True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.
True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, not one overlapping the other’s domain by even the breadth of a hair.
Those who attempt to blur those borders, whatever be their motives—they are unwittingly destroying the world.
Beginning with the crucial border between man and woman. For this is the beginning of all diversity, the place where G‑d’s oneness shines most intensely from within His precious world.
Likkutei Sichot, vol. 18, Korach 3.
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[IMHO] There is "sameness" of peace in the "soul" that exist in its divine "pristine" state with GD. There is harmony between the soul and mind, and love and peace that existed in the Garden of Eden when man walked in divine covenant with GD before the "fall." The soul yearns to return to that state of inner and outer tranquility. We can keep our mind in perfect "shalom" when it is kept on GD, the Torah, and walking in love and harmony with our brethren. Light shines from darkness, and those who have overcomed darkness challenges must endeavor to reach out and touch someone's hand and help them to make their life better, and make a gdly world for HaShem.
We who know GD; let no one say, on our watch, that "love" failed them. "The opposite of love is indifference [Elie Wiesel]."
Baruch HaShem,
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