Eternal Youth

Eternal youth is a natural phenomenon,
It is each person’s destiny — as a mature, realized individual;
It ensues spontaneously, as an authentic experience,
An energy without support, bound by nothing.

Physically, youth depends on the number of our years,
On the body’s progress towards maturity.
There are no contradictions. People consider themselves
As old as their physical age, according to their life expectancy.

Whereas psychologically it is a-different matter,
Youth is directly connected with Life’s constant newness;
Life itself demands that we encounter it,
The same way She is, as absolute newness in each movement.

Without this eternal, ever-renewing youth,
We will not understand the newness of the Universal movement.
We need to have a fresh, lucid and clear mind,
Completely detached from time, from the wandering memory.

Such a state is attained naturally,
When we understand the “ego” and its powerless nature,
Unable to embrace and really comprehend
The innocence of the naked moment.

The moment makes us young, if we encounter it constantly,
Without the old “self” — based on old residues;
Youth is unrelated to time, years do not define it,
In eternal youth, everyone and everything becomes integrated.

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By Ilie Cioara, a Romanian philosopher and spiritual teacher.

Where does the journey ends? or Does it end at all?

The travelling had begun for me a bit over two years now, and when I look back have I really stopped travelling? Or where does/did the stopping take place? or in fact have I travelled at all? 

I guess the definition of travelling most likely be talking about a change in location, etc. From that prospective I have left my home in New Zealand and had moved through various destination, countries and cultures. Now, I could say I am in Sri Lanka, but when I think deeply to see if I have stopped my travelling in Sri Lanka, the answer is not very apparent to me.

During my earlier travels I have spent more than a few weeks at a place. Now, I have spent about a year and a half at one place, in the house I grew up in Sri Lanka.

BUT THE JOURNEY HAS NOT ENDED !! it seems...

It has always been experiences, and in fact an experience alone. One experience since the day we were born, and if it is personnel, the experience lapses when our human life expires.

Travelling is in a way looking at moment to moment experiences in a different light (through a travellers perspective). Rather, it is almost humorous to see how we missed the experience of moment-to-moment in our lives as a whole.

All creations of activity is in fact a moment-to-moment experience of our lives.

If one could view the world through the impersonal, one could see that the experiences had neither a beginning nor ending, but it is continuing moment-to-moment. Travelling or journey had never taken place. Rather, I had been, still am and will be... unmoved - it had always been a play of experiences...

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