You could observe your mind, basing one idea on another, thinking one thought after another, constructing a sequence that is held in the memory as the passage of time. If you observe that activity closely, you realize that there isn’t really a sequence. The sequence is only in imagination. In reality there is only what exists at that very second. If you look at your thoughts in your mind and are aware that the sequence appears only because of memory and time, your mind will immediately go – Diamond Heart Book Five, ch. 11
Peace is the absence of suffering. One reason for suffering is that most people are not looking for peace; they are looking for pleasure. Peace is not a top priority for most people; pleasure usually comes first. Therefore, people seek pleasure. There is nothing wrong with wanting pleasure, nor with pleasure itself. But what leads to the absence of peace is seeking pleasure, for the simple reason that seeking pleasure assumes that pleasure is somewhere else, some other time, in a different situation, and not here and now. That is the basic premise of seeking, not only pleasure, but seeking anything, including peace. When we seek, we are moving away from the pleasure or peace and from the source of pleasure and peace. So when I say to not do absolutely anything, I mean not to seek—not to seek for pleasure, or peace, or security, or love, or anything at all—because implicit in the activity of seeking is that there is something to do, or to arrive at. Seeking assumes that there is something to be found, someplace to be reached, some goal to be arrived at. – Diamond Heart Book Four: Indestructible Innocence, ch. 2
Inner stillness is felt as true peace, so deep and restful that you feel as if you can breathe fully for the first time. At last, you can just be present without reservation, with no agitation inside—no judge evaluating, comparing, criticizing, or analyzing. This peace has power—the power to erase inner agitation and dissolve your familiar mental preoccupations, including identifications with the judgment process. Inner peace leaves nothing behind—nothing but simple being. Not being someone or something, just being. You are that being, that stillness—alone in a deep, refreshing quiet. – Byron Brown, Soul Without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within, Ch. 21