Your Life Is Your Message: Finding Harmony with Yourself, Others & the Earth - Softcover

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Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) is respected around the world as an authentic teacher of timeless wisdom, and more than two million of his books are in print. His approach fits naturally into any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle. Born in a small village in Kerala state, India, Easwaran grew up listening to his grandmother’s age-old stories, and learned from her wise, loving example as she guided and supported her busy extended family. As a young man, Easwaran visited Gandhi in his ashram and was deeply influenced by the way he brought spiritual values into daily life. Easwaran came to the United States on the Fulbright exchange program in 1959. In 1961 he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, which carries on his work today through publications and retreats.

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Make your life a message of hope, love, and purpose

No matter what crises may threaten the world, you can live in harmony with your highest ideals – and help others to do the same. This practical and inspiring book, a classic from a much-loved spiritual teacher, shows how.

You can find harmony with yourself by gaining mastery of your internal environment, a world within of thoughts, desires, and feelings as real as the world outside.

You can build harmony in your relationships with family, colleagues, and your community by learning to love more fully than you had thought possible.

You can establish harmony with the physical environment by living your life to ensure, in every way, a brighter future for all our children.

By making small changes, day by day, you can support the health, happiness, and well-being of everyone around you.

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Be a Work of Art

Great scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita can be looked upon as artist’s manuals. Just as painters study their color and drawing manuals, you can read the Gita or the Ser¬mon on the Mount as a living manual to help you make your life a flawless work of art.

This is truly the supreme art. When your life becomes a work of art, your family will benefit from it every day. Even if you are the only person in the family using these artistic tools, like meditation and the mantram, your partner will benefit, as will your children, your friends, and, interestingly enough, even your enemies.

I have been to few homes where the resident was the greatest artwork. When I entered Gandhi’s ashram in central India, close to my university, there was not a single artistic artifact there – not even driftwood. In those days I was very culturally oriented, looking for beauty in all kinds of external objects, but when the cottage door opened, at five in the eve¬ning, and a brown, blessed figure came out, I saw the greatest statue I have ever seen in my life. The greatest painting I have ever seen came to life. That’s the highest ideal for a human being.

The most difficult of the three harmonies is harmony with oneself. It is the real basis for harmony with others and the environment. I love music, but when somebody tells me about a great symphony they have heard I want to say, “I wish you could listen to the divine symphony I hear when my mind becomes still in the depths of meditation.” St. Fran¬cis used to say, after he heard that symphony coming from the depths of consciousness, “If it had continued a little more, my life itself would have melted away.”