Abortion - A Crime

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 

'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. 

So the doctor said: 'OK and what do you want me to do?' 

She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' 

The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' 

She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. 

Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. 

The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child!

'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.' The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same! 

"Love says I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person. Abortion says I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself..." 

Parents and Children

Pencil: I'm sorry

Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. :)

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on).

Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

"All my life, I've been the pencil.. And it pains me to see the eraser that is my parents getting smaller and smaller each day. For I know that one day, all that I'm left with would be eraser shavings and memories of what I used to have..."

Tips to Control our Anger

Tips to Control our Anger, which harms our lives and relationships:

• Leave the place.
• Take in deep breaths.
• Drink some water.
• Listen to music that you like.
• Watch a movie that you wanted to.
• Do some physical exercise like walking, jogging...
• Repeat: ‘I am patient and loving person'
• Think of a good moments in your life.
• Visualize a relaxing experience.

What is Fear?

The nature of God, is nothing but pure Love. All negative emotions - anger, jealousy, blame, worry, disappointment, insecurity, anxiety, guilt, unworthiness, grief, depression, despair etc can be summed up as one word - fear. The real source of all problems is fear, which is lack of love - in other words lack of God. When your thoughts are full of God, your thoughts are full of Love, and your life is full of Love. This great feeling place in your mind is called Heaven. On the other hand. when your thoughts are full of fear, your life lacks God. This place in your mind where God does not exist is called Hell. Heaven and Hell are thus both places that you create in your mind by choosing to think thoughts that are either full of Love (God) or the lack of Love (Fear).

All fear is self created, and it is unwise to blame God for it. Fear is created when we choose, consciously or unconsciously to create unlike God. - i.e when we choose to think and act from a place where love is absent. When we are thinking and acting with Love, we are co-creating with God. The course goes on to say that only Love is real, everything else is unreal - in other words, an illusion of the mind. All problems occur when we stray away from our source, our God. All solutions come to us when we choose to connect back with Him. Fear is a bad dream that the ego creates to disconnect with God - fear is clearly not of God’s creation.

-Inspirations by Sudhir Krishnan

Feeling like a Victim?

Do you feel like a victim of your circumstances? Here are some common characteristics of a victim:

• Victims believe they are helpless and that others in their life are villains.
• Victims are ignorant of their responsibility in the circumstances that resulted in an undesirable outcome.
• Victims do not acknowledge that if they handled things differently, the results would have been better.
• Victims believe that they are not responsible for how they feel.
• Victims do not see how they are misinterpreting a situation and making it worse.
• Victims do not learn from a negative experience, but instead go deeper into fear.
• Victims are stuck in the past and do not take action to create a better future.
• Victims feel resentment and blame towards others.
• Victims are not willing to trust and accept people they are resenting.
• Victims feel powerless to create positive change.

Do take 100% responsibility for your life. Blaming others, giving excuses, or coming up with victim stories only keep you from getting what you want. Successful people practice asking “How did I create that situation?“, “What did I do or not do to have this outcome?”. When you blame others for setbacks, you become a powerless victim. Whatever the life situation, you always have the power of choice. While you cannot always control outside situations, you do have the power to change yourself and respond differently.

When you believe that you are a victim, by law of attraction, the universe will bring you more undesirable situations that weaken you further and strengthen the belief that you are indeed a victim. Only when you bring the focus towards self and start taking complete responsibility for your life experiences do you start to become the powerful creator of your life. In other words, taking complete responsibility moves you from being a victim towards becoming a victor.

-Inspirations by Sudhir Krishnan

Attachment and Commitment ?

What is the difference between attachment and commitment? If I do not get attached, how can i have commitment? On the other hand, If I am committed, will I not get attached?

Attachment implies love mixed with selfishness. It is doing an act out of a selfish need. It is like agreeing to take care of a mango tree only because it will produce sweet fruits. If one season the tree does not produce fruit, attachment will cause you to stop taking care of the tree. 

Commitment on the other hand is having dedication to the cause undertaken. It is making the health of the tree more important than the fruits it produces. Thus, even if the tree does not give as many fruits during a particular season, your commitment to it will not let you abandon the tree.