Peace is already within you

Bring peace to the world by living it

“There is no path to peace; peace is the path.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Many of us long for peace … in the world, our country, our hearts. The longing is for what we know is possible or we couldn’t desire it. It is an invitation to “come home” to the peace that we are — our essential nature.

We will have peace in the world when we live as peace.

If we are not at peace with ourselves and others, there can be no peace in the world. That might be confrontational, but if we desire peace, we must be open to looking at ourselves.

Some suggest we have to learn how to be peaceful. We can explore our own experience to find out if this is true.

Have you ever experienced peace? Maybe you were sitting outside watching the sun set. Or holding a baby and were so present with the little one that peace permeated your being? I’m going to guess that the answer is yes. Therefore, peace is already here, in you, as you and doesn’t have to be learned.

We know in all of our being that the wars as well as the fighting in this country are incompatible with our humanity. We inherently know that is not who we are.

Who we are is OneBeing, a truth that is revealed by modern science and shared by all great wisdom traditions.

If we are One, then war must come about through a misunderstanding of who we are.

If I truly knew who I was, war would not be possible. How can I be at war with someone else? There is no one else to be at war with. There is no other. There is only one. It would be like my lung being at war with my heart.

Yes, in our human experience informed by the misunderstanding of separation, we can produce the suffering of war. The odds are high that if we see war in the world, we are at war within ourselves.

How so?

Maybe you know there is something you are here to do, and you aren’t doing it.

Maybe you’ve been trying to lose 22 pounds for 22 years and you battle with yourself every day. Maybe you don’t like the work you do but you force yourself.

Maybe you let the activity of your significant other or colleague create conflict within. The conflict being that you want to love them, but your judgment of their activity separates you from that love.

You can bring that “war” experience close and welcome it. Allow the peace to arise within you and permeate your being.

If we want peace in the world, the place to begin is with ourselves: be peace. Our peace will flow out into the Universe.

It is up to each and every one of us, not the politicians, the warriors, the financiers, not anyone else. You. Me. We’re it. Ah, yes, there is no one else. Just me in all that I see.