Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. Neither does joy.
"Do you truly know what is positive and what is negative? Do you have the total picture? ... Whenever anything negative happens to you there is a deep lesson concealed within it... Seen from a higher perspective, conditions...are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is, there is no "good" or "bad" in your life anymore. There is only a higher good...
[This "allowing to be"] is an essential aspect of forgiveness. Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment, allow it to be as it is, then there will be no accumulation of resentment... You can be at peace. There may be sadness and tears, but provided you have relinquished resistance, underneath the sadness you will feel a deep serenity, a stillness, a sacred presence... The ultimate effect of all the evil and suffering in the world is that it will force humans into realizing who they are, beyond name and form... What we perceive as evil from our limited perspective is actually part of the higher good that has no opposite. This, however, does not come true for you except through forgivenes..." (Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, pp 177-180)
" If science and spirit are investigating the nature of unlimited reality - and, obviously, the more unlimited it is, the closer to reality - then they ought to eventually cross paths. The oldest known scriptures, the Vedas, talk about the physical world as illusion, "maya". Quantum physics says reality is not the way we see it; rather, it is at best, mostly empty, but really more like waves of insubstantial no-thing." (Will Arentz, What The Bleep Do We Know, p 25)
"Both Hindu and Buddhist seers taught, and still teach, that the world of apprearances, the world we see with out senses, is maya, or illusion, and that something underlies this material realm, something that is more powerful and more fundamental, more 'real' even though it's completely intangible."
- Plato suggested this with his philosophy of the realm of ideals -
"This is precisely what quantum physics is revealing. It suggests that at the core of the physical world there is a completely non-physical realm... If this view is correct, we would have to say that this underlying field of intelligence is, deep down, what the universe "really" is." (What the Bleep..., p 37)
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ok, i've had some quality sleep over the weekend. i think i have the stressing under control... the obsessing, too... i know people are simply trying to be helpful when they tell me that i obsess and brood... but i'm not so sure that it is (helpful, i mean), since then i worry that i am obsessing about worrying, and i end up deciding not to let people see what is going on with me at all...
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