{"id":5324,"date":"2010-02-19T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:11:33","slug":"nothing-is-worth-losing-your-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/02\/nothing-is-worth-losing-your-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is worth losing your peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Stay away from anything that disturbs your peace of mind, from anything that brings disappointments, anxieties and worries.”<\/strong>
\n~ Swami Satchidananda<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nothing is worth losing my peace over. This is something I have had playing in the background of my mind since November, through all the mental noise and all the interactions with people who love and care about me, and those who try to harm me. It is something I have told a few of my friends from time to time, because it has had the most profound impact on me throughout all these changes. I sent it as a postcard for Joseph’s fridge back in the first week of our friendship. It is a daily reminder, a mantra that I feel it is an essential key to happiness and bliss. I have spent my happiest days this way. Nothing else matters more than your inner peace, living in harmony with your inner thoughts and following through on actions based on what brings you the most harmony and peace, while ideally those actions also bless others. Those are the perfect actions. If we all lived this way imagine what kind of world we’d be living in?<\/p>\n

If some situation or someone is bringing too much pain into your life, causing you to live in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, feeling like you need to hide who you really are, if you live in fear, if you’re with a partner or friends you can’t grow in positive uplifting directions with, or who’s input makes you feel mentally or emotionally fuzzy, or living a life that is the opposite of where you need to be, a job that you hate to get up for in the mornings, anything that is causing sleepless nights, let it go. Let it all go. Be brave and stop in your tracks before more time is invested in pain. Stop trying to figure out ways to control a situation that brings nothing but grief. Every time you give up something big, a huger space will open in your life for better more beautiful things. There can be no space for wonderful new things while you’re still holding onto the old familiar poison. Declutter. Try it and see what comes into your life. You have nothing to lose except all that mental dis-ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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