Day 361 of wisdom
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
Henry Miller
Peace is not something that we derive from outside our being, peace emerges from within us, we feel it within us and it is spread to all those who are around us. We do not derive peace from the things we have, the things we gather or obtain, we can only derive peace from what we become. Whatever we have is nothing compared to who we are and who we are becoming. Whatever we have we can lose, but who we become we can never lose, it is the only thing we are guaranteed to keep for ever.
Money can buy you almost anything in the world, definitely not all things, but principal among the things money can't buy is peace. We become who we are by what we do not what others do to us or for us, and if what we do gives us peace, if what we do is accompanied by serenity we should do that thing over and over again. We should be more concerned about the feeling that we call out from others, it is what determines if we will feel peace or feel disturbed. If you make another man happy, you will feel peace, but if you make someone else cry peace will evade you.
Be a person who never allows anger to overcome him; be a person who ignore things that are irrelevant; be a person who is satisfied with what he has; be a person who takes life as it comes, who live life one day at a time; be a person who is calm in the face of overwhelming challenges, these are the greatest secrets to having inner peace. In the words of Lhamo Thondup, the fourteenth Dalai Lama who said, "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves." Once you are at peace with who you are, your life will be overwhelmingly peaceful.
Strive not to gather much, strive not to acquire plenty, but strive to become the person who you have always wanted to become, strive not to be what others want you to be but who you want for yourself. You are the closest person to yourself, before anyone benefits from or face the consequences of who you are, of who you have become you will be first to taste of it. So, become, not just for others but for yourself. Be you, peace comes form inside you, do not seek it elsewhere.
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John Kamikun
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