You are the peacemakerCan you be a peacemaker if you do not know peace? No.

The work then becomes developing peace within. I was born into the peace and love generation, the peace out movement. These turbulent years brought people together. The year of my birth brought the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the tragic assassinations’ of Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy as well as the Civil Rights Act. Our country needed peace then, our world needs peace now.

How to we seek Peace?

Typically though our habit patterns. Many a young talent of the era – think Jim Morison and Janis Joplin – overdosed on heroin. The promise of peace, freedom from worry and quieting the monkey mind are some of the reasons that people turn to substances to alter their state and blur reality. This response feeds a hungry ghost, and that ghost is greedy. Addiction is Earth Element out of balance. 

Peace is more attainable and sustainable when grounded in practices of prayer, meditation, time spent in nature and even sufficient sleep. Tempering our reactivity with responsiveness, our need to control with ease and flow, our catastrophizing with impermanence will guarantee more peaceful moments throughout the day.

How do you find peace in small moments throughout the day?

The planet does not need more ‘successful people’.

The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. 

~HHDLXIV

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