Peace of mind is everything to me. I would’t trade it for the world!
Has nothing to do with avoiding confrontation though, in my view.
Has more to do with out-growing confrontation, knowing how to accpet everything as good, as itself and not more than that, and as it should be.
I will explain:
In the matter of confrontation, if when someone else has a diffrent opoinion, even the most horrible one, I remember that these are their opinions, that they need them to be this way right now in their life, leave them to it without trying to convince them in what they don’t want to be convinced, and keep my own opinion and course of action, then I am safe from loosing my peace of mind, and my sanity.
If I think they should think or act diffrently than they do, I am a lunatic.
Same towards events:
If I remember that I can overcome any apparent difficulty, that any event that happens can turn out for the good, even over years, and that I don;t know how things “should” be and what course of action every event creates, then I can simply respond to whatever is happening right now. Panicing never makes anything easier or faster.
If I try to controll what is happening in reality, then I am a acting as a lunatic, bound to lose my peace of mind…