Sometimes I feel as though life has stopped and sometimes it seems it goes so fast I cannot even stop to think what is happening. The key word being: ‘think’. We think that our mind (and already to say My Mind implies that there is someone behind there, a ‘Who’ that is the real owner of the Mind) is Us. My mind, my thoughts, my emotions – this is me. How incorrect. How silly actually. Try to recall all or some of the thoughts that cross your mind in half an hour. Or less, much less, in 5 minutes. Do you act on all of these thoughts, are they really what you use to decide about things you will do or say? No. You make a certain selection. Let’s say there is something else, another kind of faculty that is reason, intellect, someone who does the decision-making. Already so many different voices and aspects in this head of ours, no? And then, of course, emotions – what your heart tells you, what you feel. And these emotions are also connected to the type of thoughts that arise in your mind, or vice-versa. And then there is another guy living in there – what some call the Ego. Monsieur Ego wants this and that, desires this and that, thinks how good he is, how smart, how lovely, how stupid – something, whatever. Another guy inside, this one says: I am something else. The feeling of separateness. Do you see all these coming about? How many people are there inside this head, this body? And they all have their say about something or other, no? Let’s say all of these made up together make up a someone who is You. But! Is there not something inside you that you feel as if it has always been there, since you were a little kid, and now when you are older, and will be in the future. Something inside that you feel is unchanged. A Me. I AM. I am Gordana, now, have been as long as I remember, and will be. Even though my body is changing, I am still me, the same.

A space in there that I can call intuition, consciousness, Self, Something Inexplicable – but I know it is there.

I will be 30 years old in a week from today. It sounds big somehow. 30 years. I have been someone’s child for thirty years. I have known people for thirty years. 30 times 365. So many days, so many hours, so many people, events, emotions, billions of thoughts, experiences, break-throughs, hard times, sweet times. 30 years of them! And yet somehow: So what! How many more? Another 30, 60 years? So many more experiences, some body changes, some different people, friends, lovers, enemies… So what! What is the past, what is the future, what are memories, what are hopes? Just some energy in the realm of mind, thoughts, emotions, memory, intellect and ego. So what! An hour can seem a second when I am happy. When you are in nature, hours pass and you feel as if though it was a second. You lie on the beach at night, you watch the stars for hours, the same sky, the same stars, the same lights – very little thoughts in your mind, and time flies – you sit up and look at the watch and go: Oh, so much time passed, wow. It was like a minute. And then twenty minutes of anger seem to go on for hours, even days! You think, oh this space of malcontent in which I was seems to have gone on for days, weeks, years… So what now? Is time relevant? What makes the difference in the quality of your life? The state of your mind!

I just, almost unintentionally gave you an Intro Talk to an Art of Living course. The rest of the talk includes how to gain and maintain a piece of mind. And how to have a better life quality. If it was not Art of Living, it could be any other Path into spirituality. And what is spirituality, if not religion? Spirituality is to have a practice, a way, a Path to travel or to find yourSelf in that space of I AM, and I AM HAPPY, here, now, always. No person, no emotion, no thought, no ego, no intellect, Nothing! can shake me, nothing can shake my happiness.

To finish, I invite you to come to the hotel Sheraton in Zagreb this Friday (May 25th 2012) at 19h. To taste what instatant happiness when having no thoughts is. To feel and know: NOTHING can shake me, all this that is bothering me is so small in opposition to this whole creation. I am nothing, and yet all belongs to me!

Come and taste the voodoo of spirituality and experience a blessing from an enlightened Indian Swami. Hope to see you there, give yourself a present, take the experience and go, live your life as You wish to.