Words That Support Inner Peace
BY ARLENE HARDER, MA, MFT
Explore a quotation, affirmation, fact, phrase or question that you feel supports inner peace.
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
Around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
Where I left them, asleep like cattle . . .
Then what I am afraid of comes.
I live for a while in its sight.
What I fear in it leaves it,
And the fear of it leaves me.
It sings, and I hear its song.
Wendell Berry
It's hard to sit quietly in peaceful serenity when we're paying a lot of attention to our mind's disquieting chatter. The internal criticism and opinions and worries fill us with tension and stress. Yet if we sit quietly long enough, if we listen carefully enough, eventually we hear other words that tell us life need not be so frantic, we hear words that convey clearly the message that inner peace is a gift we all deserve and that we can achieve it if we're willing to learn. [See Imagery for Transformation, Health, and Peace of Mind.]
©1999, Revised 2002, Arlene Harder, MA, MFT |
