11. VISUALIZE PEACE ... One Step At A Time

"If you don't like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." -- Marian Wright Edelman

We can only proceed towards building a culture of peace one step at a time. But when we're not sure where that next step should be, it's time to focus on where we'd like to be.

When we can visualize how we would like our family life or our friendships to be, or how we wish things could be in our workplace environment, our schools, our communities, and our world, we will be able to find the paths that will most effectively lead us toward our goals.

When that feeling of being overwhelmed first begins, and we pause and return to our natural state of peace, we can ask ourselves whether there is anything we can do at this moment to bring us closer to where we would like to be.

If there is something we can do, we can proceed in that direction. If there isn't, we remind ourselves that we can only take one step at a time towards a goal that we KNOW we will reach in time. We are walking the right path, and we are right where we should be.