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Calming Our Troubled Hearts
Adapted from Silence, How to Find Inner Peace in a Busy World, by Christina Feldman (Rodale Press, 2001).
We cannot be at peace with anything or contribute to a peaceful world unless we understand what it means to calm our own troubled hearts. Opening to our struggles with a generous heart and facing our life just as it is are the first and last steps in spiritual practice.
The price of peace is the willingness to be still and present within ourselves. To calm our own heart and unlearn the habit of self-abandonment is the beginning of the process.
Peace is not the absence of the challenging, disturbing, or unsettling. Peace is born of our heartfelt willingness to greet the encounters and experiences of our inner and outer world, without prejudice, resistance, or fear. We learn to live in a way in which we have no enemies to struggle with and no battles to win. The challenges that come to us we no longer perceive as threats to free from, but as invitations to learn the lessons of peacemaking.
Throughout time, in all traditions and communities, countless people have trained themselves in the art of peace. The people of the past and present who have most profoundly changed the world and who stand as beacons of hope and compassion for us have all been deeply challenged, threatened, and tested in their lives.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Julian of Norwich, and Mother Teresa, to mention just a few of the mystics and dissidents of our world, have all been asked to understand the nature of peace and freedom. They have educated themselves in the universities of bigotry, tragedy, and terror. Their classrooms have been in slums and prison cells, in the midst of oppression and deprivation.
Each one of them has without doubt been asked to make a deep inner journey to understand the causes of war and peace. If we treasure and long for peace, we too are asked to make this journey and to learn from the university of our lives. We discover that peace is not a destination to be reached but a way of living, relating, speaking, and being.
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add your comment »I , like Mother Theresa, have found present and coming eternal peace through Jesus Christ.I was healed of muscular dystrophy and a bitter heart in a Christian meeting in 1976. Real disease, real pain, real God. I have since had a life of calm with Him in my heart." Peace I give to you, peace I leave with you, not as the world gives(transitory peace)give I to you. Thanks so much.
ED C.
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This is an interesting article, its useful and informative.
Keep up the good work.
King jones (Scogostology)
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In this ever busy global commmunity there is need to calm our troubled hearts.We might be on the offensive by not meeting target,socila control,and spiritual forces beyound our control as we may think.The Bible emphatically stress that we are faced by principalities and powers that want to pull us down but only if we receive Christ Jesus today every thing will still look the same.To be spiritually at rest we must observe our health andf love our neighbour as ourselves."According to Dr Kengraey Ibeawuchi in his book titled TOTAL SPIRITUAL UPLIFTMENT.I quote"Look to your health and when you have sound health which encompasses, spiritual,emotional, physical and social.Thank God for a good health is the next thing to a good conscience.For further details on his book you can reach him on rho_exchange@care2.com +447 0319 55061.
Dr kengraey Ibeawuchi for Regional Health Outreach Exchange.Godbless you
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So many spiritual solutions offer comfort for the physical by calming the emotional which bypasses the mind when we re-connect with our spirit.
"if only they knew, they wouldn't worry so much" I said inside my mind as I turned over my left shoulder to view earth one last time.
This is what I said as I was rounding the curve to go "Home". I had just accidently? overdosed on prescription medication.
I had already processed, had the "can't describe it's beauty and peace and love and warmth" visions, seen the angels,knew God and
as the Bible says "in a blink of an eye" I knew all things. ALL things. I got "it". I see. I know. And it was wonderful and it was mine. I was going to be what I had always been. and just didn't know it. I was God and God was me and I created my life with God every step of the way.
There really was NO reason to worry or fret, or be depressed. I had become one with the universe and I was perfect. But as I walked into eternity I glanced over my shoulder and saw earth - it's so beautiful. So blue and white. No other colors! Just blues and whites.
Vivid - like the best National Geographic shot of the earth from space. I felt so sorry for everyone that didn't know,that was suffering, that was in pain, that had lost their joy. It brings me to tears just recalling the moment.
so I said inside my vibration of light and color " "if they only knew, they wouldn't worry so much."And just like that I was back and I knew what my life's purpose was.
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Thank you all discussing and trying to find your real self and know that your real self is always there, inside you, outside you, everywhere, and we can contact it by being quiet, to listen to it. Spiritual Master calls it Heavenly Teaching, Sound Currant or The Word (In Bible), etc. This is the only way to go through the ups and downs of this life and beyond at ease, to reach the origin (Where the sole came from), to end this physical transmigration. With the help of this inner teaching we will not get excited when we are in good situations and will not be deeply sad when we are in unpleasant situations. We know that this physical life is just a play; we play the part but should not be drowned in it. Keep on being positive and pray for peace to spread the good energy. God Bless.
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~ Little Wolf's Wish ~
Four wolf pups lay by their Mother's side
filling their Father's heart with pride
There was one girl and three males
Who protected their sister without
fail
Wolf pups love to run and play
for that is little wolves' way...
but their Father they must obey
they must heed what he has to say
From the day they were born
their Father had warned...
Stay away from man's farms
for he means wolf harm
That creature, the two legged one
carries a stick called a gun
he kills for sport and fun,
if you see him you must run!
Then came the fateful day...
the four wolves were at play
with their friends, the bear cubs
Suddenly gun shots filled the air
Little Wolf quickly looked around
his little sister's small body was laying on the
ground
only her soft fur moved as a lone wind
blew
In his heart and by instinct he knew...
He watched as she drew her last breath
her heart bravely embracing death...
Little Wolf's yelps pierced the sky
Why did his only little sister have to die...?
But he could not linger nor stay
the two legged one was headed his way
and his gun was pointed at him
He was trying to kill all of them!
The little wolves followed their own
tracks
and made it safetly back to the pack
Their beloved sister they will always
miss
and Little Wolf forever holds this wish...
That man's killing of wolves will cease
and man will let them liv
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WE ARE ALL HUMANS, FACED WITH OUR OWN SET OF CHALLENGES,AS WE STRUGGLE TO COME TO TURNS WITH THEM, THE BHAGWAT GITA PRESCRIBES A FOOLPROOF METHOD OF NOT JUST OVERCOMING THOSE CHALLENGES BUT CONQUERING OUR DESIRES THAT OBSTRACT THE DIVINITY WITHIN. THE TIME HAS COME FOR US TO WAKE UP TO OUR OWN POTENTIAL, TO UNEARTH OUR REAL PERSONALITY SHROUDED BY DESIRES. IT IS TIME FOE RENEWAL, A TIME TO UNDERSTAND WHO WE TRUELY ARE.
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Phil
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Here is a Prayer that will help you to also calm our hearts.
Prayer To Keep Silent
O Father, sometimes I am tempted to speak words of sadness, doubt,discord and despair.Help my tongue speak only words of Joy, of Love, of Faith, of Hope, and when needful, help me to keep silent. Amen
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