John F. Kennedy Meditation No. 1

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy

Courage is choosing to change.

Peace is one of the things I find the most difficulty with achieving on a weekly basis. This is probably because I am not a peaceful mind.

I strive for challenge. I strive for struggle. I want to be tested. But, sometimes you run out of external challenges and you are forced to embrace the peaceful world that your inner warlord conquered.

I am constantly looking for war but after years of war, I don’t see any challenges around me. I only see the conquered, the weak, the decimated. A lot of that perspective comes from conquering myself. My process of slaying old ideas and forging ahead with my own thoughts and beliefs left a world of friends or fallen. A world devoid of true foes.

I don’t get challenged externally anymore. I don’t have external realms to conquer. I just have the internal to keep me busy. And that struggle is peaceful. That struggle slowly erodes old, external beliefs and replaces them with proven, internal beliefs.

Peace is a daily struggle when you are at war with the world, but when you’re battling yourself, peace is the only way forward.

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