Inner Peace Versus Inner Conflict

um i typically uh i don't go up and do chapters and verses that sort of thing it's just not well i'm odd okay let's just say um in in lots of different ways but um for lifetimes i've been committed to to awakening and and this is called our ministry i'm saying our because every one of us has a soul's purpose which is to anchor the love and light of god into this world that's everybody's whether you know it or not like it or not everybody's is the same anchoring more god that's it how you do it is called your

individual soul's purpose or or your individual mission statement and god supports you in finding what that is and living it that's beautiful perfect but collectively it's about more god until you can't tell the difference from left to right up and down and so on just the perfect beautiful light of god and today you know we've been i don't know how you know these things just happened because because the talk just you know as it happens right and so i don't foresee like i don't think i

think all month we're going to do this i don't think about things like that it just happens and i can just see right now this beautiful and deep progression that's that's been going on this about our identity the importance of knowing who we are and to a degree we'll have just a drop of that left but if that resonates look at the last few weeks of talks that we've been doing today i want to focus i think a little bit more on the difference between inner peace versus inner conflict now you might

think i would say inner peace versus outer conflict no because outer conflict comes from inner conflict and inner conflict i don't just mean like intense always you know inner conflict means we have come into this earth plane and we had developed this erroneous thought that that we're separate from god separate from love in other words we're flawed so it starts with this belief that we could separate and then as soon as divine beings think they lose their divinity they're they're what they're called

flawed so beings that forgot their divinity became flawed but they judged themselves as flawed it doesn't mean they're really flawed but they believe they are they feel like they are well as soon as you feel anything about yourself if you feel plugged in you speak and you are this beautiful presence you you just know what you're about you don't mow people over with it but you just you know right when you're doubting your voice changes your posture changes everything shifts and when you go um honey um i i would

like you to treat me differently do you think they're going well she has spoken no they can see you they can see they're just going to divide you from the herd and take you out because they can tell that you're barely with the herd you're barely in your center you don't have the strength you could and should have as centered beings this is partly what jesus meant when he said when you get hauled before the courts don't be anxious of what to say i'll speak for you it doesn't just mean the

court rooms it means people that doubt you let me show you who you are don't try to react and overcompensate which is what humans tell you to do you know what you need to do you need to find your voice no you need to find you then your voice will be easy if you don't know who you are and you find your voice all you're going to do is strain your throat i am learning to find my voice you know but you didn't and even if you speak fully it's going to be compensatory because you don't know who you are

okay identity so inner peace inner peace what is that about it's one of the beautiful effects as is joy and abundance inner peace is or one of the it's what are the beautiful effects outcomes gifts that come from knowing who we are so there's a problem though if we're really honest about you know everything in life and about ourselves we would accept the following that every outer challenge that you can have is a mirror of inner conflict every annoying person is mirroring hey how you feeling about yourself today

i would be great if it weren't for this annoying person test failed because you just said well there's somebody over here that has power over me and i don't know what to do well you just affirm they have power over you how do we know you affirmed it because you react to them as though they have power over you see it own it release it and come back to your center yes that involves work it's not like you you just wear a special ring and it's going to happen it's not like you just find a special person and it's going to happen

no it's it's light work it's why we're light workers because there's work to involved to anchor that light so this world is going to test you it's going to push you know it's going to push your limits and the boundaries and all that but back to your center back to your center back to your center the digression as i said divine one with god perfect but then we doubted that which is going to result in me being conflicted inside because that's where i'm doubting i'm one with god then came well i'm not

sure uh-oh the i don't know means you can't be in heaven because you doubted whether you're heavenly if you're not heavenly why would you be in heaven you doubt we doubted who we were then we leave heaven now we walk around the earth float around the earth at first but eventually walk around the earth holding that frequency i don't know who i am the universe just says and so it is so we're going to give you all kinds of tests you'll either fail because the ego is going to keep playing off of you not

knowing or you're going to go i got it lightbulb moment i do know who i am and i need to speak here or i need to not speak i need to do or not do guidance you plug into your inner gps your inner guidance system and clarity comes but humans think you react louder and that's finding your voice what happens is you plug into god and when you plug into god you plug into peace when you plug into peace you find that you don't even have to say much you don't have to argue with people that don't get you

you know it's like it's it's okay it's like you know you know i've shared before now and then when i've it's very rare that it happens but it's happened where i get pulled over for a traffic violation of some kind and i remember one guy you know they do a speech at the end when they say you know if you want to dispute this let's say it's a stop sign i've gone through um if you want to dispute this you can show up i go why would i dispute it even if i didn't do it i've done it many

times when you didn't catch me it's all okay like siri like what yeah i'm gonna go your honor i can't believe he's oppressing me like this you know i mean come on i'm not gonna go whine about a police officer you know how many times i've done this by you know it's like no no no so when you really start getting who you are you feel less threatened by all the stuff so you react to it less you argue with it less you try less often to prove that they're wrong that doesn't mean you never speak i'm

just saying you learn to come from your center and when you're in your center i have very little to tell you about argumentativeness and when i do need to speak i will but i'll be coming from here center rather than you know reactions which is typically where people come from so this this thing we separated we started doubting ourselves i mean after all i was in heaven now i'm not what have i done do you think that sounds like a person of tremendous self-esteem no what have i done that begins the frequency of

self-doubt but i don't know what to do with it so it creates something called inner conflict i don't know maybe i should do this to make up for maybe i shouldn't con inner conflict now i haven't even talked about your life i'm talking about something that happens in here now once the inner conflict is kicked in you're gonna see it manifested in the mirror called the world outer conflict and and oh my god how many different forms infinite number clearly through every incident every bill you have to pay every person

all kinds of things so the solution in a nutshell interestingly enough is remember it starts with the belief we separated then we feel flawed then we start to have inner conflict then we have outer conflict what humans do is blame the outer conflicting images as if i would feel better which means all those other pieces i just named would be healed if only you did this and that but as you grow and you get on the spiritual path long enough you realize oops it's not going to be through the others so the reversal of this whole thing

about our inner conflict and outer conflicts is this forgive the images of outer conflict forgive them realize i hired you all you did was mirror my inner conflict so my not knowing who i am manifested as you being annoying and you are annoying you know you don't have to pretend that they're not misbehaving the way jesus says this in a course in miracles is they are misbehaving he says but don't tell them that please because all that will do is trigger them and make them annoying for other people don't tell them that instead inside say

you know what brother sister i get it i'm not i'm not excusing your behavior and i'm not pretending it didn't happen i'm gonna say instead what i do know is that it's a mirror and i can learn something from this so i will learn something from that i will not walk away ignorant and blaming something on the outside as though it has power over me instead i get it forgiveness to you and and i don't just mean people circumstances events etc forgive whatever you understand forgiveness that you're

this point in our lives to to be i'm releasing i'm letting go of the power i thought i you know that i had given it fine forget it then i go in and forgive myself for the inner conflict that manifested as the outer conflict why am i experiencing inner conflict well this is a pattern of who's mine this is a pattern of mine and it's time to forgive myself and not only for my conflicts but for my belief that i'm even flawed and would create conflicts and eventually you have to forgive one more not only others

and outers and others not only yourself but one more god and people go well i don't have to forgive god yes you do yes you do actually you know why because everybody's got this something inside why didn't you keep this from happening why didn't you keep me from leaving heaven why didn't you you know see there's a subtle little thing we've got towards god some of us would never want to own that it's very challenging to own but try it god doesn't mind it's not like god's

like i can't believe oh my me oh my god you know my me i can't believe you would think such thing god god's like what you kidding of course you're gonna feel this way you're nuts you know come on it's okay so there's that forgiving god as well but remember this most of us believe that we have god within us right so therefore when other people annoy you and god is within them you can't exclude god from your resentment ah gotcha see you're like oh no this doesn't apply oh yeah that supplies

so there it is so therefore when you forgive you think well do i have to forgive god how are you ever going to forgive others and yourself if you don't include god that's within yourself and others you see so i'm just willing and open to forgiving everything that's it just keep an open mind about the whole thing now inner conflict in a nutshell has two primary laws or rules the first is that let me go to outer conflict first actually so inner conflict the first rule is that inner conflict mirrors out his outer conflict for the

so the first rule to understand conflict is that outer comes from inner and we've got to own that if you don't get this the rest of the talk won't be much helpful helpful to you we've got to own the first law all outer conflict is a manifestation of our inner conflict whether it's my personal inner conflict or our collective and there's both by the way i have interpersonal conflict but we as a race of beings we hold an archetype a stereotype but it's an archetype of doubt conflict inside

we all share one now you know you might be more along the spiritual path than others you might not own feel it feel it or or experience it as much as the person next to you but we all have it if you're a human you're part of the collective so the collective has this conflict going on inside that manifest as global events but i also have my own that's rule number one the second rule about conflict is that although inner conflict takes all kinds of different forms i mean well let's say an infinite number

of forms manifestations the second law is that they're all the same they're all coming from my belief that i'm flawed so somebody will show up and you can't fight this you can't say no no i want just perfect everything you're in a flawed world mirroring our flawed belief systems and you can say oh no my world isn't flawed i don't agree with you my world is just unicorns and light but guess what you'll still get sick somebody is gonna die today out in this world there's wars

going on you might be fine in your little living room but there's still people struggling how do you so what does that mean that collectively guys we still share hurt and fears and they're mirrored out in the world so even if you want to own your personal life is pretty good you're still part of the collective and you can't help heal the world unless you own your role to help turn it around is that making sense all right so inner conflict is is similar to being at war with ourselves but since god is within me if i have inner

