Peace

Savouring it by putting a stop to all our little sorrows

July 27th 2024

Decide once and for all to put a stop to all the little sorrows, troubles and annoyances that poison your everyday life. Then you will at last begin to savour peace and freedom.
Observe yourself, and you will see that your life is made difficult not because of great misfortune and calamities, which are not daily occurrences, but because you make mountains from the molehills of a few little irritations or setbacks. This is what can upset or cripple your whole inner life.*
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