Everyone's seeking peace, but few seem to find it. Why? Arnold says most people are looking in the wrong direction.

For anyone sick of the spiritual soup filling so many bookstore shelves these days, Seeking Peace is sure to satisfy a deep hunger. Arnold offers no easy solutions, but also no unrealistic promises. He spells out what peace demands. "There is a peace greater than self-fulfillment," he writes. But you won't find it if you go looking for it. It is waiting for everyone ready to sacrifice the search for individual peace, everyone ready to "die to self."

"A conversation, a book, an experience that moves us inwardly (even if we are not able to explain why), a decision – by themselves, none of these will necessarily change the course of our lives. But together they build on each other and make us who we are. Ultimately they are the things that either prevent us from finding peace of heart, or lead us to it."

Stories of nonviolent peacemaking include Tom and Monica Cornell:

"We took part in the dismantling of the legal structures of racial segregation in the U.S. through nonviolence (though today, forty years later, the condition of the poorest blacks is worse than it was then). We reintroduced nonviolence into Catholic and mainline Protestant consciousness (though the threat of war remains, and it is more grave in many ways). Now a new generation thirsts for the heroic. “There are great things to be done…Dare to struggle!”

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