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Peace
What is peace?
Many nations of the world seem to be working toward it. But there is a stumbling block in that process: everyone has a different definition of peace. Not just every culture, nor every community. Every single person wants their little version of peace - an ideal that they hold dear to their heart and work toward every moment of their lives... or not.
Thomas Hardy: "War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
Benjamin Franklin: "There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
Lydia Maria Child: "The mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago: "What has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music: the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example."
Woodrow Wilson, 1917: "Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand."
A few points for discussion:
What is your definition of peace?
How do you seek peace?
What efforts have you made to bring peace?
What are your stories of peace?
What is your favorite quote regarding peace?
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"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq
"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy
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