The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

212 BRIANNA WIEST
So much of the process of finding inner peace is being
able to get to that “deep down” place where you know and
feel that ultimately everything will be okay.
There’s another metaphor in meditation in which calmness
is compared to steadying a lake or a large body of
water. Your thoughts and actions are like stones in the
water: They create a ripple effect. The point of meditation
is to make yourself quiet enough so that the water
comes back to its natural stillness. You don’t have to force
the water to be still. It does it on its own when you stop
interrupting it.
The same goes for finding inner peace. It’s not so much
something you have to create as it is something you have
to return to.
CREATING ALIGNED GOALS
One of the most important parts of discovering your inner
peace is that you trade in your desire for “happiness.”
Unfortunately, happiness is fickle. It can lead you to being
attached to certain achievements, belongings, or specific
circumstances. It can lead you to become dependent on
other people’s opinions or life unfolding in a particular
way. When your goal is happiness, you will always find
just behind it a lingering sense of unhappiness—that’s
how balance and duality works. Inner peace, however?