Peace at the Center Book

Each essay within Peace at the Center is an adventure in the experience of living. Joyful living. Inspired living. Living that is worthwhile. Life experiences that are sometimes happy, sometimes painful, yet always rewarding.

Peace at the Center carries the singular message that personal peace is available for those who are sensitive to the signals of life and it renews a search for inner contentment, individual control, a better truth, and, at least, an improved understanding of immorality.

The stories in Peace at the Center seek to build connections of community at a time when too many of the mass media - internet, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and all kinds of tabloid "journalism" - have systematically, some would say cynically, ignored the average person who lives a quiet life, who doesn't take hostages, who doesn't rob banks, and who seldom is recognized for simple and honest achievements based upon a value system considered at best outdated by "modern" life.

"Peace at the center" is a Quaker expression meaning serenity at the core of human, and, finally, spiritual life. There are many of us who believe it is not too late to turn around what appears to be a runaway cultural stagecoach headed for a great abyss where souls are in torment and the only sounds are discordant.

Peace at the Center is a literary vehicle that provides transportation into powerful experiences, each of which contributes to the reader's personal peace at the center.

David Dick's Peace at the Center is must reading for everyone who is seeking an understanding of living and satisfaction in life.