What Prevents Us from Feeling Peace?

What prevents us from feeling peace and maintaining a peaceful state of mind when life gets difficult? And how can we get back in touch with our innate peace and return to equanimity?

Rupert says: ‘Peace is not a state of mind, it is our natural condition. States of mind come and go, but peace is always there. What prevents us from feeling peace is the discrepancy between a current experience and what we want. That propels us into seeking for what we want in the future. We turn away from our innate peace because we imagine that we will find it when we get what we want.

‘But what we really want is not what we want – what we really want is peace. The moment you accept your situation, you stop projecting peace into the future. And when there’s no projection into the future, we come back to the now, and our innate peace shines.’