Marcus Aurelius wrote, “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

We seek peace through external conditions, but peace is already present in you now.

Seeking it externally perpetuates suffering.

Finding it within now, rather than waiting endlessly for external circumstances to change, is the other way.

I'm not saying it's easy.

But it's better than the alternative.

Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens. KABIR The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit

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