Spiritual traditions speak of the importance of the inner life, and experience validates their wisdom. We all know people who are successful but unhappy. Despite their achievements, serenity and peace elude them. Without serenity, life is an empty, and even a painful experience. Despite the focus of our culture on outer achievement, the only way you can guarantee your happiness through life is to practice inner tranquility: to use the obstacles that life presents as challenges to cultivate inner peace, and never to forsake that sense of peace, even in the short term, for the sake of another goal.

Did you know that through the pursuit of peace you not only gain inner tranquility; you also miraculously gain everything external that is of value to you? Your life becomes abundant. If your heart longs for friendship, you experience friendship in abundance. If your spirit needs professional success, you gain professional success. Why is it that paradoxically, just when we might think that pursuing peace requires us to abandon our outer goals, in fact the opposite is true? Why is it that the pursuit of inner peace brings outer success? The profound and simple answer is this: when we align ourselves with peace, we actually contact our deeper nature. The experience of peace is the experience of being at one with our inner purpose. When we are at one with our inner purpose, that inner purpose unfolds simply and easily in our outer life. We encounter no resistance, because we create no resistance.

The implications are profound. Cultivate the inner feelings you wish to have in your life. They will eventually manifest what you deeply desire on an outer level. It turns out to be so easy to find what you want. Just be what you want, and it will come right to your door.

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