conflict i'm also conflicted with god which again boom you know it's a kind of a tough thing to hear but that's that's the ticket that's how this all goes i'm gonna own that i'm conflicted with everything now that's a really weird and sounding negative statement i'm just going to own it so i can turn it around if i don't own it i can't help it so the secret to ending all conflict is ultimately rooted in giving up the war against yourself and god the outer world will start to look differently when you do

this but just you got to still be willing to step in and own our part and give you know i'm going to just give this up i'm going to give up you know like conditions and agendas that i've got that make me think my world would be better if only i'll go ahead and stop telling god how to fix things you know god look i know you're busy so let me just give you my list so we don't have to i don't have to take too much of your time with discussion you know and here's my let's fix these

things god won't perceive them as flawed and needing fixed so if you're really going to surrender to god it's going to have to be unconditional and when you do that it's going to mean i don't know i don't know all i do know is what i'm asking you to fix out here instead of just saying i'm gonna you know bypass my part i'm just gonna say god problem you fix it god's going to say well where's your part i have no part in this and god's going to say it will not be fixed

not until you show up so light workers aren't supposed to be telling god what to do in the world there's god there's the world i'm so amazing look at how conscientious i am that i tell god all kinds of things to fix i pray regularly about things god should fix you know i'm such a light worker no you're not you're dim at best you're not full you're not a flaming light you're dim show up all right i'm fine i'm gonna show up i'm here i don't like this i don't like what i'm seeing because god

doesn't see it that way i don't like what i see that person's sick that person's dying that struggle that war i'm struggling god help me to see it differently and god is like oh wow this is great because you're part of it if you now open up and let me heal you you'll be healing part of it it will start to fade and you'll see a different world you won't see an externally conflicted world because you're internally less conflicted and subconsciously we are conflicted every time we have a judgment on ourself

or others you're conflicted you know why because deep down you know everybody's made in god's image so when i look at you and say oh you know that hairstyle's terrible something as simple as that i'm already conflicted i'm conflicted about telling you that i'm conflicted about perceiving that because deep down i know you're a holy child of god why am i focusing on your hair i'm conflicted but all conflict manifests outside if it doesn't happen yet it's going to just let it have some time

keep feeding it and it'll eventually show up how whatever form that's going to be all of my known and unknown conscious and subconscious conflicts are going to manifest why oh it's bad karma no it's the love of the universe saying honey listen you've been going through a lot of inner conflict and you you know you missed it we're going to show it to you and so i do you know you end up committing to some relationship of insanity that's going to eventually it starts with really you know cute on the altar

but eventually you want to put them on the altar and sacrifice them to the gods because sorry i know weird views of relationships but you know you start with to the altar and then you end with sacrificial on the altar because it's going to show up i was conflicted i'm i'm not even straight i'm gay and i married somebody so my parents would like me you're conflicted and it's going to blow up or i'm i have certain beliefs and i'm living contra and it's gonna it's gonna show up

when it shows up it might show up first nicely but if you don't get it when it shows up you'll have to get it when it blows up can i hear an amen yes jesus so all inner conflict will end simply as we accept the opposite guys let me accept my goodness and the goodness of god instead of being conflicted i know i'm supposed to see people as nice but i don't like them that's conflicted turn it around learning to accept not only your part in the evils that you perceive in people don't forget the opposite

refill don't just empty your cup refill with the opposite which is i need to also see your goodness and when i don't i think i'll bring that to the altar hey god funny thing happened on the way to church today or you know on the way to work today i started my day oh monty padme home i started my day namaste universe we're all beings we are the world you know i i chanted and sang and everybody's we're all peace and love and wow you know it was really great as soon as i got on the road somebody cut me off and i

was like oh own it and laugh at it isn't this funny i didn't make it five minutes into my day and i was already externalizing my inner conflict because deep down before it happened i was going we're all one and we love love is love and i'm love and your love and we're all loved but deep down i also have and i people just annoy me and that's going to be inner conflict don't hide it don't think that that's what makes you spiritual don't hide it see it and laugh at it it's all right

see it and laugh at it i jokingly say to people you know because you hear folks talking you know you know what the world needs we need a new president you know what the world needs we need new rules and laws you know and all these and my answer i go you know what we need a poll shift yeah boom you know just you know and some people are like whoa you know we thought this guy was spiritual that's my that's my humor you know what we need is a pole shift um because humans love to learn the hard way there's

almost this addictive thing about not just learning lessons while they're still here i've got to see it blow up on the outside you know this human thing that's the human condition but we can turn it around by retiring the images on the outside that keep blowing up to show you what's happening bringing them to the inside where you authentically responsibly process them put them on the altar to god let them be released but don't forget after emptying your cup and you know what i really want instead

show me their goodness now if you can't see someone's goodness do not shame yourself just say it's not time yet i'll get it and you will you know what are you going to say like i know there's some people like adolf hitler everybody always uses him adolf hitler there can't be any goodness you know try not to prove that there's beings with no goodness be careful try not to prove it because when you do since we're all one you've just condemned yourself a part of yourself has no goodness that's what you just

