Meditations on Peace

Lately I've been reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations . I've admired his writings for years, but this is the first time I've ever sat down to read more than a paragraph or two. One thing that struck me was, and I'm paraphrasing heavily here, a section in which he stated that people are always trying to escape chaos. They go to the countryside, they go to the beach to get away from it. (How funny that 2000 years ago people were still going to the same places on vacation!) Aurelius said what we need is not to get away to find peace, but to create peace within our own minds and then we can visit that place for a moment or two right in the middle of any chaos and...