To seek peace in conditions, whether mental conditions or external conditions, is frustrating. And you overlook the simple fact that the realm of peace, which is the unconditioned consciousness in you and the light of the world, as Jesus called it, is already there.
Eckhart Tolle
Peace is already in us. It isn't out there or in any story we may create in our minds. It is right here, right now. It is not found in our achievements, our special relationships, our "good" days and our successful times. You can search until you are blue in the face and you might even find what feels like peace from these things you have been conditioned to believe will bring it...but it won't last! Lasting peace cannot be found in mental or external conditions.
Besides,peace is not something we will "find". It is not a "knowing" of it that will bring us to experiencing peace. It is simply a realizing that we are it. We are peace. It is as natural to us as the colour of our eyes or our breath. We just have this conditioned idea that it is something we need to search for in the fluctuating and ever changing world of things.
Eventually, after much fruitless and frustrating searching, we come to the realization that peace cannot be found out there or even "known" conceptually. We realize that we are peace. We also stop trying to conceptualize what peace is and who we are: You can't know yourself; You can only be yourself.
So we can put away our searching out there for that which we will never be found in the conditioned, in those things we place judgements, expectations and a need to "know" on.
We can rest in the realization that we are peace and settle into that unconditioned space of awareness.
Peace is to know yourself through the act of not knowing.
The Light of the world is already in you. That is who you are.
All is well
Eckhart Tolle ( August, 2021) To Be Yourself as Awareness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHyIFJxhLI
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