A Cheat Sheet for Peace

A friend asked my friend (since grade school) Bruce Chanen, "Does the suffering we experience ever end?" His answer was to offer his 'cheat sheet' for peace.

You asked an incredibly honest and vulnerable question: "Does the suffering we experience ever end?" I think you meant in the context of divorce, but I often wonder the same thing in the context of work, family and life in general. On a hard day, when our minds are tilting toward negative thoughts, you might think the answer is straight from Jason Robards in Parenthood, "It never ends ... there's no goal line ... no end zone where you spike the ball and that's it" ... but I believe there is a different answer ... that suffering can end immediately ... right NOW ... by embracing the reality that life is the journey not the destination—that it is the skiing not the mountain or the moguls. Whatever life presents is okay.

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