“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
I liken a man’s life to a long meditation, that is bound to come to an end. This is my mantra and philosophy.
If you’ve ever meditated before, or simply practiced Yoga - you might have realized the impatience and agitation your mind caused, even if you were just waiting for ten minutes of clock-time to end. Now, how you endure that ten minutes or forty minutes of meditation is quite an excellent reflection of how you are currently enduring, living, and appreciating your entire life.
In meditation, though you are simply seated — you encounter various mental storms, sunshine, depression and peace — to name a few! But that is exactly what we go through in our entire lives. And my conclusion is that if you master ten or an hour of meditation — master in the sense of experiencing prolonged peace, tranquility and gratitude — you will also master this game of life.
Storms you will reduce by your calmness, depression will be foreign to you, and you will indeed live in sunshine and peace — even though the external world may be in turmoil.
I assure this life game is a mental game. Study, observe, and understand your mind and you will have understood life in its entirety.
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. — Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Cancelo Alvarez
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