Peace is a verb … ( 04 / 20 / 2013 )
Peace is a verb … ( 04 / 20 / 2013 )
In times of violent strife , there is often the call to “ Imagine Peace ”, and this is indeed a fine thing to do — It is indeed far better us to imagine a Peace-full society than to dwell negatively on the fact that we clearly haven ’ t yet attained that goal … It is far better to visualize how we want to one day Be than it is to critically harp on the failings of where we already are .
AND … it is also true that merely imagining Peace will not bring the Change we wish to see .
In fact , if we dwell on the Harmony that we are missing — if we focus on the terrorist aggression & the political corruption & the religious condemnation & all the other forms of hateful bigotry that surround us — if we concentrate our efforts on identifying our enemies and then “ protecting ourselves ” from them by ridiculing or shunning or punishing them , then we are actually SUPPORTING the causes of those enemies ; we are actually guaranteeing that their violence & their greed & their arrogance & their hatred will continue to haunt our lives .
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