Question: How can we best achieve inner peace?
Answer: Inner peace comes from a total acceptance on all levels of your being of who you are…..an acceptance of how you look, how old you are, all that you have experienced in life, all that life has offered you in its richness of experience…..your colours….. the colour of your hair, the colour of your skin, the colour of your Ray of Light. All of this and much, much more contribute to the unique Being that you are…. each and every individual one of you on the planet.
Each age, each stage in life offers its own unique beauty, from the new born babe to the oldest crone / sage in life. Beauty is ever in the eye of the beholder. The present culture in the western world has forgotten the gift of the elders…. that of experience of life …that of wisdom, therefore it is bereft as a culture of the richness which the aged offer….that of maturity. The culture honours youth only. Youth has its own unique beauty, but youth is arrogant in its abilities, in its strength and in its self confidence. it is untamed by life. For the greatest part it has ceased to listen but clambers to be heard.
There are of course many exceptions to this rule, many deeply caring young people , but for the vast majority, the elderly are invisible. This creates fear in the aging population. As maturity approaches (middle age), they fear growing into maturity and seek to stay ever youthful, in appearance and in action………”40 is the new 30″……..”60 is the new 50″……..These are popular quotes. Face lifts are common. Hair is coloured. Fashions flourish. The list is endless, all in an attempt to stay youthful.
Youthfulness is all in the mind, not the body. A youthful mind is one which ever seeks to question, which remains ever open, which does not judge, which seeks understanding. It is the “Money Monster”, the great financial industry only which profits from the fear of aging among the present population of the western world. FEAR is encouraged as a thoughtform in every form of media, especially among the females. Appearance is everything among the shallow and indeed the less shallow also for such is the degree of indoctrination, of brainwashing, that all to a greater or lesser degree look in the mirror with despair when they see the ravages of time upon their faces, and indeed, upon their bodies.
The beauty “Industry” is one of the strongest growing markets based on fear. Women fear how others view them. They needst rather view themselves with new eyes and see their own unique beauty. Seek not to be like everyone else…..”In Fashion” seek rather your own unique beauty, your own individuality. be true to yourselves. Allow your Light to truly shine and your beauty will be unique and unsurpassed. Foe everyone without exception is beautiful, if they but allow their light to shine without the fog of self doubt, self – hatred, fear, pollution by physical means…..drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, sugars, chemical abuse on all aspects of life. Then will the true self shine through for how can you truly love others if you do not love yourself? As without, so within. dwell on this, beloveds of us.
(Post script)
You are all Temples of Light for you house within your bodies the Light of the Soul.
Question: Do we have to go into isolation to realise this? In the past and recent present, all spiritual seekers retreated to monasteries for a life of seclusion. The more isolated, the more spiritual. (I’m thinking of Tibet.) They removed themselves from the world of men. Is this essential, to become a recluse?
Answer: It is essential only to lift the mind from the level of the mundane. The monasteries of Tibet represented the highest levels of mind. This was reflected by the heights of the monasteries as well as the remoteness for in the past, the higher mind, or the goal of the higher mind has appeared a remote one. Now, it is given to everyone to have the opportunity of choice….to begin to view with the higher perspective of mind, or to remain in the lower echelons of thought. In the past, only the few were given this opportunity. Now is the time for all to be given the opportunity to open their wings and fly to the heights of the eagle, to view from the higher perspective of reality and to make the necessary changes in their life which ensue.
THIS is the vision of the new world. THIS is the raising of consciousness of humanity. The more who open their wings to flight, the easier it is for the rest to follow. Be not afraid to step of the edge of the cliff for that is when you open your wings to flight.
Peace be You.