Quietness Leads to Inner Peace
The best life is the one where you are well-off, able to enjoy whatever the wind brings and endure whatever storms come your way, or one spent in seclusion in the mountains, without desires. More and more people yearn for a rural life, wanting to retire to the countryside.
When a person increasingly desires a pastoral life, they become increasingly obsessed with making money, constantly moving towards larger cities. When you are far from your ideal life, you suddenly turn back and ask yourself, why do people's hearts never seem satisfied? What exactly are they pursuing?
Writer Wenwei once told me: 'I am 45 years old now, I have two houses and a savings of 1.5 million, but I have no sense of security and cannot relax myself.' Wenwei founded two decoration companies in a third-tier city, with annual income of 560,000, but he still lacks security? How much money is enough? I asked Wenwei: 'Your life is already good, you should be content. Most people have no houses and are burdened with debt, isn't that a waste of life?'
People like Wenwei are not uncommon. They always think about making money, never knowing how much is enough, and gradually develop desires, losing themselves.
Lu Xun said:'No matter what, please be quiet and happy. This is life. We should accept life equally, bravely, boldly, and always with a smile.'
Actually, no matter how you spend your life, you will never be satisfied. It's better to spend it quietly and happily. Instead of complaining about fate, accept fate's arrangement, be free and relaxed, quiet and harmonious. When you find peace in your soul, your life will be happy......
'The heart's abode is my hometown'—the quiet place is truly your destination. Going out of town, after a long time, you will miss your hometown more and more. No matter how far you go, it's hard to have a peaceful heart, and you'll be troubled by whatever you see and want. A beautiful flower is stubbornly convinced that it's blooming in the wrong place; a beautiful village is seen as desolate; a simple thing is stubbornly resented. When a person loses their heart, they only return to their hometown to feel at peace, because that's where they were born and raised. Someone says: 'Returning to my hometown is like returning to my mother's arms, even if my mother is no longer here, I still feel very familiar.' A young person expects to leave their hometown to explore the world, the farther they go, the more proud they feel; but when they reach a certain age, they more expect to 'return to their roots', because their heart has always remained in their hometown, never wandering far.
'The heart's abode is my hometown'. A person's best destination is 'a peaceful heart'. Wherever you are, if you cannot find peace in your heart, it's not a good place. If one day you are alone, you can feel the beauty around you, imagine the happiness of the future, then the place you are in is 'the heart's destination'.
'A quiet heart is a blessing'. A person, the quieter they are, the more blessings they receive.
Mr. Guo Jingming said: 'Standing by the river of memories, watching the swaying ferryboats, they have been silently transporting people year after year. They simply remain quiet, painting sunsets and mornings.'
Quiet is good, just like a white cloud slowly drifting across the sky, going wherever it wants, gathering and dispersing at will; just like a wild grass, some people like it, some don't, it doesn't matter, it can grow roots and sprout in any barren land, without complaint, without haste.
Quiet is good, not because the soul is not active, but because the soul is rich, has its own ideas, can lead you to find the light of life. The happy memories are buried, and when you are alone, you slowly remember and enjoy them; let all the unpleasant things be forgotten, and pass them by with a smile, and learn to relieve the burden on your heart. A person who can write peacefully has happiness in the lines of his writing, even if no one appreciates it, he can enjoy the joy of expressing his mood; a person who can watch flowers peacefully, even if the flowers wither, doesn't care, because he can imagine the flowers blooming in their most glorious state. A person who can work peacefully can do anything skillfully, even if it doesn't go well, he can start over. A person who can return home peacefully will get along better with his family, not blaming anyone. A person who can earn money peacefully will be enough to spend on his money,
Quiet is a seed buried in spring, summer, autumn and winter...
A truly quiet person has a quiet soul and a quiet soul. A quiet soul clears the heart, no longer having any knots.
Life has seasons, no one can walk against the times. Even a person who is obsessed with taking care of his skin, he only preserves his appearance, cannot stop the aging of his soul. In childhood, it was spring, when it was born and nurtured by parents, growing freely and sprouting the hope of life and the hope of parents; in your youth, it was summer, life has its most beautiful moments, beautiful to the fullest; in middle age, you gradually mature, like ripe grains, bending down, and gradually becoming heavy and golden; in old age, it seems to have nothing to do, but it is preserving the precious moments of life in its heart.
Life is a process of returning to simplicity. When young, you want to go far, wanting to see the outside world, but later you are tired of wandering, and you find your true self, and you increasingly pursue quiet time.
If one day you shake off the dust and grime, forget the trivialities of life, and don't care about the worries of work, and enter a warm home, that's when you'll find peace.
If one day you are without purpose, then be without purpose, let your soul become light and free, free to walk and breathe freely, like a streak of dawn across the sky, spreading endlessly, without destination or limit.
A person, the quieter they are, the quieter their soul. When quiet, you can hear steady breathing, and the heart beating.
Author: Plain Clothes Food
Follow my words, enter your heart
The illustrations in the text come from the internet.
