Part 1
Before we can have a conscious relationship with what is Timeless, before we can know a "peace that passes all understanding," there must come a series of (conscious) shocks that prove the truth of the following to us: any imagined time, power, or possession to come -- by which we are forever set free from worry and fear -- is as unreal as the imagined self that keeps dreaming its "promised land" lies "just ahead."
Part 2
Tension and ambition are an invisible set of opposites born in -- and of -- a lower level of consciousness that suffers from its own time-induced dream of "one day" escaping the pain inherent in its divided state of being.