Where is peace? Think about it for a little bit. Is it something to be achieved? If you believe that then you necessarily put it outside of yourself. What makes you feel like you aren't already at peace? Is it because you're still searching for all the things you think you need? It's being filled with desire that robs us of our peace, so how intelligent is it to desire peace?
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way” This simple statement tells you all you need to know to find peace. It's only as complicated as one makes it. Peace is already the very nature of your being, yet this is often obscured by all the worries of the mind. Fear is what destroys peace, can you set aside your fears and rest within the Love you find within? Can every action and expression come from this place of peace within?
Peace isn't some abstract idea, it's a very natural state. It's far more than an absence of war. We live in a society that even when some “enemy” isn't present, people are at war with themselves. As long as people have conflict within, any external resemblance of peace is only an illusion. The macro is the micro, people being divided within themselves invariably leads to conflict outside. The planetary transformation is deeply personal, and every personal transformation resonates through the entire Planet.
Peace isn't a thing, it's a state of being. You can't hold it in your hand, you can't put it down on paper, you either are peace or you aren't. Again I ask, why? What makes a person feel at peace and what doesn't? Is peace outside of you? The feeling of peace, where does it comes from? That's always felt in the center of your being, never outside of you. That's real peace and that's always felt from within. You can believe you have to do something to achieve peace, yet if you understand peace enough to know it's something you want, haven't you already begun to discover peace inside of yourself?
What's the outside? It's only a reflection of what is within. Is the ocean at war with the shore? The waves crashing against the rocks, if you don't have peace within, it's a violent thing. The division within yourself is projected outwards and you see conflict on the “outside”. If you have found peace, the waves crashing on the rocks are just Consciousness expressing itself as Love. The rocks don't mind a bit. If we judge anything, we're also judging ourselves and when we judge ourselves, we judge everything else too.
Judgment, fear, conflict, separation, different walls of the same glass house, with a glass ceiling called ignorance. All of these things reinforce each other, yet because they're all dependent upon each other, if one falls the others go with it. For real peace to be present, there can be no fear, judgment, separation or ignorance. You cannot have peace where there is division. True peace is equality and there's no such thing as “separate but equal”. True equality is Oneness and that is your Godhood. True Peace Is God, the two are one and the same. If you put God outside, you create conflict with God. If you're at odds with the Big Kahuna, wouldn't you be at odds with all of Creation as well?
If you want peace, let go. Just relax and enjoy the moment. Look to the lilies of the field. If you really want a discourse on peace from a true master, ask a tree. Don't worry about the future, don't dwell on the past, just look to what you're feeling in the moment and search for peace within that. Or better yet, stop looking for peace and be peace within this moment.
Love,
Will
