Peace of mind starts when "thinking-mind" stops. There's nothing wrong with thinking as such. I teach philosophy, or at least try. But we think only when true mind is operative, the mind that has entered into communion with Being and the Real.
False mind, thinking-mind, attempts to master Being in its own interest as the instrument of ego. It attempts to use the Real for itself or to create its own reality. Peace of mind as "true mind" is the "peace that passeth all understanding." It is the source of knowledge of the world that serves the good of the whole.
When the mind is at peace, only then does it really become interested in truth. Only then can it, can I, truly think about the truth of that which it thinks. False mind leads us around an endless labyrinth of agonizing ruminations that approximate what hell must be like.
Peaceful mind is really the pure consciousness of absolute Awareness. Whereas this Awareness is invisible it has no phenomenal qualities. Awareness does have qualities, but transcendental qualities: truth, beauty, freedom, happiness, peace. It is through these qualities that the world shows up as God intends it to be.
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