On Achieving Peace and Happiness
Piggybacking on the last few ideas in an earlier post, I wanted to share with you how I personally win peace and happiness. The first thing I have to do is to understand myself. I must clearly know what it is that my heart wants. My heart thinks that it wants attention and praise, but after communing with both my heart and intuition, I've found that all I really want is to make friends, learn, and bask in the glory of being alive. No one wants to die. We just want our challenges and suffering to cease. For good or for worse, this world has no shortage of obstacles and pain. Most of us learn at an early age to pursue pleasurable experiences, and to avoid the situations that cause us pain. A lesson we learn as we begin to grow older, is that most of the worthwhile things in life are achieved by delaying gratification, and facing precisely the things that scare us. An adventure, by definition, is a journey carrying risk of harm or perhaps even death. It may seem absurd, as if we were ...