How would you like to see yourself – happy and bubbling with enthusiasm or dull and difficult to please?
Sometimes you like to be pleased, appeased and cajoled, so you put on a tough, troubled face and act difficult to please. It is so tiring for a person to appease and please ten people all the time. People who keep long faces and expect others to cajole and appease them, drive others away. Lovers often do this. They expend a lot of energy cajoling, reducing the joy and celebration of the moment.
It is all right to occasionally show how upset you are, but doing it repeatedly is taxing for you and the people you love. If you feel down, appease and please yourself – do not expect others to do it. Your need to be appeased by someone else is a sign of grossness. This is the root of ignorance. If you want attention, all you get is tension.
It is not possible to attain divine love with a complaining face. The complaining face is a sign of an unaware mind. If you want to complain – complain to God or your guru because both have their ears covered!
Become one whose enthusiasm never dies, come what may.
