3-2. There is only Peace. It has always been Real. A great deal has been laid on top of Peace by your mind. Shed all you learned that was unreal and Truth will be all that is left.
Within the context of this world, Peace hardly seems present at all. Much strife, difficulties and darkness seem to cover these many lands, pitting one against another in an endless battle for dominance and control. The ego rules with an iron fist of pain and misery, and countless Souls have passed through far too many incarnations believing that the ego’s story of this world and what it is must be the only narrative that is correct. Yet it is not, for the ego sings a song of desperate separation when the Truth is anything but. The ego’s lies are prevalent indeed, dispersing themselves into all of the corners of this world, becoming represented in an enormous amount of interactions and placing themselves between the minds of so many now incarnate Children of God that is truly a miracle that any are able to hear the whispers of their hearts over the cacophonous din of their endlessly persistent egos’ mad cries of pain and lust for a satisfaction that can never truly be fulfilled. What this world will offer to you of Peace is a most minute and middling form, a temporary cessation of agony found in the obtaining of a new trinket or bauble, so soon to lose its shine and become but another toy placed on the shelf of mind and forgotten in favor of that which is to be the next possession that must be obtained, at times at any cost. Is this Peace? Is this the satisfaction of a mind now United with its accompanying heart, unified in a single purpose and driven to resolve all internal conflict solely through the mechanisms and wisdom offered by the heart alone, directing the mind to follow as is its only true function? No - certainly it is not, for no material object, massive fortune, enormous bevy of friends affecting limitless admiration for your presumed majesty or power over others, so destined to wane and be taken from you by another overzealous challenger, will ever provide you with the Peace of God. For Peace is not to be gained. It can not be purchased, bargained for, stolen, demanded or even given, for it is not of this world and this place, so bereft of Peace in so many ways, has no genuine ability to offer to you that which you truly desire above all else, even when you languish in pain and wonder without end as to what it is that you genuinely desire to experience. Peace is not of this world, for it is a reunification with your one Purpose above all else and it cannot be given to you by another Soul, no matter how enlightened, ascended or transcendent they might truly appear to be. Peace is an aspect of your original mind - the mind that knew no separation from God or from Love, and while it may appear to be hopelessly lost to you while you have wandered amongst the enormous avenues and byways of this world, blindly searching in vain for a quality of existence that cannot be denied to you - but that also cannot be given to you - Peace has remained quiet and still at the center of your heart, awaiting the joyous day when you finally elect to cease your outwardly gazing attention and focus your awareness inward instead. Perhaps you had to exhaust all other options before returning to your heart was all that was left to you. Perhaps you had to obtain all that this world could ever possibly offer before you finally realized that none of it would ever truly suffice. Perhaps you had to fall through enormous numbers of apparently separate incarnations before you became willing to stop demanding that this world should automatically be able to offer to you the one quality of existence that this place, this apparently wretched and forlorn and horribly isolating location of physical reality, would finally be revealed as never having contained the Peace that you have sought in vain whenever you looked outwards for a Truth that has forever resided solely within. Peace has not forgotten you, although you have almost certainly forgotten its infinitely sweet nectar of life and of Love as you have exhausted yourself in your ceaseless quest for absolution from “sins” that you alone have assigned to yourself. Much will this world teach you and none of it has any genuine value. Much will this world attempt to offer to you for you to use to layer ever higher upon your mind, attempting to obscure a Light that cannot ever be truly denied. It can only be apparently obliterated when you accept what you are offered with blind allegiance to lessons given by others who have almost never attempted to find Peace within themselves. No matter how much has been learned by you during your time within this world, all of it can be left behind. None of it do you need to carry anymore, for all of it was but the lessons of others given with no thought of their true value - or most shockingly - of the possibility that these proffered lessons fundamentally held no value at all. Perhaps it seems that there can be no way to extricate yourself from this mountain of useless beliefs, so determined as they seem to be willing to bury you forever and to hopelessly blot out the Light of Love. That which you have learned has never been possessed of such a power. These lessons in separation, isolation, desperation and utter desolation of the spirit have never served you - they offer not even a single iota of Truth, for they speak to and are representative of a series of lessons in this world’s beliefs which hold no genuine reflection in Truth. You can cast them off whenever you’d like. You are not burdened by them other than to the extent that you truly wish to believe that they continue to hold value for you. Rarely would any Soul in this world voluntarily give up that which they believe to be immensely valuable without due consideration or return for what they’ve offered. Yet what you are asked to release has been but the most utterly useless of lessons, covered in so many layers of repetition and reinforcement that you are not at all to be faulted for eventually having elected to believe that they must have actually been what you wanted. They never were. You have always wished only to Know the Peace that you once did, so very long ago now that it seems that it must never have occurred at all, for it resides in a Memory of God so ancient, at least from the perspective of this world, that to believe it was ever Real would be tantamount to admitting that all that has apparently transpired after its radiantly perfect Light must be but a mistake of memory, a tiny glitch in your mind that arose from nothing at all. Yet it is not as such. It is very much Real, and it is the only Memory that will ever have any value to you, once it is regarded from the proper perspective. There is a Peace which goes beyond all understanding that this world can never offer to you. It is the Peace of God… and it is your Peace as well. It is the Experience, and then the subsequent arising of Knowing, that you are Love. Nothing more than this does your heart request you to accept. It is not at all difficult to lay aside all that was placed over this Memory of Peace, yet it can appear to be if you wish to continue to perceive this world as anything other than what it is, in Truth - a temporary waystation for Souls now progressing away from Love, only to Return again after they have journeyed far enough to realize that what they believed they were leaving behind could somehow be lost to them. Peace has not been taken from you. Peace does not exist in some other state of mind or in some other place that is unobtainable to you. Peace is ever present and it has accompanied you for all of the time that you have elected to spend searching outwards for that which has always been resident at the center of your heart. Take it back up again, setting down the beliefs of this world and accepting for yourself only the Truth that your heart so gently offers, knowing that you will accept Truth at the exact same moment when you elect to finally release all that you believe to be Real that is not Love.