Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. Aberjhani
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The quote above comes from the American author, William S. Burroughs. The context of the sentence is quite obvious though. Peace cannot last unless there are people who are willing to sacrifice their own wishes to serve the greater good of humanity.

Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. Peace is an ideal that should be cherished by every individual because it brings about a better quality of life for everyone.

Source: The American Poet Who Went Home Again

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