Inner Peace

WHAT IS INNER PEACE? HOW WE CAN FIND IT?

This inner peace fascinates me a lot and I have been thinking about it for a long time now. I feel that we can control our minds and that is what inner peace is all about, controlling our minds and bodies.  We all can find it or should I say we all can achieve it because it takes time and practice to master it.

Inner peace is a mind-set.  It makes us complete. It gives us energy and strength and it is a gate to ultimate happiness. Inner peace balances us and it gives us ability to enjoy life more. It gives us new perspectives for better life.

For me full inner peace is a dream, it is a dream for better life. I believe we can always be better and we can always learn new things and pursuing for inner peace is one of my goals in life. I believe we all should develop ourselves all the time and learn from our mistakes and that is what I am doing. Every day I am growing up, learning new things and making best of my life.

Good example about inner peace and why we should seek it is the movie called “Kung Fu Panda II”, the movie is about inner peace, he has to find it to save the world. What a story!  It is a good movie, you should watch it if you haven’t seen it already. Basically with inner peace you can find your hidden talents and use all your resources because you are in harmony with yourself and you are able to control your body and your mind. The movie tells exactly what inner peace is, it is power which gives you amazing powers. 

WHY WE SHOULD PURSUE FOR INNER PEACE?

I feel like it would be achievement which would bring peace and happiness to my life. I think by finding inner peace it would make my life much easier and I could face all the challenges without any grief or worries.  I could be steady all the time and I would get more out of my life.

My life is good, it is excellent. I have amazing family and friends, I don’t have financial problems and I am happy. I do feel complete but still I worry and I get all kind of stupid feelings like anger. I don’t want to feel angry or jealous; I just want to feel happy and steady. I want to cry and feel sad but I really don’t want to feel envy or other silly feelings. I believe that full inner peace will help me to control those feelings.

By being in harmony with our bodies and minds gives us the control of our lives and feelings.  It gives us energy to live. It gives us inner peace. 

FINDING INNER PEACE

We can’t achieve inner peace just by deciding that I will be in peace with myself and I don’t feel any anger or any other annoying feelings anymore. Inner peace comes with dedication, time, and practice and with compassion.

Compassion

Dalai Lama writes about compassion and I just read his book about it. I believe in compassion, I agree that it is a way to inner peace and happiness. By giving compassion without any prejudice it will give us back something that we can’t buy, it gives us back fulfilment. Why it so important to get that is because we need to feel complete to be happy and compassion fills empty holes in us.

Dalai Lama divides people in three categories: love ones, neutral ones and enemies. One of his exercises is to think how we feel about all those people and give compassion to all of them.  He writes that without our enemies we couldn’t find inner peace. Our enemies are our friends; they help us to find ourselves. They gives us something to work at, they gives us anger which by practicing can be controlled. So we can learn from our enemies, they help us to grow.

By giving compassion to everybody regardless their backgrounds is the key to inner peace.

Complete

We all know how sometimes we feel that something is missing in our lives and we are searching for something…We have holes in our heart. We don’t know why but we just feel that we have to search and do something to fill those holes. Some of us try to fill those holes with stuff by buying everything, thinking that it makes them feel better, it helps for a while but it is not the solution. Some of us drink and some of us try to fill those holes with meaningless relationships. We all have different ways but how we get complete is when we decide to stop searching, that is how I found my fulfilments; I stopped searching. I accepted that I will die someday and I looked around and saw how amazing my life is. I stopped living in the future and started to live in the present. I decided that I don’t need any fancy car or beautiful wife. I just need to enjoy what I have now. That is how I filled all my wholes and got my heart complete. Sometimes I still feel that I am missing something but then I go through all my things again to realize what life is all about.

Time, patient and dedication

To achieve something we always need time, patient and dedication; this also applies with inner peace. I believe I will learn more every day by practicing control my mind and studying the way I behave on different situations. I am analysing myself all the time to understand how I react on different things and I am trying to identify reasons for all my bad feelings. I study and I learn.

There is no short cut.

ENDING

I am not saying that we all should seek for inner peace but I believe that it will bring me more happiness and joy in my life. I believe it will make me a better person.

Whatever we decide to do, it is right decision. We all make our own path which will take us to the end. Life is short, we have to accept that and we all are masters of our own lives. We are in control. We make our own decisions based on our experience and that will be the outcome of our life. We all make mistakes, we are not perfect but that is life.

It doesn’t matter what we do or not do, only thing matters is that we are happy whatever we do.

Happiness is for everybody.     

Dreams can come true

I am now at work sailing along coast of Italy, just heading to Dubrovnik.  Life is good at sea and here I have time to do some soul searching. I spent some time in Cartagena and also some time in Finland with my kids but now I am at sea at least the next 5 weeks.

I have been searching my inner peace by reading books.

All this is preparing for my next adventures.

I bought couple books before I joined this mighty ship and one of them was the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

 Dreams can come true.

