The stress we feel over our possessions or in our relationships -- that sneaks in to steal our contentment -- is never because of the way in which these things (themselves) are made to turn, but it is the dark effect of how tightly we cling to the idea that our desires have the power to grant us peace.

The one who looks to me for strength, Is not without my own, The one who calls on me for peace, Finds quietude is sown, The one who reaches for my hand, Will never walk alone, The one who comes to me for love, His heart is made my Home.

Why is it that peace of mind is so hard for us to stay in, to keep as our own? Why is being calm in the middle of a storm virtually the last thing that most of us are able to do? What is the source of real composure? And how do we work to develop it within ourselves? This is why we must have new self-knowledge as follows.

The fear of stepping up to life, of coming right out and asking it for what we want, ensures that not only won't we win our heart's desire, but fairly well guarantees -- for our obedience to negative doubt -- that we will never realize the peace of a quiet mind that has seen how life itself wants to grant wishes that are True.

Being at peace, and learning to live with quiet confidence -- even as the world spins wildly around us -- begins as we realize within us the presence and power of an interior stillness that neither needs, nor searches for, anything outside of itself in order to quietly know itself.

Real peace comes when you see that neither fullness nor emptiness defines you. No more chasing or fearing -- just witnessing life as it turns, like seasons changing. Shadows aren't real, just reflections of something greater. What if the fear you run from is only your own illusion? Let go and experience the freedom beyond the mind's endless grasping.

To know, to perceive the great Truth that everything seen in life -- outside and inside of us -- has that which dwells both above and beneath it -- is to gain passage into a world whose Peace is unassailable: for what is there in the universe with the power to disturb that which is -- and that knows itself as being a part of the whole of God's Life?...

Stillness is the backdrop of all that moves, and one's unwavering awareness of this Stillness is the backdrop of the Eternal Opposites at play in ceaseless motion. This means that within one's own awakened state of awareness rests not only the potential to transcend the passages of time, but to live within an un-passing, unsurpassed, and Timeless Peace that might be called the Ground of God.

Part 1 Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot! Part 2 What we should seek in life is clarity, not comfort, for what is made clear becomes pure. Such purity is the heart of peace, while those parts of us that search out way...

There can never be Peace in us, or upon the earth, until we come to see this one Truth: There is no one who is not my neighbor. After all, who is more my neighbor than every movement of life that passes through me, with which I share all of my moments? Who is closer to me than my own thoughts and feelings? So, it is "me" that I live with, and not the imagined "thee." The Truth is that it i...

The pain of wanting something or someone usually passes with ones coming to possess that which is desired, but the painful ache of being someone possessed by endless wants never ends until one realizes that the only way to bring an end to these wants - and the self that suffers them - is to wake up to the Truth that one already has everything real and necessary to be at Peace. Such an interio...

We have within us, each and every one of us, a certain kind of higher vantage point -- a very special part of us -- that when we are present to it, we enjoy its peace, regardless of what is going on around us or within us. This yet to be realized state of ourselves can be called conscious self-awareness. Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with each and every passing shadow of life...