To Robin on Difficulties and Blessings

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Robin wrote:

 

Play have fun and stop being so serious about it. Your life is passing you

by!...I have changed MORE in this ONE year after meeting Amma, than I have the

entire time I had been Amma's devotee! Which was 4 years. One of the things

that has been changing is not to take life so seriously, whats the

point?...Remember things happen because of OUR karma, we created it in the

first place.

So we must also forgive ourselves...My point and more importantly Amma's

point is to live a little more freely, like a child. No worries. Have fun.

Difficulties are always there. They are part of life. And it is good that they

are

there, otherwise there would be no growth... Difficulties are challenges.

They provoke you to work, to think, to find ways to overcome them. The very

effort is essential. So always Take difficulties as blessings...So never take

any difficultly negatively. Find something positive in it. The same rock

blocking the path can function as a stepping stone. If there were no rock on

the

path, you would never rise up. And the very process of going above it, making

it a stepping stone, gives you a new altitude of being. So once you think

about life creatively, then everything is useful...

 

Dear Robin ~ thank you so much for all your very pertinant and good

thoughts. It is interesting that you echo something that I have been reading in

a

bood recently. The book is "The Power of Intention" by Wayne Dyer, and one of

the things he talks about is Rule #6, which is actually part of a funny story.

Rule #6 is: don't take yourself so seriously. Since taking myself and

everything else much too seriously for most of my life, I am taking this to

heart and

really working to apply when those difficulties arise. I seek to live more

in the NOW, and to always remember every day to find things I appreciate and

am grateful for. I usually do this at night before I go to bed, but sometimes,

if my sense of peace gets disturbed, I do it right at that moment. And I do

have so much to be grateful for, not the least of which are people like you

and the others who are part of this wonderul group.

Blessings ~ Linda