How fitting that I'm blogging about this topic when recent things have been speaking to me through various mediums (TV, Movies, conversations, meditations, etc).
Here is the 6th lesson I've learned so far (out of 10 total - previous posts from the main blogging page if you want to go back and read the rest)
6 - The feeling of peace through emotional attachment is simply our ego within saying that we must have this "thing" in order to be complete.
We live in a world that is telling us we need that certain "something" to be complete - that new phone, that more advanced car, the faster computer, the more advanced gagdet, etc. The list of things that technology and the advancement of information has given us is staggering, helpful, and also a slippery slope if we are not aware.
Imagine this for a moment. You have your phone, with all of your contacts, connection to social media, emails, etc. Someone comes by and accidentally bumps into you, knocking your phone away and it falls to the ground, breaking it. All of your information is gone. All that you've saved up, kept in your phone, is unrecoverable.
...what kind of feelings come up with that visualization?
Now I know that this day in age we have impressive back-up systems: Google Drive, external hard drives and other devices to back up our information. Just imagine though for a moment that you get all of that taken away. You have a prized possession from your family stolen, broken, lost. Your TV gets broken intentionally or accidentally. Someone belittles your character or project you're working tirelessly on.
All emotions that we connect to material things will fade away eventually.
I see time and time again (in others and myself at times) that we humans connect our "complete" and "peaceful" feelings with material/egoic things: car, house, money, status/title in job, social standing, relationships...the list is exhaustive (but you get my point).
My point is this:
Make it your goal to let go of the emotional attachment you have with the things you've attained/purchased in life. When you can honestly be ok with losing all material/social things and still fully love yourself amid having nothing at all, I believe inner peace is found.
Inner Peace is found through the humbled view of seeing ourselves as complete without the additional "things" the world is telling us we need to have.