Feeling for Peace

Deepak Chopra’s seven-day program for peace suggests a simple practice for each day centered on the theme of making peace real, one step at a time, in your personal life. If you would like to be more peaceful, or want a more peaceful world, here is the practice for Tuesday.

Tuesday: Feeling for peace

This is the day to experience the emotions of peace. The emotions of peace are compassion, understanding, and love.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else’s suffering, understanding is born.

Understanding is the knowledge that suffering is shared by everyone. When you understand that you aren’t alone in your suffering, there is the birth of love.

When there is love there is the opportunity for peace.

As you practice, observe a stranger some time during your day. Silently say to yourself, This person is just like me. Like me, this person has experienced joy and sorrow, despair and hope, fear and love. Like me, this person has people in his or her life who deeply care for and love him or her. Like me, this person’s life is impermanent and will one day end. This person’s peace is as important as my peace. I want peace, harmony, laughter, and love in his or her life and the life of all beings.

Adapted from Peace is the Way, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005). Copyright (c) 2005 by Deepak Chopra. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Adapted from Peace is the Way, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

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Douglas S.

10:23AM PST on Jan 14, 2012

Thanks

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James T.

8:40AM PST on Dec 22, 2011

Words of wisdom of course but it occurs to me that those who would practice this already have a disposition towards peace. If only there was a way to get this message through to people who don't.

Danuta W.

11:54PM PST on Dec 18, 2011

Great article!

Jon H.

1:07PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

TRUE inter peace is forgiving yourself and not judging others before yourself. Don't judge my past for I don't live there anymore.

1:02PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

1:00PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

TRUE inter peace is forgiving yourself and not judging others before yourself.

12:59PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

12:52PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

We have to find and make peace with ourselves in order to experience outer peace and see peace in our lives and others. You have to make peace with yourself first in order to make peace with others.

12:51PM PST on Dec 15, 2011

sandra m.

4:09PM PDT on Aug 8, 2011

Thank-you so much