March 22 Fire 🜂: Passion and Drive
Do Not Mistake a Truce for Peace.
I have a truce with some people in my life. This means we are polite. We might even experience flash moments of camaraderie, or laughter, or warmth. It may appear to outsiders that we are at peace, or reconnected with a former time of jovial adoration.
But a truce is not peace.
A truce means we have agreed to play nice, even though something remains unresolved, or unhealed. A truce is a willingness to hold this relationship loosely, and to benefit from the lack of war for ourselves or for others affected. A truce is not likely to last, unless we are consistently recommitting to the truce for the benefit of all.
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“You can be right, or you can be happy,” said Gerald Jampolsky (1990).
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Peace will come with a shift in our expectations; peace perhaps requires a surrender to a reality we cannot control. Or peace is a state of mind that allows us to fully accept the disappointment or fault lines that remain and to accept the messy and sad experience of injustice. Peace comes with total acceptance. If you are not able to achieve peace, know that truce will help you one day get there.
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