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The exhausting quest for inner peace

AARP has a terrific magazine with the largest circulation in the world. I was delighted to read a travelogue by Melina Bellows in the March & April 2008 issue. Ms. Bellows, employed fulltime and the mother of two children under four, is offered a five-day jaunt to an Ayurvedic spa in India called Ananda. She accepts.

Dr. Sree Sreedharan, a Vedanta disciple, gives her a private lesson at one point during her stay. In a personal encounter, her burning issue bursts out of her,

posted by Susan Corso on 2/25/2008 10:38 am | COMMENTS (2)
Comments (2)

Dear Milly, BRAVA! Susan Corso

posted by Susan Corso on 3/11/2008 9:14 am

The inner peace depends, as so many things in our life, on the point of view. If you know that everything is in your head, and nothing is real as you think, that nothing is permanent and solid and for ever, that everything is changing all the time, specially us and our relationships, all kinds of relationshiops, so what can you do? You can find the shelter inside in yr mind, in yr heart. Find yr inner sunny, beautifull place where you can relax every second of yr life whenever you do not have things to do, to say or to think. And there are so many moments like that. Don't think the useless thaughts, just let them go, an you ll see how peacefull already is yr heart. Don't judge the others and you ll see how peacefull and calm is yr heart. Don't "wish" and "want" all the time, and you ll see how much inner peace you have. We are the demiourgs of ourselves, so just try to open yr mind, and the best way for it is meditation. Find the right teacher and then work on yr inner freedem. Love, Milly.

posted by milly on 2/27/2008 1:34 am

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