“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything, whatever the world can give—pleasure, possessions, power—but lacking peace of mind, you can never be happy.” ~ Dada Vaswani

As time goes on and the more familiar I become with who I really am underneath it all, the more I realize how important it is to be at peace with yourself and the world around you; how important it is to do the things that nourish your mind, revitalize your body and rejuvenate your soul.

I often look around at how most people live their lives and I have to say it makes me sad. It saddens me because there are people who live as if they are not people, but rather human DEEDS. They live their lives as if they were machines. Machines that need to do more, more, more… and run faster, and faster, and faster.

It’s insane…

About being at peace with yourself and your life

We forgot how to be human. We forgot what it means to be alive, and to feel alive. We have forgotten how to value and appreciate this beautiful and precious gift called life. We have forgotten how to enjoy and make the most of the present moment, the only moment that truly exists.

We are so busy chasing all sorts of things, things that we think will make us happy; living in a constant state of waiting – waiting for something magical to happen, waiting for our lives to begin, for us to completely ignore the present. Eckhart Tolle says it so beautifully in his book, The Power of Now,

“Most people treat the present as if it were an obstacle to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it’s an insane way to live.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

We treat the present moment as an obstacle to overcome, not realizing that the present moment is our life. This moment, this breath, this experience, this is our life. This is where our happiness lies. This is where our peace can be found.

Why is it that we can’t seem to realize how important it is to be present? Why is it that the next moment seems better and more important than this?

Why can’t we just be fully present with what is? Why can’t we just let go of our resistance and surrender to what we are experiencing in this moment? Why can’t we make peace with this idea

“Life will give you the experience that is most useful for the development of your consciousness? How do you know that it is the experience you need? Because it is the experience you have at the moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

Why can’t we just accept that maybe everything that happens to us, whether it’s good or bad, it’s all for our own growth, part of our expansion and our development?

We want success, a lot of money. We want people to know who we are, even if we ourselves have no idea who we are, and no matter how many things we collect, we never seem to have enough. Why is that? When is enough, enough?

See how beautifully the Dalai Lama talks about this:

“When you’re unsatisfied, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be fulfilled. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes—I already have everything I really want. need. ~ Dalai Lama

And also Lao Tzu,

“If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich.” ~ Lao Tzu

Be content… Be at peace.

There is this magical island in Thailand called Koh Lipe and I honestly tell you that in that place I have met the richest people alive. People that some of us might call poor, just because of the conditions they live in and because they don’t have as much money and beautiful things as some of us do.

But I tell you, in their presence I felt poor. And do you know why? Because I realized that material possessions, money and all these things we think of as wealth are not wealth at all.

They are just things that have no value except the one we give them. In their presence I realized that true wealth consists of having peace, love, joy and bliss running through your veins.

True wealth consists in having a heart overflowing with love, love that floods the places around you, making all things and all people shine brighter and clearer. And when you have these things, then you can call yourself a wealthy person.

“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich by what he is, not by what he has.” ~Henry Ward Beecher

This world we live in needs its heart and soul back. We need our hearts and souls back. The people of this beautiful and magical planet need to start looking more within themselves and less outside themselves. And each and every one of us must begin to care more about feeling peace, feeling contentment, feeling love and feeling alive than we do about doing more and having more.

And if we do this, we will all go back to feeling fully alive. We will all return feeling refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated, and the world around us will do exactly the same. Because this world,

“Is there nothing separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problems, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world and our problems are the world’s problems.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The world is not separate from us; we are the world and the world is us. The world is you and me, the world is not separate from you and me. We are the world and the world is in us. The world is us.

~love, Luminita

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