A short monologue by Eckhart Tolle describing true inner peace as a deep, alive, peaceful energy or background joy that is more important than external circumstances. Tolle emphasizes that inner peace is often given up through habitual mental patterns and that awareness lets one observe the mechanism of losing it.
The true inner peace is a deep sense of aliveness, to feel fulfilled. And it's inseparable. It's a kind of joy. Not necessarily the ecstatic joy. You don't go through life, wow. Some people try it, but you can't sustain that. But no. A peaceful and alive energy field in the background. That's inner peace. That's the most precious thing in your life, far more important than where you are or what's happening around you. And it's given up because of mental habits. You lose it so often. So once you're aware of that, then you can observe the mechanism, how you lose that.
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