When we find ourselves at peace with our world, we discover there is no more need for alcohol or drugs, or pity, or comfort food, or destructive relationships, or guilt, or shame, or dishonesty, or excuses, or retribution, or anger, or fear, or anxiety. In every case, with inner-peace, the scars of the past remain in the past, and the future brightens since we step lighter from this peaceful present moment into the next, and the next. With inner-peace...