at home and when I say it is my holiday time, I have so much to do that my day is over very quickly. Whether it is working on the website, replying mails and requests, writing the diary or planning for new projects and plans, there is always something going on and this is great.
Really, I am very happy that I have so many things to do. I have met many people who said to me that they don’t want to work or of whom you could see that they didn’t want to work, didn’t want to do anything. And I have met people who really didn’t have anything to do, who didn’t know what to do and were not working either.
I tell you, many times I have the feeling that if you don’t have anything that can occupy the mind, you get crazy. Why? Because your mind doesn’t have anything to focus on, nothing that it can dive into, no solution that needs to be found, no creativity required. It grabs whatever it can find to think and will turn this one point in all directions. If you give some attention to this you will notice that people who don’t have much to do and to think always have one or two certain topics which they cannot let go. And of course they cannot let go because then there would be nothing left to think of.
No, be happy if many things are going on around you, be happy that your mind is occupied and busy! It will only be good for you.
Today my good friend Govind was here and he now started learning German from Ramona. I belief he will never be a person who doesn’t have anything to do or learn as he is always eager to learn something new.
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Love what you said aboutr being busy orbeing occupied, just doing things. I'm not working (like going to a place everyday) at the moment and I still can't believe how the days flies by. I see your hair is growing out. Yes, you looked good bald. Please say "hi" to everyone. Sending Love, Gigi
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Cheating gurus play with the greed of religious people who want to believe in superstition. They lure them in, show them their ‘siddhis’ to make them more and more greedy for success or money and actually suck their money out of them. And in this way they themselves get rich, accumulate tons of gold and just make ridiculous amounts of money.
SourceWhen you trust someone, it has to be blind trust. Either you trust or you don't. There is nothing in between, it is always hundred percent.
SourceReligious scriptures are only pieces of literature that have been noted down by people in the past and should not have any relevance or importance today. Read them word by word and you will get to know their crazy and cruel content.
SourceDon't remind your children of how much you did for raising them.
SourceIf you don’t have hopes, dreams and expectations you won’t be happy. Dream, hope, let your imagination fly and simultaneously use your brain, hands and feet in order to make your dreams become reality!
SourceAddiction is mainly a question of the mind. People can spend half a day on a flight without any cigarette but on the ground they cannot survive an evening without smoking. If you can spend half a day without it, it is also possible a full day, a week, a month, a year or the rest of your life. It is a question of the mind and the determination.
SourceIs this not a funny attitude that some hours of bad mood have to exist in one day, too?
SourceGoing to the temple or to church regularly does not make you religious. You are religious when you have compassion in your heart for helping others, when you wish them well and give your effort to make this wish come true.
SourceI won’t have a problem with your god if he is not sitting in silver-walled temples wearing gold jewelry, eating 56 different types of food, but instead comes here and sees how to earn his bread with hard work.
SourcePeople say scriptures cannot be changed. Okay, but then why do you need to follow them?
SourceGet the self-confidence to get out of the habits of comparing and pretending to be someone else. Love yourself, as you are. Accept whoever you are, respect your feelings of what you want to do and what you don’t want to do and love! Then your mind will be free from the worry and you will realize that others do love you as you are.
SourceNo Guru or master can tell you who you are because we are all unique. You have to find the answer yourself.
SourceTake care to be in harmony with nature. Enjoy nature and be thankful for it. With thankfulness the respect for nature will become your basic attitude and then you will never have the idea to leave your garbage somewhere in a forest or pollute a river. Being in harmony with nature can make you happy.
SourceA prayer is a way of getting closer to God. So it is good to pray, but it should be out of love, not because you have to pray. Pray with your heart.
SourceThere is always something good in everything.
SourceIsn’t it cruel to show a person that you won’t even touch his arm just because he was born into an untouchable family?
SourceSometimes you can either go left or right and there is no way in the middle. Follow your heart. No decision makes the world stand still, everything will go on, no matter which way you go.
SourceMeditation has become a sign of being spiritual or religious. Don't do it regularly however simply because your religion tells you to. Such a ritual often becomes a habit and loses its benefit.
SourceIt does not show intelligence if you make an easy topic difficult to understand but if you can present a difficult topic in easy words.
SourceThe idea of sex with the guru is fascinating - it is sex in a spiritual wrapper.
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