We need silence ...

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls.  

~Mother Teresa

Mend the parts of the world

Mend the parts of the world that are within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Contentment

Leave everything behind.

Feel absolute peace and

tranquility and a deep sense

of resolution called contentment.

Content with where you are,

with who you are, content with

what is from moment to moment.

Amrit Desai

Inner Peace

You may have heard of Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist. She became especially well known when her lecture about the stroke she suffered in 1996 was posted on the internet. I just finished reading her amazing account in her book, My Stroke of Insight. What particularly struck me was how she described the feeling of deep inner peace as being located in the neurological circuitry of the right brain.

I have been writing about receptivity – receiving – as being an experience of the present rather than the suffering past or fantasy future, a bonded pair that operates as a team.

Dr. Taylor describes the feeling of peace as being in the present moment rather than something we bring from the past or project into the future and as coming from an actual location in the brain.

I love this quote from her, “Step one to experiencing inner peace is the willingness to be present in the right here, right now.” If you want to experience peace, she says, “Step to the right,” meaning the right hemisphere of your brain.

There are so many ways to describe, to explain, to illustrate the freedom of peace. Check out My Stoke of Insight for a very understandable description for the layperson about how the brain “speaks” and how you can talk to your brain.

Stillness

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality. Deepak Chopra