Here are some things that he really spoke to me during my Mo’edim. (appointed quiet time)
Do Your Best
Our goal should be to keep improving ourselves, rather than “being the best.”Someone who feels the need to be “the best” should ask himself, “Why do I really have to be better than others? What is so awful if someone else is better than me in any given area?” People who feel the need to be “the best” often suffer much anxiety. They frequently tell themselves, “If I am not the best, then I am a failure. I am nothing.”There is no basis for this. In ultimate terms, no human can really say who is best. Comparing yourself to anyone else is arbitrary — so why cause yourself misery by doing so?
(Gateway to Happiness, p.130) Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
The Talmud is right. If you lose at competition, walk away singing.
Today I shall …
… try to develop an attitude of acceptance when I lose in competition
Stop All Work Until –
Our Lord, grant us that wonderful inward Peace.
My children that Peace does truly pass all understanding. That Peace no man taketh from you. No man has the power to disturb that Peace, but you yourselves can let the world and its worries and distractions in.
You can give the entrance to fears and despondency. You can open the door to the robber who breaks in upon, and destroys, your peace.
Set yourselves this task to allow nothing to disturb your peace, your heart calm with Me. Stop all work, stop all intercourse with others — until this is restored. Do not let those about you spoil your peace of heart and mind. Do not let anyone without, any trouble, any irritation, any adversity, disturb it for one moment.
Look on each difficulty as training to enable you to acquire this peace. Every work, every interruption — set yourself to see that none of it touches the harmony of the real you, that is hid with Me in the Secret Place of the Father.
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. Psalm 119:165
