Peace is a real experience

You just have to know yourself

Peace is really a thing, it’s real, it really exists. Peace is not an idea. It is not something to be discovered from a passage written in the pages of an ancient book, hidden on a secret shelf in a strange building, in an obscure place up a mountain shrouded in mist.

Peace is found in people, not in things. It is in you. And it is there to be sensed, felt, experienced, treasured and celebrated.

And we look for it on the outside. It’s as if we think it’s a product. It isn’t, and anyone in business should be aware of this. You won’t find it advertised or on the supermarket shelves. It can’t be sold. When we don’t find it; we get frustrated; we say, “Nah, it doesn’t exist; this is not true, it’s not a thing..” But you have not looked where it is.

To discover it is very complex and yet very simple thing – complex if we don’t understand it, simple if we do understand it.

A long time ago, in Greece, Socrates said, “Know thyself. Know who you are.” Now, since then, there have been myriads of explanations and you know, “What that means,” and “How that needs to be translated” and everything else. 

This is how it began for us long before we created Investors in Peace. We saw that people wanted something, a higher aspiration, a greater aspiration. And we saw it was more than just wanting, we saw the need in people, the need to come back to the peace in themselves.

Because the fascinating thing about peace is that literally everyone has experienced it once in a while, be it as a child, completely getting lost in ones’ play and forgetting the world, or in a concert where you melted with the music, and so on…

So this is about being a success. Not just a success in this world, but people fiding success in their own lives, success in their own beings, success as human beings – that one person that makes the journey from birth to death carrying an experience of peace. Not the success of getting a job, keeping it a while and going from one job to another job to another job – just to be replaced by somebody else doing that job after that person is gone.

But you, me, the human being. That to have that aspiration fulfilled will require a person to have that peace in their lives. And we want people to turn their attention to themselves, instead of everything else.

Because turn their attention to everything else is what people do! Our attention is just somewhere else, somewhere else, somewhere else. Where are we looking for the Divine: “Where is the Divine?” “Oh, it’s way over there.” Nobody looks at themselves. This looking outside is used by businesses, who offer products as a way to feel something. The business of peace is to pay, not money for stuff, but attention to what is inside of you.

You will find happiness inside of you; you will find joy inside of you; you will find the Divine inside of you. You can come up with 10,000 theories of where it is, “Maybe it’s over there; maybe it’s over there; it’s this; it’s that.” But that’s okay! It’s okay to have the 10,000 theories, as long as you know the real address!

But if we look at it in the simplest, simplest way, “Know thyself” – it is not only Socrates who said that. There are so many people around the world, from the Americas to India, to so many countries that have mentioned the same thing: “Know thyself.” The treasures of peace, of joy, of happiness that you are looking for are inside of you.”

That which you are looking for is inside you

Prem Rawat, Peace ambassador

People want something, a higher aspiration, a greater aspiration. Not just to gain success in this world, with their job or investments, Not just to gain success in this world, but success in their own lives, success in their own beings, success as a human being – that one person that makes the journey from birth to death. That is to invest in their own personal peace.  Not to be the person that goes from one job to another job to another job – and somebody else will be doing that job after that person is gone but success in their own lives, success in their own beings, success as a human being – that one person that makes the journey from birth to death. 

Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat was once asked why, in his book “Hear yourself” you should put the heart above the mind.

Prem Rawat replied: “it is because the mind is susceptible to changes. It’s running around; one minute it’s in America. One minute, faster than any airplane, and all of a sudden, it’s sitting in South America. It’s sitting in Australia. It’s sitting all over the place. This is its nature of change.

But there is something that you need to be anchored to. When you have a boat, and you want the boat to stay in one place – you don’t want it to go crash in the rocks and everything else – you need to have an anchor.

This heart of a human being has to be your anchor. You have to understand that. That doesn’t mean you don’t go to America; you don’t go to South America; you don’t go to Australia; you don’t have a mind, no! You’re not trying to control it. It is there. But one day, you’re going to need that anchor. And when you do, you’d better know where that is.”

And that’s why Prem Rawat tells us to give the heart a bigger place than the mind. Because the mind has been there for so many people. But so few have touched their own heart, and have gotten their inspiration from their heart.

We look to get inspired by the mind, let us look instead for inspiration from the heart.

We’ll keep talking about how to find that inner peace on this newsletter, do subscribe!

Learn more about finding personal peace and putting the heart first from Prem Rawat’s webpage.