It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.
I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
