Preparation - 1 - Peace Pilgrim

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Dear All,

Here is what Peace Pilgrim has to say on the Four Preparations for

leading a spiritual life.

Jai Maa

Latha

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1. Assume right attitude toward life

 

Stop being an escapist or a surface-liver as these attitudes can

only cause inharmony in your life. Face life squarely and get down

below the froth on its surface to discover its verities and

realities. Solve the problems that life sets before you, and you

will find that solving them contributes to your inner growth.

Helping to solve collective problems contributes also to your

growth, and these problems should never be avoided.

 

2. Live good beliefs.

 

The laws governing human conduct apply as rigidly as the law of

gravity. Obedience to these laws pushes us toward harmony;

disobedience pushes us toward inharmony. Since many of these laws

are already common belief, you can begin by putting into practice

all the good things you believe. No life can be in harmony unless

belief and practice are in harmony.

 

3. Find your place in the Life Pattern.

 

You have a part in the scheme of things. What that part is you can

know only from within yourself. You can seek it in receptive

silence. You can begin to live in accordance with it by doing all

the good things you are motivated toward and giving these things

priority in your life over all the superficial things that

customarily occupy human lives.

 

4. Simplify life to bring inner and outer well-being into harmony.

 

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. Many lives are

cluttered not only with unnecessary possessions but also with

meaningless activities. Cluttered lives are out-of-harmony lives and

require simplification. Wants and needs can become the same in a

human life and, when this is accomplished, there will be a sense of

harmony between inner and outer well-being. Such harmony is needful

not only in the individual life but in the collective life too.