Peace

Today a vast storm rages. Snow swirls around the sides of my house like waves curling 'round the prow of a great ship on the high seas. Wind moans and drives the snow into crisp drifts that block my door. All the world is wind-whipped and turbulent around me.

Inside, peace lives in the stream of notes as I listen to a piece composed by J. S. Bach and played on solo piano by Murray Perahia, who, (dare a Canadian say it?) rivals Glenn Gould in his brilliance, dedication and virtuosity.

As I listen, entranced, I write of peace amidst the swirling energies of the storm.

Let us not think, but rather feel. When we feel ourselves, we come into peace as surely as water flows downhill. Again, I find myself urging you to go within in complete acceptance of whatever it is you will experience there to find the groundedness, the solid foundation of your being. In acceptance of what you truly ARE, you will find a peace that answers every question. You will find it as you FEEL yourself to BE. Breathe deeply and slowly and there you will find it.

When you feel and accept the feeling, whatever it is, you will know peace. That peace will be a calm in any storm, for borne as it is of your own love of self, acceptance of self, it cannot be swayed, stolen, or driven away by anything outside of you. And when you have such a peace inside of you, you become sovereign, beholden to no one, needful of no outside source for your indwelling sense of your own worth, your own value, your own being in the world.

And in that space, that clear, clean space, there is no need at all for the struggle of forcing anything, of fighting, defending, battling or belittling. In your perfect peace, you will see the innate perfection of ALL that you encounter. It is not ego-driven; it does not seek to place itself above anyone or anything. It has the solidity of bedrock. It is the stand of a sovereign being, embodying the ALL holographically and in complete acceptance of ALL.

Let us breathe ourselves into being and only being. Let us breathe ourselves consciously into peaceful being, quiet being. Let us accept the sunlight and the storm, the stream of being and becoming, the yes, the no and the dancing rippling dip of time that separates them.

If you doubt your ability to reach that peace, accept the doubt until you become nothing but acceptance. There, you will find all that you have sought.