![]() This magnanimous attitude is often the best way of bringing the good qualities of others to the fore. Rather than retaliating, the heart can be sympathetic to the struggles of others, and we seek to be the one to let go of the unfortunate situation. The other response is to invoke the heart and the quality of peace. But, this tit for tat attitude will make peace more distant and harder to achieve. If we feel hurt, we subconsciously want to project this back onto others. ![]() If we have hurt feelings, the response of the mind and vital is invariably to retaliate. One choice is to respond to an initial confrontation with escalating the conflict. In life we come across situations where we have a choice how to respond. This is the price for attaining peace – giving up our desire and pride. If we live in a state of desire and expectation, we will not experience peace because some desires will always remain unfulfilled and we will feel frustration. But if we lose the desire to be proved right, then we can gain inner peace. If pride comes to the fore, it makes us unwilling to change and we can persist in a wrong course of action. For example, sometimes we have to give up our pride in order to gain peace in return. We can only buy peace with our own inner attitude. To meditate on peace requires determination and sincerity, the sooner we start the better. If we can see a new approach to life which will bring more peace of mind and happiness, we should choose this path straight away – whilst we still have the enthusiasm and aspiration. By the time we are old, we are stuck with our bad habits. ![]() Sometimes, we can feel ‘maybe when I am an old man and retired, I will then have the time to give up bad habits and meditate on peace.’ But, if we keep delaying, we may surrender completely to the bad habit and wrong way of living. If we have a bad habit, now is the best time to break it. ![]() If something is good to do, now is the best time. It is peace which will make us inwardly rich, yet peace is often the thing the world lacks most. Without peace, all the material objects in the world will not give joy. ![]() This is a thought-provoking aphorism on peace. ![]()
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