said be open i i just can't see it you know i mean you don't know who i was married to even my friends agree they all have pictures and they put satanic little horns on their head you know of my ex and we we've all agreed there's no goodness in them be careful to try to not prove something like that because you will be condemning yourself you don't have to know where the goodness is just affirm that it's got to be there somewhere and then what will happen is shifts within them believe it or not but also shifts within

yourself you'll you'll start caring less about proving that there are children of god that are failing to have light and then it won't become conflicted because when you feel that way about people i'm telling you you're conflicted inside because part of you knows they are holy somewhere part of you your head is saying no now that made you conflicted and it's going to have to manifest so as long as we think that we're victims in the world we're merely victims things just happen you're not going to be able to be a

responsible person and if you're not a responsible person you can't wake up and find inner peace partly the inner peace that we all say that we're looking for partly is is something that that happens in this day by day process it's actually not like some people think it's just like instant epiphany some people have had it that way mostly it's a day by day process it's a day at a time like any other recovery i need to recover from inner conflict addiction you know so i'm gonna go through the

steps i'm gonna probably need own to own it i'm gonna probably need to call on god for some help i'm gonna probably need to do some looking at myself here a little bit of inventory and so on but the addiction is conflict human beings i've had people blatantly say to me um but if we don't have that what's you know what's going to happen every day it's so weird it's almost like i would be bored it's the strangest thing that people are afraid inner peace you know that and and some

of you have said these things well you know because i've read a book or two i'm gonna say that you can't have inner peace without conflict and then they have some really great rationale no offense if this is you but you're nuts listen you're gonna have some great rationale which is usually this and you guys know where i'm going but how would you know what peace was like if you didn't have conflict that's a great affirmation to live by you just said i need to have conflict so that i appreciate peace no you can

actually just have and appreciate peace you just don't know how to do it yet just own that tell people that don't tell us that we have to have conflict or we wouldn't appreciate peace just say i don't know how to do it because that's true but don't tell us to have that affirmation inner peace is who you are we're made in the image of god which means there's this perfect tranquility we just can't see it when we're harboring conflict to the outside and inside so inner peace

segwaying from inner conflict inner peace like inner conflict has two basic rules to it first and this is i think really great news we will eventually reach oneness with god and achieve total peace everyone that's rule number one about inner peace versus inner conflict inner peace it's inevitable we're all gonna get there the rule number two is you've never been completely separated from the inner peace because you've never been completely separated from god so my point to that is you know one of

the two primary laws or rules is you've always had been plugged into god and inner peace you just didn't always know it why go back to inner conflict and look at those rules that the outsides marrying the inside the insights telling us we've got conflict and so on our search for inner peace generally takes us through five stages let me share these with you which i've never i don't think i've ever shared in a talk like this but five stages in your search for inner peace but i want to ask you

when i'm describing these stages please add to your own thoughts as i'm sharing it where are you at you might say oh two sounds like me but you might have failed step two you don't get to the other steps without these you know the initial steps so phase one stage two stage three try to see where you are where have you passed and failed and along you know any of these lines okay so the first is gonna sound like it's not really much you know validity to it because the first stage of inner peace humans

you know humans tend to start things very mundanely which is why some people read the bible and they hear you know god says i am a vengeful god they go oh my god you know terror grip that's that's because your initial stages of learning anything are fairly mundane so here's what most of us do you might say that's me you might say that was me first stage of seeking inner peace is usually shallow attempts drinking addictions sex addictions food addictions drug addictions now you'd go what does that have to do

with inner peace because underneath the act you're longing for something called inner peace it cannot work it will fail because you're trying to heal an inner condition with an outer remedy but i do not think you should shame yourself for having done it you can just say i can see i was insane that's my funny wording for it but you can just say i can see i was misdirected i can see that even when i was sleeping around or whatever as a as a habit or a hobby addiction or whatever it is i was looking for love i and you were

you were that's not just an excuse you were but it didn't work and it wasn't going to work it couldn't work and the people you were doing this with were also looking for something they didn't know how to find it so the first stage of our search for inner peace is really more like clumsy and misdirected but do not judge yourself for that and i'm going to assume most of us have at least done that first stage congratulations good job good job you know that you see it if you're still engaged in it

and you think it's going to work you haven't woken up yet you're sleeping you're in a delusional state and i'm sorry for you but the good news is it's still a search for god the second stage is or a level or whatever you would like to call it this is when we start to get on the spiritual path or the personal like self-help path most of us would say i've made it to that stage people watching this kind of a program so this is when you're starting to practice forgiveness you're learning prayer you're doing

gatherings you're going to gatherings centers like this on sunday stage two is where you're you're not doing it in the misdirected way you're doing it more responsibly and spiritually again i congratulate you all right going to sacred sites all these really cool things this is all about you know my awakening but i'm using things that are real as opposed to just external things it's real because it's about me learning inside isn't it so it's not so much external the downside with the second

