Dear bloggers,
It is always refreshing and challenging to read your great insight into the world of love and peace and tolerance. We tend to use the word “trite” to marginalize things that are really important. I believe that this attitude is fostered by people who want to keep us apart and not allow us our inner manifestations of peace. The naming of the obvious is very important, and the reminder to ourselves of what peace really is, is not only a subtle challenge, but a real challenge.
When it comes to our relationships, we seem to fall into patterns of acceptance of our prejudices: “It’s okay to be mean to this person or group of people; it’s okay to say I’m better than these people or those people.” I believe that a key to peace is the acceptance of unacceptable concepts, which are foreign and opposite to love and peace.
Therefore, I find that collectively we have been given a tool to counteract the people who really do not want peace, and who want us to believe that peace is never going to happen. That tool is the ability to recognize that if we do nothing, then nothing’s going to happen. If we’re an idiotic son-of-a-bitch but we change into a passably likeable person, then everyone around us is better off.
It ties into the whole concept of self-awareness, of looking at the menu daily and saying to ourselves, “Hmm, I didn’t eat enough of this, I had too much of that, I’m getting out of control on that...” It really is a great way of keeping score on ourselves. Then, possibly, as you explore deeper into this concept, some sort of a shared meal will come forward, not by design, but by the action so many chefs adding their own pinch of spice here, and squirt of sauce there, and thimbleful of salt or pepper there, to a meal that is not punitive to other people, but that is, as we say, the nectar of the gods to all of us.
Can we do it? Absolutely. Why? Because people like you, reading the Blog, and millions of others are working for it. Should we talk and pray together? Absoutely! I think world peace can happen because together we will make it happen, not by our inactivity, but by our very thoughts, articulations, and actions. So for all of you reading, I’m glad you’re on our team. Keep a’rumblin’ and a dancin’!
Matt