When you measure the distance between towns on foot, walk to places that you thought could only be reached by car and it will change your mind.

I live in the suburb north of San Francisco, and _________is considered the main transportation for most people here. I still remember how _________I was when I first learned to drive. While driving with music gently _________my heart, I was filled with joy. However, as time went by, that excitement _________. I feared driving, and felt worried and upset. Everyone seems to be in my way especially when I am in a _________. One night, a deer ran out from the dark, knocked against my moving car, and _________across the street. I didn’t dare to get out of my car to see her. Crying on the _________, I hated my car.

When I joined the 21-day mindful walking _________, I began to walk with a mind. During the walking days, I smiled at every stranger _________by me. I walked to the streets that I __________would not pass through and __________a tiny free library on the sidewalk. I began to __________if I had really lived in this town all these years. It’s a completely __________ town that I know so little about!

I felt deeply __________for the walking challenge. Maybe I will set foot on far lands again, yet I know __________is right here and right now.

There once was a king in a faraway country. One day, he decided to______a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of ______. So many artists ______. The king looked at all the pictures. ______ there were only two he really liked, and he had to ______ between them. One picture was of a ______ lake. The lake was a perfect mirror with peaceful huge mountains all around it. Above was a ______ sky with light white clouds. All who ______ this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had ______, too. But these were not flat at all. Above was a (an) ______ sky, from which rain fell heavily and in which lightning played ______. Down the side of the mountain was a waterfall with loud sound. This did not look ______ at all.

But when the king looked ______, he saw behind the waterfall a small tree ______ in a crack (缝隙) in the rock. In the tree a mother bird had ______ her comfortable home. There, with the flow of angry water, the mother bird was ______ her hungry children in the nest, taking no attention to the ______ things around them — in perfect peace.

Which picture do you think______ the prize? The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?

“Because” said the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, ______ or hard work. Peace means although noisy things are around you, you ______ keep calm in the heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”