Look at the sun shining inside you

Looking out the window today, into a cloudy sky, I remembered my mother telling me as a child, what her grandmother used to say to her:

"Look at the sun shining inside you instead of looking out the window."

She knew how important it is to pay more attention to our inner being than to what surrounds us, because the quality of our life depends essentially on how we treat ourselves.

They didn't teach me that in school. It was and is not part of the curriculum to teach children how to deal with their thoughts, emotions, their bodies, their chemistry and their energy and thus be a clear heaven inside. They are not prepared to avoid being hit by a "stormy" situation while they are in one.

We have not learned to understand the fundamentals of life, the nature of our existence, but have learned to pay too much attention to everything that surrounds us. That is why most of us humans live in an internal storm and look outside for that which should turn it into a clear sky.

Like all living beings, we have the intrinsic aspiration to be our best version in every moment, to be a fulfilled life. But we're trying in ways that won't work in the long run, and we can prove that. The knowledge we’ve acquired during our life, separated us from the knowing of our essential being, with which we were born. We haven't been taught that the only way to live the way we wish to, is to know how to become the best captain of the ship that sails in this inner psychological storm.

And for this we must first see what is already present in us at this moment, exactly as it is.

The happiness, peace and love that you feel in you here and now, determine the quality of your life, not the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the titles you have ...

If you can't even enjoy worldly things like breathing air, walking the earth, watching a sunrise, eating a fruit, there is nothing in your life that you can do with dignity. The most fundamental thing, is to be at peace. It has nothing to do with the external activity you are doing, but with the way your internal systems work. It is impossible to be at peace when your mind, emotions, body, energy, and chemistry are out of your control and doing their own thing. That's why you feel anxious.

It’s understandable: you have a sophisticated boat to sail, but you don't know how to do it properly. That's why it's causing you so much trouble.

Now you will understand why peace and happiness in your life are the most basic requirements and not the highest goal: you need them in order to deal with any situation properly.

If you know this, the conditions that you place on the attainment of your happiness and feeling of peace, become redundant.

It is time you saw and lived the opportunities that you have as a human being. And you learnt how to feel joy and bliss in everyday experiences and recognized that pleasure is only a poor substitute for them.