“Your practices are not done to bring you happiness or peace, but to prevent the peace that is your true nature from being disturbed.”
- Sri Swami Satchidananda
At the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, the featured work of art is Michelangelo’s masterpiece David. Yet I found myself more captivated by the Prisoners, seemingly unfinished works that line the path to David. I’d read that the artist had described his process as using a chisel to chip away chunks of marble that were confining—imprisoning—already-existing sculptures, that his job was to set them free.
Many of us dart from thing to thing in search of joy or peace without realizing that what we seek is already within us. Rather than viewing our pursuits as ways to fill a hole or make us whole, perhaps we can instead view them as chisels to uncover who we have been all along—as ways to set ourselves free from external weight and (re)discover our true joyful, peaceful nature.
How can you make the most of the “chisels” in your life to help you hone in on the joy and peace that is your true nature?
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