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Peace Is the True Remedy · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as we are getting upset or disturbed, the external
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  personality is still reacting to things and we have not attained
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  the true standpoint of the witness consciousness.
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  Thus, we experience difficulties and respond based on the guna
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  that is predominant at the moment.
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  We may react with happiness if things seem to be working
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  according to our expectation, frustration or anger if we feel
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  like we are not getting what we want, or despondency or
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  depression if we lose hope or feel like our efforts are being
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  rebuffed. We frequently try to distract
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  ourselves from the difficulties we experience through various
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  means, including immersing ourselves in work, keeping busy
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  so we don't have time to think. As we often hear people say,
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  this does not solve the issue but simply turns the attention
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  away for a period of time. Wherever we focus our attention,
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  we create a connection that brings the force or energy of
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  that object of attention into our consciousness.
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  If we focus on our spiritual aspiration, we automatically get
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  a response which begins to have its impact first by providing a
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  sense of separation from the external nature, thereby
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  bringing peace to the being. From this foundation, the
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  aspiration and tapasia concentration of conscious force
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  begin to manifest the next stages of the Sadhna Srioro
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  Bindu observes. Quote, aspire, concentrate in
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  the right spirit, and whatever the difficulties you are sure to
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  attain, the aim you have put before you, it is in the peace
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  behind. And that's something truer in
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  you that you must learn to live and feel it to be yourself.
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  You must regard the rest as not your real self, but only a flux
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  of changing or recurring movements on the surface which
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  are sure to go as the true self emerges.
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  Peace is the true remedy. Distraction by hard work is only
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  a temporary relief, although a certain amount of work is
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  necessary for the proper balance of the different parts of the
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  being. To feel the peace above and
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  about your head is a first step. You have to get connected with
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  it, and it must descend into you and fill your mind and life and
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  body and surround you so that you live in it.
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  For this peace is the one sign of the Divine's presence with
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  you, and once you have it, all the rest will begin to come.
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  Truth in speech and truth in thought are very important.
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  The more you can feel falsehood as being not part of yourself,
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  as coming on you from outside, the easier it will be to reject
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  and refuse it. Persevere, and what is still
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  crooked will be made straight, and you will know and feel
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  constantly the truth of the Divine's presence, and your
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  faith will be justified by direct experience.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu, Basis of
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  Yoga, Chapter 1. Calm, Peace and Equality.
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  Pages 10:50.