The Refuge

The nature of the mind is to think......One cannot control these thoughts from emerging.........It is not the thoughts that weaken your resolve to be strong.....to be good............It is when your resolve to be good weakens that a thought can draw you in the circles of temptations.......The thoughts become "good" or "bad" when the thinker associates his self to the thought............The thinker has to remind his self that the peace he seeks is within the center of his own being............This center what we call the "heart" is where the purest and highest love resides.............As the thoughts arise one has to associate his self to the love and the purity that fills his heart.............From that association one receives the will power to remain rooted in its strength and goodness..........

When the thinker carries the goodness of his heart and places its sweetness into his thoughts a good thought is born...........Then again if the thinker himself undoes his link to his heart and places his self in the ups and downs of his thoughts then a weak thought is created...........In both cases it was never the thought that created the good or the bad..........it was merely the thinker that had associated and disassociated with the peace and love that resides in the center of his own being............

Remember that there is no thought that can bind you..........You are the source of eternal truth..........You are the unending container of peace...........You are the reflection of the purest and the highest love.........There is nothing impossible for you..............Hold on to your heart............Draw the peace that is within you..........Be bold to love no matter what you gain .........what you lose..........Reflect on the goodness within you before you witness any thought............Fill yourself with that goodness..........And if a thought attracts you and tries to pull you from your center just stay still.........find refuge in the acts of goodness..............The storms that circle around you shall slowly cease...........and your resolve to be strong.......to be good shall reign........