When life on Earth gets to be too much for you, let it slide. Sink into silence where nothing encroaches on you, where there is space, where there is room for you to breathe, where there is room for you to settle into a state where nothing intrudes, nothing overtakes, nothing compresses, where there is expansion, where you resume your own pace and can return amicably to the day before you.

Wherever you are, and whatever you are in the midst of, there is that place of silence. Consider it a spa. Consider your silence a salve to the world. Silence is not really your escape from the world. It is your attendance to it. It is how you soothe the world. The silence you uncover within you is like opening a bottle of fresh sweet cream and pouring it over yourself and the universe entire. It is like misting your garden.

Your running around and fretting do not soothe the world. Your tackling this matter or that matter do not abet peace in the world. Do not think you are a slacker because your restore yourself with peace.

When the fray gets too much for you, acknowledge it, and close your eyes a minute and find Me sweet beneath your eyelids. You might like to think of Me as established in your eyes. I will cool them, your eyes, and I will expand your vision. Look, I am doing it right now. My love washes your eyes. They are refreshed. You are ready to face the world.

Yet, Beloveds, there is no world to face. There are only your own thoughts, perhaps self-absorbed and self-consuming. Your thoughts are what is too much for you. The world is at the mercy of your thoughts. If you feel overwhelmed, it is your thoughts that overwhelm you. If you think another person overwhelms you, it is your fear thoughts that overwhelm you. No one has power over you except as you allow them to elicit your thinking.

If you must think about something, think about love and peace. Your thoughts do not need to scramble all over the place. Your thoughts do not have to jump hither and yon, back and forth in time and space, every which way, all out of order. Your thoughts get ahead of you or behind.

You are inviolable, not your thoughts. Let not jagged thoughts assume power over you. Divine other thoughts from occurrences and people in your life.

In life, when you go to a well, and the water in the well is not beneficial, you go to another well. Consider your mind a well, and your thoughts the water you pull up. When your thoughts are not beneficial or darken you or agitate you, imagine a new well and go to other thoughts. Let your thoughts be your own true thoughts and not those foisted on you. You, who find thoughts waiting for you, can also create them. Maybe you have to dig a new well. Maybe you have to clear out the old one.

You would not let unwelcome guests into your home. You would not accept every intruder. You make your home a comfortable haven. Make your mind, the home of your thoughts, the same.

The only robbers that can take away your peace of mind are those you are open to. You can politely send robbing thoughts away and call on other thoughts to come. For every fearful thought that gains admittance, substitute a blessing thought. Instead of a doubtful one, a confident one. Instead of a fear one, a love one.

If you are in some kind of momentary panic, and cannot think at all, then think of Me. Say My Name and beautiful butterflies of thoughts will alight, and you will be restored and calm again. My Name is like a full ladle. Where My Name is, the water is good.