stage of seeking inner peace is sometimes we get caught up in okay i'm i have some spiritual friends and we're going to go to himalayas and we're going to meet with you know llamas and monks and masters and wow it's going to be great if you still make it about people or things on the outside you're still discovering that stage two is is not quite there not because there was no good in it because you're still externalizing it you're still making it about the book you read is that making sense all right the third

stage of achieving inner peace inevitably um arises with within each of us when we start to apply the things we learned in stage one and two like in a 12-step program if you dealt with stage one addictions and you do the 12-step program they're going to tell you eventually you've got to apply that you got to be this change and bring it to the world so stage three is now i'm not externalizing in stage one addictions i'm not in stage two just learning it stage three i'm becoming this ask yourself have you reached that at

all and it could be that you're still doing one and you're still doing two and three but have you reached three at all where you're saying i get it this is this is where i'm living this and here's the evidence if you reach stage three you're going to find that it's almost an organic thing that you're starting to notice that you practice compassion and forgiveness more often see i'm not talking it i'm not just learning it i find that i'm a different person and it is helpful for you to to look at

that and say if i were to look at my life on a scale of zero to ten me personally as a person of love spirituality etc have i improved at all if i was ever less evolved let's rate me as a 2 on a 10 scale where am i now if it's one and a half something's wrong so where are you well it's two and a half how long have you been on the path 40 years wow a half a notch in 40 years i'm not going to say condemn yourself but i'm going to say you might want to look at that you might want to you know change

teachers or something most of you i think if you're honest with yourself you're gonna find if you've had any time in this at all in your inner work at all you probably have gone from a two to at least a six let's pretend you did that's three times where you were how can that not be noteworthy so it's it's pretty cool you're not in stage one or two other than in you know little maybe dots of it you know drips of it here and there but three you're in three and that's where

you're starting to live and apply this i think it's fantastic give yourself it's not a prideful ego thing it's more like appreciation give yourself appreciation because you might have done some very you know very different things than you've done you're not only reading about it you are different you know what i did sometimes edgar casey had this saying stand back and watch yourself go by and if you go oh my god that's not good when you stand back and watch yourself go by and i do that and there's times

when i go oh you know i probably could have said that different that's not a problem correct it make amends in here and out here if necessary but what i did because i tend to do that where you know how how am i you know and i know i can't live up to everybody's expectations in the world but i remember like uh you know times when i lived in the last place i lived many years ago i lived there for like 20 years i i never walked around nobody knew who i was i was always on tour this was my home area but

am i at all like the guy on tour who talks spirituality when i go home and i knew and i discovered that i was because people in the town not knowing who he is because i never told him my name nice to see you good to see you you know and the post office guys or the male lady or you know whatever they were meter maids people i saw every day they would just say you know there's something about you you seem so nice that was my way of mirroring back to myself if i'm on tour namaste the the divine in me is honoring the

divide in you is the divining you and everybody at home is like what a jerk something's wrong something's wrong i i needed to be able to see you know i've shared this story once before but one time i was in a store a little market and um and and there was a meter maid i don't know the meter maybe i mean she just drives the streets and all that but she said you know are you the guy that has a couple of daughters i go yeah she goes i want to tell you i've never seen somebody that was like a better father

figure now this is the guy who's on tour i don't really you know uh nobody met my kids it's not like that you know but here i was having mirrored to me something that level of personal you as a dad it wasn't like you talk love but oh my god you know she said i just i watch you i sometimes stop and just watch you which is a little intimidating like did i ever smack him you know like you know you know oops you know but but to hear and and i know this is a bit challenging but think about this how is the world and people but how is

the world mirroring is it telling you you're pretty consistent or are you conflicted how are you conflicted because if you talk one thing into another that's conflict you shouldn't try to call other people i don't want you to leave today going at the market you know conflicted conflicted i'm not asking you to go in and look for people's stuff other than your own i'm just saying that you can see these mirrors and it might be calling you to make some adjustments it doesn't mean you're

always incorrect or wrong you might be right in changing the way you do things or doing what you do other people might think you're conflicted when you're not you're actually clear you can say no to somebody who's a partner your parents might say that's inappropriate that you shouldn't say no to them about whatever it is like uh i'm gonna leave if the addiction continues your mom might say i lived with your father for 50 years with addiction you just got to deal with it you might say no

and not be out of your center she might say oh you pretend to be spiritual this is conflicted i snuck in and watched michael's lecture the other day because you told me you listened to this guy and he told me about us about con conflict your guys to thine own divine self be true this is right for me but the fact that you tempted me to think i might have been conflicted i might want to just make sure check in because even you telling me about it might be testing me but i'm asking you did you pass your test

