I didn’t find a lot of peace in 2025.
If you look around, that seems pretty understandable. The world is in chaos! Our systems are failing! … And yet, it seems pretty dicey to point the finger in that direction.
If I need “the world” to get its shit together before I can feel peace, then it isn’t going to happen.
For almost all of my life, I operated on the model that something happened “out there” and it caused me to feel something “in here.” … Injustice in the world caused anger in me, for instance.
Recently, there has been a shift in my understanding. I see now that the anger is in me, always – it simply needs a direction to be expressed. And so my duty, intention, is to steward my body and mind in such a way as to not disturb that anger and let it drive my actions.
And I have begun to suspect that, in some ways, the same is true of peace. It is always available, as though it stands just behind the chaos – at times shining through, and at other times appearing to be obscured. But always present.
Looking “out there” for the source of an emotion or for peace feels like it gives up too much power. Like it misses the point, somehow.
And so here we are in 2026, and just judging by the first few weeks …
The peace I seek is the peace of my own being.
