Third thing: Divine Beings keep their good mood when things don’t go well.
Divine Beings are those pure souls who seem closer to attaining Nirvana than to continue spinning on the wheel of Samsara.
We all know someone like that. — Perhaps you are such a person.
A person who understands that the game of life is not about accumulating things but about learning something, being happy, having peace of mind, and purging all the bad karma.
If you are one of those divine beings capable of illuminating a room with your presence, you lead a different life from the rest, right?
I have known some divine beings because my mother worked most of her professional life in a very exclusive older adults’s home where monks, nuns, exorcists, hermits, and missionaries went to spend their last years.
Watching these people, every time I went to pick up my mother from work, I noticed subtle little day-to-day things they did differently.
Things that allowed them to achieve success. Understanding success as a reasonably happy life despite the circumstances of old age, pain, or illness.
Here are three of those things
First thing: Divine Beings do not anesthetize their emotions
I once saw a nun crying, and when I asked her if she was okay, she said.
“Sometimes life can be a beautiful garden or an arid desert. The important thing is to learn from the sand and enjoy the flowers. These tears water my sand. And they will bring forth new flowers.”
The nun told me that even Budha needed to suffer to become illuminated.
Mundane people tend to suppress their emotions with playful activities, and their five senses saturate them with stimuli. And so, by saturating their five senses, they lose contact with the sixth: their intuition.
That nun taught me that everything in life has a divine timing.
Lesson: life is a star that needs darkness to shine. Don’t repress your tears; let them flow, and water your desert to make your flowers flourish.
Second thing: Divine Beings delete the cookies from their head.
In the residence, a very secretive man had reportedly been an exorcist in Mexico, where Santa Muerte had many followers.
I would always find him walking the halls while praying his holy rosary.
Curiosity overcame my prudence one day, and I asked him why he spent so much time praying while walking. And he answered me with something surprising.
“The television, the newspapers, and the people we relate to put ideas in our heads, and by repeating them to us, we believe they are ours. When I pray, my subconscious tries to displace the voice in my head that is praying. And to do so sends me old sins, bad behaviors, and past mistakes: the thoughts I react to the most to throw me off and stop me from praying. And that’s when I know what thoughts to purge myself of.”
He left me with my mouth open. I wasn’t expecting his answer. It turns out that the guy used praying the holy rosary as a kind of transcendental meditation. And with that, he brought to the surface those things that had stayed inside him and operated in the background subconsciously.
I started using it. And it works. When I pray the rosary, many things come to the light of my consciousness from my unconscious that challenge me, that I have left from living in the world, and that are working subconsciously in my day-to-day life.
By doing so, I get rid of a lot of shit that is blocking my path: false beliefs, subconscious self-limitations, wrong judgments, thoughts that are not mine, etc.
Lesson: Everything you repress sooner or later incarnates in subtle ways and controls you. There are knots in your subconscious that you have to untie to succeed in life. Meditating or praying is like running the antivirus and erasing the cookies that external life has left in our inner world. After doing so, you will notice how your head’s operating system works faster.
Third thing: Divine Beings keep their good mood when things don’t go well.
In the residence, a Franciscan monk always wore sandals (even in winter). The guy had an infectious good humor.
He walked with a walker because he was ancient, and from time to time, he would fall on his ass, and instead of complaining, he would laugh so much that he looked like he was smoking joints.
I liked him a lot. I asked him why he was always in such a good mood. And he told me that good humor is a skill you train daily. And also a luxury item.
And he expounded this brilliant theory,
“If there is one luxury item in this life, it is having a good state of mind. It is something that more than one rich person would be willing to buy if it could be bought with money. That’s why people take drugs. To endure pain, have a good mind, and be functional. Even if they achieve precisely the opposite. So being happy is much more valuable than having money and being a sourpuss.”
The Franciscan monk was more interested in being 1% happier daily than Warren Buffet in raising his stock.
And that made him successful because life without happiness is hell.
Lesson: success is not about making money; it’s about living well (which is why you want to make money). Learn to live well, be resilient, and take life with humor because, at the end of the day, as Elbert Hubbard said, “No one gets out of life alive.”
A virtual hug
AG
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