{"id":110366,"date":"2021-02-26T13:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110366"},"modified":"2021-02-26T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:50:32","slug":"peace-vs-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110366-peace-vs-sensation","title":{"rendered":"Peace vs. Sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sanctuary of the heart is the location of peace.\u00a0 It is into the spiritual heart that you move to discover peace.\u00a0 God will speak to you through your heart.\u00a0 God will bring peace to your life.\u00a0 And you will know happiness and you will know love.\u00a0 There is nothing else so worth knowing.<\/em> – John-Roger <\/p>\n

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This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, July 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you are searching for inner peace, you are looking to discover a quality that is often difficult to define and difficult to pinpoint.<\/p>\n

In MSIA, we work from a base of certainty.\u00a0 We check things out to see if theories are workable realities or just theories.\u00a0 There are spiritual actions that, if followed, will bring about specific results.\u00a0 They are set in their pattern and in their timing, and no one can move them ahead or behind their proper timing because they are part of spiritual law.\u00a0 So when we look at the concept of \u201cpeace,\u201d we want to look at a quality that goes beyond theory and moves into reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace\u201d is not stillness. It is balance.\u00a0 That balanced quality is not still; it is very active.\u00a0 There is no stillness found in the outer world.\u00a0 But there may be balance found in the world.\u00a0 In the inner kingdom, when you move to the power source of beingness, you find happiness and joy.\u00a0 It is a dynamic type of joy, an active expression of happiness, and within that happiness is peace.\u00a0 It may not be a jovial or raucous happiness, but it is one of the warmth of your own consciousness united with the knowingness of your Soul.\u00a0 And when those two aspects are one, happiness is the natural result.<\/p>\n

When you seek out in the world for happiness or peace, you are moving into patterns of self-denial because you are, in actuality, saying that peace does not reside naturally within yourself, so you must seek elsewhere for it.\u00a0 When you come from a consciousness of lack, lack will be the result.\u00a0 When you go into the outside world seeking peace, you are looking for sensation.\u00a0 Sensation, for a short time, can assuage the yearning for peace.\u00a0 It can distract you momentarily, but it’s not long before the sensations of the world will stupify your physical senses; and you will find yourself automatically retreating back toward yourself and you will find yourself yearning for peace.<\/p>\n

There are many people who have successful businesses, great wealth, live the \u201cgood life,\u201d and have all the security this world has to offer\u2026and what they would like more than all of that is peace of mind.\u00a0 They’ll say, “If only my mind would leave me alone so I could gather my strength and feel good inside myself.\u00a0 I’d give anything.\u201d\u00a0 That peace is your natural state, but if you look out into the world for sensation, you can obscure that peaceful quality within.<\/p>\n

When people fight, they are attempting to bring harmony and balance into the situation.\u00a0 They are attempting to find peace.\u00a0 That’s why they\u2019re fighting.\u00a0 Tradition has told you that if you yell louder than the other guy, you’ll win.\u00a0 If he’ll just shut up, you’ll win, and then you’ll have peace and contentment.\u00a0 Have you found out it doesn’t work that way?\u00a0 You make your point, he shuts up, and then waits for his chance to get back at you.\u00a0 And he’ll do it when you’re most vulnerable; he’ll attack your weakest area, and he’ll destroy that which you thought was your peace.<\/p>\n

When you seek for power in this world, there will always be people coming along behind you to usurp that power.\u00a0 They will take the power from you.\u00a0 But if you have established peace from within your own consciousness, NO ONE can take that from you.\u00a0 They won’t even be able to find it, and they certainly won’t be able to dislodge it.<\/p>\n

When you awaken each morning, it might be nice if you ask for the peace of God to be with you and all you touch that day.\u00a0 If you are one with God’s consciousness, no man can come against you.\u00a0 If you ask for this attunement each day (and it doesn’t matter what words you use), it will change the quality of your life.\u00a0 You may find yourself talking less.\u00a0 Often to find the peace within, you become quiet verbally so that you can hear the voice of love from within that will temper all associations in the outer.<\/p>\n

The sanctuary of the heart is the location of peace.\u00a0 It is into the spiritual heart that you move to discover peace.\u00a0 God will speak to you through your heart.\u00a0 God will bring peace to your life.\u00a0 And you will know happiness and you will know love.\u00a0 There is nothing else so worth knowing.\u00a0 Love is the only channel for clear communication.\u00a0 And peace is the parent of love.<\/p>\n

Sensation is the other end of the spectrum.\u00a0 It is the opposite of peace.\u00a0 The reason that so many people find themselves in an endless search for sensation is because they must confront themselves if they move inward to find the peace.\u00a0 That’s what makes the quality of peace and love so difficult to find.\u00a0 You decide you want to find peace, so you tune within and you find all the troubles you’ve had — the hurts, the pain, the disturbance.\u00a0 So you think, “I’m not going to do that; that hurts.\u201d\u00a0 And you go back out into the world.\u00a0 You bum around, run around, makes excuses to get the car and go here and go there.\u00a0 And yet, when you finally stop, your irritation is still with you.<\/p>\n

We often tell people to sit still and do something, not to sit still and do nothing.\u00a0 Sitting still and doing something means that you are looking within for balance.\u00a0 When the emotions surge on you and you have fear, you look at that fear.\u00a0 You trace it back within you to find the source.\u00a0 If you remember a hurt from the past, you follow that hurt and find out what happened that caused it.\u00a0 Then it can be cleared from that level.\u00a0 When the Light of God becomes manifest in your consciousness, you will also experience illusion.\u00a0 They go side by side.\u00a0 You will experience both, and there can be great confusion in that.<\/p>\n

If someone asks you what it is like in China this time of year, can you tell them?\u00a0 Maybe you’ve not been to China, but you’ve seen pictures taken this time of year, so you tell people that.\u00a0 But tell them that you’ve seen pictures.\u00a0 Don’t lead them to believe that you know from your own experience.\u00a0\u00a0 Or, if you’ve talked to someone who has been there, you might say that you heard from someone who had been there that it’s nice this time of year.\u00a0 But again, don’t try to make them think it has been your experience.\u00a0 If you have been in China, you will be able to tell them much more completely what it is like.\u00a0 You will be able to tell of secrets that would be unknown to you if you had only seen a picture or your friend’s experience.\u00a0 Someone else’s experience is always a reflection.\u00a0 Your own experience is your reality.<\/p>\n

The physical world is always a reflection.\u00a0 Your inner world is the reality.\u00a0 The physical world is represented by the sensation.\u00a0 The inner world is represented by peace and happiness.\u00a0 And love.\u00a0 As you tune to that inner world, you will find that you begin to experience peace.\u00a0 The emotions will subside, the mind will become more quiet.\u00a0 And you might find that from deep within your beingness you open yourself to receive that which is of God.\u00a0 You might feel the Spirit touch to you; you might hear a voice whisper, “Be still and know that I am God.\u201d\u00a0 And you will know that you are awakening to your Self more and more.<\/p>\n

You are a son of God\u2026whether you are in a male or female body.\u00a0 You are a child of Light.\u00a0 The Soul that is your truest identity resides naturally in love and in joy.\u00a0 If you look to find the Beloved in all those around you, you will find the Beloved within yourself.\u00a0 If you see disturbance out there in the world, it is a reflection of the disturbance in you.\u00a0 If you see something you don’t like in another child of Light, it is because that same place exists inside of you\u2026so you recognize that.\u00a0 All of your experiences, all of your relationships are to reflect you back to yourself so that you can learn to know yourself in greater and greater ways.\u00a0 This life and all its experiences are for your upliftment and to assist you in your journey home to God.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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