How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment.. The present moment is the field in which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, see what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: ONE WITH LIFE. Being one with life is been one with now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment. Ask yourself, “is there negativity in me at this moment? “
Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious presence that witnesses those states.
I struggle at being the presence that witnesses the emotions and just sees them for what they are rather than being the emotion.
I don’t live my life but life lives me. That is a wild idea. I am just along for the ride or rather the dance.
What is life going to do through me?