Ask Yourself For Peace (And You’ll Find It At Your Feet) | A Week Without Complaining
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Why does the host say we need peace, quiet, and calm for our sanity?
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Ask yourself for peace and you'll find it at your feet. All you want is some quiet.
All you want is some peace. All you want is some calm. More than one it. You need it. You need it for your sanity, for your survival. So you fantasize, as we all do, as Mark Sreelis did in four three in Meditations. Fantasize about getting away from it all, about travel, about the beach, about the country, about the mountains.
And look, you may well find some quiet and space and home there, but you should know that you can find it much closer to home too. So one of my favorite songs goes A wrestled by C Aloniness and me. There's my set
Found it at my feet.
The ocean, the resort, the couple of weeks away from work, that's not where you'll find the peace you seek because it is already within you. Nowhere you can go, Marcus really says in that passage in Meditations, is more peaceful, more free of interruptions than your own soul. You have the power to calm yourself down. You have the power to give yourself clarity. You have the power to let go of what is making you miserable, to stay.
How can we find inner stillness without traveling far away?
Stop chasing what is making you so frantic and insecure.
As the summer comes to a close, as vacation ends, as school begins again, as work ramps up in earnest, it's worth remembering this. Instead of looking outward, instead of thinking you need to get away, to go somewhere else to find yourself or find peace, look inward. Find it within yourself. It's there whenever you need it. That's the idea in Stillness Is the Key, by the way, which is uh what is it? Almost eight years old now. That's incredible. I can grab Stillness is the key, I'll sign your copy, I'll link to it in today's show notes.
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We just got back from this trip to Europe and it was so ungodly hot there. Like it was the hottest it's ever been, which exacerbated another experience if you've ever been to Europe, just how bad the mattresses are there. So I was excited to be home because we've gone for a while, but I I was really excited to be home and sleep on my eight sleep pod. I missed it every night I was gone. It cools the mattress, cools my wife's side differently than my side. Doesn't matter how hot the room is, the bed is just perfect, monitors your sleep rate. I was putting my son to bed last night. reading to them, and then I get a little alert on my phone that it was almost time for me to go to bed, that the eight sleep was doing its thing.
Then I woke up this morning, it showed me my sleep score, monitors your heart rate, your respiratory rate.
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