To Those Who Feel Despair from Hurting Their Own Hearts

★To Graduate from Patterns of Thought That Hurt Your Own Heart

The other day we talked about purifying emotions, but there are people who can’t do that and keep hurting themselves as before.

That’s a picture of people who, by stirring up “tornadoes of thought” in their hearts, like anger, hatred, rejection, and distrust toward others, end up hurting themselves in the end. And there are people who, not realizing it, repeat the same thing and drive themselves into a corner.

The most extreme form of this is “hurting one’s own heart” through thoughts, and at its end, taking one’s own life. Even without going as far as attempting it, there are people who insult themselves as much as they can, beat, kick, and stab their own hearts, tormenting them as much as they can, until in the end they despair of life and even think of ending their physical lives.

It’s to exactly such people that we want to say:

“Your life is something you are making.

It isn’t something anyone else made.

If you hold hope, light shines in from the direction of the future; if you hold despair, the door to the future closes, and you may even feel shut up in a dark world, as if imprisoned.

But you haven’t been ‘shut in’; you’re only ‘shutting yourself in.’

If you change, your life can turn rose-colored, or any color at all.

It all depends on how you turn your feelings, how you send them out, and how you use them.”

★To Live Within the Light of Life

No one else can make you suffer.

Even if someone treats you badly because of a bad cause carried over from a past life, depending on how you take it, you can turn misfortune into blessing.

How a person uses their consciousness greatly shapes their happiness.

That’s why there are people who follow completely different destinies even in the same circumstances.

But people who have been crushed flat by deep-rooted habits of self-denying thought may think, even hearing a talk like this, “It’s impossible for me.”

That’s exactly why we always talk about breathing.

Even if you try to change your thoughts, they well up from within with strong force and your consciousness can’t control them, so setting will-power in motion is a useless resistance.

The more you do that, the more your heart splits against itself, things become even more impossible, and your consciousness only gets more confused, right?

But if you pay no attention to such movements of thought, entrust yourself to the rhythm of the sound of slow, relaxed breathing, and simply keep turning your thoughts there, before long the storm of thoughts will calm, and in peaceful stillness, you’ll find yourself in a state of absolute reassurance and tranquility.

What do you think happens to you then?

Negative thoughts stop appearing, and the light of hope comes shining into your heart.

That is the great light of “the light of life.”

Try practicing living like that, with your heart and body immersed in the light of life.

Then the heart that was hurt by self-harm through thoughts will be healed.

And before long, even the wounds of the heart will vanish without a trace, and you’ll become someone with a shining heart who can create a bright future.