Life is Indeed a Splendid Torch
This entry was posted on 1/29/2010 8:16 AM and is filed under secrets to peace.
Living in peace is so much easier than we think it is.
Part of the reason we find it so difficult is because most of us have been raised in environments where struggle was normal and peace was reserved for special occasions. I have met many who absolutely insist that struggle is necessary so that we may enjoy the moments when struggle is absent.
That is really just a conditioned belief.
Struggle occurs because my thoughts are always about me. They are always about what pleases me and what displeases me.
I seldom experience struggle if my thoughts are truly on sharing my gifts and talents with another. Consider these words from George Bernard Shaw:
“I am convinced that my life belongs to the whole community; and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before turning it over to future generations.”
I have not read Shaw’s biography, but I bet his struggling (provided he experienced much) ended when he adopted this mission for his life.
Struggling is always about impatience. It is always born in a belief that I deserve things to be different than they are.
We are always creating the world we see.
The world that is reflected to me is a precise mirror of the thoughts which create the filters through which I perceive.
Struggling occurs when the world is not supplying that which I long for. It magically disappears when I dedicate my life to sharing my gifts with no expectancy of return.
To love life for its own sake, is an excellent Secret to living in peace.
