“Happiness, true happiness, is an interior high quality. It’s a way of thinking. In case your thoughts is at peace, you might be completely satisfied. In case your thoughts is at peace, however you don’t have anything else, you will be completely satisfied. When you’ve got the whole lot the world may give – pleasure, possessions, energy – however lack peace of thoughts, you’ll be able to by no means be completely satisfied.” ~ Dada Vaswani
As time passes by and the extra acquainted I turn into with who I actually am beneath all of it, the extra I notice how necessary it’s to be at peace with your self and the world round you; how necessary it’s to do the issues that nurture your thoughts, revitalize your physique and rejuvenate your Soul.
I typically go searching me at how most individuals dwell their lives and I’ve to say that it saddens me. It saddens me as a result of there are individuals who dwell as in the event that they aren’t human BEings, however relatively human DOings. They dwell their lives as if they’re machines. Machines that have to do extra, extra, extra… and run sooner, and sooner, and sooner.
It’s insane…
On Being at Peace with Your self and Your Life
We forgot methods to be human. We forgot what it means to be alive, and really feel alive. We forgot methods to worth and treasure this stunning and valuable reward that is named life. We forgot methods to get pleasure from and make one of the best of the current second, the one second that actually exists.
We’re so busy chasing in spite of everything kinds of issues, issues that we consider will make us completely satisfied; dwelling in a continuing state of ready – ready for one thing magical to occur, ready for our lives to start, that we fully ignore the current second. Eckhart Tolle says it so fantastically in his e book, The Energy of Now,
“Most individuals deal with the current second as if it had been an impediment that they should overcome. For the reason that current second is life itself, it’s an insane solution to dwell.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
We deal with the current second as an impediment that we have to overcome, failing to understand that the current second is our life. This second, this breath, this expertise, that is our life is. That is the place our happiness lies. That is the place our peace will be discovered.
Why is it that we are able to’t appear to understand how necessary it’s to be current? Why is it that the following second appears to be higher and extra necessary than this one?
Why can’t we simply be totally current with what’s? Why can’t we simply let go of our resistance and give up to no matter we’re experiencing at this second? Why can’t we make peace with this concept that
“Life will provide you with no matter expertise is most useful for the evolution of your consciousness? How are you aware that is the expertise you want? As a result of that is the expertise you might be having for the time being.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
Why can’t we simply settle for that possibly the whole lot that occurs to us, regardless of if good or unhealthy, it’s all for our personal progress, a part of our enlargement and our evolution?
We would like success, some huge cash. We would like individuals to know who we’re, despite the fact that we ourselves don’t have any clue who we’re, and regardless of how a lot stuff we accumulate, we by no means appear to have sufficient. Why is that? When is sufficient, sufficient?
Look how fantastically Dalai Lama talks about this:
“If you find yourself discontent, you all the time need extra, extra, extra. Your want can by no means be happy. However while you follow contentment, you’ll be able to say to your self, ‘Oh sure – I have already got the whole lot that I really want.” ~ Dalai Lama
And Lao Tzu as nicely,
“When you notice that you’ve sufficient, you might be actually wealthy.” ~ Lao Tzu
Be content material… Be at peace.
There may be this magical island in Thailand known as Koh Lipe and I actually inform you that in that place I’ve met the wealthiest individuals alive. Individuals whom a few of us would possibly name poor simply due to the situations they dwell in, and since they don’t have as a lot cash and delightful issues as a few of us do.
However I’m telling you, of their presence, I felt poor. And you recognize why? As a result of I noticed that materials possessions, cash and all this stuff we understand as rich aren’t rich in any respect.
They’re simply issues that don’t have any worth besides the one we give to them. Of their presence, I noticed that true wealth consists in having peace, love, pleasure, and bliss run via your veins.
True wealth consists in having a coronary heart that’s overflowing with love, love that’s flooding the locations round you, making all issues and all individuals shine brighter and brighter. And when you may have this stuff, then you’ll be able to name your self a rich individual.
“It’s the coronary heart that makes a person wealthy. He’s wealthy in line with what he’s, not in line with what he has.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
This world we dwell in wants its coronary heart and Soul again. We want our hearts and Souls again. The individuals of this stunning and magical planet want to begin wanting inside themselves extra, and outdoors themselves much less. And every considered one of us wants to begin caring extra about feeling at peace, feeling content material, feeling love and feeling alive, that we do about doing extra and having extra.
And if we do that, then we are going to all return to feeling totally alive. We are going to all return to feeling refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated, and the world round us will do the very same factor. As a result of this world,
“Just isn’t one thing separate from you and me; the world, society, is the connection that we set up or search to determine between one another. So that you and I are the issues, and never the world, as a result of the world is the projection of ourselves, and to know the world we should perceive ourselves. That world will not be separate from us; we’re the world, and our issues are the world’s issues.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The world will not be separate from us; we’re the world and the world is us. The world is you and me, the world will not be separate from you and me. We’re the world and the world is in us. The world is us.
~love, Luminita💫