When and Why you may have Peace

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TIME is a constant in all our lives.

Time is something we cannot impact, control, influence or change. Time we can simply but accept. And yet time is what procures our peace; when our lives are in harmony with time; when our use of time feels worthwhile and purposeful, then we have peace.

But peace is more than that. It is the sense of our soul’s momentary completion, when we feel fulfilled; yet importantly, not life filled to the brim — that would be the antithesis of peace.

When everything matches what is right in our mind and heart, when there is that kind of completion within the complexity of life, there is the moment’s peace to be enjoyed.

When everything is structured and ordered according to what your soul deems as right. This is why self-knowledge is so important; to know thyself. Peace is being honest about what we like and don’t like, becoming aware in the first place, not judging any of this as wrong or inappropriate (unless what we like is morally wrong!), and bringing what we like into being.

It is just as important to know the things that cause dissonance and frustration within us personally, where we are undone and rendered incomplete. We must know and accept what we lack so we know and accept what causes us to feel at lack. The more we pretend we are perfectly tolerant of everything, the less peace we will possibly experience. We need to be honest about how flawed we are and, importantly, how those flaws manifest. This requires a very solid sense of self.

But there is an incontrovertible limit to this kind of peace. It is limited by time. A self-engineered peace cannot last. Change comes with time; day folds into night, night into day, bad weather follows good, and so forth.

Peace is heavily conditional. Unless we learn the practices of God. That’s a journey! It involves a pilgrimage within the long passage of loss.

In sum, it involves coming to an implicitly accepting attitude. That’s not a place anyone just arrives at. It’s probably a place that many will never arrive at. And most people, again, only land in this place for short periods of time. But if peace is our goal and our game, we will build peace upon peace.

The task of life is to do all we can to nurture a sense of peace within ourselves, so that peace is not only enjoyed personally, others too can benefit.