[ declaring peace at home, dept. ]

Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.
~ John Lennon

Peace is not an idea, an ideal; one cannot fight for peace. Peace is not a state of mind or a sweet feeling that passes. The personal, totally conditioned mind is rooted in conflicted desires and fears; it does not know peace beyond thinking about what it might be, could be, should be. The mind knows no rest, no resolution, no peace.

Peace is the very existential substance of all that is, all that men and women really want, yes. 🙂 And therein lies the real value in our personal suffering, apparently. In finally, urgently, turning inside, and in deeply exploring one’s self-nature, one may, with grace and a willingness to abandon all belief, come on bended knee to know there’s real peace in being it. In looking for happiness, some few of us it seems come to recognize that out of our conflicted mind comes more conflict, and that only out of peace, peace arises.
In fact, in reality, there’s only beauty in peace, only love in peace, only joy in peace. It’s the harmonic element in all life – the musical in the muse, the lightness in the delight, the sufficiency in simply being, here and now. In fine, there is only peace in being peaceful.

When we ease off consuming and otherwise eating the various habitual – often addictive and disease-making – personal, social and cultural conflicts and cravings in our daily diet, there’s a space for peace; a place for quiet settling, a resting like a refugee in the peace of our home-nature wherever we find ourself living. Peace comes to us; one is no longer in need, reaching for anything, including peace. Indeed, it’s easy to make peace at home by simply allowing peace in being peaceful.. and passing it on just happens too, yes. 🙂