Most of us yearn for balance and a sense of inner peace. Even when all the parts of our lives seem to be in order—good health, loving relationships, a rewarding career—it can still feel like something is wrong, unsettled, missing. We yearn for a deeper daily spiritual experience, yet struggle to maintain it in these times of uncertainty and fear. Even on a good day, you never know when something will happen to throw you off balance.
Its true only I can destroy my peace, and I choose not to do so.
Throughout the day, when it seems as if others are making your life difficult, stop and remind yourself that you are the one who determines how you feel about what’s going on. You are the one experiencing the words and actions of those around you, and your perceptions are entirely up to you.
especially when there is disagreement: “Let me think about that”
This simple statement can prevent us from making quick decisions that we might regret, or from speaking while angry, which we’ll surely regret. It also sends a message that we care enough about the other person that we want to take time to consider what they’ve said.
Sometimes we have to let go of our deep desire for things to be different or to have been different—because they aren’t, and they weren’t. We might have to give up a subtle belief that because we were victimized, we are damaged and can never enjoy a meaningful relationship or a successful career. We might have to let someone else off the hook in order that we might be free.
Remember, we cannot have a better past, but we can usually have a better present.
The essential characteristic of Beginner’s Mind is openness—the willingness to explore all possibilities. Beginner’s Mind sees past what it knows and openly embraces all options. Those with Beginner’s Mind are curious, free of preconceptions, and able to enjoy the wonder and exploration of life. Release what you know and, like a wide-eyed child, take it all in anew.
Consider how your discomfort with a particular situation might be eased by accepting things as they are.
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than the way they are. Sit quietly, close your eyes, and open the spaciousness of mind and heart needed for a change of perspective. Remind yourself that even if a particularly difficult situation you are now confronting seems insurmountable, it is not fixed and solid. It will change. If after contemplating in this way for a few sessions you conclude that the situation is unacceptable, you should be better able to explore your options in a calmer and more compassionate manner.
Focus on effort, not results.
When facing new and challenging situations, projects, or adventures, take a few moments throughout the day and remind yourself, I can do this, and I can enjoy it. I will give it my full effort; that’s all I can do. When we see life as an ongoing process—a process that includes challenges as well as easy times—we can accept that some things simply require greater effort. That’s the way it is. There’s nothing wrong, it is just the nature of things.
Develop listening skills.
This practice can dramatically change your relationships.
Let go of your thoughts while the other person is speaking. Notice if, as the other speaks, your mind is already preparing a response. You may be agreeing or disagreeing, or perhaps thinking of advice to offer. If so, gently release your thoughts and return to listening. Determine that you will not respond until you have left at least a three-second period of silence.
Before clicking the send button on the emails you write, stop, close your eyes, and breathe for a few seconds.
It is an excellent practice to reread each e-mail before sending it and make sure it contains nothing you might later regret. Let thoughts like What is my intention? and Am I being considerate? go through your mind. If the email can be changed to better reflect the person you want to be, make the changes. Even your emails should reflect your true self.
When you sense that a conversation is about to become heated, stop and consider what you are about to say before saying it.
You can avoid tremendous grief if you remember that you can never really take back your words. Find a way to express your truth with kindness.
Contemplate and accept that there are times when you can help and times when you cannot. Remember that just feeling bad helps no one.
Sit quietly for a few minutes and reflect on the following:
There is suffering in the world, including my own, that I can help to relieve, and I will endeavor to do so. There is suffering in the world about which I can do nothing. When I accept that reality, I am more available to experience and share my own happiness and that of others. I, and those around me, fare better when my heart and mind are filled with loving-kindness.
I am a soul returning close to the single authentic source threading the path of mysticism in the occurrence of a combined peace, joy, compassion or love. My agony between competing forces of light and dark, and positive marked division between the material kingdom, the administration of evil forces, and the higher spiritual kingdom from which it is divided. My words may seem to confuse and unclear, at the same time over-simplified and full of subtle meanings hidden from the naive.
My words are very easy to know, and easy to practice; but there is none in the world who can recognize and capable of practice them.
A dimensional fluctuation amid one construction of reality to another. I am crossed a path by sin, shame, remorse.
Repentance, awareness of lower-self attachments and dervishes giving up the thoughts and behaviors is now the necessity for reinstating unity and grace.
Mortification and dejection, defamation and allegation, abundant lives breathed, none could grasp me and in this way my voyage demands further obligation.
My ancestry and individuality is of free spirit. I question if this is a joy. The joy is of mankind shuns and Almighty embraces. That is the joy in the departure from the material release. (2009)
"Religious truth is the inner meaning of the law revealed in the heart of the Sufi by the Divine Light."
In terms of the Ultimate Reality or Truth, I have now come to reject the very basis of "manifestation" and in doing so all systems of thought and knowledge in reference to it is invalid
According to my experience there is nothing to understand about enlightenment as enlightenment is the way of enlightenment itself.
The subject of enlightenment – or anything else – did not interest me all my life ………….. My life-story can be separated into the three catastrophe parts. The first part of my life with Human experience. The second part of my life experienced a Bodily experience with a discontinuity from my human life with the ongoing bodily experience – though not absence – of thought. But I lost all connectivity with the acquired knowledge and memories, and I was made to re-learn everything, as if the slate had been wiped clean.
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