Peace
We say we want peace.
We want wars to stop. We want families to stop fighting amongst themselves. We want people to stop hurting other people.
In other words, we want everyone to ’just get along.’
Yet with all this talk about peace and getting along, we continue to separate ourselves from each other. We continue to fight for power and control. We continue to insist that our way is the ‘right’ way or, in the case of some religions, the only way.
Although many participate in (so-called) peace rallies and marches to call for an end to conflict and war, true peace is much more than ending a war.
True peace is best defined as a “harmonious balance between human beings, the rest of the natural world, and the cosmos.” (Wikipedia)
To take it a step further, I believe true peace comes when we join together in Spirit. That is, when we recognize that the God-Force is within each of us and see ourselves as one body, not separate individuals intent upon having things ‘our way or no way.’
I’m not saying we have to agree on everything. What I am saying is we need to accept each individual for who s/he is and stop trying to mold the person to be like us … to think like us … to believe what we believe.
No one has ever truly been changed by persuasion or force. We may ’prevail’ in an argument or, on a greater scale, in a war, but all that has been gained is a temporary truce, at best.
We need to become conscious of how we treat one another — even how we talk to each other. Is there love behind our actions and words? Or are we simply trying to sway the other person to our way of thinking?
Isn’t it time to put aside our prejudices, our mistrust, our need for power and control and become one with the Higher Purpose that created this world? Isn’t it time to seek harmony? Isn’t it time to unify our collective energy and bring about the peace that we all so ardently seek?
peace? as a former vietnam protestor and now an iraq war protestor americans are not into peace.
we americans have supported a mega industrial military complex for over 6 decades and as long as we do we will be about wars for profits not peace.
maybe best we can do is seek that peace within which is very very difficult to do.
america had such potential after world war two but instead we sought wars for profits.
not a proud american was once not now.