Yesterday,while reading through one of the story from "Chicken soup for soul",I came across these texts and I liked them very much.If everyone in this world starts following this as a part of their general routine,this world could become such a wonderful place to live.As I discovered later while googling,its a well known collection of beautiful and message carrying texts which was written by Pierre Pradervand.I have provided a link at the end of it which takes you to a movie made by another lover of these texts like me.And please,do comment,if you liked them.The texts goes like this:
"On awaking,bless this day,for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the very texture of universe and awaiting each and all.
On passing people in the street,on the bus,in places to work and play,bless them.The peace of your blessing will companion them on their way,and the aura of its gentle fragrance will be a light on their path.
On meeting people and talking to them,bless them in their health,their work,their joy,their relationship to the universe,themselves and others.Bless them in their abundance and their finances.Bless them in every conceivable way,for such blessings not only sow seeds of blessing but one day will spring forth as flowers in the waste places of your own life.
As you walk,bless the city in which you live,its governments and teachers,its nurses and sweepers,its children and bankers,its priests and prostitutes.The minute anyone expresses the least aggression and unkindness to you,respond with a blessing.Bless them totally,sincerely,joyfully,for such blessings are a shield that protects you from the ignorance of this misdeed, and deflects the arrow that was aimed at you.
To bless means to wish,unconditionally,total unrestricted good for others and events from the deepest chamber of your heart.It means to hallow,to hold in reverence,to behold with utter awe that which is always a gift from the Creator.He who is hallowed by your blessings is set aside,consecrated,holy whole.To bless is yet to invoke divine care upon,to speak or think gratefully for,to confer happinessupon-although we are never the bestower,but simply the joyfull witnesses of life's abundance.
To bless all without discrimination of any sort is the ultimate form of giving because those you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray that burst through the clouds of their skies and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in their lives.
When you pass a hospital,bless its patients in their present wholeness,for even in their suffering,their wholeness awaits in them to be discovered.When your eyes behold a man in tears or seemingly broken by life,bless him in his vitality and joy.
It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time.So,hold constantly as a deep,hallowed,intoned thought the desire to bless,for truly then shall you become a peacemaker and one day you shall behold,everywhere,the very face of God.
P.S. And of course,above all,do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person YOU are."
You can visit this link:
http://www.joy-tothe-world.com/Gentle_Art_of_Blessing_Movi.html
