By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
Countries thrive depending on how they manage their resources. The world has resources in abundance though we are taught humanly that resources are limited as propagated by the science of economics. It is nations that get the balance right on how resources are shared amongst its people that climb higher on the echelon of stability.
Apparently, the study of economics emphasises that there is no nation in this world that has a stable economy with no fluctuations, which if one looked around, is probably the truth. National and economies of the world are a continuous up and down affair, how a country manages their standard lower level and set economic upper level determines the impact to be felt by its people, since both extremes if not managed well could result in dire situations. In other words a run-away economic growth is as bad as a continuously declining one.
Evidently looking at developing countries, the ones in extreme poverty at higher magnitude, one would see a pattern that their shared shortfall is on how their resources in the country are managed and shared. Most of these nations are short on knowledge of how to balance up and share their resources amongst their populace.
The quotes this week are a continuation of extraction from a book which advocates that forgetfulness and letting things go could in some cases be the answer to solving challenges. I am sure the few selected quotations below fr0m this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons, read and enjoy:
LETTING GO – THE PATHWAY OF SURRENDER by David R. Hawkins. M.D., Ph.D.
“Throughout history, a few individuals have reached great clarity and have experienced the ultimate solution to our human woes. How did they get there? What was their secret? Why can’t we understand what they had to to teach? Is it really next to impossible or nearly hopeless? What about the average person who is not a spiritual genius? —— Multitudes follow spiritual pathways, but scarce are the ones who finally succeed and realize the ultimate truth. Why is that? We follow ritual and dogma and zealously practice spiritual discipline – and we crash once again! Even when it works, the ego quickly comes in and we are caught in pride and smugness, thinking we have the answers. Oh, Lord, save us from the ones who have the answers! Save us from the righteous! Save us from the do-gooders!”
“Letting go is like the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping of a weight. It is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness, with an increased happiness and freedom. It is an actual mechanism of the mind, and everyone has experienced it on occasion. —– A good example is the following. You are in angry and upset, when suddenly the whole thing strikes you as absurd and ridiculous. You start to laugh. The pressure is relieved. You come up from anger, fear, and feeling attacked to feeling suddenly free and happy.”
“What is the surrendered state? It means to be free of negative feelings in a given area so that creatively and spontaneity can manifest without opposition or the interference of inner conflicts. To be free of inner conflict and expectations is to give others in our life the greatest freedom. It allows us to experience the basic nature of the universe, which, it will be discovered is to manifest the greatest good possible in a situation. This may sound philosophical, but, when done, it is experientially true.”
“Intuitively, we know that somewhere there is an ultimate answer. We stumble down dark byways into cul-de-sacs and blind alleys; we get exploited and taken, disillusioned, fed up, and we keep on trying. —– Where is our blind spot? Why can’t we find the answer? —— We don’t understand the problem; that’s why we can’t find the answer. —— Maybe it’s ultra simple, and that’s why we can’t see it. —— Maybe the solution is not ‘out there.’ and that’s why we can’t find it.”