Peace: at our doorsteps, but no one opens the door

Peace is at our doorsteps, but no one opens the door as we are busy making a new door for it to come, but wouldn't that be too late.
When someone dies, we pray to god to give peace to his or her soul. But why don’t we pray or try to find peace in this life only. If we give it a thought, then this is very much what our heart truly desire. All our life we work, pray, desire to achieve things, to have a bigger home, more expensive clothes, better cars. But has it ever occurred to anyone that we are approaching it the wrong way. We are always asking for more and more with a hope to find happiness in this. But how could we find something which is not there. When no one is even satisfied with what they had in life, how can they be happy? Here I am not saying to stop dreaming, or stop achieving it with work. All I think is that don’t get too obsessed with it and loose what you actually have.
Only if we could ask for peace for our heart, peace for our mind, it would automatically generate happiness. Peace and satisfaction could do wonders to us. But alas! If men was so simple, if society was so thoughtful. Our society doesn’t judge us by how happy we look, how satisfied we are. They judge us by how rich we are, how good looking we are, how richly do we dress, what materialistic things have we achieved in our life and sadly, that’s how society works. They judge a book by its cover and not the content.