Today's
Meditation:
If
we can learn to get in touch with the silence within
ourselves, we can learn about true peace. We can
learn about accepting our lives and their dynamics, and we
can learn to stop allowing stress about our
"mistakes" keep us from living full and healthy
lives. When we can accept that there are purposes
behind the things that seem to have no purpose at all,
then we can live in peace without wasting time wishing
that things were different, or had turned out
differently. Peace allows us to realize that things
are as they are; the silence within allows us to find that
peace as a positive force in our lives.
If
I could give any gift at all to all the people of the
world, I would give peace. With peace, people would
stop agonizing over their lives. With peace, people
would stop trying to change others to fit their images of
what people should be. With peace would fall away
the need for defensiveness and hurt feelings, the fears
and the insecurities that keep us from reaching our
potential in so many ways.
The
silence within can help us to recognize the importance of
all that happens in our lives, and if we can access that
peace, our lives will be richer because we can recognize
the richness that already is there. The silence
within can help us to see the lessons in all that we go
through, and it can help us to understand those lessons
and apply them to our lives.
Silence.
It's a very important element in our lives, yet one that
few people seek out, one that few people actually take the
time to learn how to access and practice. Very few
things are worth more, yet very few things are more
neglected than our need to get in touch with the silence
within.
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