Peace and joy are my essential nature.

Day 18 – Finding Inner Peace and Joy “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh When we think of spiritual renewal, we typically think of it bringing a sense of abiding peace, joy, and contentment. This search for peace and joy often means we’re trying to acquire these feelings as if they were separate from us, and we need to find and install them somehow. In today’s meditation, we learn that we don’t need to go anywhere or acquire anything to find peace and joy. Peace is what we essentially are, joy is the very nature of pure consciousness. To attain the happiness we long for, we only need to be what we already truly are – present-moment awareness.

Our centering thought for today is: Peace and joy are my essential nature.   “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh