Fragile, beautiful, ephemeral, graceful, joy-giving, and soon gone. With practice, we may cultivate lovingkindness. You don't buy this bouquet at the florist, you cultivate it in the garden of your own life. An especially interesting part of this practice actually is metta for those whom we don't understand. It is the heart of Ghandian non-violence, the human power which transformed the subcontinent and founded the largest democracy in the world, India.
Pacifism is anything but passive.
Ahimsa is a central tenet of Buddhism. What of those whom we don't understand, or whom we are uncomfortable with, especially when we don't understand our discomfort. This takes practice. We must examine the root of avoidance. In our culture today, and in our little local cultures congregation, workplace, family, union, neighborhood and in the even more local culture, the horticulture, the garden of each person, there is a conversation.