Peace of Mind

PEACE OF MIND of this approach. Many people accumulated a huge amount of material wealth during their lifetime but, despite this, remained devoid of satisfaction and tranquility till they finally departed from this world in that same state. The fact is that by nature, man is a perfectionist, while the present world is, in every sense, imperfect. This situation creates a contradiction between man and the present world. It is as a result of this contradiction that despite obtaining all sorts of worldly ‘goods’ a person does not enjoy contentment. Everything in the world appears to him as lower than the yardstick that he has established. This is why even after obtaining all sorts of material ‘goods’ he is not content. Even when he is surrounded by material luxuries, he remains sunk in a sort of unconscious discontentment. This fact proves that to search for peace of mind in material ‘goods’ and worldly luxuries is useless and that it will never succeed. A second suggestion that is often offered for the problem of mental stress and tension, is a sort of ‘meditation’ that seeks to stop a person’s process of thinking so that he is not capable of feeling stress consciously. However, this approach is synonymous with mental anesthesia. It seeks to benumb or blunt a person’s capacity for thinking and make him insensitive. Even if this sort of peace of mind