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For theists, trusting in a Supreme Being, one recognizes God as Peace. Prayer, then, is, first, a drawing near to God, not a getting something from God. More truly, one is drawn by God to God; this attraction is the mysterious work of Grace. Grace, in disposing one to God, disposes one in the humbleness allowing the inflow of unexpressable Peace as a trait of the Supreme Being. Then, without the One who, or that, is Peace, one does not know peace as gift through communion. Peace, therefore, flows from the communion of God and devotee, not merely from God or, certainly, not from the one who worships. In communal worship, especially when sharing silently, without words, peace can fill the worshipers with a quiet solace that each may never or rarely know outside the sharing together. So, even when in quiet alone, one does well to recall he or she is one of the ongoing flow of other worshipers in the Silence, transcending past, present, future.
Varied wisdom paths, hence, provide preparation for the Garden. Peace arises, however, without reliance on any of the details of the path. One is in the path, to transcend the path. In this, one knows peace as peace, not as peace needing any identification with any way. Simply put, peace is peace.
Some are more disposed to inner quietude walking in nature, some kneeling at an altar. Peace remains peace, the same peace.
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quiet, spiritually, is
more than lack of sound
as to presence is
calm, solace, serenity, stillness, tranquility
as to absence is lack of
attachment to turbulence and agitation
so, here, one lives, acts, and speaks
from an inner environment of equanimity
amid the passing of quiet and disquiet
this meaning
quietude within remains when disquiet arises
both within and without
~disquiet about disquiet
only means disquiet
quiet about disquiet
welcomes quiet~
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