A traveller once heard that under the ocean lay buried a temple of a thousand bells. He was gripped by a wish to find the temple and so he went to the ocean. Day after day, he put his ear to the sands to listen for the faintest twinkle of a bell. But he never came across any sign of this.
After searching for many days, he decided to give up. And on the last day he was standing on the sea shore one final time, just looking at the magnificent ocean as the waves came crashing onto the shore, and he gently lost himself in the symphony produced by the waves.
He slowly went deeper and deeper inside that experience. And in that depth he heard a small bell ring. And then he heard two ... and then three ... and then thousands of bells ringing! So much so he did not hear the voice of the ocean - he heard only thousands of bells ringing around him.
Similarly when man loses himself totally in what God is telling him, what he hears and what he feels is Peace - the Voice of the Lord. And that Peace leads him to Ultimate Love.
(Author unknown)
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