My concept and understanding of peace has evolved as of late and I wanted to share that today. I used to think that peace was simply the absence of war or fighting, personally I have grown to feel that peace is an entire lifestyle choice and mindset. Peace is something that comes from within and gets reflected outward. We can see plenty of examples of people claiming they want peace in our daily lives, but these people often don't seem very at peace and many of them are actually violent. In my mind, peace is a lack of judgement and willingness to gain perspective and coexist. Obviously the world isn't perfect and there isn't always an easy way to take a passive stance on something, but it's important to remember to maintain our own internal peace and not sacrifice it to search for justice in an unjust world. If we try to justify using fear to counteract fear then we are really just further removing peace from the equation. Namaste.