The Precious Moment

Inspirational MessageSeema M. DewanAugust 29, 2011

 

Whenever you are agitated or upset begin to observe yourself. Observe the train of thoughts that have filled your mind moments ago. Observe your reaction them. Observe how many of those thoughts became real to you. Observe how you reacted to them internally. Observe how you brought the internal reaction to the external environment. Observe how many people you transferred your agitation to. Observe how many people you blamed for your own thinking. Observe how you feel their pain, and now retreat to observe your thought that was needless…

Instead of going through a process of pain, first observe the thoughts that disturb you. Instead of waiting for the fears to grow subject the fears to truth. Turn the mind immediately inward. Think of one good moment you had with your loved one. Even if the fears keep persisting, you too must persist for the mind to think and remember that special moment.

Turn to love you felt and fill yourself with it. Smile and say to yourself that another special moment is close to you… you can bring it to you if you connect with the love you feel. Look at the picture of the loved one that pleases you. Smile and wish for that same peace to enter you. Soon the agitation will begin to lessen… your unreal expectations will begin to fade…

Your desire to be happy will turn to your faith that you can be happy if you are patient… your ambition to turn moments your way will turn toward accepting moment to moment with the peace of pure love.

Always remember that the precious moments that come to you in life were unexpected. You had not desired the moments. They came to you with God’s grace and God’s will. That is why they are so precious to you.

The moments you have planned and even received will never be a source of peace to you. Even though you were successful in receiving what you wanted they are a source of fear to you.  

The present moment holds in it the gifts of the precious moments to come. Give yourself to that present moment. Be at peace… Connect yourself to pure love… Remain still in that and the moment to come shall shower you with Divine Grace. Keep within your mind only the thought that keeps you confident. A thought that makes you feel weak and desperate must be ignored.

Do not subject yourself and your life to what you think. As long as you are bound to desire the ups and downs will emerge and become real to you. But if you are committed to being at peace then you will do your very best moment to moment and whatever is the outcome you will accept and eagerly return to the peace of your soul.

The precious moment that came to you was only because you were content in yourself and expected nothing. You had given up your thought for a moment and the simple gifts of the soul came to you. A genuine smile never comes when you have planned what makes you happy. It comes when you are relaxed in faith… content in God’s will and simple in your thought. Many such precious moments await you… But you too must wait and not try to go ahead to capture them. They will come… at the precise moment, and you shall marvel at their timeliness…