What brings peace to your heart?

Question

many people find peace in practicing religion. Others find it just going for a walk in the woods. Still others find it doing good works for others. What brings you peace?

Answer 1

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 2

The idea that I will one day have my own garden, my own home. Not through marriage- I mean, I will work and am working today to make this dream come true. I strive now, am often not at peace now, in order to reach that place where I hope to feel peace. But seeing it in my head, makes me feel like I am there- I am walking around in my own garden, in the short, green grass and to a central tree, past flowering bushes and beside a rich green hedge.... aaahhhh!!!!....
And in my home it'll be quite, designed exactly like I want it to be, and probably I'll have my mom in there with me (we live together now, too- we rent) and by the time I would have been able to afford it, that means I would have reached a stable point in my career. I am working toward that, too- I'll be happy at this point just to have some stability, some security- some return for my sacrifice and strife. :) That'll bring peace to my heart, mind, and soul. :)

Answer 3

A walk in the woods is definitely peaceful,believe it or not caring for the elderly at my job is too, so too is soft classical music, but the deepest peace I have ever found is when I spend an hour with Our Lord in Adoration.

Answer 4

Peace like true joy are eternal and are present no matter where you are or what is going on around you. The only real peace comes from knowing God as you eternal Father.

Answer 5

Knowing that Jesus Christ has paid the debt in full for my sins.
Knowing that my belief in Him and my gift of faith allows me to have fellowship with God and that my prayers are heard.
Knowing that this is not my final destination and a better home is waiting for me and my fellows brothers and sisters in Christ.
Knowing that other than the Love of Christ is all that matters.
Knowng that in spite of my ugliness inside and my sins daily I am still loved by God.

Answer 6

Love...when I am in love and the person loves me back, I feel very much peace in my heart and I think that after all, life is good!

Answer 7

others happiness brings peace to my heart
i smile when they smile
i am content when they are content
i am always told i should lIve for me and be happy for me ... but no matter how i try , i feel a need to bring happiness to others
and ive came to the conclusion that this is me and i don't want to change or have it any other way
so i will go on trying to bring happiness to others and in turn find happiness in myself through them xx

Answer 8

.**What brings peace to your heart?

Watching a three year old attempting to lace and tie
her sneakers.
Sometimes the determination exhibited in such an
endeavor is awe inspiring to me.
That's very peaceful, innocence without sin

Answer 9

Do your duty and do not expect anything in return. What should come to you will automatically come. Do not worry about anything and you will have peace of mind and also for your heart.

Answer 10

First of all, to hell with religion. Don't subscribe to sombody telling me how and what i should feel. Religion is for followers who cannot think for themselves. Working out, and riding my motorcycle bring me peace.