Are you living in Eternity's Sunrise?
Our lives with all the comings and goings can be reduced down in essence to one thing... a state of mind. All that we experience can be perceived in so many different ways. For example; although we may have experienced a single incident, we are not limited to only one perception of it but many. This is not because we have experienced the same event several times but because our mind can perceive one event in so many different ways especially as we tend to replay it over and over again in our head. All that occurs can be perceived in varying shades from light to dark, from positive to negative, from good to bad through indifference, but in all cases there is one constant within these experiences and that is us!
All that happens in our lives happens for a purpose, has meaning and deepens our learning, so we are told; therefore our mental state creates the perception of life that we choose to hold onto and express to those around us. If we choose to play the “victim” and see that the whole world around us is always out to give us a hard time, that’s what we express to others, time and time again, but it is also what we choose to perceive and therefore create more of within our life. If on the other hand, we choose joy and happiness in all things (good, bad or indifferent) we are expressing that to others, seeing it within our lives and creating more to be happy with in all areas as a result.
In the past, we have often been lead to believe that it is specific things, people or situations that create happiness in life; when in fact it is us that creates and chooses happiness over any other state of mind or perception. Therefore nothing truly brings us happiness but us! Through our choice of belief in the joy of life comes the happiness within it. And if this is so let’s take our thinking a little further…
We try so hard to hold onto perceptions and beliefs that these things, people or situations make us happy but by trying to hang on so tightly to all that makes us happy we become unhappy at the prospect of loss:
“What happens when the money is gone?”
“What if I loose the car, the job or the home?”
“What happens if I loose you?”
So, we choose to scrabble around “clinging to happiness” rather than “being happy” with everything that exists for the moment. If we get into a negative mindset we create unhappiness in every moment, waiting for the bad news to come!
If tomorrow comes and what made you happy one day is no longer there; the person who seeks joy, finds happiness and joy in something new. But the person, who finds happiness in possessions and status, only finds loss in all that they no longer possess in their life.
Take a moment to contemplate the words of William Blake written over two hundred years ago:
“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.”
So look at all that happens within your life and choose to see the goodness and the joy. See it in all the things that you possess, in all the people in your life, in all the situations that occur and feel the joy of just being in the moment. By the creation of that state of mind you choose joy in life not misery, you find the gold in life not the lead and you bring light into the darkness of the world and out of that comes true happiness and enlightenment.
Bless each and every day, bless each and every person, bless everything that comes into and goes out of your life.
“Seize the day!” but remember to let go of it before tomorrow!
And choose to live a happy, joyful life “In Eternity’s Sunrise”.
All that happens in our lives happens for a purpose, has meaning and deepens our learning, so we are told; therefore our mental state creates the perception of life that we choose to hold onto and express to those around us. If we choose to play the “victim” and see that the whole world around us is always out to give us a hard time, that’s what we express to others, time and time again, but it is also what we choose to perceive and therefore create more of within our life. If on the other hand, we choose joy and happiness in all things (good, bad or indifferent) we are expressing that to others, seeing it within our lives and creating more to be happy with in all areas as a result.
In the past, we have often been lead to believe that it is specific things, people or situations that create happiness in life; when in fact it is us that creates and chooses happiness over any other state of mind or perception. Therefore nothing truly brings us happiness but us! Through our choice of belief in the joy of life comes the happiness within it. And if this is so let’s take our thinking a little further…
We try so hard to hold onto perceptions and beliefs that these things, people or situations make us happy but by trying to hang on so tightly to all that makes us happy we become unhappy at the prospect of loss:
“What happens when the money is gone?”
“What if I loose the car, the job or the home?”
“What happens if I loose you?”
So, we choose to scrabble around “clinging to happiness” rather than “being happy” with everything that exists for the moment. If we get into a negative mindset we create unhappiness in every moment, waiting for the bad news to come!
If tomorrow comes and what made you happy one day is no longer there; the person who seeks joy, finds happiness and joy in something new. But the person, who finds happiness in possessions and status, only finds loss in all that they no longer possess in their life.
Take a moment to contemplate the words of William Blake written over two hundred years ago:
“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.”
So look at all that happens within your life and choose to see the goodness and the joy. See it in all the things that you possess, in all the people in your life, in all the situations that occur and feel the joy of just being in the moment. By the creation of that state of mind you choose joy in life not misery, you find the gold in life not the lead and you bring light into the darkness of the world and out of that comes true happiness and enlightenment.
Bless each and every day, bless each and every person, bless everything that comes into and goes out of your life.
“Seize the day!” but remember to let go of it before tomorrow!
And choose to live a happy, joyful life “In Eternity’s Sunrise”.
© Mark Stone 2007
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