Inner peace

[kingjoshi]

Have you found inner peace? A level of contentment with who you are, what you've done, where you're going, etc.

It's odd because I think I found it last summer. But the drawback is, regardless of what happens, I'll still be content. Motivations and aspirations I used to have are dwindling. It feels like I should care more about it than I do, but I'm mostly content with my level of contentment.

No matter how any specific event can make me sad, it's short lived. And it's an odd mixture of heart felt sadness, but some distance with an overall perspective. In general, I'm very happy, but it's as though I'm happy because I believe I'm happy. And it's cyclical. It's not as though I can define what happy means.

I think this is what true freedom is. This inner peace.

I'm an agnostic/atheist, but most of this applies. Obviously, I lack literary talent.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

 

[Abaddon]

No, because the world is forver changing around me. From time to time i am very content, but then there is a essay deadline, or a bust up with the GF...etc.

Inner peace? I am perfectly content within myself beyond the rare times i am unhappy.. so perhaps i am closer than most.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Sometimes I think i'm starting to find it then stuff gets messed up, liek something bad happens or I do something stupid and make myself angry at myself.

 

[funxus]

Furthest I've gone in this quest was to go to live in a meditation center in Yangoon. I did enter some kind of trance from time to time, but I've never been so bored in my whole life. After this I decided not to look so hard for it, but constantly try to improve my life philosophy to fit my current situation instead.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

On a very few occasions, I have reached a sense of inner peace. They are short-lived, but I know how they can be acheived (depends on outside circumstances as well as my state of mind) and I believe that such will be part of our eternal bliss.

 

[.Shane.]

Have you found inner peace?

Its not something I'm even bothering to look for.

 

[Kozmos]

You cannot kick ass and have inner peace.Unless your Steven Seagal.But that's another story....

-Zen of Cleric

 

[Raisin Bran]

You cannot kick ass and have inner peace.Unless your Steven Seagal.But that's another story....

-Zen of Cleric

Chuck norris can! ... sorry for the off-topicness

I have found inner peace ... but I lost it 2 weeks ago ... not a joke !

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I have found inner peace ... but I lost it 2 weeks ago ... not a joke !

It's usually in the last place you left it.

No really, I mean to get it back will probably mean doing the same things that brought it to you in the first place.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I've had it on a couple of occasions. I don't have it right now. I'm not worried that I won't have it again, though.

 

[Raisin Bran]

It's usually in the last place you left it.

No really, I mean to get it back will probably mean doing the same things that brought it to you in the first place.

It should be back this thrusday .... I had troubles in my live this week but Im hoping to catch a break this thrusday!

 

[CaptainF]

I've had it on a few fleeting occasions before.

It is a great feeling, believe me.

Though it is very hard to maintain inner peace.

 

[Dreadnought]

Unfortunetly, I have not found it yet

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

No, I doubt that I can find it, at least in this lifetime.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I have found inner peace ... it's the "outer" peace that eludes me...

 

[Narz]

I'd say I am in a state of mild inner peace about .01% of the time.

The rest of the time I'm seeking it. I realzie, of course, the only thing I can directly control is my own actions and tragectory so I am probably better than most (and certainly better than I used to be) and not letting life's challenges throw me off course. Actually when things go "not as planned" I usual feel the most inner peace (maybe as high as .04% of time) even if I also feel the most inner turmoil.

 

[Gelion]

How did you find inner peace? What was the final brick in this "construction" for you?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

How did you find inner peace? What was the final brick in this "construction" for you?

I guess my belief in God consolidated the thing ... i have a strange system of beliefs btw.
So ever since that time i just feel glad to be alive, i just feel at peace with myself. It is one of those feelings that you have when you discover the truth about smthing, the truth that everyone sees but no one bothers to belive in, and those that do belive never see the greatness and humility of it ...

 

[Sidhe]

You'd have to be a pretty mixed up individual to think inner peace was a myth or did you mean Nirvana? The Dali Lama has found Nirvana so have many Budhists so that aint mythical either. Any way occasionally not so much lately but I'm sure it'll be my turn again soon. Nirvana isn't like the ascension to heaven of Jesus it's just a mortally achievable state of bliss by well who can tell you that Not even Budha. Budha died by the way just like everyone else. Excepting of course some prophets, I think who were taken up to heaven directly, but that's religious so I'm not taking it at face value

 

[Irish Caesar]

How did you find inner peace? What was the final brick in this "construction" for you?

I've had it when out running by myself. I tend to lose it, though, by the end of the run.