A Bowl of Peace

Hold a Bowl of Peace within your hands.

Between your open hands, feel the peace, calm and still. Still waters, which will not spill. This bowl filled with peace will only overflow with light, to light up your eyes, which may be weary.

This bowl of peace is our gift to the world and our gift to ourselves. And we have the bowl there already, within us, only waiting to be remembered. The longer we can hold it without disturbing its surface, the deeper we will feel its effects within us.

We hold it out to the world, holding it out in front of us, to remind ourselves of the peace that is always waiting within, behind all illusions, behind the flow of emotions.
It is not a peace without feelings, it is not numbness, or frozen stillness. For around this bowl of peace, our life can flow in any way we wish it to. Around this still centre, all the activity can rotate and orbit.

So now we give to you a bowl of peace, in return for yours. And we pour our bowl of peace into your open bowl, so that now it overflows. Peace pours over your skin and your body, it flows down into the Earth. And we go on pouring and the flow increases, until soon you are being bathed in a flow of liquid peace. Your every pore and cell is washed and cleansed by this flow of peace. It will ease you, take away all tensions and worries. When you are filled full and do not need any more peace, you can share it with all those around you and with the world.

And the Earth will drink in the peace that flows from you, for you are at peace with the Earth, as she is with you. Now we place our upturned bowl over yours, like a glowing dome, to make a sphere of the whole. So you hold a shining sphere within your hands, and the sacred Earth within your peaceful heart.

This flow of peace continues moment by moment, in every moment, and we promise to continue this flow, to pour out peace upon you from this moment on. And the gift will be given to all.


(From the Circles of Love in the One Heart)