did you come out going you know they mirrored this doubt but i'm good no i feel comfortable and good about the choices i made now the fourth stage of attaining inner peace or increasing your level of inner peace this this is where you know this is a challenging one because it's really about the effects more than describing what's going to be happening but your you in this stage you might be expecting that the world is now supposed to be different i'm working on inner conflict so now there's no more conflict

stage four is where there's still going to be residual bits of conflict stop expecting it to not be conflicted and focus instead on your reactions change so in stage four you went through those first and the third was i integrate what i learned so fourth is if you really integrate it prove it are you insisting that the world be without conflict or are you insisting to do your work when you see it see that so stage four really really tests us you know take this to another level you know uh how are you responding do you

really get that the outside world is a mirror or is that a convenient thing you only throw out when it's you know right for you the outside world is a mirror if if i'm seeing conflict can i get triggered and be careful watch this but if i get triggered i know where to go what is what inner conflict is this mirroring for me and do the work all right but watch the expectation that it shouldn't be there now that you've read a course in miracles for a whole week okay stage five the final stage of achieving inner peace this one i love

this one i really love because the fifth stage is really like it's not about what you're doing to attaining inner peace the first four is about you doing to some degree the fifth stage is i'm not doing anything it's as though god simply reaches down and touches my heart and says i want to thank you for all the work you're doing to come home see what i just did there wow it's you know it's a feeling but that's inner peace the first four are you trying to attain inner peace and you will get that

here and there different forms this one isn't about you doing this is the real mccoy this is while i'm in a body this is as close as i'm gonna get to tranquility and inner peace but it's the work i've done in the first four spirit reaches down this is not predictable this is not under your control this is spontaneous moments of ecstasy beauty spontaneous moments of supernatural goodness where the heart just goes wow what was that or or you will know what it was whichever because sometimes it's like what was

that and other times oh there it is you're going to be tempted to go do it again i said it is not under your control and the ego is right there with you writing shotgun fine i guess you attain some inner peace but if god really does like you tell god to do it again so you can have more because if god loves you it wants you to feel fine okay god more peace peace no it's not happening i don't like you god so the ego the ego got you out of your peace so guys when it happens i i could say if it happens it's when it's gonna happen when you do

your work and when it happens sort of laugh at the compulsion to try to get it again because if you can laugh at it you'll bring more peace sooner than if you try to make it happen again does that make sense all right so the process i want to say though the process of attaining inner peace like many things in the universe we've talked about so many different conversations here this is a process like i've talked about forgiveness forgiveness isn't one day i just forgave you you may have but most of the time forgiveness is

layers being worked on inner peace it's the same thing so go easy on yourself don't put the pressure of where's my inner peace if i meditate to attain inner peace that's only the second level that i described that's only the second level i need to become the meditation then i need to release my expectations to you know you know i shouldn't be seeing conflict in the world and then there's the fifth stage god just it just happens so yes meditate to help it along the fifth stage is thank you for all you've done

which includes your meditations but my praying a certain way my meditation a certain way this group that group islamic christian or whatever nobody has the trademark the copyright on on that inner peace there are people of every walk of life people near death and people perfectly healthy who have attained a moment of inner peace god there are people who just as their in their moment of death i get it and that's that moment of stage five do you think they're going hold on a minute doing doing doing they're almost dead it's when they

surrendered that peace could fit in when our block is filled with what we think is going to be inner peace or whatever it is there's no room for the spontaneous of god the hand of god so rather than thinking that that this or forgiveness or anything else is some kind of one-time achievement just it's a day-at-a-time process and if what you can do to help it along commit to those five things i talked about and recognize where are you where would you like to be and develop more of the one you'd like so do that but also thoughts words and

deeds do your best to live thoughts words and deeds that resonate with peace and you will start to feel more peace all of us have done this where someone in our life you know somebody that's that's irritating or you know you're going through a divorce or something like that you can go through that and and i'm gonna tell them a thing or two and usually the insistence i have to tell them i need to tell them what i think of them doesn't usually bring peace you might feel relief so would a burp

but that doesn't mean you need to do it so you know as your as your source of inner peace it's just all you did was let go of some anxiety to tell somebody what you thought of them that doesn't mean it brought true inner peace now remember i used the wording i used i need to tell you what i think of you the very need the fact that i'm in need to tell you something means i'm conflicted i'm not just at peace i have a battle going on inside but it's going to be done as soon as i tell you

what i think of you no it will not because you already affirmed when someone says to you i need to i need to speak stop try to stop it right there if you can you might just listen from a centric place but if it's you especially stop it right there why would i have neediness you know that can't go well why would you want to hook up and marry somebody hi listen i'm really in need of a partner would you like to get together no no i would like you to experience more fullness less neediness and then let's

join fullness mindfulness your fullness great but if somebody told you they were in a needy place it's it's a little bit dangerous it's the same with voicing needing to voice yourself that means something's wrong inside and i need to get it out instead you need to get it in go in here work it and then if you'd like to share what's going on that's okay how do i know it's a better place because there's more peace i was at first agitated but now i have more peace can i now share

