Letting love flow

You cannot give away what you don't have. 

 

While the above sounds obvious, so obvious that it is almost ridiculous,

there is more to it, than initially meets the eye

If you are not good at giving away love, 

it may well be that there is not much love in your heart

If your heart is filled with contempt

that is what you can give away

If your  heart is filled with hatred and anger

that is what you can give away

If your heart is filled with old grudges, 

that is what you will give away.

While we get a short ego-boost, when we give away contempt,

It hurts our soul, it hurts our good-natured self

While we get a short ego boost expressing anger and contempt,

it hurts our heart, it hurts our body, it hurts our happiness

While we get a short ego boost expressing grudges,

it takes away our own peace of mind

While we have to put our ego a bit aside to give love,

that is what brings us a good feeling, peace of mind and happiness

We were made like that. Contempt, anger, grudges, hatred was useful when we were living in caves

But its usefulness has waned and the creative force in the universe, that many call our God, has given us a constitution, a inherent nature of our inner being,

that we thrive on love, on giving praise, on being nice and kind.

If we manage to push aside contempt, anger and grudges,

and let in the Love of our Creator,

it will become easy to give away love 

If we allow our hearts to be filled with love 

happiness will lurk around every corner, 

every second of the day. 

 

 

For our heart to be ONLY filled with love may seem an utopia,

but we can work towards putting in our heart more love and less contempt.
What is inside, will come out.
If we press an orange, orange juice will come out, nothing else because nothing else is inside

If somebody presses us, stresses us, what will come out? Anger and hatred,

or will we have stored enough love inside our hearts to let love flow no matter what?

(the above was inspired by W Dyer)

That's who we are

Whether you believe in evolution or creation 

Whether you believe in capitalism or socialism

Whether you are religious or not,

All of us have one common trait

 

And the common trait is that we are happy 

if we make a positive difference in this world.

 

Please my dear reader, think about this:

Compare your level of happiness 

the day after you attended a big party

to your level of happiness

the day after you really helped a person 

who needed your help. 

 

Please my dear reader think about this:

does giving a helping hand not make you far more happy

than buying an expensive gift for your self?

 

Please dear reader, try to push aside all preconceived ideas

about how to get happy and just put the two experiences 

next to each other. 

 

I have experienced both.
I have bought myself lots of expensive things.
Each time I was happy but it was short lasting 

It was of a completely different, lower quality, when compared to the very good feelings I experience while and after going the extra mile to help someone who needs it.

 

We were made like this. 

We evolved like this.
Not a person can deny this giant truth

Happiness, true happiness lies in helping others,

in going the extra mile

Happiness, peace of mind, true peace of mind

resides in selfless service

Happiness, true happiness does NOT reside in spending lots of money

Happiness, any happiness does NOT reside in getting drunk every weekend

Happiness does not reside in partying throughout the night

 

Happiness does not reside in showing of our luxurious living style

Happiness resides in selfless service

Happiness resides in going the extra mile

Happiness resides in kindness

in random kind acts

Please my reader, be aware of this giant truth

Happiness is worth trying to get.
It is so easy to get it, if we just put our own ego a bit aside

and start to think, what can I do to make someone else happy. 

WE WERE MADE LIKE THIS
We evolved like this.

Not into the night

While it may sometimes feel good to fight. 

Especially when we are convinced, we’re right 

Let us not carry the anger into to the night.

Before sleep, try to see it also from another side

It may be not just a little bit, but very wise: 

if we have to choose between being right or nice, 

nice may carry much more value and good,

a truth not easy to do, but widely understood.

 

Attempting to understand another point of view, 

does not mean we have to give up what we knew, 

But it may soften the stance and enlighten you  

And the same will go for the one you were fighting, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The order...

In a restaurant we may order exactly what we want. 

Or we can say to the chef, please cook the best for us. 

If we are in a good restaurant, 

we know and expect 100%, either way, the food will be good.

In the universe we may strive to get exactly what we want

or we can ask the universe to give us the best

The universe is good place place to live in 

and we can expect that the experience will be good.

Let us be guided by the wisdom in the universe

Let us go into nature and reflect and think.

The "Chef" will only use the best the best ingredients

and what we'll get will be "delicious"

The best

The best experience in my day so far was the meeting with parents of a baby born at 27 weeks of gestation. The baby was 2 weeks old and had never been held by his mom. I invited to mom to hold the baby even he was still taken care of in an incubator with nasal respiratory support. It took some extra efforts to ensure the whole event remained safe for the baby but it was such a pleasure the see the moments of pure joy between mom and baby. 

Mom's love is the among the biggest possible gifts we can receive. Even to observe it brings so much happiness to our heart.