Why don't people seek inner peace?

Yes, when you have inner peace it flows to others. It means non-attachment. I agree with all you say. In some ways we don't need to "seek" as it is already within. We need to let go of our layers of prejudices and judgments about ourselves and others and that isn't always easy as we can get what we perceive as "mileage" holding onto our pain. And yes, Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now" and "A New Earth," and any of Byron Katie's books and her website a href="http://www.thework.com/index.asp" rel="nofollow"http://www.thework.com/index.asp/a