what was happening for me yes because you're not coming from the triggered ego place so also in achieving inner peace please remember if you find yourself still falling into conflict once in a while or consistently please remember this you can't go and lose inner peace in this world unless you have determined that this world's triggering you still if you can realize that this world is an illusion that it has no real power over you you will not lose your centered peace as easily this is a very tough you know piece for

us all as tools or homework but watch yourself because you usually lose your peace because something out here was given meaning that it need not have right or importance or power that it need not have i feel great as long as nobody rejects me somebody rejects how dare you which is saying you're making me lose my peace the universe is saying you must have already been conflicted about how peaceful you are and they're mirroring it to you got that so we think the outside world triggers us and takes us out of peace what i'm

saying is you're already conflicted about your center in peace the quantity and the commitment you have to peace or you wouldn't have been able to so easily get pulled off your irritation at them you think is about pulling you out of center you're irritated that they showed it to you that you're all ready that's what's really happening so don't tell people i hate what you've done to me say i hate what you mirrored in me wait then i can't really hate you because you're i hate me

exactly and they'll be so relieved to hear you say that so don't say it not out loud but in here see it and laugh like oh god you know this yeah this brought up some some doubts i had about myself and so on it's okay you know do that it's honest because that's what's happening it's not so much what people do it's how we feel about it and we think our feeling came from what they did and i'm saying the doubts were already there it's a very challenging thing to kind of accept you know to own it it's that word

responsibility so i will start to close now in this so when you begin to you know commit more to inner peace the changes you're gonna make i said there's these five bits here absolutely forgiving yes that's another important tool and remembering that the outside isn't what i think it is it doesn't have the power i thought it did that's gonna help you as well one more piece it's okay you're gonna start at whatever level you're at if you want more inner peace here's where the rubber meets the road here's

the simple the less philosophical the less profoundly spiritual here's where we're gonna go look at your life and start with the mundane are you doing things in your life that are just mundanely gross vulgarity i don't mean i don't put a lot of shame into bad words one of you had a session this week and said you know um hey i just want to let you know you know i tend to cuss sometimes and i responded with a customer and said no way you know i'm not going to to put investment in something like that but yet i don't feel

grossly profane so if that's something you're doing and if you're not at peace with it maybe consider letting it go if it's drinking or smoking or whatever start at what level you believe you're at but it could also include opinions and judgments to walk around you know to realize i walk around in grocery stores and fault fine that might be where you want to start your because if you're doing actions that are not peace centered you're not going to get inner peace but if you don't have inner peace you know

what you're going to have conflict in your life karmically if nothing else so if if if none of this you know made any sense but this last piece at least get the last piece i need to trim things out of my life that do not resonate with inner peace and i'm going to start with some of the most mundane and it's also okay for some of the mundane challenges to be people that you have to say goodbye to don't think that when they go your challenges went that was just one mirror that you retired so when you go home

you walk into your house and you say you know god i looked in the mirror and i have five let's say four mirrors in my house and i looked in four mirrors today and i didn't look very good and i felt bummed it would be like removing one or more of the mirrors when you kick somebody out of your life that doesn't mean you look better you just don't have any mirrors you still look the same so don't think that getting someone out of your life cured you but that doesn't mean keep them in your life if you're going to let some people

go just know what you're doing is i'm going to just deal with some grounded level stuff and you've got to go i'm going to do my inner work that's the responsible way to do it let them go and don't do work that's irresponsible let them go and do your work that's cool make sense there all right so you know it i see this in relationships in jobs please hear this piece you think you're conflicted with your work you think you're conflicted with your relationship and let's say that you are i'm saying it

originates inside so get this cleaned up a bit be more authentic with your word be more true to your word be clear what are you looking for in your life i don't know i like this relationship but you know but i don't um i i i want to be done with this relationship it's hurtful but i don't want to grow old alone that is being conflicted and it will not go well i want this job but i hate the job i only have it for retirement purposes so i have you know whatever retirement when i get a certain age see if i were your job i would say you

don't even want to be or you're conflicted so what would happen well maybe we'll do this in meditation but think about what if you did house cleaning guys ooh already yeah no don't do it you know don't ask us to do that so we'll we'll we'll share that in the meditation but all my relations are mirroring inside my dog you know gets off the leash goes and bites people it's mirroring its owner my children they're so they're mirroring their owner try it but eventually move off of the animals

and your children to other adults are also mirroring you my husband you know or my wife uh they they they want to whatever date other people or they they want to smoke they want to drink in the house i don't want that anymore and you're right to say i don't want that in my life it's okay but what i'm saying is the reason they're doing it is because you have doubts about it you have doubts about whether you have like certainty about whether you have the right to say no and they're playing off that they're the

