Peace & Oil

Is there a way to inhabit peacefully the world? What is karma telling us about this? How can one live within the world without entertaining and feeding what cuts us from the wonder of being alive? Isn't that the whole point of life? Sorry for the vague generality of these questions. Let me start by this often quoted sentence attributed to Rumi, saying that you shouldn't be looking for love, but rather becoming aware of everything that cuts you from experiencing it. I guess that's how I would understand the whole idea of karma. This type of questioning might seem vain, sorry, especially since most of those who know me know how little I set an example for anything. But I'm regularly caught in questions about the consequence of one's actions - and doubts as to whether or not I should be doing this or that. To be actually more honest, it often comes back to the idea of complete equivalence of several alternatives: which one should prevail? How to filter what is