Monday 20 May 2013

It remains important to be patient. sometimes when you are wrestling with a piece of information that requires you to think hard about what previously seemed a fine plan. A degree of irritability is understandable. You ought, though, to wait a while before deciding that all is lost. More unexpected twists and turns await along the next phase of a great emotional quest. The effects of the next few developments will not just cancel out the last ones. They will leave you feeling glad that things were not quite as you thought.
How do you know what you think you know? Who has told you? Where does your information come from? I'm not just suggesting that you now universally re-examine every assumption you have ever made. You don't have the time or the need. There's just one area of life in which you are now acting in response to a message recently received, yet perhaps not thoroughly investigated. Has it perhaps, played to a prejudice so strongly, that you have felt no further need to check facts? You must be fairer than that. 
Who writes the rules of engagement? Who says, 'This is the game that we're all playing now.' And who gets to say, 'We all thought it was supposed to be this way but actually, it should have been that way instead.' It is never really an individual who issues such edicts. Sweeping changes of attitude like this can only ever emerge in one way - through the consciousness of the collective. You are now highly aware of a new force that is starting to guide many thoughts. Find a way to work with this and you may yet profit.  
These are difficult times. They are also, though, wonderful times. Financial cutbacks oblige millions, all over the world, to rethink their relationship with money. The rich don't feel so rich any more. And the poor? They already know what the rich are about to find out. Money is not the be-all and end-all of everything. Love matters more. So, too, do kindness and respect. All the money in the world could not buy what you now need most. Yet you can get it! All you have to do now is look for it in the right place.If one person says something foolish and another person reprimands them and points out the shortcoming in their statement, should we consider the second person to be the less foolish of the two? True wisdom often demands an ability to keep your own counsel and to remain diplomatically silent, even under duress. There are, of course, times when it makes all the sense in the world to speak out. But can you spare the energy today, for an argument that nobody wants to listen to, no matter how right you may be?
What do we see when we look in the mirror? We see ourselves looking in the mirror! Usually, we smile back at ourselves. Even if we frown, we do it in a friendly way. If we really want to know how we come across to others, we need to watch ourselves when we are not looking. That's tricky, even in this modern age of closed-circuit TV cameras. Yet the behaviour patterns we are all but unconscious of are only too obvious to those in our vicinity. Now  you get a valuable glimpse of something that you sorely need to see.
They say, 'There's no rest for the wicked.' The good don't exactly get to put their feet up, either. Indeed, they often have to expend a lot more energy. They can't, for example, go around taking lots of naughty shortcuts. There are many ways now in which, if you were a lesser person, you could cheat your way out of a stressful situation. You could say whatever might get you off the hook or do whatever would be most convenient. But you're going to be noble. And ultimately, that's going to bring you more peace.
 It is never easy to let go. Even when we are tired of something - even when we have had enough of it, rather than move to some new inspiring topic we continue to think about whatever has hurt or upset us. It is as if we fear the loss of something familiar. We feel we ought to remain in control of everything - at all times - even if this obliges us to remain in a state of suffering. There is now something you know you need to put behind you. Don't be afraid to kiss it goodbye this week. I promise, you will never miss it. In all the best horror films, we never see the monster. We catch only a fleeting glimpse. This is because nothing can compete with the power of our own imagination. From a hint of something scary, we will create a terrifying picture in our mind's eye.

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