BE transparent; allow the light to shine through you...

BE transparent; allow the light to shine into you and through you...

Have you ever seen a really old person, who seems so frail and tiny as to almost seem insignificant? Their skin is dry and papery, almost translucent. They are as a an old leaf... But their eyes shine with a brightness and light that defies reality...

They have learned through living, through all their trials to allow slights/hurts/insults and the like to pass through them....

Now think about the "Ego'd out" thugs you run into on a regular basis. People who seem so solid that they attract insults and slights as if they had their own gravity! Nothing passes them without a challenge being issued. They and their Ego are constantly being infringed upon. They say things like, "Mind your own business," or "Was I talking to you?" They firmly believe that "Might makes Right," but sadly they don't understand the simple question, "Would you rather be right, or be happy?" Adamant, inflexible, intractable and obdurate are adjectives that come to mind. Can you ever truly trust the friendship or love of an individual like this?

It is always good to refer to nature when you need guidance, as nature is the closest example of the intent of the Universe that you can usually find. Its examples are truly made by God, not like the Holy Books that were written by men to gain and wield power.

In nature we have rocks; hard, dense, solid, seemingly impenetrable. Water makes short work of rock however weak and fluid it appears. Even something as ethereal as air will win out over anything as inflexible as rock. It appears nature is on the side of flexibility...

How does this apply to your life? By developing an easy tolerance for slights, imagined or real, you become less attached emotionally to what happens. If you can cultivate the attitude that nothing is a "personal affront," then you will have more energy to put towards whatever task is at hand, and much more energy to choose happiness... (your Ego will hate it!)

Today, when something "rubs you the wrong way" try to see it as illusory. It is only your Ego's reaction that is giving it any power to alter your path. Let hurts and noises and other "disturbances" pass through you. Don't let them smack into you... don't block the light... Imagine yourself surrounded by an easy, lenient, kind world, and let the light shine through you. You and everyone around you will benefit from its warmth...

Duffy