Shakti Meditation's Blog – April 2015 Archive (5)

This quote is from our last online satsang.

You can hear it by playing this youtube video

It's nice to meditate to while reading.





"The purpose of this peace

is not to give you more money,

not to heal your body,

not to make you happier,

not to make you enlightened.…

"A lot of your suffering

comes from what you are putting

into your mind and body:

The food you eat,

the alcohol/drugs/stimulants you take,

the media you watch, the music you listen to,

the people you listen to,

the books you read etc.



Take away everything unhealthy

and replace it with healthy,

get daily exercise and…

"Offer 100 percent attention

to whatever you do.



If you do that,

no matter what the outcome,

you will be fulfilled.



There is no real peace or love

when you scatter your attention

a little here and a little there

or you are attached to the outcome

being a certain way.

Then you are not alive.

Then you are…

"Everyone has situations

in their life where they say

'It's impossible to be present

in this situation.'



But impossibility

only exists in your thinking.

You are only holding on

to a certain judgment about how it should be;

holding on to a certain idea of yourself

and refusing to budge from your position.



It is…