Before you can hope to know the peace of being in God's company, you must first learn to be at peace in the company of yourself.
It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment. We may deny this unsettling truth, but when it comes to what we are in relationship with, inwardly and outwardly, actions speak louder than words--and, seen or not, all actions are a choice of one kind or another...
No peace appears outside of, or apart from the disturbance that conceals it, and no disturbance appears outside of, or apart from the peace that reveals it...
Whenever we will put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then Truth takes our side, lending us what is noble, needful, and divine.
Around the world today, millions if not billions of individuals are being consumed by negativity. The world and our relationship to the cosmos always run through cycles of increased or decreased activity. Right now we are in a cycle of increased activity where many people are stirred up. In such stirring there exists the possibility of increased conflict, but also of increased consciousness -- although it is conflict that seems more prevalent.
Spiritually speaking, as a required agreement essential in facilitating one's rebirth, one must learn what it means to be at peace with suffering the level of oneself that can never know the peace it seeks.
Spiritually speaking -- as a required agreement essential in facilitating one’s rebirth -- one must learn how to be at peace with (consciously) suffering the presence of a false sense of self that can never know the peace it seeks.
Part 1 The more clearly we can see that racing toward a pleasure imagined is the same as running away from the possibility of knowing real peace, the sooner we will realize there is no peace in pleasure alone; while the pleasure of being at peace with oneself is all that one really needs in order to be happy and whole. Part 2 Here's the most important thing to remember whenever yo...
No one who feels himself as being apart from life can ever know the peace of real Life... for his is always the imagined fear that life will take from him what little measure of peace he has temporarily pieced together for himself.
Show me the one who governs his own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you that rarest of individuals who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.
Part 1 Spiritually speaking, you must learn what it means to be at peace with suffering the nature of that level of yourself that can never know the peace it seeks. Part 2 Conscious suffering is the one true path to being consciously selfless.