My spiritual life has a rhythm all its own. There are times when it’s all I can think about; there are times when I don’t think about it at all. Lately, my spiritual life has been rich in imagery and even richer in healing.

I’ve been fifty for less than a month, and in that time wild pieces of my past have surfaced in dreams, in meditations, in prayer. Pieces of the past are queuing up for healing. For those who are astrologically-minded, you will recognize the pattern of a Chiron Return.

Chiron is the rogue planetoid known epithetically as The Wounded Healer. Aren’t we all? In point of fact, we are.

It came to me, in one process, that the reason we work to heal ourselves, our pasts, our presents, and, hopefully, our futures, is that peace will only come when we have taken responsibility for our whole selves.

People ask me all the time what they, one person, can do to help create peace on this planet. It’s really simple, if not particularly easy. Look to your own spiritual life. Seek and heed the voices of inner wisdom that will allow you to have a sense of greater wholeness.

Gandhi was right. The only way to create change is to “be the change you wish to see in the world.”

We can give to others only what we are. If you want peace on this lovely orb, do your healing work for the sake of peace. Sow seeds of peace in your heart every day, every time you think of it, every moment.

In time, as more and more of us are the change, we will live our selves into peace.