Patience is the antidote to anger. By patience we don’t mean “grin and bear it”. Instead of reacting suddenly, smell it, look at it and open yourself to seeing what’s there. The journey of patience involves relaxing, opening to what is happening with a sense of wonder.
When immigrants adopt the host’s country spirituality, they generally must learn an entirely new system. They must cope with the conflict between the two cultures until they reach a spiritual stage where cultural differences become meaningless.
As society grows more intelligent there seems to be less happiness and more trouble. You can find happiness by leading a simple, plain and natural life. To find the simple natural way of being, you must liberate your own being, then you can lead others out of the mire.
Everyone’s inner world opens up to the outer world and one needs to learn to align them, to connect your inner being with outer goals. Learning to connect to your deepest truth encourages a movement toward harmony within yourself even as you deal with life’s realities.
Quote: Civilizations enter dark ages when the free flow of information has ceased.