Harmony with your environment, Inner peace, Humility, and Constant effort. Simple Ingredients, mmm, look at the first.Humility is simple to understand that you do not need to be better than anyone in anything, you just have to be better than yourself ... You don't depend on the favor of another, for your own spiritual path; it is essential humility, recognize everything that needs to be corrected and then start doing it.
No need to worry about all the years someone has been looking for his lighting, if you have been working less time, nor if he has paid for seminars or courses and you can not, nor if the environment in which one lives is more favorable ... no more favorable environment for the spiritual journey...
Stay in a state of humility and honesty with yourself, do your homework each day in your own way without looking that way others do, without humility you will believe that nothing is enough and more, that you need things or favorable situations to advance, and it's not.
Inner peace, stop thinking so much, life is much simpler than what most imagine, it takes so little to live in peace, the problem is your own mind it was programmed from childhood to seek in vain in the wrong direction, to seek assurances that never exist, to give importance to what is ephemeral. Every thought must be put concern on a balance beam and in the other the question ... And what, ¿does it matter from here to (eg) 5 years?.
Meditation for many is so difficult to achieve, ie a meditative state, seeks to achieve an inner silence, some suggest filter the thoughts that come to mind and rule them out one by one, others say it should be stripped of all that is imposed on us. We can not have peace of mind to follow our spiritual path if we follow under the conditions that others told us to walk, is like trying to walk east, but facing north ... one of two things will not work, or we'll be north or stumble so much as we shall have no more legs.
There are hundreds of sayings and famous quotes, I like very much one that is well known, I write like this, make the maximum effort needs to be done, accept what can not be changed. And spend the deeper understanding
to understand that it should or should not change.
Constant effort, in what?, let go of worldly ambition, to achieve true detachment from all time, no more comparisons.
Seek to create a list of activities to accomplish each day, related to individual spiritual improvement, but never put on your list what others do, because it seems advisable to remember that the spiritual journey is
individual, each individual must walk their own spiritual path with their own personal live situations , you must also be realistic and honest with yourself. For example do not try to make a leap of 6 feet without've never tried or not you've trained for it ...
So your list of activities should accompany your current status, or your current spiritual level course must accompany your lifestyle and basic needs that must be filled. Having to work does not prevent to work on yourself when you're in your home. Do not add to your list for example to pray 500 times a day if your time and our basic needs do not allow it, adjust your way to your unavoidable obligations, and do not worry, that will not stop.
The list of your spiritual activities you can modify as often as necessary.
A sincere hug, Paul Barbé
