Choose Peace. Go deeper and deeper and deeper within yourself, until you find the deepest peace that you have ever known. Then share it.

How many times have we heard that peace begins within, or something like it? Most of us can recall Ghandi’s invitation for us to ‘be the change’. Yet how many of us can really make this a lived reality in our world? We are very familiar with the ways of confrontation and war. If someone is agitated, or aggressive with us, we become agitated or aggressive in return. We react and end up fighting fire with more fire. We need to learn another way.

Peace begins within, then spreads out from there. We have forgotten how to access it because too many outer distractions continually pull us away. We get through our days by focusing on what needs to be done and rarely allowing feelings to creep into our busy and ordered lives. Emotions are considered a scary and unstable “Pandoras Box” which we are unwilling to touch for fear of what will happen. Yet the way to peace is through our feelings.

Everything we think and feel affects everybody else. Feelings are the vital  bridge between mind and heart where we experience our connectedness. Our failure to connect with one another is a symptom of our ‘age of reason’ that can only be healed through our hearts.

When we remember how to feel our feelings, and learn to choose, one by one we will choose peace and fill our worlds with it. Peace is a choice. Choose now.