The path to peace is gratitude

The path to peace, internal peace, is to see yourself clearly through the muck and the mire of the world around you.

Peace is found in being true to who you are in the midst of a maddening crowd.

It’s found in knowing that we can only ever choose how we respond to life, and learn from the effectiveness of those choices each time that we are required to make them.

Peace is found in being content with what we understand to be the reasons for our poorly informed decisions so that we can learn from it, rather than shackle ourselves to our past because of it.

Peace is found in not creating fragments of ourselves in different carefully hidden spaces of our shame or our sadness, but seeing it as intricate parts of who we are in our entirety.

Peace is found in resisting the labels and the judgements as defining attributes of our being, but rather using those as input into informing the paths that we choose to follow in our journey of figuring out how life works.

Peace is found in building on what holds goodness rather than berating ourselves or others in what resulted from poorly informed decisions.

When we live life towards honouring the life that we have rather than lamenting the life that we don’t have, we find gratitude.

And gratitude is the antidote for every illness of the heart, and every ache of the soul.

Gratitude and accountability are roommates, and anger is the unscrupulous landlord that evicts both.

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