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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

This moved me, haven’t felt well lately. Keeping positive thoughts always…

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Chinmayan's avatar

Thank you for your sweet comment!

We often must work our way through states of feeling exhausted or unwell or overwhelmed physically, mentally and spiritually here on Still Mountain.

I don’t like to suffer so the suffering i am having is a huge motivation to seek for the ways to get free of it…just as if i were to fall into the deep waters of a stormy ocean, my entire focus would be saving myself from drowning.

I take whatever is coming up as a training opportunity to learn how to shift my states to a higher,clearer and more conscious one on purpose…to not be at the effect of my own mundane mind.

I am realizing that my own mind and its flow of negative thoughts and emotions is the real source of almost every kind of suffering.

This is where I can see the real power and value of all the spiritual practices given to me by teachers—for the prayer, meditation, chanting and singing the mantra of Love and compassion (Om Mani Paydmeh Hung) and singing kirtan that I am doing night and day with such urgency now really make a huge difference in giving me the ability to see the truth and shift to higher and higher states.

I am grateful to my teachers who dedicated their lives first to mastering spiritual principles and practices until they achieved Realization and then devoted themselves to teaching them to us, while being living examples of the high levels of freedom and consciousness that we can also achieve through our own path and practices.

Right now is one of the most difficult times ever for humanity, and we are all being affected by the very dark forces trying to subvert our world.

It is stressful, scary and painful to see the terrible things being done to innocent people.

It is truly heartbreaking and I am using it and its threats as motivation to watch my mind, do my practices and be one who is holding onto my positive, loving and grateful attitude for dear life.

Each of us makes a difference and I consciously choose to be sending only the highest, clearest and most loving energy out into the world…like a lighthouse shining my light out over the stormy seas to help folks find their way home to a safe harbor.

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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

Thank you for these words, it means more than you can imagine. 🙏

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