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The spiritual journey is a homecoming; a journey to a centre space within you where love, joy and peace abide. Truth is often paradoxical: you are coming back to a home which you never left. It has always been a part of you, but you may have been unaware of this aspect of yourself or felt separated from it.

Your journey is for you and about you. It is unfolding right now—wherever you are and however this moment may be. The goal of the journey is to experience the love that you are and to express that love in the world.

As you bring the love, happiness and peace—that is your nature—more fully into your life (in ways we will talk about in the pages ahead) you will benefit yourself, people around you, people you don’t know and may never meet. And the benefit will come back to you.

Every action that you take, comes back to you. This is the law of karma. If you do something harmful, it comes back to you. If you do something beneficial, that merit comes back to you.

It is one thing to know—who you are, to have an intellectual understanding of your true nature. It is another to experience that abiding love, happiness and peace. For this, you need to understand the ways you may be robbing yourself of that experience.

Here, we will look into the nature of the mind and its habit of leaving the present moment, and all the potential it holds to dwell in the past that cannot be changed or to worry about the future that may not be as you now fear it might be.

We will see that when we are caught up in wanting what we do not have or in worrying about losing something we have, we become anxious, fearful and miss the joy available to us in this moment.

We will see how we postpone being happy by looking for some anticipated future event—a promotion, a home, a marriage, a child—to make us happy.

We will learn how to handle the negative thoughts and emotions that bring us down.

We will find that when we allow our happiness to depend on what is always changing (moods, work, finances, relationships), instead of being based on what is unchanging (your eternal and unlimited Self), we risk making ourselves miserable.

This ancient wisdom that has been handed down through the ages is a precious gift. It will restore you to that centered space within you where love, happiness and peace abide.

We think we can find happiness or comfort through material things, but we know from our own experience that material comfort alone is not sufficient. Happiness is a state of being. Comfort is a quality of consciousness. It does depend on material things, but to a far greater degree it depends on our attitude and understanding.

There is no lack of love in you, no lack of anything whatsoever.All wealth lies within you as you are right now.

Every human being is made up of body, mind and spirit. It is possible to ignore the spiritual aspect of life, but count yourself fortunate if you are growing in awareness of this dimension.

Each one of us has come into this world to express the joy, love and peace that we are but we can remain unaware of our inner wealth all our lives. Do not delay. Get back to your Self with all speed. You have been standing at the doorstep long enough; now it is time to bang on the door. When you shut the door to what is past and come into the present, then an inner door opens. In that moment, you feel at peace.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Why Am I Here?

Questioner:

How can I find out what I am here for?

Sri Sri:

Find out what you are not here for.

You are not here to blame.

You are not here to cry.

You are not here to show off.

You are not here to fight.

You are not here to be miserable.

You are not here to be angry.

You are not here to worry.