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The Meaning of Peace

Is peace a condition or a state of mind?  What is a peaceful demonstration?  How do we “demonstrate” peace?  Is it what they call “passive-aggressive”?  Is there aggression in peace then?  And how do we see ourselves as peaceful being?  What are some of the examples?  Nice to everyone?  No worries?  Always considerate and reaching out?  Never greedy, never betray anyone, never fight another, never do wrong?  (What is wrong?)  Is shouting slogans peace?  Is non-violence peace?  Why is peace linked with security?  What does peace have anything to do with security?  Can change be peaceful? (Change is never peaceful).  Can peace change the world?  Does the world want peace, and what does it mean by wanting peace?  I don’t know.  I don’t know the meaning of peace.

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Perhaps peace is the breath between conflicts, the silence before change.     12/22/11.

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At The Dinner Table

Conversations around the dining table reveal personalities. The cautious, the skilled, the frank, the bored, the easy to please and the hard to please. It is a tug of dynamics engaged in the most civilized way, with food and drinks and everyone sitting down. Most people try to get through dinner without causing too much of a stir and conversation usually falls on the mundane side. But why should we spar? Why get into agitating topics like politics and judgements on the most recent catastrophic relationship? To maintain an outward peace means we’ll never get to know each other.

But my family does not have to be my community. I think they represent the greater world, a sampling of characters with different views that will never understand each other. We come together by the bond of marriage and blood, and like the greater world, learn to coexist side by side.

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