Peace doesn't always come easily. It is reached in war with blood shed by many and hearts broken with separation. Peace seems elusive, always just out of reach. With relastionships there is always the give and take, the ups and downs. It is even harder to receive and be open to the gift of peace when it is something searched for within an individual. We are too busy and too stressed and too worried to even consider searching for it. To bring peace within, to start, one must have a sense of self, a sense of giving to one's self moments of quietness, the peace that comes in silence. What is harder is to find the peace that one lives with, that is always within. Learning to go through the battles in life, the disappointments, the highs and lows, and remain steady within is a difficult thing to accomplish. Still, it is worth searching and striving for as if it were a treasure one searches and finds. Can you take just a few minutes to BE, to have no expectations, no worries, just to simply be within a cocoon of silence. Try it and see what difference you an make within yourself.