Peace is...

Just as true health is more than an absence of disease, but rather, an optimal balance of spiritual, emotional and physical well- being - so too, peace is more than an absence of conflict more than the opposite of war... Peace, I believe is our original state of being, intended from the begining lost, after the Fall. Peace is the freedom to be yourself, to embrace dreams it is much more than freedom from oppression or violence ridicule or censor- it never shames nor silences... Peace is a sacred seed sprouting in the breast of the benevolent and though dictators and bigots wish to crush it it cannot die for peace is love's twin and hope tells us- Love conquers all.