Inner peace is the most precious thing in your life and it is lost due to mental habits.
If you are alert, you can see what mechanism is behind it. And that, of course, is a thought that comes up and says something like "this shouldn't happen". It is a thought, but you do not know that it is only a thought; For you it is inseparable from the situation. So if you don't know that the thought you have about a situation is inseparable from the situation, that's unconsciousness.
So you say, “It's a terrible day because it's raining. "Confusion between discretion and an external condition. "It's a terrible day. " Not understanding that "terrible" is your mental assessment, and today is what it is. Or you say, “Standing in line here for so long is terrible. "You confused two things: judgment and situation. But if you separate them, then you will see: this is what it is, and this is what my soul says about it. And then suddenly you will see that in fact the faith is complete in every assessment that comes up, you immediately lose your peace. You become dependent on external conditions for your happiness.
So once you see that, you may not really believe in that assessment anymore, or you may even give up on it. A thought comes and you say, "Okay, it's a thought, but it is what it is, I'll just stay with what it is, because all a thought does is add suffering. This is the beginning of freedom from the outside.
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