Winter News Sheet - Jan to March 2008. - PAGE 2 0F 8

“INNER PEACE” (An Inspired Spiritual Channelling).
“Inner peace can only be achieved when you have accepted what is, here and now, in the present moment. No regrets about a happier past, no desires for an indefinable time in the future, no complaints that you don’t like what you have, whether this concerns things, people, places or situations.
Believe that however “bad” things may seem be, they are as they are, and are part of a Greater Purpose.
Don’t waste time & your precious energy in resisting reality. Accept that things are exactly as they should be that they are right for you -your spirit within, - and are part of your soul’s experience and development.
You do not have to understand, or analyse or “make sense” of anything. Simply accept, with detached compassion, how things are. - It is your own thoughts of “good” and “bad”, your emotional reactions, your resistance’s to how things, are which distress you and disturb your peace. It has been said: “Accept the unacceptable”, and then, from your peaceful centre, all your actions will be as one with the Divine Intelligence. Be at peace.”
Well! That’s telling us! Love & Light from ANN COWLING, (in Dorset, U.K)

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QUOTATION FROM “LITTLE BOOK OF INNER PEACE”

“A NEW SOCIAL MODEL”
“We must attempt the impossible. I am convinced that if we continue to follow a social model that is entirely conditioned by money and power, and that takes so little account of true values such as love and altruism, future generations may have to face far worse problems and endure even more terrible forms of suffering.
I have been told that young people in the United States, and even Europe, are behaving in increasingly selfish and cruel ways. I have heard that suburbs are like jungles, that there are young gangsters who take drugs, that young people throw stones from bridges causing fatal car accidents, and even that crimes are committed by children. Is this the result of general moral decadence, or of an economic crisis, or is it because seeing violence on television every day incites our own violent streak?
Each one of us lacks one thing or another. I am not exactly sure what we lack, but I can feel we lack something. In the west, even if at the moment you are going through a crisis, you actually have everything, or at least you think you do; all kinds of material goods are there, and are no doubt distributed better than they were in the past. But it seems to me that you are living in a constant state of tension, in an atmosphere of never-ending competitiveness and fear. And those who are brought up in such an atmosphere will find themselves lacking all their lives: they will not know that wonderful quality of depth and intimacy that is the richness of life. They will stay on the surface of the troubled sea, without ever knowing the calm that lies beneath.”
“THE ONLY TRUE GUARDIAN OF PEACE LIES WITHIN: A SENSE OF CONCERN AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE AND AN ALTRUISTIC CONCERN FOR THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS.”
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA.
(Quotation chosen by Carol Rawlins-Rheems, with Respect & Gratitude.)