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Sunday, January 04, 2009
This New Year use the Power of H.O.P.E.

The marking of the end of a year on New Year's Eve usually involves reflection on the events of our life and the world around us. It is a wonderful time to assess our successes and failures and some years the pendulum tips mightily to one side or the other. All conclusions are quite subjective, as one person's victory can well mean another person's failure. Lessons learned can be more valuable than goals accomplished for those wise enough to realize it. So giving thanks remains the theme regardless of where your pendulum swings. I believe it is fitting to honor LIFE with this ritual of thanksgiving and the realization that there is more than just us playing out the cosmic riddle of existence—even if this awakening happens for just a few minutes each year.

The marking of the beginning of a new year on New Year's Day brings about its own swing of the pendulum, as our reflective sleeping eyes open to a dawn filled with new anticipation for what lies ahead in the coming year. Will there be more successes? Is this the year my fortune will be realized? Will I be discovered? Will I find love? Will there be more failures? Will I be safe? Will I have enough food to eat? Will I lose my home? Will I stand up for myself or others? Will I make a difference this year? Will this be the moment of real change in my life or in the world?

Regardless of what your first moments of anticipation are for the New Year, every anticipation requires hope. Hope is desire coupled with the expectation of fulfillment or a solution. But it is not enough to place all of your eggs in the basket of hope and sit about waiting for one to turn golden. Hope is a verb and an action. Hope is a tool to be used, but we must act for ourselves. I believe sometimes we put too much faith in hope as a noun, as in "that person is our only hope". Every person is capable of being the hero in their own story. But the bigger fault that I tend to make is putting too much emphasis on a particular version of the fulfillment I seek and limit the opportunities that are waiting for me. I have discovered that putting too much weight in a specific solution blocks the real solution that is far better for me, but for reasons that I do not necessarily comprehend at the time. I think this misunderstanding is common for many people. The answers to our deepest and inherent desires tend to play out over time, and we have grown accustom to instant gratification.

We can hope for a job that makes us happy and expect that it will be one making more money, only to find that the job that really makes us happy is a teaching job in an inner city school that barely pays the bills. We can hope for the perfect man to marry that is rich, tall, and handsome, only to find that the kind, portly carpenter is the guy who really values being our husband and treats us like a queen. We can hope for peace in the world, but peace may not come by democratizing every last country or converting every other religion. It may come when we let go of the idea that it has to be our way and we open ourselves up to changing also.

The SIMPLE TRUTH is that the secret to hope is opening up to all possibilities or to H.O.P.E.-Hope Opens Possibilities Everywhere. Hope is a very important tool that we have been given by LIFE that has been limited in its potential for us, because we have hesitated to use another element to its power-letting go of control. When we let go of controlling the answers we seek, we are able to step back and see the bigger picture of life. Then the knowledge we seek comes through our own intuition clearly, and a bigger and better experience of life is accessible to us. All the answers that we seek in our human journey are available to us, if we use the power of H.O.P.E.

DARSHAN BEAUTY LLC and I wish you a peaceful, beautiful, and H.O.P.E.ful New Year.

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