Discovering the Peace, Joy, and Happiness You Already Are
Self-Help / Spiritual
Date Published: November 7, 2024
Publisher: MindStir Media
The Quiet Joy of Simply Being takes us on a journey of discovering we are
already the peace, contentment, joy, happiness, and love we seek. These
attributes of our True Nature are not found in what we do, things we
acquire, status we attain, or even our state of mind. Rather, they are the
ever-present essence of who we are.
About the Author
I go by the name Aiy’m, which is pronounced I-Yim. I live in Boulder,
Colorado with my wife Donna and cat Te’a. I am retired. I’m fairly active
physically mostly hiking in the Boulder foothills and Rocky Mountains,
gravel biking, skiing, and doing yard work – actually, since I enjoy it I
consider it yard play. Though I enjoy all those activities, what is of most
importance to me is spiritual awakening as such I love being out in nature,
sitting by a creek sipping tea, meditating and journaling. I also built a
tiny rustic space in my backyard for that purpose. I call it a tea-mitage.
Kind of like a hermitage. I call the journaling I do Writing Passing Clouds
as what I write about is more about the inward journey and not what I did
during the day.
I have been regularly journaling for over 40 years. As I mentioned above,
my journaling is about the inward journey of spiritual awakening. In fact, I
would say that journaling has been my main ally in this spiritual pursuit,
even more so than meditation and retreats. About 10 years ago I asked myself
what is it about journaling that I get so much from. Certainly, I learned a
lot about myself. I have come to know the way my mind works, my perceived
limitations, my behavioral and emotional patterns and conditionings, and so
on and on and on. But, what I came to realize what was most important about
my journalings was not what I learned about myself, rather, through
journaling I shifted my perspective to that of an observer and from that
perspective I was able to dis-entangle and dis-identify from my conditioned
thinking mind and emotions. This is very liberating. I call it the First
Great Freedom. In this freedom from the conditioned thinking mind and
emotions, there is a deep sense of peace, fulfillment, and happiness. I also
see this shift of perspective as the first step or phase of the spiritual
journey to self-realization.
My book, The Quiet Joy of Simply Being, began as being about my journaling
process but morphed into being about discovering the peace, happiness,
fulfillment and love we already are.
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