Inner Peace

As I've intimated from the beginning of this blog, I feel that personal, inner peace in each person is necessary before peace on a larger scale can even begin to be a viable option. Daily stress, worrying about making ends meet, and existential angst all put us in an adversarial mindset where we are more likely to look at other people as as impediments to our own happiness than as fellow beings just trying to making a living in this world. Although it can be difficult to find the time, it greatly benefits each of us to find a way to shut out the world and regain our mental focus every once in a while. I know I find myself needing to do it fairly often, but it dramatically improves my quality of life.