The Lexicon
The heart qualities
Peace
Peace is not the absence of storms but the stillness at their center, the deep calm that remains when the surface waves subside. The traditions describe it as the natural condition of the mind once it ceases its restless grasping, the silence that was always beneath the noise. It is found not by arranging the world to our liking but by coming to rest in what we already are.
Carried by 8 teachers · across 4 traditions · 4 quotes
The contemplatives enter the silence and find the kingdom within; the nondual sages point to the peace that is the very nature of awareness, untouched by what passes through it. To know peace is to discover that you do not have to create it, only to stop disturbing it, and to return again and again to the quiet ground beneath all things.
In their words
There is no peace; there is no rest for those who are seeking outside their own being. The kingdom of God is within.Joel Goldsmith
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.Helen Schucman (A Course in Miracles)
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.Gautama Buddha
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle