In recent times there has been a lot of talk about achieving inner peace. But what is it all about? Why are people today desperately in need of inner peace? And how can you achieve it? All these questions have become so big today that people forget to live their lives in the race to find that so-called peace. Keep reading to find out the answers to these burning questions.
The Paradox
Usually, when people say peace, they mean freedom from any disturbance. This means that when they are wanting peace, they want and expect the outside world to not disturb them. And it is very obvious that such an expectation won’t be fulfilled.
And when their expectations aren’t fulfilled, they are devastated. Now you create an unrealistic expectation on your own, get frustrated when it is not fulfilled, and you say you want peace. That’s foolishness.
Furthermore, because society has already defined what the path of someone’s life should be, many people end up doing jobs they do not like just to get the appealing paycheck in the end. A vast majority of people hate their jobs, but they do it only because they want money along with the approval and appreciation of others.
We as a society have made our own standards and defined the courses of action for living here and hence indirectly compelled others to follow them. And the interesting thing is, we are the victims also.
The Right Course Of Action
There are many concepts of rights and wrongs defined by people all around the world. But the only right thing to do is to take charge of your own life. If you control your own life and do not let the controller be in other people’s hands, you will do what you truly love, and you will create the best and the most pleasant experiences for yourself.
Then you would not have to worry about achieving peace because when your life is in your hands, you are anyways joyful. Nobody needs to tell you to create a good experience for yourself. You will anyway do it and peace will be a natural consequence.
Only today when people are always occupied with their materialistic pleasures, they are creating new problems on their own and solving them with temporary solutions which themselves become problems later.
Walking The Path
Currently, we have given the remote control of our lives in the hands of society. And we create expectations from them that we ourselves know will be broken soon enough. But out of laziness, we let others control our lives because the burden of making decisions and taking responsibility for ourselves is intimidating.
The spiritual path is all about taking charge of your own life. When you are in charge, the predefined notions of society cannot affect your experience of life. You will anyways create the best experiences for yourself and the need to run behind peace will be gone.