If we all want peace....

....and understanding, how come we all spend so much time arguing and failing to comprehend why the other people in our world can be so utterly unreasonable and inconsiderate? Serenity is not something we can buy from a supermarket; it is something we have to develop within ourselves.

There are no shops that give out 'tolerance tokens' for us to cash in at times of great need. We create our own... or we live without it and suffer the stress.


If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.    (Mother Teresa)

Imagine eating one meal....

....and then never needing to eat again for the rest of your life. Or getting one good night's sleep and then staying awake forever and a day because you have now fulfilled your need to slip into unconsciousness. There are some things that we just have to keep on doing over and over again.

By and large, though, only the pleasurable activities need to be repeated. If a positive pattern is playing itself out in your life now, enjoy it. If, though, there's a sense of 'uh-oh, here we go again', break the habit.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them  (James A Baldwin)