Heart VS Head

"The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail."

'Abdu'l-Baha

Can we totally remove all negative emotions from ourselves, can we always be happy?

Contentment?

Many of us know that we have a choice to be happy or not to, but many still choose not to be happy, it seems that some people feel more alive if they are feeling negative emotions, sometimes I meet someone who share with me about their life, they usually share about the problems they had rather than the joy they felt. There is always something about their life that is not going right, feeling lonely yet afraid to go for a new relationship, feeling unhappy about their present employment but not actively looking for another job. 

We are constantly measuring against someone'e else yard stick, or against our own expectations, what is it that you really want in life? What would really make you happy and contented? 
There is no 'on the shelf' answers to these questions, you need to know what would make you happy, keep working on it, then watch it change into something else and you go after it again, you will never be happy if you look for it from the outside. Look into yourself to find your answer, within you is a place where joy is.

Some people have an interesting self sabotaging mentality, they would experience some divine experience and then ask why, and if they would be considered stupid to just accept this experience or do they need to justify it against some belief system they have. There is a difference between surrender and obedience, to obey is to give away your power, but to surrender is to accept without questioning. You will be given the understanding later, but if you resist the experience, you will never be free or have any experience of substance at all. Use your heart not your head, stop all your feverishness and just take the plunge. 

Your resistance is the mark of your ignorance, the more you resist the more it will persist, if you find that similar experience keep coming back to you, then maybe you should take a closer look, see if there are lessons there for you to learn that you missed out the first time round. We are always learning from our experiences and if similar ones revisit us we should glad that we are given a chance to pick up what we missed. If you are tired of having the same experience again and again then sit up and learn the lesson once and for all. The only way out is to tackle it head on, learn what you need to learn. Don't try to outsmart the 'One' you will never come out a winner, and stop asking to be treated like a baby, grow up. It time for you to take up your responsibility for yourself, the more you resist the harder you will feel it the next time it comes round.

Make no mistake, the 'One' is not punishing you, it is you who is doing it, only by dropping your boundaries will it bring you to freedom.

Thank you

Love
Alan