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Peace starts within us — we cannot bring to
the world what we do not have to offer. At times, we look at the outside world and
find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder. We feel compelled to
transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are
often disappointed in our best attempts to do so. One reason for this is that
we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Peace starts in
our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are
firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally. Once
we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and
the whole world. Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of
us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our
own relationship to peacefulness. Interestingly, people who manifest peace
internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and
troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend
their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings simply rise and fall
like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of
peacefulness within. We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our
energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose
the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict. We begin to see our
thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose
no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness. When we find that we are able to locate
ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous
surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace
that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves. Until then, we help
the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within. |
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