This lesson continues the idea that we see what we think - what we perceive. In fact, this lesson nudges us farther along in reprogramming and suggests that we think we see something (a violent world, a crazy world, a dangerous world), but we are upset because we see a meaningless world. As this lesson also states, we give the world these attributes, these, labels, but the world is meaningless in itself. We identify and assign the value.
I posted a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote on Facebook today: "We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly." This quote resonates with me from the surface to deep within.
I am a smiler. I smile and say hello or somehow acknowledge virtually every person I pass by - obviously if I'm in a big crowd of people I can't acknowledge every single person - but I do sincerely make an effort to do this. Usually when I smile at someone they smile in return. There are those occasions when someone doesn't smile back. I used to catch myself getting irritated with that person. Actually, not just irritated, I would get rather unreasonably perturbed! I've been trying to practice a new approach though. Now when this happens, I say a silent prayer for the person who wasn't able to smile back in that moment. I pray that whatever is keeping a smile from that person's face isn't keeping joy from his or her heart.
i love that about you! i try to do it as well, because i know that when i am the person that can't smile in that moment, their smile burns through me eventually and then i can smile at someone else. :]
ReplyDeleteOh, for sure!! I think it's so good to look a complete stranger in the eyes and smile from deep in your heart!! People feel that!! If it happens in a sad moment for them they can play that memory later and maybe then the smile appears.
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