I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you come and sit relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
When you find peace within yourself you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself and for the firefighter it is fire.
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries your problems your thoughts. They fade into the smoke and the cigar and you are at peace.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself get more sleep and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
If you cannot find peace within yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
First keep peace with yourself then you can also bring peace to others.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them but as I wrote my own I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have and take for granted: hot showers enough food friends routines.