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Today's
Meditation:
Peace.
What a beautiful concept, and such a beautiful
quality. With peace in our minds and hearts, this
world becomes a much different place for us; seeing our
lives and the lives of others through peaceful eyes gives
us a truly unique vision of just what life is all about.
Can
we find peace outside of ourselves, though? Is it
possible for some outside source to change us inside, in
our hearts and spirits? Time and experience tell us
that the answer is no, of course--until we're ready to
experience peace inside and until we're ready to allow
ourselves to feel it, we will have no peace, no matter
what our outside situations.
There
is peace in your heart, but your mind--especially your
ego--doesn't really want you to find it. After all, a
peaceful mind will put the ego out of work, and that's
precisely what the ego fears. The ego likes to keep
us feeling that we need it drastically, and if I'm sitting
quietly in a peaceful state, I really have no need of the
ego. But until we're ready to let go of our
attachment to the ego and its way of making us feel good
about ourselves on truly superficial terms, peace will be
out of our reach no matter where we are.
If
on the other hand we let go of our need to feel
"important" and wanted and loved--and accept the
fact that we already are all of those things--our egos
will continue to keep us thinking that things aren't so
good, and that we need the things that the ego is doing
for--or to--us.
Accept
the peace within you, and put your ego out of
business. It really isn't there to do what's best
for us.
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