Blogging for Peace
Each of my consistent readers know that my purpose is to bring peace to everybody. (Yes, Adam. We know already. Quit bringing it up so much.) They also know, since I bring it up so very often, that this blog is a direct application of this purpose…
Well, bringing peace to everybody is a pretty daunting task. I could go around door to door, leaving fliers that describe what inner peace is and explaining a method of how to find it. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to do that in my lifetime, and I don’t have enough power to have others do this for me. Also, most people would simply discard the flier, and not learn anything from it, because it would necessarily challenge their current way of thinking. I could also simply talk about peace on this blog, and quietly wait for people to visit, but as anyone who has chased links realizes, this takes quite a bit of time. Also, I wouldn’t be fulfilling the purpose simply by blogging, because the majority of people in the world can not read English and do not have access to the Internet… Remember that I put the word “everybody” in my purpose. 
Because of these limitations, I can’t possibly fulfill my purpose in my lifetime. Also, I don’t really want to. Inner peace requires people to learn what it is like to be conflicted, so suffering is an essential element. I’m not supporting suffering, simply giving it a nod as a respected adversary. I recognize its place, and how easy it is for even the best intentioned actions to cause unbelievable amounts of suffering. Fighting suffering causes more suffering, unless it is fought patiently, maturely, and respectfully. I simply can’t bring peace to everybody by force, because that would only increase the suffering around me, and that peace would be a fragile illusion.
My blog is targeted towards other bloggers, and people who are interested in blogging. The purpose of this blog is to be a blogger’s blog, to encourage others to discuss inner peace in any field that they choose.
If you write a blog on finances, discuss the way that managing your finances and taking responsibility has helped to bring you peace. If you write on spiritual matters, take a moment to discuss how your spiritual growth has led you to peace. If you write about blogging, then you can mention how being at a state of peace helps you to change your abstract thoughts into the posts that you write.
I’ll be starting a tag soon, about inner peace and blogging, but I am still working on the wording of the question. My goal with the tag is to learn how others bring peace into their own lives, and help those who respond to be aware of the peace that they already have.
As I transition to a blogger’s blog, I’ll still continue the series on the Tarot, but I’d also like to write essays on blogging in general, and blogging on peace specifically. Fortunately, I can write a page about each tarot card in about half an hour, and set them to automatically post once per day. I won’t restart that series until the weekend, though, but along side that series, I’ll have a secondary series on tarot cards that apply directly to blogging, plus my standard posts again.
I would like to encourage everyone who doesn’t already have a blog to go ahead and start their own blog, on whatever topic you choose, and I’ll be here to give pointers and such.
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