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May 21st

'Our love, kindness, service and sympathy are due to people of the world, especially to those around us' - this was today's passage by Hazrat. A swift reminder of my place following yesterday.

May 22nd

Took part in the Touch of Gentleness training - really beautiful experience of another inspiring lady following her dream.  Her premise for life - Just be gentle with yourself and with one another - so simple but yet so powerful.

May 24th - 27th

Trip to Bristol to observe my Shirl in action caring for her sister who just had an operation on her knee. A reminder of 1. Her love 2. The numerous acts of sacrifice that happen throughout the world with people caring for their loved ones. A shining example of how the world may be (and how I may be).

May 28th

A. Bailey in her book the Reappearance of the Christ, basically gives a call to arms (not literally of course). She posits that, after the World Wars, Christ made a decision to return to Earth sooner than he made have.  However (she says) that a certain development of Goodwill between all men  will have to be achieved , or at least a desire for it. This is where we can all play our part, however small, in helping with this preparation, by our daily interactions and interventions. Certainly food for thought for me.

May 29th

Today was one of those days when I could just 'not be arsed'. Why do these days happen?

May 30th

Better today, allotment at 6am, great start to the day which carried on throughout. Again, when |I know how well I can feel, why do I continue to make such poor choices at other times?

June 1st - 3rd

'The one and only thing that hinders man from advancing spiritually , or at least from advancing towards the goal for which he is destined and which he is longing to attain is this: that his mind is so absorbed by the demands and wants of the body that it hardly has a moment to give itself entirely to the reflection of the light of the soul'.

The above by Hazrat Khan sums up what is real for me at the moment with the weekend spent indulging the body and feeling rubbish afterwards.

June 6th

Watching the children in Gaza in various states of distress and injury, I find it easy to slip into retaliation mode -let's do some horrible to the Israeli's.  However, these are my opportunities to return inwards towards the heart as I somehow know that it is only here that the solution  lies. I then feel like it is my duty to love more, not close down.

June 8th

The virtue for this month is service - this something that was very prevalent when I was in the School of Philosophy. They had a saying the 'the job is always more important than any idea you have about yourself (i.e. tired, fed up, bored etc...) This certainly proves effective when put into practice which I have done at times.

June 11th

It seems to me there is switch within myself.  If it is turned on, I am full of passion and energyto get things done, whether it be my journal writing, reading or any tasks.  If it is in the off position the opposite applies, which seems to be the case lately.

June 14th

My relationship with alcohol is rearing its ugly head again.  I seem not to be able to have a couple of drinks without adverse effects and yet I still carry on out of habit.  Worse still, I harp for days gone by.

June 17th

An advert stated that we spend an average of 9 years in front of the TV, that got sobering just thinking what else I could do with 9 years.

June 20th

Joined Slimming World today, most with the aim of improving my discipline. I was told that, if you cannot control what goes into your mouth than how can you be expected to control more pressing matters.  Seems like good advice to me.