What Is Peace?

Sometimes, i like to ask myself what it means to have true peace.1

Is it when you are feeling totally calm and at rest with all that is around you?2

Is it when you have all the material things that you could possibly think of having in life?3

Is it when you've found what your looking for; perhaps, the love of your life?4

Is it when you are with family and no quarrels or arguments arise?5

Is it when you go to an opera concert and you feel the melody of the music through your bones?6

Is it when you sit under a cool starry night and watch shooting stars?7

Is it when you watch flowers bloom, manifesting beautiful colors in their season?8

I could ask more and more questions about what having true peace means i go on and on.9

Why? You may ask, why ask all these questions?10

The thing is that ive tried it all. Ive done it all. Ive passed through all those instances but it didnt give me peace.11

It began to make me wonder. I began to view peace in a whole new perspective. This is how i now see true peace;12

Its the ability to be in the midst of the greatest of storms that life can bring you and still be happy; its the ability to be happy even when all have forsaken you; the ability to forgive and love no matter what.13

how about that?!14