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Inner Peace?

© Jennie S. Bev

If you can retain your inner peace, therein lies your supreme victory. No matter how you are situated in life, never feel justified in losing your peace. When that is gone and you cannot think clearly, you have lost the battle. If you never lose your peace, you will find you are always victorious, no matter what the outcome of your problems. That is the way to conquer life. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

PEACE by Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace flows through my heart, and blows through me as a zephyr.

Peace fills me like a fragrance.

Peace runs through me like rays.

Peace stabs the heart of noise and worries.

Peace burns through my disquietude.

Peace, like a globe of fore, expands and fills my omnipresence.

Peace, like an ocean, rolls on in all space.

Peace, like red blood, vitalizes the veins of my thoughts.

Peace like a boundless aureole, encircles my body of infinity.

Peace-flames blow through the pores of my flesh, and through all space.

The perfume of peace flows over the gardens of blossoms.

The wine of peace runs perpetually through the wine press of all hearts.

Peace is the breath of stones, stars, and sages.

Peace is the ambrosial wine of Spirit flowing from the cask of silence,

Which I quaff with my countless mouths of atoms.[]

The above quotation and poetry by Paramahansa Yogananda touch the very core of my being, especially in this hard period in life. There have been so many obstacles, pains and heartaches. Things went wrong, I was wrongfully judged. People whom I expected to care didn't seem to and the world wasn't so friendly either. There were hardly any smiles on my face. In these few days, I've lost myself.

It took me a lot of courage to keep myself afloat and to be able to breathe freely. In pain, I sought inside. I sought for a tiny door in my heart that I could open to find the fragrant breeze and be thankful. It took me awhile, I must admit, to find it.

It took me a lot of courage to finally open that special door. I didn't know that it existed. I didn't realize that in a lot of pain, I didn't lose my senses. Above all, I didn't lose the meaning of my existence.

That door bursted open. I found the inner peace inside. I didn't know that it still exists in the time of sorrow to guide me to the special pathway that I've always longed to walk on for. Now I do.[]

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