universe is going let's use this puppet you know your partner to say you know and and get you triggered because you have to decide this is your house too what would you like in your house i'm afraid to say and they're mirroring your conflict now guess what honey i heard this talk about identity and i heard this talk about inner conflict and i'm just putting you all on notice dog children husband wife you know here's it's inner peace that's what i'm looking for in my household we all have bad moments yes

but we're going to own them and process them or you leave you know sanctuary we did the talk just on sacred space weeks ago sanctuary sacred space but your space will not be sacred if you're you the owner isn't bringing it about humans love to blame everybody for you know taking weather power removing sacred space someone's got to show up that says you know this is the way it's going to be you're going to have doubts and they're going to mirror and they could be mundane things like everything in this planet

can be that for us i personally you know have moments where i mean to be honest i have moments where i go you know i wish i were a tad better looking or i wish i were in a bit better shape or i wish i had more income i have those thoughts too you know it's not like they're evil thoughts they're all that is is you're in a human body and you're gonna have doubts but what do you do with them i just have another donut and continue dressing frumpy and this is the way it's going to be acceptance do you think jesus walked

around going do i look good in this it's like it's like inner peace first and foremost i don't know someday a movie of all my my skits that go on in my mind about jesus right it'd be a little out life of brian all over again i don't know if you guys know this but when monty python did the life of brian it was sort of sort of you know digging at all religions and all the silliness you know and intensity of it all but they couldn't fund it and so it was about to die in fact it was so much dying that some of the monty python guys

took on other jobs because they thought this is debt we're gonna we have to take other jobs to have money to have an income so some of them committed to other jobs all of a sudden one person was given the script george harrison and he said i'll fund it i'll give you all the money to make this movie and they said why would you do that he says because i want to see the movie now when you're willing to put a million dollars into a movie just because you think it's so funny that's really commitment

you know anyway let's please center for a moment ah tuning in to anything that was said that makes sense to you anything that that's yours wisdom sentences processes triggers just integrate a bit for a moment inner peace

this is my destiny complete consistent tranquility it's my destiny and the more i achieve inner peace the more i'll see it in the outside world i won't be attached to the outside world looking perfect all the time i'm just going to be grateful when it is take a moment to assess any time in any way that you tried to attain inner peace externally following a certain teacher taking a certain drug whatever means if it was other than gently accepting the peace inside your own heart and soul all the ways we try to attain inner

peace once you see and own at least one means that you've tried don't be corrective don't feel ashamed just forgive yourself for doing it oops i guess i was a little short-sighted there a little narrow-minded there see it because if you can see it release it forgive it that's actually going to bring you the inner peace you were trying to get from that other means so i can even turn around the most mundane gross behaviors seeking peace into achieving inner peace by forgiving what i did in those various steps where have you

been where are you if you consider the five steps we were talking about which which stage of peace are you in is it the the gross behaviors the the you know the addictions that's fine just see it where are you so desperate for it that you try it in all these external means through other people and what about the second the spiritual studies prayer meditation forgiveness clearly that's a very great stage a great way to attain inner peace the third where you integrated what you did in stage two and you started simply being a more

loving compassionate forgiving person or are you or have you been at stage four where you find yourself having done so much work starting to see the manifestations of it but catching yourself by assuming the world's going to continue being perfect now and have you had are you having stage five those spontaneous moments of god reaching into your soul just quickening this spontaneous glory and not only where are you have you been where have you been but also can you see where you had any of these and oops lost them failed the test

you attained some but then you made it about some special person or place you had this but got triggered by expecting the world to maintain it for you be willing to own those slips because if you do and you forgive yourself you will attract a greater quantity of inner peace through even your mistakes you'll attract greater quantities of inner peace turning it around inner peace inner peace this is mine this is who i am inner peace and one tool to apply it in the world bring inner peace to the world and you'll nurture

more inner peace love compassion patience be these things and when you miss it oops bounce back make amends where necessary inner peace my thoughts words and deeds shall be and my commitment is inner peace i will slip i will forgive myself and come back to inner peace it's my mantra to be the presence of god and so it is beautiful greatly greatly appreciate everybody's commitment to this beautiful thing that we share on sundays and hopefully six days in between we take it with us integrate it apply it live it's just amazing stuff to watch

and to observe and be part of so thank you more and more we're getting the services to be a typical like a traditional time an hour and a quarter that's what they usually are so we're more and more getting the time trimmed down to that so i appreciate people's patience with that as well oh just center into gratitude center into what did you learn from this what did you gain this isn't a lecture at you about peace this was what is peace why don't we always feel it there are stages of it which stage are

you in i love that applicable kind of vibe where are you at and what can you do tool wise to get out of it but but please remember the the one essential for all the times you don't feel peace when you forgive yourself for not feeling peace you're bringing more peace so you can't lose hmm the light of god surrounds us the love of god unfolds us the power of god protects us and the presence of god watches over us wherever we go god is i am we are and so it is peace be with you all peace be with you all all around the world

god bless thank you