The chapter titles of The Peace within You summarize nearly all that can be said about this section: The Search for Happiness; Be Calm; Practise Detachment; and Seek the Deeper Stillness. Here we meet the Great Silence of the Overself and the Peace that motivates our desire for happiness--the same Peace that we ultimately find underlying even our greatest sorrows. The difference between categories twenty-three and twenty-four is that the quester is seeking the stillness of the Overself in every part of life in Advanced Contemplation, while in The Peace within You the quester is learning to live inside the stillness. Appropriately, the practices in The Peace within You are designed to create a way of living that doesn't disturb one's awareness of the presence of the Overself.
The difference between these two stages can be seen by comparing the paras on the Witness exercise in chapter six of Advanced Contemplation to the paras titled "Becoming the Witness'' in chapter three of The Peace within You. In the first group, the quester is shown how to bring about the Witness attitude; the second group shows how to apply this attitude in the practice of detachment.
The Peace within You provides a sort of contemplative pause between the revolutionary enterprise of the Short Path and the final challenge of the "Enlightenment which Stays" that emerges in category twenty-five. Even though there is but a short distance in print between these two stages, the length of time between them may prove to be quite long. This is because much of the quester's growth now occurs in silence, and really can't be expressed in thought. So it is fitting that this volume ends with the section titled "The Great Silence.''
Editorial conventions here are the same as stated in the introductions to Perspectives and The Quest. Likewise, (P) at the end of a para indicates that it also appears in Perspectives, the introductory volume to this series.