I Am Sorry
Peace begins with me. Should I not have it, so are all the energies around me. I cannot give what I don't have. And I must not pretend that I have fully owned it. When I do things to please others in the absence of my own peace, I am mostly doing it out of my ego demand. Out of my own self claim that I am better. If only I would learn the secret of right relations that is to look for the Divine in people and things, and leave the rest to God. As a human, in the absence of the peace that's must be within me, I am disturbed not by things that happen but by my opinions of the things that happen. Peace is the wind beneath the wings. I need to be with peace myself for there shall be peace around me. If it doesn't work for me, for anything that I strive, it won't work for others. I shall be free when my days are not without a care nor my nights without a want and a grief. But rather, when these things girdle my life and yet I rise above them plainly and unbound. Peace begi...