'What is peace and where can I find it?' I was asking myself at 2 am last night. As I was slicing and dicing through the maze in my head for an answer, I realized that my thoughts by themselves are nothing more then fluttering leaves. The fun begins when my emotions become the breeze that carry them around, swirl them and raise mini twisters in my mind. Thoughts by themselves are harmless except they create a constant cacophony in my mind. Which brings me to the next question 'Would absence of thoughts bring peace? Where do they originate from? Can I get to the moment of their birth and pick and choose which ones I really want to nurture?'
I usually become conscious of them when they are almost teenagers causing me a headache and heartache, at which point I have nowhere else to go but to look heavenwards and offer a prayer. Sometimes I get lucky and become aware of them when they are toddlers throwing tantrums, but I can still calm them down and bring the situation under control.
There are phases when my mind is perfectly tranquil and there then there are times when there is so much drama in my mind that I could entertain this continent and next. And it is as times like this I wake up at 2 am in the night and ask 'What is peace and where can I find it?'
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Life is passing by, right in frontcof eyes! Remember the times when we very carefree and young, maybe worried about our next test in school and grades we would get. Here we are accomplished and secure, Yet we are confused and hunting, looking hard and asking questions to find peace.
Wouldnt it be nice to let the life flow, and be there as a spectator. Know that ups and downs will come, happiness and sadness is part of this act, and we are just the actors here to play our parts.
What if we could stops asking questions, and learn to enjoy the flow, enjoy everything that comes to us, and to except to just "be"!
Would then, life be a simple and pleasurable journey for us?
Are we looking too hard for peace. Is peace right around the corner?
Isn't life too short to smell the roses and experience all that world has to offer?
Do we spend a lot of our time looking, hunting and wondering about where peace is?
What if we let the life be, learn to just watch, as you always said, be the spectator and let the life flow, like calm river, lets not fight the flow, lets learn to enjoy, each day with what it has to offer and just be thankful for all the learnings and experiences it has to offer us!
Maybe it is all too simple and we make it complicated.
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