Talk Takeaways

Real peace is beyond imagination because it transcends the self that imagines it.

It is a person's ideas about the nature of peace that produce the conditions that are subsequently blamed for taking that imagined peace away.

"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man." -- William Blake

We all need a new, dynamic understanding of what peace is. Peace is not a static idea of any imagined condition to come.

True peace is a ceaseless reconciliation of disparate conditions, requiring another order of attention in order to realize it. Within the storm is the peace. There is no such thing as real peace outside of the whole of the moment.

The completion of the moment and the completion of yourself are one and the same thing.

The part of us that seeks peace of mind outside of itself will never find peace of mind because it does not understand the real nature of peace.

We like to be outside in nature because it gives us a chance to be in relationship with something that is greater than I.

We feel separate from life because something in us separates itself when it describes what life is.

Real peace, and what we describe within us as being a disturbance, cannot be separated from each other.

Awareness of the disturbance is what completes the moment. The moment cannot be completed without your awareness of it.

If you want to know the peace that passes all understanding, do your part to complete the moment through your understanding of what it means to accept the moment as it is.

The 'I' that wants to reconcile the storm is the eye of the storm.

The last thing that occurs to a human being: You are not here just for yourself.

Only people who are terribly afraid want others to love what they love, and make enemies out of others who do not love what they love.

We can only receive from the moment what we are willing to offer to it.