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Comment by Des on May 7, 2010 at 2:56am

This is from my blog, The Art of Peace.....when iPeace was really busy in the first few months it opened, I posted this and it got a large no. of v positive responses....it's a little gem of wisdom...

"The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter"

"All things, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they were one family. The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force. The universe emerged and developed from one source, and we evolved through the optimal process of unification and harmonization."

"The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."

http://www.ipeace.me/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-peace-morehei

Comment by Des on May 7, 2010 at 1:58am

Hello, just thought I would pose some interesting questions whose answers have always eluded me....

I too would like to live in a "community", as discussed on the new Community group , but many things I would like seem to involve short term sacrifice and living the 9-5 rat-race for a while so I can make it there. In many ways, it is very difficult for me to remain connected with our awareness whilst leading what seems a double life sometimes - one on here where we can be ourselves, and one in work where it is often necessary to play a role in order to survive.

How can we live a life like this, without playing roles?

I do not know the exact solution and answer, but I think it has something to do with acceptance and veery good awareness of everything around and within.

The striving for peace is not on everyone's minds, as there are many people who are nowhere near as progressive as the gathering of souls on iPeace. This to me means, that we have to be even more aware when interacting with those who are perhaps less aware than we are. We can set alight the fires of awareness in others through our own awareness in their presence, but only if the light of our presence and awareness is strong enough - not an easy task for some, including me..

There are several questions I do not know the answers to, and sometimes I wonder if there are any answers. The way I currently understand it, is that the human ego/fear/egoic mind is the source of all conflict.

I've always wanted to know, where did this ego come from? How did it all start and where did it begin? I often wonder if the answer to the question might give us some insight into how we as a global community can actually change, for real, ending all the conflict that goes on every day.....

Just some of my thoughts am sharing....

Comment by Dave Streater on May 2, 2010 at 11:56pm

Thank you for such beautiful comments! As one plays music, various sonorities emanate, some discordant and some harmonious. It is in the balance between the two that greatness of a composition lies.
With Love, DaveS

Comment by Roelof Timmerman on May 2, 2010 at 1:21am

People from the old school are still working on classification ... see f.i. the new DSM V ... they're making more 'diseases' every time ... and after many years of struggling they come to me as a therapist and I tell them: Mmm, that's growing pains in your path to enlightment ...
They classified me just as a "pain in the ass" and only much later I found out that it's a challenging form of HSP ... and slowly I know I make a difference, in many ways ... and it fills me with a smile inside that young Crystals and Indigo's have more opportunities than years ago....

Comment by Roelof Timmerman on May 2, 2010 at 1:04am

When I see my kids and their friends, just about 12, 13 y ... I see so much conciousness ... once they're new world leaders things will change dramatically ... but isn't it the same with us, if you look back ten, twenty, thirty years ago ... what did we archieve already... I'm filled with hope and trust every day...

Comment by Roelof Timmerman on May 2, 2010 at 12:57am

Mmm, young of age of her body ... but inside an old soul who knows what she's talking about ...

Comment by Roelof Timmerman on May 2, 2010 at 12:49am

Mmm, she's beautiful indeed ... wondering how the Wisdom of Buddha sounds when you were there, talking in full conciousness, or you ... or you ... or me ... or you ... ;-))

Comment by Des on April 27, 2010 at 7:18pm

I was going to try to put this into my own words, but the way its already written is better expressed than I could write it....

The Origin of Fear by Eckhart Tolle

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, tension, dread, nervousness, anxiety, tension, phobia etc. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen and not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, whereas, your mind is in the future. This creates an "anxiety gap". And if you identify it with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplcity of the now, that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. As long as you are identified with your mind, your ego is running your life.

All fear is the ego's fear of death - of annihilation. In this mind-identified state, fear affects every aspect of your life. e.g, the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong, defending the mental position with which you have identified is due to the fear of death.

- found this quite hard to take in the first time I read it, but it makes a lot of sense to me. WE all have our own views on things though, so am sure there are other ways to see it.

Comment by Des on April 27, 2010 at 4:06pm

Very wise words in that vid joni..."seek wisdom, knowledge is of the past".

I have found that its not quite as straghtforward as that. To me there is useful functional knowledge of the past, which we refer to when needed and not be obssessed with it, or project it into the future, and there is other knowledge of our life story and conditioning which can recreate conflict in our lives if we refer to it too often. I see wisdom as being here and now in the present moment and can be used in our practical plans for the future - in that sense it works well.

Comment by Des on April 27, 2010 at 3:58pm

Hi Joni....yes that sounds awful. We live in a world of conflict....every day we see it in our own lives and other peoples.

Hope you doin ok...
Talk to you soon :)

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