What is peace and how do we get there?
Peace is not the absence of war. War is the absence of peace.

Peace is something that arises in the heart and soul of individual human beings. From there, it extends out to family, community, nation and world.

Peace cannot be arrived at through the use of war or violence. Only more violence can and will result.

Peace is arrived at by allowing grace and love to fill heart, mind and spirit. What will result then are understanding, compassion, empathy and forgiveness.

The ideal is not created (made real) by focussing on its’ opposite. The ideal becomes realized through constant, fervent commitment to the ideal.

If peace is your ideal, focus on peace, on nothing else.

Take a single candle into a dark room and it is lit. Take all the darkness you can imagine into a lit room and there is no result. The room is still lit.

Light the candle of peace and love in your heart and no darkness can extinguish that light.

Peace is as the stillness of a moonlit pond. Peace is as the flight of a butterfly. Peace is a cloud colored golden by the rising sun. Peace is as a rainbow after a summer's shower.

Peace begins with you, with me, with each individual. Therefore, look to yourself and apply understanding, compassion, empathy and forgiveness to your fractured self. Become whole by allowing love and peace to fill your being. Become whole by allowing your intimate and infinite connection to the universal to become your identity.

The events of the world reflect who we are. We cannot separate our selves from them. Global peace will occur when each of us is fervently focussed on our individual peace.

If you must have an enemy against whom you must struggle in order to define your self, then let it be fear. Fear separates you from unity, from love and from peace.

Every creature is divine. Every aspect of creation is divine. If we are in conflict with any part of creation, we are in conflict with our own true self and we deny our divinity.

When peace fills your heart, overwhelms your mind and elevates your spirit, all creation sings your song. It becomes one uni-verse, whole and complete, beautiful and ecstatic.

Meditate on peace. Always.