Which Are You Building: A World of Peace or Turbulence?

A Reincarnated Thought for February 25, 2025

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​Peace has no power to impose itself on us. This is not in its nature.

It is a common misconception that peace comforts by surrounding and enveloping us. Instead, peace arises from within and we then extend that peace outward into our tangible surroundings. Inner peacefulness manifests itself as an outward calmness.

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Why is it that so many children seem so at peace with themselves and the world? Is there anything more peaceful than a newborn child cradled in its mother’s arms?  Isn’t it because children are the purest of heart and the least tarnished by time?

​As we age, though, unless an individual remains right and pure within, they impede peacefulness and frustrate their ability to project calm.

Internal peace is rarely a naturally occurring phenomenon. Paradoxically, peace germinates, sprouts, and grows to maturity during the most chaotic of times. ​One of the traits exhibited by one of our history’s most revered and influential political sages was a defining, internal, personal peace; oftentimes, his peace only surfaced after the deepest of sorrows, long periods of incomprehensible internal conflict, and tremendous personal turmoil. ​Yet, he often comforted an entire nation with his healing, peaceful words.

Abraham Lincoln proved that peace must be pursued with the expectation of achievement: it eludes the unworthy pursuer.

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