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Living, Now!
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar by the Spirit Eugênia-Aspásia
There are many motives for you to be happy, but the main one is simply to be alive. Be careful not to let the everyday rush suffocate your capacity to enjoy every instant of your existence. Do not wait to become a grumpy old person to realize that you threw your life away, and that it is too late to recover what has no return…
Well, even if you lose a year!… What is the price of one year of life? What is the price of one day after another when they are not lived in happiness? Happiness is not an exceptional state of being and feeling: it is the natural state. To systematically suffer, or be distressed or empty, is a sign of severe emotional and spiritual illness. Do not give in to the pathology of our current era. In the future, human beings will tremendously pity the inhabitants of today’s earthly world for not getting the basic of the basics: to live in peace and happiness.
Therefore, break this vicious cycle, right now. Reserve time for you, take long and soothing baths, listen to good music, relax in fraternal conversation with beloved ones, rest in the company of friends when having meals (at least once a day) and, above all: set aside time to pray and/or meditate.
You will not save humanity by stressing yourself further, by depriving yourself of spending time with relatives (spirit or blood related), by forgetting to live, to be in peace, or to breathe. To work more does not mean to be more responsible or more efficient. Quite the contrary: resting time increases work performance during work hours, and the time spent on interpersonal relationships, especially the time dedicated to the loved ones you chose to live with, is sacred. To lessen this time, beyond the measure that the conscience authorizes, in order to channel it to the mere and compulsive pursuit of material achievement, constitutes a criminal attitude.
Furthermore, also be careful not to live constantly “traveling” in time, disconnected from the only complete reality that is tangible to you: the present. In the dominant culture of the globe, a large part of the population hardly ever manages to be effectively in “the now.” Either they focus on continuously planning the future, or they consume themselves in indolent and obsessive recollections of the past. To plan for the future is important the same way that to learn with the lessons of the past is as well. However, to live in an uninterrupted trance, disconnected from the present moment, constitutes a mild psychosis that blinds the individual’s lucidity, making him go through life mechanically without in fact living.
You certainly agreed with my ideas, and you may be saying to yourself, “Right! This is exactly what I would like to do, but I cannot.” However, friend, aside from this habit, which can be deprogrammed and substituted for another, there is also the need to change the set of principles that underlies your behavior –a philosophy of life that, consciously or unconsciously, drives your existence, your way of being, of thinking, and of acting. In addition, it is for this hidden set of values that I say:
1) Do not worry with results. Do not think only on the product of your work. Enjoy the process of realizing it. The one who only thinks of the outcomes of his toil, finishing an activity to immediately engage in another, never truly feels the pleasure of producing, which does not happen at the end but rather during the whole process. In this manner, one can never be in flux, as said technically, to represent the performance at a level of excellence – in other words, paradoxically, the one who does not flow with the present moment, unconcerned with the production, produces less and with low quality.
2) Free yourself from the preoccupation with appearances. Those who are very concerned with the opinion of others – worried with meeting imposed or self-imposed models of expectation – live for others, and not for themselves. They are slaves to conventions, and not masters of themselves, their choices, and their destinies… They are not free, and do not think for themselves.
3) Think that nothing is worthy if you cannot be happy, now. Tomorrow is an abstraction. Today is the reality. As a matter of fact, the tomorrow will be a today as well, which only will be lived well if you have learned to fully enjoy the moments of now.
With these simple suggestions, I hope that you agree with my view that too much rush only serves to turn you into a machine and to anticipate your physical death, in a way that will end up leaving everything behind and will arrive at the Other Side of Life empty, without you having lived what passed, and without having the right of living what would come…
Think seriously… now! Do not wait for years, old age, misfortunes, illnesses, and biological death to come and warn you about what is obvious, when there is no longer time in the current physical life to correct the disaster…
Thought should exist for the administration of life, but it does not substitute life itself. Manage your existence with care; however, do not forget that life itself is the principal and essentially unique value that you have. Life is not to be thought, life is to be lived.
(Message received on 04 January 2000.)
Women, blacks and gays.
Empirically, it is quite obvious that, on average: women are more sensitive and intuitive than men; blacks are physically stronger and more agile than whites; homosexuals are more creative and courageous than heterosexuals …
I repeat: on average…
Would it be, then, that sexism, racism, and homophobia are dissimulated manifestations of envy toward these so-called “minorities’” special talents; and, furthermore: of fear of their potential to overcome the “majority?”
Oops! You disagree?
Perhaps, then, you too…
Spirit Roberto Daniel
Medium: Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
May 5, 2015.
Benjamin Teixeira by the Spirit Eugênia-Aspásia
Beautiful lady without courtship, going through life, as an enchanted lily with no hummingbird to kiss you… You feel lonely, abandoned, anguished by the sensation of helplessness and rejection.
However, I ask you; do you really, wholeheartedly, want to get rid of loneliness? I mean, do you truly intend to stop living alone, under the conditions presented to you? Is it due to the lack of alternatives on your path, or because you have requirements of a higher standard, which protect you from eventual negative experiences? If you really want to, you know you can have what you wish. But perhaps not the way you idealize it, and this is what makes you so resistant to openness.
