The real meaning of Peace:
"There was once a king who offered a prize to the artist who could best depict Peace on canvas. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. All who saw this picture thought that it was the perfect picture depicting Peace. The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain, tumbled a foaming waterfall. This looked anything but peaceful. But there behind the waterfall, a tiny bush grew, in a crack in the rock. In the bush, a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest- in perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture.
"Because," explained the king,
"Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work."
"Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart."
- In The Sphere of Silence; Vijay Eswaran
"There was once a king who offered a prize to the artist who could best depict Peace on canvas. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. All who saw this picture thought that it was the perfect picture depicting Peace. The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain, tumbled a foaming waterfall. This looked anything but peaceful. But there behind the waterfall, a tiny bush grew, in a crack in the rock. In the bush, a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest- in perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture.
"Because," explained the king,
"Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work."
"Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart."
- In The Sphere of Silence; Vijay Eswaran
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