by Celtic 8 Replies latest jw friends
Are there any others here in the room who feel that they are very close to feeling at complete peace with themselves, or are in fact at complete peace with themselves? Would you like to put into words the feelings experienced, the pleasure within?
Peace
Mark
Free Tibet & Drop The Debt!!
Feel better than I did when I was a dub...at any rate! At peace? Not sure...but its pretty good!
ISP
Celtic,
I have that feeling. I am not going to describe why, because I am near my 25 post limit and I don't want to write a lot and not have it not go through. I will post my thoughts on the morrow.
i think im as close as im ever gonna get
xxx angel xxx
Celtic,
I feel I can say that I am close to being a peace with myself. Even though I am reaching out for the next milestone of four score years and ten, with not too many aches and pains.
I guess one of the major aches and pain is the alienation between members of society, even with those on this board. Twenty years of people in my life have been ripped away. Much of our relationships with others is through the internet, through books and movies. Will we ever get to the place where we will meet one another face to face? Or will we always be in a prison cell, tapping on walls or pipes to communicate with the prisoner next door?
I enjoyed your pictures of Land's End.
Belbab
I seem to be at that stage now. I don't have the anger and depression that many on this forum have. Maybe I've moved on from the WTS, maybe I just don't care anymore.
Instead, I feel like life is a whole new adventure! I'm able to do things according to my conscience, and not according to a bunch of old men living in a different continent to me.
I am experiencing freedom like I've never known before.
I can make friends because I like them, not based upon their religious preferences.
I am free to study and believe what I think is right.
And I am happy, much happier than I have been for probably since I was a child.
I don't know if it is peace. But I see the crazy life my mom and sisters live, and I am so glad I don't.
It really is all about freedom,
Freedom to believe or not believe,
Watch what I want on tv,
Go to the bookstore and buy anything thing I want.
And I don't have to care what anyone else will think.
Raise my sons the way I want.
I don't know if it is peace, but I know I like it.
Pam
I have not fully gotten there, but I have had moments and feel like I am on my way. It is hard to put into words, but when I first new that I was moving towards inner harmony was about 8 months ago. I was spending the day at this park and just kind of taking time to myself. I sat by this pond and there was a blue heron there. Previously I had read a fictional book where the character was inspired by a blue heron and this was the first time I had seen one in the wild. It was like the heron and I danced. I meditated and just took in the moment. I become overwhelmed with peace and a sense that I was moving on the right spiritual path. I felt complete and whole and untouchable. It was the most amazing experience.
Since then I have had less dramatic moments through meditation and through sharing with others. I have had moments through reading. I feel through all this I am striving towards complete inner harmony....
can you ever really get there???
i have good days and shitty days. i think that's the only place i'll ever be, always somewhere in the middle of everything and nothing...dreaming.
you're happy cause you smile but how much can you fake...
