April 6th - When you meditate, or pray deeply, eventually you connect with a place of truth and purity - a place distinctly different from where almost all of us normally operate. From this place, we can see our minds as separate. Normally our awareness is so inter-meshed with the mind that trying to see it is itself just a mind game. From this pure state of awareness, it is clear how powerful and pervasive our minds actually are, and how they so easily steer us away from the core truth of who we are - divine beings.

The mind is the thing that takes people to war, that seeks power, that justifies it, even the thing that seeks peace. After day six, we still haven't attained real peace, though we are closer. My mind thinks about how rational this endeavor is, how it might make me look like a fool, how so few people have supported it. These are all legitimate thoughts, but on the quest for true peace, these are just mind games.

If the intention is to really find peace, then this mind has to be dropped. Like we mentioned in the write-up, the success of this event is not based on the numbers of participants, but on the love and sincerity each person brings. As we get closer to the center, it becomes apparent how this was stated correctly, but not fully believed.

Peace is not about numbers, it is about communion. Having understood this, we are much closer. It's funny though how quickly the mind forgets such important things and leads us so easily astray.