Creating Harmony and Peace for Ourselves and Others
We like to say that to change the world we must change ourselves first. Therefore if we want peace on Earth we must find it inside ourselves first.
We do this by changing our way
of thinking and then we will change our lives and the state of the world.
In other words in order to change your
situation in the world, you must first change your inner world. Your
thoughts, both positive and negative drive your behavior.
Underneath the beauty, we
see around us there are
fixed natural laws that govern the existence of everything. When we
obey these laws, we are in harmony or balance and can create our own beauty
and harmony, but when we don’t abide by these laws, there will be
disharmony, chaos, and even destruction.
Harmonic Laws
Be 'holy', that is
complete. We are all 'holy', but most of us don't even know it.
The universe is whole and it wraps around us and we are part of it.
The Universe is all there is, it is complete. Realize that we
are complete and whole as well. When we live in accordance with
natural law, we live in harmony. This means to live within the truth
or true reality.
Live your life from the inside out. How we run our lives is a reflection of our inner thinking. When we create harmony in our mind and body, we experience harmony in our outer world too. This means to be constantly aware and let go of negative thoughts and negative patterns of thought that may block harmony. Harmony fosters love, success, and abundance so they all can flow into our life easily.
About Yin and Yang (translated: dark/bright). Duality is found in many belief systems. Yin and Yang make up the 'oneness'. In our Western, success/consumerism culture, yin and yang are out of balance. In American culture particularly it takes extreme dedication to balance our lives, find inner peace, and harmony. We all have to balance work and play, activities and rest, excitement and contentment, ambition and acceptance, materialism and spirituality in order to have stable, happy lives.
Live
in Einstein reality: manipulate time. We feel rushed, we
don't have enough time to do all the things we want to do. We
feel bored with too much time on our hands. We create
the perception of time. We can compress time by doing what
we love and spending time with the people that we love, or we
can expand time by doing the opposite. We must understand time
to create harmonious lives. One of the keys of time is to be
fully present in whatever you’re doing. It is to live in the
present moment – not the past, not the future.
Know this: Expect and
accept change. The number one, immutable law of nature
is that things change. If you don't like that, change your mind! If
we expect and accept changes in our lives, we’re are much more
likely to live in a state of balance and therefore harmony.
'Roll with it baby' ― go with the flow. There are cycles in nature. The sun rises and it sets. The moon gets full and then it wanes. Seasons come and seasons go. There’s a time for everything. To live in harmony is to learn to live with the flow of life rather than to go against it.
'Roll with it baby' ― go with the flow. There are cycles in nature. The sun rises and it sets. The moon gets full and then it wanes. Seasons come and seasons go. There’s a time for everything. To live in harmony is to learn to live with the flow of life rather than to go against it.
The Universe always
seeks balance. The Law of Compensation states that for every action
(cause), there is an equal and opposite reaction (effect). If the
pendulum swings one way, it must swing back the other way.
''The person who enjoys
great pleasure will also be subject to great suffering.
The person who feels little pain is incapable of feeling extreme joy."
The person who feels little pain is incapable of feeling extreme joy."
Happiness is not a
matter of rushing through a life of intense activity, it is a life of
balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.
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(after listening to this lecture you will join me in being a fan of Alan Watts, his style, and his teachings)
Your Universe: How to achieve Peace of Mind by Alan Watts
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