i have a vision of very smooth perfectly shaped rocks of all sizes and shapes, dark, gray, even sand colored rocks being tumbled together constantly by wave action. The sound, when they tumble together, is beautiful. They are in concert with each other.
The symphony starts with the thunder of the wave rolling in, it builds until it crashes upon the shore where the rocks reside. Then, as the water recedes, all the rocks tumble against each other creating this orchestral sound, it is a sucking, rolling, crackling and crashing together of stone, dominating the hearing threshold and demanding pause in the rush to proceed on with life.
Knock two pieces of stone together and that is but a very tiny aspect of the overall crescendo that occurs when thousands and thousands of stones are rolling against each other.
Tumbling stone.
Can all human beings resemble tumbling stone?
All humans are beautiful in their own special way, they sound good, they have faith, they work with others and have families, but are some cold deep down? Are some stony in their beliefs? Do they reject supporting common goals, do they appear cold towards peace and eradication of poverty?
Why?
Is it that they believe it can't happen.
Is it because they have been raised to be self-interested?
Are the self-interested the ones that believe violence is the only arbiter of change, the ones who perpetuate aggression.
The self -interested are the ones that don't realize that peace, and peaceful people are in the majority, daily.
Take a city. New York. New York is bustling with people all going about their daily business. Millions move about the city twenty-four hours a day. They eat, sleep, go to work, purchase food, entertain themselves and have fun. While all this happens, with alarming regularity, somewhere on a city street a violent act occurs. Out of all those millions of people conducting their peaceful existence the act of violence gets attention even though it is a minor occurrence in the overall scheme of things.
The majority of the city has been enjoying peace, peace was ruling, but New Yorkers have been conditioned to believe that violence is what is happening more often, that it is what is making change occur.
Why I ask?
Why are we conditioned to think violence rules when peace is the activity that is actually ruling all over the world?
Take a moment to look around as you move through your day, your week, a month, a year. Notice peace prevailing in the world around you. Take a moment to observe everyone you encounter, how often do you see violent acts? Peace is king, everywhere, we just have to encourage all of us notice it. We have to wake up to the reality of Peace as a daily occurrence.
When those rocks knock together, over time they eventually break down the cold stony identity of the self interested individual pieces and become sand. Although still individual they are now part of a whole working together.
We already practice peace every day, we just need to focus more of humanity on its daily dominance.
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