Visioning Peace

A patch work quilt, in which different pieces of cloth, distinct by color, thickness, and texture, coexisting by defined separation, maintained by loosely stitched borders, presents a false and misleading image of harmony.  A patch work quilt is vulnerable to tearing at its loose seams.  In contrast, a tapestry, in which individual threads, distinct by color, thickness, and texture, are woven insepartably together, in which the individual thread and the community of threads can be observed simultaneously, presents an illustration of actualized integration of differences, in which true harmony is realized.  The being of a tapestry is not vulnerable to tearing. Study of the loom, composition theory, and weaving techniques, alone, is not sufficient to create a harmonious tapestry. The hands capable of weaving a harmonious tapestry must possess within them the harmony they seek to bring into being in the tapestry.  Thus is the basis of the contention, that peace within, precedes one’s ability to cause peace beyond one’s self.