Mui-vellous!!!

 
 

I often draw inspiration from Mui, the main character in the movie 'The Scent of Green Papaya.' She instinctively embodies the following perception of life. It is from ''The Power of Now'' by Eckhart Tolle.

May your day be absolutely Mui-vellous!!!

All my love, Rosy

THE HIGHER GOOD BEYOND GOOD AND BAD  

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace?  

Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.  

Is it not possible to attract only positive conditions into our life? If our attitude and our thinking are always positive, we would manifest only positive events and situations wouldn't we?  

Do you truly know what is positive and what is negative? Do you have the total picture? There have been many people for whom limitation, failure, loss, illness or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated desires. It gave them depth, humility, and compassion. It made them more real.  

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. Even a brief illness or an accident can show you what is real and unreal in your life, what ultimately matters and what doesn't.  

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is - which is the only sane way to live - there is no ''good'' or ''bad'' in your life anymore. There is only a higher good - which includes the ''bad.'' Seen from the perspective of the mind, however, there is good-bad, like-dislike, love-hate. Hence in the Book of Genesis, it is said that Adam and Eve were no longer allowed to dwell in ''paradise'' when they ''ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.''