A short drive over a weekend, away from the clutter and mundane living, a few moments of self analysis, reflect upon our lives, our behaviours, our experiences and how we react to the things that happen in our lives will give us a very clear understanding of where we are going wrong. All we need to do is take the time to stop, analyze, realize and clear our thoughts and mind. Like diamond in dirt, our most sought after things in life is often found buried deep within our cluttered mind, heart and self. All of this can be done in our very own current individual lives. We do not need to learn about acceptance, life challenges, appreciation and respect for others and our own lives in remote areas of this world. We need not wait for a death, a divorce, a relationship breakdown or any such life altering calamities to take the time to learn from our surroundings, experiences and all that life has to offer us. We do not have to wait for a tragedy to force us to escape from our realities and go seek these in foreign lands miles away. Peace, wisdom, courage, acceptance, knowledge and all such things are truly found within us. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. We never manage to pick ourselves out of our own dirt, dust ourselves and try to understand our lives in terms of purpose, direction, what is truly important for us.įive great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. We never choose to spend time for ourselves and use it to collect our thoughts, reflect upon our life, analysis our actions, and appreciate the numerous blessings we experience daily in our lives. And in this mad rush to get out of this dirt filled lives of ours, we seldom stop to think and reflect upon ourselves. We tend to move fast and approach life as though we are in a big rush and want each of our experience to pass away as fast as it can. We clog our own thoughts and behaviours with bitterness, prejudice, hatred, narrow mindedness, anger, rage, complaints, blame, and react to live in a very negative way often. ~Mother Teresaīut we fill our lives with dirt. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. But again, they too overcome their challenges and accomplish several things in life and progress. They too, like us, face the same weather, life, living conditions, challenges, hurdles, and pains of life. We live in rapidly growing communities of varied cultures, people of different origins, languages, foods, rituals, beliefs, and faiths. We also know the extent of other peoples suffering and the challenges they face. Many of us live only an hour or few minutes away from beautiful picturesque nature. If we care to enough to practice some self analysis of self and the world around us, this wisdom and peace can often be found sitting right insider our dirt filled lives. The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. Hence, peace is found, wisdom gained, and with new vigour and courage the individual returns back to their familiar mad jungle. And by experiencing these, an individual begins to reflect upon their own life and actions and eventually apply the same open mindedness and acceptance of what is life. Hence people living in the most developed of countries eventually seek to follow the proven trail of wisdom and travel to underdeveloped nations where they bathe in the local culture, learn to appreciate different types of living conditions, foods, and how every other human being faces their share of burden, happiness and pleasures of this life. Like diamond in dirt, it appears that the most valuable and the most sought after things in life is often found in the most unlikely of places. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. A place that is foreign, with amazing backdrop of mountains, sea or sprawling fields or meadows, where amidst the maddening traffic, poverty, despair and illiteracy, they find wisdom, purpose, tranquility and peace. Several stories (real and fictional) often indicate that true wisdom, and peace can only be sought in the most rural, fundamental and remotest of places in the world.
I find it amusing when I read stories about people in the developed world searching for peace or the meaning of life travel thousands of miles to the most underdeveloped countries and find it there.