By having patience under all kinds of pressure
you lay the foundations of peace.
To feel the peace above and about your head is a first step;
you have to get connected with it and it must descend into you
and fill your mind and life and body and surround you so that you live in it.
The quiet consciousness of peace you
now have in the mind
must become not only calm but wide.
Peace is a deep quietude where no disturbance can come -
a quietude with a sense of established security and release.
If the peace or silence is once absolutely established,
no amount of movements on the surface can impair or abolish it.
It can bear all the movements of the universe and yet be the same.
