Most of us search for peace, yet few know how to find it. I poetic terms, I offer you a possible path, one which has worked for me:
PEACE TERMS
If you would cease fighting
Wars within and beyond you,
You must first discern, then
Enter the home of peace
Which lies within you.
If you would access peace
You must agree to let peace be:
It opens of itself
When you permit peace to be
What it is on its own terms,
Apart from your will and wants.
Peace is ever a meek,
Gentle servant, able
To do what you permit it to do.
Peace like love will not
Insist on its own way.
Yet if you truly seek peace
You will find that its way
Is really the only way;
You must listen to its voice
As if it were the only voice.
And what says the voice of peace?
“All will be well, eternally.”
In the grand vision of peace,
In the end, all shall be well;
And if all is not well,
It is not yet the end.
Peace may begin as a narrow stream,
Yet if you will but stand in it,
It will grow around you into a river;
And if you will but go with its flow,
Peace will widen and deepen
Into a graceful expanse rolling toward
Its farthest sea, called
The Sea of “All is now well, forever.”
Peace will guide you to a sacred space
Both within yet beyond you.
When you discover that your depth
And your height reach the same Place;
When your full breadth unveils itself
As your personal expanse into Heaven,
You will have finally entered
The peace beyond all understanding.
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