It has been said that peace is the way and ultimately the only answer, so on that note this week’s offering are two quotes on peace.
“If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.”
Thomas Merton
“If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.”
Lao Tzu
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55. The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali
By the proper practice of pratyhara, your senses come fully under your control. They become obedient horses, taking you wherever you want. You become a complete master over them.
We shouldn’t think we lose anything by avoiding sensual pleasures.
If our senses try to pull us somewhere we should feel, “No; I’m not going to satisfy you.”
Although we might feel a little tension at first, it is just momentary.
After that we’ll really feel proud: “Ah, I have gained some mastery.”
If we satisfy the senses, we might feel momentary pleasure followed by a greater dejection afterward.
The happiness we can receive by mastery lasts longer than temporary joys. We should all become masters. That is true freedom and real victory. If you are free from your own mind and senses, nothing can bind you; then you are really free. Even imperial power, even dictatorship, can never bind you. You are not afraid on anything.
This isn’t the birthright of just a few people. It is everyone’s. But we should build up our mastery, never allowing the mind to fall back. If we have that control, we can do whatever we want, find peace and joy within and share the same with all humanity.
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Living in this marvelous reality ~ living in peace, is something we all want.
But I would like to ask: Do we have the capacity of enjoying peace?
If peace is there, will we be able to enjoy it, or will we find it boring?
To me, peace and happiness and joy and life go together,
and we can experience the peace of the divine reality right in the present moment.
It is available, inside us and around us.
If we are not able to enjoy that peace,
how can we make peace grow?
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Doing good to others is the one great, universal religion.
-Vivekananda
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Meditation has been laid stress upon by all religions. The meditative state of mind is declared by the yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. When the mind is studying the external object, it gets identified with it, loses itself. To use the simile of the old Indian philosopher: the soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the color of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches…it has to take its color. That is the difficulty. That constitutes the bondage. The color is so strong, the crystal forgets itself and identifies itself with the color. Suppose a red flower is near the crystal: the crystal takes the color and forgets itself, thinks it is red. We have taken the color of the body and have forgotten what we are. All the difficulties that follow come from that one dead body. All our fears, all worries, anxieties, troubles, mistakes, weakness, evil, are from that one blunder-that we are bodies. This is the ordinary person. It is the person taking the color of the flower near to it. We are no more bodies than the crystal is the red flower. – Vivekananda
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Dear Reader, “Weekly Reflection” is the theme of my Monday weekly post, hopefully it offers something to think, reflect or meditate on. Enjoy.
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do no believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
-Buddha
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A happy person is not someone in
a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
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-Free yourself. Happiness is inside of you, just claim it. It asks for nothing.
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