Don't let the world rob you of your inner beauty. You are here to give
peace, not to lose it to robbers.
What is the secret to protecting your peace? Always remember, you do not reflect the world, the world reflects you. As you Are, so is the world you perceive. Allowing outer circumstance to overshadow your inward light is the beginning of tragedy.
The most radical act is to rest in the heart.
In the Bhagavad Gita, in the midst of life's battle, Krishna says to
the warrior Arjuna, "Yogastah karu-karmani: Perform action with your
heart established in the Yoga of peace."
No one can measure the
value of another's work. Noble deeds may exhaust great quantities of
activism, yet be erased in a short time by other events. But a quiet
shoemaker with a radiant heart, sitting
alone in his shop and stitching on a boot sole, may thread heaven and
earth together, and save the planet. Through the warp and woof of this
unfathomable karmic web, the movement of a moth's wing could collapse an
empire. Who are we to judge?
Therefor, in the most mundane of
tasks, let us be energy fields for peace. Whether we scrub out the
bathtub, make big business in the marketplace, march in the streets with
the Occupy movement, or walk quietly alone in the forest, what matters
is not the outward form of action, but the quality of consciousness.
With the breath of your heart, wherever you are, infuse peace into every atom of the earth. This is the deeper work.
Jai Guru Dev
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