Mahatma Gandhi said, “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
Two thousand five hundred years earlier, Hippocrates, the father of medicine said:
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
Why Go To a Silent Retreat? In my spiritual quest for Truth and Ultimate Reality, I fly out twice a year to silent meditation retreats in Bali and India. Teachers and gurus led and spoke at these retreats to help students step back from the outside and go more deeply within. A silent retreat is that
Aside from the ready-made formulas handed by religion, prayer also consists of conscious observance of thoughts and emotions. Modern psychology calls this practice mindfulness. This means disallowing the mind and emotions to run wild. The most powerful of prayers are born of your own heart, your own words, ignited by the flame of your intentions and will.
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Our relationships on earth are how we experience ourselves, see God in others, and bring out the divine qualities we always have had, and are: love, truth, patience, desirelessness, humility, gentleness, fearlessness—some of which we can cultivate and refine further in truly forgiving others.
When surrounded by the qualities of light, purity, and calm, these energies and vibration naturally work its way from the outside in. They affect our mind and emotions and seep out through our thoughts, words, and actions.