Certainly, I do not intend to endorse your choice for isolation, which you also would hardly consider desirable or healthy. On the other hand, I suggest you the pragmatic initiative of extracting as many benefits as you can from this extraordinary situation, no matter how long it may last.
Invest in yourself. Do not waste time with vain sadness. Take some classes; develop unknown skills, crafts or functions. Make the dreams of your youth come true, which, most probably you would have no time and opportunity to accomplish if you were involved with someone. Ultimately, be fully yourself, advancing towards the completeness of your multidimensional being.
You will not need to be alone forever. It will always be your option to keep or not your temporary condition of loneliness. However, before seeking to complete yourself with someone, be entirely you. You do not need complements but company. When you embrace full stature of dignity before yourself, you will then attract the right partner, the one who lives up to your noblest needs and aspirations. While the essential fulfillment of feeling autonomous, self-sufficient and happy with yourself does not happen – no matter what thing, situation or person is by your side – you will always attract unsuitable partners, suffering uselessly and wasting great chances of learning and growth.
While you do not undertake this essential achievement: to feel autonomous, self-sufficient and happy with yourself, regardless of anything, any situation or person at your side, you will always attract unsuitable partners, suffering unnecessarily and wasting great opportunities of learning and growth.
Women have made great achievements along this century, acquiring rights entirely unimaginable before. Enjoy them, without seeking the illusory escape of the Cinderella Complex (*), waiting for someone – a male of the species – to rescue you from your ivory tower.
However, now that the weaker sex turns into the stronger one, adapting itself much more quickly to the changes of modernity than its opposite pair, it is up to the women to take greater responsibility than men for the changes that will lead to the New Era of peace in which Humanity is entering. This because those who are more prepared, mature and lucid carry the most responsibility. And, on Earth, undoubtedly, for now, most of the female contingent is more receptive to the ideals and paradigms of the new civilization that emerges than most of the male gender of the species.
It is in the hands of the Feminine – in all its variations – the responsibility for the salvation and transmutation of the human species, into something that will far transcend the limited expressions of egotism and materialism of our time. Therefore, more than a mere suggestion of political-partisan engagement or a manifest of feminist militancy, I propose that all consciences that today bear a woman’s body value their enviable condition.
Thus, if you are alone, do not whine like a viscous caterpillar that crawls on the hard and cold ground. Be, on the contrary, like the dragonfly, which flies at speeds over 35 mph, despite its fragile and delicate structure. Compared to the heavy drakes – soaked in the pond of patriarchy and its anachronistic standards of thought and behavior, which can barely take off, loaded with prejudices and values incompatible with the new times – the dragonflies, which absolutely do not seem to be able to beat their flying partners in size and weight, are indeed much more able to fly faster, further, higher…much higher…
We were imprisoned, for centuries of centuries, to the bondage of oppression. Now, it is time for revenge… the revenge of love. With the power of kindness, devotion, refined intuition and relational capacity that we developed so well, in millennia of forced submission, we will save the planet, watching over our sons, all of them, without distinction – our sons, which all men are (and not our enemies), in need of our help, affection, forgiveness…
No historic “revenge” would be better woven. They tried to shut us up; we will shout the cry of human liberation!…
They fought to suffocate us; we are now the air which renews the human species!…
They did everything to belittle us; we became Humanity’s greatest asset!
We were oppressed, in the course of uninterrupted millennia – sometimes, even with the intention to protect us -; now, it is time to remove the yoke of ignorance and fear, pride and murderous rage that the civilization of patriarchy has created, with all its system of wars, confrontations, ecological violence.
Our time has come, the time of Humanity has come, the time of love has come, the time of the mothers has come … at last, women’s turn, the time of the feminine has come!…
(Message received on April 11, 2000. Revised by Delano Mothé)
(*) Concept first described by Colette Dowling, North-American feminist thinker, in her classic work about it, homonymous.
(Medium’s note)
Men that mock ugly or fat women.
Men that mock ugly or fat women, in general, either have no sex appeal, or a small penis, or “short man sydrome”, or are closeted gays… besides showing, of course, a lack of maturity, feelings, education, and even character.
Spirit Roberto Daniel.
Médium: Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar.
April 16, 2015.
Lighting the Light to yourself
Message of the Holy Mary
“Today and always, the courage to serve continually…
The world swirled and maddened in the contradictions of the ego and of evil may fight against your effort to spread blessings that flow from High Above to you, for the resonance in your truly devout heart.
However, despite all adversities, move forward, fearless, because from the Highest Heavens flow mystical and balmy springs of strength, inspiration and peace, so that you never lack the essential supplies for the task of the Good that was delegated to you by Divine Plan.
Darkness bothers, disturbs, and causes stumbles and falls. So, instead of feeling sorry for yourself, ignite the light of active fraternity, and spread the benefits of clarification and comfort to your brothers and sisters in humanity. This same light of responsible and tireless casolidarity will illuminate your pathways as you persist in channelling – even if partially, for yourself and myriads of other creatures – the Inextinguishable Light of the Infinite Goodness of God.
HOLY MARY.
Intermediated by the Spirit Eugênia-Aspásia.
Medium: Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar.
March 21, 2015.
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