What is success?

Success can be measured in many ways but many things in our society are measured through economic success. Of course do all people need money to be able to live like buying food, clothes and somewhere to live. But when these three basic needs are catered what should one do with economic success?

The danger with economic success is that it’s easy to suppose that it is important and that it is the meaning of life. But do economic success bring a consisting lasting and unshakable joy and happiness?

The answer to this question must be an undoubtedly no. Isn’t the important in life to feel happiness and joy, and spread the happiness and joy and share the happiness and joy? Isn’t the biggest success in life to feel joy and happiness?  Unfortunately economic success is mistaken from giving happiness, although can economic success trigger a happiness. But this happiness is temporary and doesn’t last.

But when one feels joy and happiness it then regards to feel the feeling and try to live in the feeling even though the reason for the joy and happiness has disappeared. If one, through exercise, gets good at this then it will lead to that one more and more moves towards feeling joy and happiness. If one feels joy and happiness the adversities and problems one meets in life will feel less hard and will become easier to overcome.

Therefore is the greatest success one can do in one’s  life is to reach so far in one’s inner development that one, preferably always, feels a joy and happiness. Of course this will require practice and dump into adversities, but if one doesn’t even try to practice to feel joy and happiness but only chase for economic success to be able to feel joy and happiness then the joy and happiness will disappear more and more.

Because the true and lasting happiness isn’t connected to what’s in world, because it comes from inside of you and can be felt by you. When you feel joy and happiness  you will spread it in your life and more and more will feel from your joy and happiness.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

What has Jesus, Buddha and Muhammed in common?

The simple answer to that question is that they have all through their lives made the base for three different world religions. But is this answer really the most important answer? Isn’t it important how they treated their fellow people and how much love they felt in their lives?  Isn’t the love they spread in their lives what’s important?

What unites a carpenter son, a merchant and a son of a prince? Can it be that their lives had different paths but lead to the same goal? Was it that their inner development journeys lead them to the same goal? Were they in fact not bigger or smaller people than us, but they developed to what they became.

Didn’t Jesus go through a development journey when he first said?
- I am the messenger of God.
Then he said:
- I am the son of God.
To finally say:
- I and my father is one.

Didn’t Buddha go through a development journey through his travel to avoid the suffering of life and which later on lead to enlightenment?

Didn’t Muhammed go through a development journey through the wandering of the caravan and then the revelations on the mountain Hira?

Can it be that the important is not what you are born to but what you are developed to? If the goal with everything is reached through an inner development journey and it’s nothing that a few chosen ones can do, it means that all humans have the same possibilities and rights to inner development. If we also add the aspect the universe, it means that all creatures in the universe are doing an inner development journey. An inner development journey where everyone has the same rights and possibilities.

The only thing that is needed to start an inner development journey is to move the focus from the outer to the inner. Important to emphasize now is that this development journey doesn’t mean that you have to put yourself in a cave and meditate. That is maybe the easiest way since you do not have to take anybody or anything else into consideration.

But if the goal with an inner development journey is to reach ones inner most, feel total connection and connectedness with everything, it is also important that this is spread through ones thoughts, words and actions to society. It’s very hard to spread anything when locked up in a cave ;-).

But where are the women’s? Why is it that only men have created world religions? This fact only reflects the society structure that has existed historically and still exists largely even today. ? But since both men and woman has the same possibilities and rights ta an inner development, there is also woman who has reached the same goal as Jesus, Buddha and Muhammed. In my world it feels a bit strange to even point this out since it’s so obvious for me.

What’s important to remember is that the important is not to establish a world religion but rather to reach the goal of the inner development journey. Who is really a winner? The one who rules the world or the one who has full connection to the force which has created the earth, the universe and everything else.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

Time to scrap the pedestal?

If there is a force which existed before the universe was created, which then created energy and then created the universe through Big Bang. What need or desire will would this force have of being worshipped or prayed at?

Consider that if you were the absolute and have created everything. You have created everything and can destroy everything. You know that you are everything. What need would you then have of recognition? You already know everything, you already master everything and you are everything. What can everything give you that you do not already have or can create?

With this reasoning, it leads to one conclusion and that is that the force which has created it all has no need of being worshipped or prayed at. The force which has created it all has no needs, but is only in a state of being.

All religions and rituals have therefore been created by man for man. The force in itself doesn’t want to sit on a pedestal, being prayed at and worshipped. The force which has created everything and is everything enjoys when everything in the universe feels connection to and affinity with the force. This is because joy and happiness is the goal of the inner journey.

Isn’t the sweetest fruit joy and happiness? Doesn’t everybody feel best of joy and happiness? Isn’t therefore the greatest gift joy and happiness? The greatest and most lasting joy is the one which is inside of you, because there have the force placed what’s most precious in the whole of universe. 

Anyone who has reached through meditation, contemplation, philosophy or any other technique a connection with one’s inner most, where the only thing that exists is total being, knows what I am talking about. It’s in this state of mind of full connection that the inner joy, happiness, meaning and understanding can be reached.

Unfortunately this connection is so far very short and temporarily, at least for me. But during these experience’s there is a force and insight left even when the connection is broken. It’s a very might feeling to be in a state of mind of being and during a short moment feel a full connection with everything and reach a full understanding.

The only logical is therefore to take down God/the force/the higher being etc. from the pedestal and find it inside of you. The force which has created everything is not a person or religion but it is the inner most that is inside of you and all other creatures in the universe.

But in the same way as the sun is obscured by the clouds the inner world is obscured by the outer world’s anxiety and frustration.  But if in contact with the inner world the outer world’s anxiety and frustration is easier to meet. In the same way as the wind blows away the clouds the inner connection blows away the outer world’s anxiety and frustration.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg