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What gets in the way of peace?
Posted on Nov 11th, 2007
by 
Jill
Jill
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 11, 2007:
Pure and Simple Ego displaces peace. I cannot find an example of when that is not the case. When we seek outside ourselves to define who we are or what we're valued at.... we disturb the peace. When we invite in fear.... we are no longer at peace.
I wrote this for my book, and it is too fitting to replicate, so I will simply quote myself. LOL
I wrote this for my book, and it is too fitting to replicate, so I will simply quote myself. LOL
"I believe that peace is best held in the absence of fear. Not as a focused presence, but rather the necessary spaces in between things. Much like an indescribably beautiful symphony can only be held in rapture through the use of silence. The notes would have no impact if the silence between the notes didn't punctuate the possibilities. I do not believe that peace is the note. I believe it is the silence that allows the notes to be impactful. To be moving. And sacred. Peace is best held in the absence of the wretched noise of fear that disturbs our being. And if peace, is in fact, held through the absence of fear... it cannot be found. It cannot be conjured. Peace simply takes form when we boldly lay our fears to rest."
C) 2006 Jillianne Simpson
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Jill,
You and I are in agreement on 'seeking outside ourself.'
By the way, how are things going with your book and the publisher?
Oh so beautiful Dear Jill, Thank You for your contribution to Peace.
Much Love & Peace
Beautiful, Jill!!!!!
Peace and love,
S:)
Hi Jill,
Yes, I understand it this way too. The silence, the spaces, sacred. Peace is that feeling that life really is sacred.
I was particularly attracted to your words in light of the controversy stirred up by those seeds …
“When we seek outside ourselves to define who we are or what we're valued at…. we disturb the peace. When we invite in fear…. we are no longer at peace. ”
Believing others can “rate” us and that it should mean something to us, what others think … somehow those defending this idea, don't get it. When attempts are made to coerce us, by threatening to silence us, then fear is invited in.
Deborah
Embrace Reality & Serenity Flows… …