BALANCE IN lIFE

I have often heard it being said and indeed I have had the thought myself upon occasion, that it is easy for us Westerners living in an affluent and protected environment, in which there is neither life-threatening suffering and hardships nor elemental catastrophes on a large scale to be endured, to be grateful for the abundance of life’s riches. Easy for us to enjoy the various amenities and pleasures it affords us. However to this I would reply: all the more reason that we should appreciate and make the most of it in a grateful attitude of mind. Due to the natural, all-pervading law that like calls forth like, it is actually our duty to enjoy and appreciate these easy-going conditions we were born in order to create as much joy in the collective as possible. This is the surest and indeed the only way to relieve the suffering of the masses. To suffer with them in empathy or to rail against the injustice of it and to condemn the apparently responsible parties for the misery in the world only serves to multiply the existing darkness. Whereas loving compassion towards the suffering, prayer and a mindful attitude towards oneself, Mother Nature and ones immediate fellow beings, are effective remedies to alleviate suffering and to bring light and love into the darkness in this world of ours.