Everyone wishes to live a calm and unhurried life. Where then is calmness to be found? Certainly not in the avoidance of the facing up to a problem. Such a pseudo-calmness is the absence of genuine calmness and is no calmness at all.

Genuine calmness can be found right in the midst of a problem. It is found by facing up to the problem. There is no real calmness in the emptiness of a Life which attempts fruitlessly to avoid a problem, but there is great and lasting calmness in the mental activity which faces up to the problem.

Lasting calmness is calmness right in the center of a problem. Even in the eye of a cyclone there can be great calmness. Only when we fail to go to the center of a problem do we fail to find our calmness. But a problem once faced up to through an awareness of one's oneness with divine Love becomes a means of finding and expressing lasting, God-given calmness and our ability to help others, even our enemies.