What is peace?

Question from the Internet:

“What is your definition of peace? Is it possible to achieve it?”

“Peace” is “Shalom” in Hebrew, and it comes from the expression “Shlemut,” which means wholeness or perfection.

And this describes a state where myriads of diverse and seemingly incompatible parts and elements complement each other in a way that together they bring on wholeness and perfection.

Peace is a state that requires all elements and pieces to find their most optimal, selflessly, and unconditionally complementing roles, as each contributes with its unique and irreplaceable part and role to the whole.

Peace does not mean all parts becoming the same and connecting to each other because they have no differences.

Peace is a state where the parts and elements are vastly different, but they create perfection and wholeness above and against their differences.

It is the actual contrast between the vast differences and the perfect connection and mutually complementing integration that gives peace its life-creating ability; without this tension, there is no life.

Peace does not mean a lack of arguments, criticism, or debate. But all argument, criticism, and debate are conducted only in order to sustain and constantly improve peace and perfection; the differences, the debates, and the scrutiny constantly grow, and the recognition and the resolution of understanding and attainment of everything deepen while peace is maintained above the vast diversity and differences.

This is what we need to learn and practice so we have perfect peace — that we can learn from Nature’s life-giving and life-nurturing system. We have to learn how to build positive, constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing interconnections and cooperation above and against our inherent differences, the instinctive distrust, and animosity between us — without suppressing or erasing anything, keeping and using the seemingly most positive and negative attributes and finding their place in the achieved wholeness.