I am now telling the whole story so if you don’t want to know what happens on that book please do not read further!! I will read this book at least one more time to really understand its meaning.

It is a story about a Spanish boy who was a shepherd, he has few sheep and he takes care of them and travels around Andalucía.  He knows all the best places to feed his sheep and they become good friends. He provides them food and shelter and they provide him cotton.  They live in perfect harmony, life is good. Or is it? The boy started seeing dreams about a treasure near pyramids and on that dream a man says follow the signs. He gets some signs, he meets a king who knew about his dreams and he starts pursuing his treasure, his dream.  He doubts a lot can he leaves his good and safe life behind and pursues something which is just a dream.  He gets more signs and he travels to Egypt and he gets rubbed. He lost all his money but with his amazing attitude he found a job which gives him great fortune and he have to decide to continue following his dream or get back to his old good life. More signs occur and he has learnt new amazing things about life and people. While travelling he has been observing the world and learning from it.  People thought him new skills and new languages.  It was hard decision to continue following his dream but he did continue. He had to cross the great desert but before that while in Egypt he met love of his life. Love on first sight. The girl was Muslim so they didn’t have any physical contact but they talked and talked. They both fell in love. The girl wanted him to follow his dream and she promise to wait. It was true love.

The boy continues his journey through desert,   war against tribes was going on and he met a new friend who thought him about books. While travelling the boy studied the world, the nature, the wind and the people, he started to understand the language of the world. Soon he was able to talk with the world.  He understood that only way to really understand the world was to listen it.  

Their convoy reached an oasis and they stopped to rest and waited the war to end. The boy went for a walk and had a vision that the oasis will be attacked by the rebels. The oasis was under agreement that the tribes won’t attack there but the boy was sure about his vision and went to the leader of that oasis. First they didn’t believe the boy but they didn’t want to take any changes so they prepared themselves for a fight on condition that if no one will attack the boy will die. Next day there was an attempt to take over the oasis. The boy got rewarded and got offered a high position in the community.

The boy met the Alchemist who could transform led to cold; an ancient skill which required a motivation, understanding and patient. The alchemist has had a vision that a boy would come and he should teach him, that day came, the boy was there. Once again the boy had to decide which path he we would take, to return home as a wealthy man, stay in the community as a respected citizen or continue chasing his dream. He decided to continue his journey. More difficulties and challenges were on the way but the alchemist thought the boy to listen his heart. He learnt it. He was able to communicate with his heart and he realized that a heart guides and protects him.

They could almost see the pyramids when a warlord captured them.  The Alchemist got them more time to live saying that the boy could transform into wind and fly away. The warlord was curious and gave them 3 days to prepare. The boy was scared; he didn’t know how to transform into wind. The day came and the boy was standing on a cliff trying to transform into wind. All the soldiers and the warlords were waiting a miracle to happen. The alchemist believed in him, he knew he was special. The boy started to listen and he realize that while travelling he had learnt the language of the world. He was able to speak with the wind. He asked the wind to transform him into wind but the wind didn’t know how, so the boy asked the sun and the desert. The sun was not able to help but it advised the boy that the only the ONE could help him. The boy started to pray but he didn’t ask anything for himself so the GOD almighty helped him and turned him into wind.

Finally the boy reached the pyramids and he got rubbed and mugged again but got his final sign which said that the treasure was where he first started his journey; it was where he has lived his whole life.

He founds the treasure and he gets the girl. Happy end! J  

This was long story short.

Amazing story! That book gives something to think and it gives hope. Hope to pursue our own dreams.

It is a story that if we don’t pursue our dreams we will never be truly happy. With open heart and mind the world keeps us safe.

In the happiness point of few there was really good points. Let’s make a list.

1.        Pursue your dreams.
2.        Don’t give up (attitude)
3.        Believe in love (family) THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD; LOVE!
4.        Listen your heart it will guide and protect you (safety)
5.        Believe in life (attitude)
6.        Listen the world it will teaches you so amazing things (flow)
7.        Smile and the world smiles back to you
8.        Faith   

The book is a love story but it’s also a story of hope and life. Challenges are part of life and we all get them but we shouldn’t give up, we should face them and learn from them. Life goes on whatever happens and there is a treasure waiting for all of us somewhere, we just have to follow the signs and listen our hearts and just keep going.

This story is for everybody but especially it is for all those people who are sitting at home thinking that they should chase their dreams but are too scared to leave everything behind.

GO, take a change!!!

There is only one life, one opportunity to feel and see. We are alive so let’s start living.

Life is not easy and lots of challenges are on our way but is makes us stronger, it makes us what we are and behind every corner there is something new and exciting waiting for us.

The book is also about power of love and pray, nothing can beat them!! Love makes the world.

I recommend this book for everybody. Amazing book!

I now preparing myself to my next step to ultimate happiness and I will do lot of reading and self-examination which I will share on my blog.

This book gave me power to continue doing things I do, it gave me support what I was thinking before. AMAZING!! J

Happy thinking!

Life is an adventure.