In times of violent strife, there is often the call to “Imagine Peace”, and this is indeed a fine thing to do — It is far better us to imagine a Peace-full society than to dwell negatively on the fact that we aren’t there yet. It is far better to visualize how we want to Be than it is to critically harp on the failings of where we already are.

AND … it is also true that merely imagining Peace will not bring the Change we wish to see.

In fact, if we dwell on the Harmony that we are missing — if we focus on the terrorist aggression & the political corruption & the religious condemnation & all the other forms of hateful bigotry that surround us — if we concentrate our efforts on identifying our enemies and then “protecting ourselves” by punishing them, then we are actually SUPPORTING the causes of those enemies; we are actually guaranteeing that their violence & their greed & their arrogance & their hatred will continue to haunt our lives.

And yet, THERE IS ANOTHER WAY, my Friends:

If we truly desire to bring a real Peace to our moments of chaos, there IS and always will be a simple solution …

To make Peace a reality,

… we must make Peace a verb.

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