Rumi once asked his master, Shams: “How did you finally find peace? Shams replied: "I made a promise to calm myself, not the world around me. And a miracle happened, the world around me grew calm as well." This points to one of the great misunderstandings of modern life. We imagine that peace will arrive when circumstances improve. When other people behave differently, when our workload reduces, when the children settle down, and when the world finally becomes reasonable.
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The below is from Thom Knoles’ email to Vedic Meditators 16/10/23 following recent escalation in terror attacks and violence in the Middle East.
Thom's wish is that we do our part as Vedic Meditators to help settle the collective into a less-excited state and create greater worldwide coherence. Meditating together as a global family encourages orderliness and can aid in the cooling effect. As such, we can make no greater contribution to peace in the collective consciousness than to come together as a community to coordinate the timing of our meditation sittings.
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