16/06/2026
We spend so much of our lives trying to create peace.
We hope for it through holidays, achievements, relationships, money, distractions, self-help books, and sometimes even through spirituality itself.
Perhaps peace is already within us. But all the distractions have buried it.
The ancient text the Yoga Vasistha suggests that peace is the natural state of the mind when it is no longer disturbed by constant craving, fear, worry, regret, and endless mental chatter.
Think about those moments when you are still, by yourself, maybe gardening, watching a sunset, sitting by the ocean, sitting with your doggo or completely absorbed in something you love. For a brief moment, the noise quietens and what remains is a sense of ease.
One of the most valuable things we can do is become the observer. To notice what is happening within us rather than being swept away by it.
In that noticing, we create a little space.
And in that space, perhaps we discover that peace was never missing at all. It was simply waiting beneath the disturbance.
