Peace Takes Courage

To walk in peace requires courage not found in ordinary individuals.

Peace requires openness to possibilities, which the person without courage can simply not maintain.

Peace practitioners are possibility thinkers. It takes courage to be a possibility thinker. It is far easier; it feels much safer to stay within our “known” boxes than to venture into the unknown realm of the possibility thinker.

Peace can seldom be found within the confines of the box. Oh, things may appear peaceful as long as nothing is challenging our defined perimeters, but the person with inflexible borders finds themselves easily feeling violated.

It is ironic the person who seeks to remain the safest, is the first person to feel unsafe when events occur which threaten the boundaries they have established to maintain their feelings of safety.

The courageous person needs no such boundaries; thus there is nothing to violate.

This individual knows his/her safety comes from beyond the controllable physical world.