Hi Patricia, I like your contribution and agree about the importance of not been stuck in external expectations...I teach Ho'oponopono as a way to reconnect with what Japanese people call IKIGAI, which is the surge of lifeforce within us...I feel that your title saying that "peace is something you create" is still giving too much power to the "external"...I mean that the stillness of a lake is not a result, it's a natural state when the external conditions stop affecting stillness. I like the words "Be still and know that I am God"...We do not create what we call GOD or PEACE, we let it be...and our real problem is that we lack the meekness to let just be...With love and Aloha. Patrice.