Inner peace feels like my highest calling….and yet manages to remain elusive as a permanent state. I know it is the most fertile ground for the flow of generosity and heart-led service that brings me the greatest joy and fulfillment in this life. I have taken so many conscious steps, and made so many divinely guided transitions on my journey toward inner peace, and the rewards continue to be awe-some. I know a sense, or a glimpse, of peace in feeling my union with nature, and in all the ways I have brought my life into closer harmony with the laws that govern this universe.
I have also learned something about what to do whenever I feel restless, uncomfortable, ashamed, frustrated, frightened, or in any other way not at peace: what I do is, I WONDER. I bring wonder to the situation. I wonder about why I am not feeling my natural state of peace in that moment. I wonder about what I have been fixing my attention on. I wonder about what it is that I think I need, what it is that I think I must have, or why it is that I think things need to change. I get curious, and I ask myself these simple questions.
Wonder and curiosity have an ‘open-focus’ quality to them, as differentiated from a narrow focus that breeds attachment to a certain answer or outcome. Most of our suffering - our lack of knowing our inner peace - comes about because we resist meeting reality as it is. Instead, we tell ourselves that things (circumstances, ourselves, or other people) should be different than they currently are. We don’t trust reality, and we don’t trust that things are happening for us (rather than to us).
Perhaps the hardest place of resistance for me personally, is around accepting myself exactly as I am. When I know something that is for the highest good, but I am not yet acting fully in harmony with it, I may feel self-judgment and frustration. As one of my mentors, Peace Pilgrim, would say, “When you know but do not do, it breeds unhappiness.” I would add that self-compassion, and acceptance of our exact present point on our journey, can help with this.
On my own journey, I find that I have needed to work a great deal with discernment. For example, I know in a deep way that I could quite happily live much more simply than I do right now, and perhaps become the most relaxed and generous version of myself in the process. Yet, I have consciously chosen a more complicated path of having responsibility for more than I truly need, in order experience the joy of sharing it with others (my students, clients, friends, and family) through the creation of a sanctuary project with roots, a place where we can gather together in learning, healing, and loving community. It’s just one possible creative expression of this desire, and it’s a rewarding path of service that I feel guided to choose again, for now.
There are perhaps infinite expressions of a life that breeds inner peace, and the love and generosity that flow naturally outward from this peace. I have often wondered if my other pull toward an extremely simple, contemplative life may have a flavor of resistance tucked into it - a temptation to ‘play small,’ a resistance to the beautiful complexities of the world, a desire to somehow avoid our collective human dramas, or a fear of chaos or of feeling tired around so many different energies. I’ve heard a theory that if we feel a strong desire to distance from others or society, it’s because we are not yet able to express ourselves authentically IN society. I can see some truth in this.
Divine wisdom guides me to keep playing full-out, and to face my fears directly by leaning right into them. This seems to be how I learn the most. And, there may still come a time in my life when I consciously choose to walk a different path for the highest good, with very few possessions or outer commitments. My most relevant learning edge right now, as far as I am able to see, is around expressing myself authentically, lovingly, gracefully, in all surroundings I may find myself in….and that authentic expression includes whatever boundaries my healthy self desires for my well-being.
The freedom of fully honest self-expression, and to be free of attachment to the outcome that follows, seems to me a kind of perfection. To give priority to the good things we feel inspired toward (over the superficial things of life), is to live according to the highest light we know. Purification of body and mind are integral to this endeavor. A body clogged with processed and cooked foods clouds our mind and energy, and blocks our light from shining fully. A cleansed body is a vibrant body, and encourages a more positive mindset. Yet still there are other influences on the mind.
Ultimately, PRESENCE is the most direct route I know to inner peace, as it encompasses or takes care of all the areas I’ve discussed here. In a very busy and disconnected world, real presence can seem the most challenging frequency to embody. And yet, it is the most deeply relaxing and fulfilling of all. In presence, we accept and engage the reality of the moment. We are not caught in past or future, or a busy monkey-mind of mental chatter. We are resting in our true nature, open and available to connect authentically, and to listen deeply. We meet the world with open-hearted wonder, just as it is, and we feel the peace of our pure BEingness, and our oneness with everything. And so I wonder: Can we trust that here, in this frequency of presence, we have and are shown all that we need? I think THAT may represent the trust of true inner peace.
Beautiful!
Covid Killed Medical Ethics
People died from euthanasia, the banning of HCQ and Ivermectin, and from the vaccine. The murder of medical ethics by medical authorities has institutionalized murder in the “health care” system, just has the world’s acceptance of genocide paved the way for the elimination of ethnicities. Ethnic-targeted biowarfare research carried on by Washington is further evidence that respect for human life has departed. The Western world has plenty of money to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, the conflict in Ukraine, and the immigrant-invaders over-running their countries, but not for the health care of their citizens.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/more_proof_that_covid_killed_medical_ethics.html