There are a significant amount of people that really do want goodness, peace, harmony, and brotherhood in this world, of course, many of those, simply wish for those things without actually bringing much meaningfulactions to effectuate such a change. The thing about goodness and peace is that these must first be the primary motivators of your own life, before you can possibly believe that your influence, testimony, and duties will bring positive change to those around you. That is to say, proclaiming "peace, peace" isn't going to do much good at all if there isn't any peace within your own household, because if one cannot achieve harmony with those that are the closest to them, how it is possible to do so with strangers and other people that one comes across in everyday life.
This signifies then that the very first step in change and in positive healing behavior is to look within, find out what truly motivates you and what upsets you, and thereby do something tangible to bring about a more pleasing balance in your life. A person that lives a life which is consistent with the words that they speak in conjunction with the actions that they take is a person that has become more transparent and more accommodating to his fellow man. This world already has enough injustice, hurt, hate, wrong, selfishness, greed, and misery that it doesn't need any more of those things but instead needs the best of what people are truly capable of.
If, when you wake up each day, you are truly motivated by wanting and desiring the good of the other, your behavior will reflect this, by bringing forth love when there is hatred, by bringing forth peace when there is war, by bring forth patience when there is a rush to judgment, as well as bringing forth justice when there is injustice. To accomplish these things will not be easy, but is there or has there ever been anything of real merit and worth that does not demand in return, dedication, consistency, and effort?
Far too often, we wrongly believe that the process of change that we deeply desire in this life, is out of our hands, but instead lies in a remote God, or in governmental force, or in more laws, or other people, or elsewhere, but these all miss the very basic point, that it is our deeds small and large, our actions little and big, that each day brings us closer to goodness and peace, or takes us further away. We may not be able to control the actions of others, but we can certainly control our own mind, our own beliefs, our actions, and our motivating factors and by so doing set an exemplar for others that they may draw upon.
The race in this world has not ever and is not to the swift, but to those that seek the very things that are everlasting and are a true reflection of the beauty that our Creator has bestowed us with, and we can find these in the beatitudes of the Christ, for these are the very lifeblood of all that are consistent with the very essence of the Alpha and the Omega, to which this should be the primary motivating force of our fruitful lives.