The Gun-Man Who Never Pulled The Trigger - Spirituality Information

Someone was holding a gun at the back of my head.The powerful voice disappeared....
He never pulled the trigger but it always scared me toI was thrilled... Finally, i had found a way to get rid of the
hell ! I was always a frightened individual. I becamegunman.But the very next moment I was frightened
nervous and used to panic at small things going wrong.again. I prayed to God for only five minutes, i was not
Everywhere i went the gun man followed me... toa creative person and i never had the habit of listening
work, to the bank, to the airport, to the malls, to bedto my inner voice... So what do i do....?
and even when i was asleep..... He never pulled theThe powerful voice spoke again....
trigger, perhaps he never wanted to....."Practise seeing the good and the bad in the world
Whenever i wanted to speak up, the gunman raisedthrough the Lord's eyes... Use His eyes to see the
his voice and i mellowed down like a tame lamb. Allworld and use your eyes to see your inner world....
times, that i wanted to express my views he wouldThat way you will be praying to Him all day.....
simply tell me to shut up.... There were occasions whenYou don't have to be a poet,painter, or a writer to be a
i wanted to share my views with people but thecreative person.. Creativity can be applied to anything
moment i rose to speak the gunman made methat you do.. Creativity is nothing but a slight shift in
nervous... My palm used to get wet , i used to panicyour thinking pattern, where you allow a greater force
and everything fell apart.... It seemed to me that heto take over you... You don't apply pressure on
wanted to nip my courage in the bud... This continuedyourself, you don't try to do anything intelligent , you
for more than 10 years... I got used to the gunman.....don't make use of your memory. You allow yourself to
I never ventured to do anything courageous. I wenttravel to a place beyond your senses where the rules
about my daily activities like a hostage pushed fromof external world do not apply. You allow yourself to
one cell to another....One day i told my five year old sonbe unpredictable and illogical and yet your work would
about the gunman... I lacked the courage to tell anyonetake a shine of its own, a beauty which is unparallel to
else.... My son got pretty excited and told me "Dad ianything created so far....... Anyone can do this... The
would like to meet the gunman.... Next time that hebest way to get started is to consciously imagine a
holds the gun at the back of your head call me. I willnew world and willingly enter into it.....
slowly get behind him and shoot him with my machineYour inner voice was always speaking to you but you
gun(he love his toy) and he will die........" I had a heartyhad muted it's voice... You were so engrossed in
laugh after a long time....listening to the stupid tapes which was playing day in
That night i drew little courage from those bold wordsand day out in your mind without your knowledge.. All
of my son. I thought instead of shooting him from theyou need to do is practice being silent for a while and
back why don't i take shelter at some place where heyou would start listening to your inner voice....
can never follow me.Various ideas came to my mindPractice all the above three things and soon the
and then a powerful voice spoke from within ......gunman would disappear all by himself.... "
" When you pray to God and surrender to Him theThe powerful voice disappeared...
gunman would never be visible.....The next day i woke up in the middle of the night. I
" When you do anything creative you would neverheard a gun shot... I looked around and could find no
spot the gunman.....one... I looked inside of me and found a dead man
"When you listen to your real self, your inner voice theholding a gun in his hand... On a closer look his face
gunman would disappear...resembled mine.. The force of God has shot my lower
All other times he would follow you.... "self in the dark....