Let's talk about peace and then we'll talk about truth and how these all relate to happiness.

A lot of times when I'm saying you want to be happy what I'm actually saying is you want to find peace.

We say peace of mind but what we really want is peace from mind.

The moments of greatest pleasure, whether from doing a drug or having an orgasm

or you're kite surfing and you find the edge or you're laughing with somebody

or you're looking at some incredible sunset, what happens in all of these is the mind goes quiet.

The mind calms down, that voice in your head where you're talking to yourself goes silent for a moment

and then you go into a sense of awe or beauty or bliss or joy or pleasure.

All of us seek this, all of us chase it.

Deep downward we're actually looking for peace from our mind.

I'm not making the mind out to be an enemy.

The mind is a very useful tool but somewhere along the way it became an uncontrollable tool.

It became a mass to rather than just a servant.

Our mind is evolved to be paranoid, fearful and angry.

We are the most paranoid and angry creatures to ever walk this earth.

Human beings are apex predators at the top of the food chain.

We killed, subjugated or domesticated every other species on this planet

and we did it through fear and violence and of course cooperation but we've killed everything else.

We've tamed everything else.

We were scared enough to go fight it, kill it and own it.

Nature is brutal, turn on any nature documentary and you'll see A, Eats, B, B, Eats, C, Eats, D, Eats, E.

Nature is red and tooth and claw.

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