It is good to seek inner peace and a simply undisturbed life.
For a day to go well the first thing I must do after I get to my office is to pull out the mat. I unroll it and at roughly the same time I put on soft ancient music. Sitting for five minutes I try to push all conscious thought from my mind. During that short span it isn’t easy not to fixate on laundry lists of things to do. It isn’t easy not to dwell on regrets and unfulfilled dreams. But for five minutes I really try and detach from myself. Call it meditation, call it prayer, it is a special time.
Most times when I stand up I am refreshed. Most time I feel more balanced after such a session. The trick is that it is so easy to walk away from this practice. It is five minutes that I am not typing an Order. It is five minutes I am not paying a bill. It is five minutes that I am not being useful. We are driven to be doing something all of our waking moments. Being still isn’t considered productive in our culture.
The Orders can wait. I am paying a bill to myself, to my soul. I am being useful because a “me” with a clearer mind is more productive over the course of a day. Surely I get more out of a calm focused set of thoughts that from a jangled cognitive center. In seeking quietude I am seeking clarity. In pushing things out of my conscious mind I can see sometimes quite clearly what is junk. Knowing what spiritual junk is lets me begin the process of growth and awareness. Reflection helps me pick a path that leads me out of the spiritual debris.
The key is that after reflection we must be willing to set aside the inertia in our lives. We have to push ourselves after contemplation to move beyond the foolishness encumbering our mental and spiritual lives. We need to look for clarity. We need to seek out the source of clarity. Then, we must act with awareness.
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