posted July 10, 2004 03:55 PM         

Peace IS possible.

No matter what anyone tries to tell you.
Peace and Love are within reach. It is up to us.
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
Only light can do that.
Hate multiplies hate,
Violence multiplies violence,
And toughness multiples toughness
In a descending spiral of destruction...
The chain reaction of evil --
Hate begetting hate,
Wars producing more wars--
Must be broken or we shall be plunged
Into the dark abyss of annihilation.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

"Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his
readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on
another is a crime against humanity."---Ghandi

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-Albert Einstein
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ALBERT EINSTEIN:

"But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic." ..Einstein "The Menace of Mass Destruction"

Warfare cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."

"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."

As long as armies exist, any serious conflict will lead to war.

"One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare...
war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated..."

"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts, are considered as unimportant and secondary.
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GHANDI:

Violent means will give violent freedom.
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.

A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say.
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"You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked;
For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the
white are woven together.
And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth,
and he shall examine the loom also."
...Kahlil Gibran,The Prophet
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
-Albert Einstein
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final world. -
Martin Luther King Jr.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while ."
-Einstein
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
-Einstein

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhi
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love
.... Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never let the weeds get higher
Than the garden"
...Tom Waits

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting."
...ee cummings

"Intellectuals try not to drown, while the whole purpose of love is drowning."
...Rumi
The Illuminated Rumi

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love".
...Martin L. King, Jr.

"The recognition of the life of every man as sacred is the first and only basis of all ethics.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
...Leo Tolstoy,
The Kingdom of God Is Within You

"An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind."
...Mahatma Gandhi

God puts something good and lovable in every man His hands create.
-Mark Twain
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe.
But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help in the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Imagination is more importand than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...
the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within."

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very
imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism"
-Albert Einstien
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Ghandi

posted July 12, 2004 10:50 PM         

Due to my Aries Moon and my Aries Asc., I didn't read through all of that. However, I TOTALLY APPRECIATE that you took the time to post all that wonderful good positive stuff. Who in the heck told you such negativeness?

posted July 14, 2004 08:05 AM         

Leo Tolstoy led us to believe with his great classic "War and Peace" that peace is absence of war, and that war is a natural state. We cannot blame Tolstoy, who described the human condition brilliantly, with his panoramic study of early 19th Century Russian Society. He was a storyteller who understood deeply the human condition and from his keen perception extrapolated a theory of historical determinism. Avid readers of "War and Peace" as I am (three times no less, I must confess) will see that the novel lays out a theory of history that states that there is a minimum of free choice. That war follows peace just as surely as night follows day.

In this modern age, we see little to disprove Tolstoy's awesome theories. If we look at our world in one way we see apparently inevitable results. We constantly hear about warfare, starvation, loss and tragedy and if we don't watch ourselves we allow fear to enter into our consciousness. Once fear is there, we are well on the way to proving Tolstoy's theory of life, with all its inevitability and limitation.

All it takes though is a trip to the ocean with our three-year old to know he's wrong on this. We can walk in the countryside when the dew is still sparkling on the grass and know there's nothing inevitable about life. We catch our hearts opening up, and our bodies overreacting with a feeling of tingly joy, when a charming elderly lady offers us a gentle, knowing smile, for no reason, other than love.

All it takes is to open a magazine or book, dedicated to spiritual truth and see the possibilities, reminding us never to be limited. Never to underestimate our divine potential. Never to fear our greatness or capacity to love. Never to hold a lesser picture of ourselves or our world than that offered to us by the Wise Ones. Jesus, the Lord Buddha, Gandhi, and others, graced our world at different times in our history, have offered us a path away from the endless cycle or war and limitation.

In our dim and distant path, we, the human race, may chosen the apparent delights of freewill and the right to act and be exactly as we wish. However, the goal, the Holy Grail of all thinking people is not freewill - but freedom. Freewill allows us to indulge our fleeting passions; freedom leads us on the higher path to unlock life's mystic secrets. Freedom from war, pain, limitation and fear is our birthright. Freedom to unlock the divine secrets of our higher nature, and to soar through the skies of our own becoming.

This freedom can be achieved through aligning our freewill - our right to choose - with the great Laws of God. The Divine Laws that teach us that the way to break through the endless, limiting cycles is to realize Oneness. It is then and only then that we will act with our God-nature and so rise above the apparently inevitable cycles we have - through past lives - created.

At the moment, Peace is on everyone's mind because there is continual talk of its opposite - war. If we change the way we perceive life - as a spiritual journey in which we unfold our Divine potential, not as a battle for survival, then peace must eventually dawn. First it must dawn in the hearts and minds of each of us, and then it must, by the Divine Law of Action and Reaction - Karma - exist upon our Earth.

We can then prove forever that war does not have to follow peace, as night follows day. Instead, conflict can be turned to spiritual action and peace, inward reflection. Both of these opposites will then meet in the fires of that great mystic force - LOVE.

Let us close by saying the following prayer of Peace and Love that, because of its selfless intent, will work at a high spiritual level of global transformation.

Solane Star

posted July 14, 2004 11:05 AM         

Sheaa

posted July 14, 2004 03:53 PM         

quote:

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All it takes is to open a magazine or book, dedicated to spiritual truth and see the possibilities, reminding us never to be limited. Never to underestimate our divine potential. Never to fear our greatness or capacity to love. Never to hold a lesser picture of ourselves or our world than that offered to us by the Wise Ones. Jesus, the Lord Buddha, Gandhi, and others, graced our world at different times in our history, have offered us a path away from the endless cycle or war and limitation.

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"Never underestimate our divine potential"
So true!
Thank you! 26

posted July 14, 2004 06:15 PM         

Seriously 26 - have you looked into your past lives? I believe it would be very interesting

Sheaa