Thursday, September 11, 2025

Thursday, September 11, 2025

The practitioners who intentionally sits in silence and solitude elevate themselves by realizing what it means to live in the awareness of the present moment. When you are aware you are lifted beyond your pain and sorrow. You feel true peace and happiness. You intuitively feel that are not your ego self but your aware self that is one with all there is and is always at peace. Your mindful life is the authentic life that is awake to the here and now. 

What is a life of contemplation? It is to realize that we come to the world alone and we leave alone, that our solitude is absolute. To be an authentic individual is to watch our feelings, thoughts, sensations, activities and relationships as finite; and to witness our true self as infinite. 

Those who neither know solitude nor freedom from past and future thinking suffer from regrets and cravings. But those who practice interior silence stay linked with their Authentic Self which is contentment, peace and joy. 

Clear sky and mountains are what they are in their stillness. In the same way, we need to be ourselves in stillness and inner silence. Whether poor or wealthy, having good times or going through difficult times, stillness and inner silence is always available deep within us, to elevate us above the circumstances, conditions or passing phases.

You have decided to lead an authentic life, a creative and contemplative life, and this year you are doing something about it – you are walking on this path of creativity and spirituality. You have shown yourself that you are determined to hone your spiritual Self. Because you see, you are either a spiritual Self or you are not. There is no gray area.