Choosing Peace Over Pistols

Being a person of peace isn’t always soft. And it's not only about developing stillness, peaceful chants and marches, and banging on the bowls. Sometimes peace feels like standing barefoot in a battlefield, refusing to pick up a weapon—while arrows fly all around you. And right now, many of us are asking the deeper questions:

​How do I stay in peace when I feel like my life, or the lives of others, are truly at risk?

How do I not retaliate when I’m being threatened?

When is protection aligned and when is it fear in disguise?

Definitely the deeper dive kinda questions some of us crystal lickers, peacemakers or curious and quiet change makers are asking ourselves this morning. Here is my two cents.

Peace is not passive. Peace doesn’t mean we let ourselves be walked over, abused, or destroyed. Boundries when used - not to separate but to amp up frequency, can bring radical change. Peace also doesn’t mean we meet violence with more violence and call it God’s will. When someone threatens our safety—whether it’s a person, a government, or an entire system—our first instinct is to protect. That’s human. That’s survival. And it’s not wrong to want to protect our home, our people, our life. But when fear becomes the dominant voice… it distorts clarity. And when we react out of that fear,  we often become what we were trying to prevent. Truth with a capitol T. And it happens many times without us noticing what we have become.

Retaliation gives the illusion of control. It makes us feel like we’re doing something. But retaliation rooted in fear only creates more harm. It doesn’t heal. It doesn’t shift the relationship or the system. It is puffed up and forceful righteousness, at its finest. It just replays the wound on a different screen. Over and over and over again.

From a spiritual perspective, we are always being asked to choose:
•  Am I acting from alignment, or from reactivity?
•  Is this action rooted in clarity, or in chaos?
• Am I protecting life, or just playing out the same trauma on someone else?

Sometimes the hardest thing we can do is pause. Not freeze. Not ignore. But pause before action. Peace asks us to be warriors of presence. To listen before reacting. To feel the fear, but not follow it into destruction. To take action when necessary, but from a state of grounded discernment, not panic or vengeance but from a place of "what would love do now. " Peace is not ignoring reality. It’s responding to reality with higher awareness and higher frequency and that expanded frequency can actually create miraculous change. Our patience is necessary though.

Choosing peace when threatened doesn’t mean being naïve. It means refusing to be hypnotized by the cycle of harm. It’s understanding that our presence—our anchored, awake, discerning presence—is a bigger disruption to the system than any retaliation could ever be, even though it feels much softer and weaker. Don't ever think that love, which is soft and sometimes appears weak, doesn't heal in seconds flat. I've seen it and I bet you have too.

And sometimes, yes, our physical life may be on the line or our creature comforts are being threatened. But our soul is eternal and we must not forget that. Peace is the frequency that protects not just our body, but our being.
* May we stay awake in the face of fear.
* May we listen for truth underneath the noise.
* May we act not out of threat, but out of alignment.
* May we remember that peace isn’t the absence of danger
* May we refuse the right vs wrong arguments
* May we make decisions and take peaceful action for ourself, our family and our communities that will ensure even more calm and peace despite the present danger.
* May we ask always " What would love do now ? "

​This is the presence of Providence within us, standing in the middle of this current mess.
This is a razor’s edge. No doubt.
The more difficult of all assignments I believe, because it requires the dismantling of our own forceful, controlling and scared to death ego.
May we bring our peace to this disaster and not our pistols.
Peace IN!
Cynthia

Photograph "Flower Power" by Bernie Boston. Taken Oct. 21, 1967, during the March on the Pentagon, an anti-Vietnam War protest.

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Peace IN !
Cynthia Spiece
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All ideologies that I express in my work have been chosen by sifting and selecting information that feels Intuitively spot on to me. My lifelong passion and obsession with all things transformational has seen me in many different situations in life> Studying and applying many different spiritual, religious and inspirational modalities. I do not ask or expect that you take these ideas and beliefs on, as your own. I ask that you only take from my work, what feels like a hit for you intuitively, pitch the rest and keep moving toward your Peace, Presence and Power.  This will change the world. One person at a time. 
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