There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who paint the
best picture of peace. 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 were all around it. Overhead
was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought
it was a perfect picture of 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 lightening played.
Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did
not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the
waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother
bird had build her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water,
sat the mother bird on her nest. 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. That is the
real meaning of peace."
"Peace emerges in your life when you can find silence within in spite of the
noise without." Andres Lara.
"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."
- Larry Eisenberg.
"Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which you cannot change."
- Ann Landers.
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