When I was a child.

 

I don't know if you are like me, but, when I was a child, I thought that I was here on earth to live in peace, to be happy and to be in harmony with myself and with others.  I soon realized that day to day reality was quite different.   I travelled the world over in search of my childhood dreams.   I can tell you this much: people who are truly happy and totally fulfilled are hard to find.   If you are lucky enough to meet such a person, you must ask him his secret.
 
  O ne day, body and soul aching, burnt by the sun and the high altitude, somewhere in the Himalayas, I came upon such a person... a very simple person.   He didn't wear a long white beard. He didn't carry a sacred book in hand either; he was just like you and me.   But he fascinated me: in his look, there was love and serenity, in his manners, peace and in his interactions with others there was harmony.   His answers to my questions can be summed up in only a few words:  "My sanctuary is inside me..."   This was the beginning of a beautiful adventure.
It's so simple...
   Believe it or not, it's not necessary to go so far to find what is so close.   We know it but we tend to forget: everything is inside us, paradise as well as hell.   Everything depends on the arrangement of our "inner sanctuary".   Spirituality is the art of learning, day by day, how to decorate your inner world with qualities such as beauty, gentleness, strength, generosity...   It's having real comfort inside oneself.   It's cleaning up and getting rid of everything that is useless in your life or preventing you from making room for the Light which purifies the atmosphere and brings out all inner virtues into full bloom from your inner garden.
    The ingredients are simple: time, silence and love.  You will have the pleasure of rediscovering someone that you had long ago forgotten:  yourself.   Not the person that runs around all day or that is constantly worried.  But rather the real you, the person that was once happy and who used to laugh.
    Everyday, I now make a special appointment with myself and I take a holiday with that special person.  I must admit it, I enjoy this very much.

The Source    

Furthermore, I must confess that, in those moments of silence, you will meet another extraordinary being, a being that you thought you could never meet on earth, a being that you may have dreamed of meeting one day...  the Source, the Light, the Supreme Being of endless love.  You will always remember this meeting.  Your life will never be the same again.  You will want to experience this over and over again.  Can there be a greater friendship, a higher source of inspiration and energy?

     I won't tell you anything more.  Words, in spite of all their beauty and their melody can't express the depth of such an ineffable experience.   It's your universe, your inner space.   May it be filled with his Presence, with serenity, joy, good humor, strength and light!