I realized something profound today: I realized that peace is personal. And that world peace is attained when each individual knows peace within.
Too woo woo for you? Read on.
Breaking it down, I realized that what brings me peace is the physical sensation I get when I know that I am loved. I know peace when I know that I am loved or have been loved. When I remember this, I am filled with a sensation, the presence of which makes anxiety, fear, impulse go out the window. They are canceled out by the exquisite calm I feel. The negative feelings have no bearing. They don't matter when I know this peace.
Other people, I imagine, come to peace in a variety of ways and experiences. What brings you peace? What slows everything down, brings an ease to your chest, breath to your lungs, and slack to your shoulders when you encounter it? What makes you warm and quiet and grateful, lacking absolutely nothing in that moment? This is peace. Your peace.
Imagine if you made every decision in your life from this experience, standing right in the middle of this sensation. Imagine if world leaders, community leaders, individuals in each family and community spoke and acted from their personal peace. Would there be any harm, any foul? Ever?
If peace is personal, then world peace is personal. If it only takes healing and exploration to recognize our individual answers to "What is Peace?" then what are we waiting for? Dive in, folks. Visualize personal peace. Wholeness is its own reward.
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I don't know how it translates to World Peace, but I have certainly found that when depression begins to take hold of me, due to adversity or fatigue or whatnot, that reflecting on the amazing people who love me pulls me largely out of it.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm in a state where I can't love myself, I can always trust the opinions of those that I do love.