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Today's
Meditation:
If
I could give any gift to anybody in the world, it would be
peace. Nothing but peace of mind and peace of heart
can help to cure this world of ours or the people in
it. Peace is like a medicine that works its magic on
our spirits, allowing us to endure things we wouldn't be
able to endure without it, and to see things that we
wouldn't be able to see without it. Peace is the
greatest gift that we can share with others, apart from
love, and the two are very closely related. Love
without peace is often a demanding sort of love, and peace
without love doesn't offer much to the world.
The
people that I've most enjoyed being with in my life are
those who have peace. Some find it in their
spirituality, others who claim no religious beliefs find
it in themselves. They can't help but share it, for
it is an integral part of who they are, and being with
them always has been a great experience. They may
ask things of me, but I know they aren't asking because
they're needy or manipulative-- they genuinely need
help. They tend not to react to things in anger, and
they tend not to be judgmental or overly critical.
Just being with them, I feel their peace, and I feel more
peaceful inside. And I know that their examples have been
the most important influence in helping me to find my own
peace.
Peace
is powerful, as you will find in many Zen and Buddhist
stories and sayings. Peace gives us a place to work
from that is imperturbable, a solid foundation that
allows us to do what we need to do from a place of
strength, not worrying that the end results of anything we
do may tear us apart. Peace is within me, and it is
within you. Can we allow that peace to be an
integral part of our lives, the source of all we do and
say? Can our relations with others be based on our
own peace, the peace that comes only from within?
The answer must be yes, of course, but it has to start
with us.
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