Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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March 1992A Celebrate Each Day
It's getting to be the time of celebrating spring. Springtime is like the dawning of a new day for many, of new life and rebirth to many... It's a time when many get inspired to get in tune with nature and accelerate their own personal growth. It's a time of "opening up" and a time of receiving new life and giving back to life.
It becomes a time for many to work with planting and nurturing, whether it's the seeds of thought being nurtured to be born into actions, or the seeds within a garden being nurtured to grow and blossom forth into the sun.
The feelings that are conjured up for springtime are feelings that need to continue to be nurtured in order to grow in the process of celebrating each day...celebrating life!! Everyone feels so much better when the sun is out and when the days become longer and lighter. And on days without sun, or less light, people feel less positive. So sun "light" becomes preferable over cloudy, overcast days for the majority of people. Unfortunately, some will go through life feeling good only when there is sunshine outside. Thus, winter can be a very depressing time to many people.
In the West we are such a "doing" society - let us definitely be aware that we can all "do" something about having more sun "Light” in all of our days - and let us "do" individually and collectively something about it.
If what we plant and produce in our inner mental worlds affects not only us but our environment wherever we choose or need to be, then why not put in the "seeds of light" within us? Why not nurture those seeds of light within ourselves to be able to give into our environment the "seeds of light" that we can plant daily in ourselves? These can be the seeds of meditation, prayer, singing, chanting, good thoughts, light affirmations and visualizations. Then we need not be dependent on the outer sun only, when we can create our own inner sun that becomes a source of light to ourselves and to others. Let us begin to celebrate all of life, each day as a sun-filled Spring/Summer day by developing the sun "light" within ourselves now.
Namaste,
Chetana
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