By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
The rain which would have stopped falling for the time being, would bring excited living creatures of all sorts, sizes and shapes out of their hideouts in celebratory mood. Celebrating that once again nature has not departed from its circle to continue bringing abundance to mother earth.
Smaller creatures will be crawling their way to the open cool earth surfaces that would have been soothed by the rain from the previous heat of the sun. Some doing this in unison with other creatures of their kind or similar to them or being followed by totally different types of animals that would have become excited as well. It is quite often in such times that care need to be exercised as within the herds and or flocks of animals, predators could be roaming around taking advantage to pounce on the unsuspecting excited animal preys.
In human circles, smaller children where there is true liberation will suddenly appear unattended to play in puddles that would have been left by the rain and or open grounds that will now be smelling of renewed life. Songs that would not have been heard normally for sometime in other periods, suddenly make its way to the new refreshened lips that with joy sing them expectantly in anticipating life abundance of food, fresh air and water for sustenance of life.
If one was very observant, they would see that the world earthly colours would have been refreshed anew with the fallen rain to appear more greener than before. You need to be more observant!
The quotes this week are a final extraction from a book that propagates positive mind change in how we view the world. I am sure the few selected quotations below from this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons, read and enjoy:
TOWARDS A NEW WORLD VIEW by Various Authors and Edited by Russell E. DiCarlo
“You’ll notice that when somebody first starts using something habitually, it never occurs to them that they are going to become addicted. They just start it because they enjoy it. It feels good. It’s very innocent, really. I’ve never known anybody in my life that ever set out to become an addict. But to me, the underlying cause of all addiction is blocked creative expression. —– Really? —- Don’t you agree? Addicts are usually people who possess a lot of passion and desire. They are excited and turned on. They want to do something with their energy but because a way hasn’t opened for them, or they haven’t realized what their creative self is wanting to express, they do what the rest of society is doing. So some people reach out for a bottle of wine. Others find somebody to fall in love with over and over again or chase people sexually. Others eat too much food, or get booked on melodrama and crisis. Or they begin to unconsciously chase after fame and fortune, which builds stress and demands the instant relief chemicals can often bring. These are all ways that the ego acts when it is not aligned, and able to express its own inner truth, its own inner wisdom.”
“To be healthy individuals we must learn to honour our human nature and also honour the fact that we are spiritual beings and not try to be either/or. If I fall down in my consciousness and think I am just an ego. I get stuck in the muck. Every condition that I butt up against will start defining me – ‘I’m a neurotic. I’m a divorced woman. I’m a basket case. I can’t get it right’ – all those things we say and do when we are in a lower state of consciousness. —— On the other hand, if I try to rise up out of my body and play like I am this exalted, enlightened woman who is really spiritual and not physical at all. then I move into a state which John Welwood defined as ‘spiritual by-pass’ – I become so heavenly that ‘I ain’t no earthly good.’ I am sure you’ve met people like that. They are always pretending to be positive. Everything is just so full of love and light all the time, but you don’t feel as though you have touched a real person. And you have a little secret knowledge that if you ever did punch one of their buttons an ever-heated ‘shadow self’ would come out. And in fact, you can bet it does behind closed doors.”
“Your desire nature is always moving you towards fulfilment of your ideals. It leads you to God. So I say it is very important to stay in touch with your desires. But if your desires are distorted and begin moving you towards self-destructive, addictive and self-defeating behaviours and activities, then you’re going to mess up your energy for a while which will really slow you down in your growth. Sometimes I think we deliberately choose something dysfunctional to slow us down or send us off course because we start moving too fast. Or because, for some reason, we need the lesson this dysfunction will provide.”
“The Higher Self, coming from our pattern of wholeness, tends to live from the ‘bigger picture.’ It possesses a creative imagination – meaning that its thoughts are creative – and it knows it. It takes responsibility for how it thinks. It is full of inspiration, so it is a very passionate, ‘in-love’ kind of nature. It falls in love with everything since it sees the beauty of all of God’s creation and beyond. It also has the ability to have incredible spiritual insight, meaning that it can receive through direct knowledge the actual will of God, It can walk around in the world as a representation of the will of God. Now that would be someone who is totally aligned with their Higher Self. —— The Higher Self, if you want to think of it this way, is our bridge into our spiritual nature, which you cannot even define as a ‘self’ because the minute you say self you have already given it some sort of limitation. So the Higher Self is like a mediator between spirit and matter. That’s how I think of it. The Higher Self to me, is the one Soul of Humanity.”
“Two things have made a difference in human consciousness. One is language. Through verbal language we are able to share our experiences with each other. Whereas a dog learns primarily from its own experiences in life, we learn from each other’s experiences. The deliberate attempt to learn from each other’s experience is basically what we call education. But even non-deliberate learning happens all the time; we’re learning as children from our parents, we learn from our siblings, from our peers. So, as soon as we developed language, we move into the realm of collective learning and that marks us as unique among other species of life on the planet.”
