“…….Contentment is what makes you divine…..”- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Walk into a room that is dimly lit, quiet, almost serene, empty space in the center and few places to sit in solitude. The light interplays with the darkness in a beautiful harmony to add to the silence. The few sounds mingle like waves with the total silence to give purpose to the sounds.
To me life is not a simple uni-color landscape where one attitude or emotion or philosophy will fill the entire life. Opposites are part of every bit of our life. The world is full of all types of people and our mind reflects the world we live in.
In our little world, we all need a place we can go where nothing matters. Past doesn’t bother, future doesn’t matter and there is a peace.
For some it is a physical place – a temple, a church, a park, an empty road, a quiet room in the house. For me, it’s a corner in my mind.
I want great things in my life and I want to achieve those great things.
Yet, i recognize that for great ambition to fulfill it’s place in my mind and in my world, I need a place that is the total opposite of it. A corner in my mind where nothing matters. Where there is total contentment!
Just as ambition cannot survive without contentment, contentment is meaningless without ambition glowing it’s flame in another corner of my mind.
For a few moments of the day, I live in complete acceptance with where, what and who I am. For the rest of the day, I plan, strive and execute actions that take me to a different place, make me a different person and change my surroundings.
In death, may be there will be only one of the two. But in life, they both exist in different parts of my mind.My two children. I love them both!
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