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.

You win the moment you say you are winning.

Then you are winning inside, which is the only true place you could ever really win anyway.

Even if something spectacular happened that made you look like a winner outside, it was never about that for you.

It was how it would make you feel.

A winner.

You can do that now. You don’t have to wait.

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You win the game when you realize you can feel what you’ve always wanted to feel about yourself now, with no outward justification.

Then everything external is bonus.

You say you want freedom, but you have always been free.

Free to redirect your attention inward and live from whichever state you choose.

You say this or that prevents you, but that is to abdicate responsibility and authority to the external, or to a concept - past or future - which is illusory.

The only “real” thing is what is happening inside your... See more

We have been programmed to put this world first on a pedestal, acting like it is so real, so intensely important.

That it should dictate completely what happens inside of us, and especially, who we think we are.

Do you see how this is doing violence to yourself?

This feeling you want more than anything - peace - you refuse to let yourself have it.

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We never allow ourselves the feeling of what we yearn for.

We think something outside has to change first.

But of course it never does.

And how could it, if we are being the exact opposite of it?

How could apples come from orange seeds?

But intentions don’t matter.

The being who we are being is what matters.

And you can’t fake that. You are either being love in this moment or not.

This is what God waits for.

Not a temple of acts, and things, and stones.

But a temple of Being.

A temple of realizing - and living from - this state, which we already are.

A temple of un-forgetting.

“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.” - Rabindranath Tagore