03/28/2021
Day TWENTY-EIGHT: “Always be a person of peace.”
Day TWENTY-EIGHT: “Always be a person of peace.”
Being tranquil, calm, and serene, these are the feelings we strive to live in. As we are learning to live in the now, we begin to understand that everything is happening just the way it should. We move through our feelings and our experiences throughout the day with little or no emotional reactions, only observances. We now participate when necessary, and only when it is our turn.
Being in this peaceful state causes others to gravitate toward us. This is a natural attraction because when the rest of the world is caught up in the chaos of their daily lives, peacefulness stands out. Imagine being a person who personifies and exudes peace, in all situations. The feeling of personal growth we experience when we handle the daily uncomfortable situations in any form, without reacting, with none of our previous emotional responses, we feel elevated. Our higher self is now emerging.
Your life, your being, and your state appears as a beautiful picture, something that anyone can look toward and feel comfort. You are like a life raft in the raging sea of life. You will provide safety and answers for a weary world. The end of suffering is peace. When we have laid down everything that we fought for, held onto, and that the world and our egos told us are true and are important, we find peace.
Look at all of the things that cause us stress and to suffer. Are they actually important? Do these things truly have the ability to make us happy, important, rich, desirable, or loved? The answer is almost assuredly no. Think about this; what is the result of receiving something we think we really want or need? What happens when we do not? Any momentary feeling or emotion that is experienced because of something or someone we desire or expect is fleeting because it can be taken as quickly as it was given.
We no longer fight against everyone and everything. Our natural state is calm, tranquil, and peaceful. We walk away from confrontations, negative conversations, and anything that disturbs our state of Zen, of peace. Our life is now in a state of flow that is not easily disturbed. It is like water. We take on the form of that which we are in, without chaos, without force, but easily and peacefully we take form being formless. This brings us closer each day, to the higher self we created when we started down this journey of self-discovery. Peace comes from within, and is not able to be taken from you, but it can be given up if you choose, and you can also share yours with others.
When we evaluate everything in our lives by this premise, it is easy to determine what is necessary, and the only thing we find truly necessary for anyone, and at any moment is our next breath. Taking our lives down to the point that we only need our next breath and having that, then everything else is purely a bonus.
We now can look at our natural state of peace and see that we are in it more than we are not. We are able to be proud of ourselves as we see the evidence of the discipline we now have. Through meditation and practice, we begin to peacefully respond and participate in our life. This leaves us with a peaceful feeling that reminds us that at this moment, and at every moment, we truly have all that we need. Each day meditate, being grateful, and being thankful for everything, happy with nothing and peaceful within, we are now people of peace. MB.
