Peace at last…

For years, in fact, perhaps for my entire life, I have been in search of this sense of inner tranquility, this urgent need for an equilibrium of my soul, a balance of my heart. For years I have journeyed far and wide, internally and externally, in hopes of finding something, someone, somewhere that would grant me this long desired truth. For years I thought I was looking in all the right places, when in fact, I was overlooking the place I had already found. In my search for peace, I was in fact running from the very essence of what peace stands for. Peace is not found on a lone mountaintop, far from the reaches of humanity. Nor is peace found in the most desolate places on earth, where an individual is essentially free of all responsibility. Peace, rather, is found right where you are… right were we are…

As I stood this evening, hands raised to my ears, facing my creator, I realized that in order to discover peace, I must realize that I have already found it. As I said those two beautiful words, and crossed my hands across my chest, the realization that peace has always been with us was quite apparent to me. Peace is not being free from responsibility, burden, or free from problems. Peace is not an angelic quality that we must somehow come to possess in order to intensify the experience. Most importantly, peace is not a feeling or quality that can be taken from us by anyone or anything. Peace, rather, is the acceptance that we are who we are, and that we should appreciate and maximize this opportunity we have been given to experience life as it has been given to us. Life is not to be taken for granted, and the peace that we already posses within ourselves is not to be overlooked.

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