Month: June 2013

When you see someone behaving badly, something that upsets you, someone that you hate, or something that drives you crazy, you must realize that all of these things bother you and deplete your energy only because of the way you have decided to label them. None of these things really means any­thing. Your enemy is only your enemy because you have made him or her so. The petty, evil acts of others seem petty and evil because your mind allows the concepts of pettiness and evil to hold it prisoner. In reality, the actions of others are merely actions. The causes and effects of those actions are beyond your conscious ability to know. The correctness or incorrectness of others ’ actions or behaviors (including the whole universe) can only be a poorly con­structed judgment on your part. Fretting and moaning about
others is a waste of the little time that you have on Earth . You
will not change them – you can only change yourself. By
changing, you may even discover that what once seemed an
incomprehen sible act of evil is actually a necessary and essential part of the universal plan.
When you become dispassionate toward the world, forgetting those things you perceive to be evil, the evils and enemies of your life disappear like the phantoms that they are. What’s more, you are rejuvenated. No longer wasting your energy on illusion­ary grievances, anger, and hatred, a new world of beauty and power opens up before you.
You are responsible for your actions, and no others, and
concerning yourself with another person’s life makes you subject to the advances of a million useless demons and phan­tasms of hatred and delusion.
You are a force of nature, a self-luminous star as bright
and potent as the Sun, but only when you move as effortless­ly as the Sun can you know your own wonder. Then, every
step will be in perfect joy, and every path will lead to perfect happiness.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, ‘This is what I need.’ It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength is there. Any disaster that you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.