Go beyond the best you think you are: The Little Manual of Enlightenment

Go beyond the best you think you are            
Book Extract: The Little Manual of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9788178061412
Author: Vikas Malkani
Publisher: Unicorn Books (www.pustakmahal.com)
 
Anyone in life can do what everyone else does, which is
nothing extraordinary. Do more than you think you can; take
the step you think you cannot.
Dare to leave security and comfort behind. The limits you
have known are the ones you are secure and comfortable with.
The ones you still have to explore are the ones that make you
insecure and uncomfortable. See this. Then start going
beyond your known self.
 
* Give up judgements
The easiest and most unconscious thing to do is to walk around
judging every moment, event and person who comes into
your life. Remember that even when you judge, you do so
from your own level of awareness, and
if you want to raise that, you must turn
your attention to yourself, inwards, not
outwards towards others.
Choose to be
whole. Begin by
consciously refusing
to compromise
If you give up passing judgement on
yourself
all, you will be a lot more tolerant and a
lot more ready to accept a whole lot of things. This is how
Wayne Dyer defines enlightenment: “the quiet acceptance of
what is”.
 
* Lighten up
The heart feels heavy when every thought and emotion is
taken seriously, as a permanent reality. Keep in mind that
your true nature is neither thought nor emotion, rather a
pure, free and light spirit. Look at every moment of life
through its eyes.
 
* Face your own fears
There is really no such thing as external fear. All of it exists
only within you, as a result of one or the other reason. So the
next time you start to feel fear, don’t look outside you for the
reason, instead look inwards. It is the inner ground you are
standing on that isn’t stable. Any fear or weakness faced by
looking in this new direction becomes the foundation of a
new strength.
Fear comes, face it. Fearlessness follows!