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Creating Inner Peace – Decision To Find Peace

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Please take a moment to look at all your answers to all the questions so far; in order to see the foundation you already have, as well as areas you might like to work on. Do you feel firmly grounded in your decision to create inner peace for yourself?

Inner peace is a lifetime process and even when I didn’t know what inner peace was; I was still working on it. To encourage you to look at similar things, I wanted to give you a glimpse of what either disturbed my peace in my childhood or gave me gifts and/or tools to create and maintain it. And to give some baseline regarding what about my attitudes gave me a head start or had to be overcome. I hope you’ve been able to see the same for yourself.

In looking for events in my childhood to illustrate points of peace I had learned; I realized that it wasn’t events that gave me peace. It was decisions I made. And it’s not even specific decisions. Although, as I’ve illustrated, various decisions led to various bits of foundation that point towards creating an inner peace. It’s the one decision to find peace no matter what the events or circumstances are that will eventually make the difference. It’s a rather odd exercise to look at various points of our life and ask: “What did this teach me relative to building peace within myself?”

Creating Inner Peace – Clear-cut Sense of Responsibility

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What is your current decision regarding each person’s responsibility for their own intentions and actions?

I’m not saying I was not terrified as a child. I’m just saying that I didn’t also have the added stress of a mental quandary in some situations. The first time the monstrous men put a knife in my hand to kill someone was when they insisted I kill an older girl who had always tried to shield me. As soon as the knife handle touched my hand, I threw it with all my might and buried it in the shoulder of one of the men. They were momentarily shocked, then went berserk and made the other children pay dearly for my act of defiance. Then they made one of the younger men crush my hand around the knife handle and the younger man actually killed the child. By that time, I had shut down and was pretty limp anyway. Crushing my hand didn’t remove the responsibility from their shoulders. I’m not going to take on their perverse intentions as my own. It’s not even really stubbornness. It’s just a fact. Perhaps it’s a decision I made in a previous lifetime. But it’s a decision anyone can make in this lifetime, if they wish to.