Feel Life. How you feel Life is very critical to what you
experience.
When you
see a mother feeding her infant at a traffic signal in the blistering Indian
summer heat, an apology for a garment covering her sweaty bosom, while she
moves from one vehicle window to another, hoping for someone to drop her a
penny; you may well feel uncomfortable. The very sight is despicable.
Avoidable. It makes you squirm. You are agitated and start thinking the whole
Indian social order is so rotten, so cold, so inhuman. But instead if you feel
compassion, for the way a mother protects and nurtures her baby despite the
odds, for the way Life provides for everyone, for the miracle called your Life
because it is only a quirk of time and destiny that you are on the other side
of the car’s glass window, you will experience peace.
So,
feeling, and what you feel, for Life makes all the difference to what you
experience. In ‘The Little Prince’
(1943) author Antoine de Saint-Exupery makes several profound and idealistic
observations about Life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells of a
fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence
is contained in the lines uttered by the fox to the little prince: “One sees
clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
Indeed. Happiness, peace and joy are there in front of us, but they are never
visible to the eye. We don’t see them because we find things material__our
jobs, our money, our properties, our cars__far more important. But what’s
essential, what’s absolutely necessary is that we live this Life fully. And all
that we need for living fully is with us, has been with us, all the time.
To
experience a fuller, richer and blissful Life, we must feel for abundance and
not be steeped in scarcity thinking! Going back to the lady at the signal,
scarcity thinking means we see depravation. Abundance thinking means we feel
compassion. Depravation leads us to be cynical and embittered. Compassion leads
us to bliss. So, make an intelligent choice. Choose to feel Life differently.
Feel from the heart, not from the mind! Abandon rational
thinking and plunge into Life __ in total abandon __ you will experience bliss!
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