Achieving peace

Yoko Ono's action for peace, like all other such actions, is beautiful but ineffective. The call for peace is the agonizing beauty of a lovely dream hovering over ugly reality. The dream of peace is real, but it's a mirage. It's not the enemy but the pointer towards the path to reach the goal. Peace is not now, but it may exist in our future if we do what is necessary for it. Political revolution is necessary, yes, but equally so is individuation.

Individuation sounds so abstract, a purely intellectual construct with nothing in reality. But it's the world of star and stone; the eternal, in comparison to the transitory world. The more people get free from possession, the more ability they have to achieve things of worth and meaning. The thing of worth and meaning for you may be simply becoming a little bit more yourself... or it may be world shaking. We each have our own task to accomplish, the failure of which is our great tragedy, the success of which adds it's incremental weight to the side of peace.


Article:
Yoko Ono Calls for Peace on the Anniversary of John Lennon's Death (Time Magazine)